Voldemorts wives

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 1241

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Denise" <gypsycaine at y...> wrote:
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> Tom sounds like in CoS he was a rather handsome kid.  Did the 
> evilness eat away at his good looks? 

I imagine that Tom Riddle remained quite a handsome man until he did 
whichever of his immortality spells turned him into a snake 'morph. 
(Snake anthromorph: anthropomorphic snake: man who is unnaturally 
thin, covered with scales, completely hairless, no nose, no lids to 
his eyes with slit-shaped pupils: those are snake traits).

> If Voldemort was told that a child born a certain day would destroy
> him/etc... 

I imagine the prophecy was not that the child born under a certain 
conjunction would destroy him, but rather that it would have powerful 
magic to change history for good or ill. That would be enough for V 
to want such a child on his side.

> wouldn't he too have been trying to get women pregnant? Or was Tom 
> Riddle not able to do this?  

I figure that Tom Riddle had relatively normal human fertility, 
but V the snake 'morph couldn't reproduce with a human, at least 
because of being a different species, and possibly because fertility 
and maybe even sex were lost as a cost of the spell. Any child 
fathered by TR/V would be at least a generation older than Harry...

> I wonder, if in the case of the person who mentioned Snape as 
> Voldemort's love child, who would have been the mother?

I shouldn't have used the phrase 'love child', as I (possibly unlike 
the person I swiped the phrase from) didn't mean that TR/V ever loved 
anyone or even had affairs for simple pleasure. I was suggesting that 
he wanted a son as heir or loyal servant or possibly an ingredient in 
a spell, therefore ordered some of his female followers to provide 
him with one. The female followers in question would have been of the 
generation of Harry's GRANDPARENTS or great-grandparents, and the 
child would have been in the generation of Harry's parents or even 
older. While I ramble on the keyboard, it occurs to me: we were told 
that Dumbledore had at least one brother, could the mother of TR/V's 
hypothetical child be Dumbledore's youngest sister, either turned 
evil or captured and put under Imperius Curse? Then, if the child
were Snape, Snape would be Dumbledore's nephew, a literal example of 
nepotism.

Oh, when I said he might want a son as an ingredient in a spell, that 
doesn't necessarily mean that the spell requires that the son be 
killed or at least lose his right hand, it might only require that 
a father and his son say the magic words in unison. But how it feel 
for a young teen-ager to learn that his unloving parents were 
actually plan to kill him on his 21st birthday? That's that kind of 
thing that might make a person bitter.