Riddle family-spoiler

[eko03155]

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From: eko03155
Subject: Riddle family-spoiler
Date: 7/15/00 10:21 pm  (ET)

I have been at camp for the past week, and there are way too many messages
for me to read, so I'll ask this now before I forget. Forgive me if I'm
repeating something.

I don't understand the thing about the Riddle family at the very
beginning. They find all three Riddles dead. Great. But, I don't
get it. Did Tom kill himself and somehow leave his body to become
Voldemort? In book 2, it says that Tom lived in a Muggle orphanage when
not at Hogwarts because his parents died right after he was born. In
book 4, it says that Tom was a grown-up son and he and his parents were
found dead. I read it really fast, so I may have just missed something,
so if anyone has an explanation, I would appreciate it greatly.
~*Erin