[HPforGrownups] Re: Lily and Petunia Riddle

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 2176

Hi --

eggplant88 at hotmail.com wrote:

> "Sister Mary Lunatic" <klaatu at p...> wrote:
>
> > Lily and Petunia Riddle?  Not feasible for another reason besides
> age
>
> Huh? why is age a problem?

Because Tom Riddle Sr. was killed in roughly 1943.  If Lily was alive in
1943, she had Harry at age 37.   This doesn't *really* square with the
"young" woman who came out of the wand in GoF.  I don't subscribe to the
theory that James & Lily definitely had Harry within a year or two after
leaving Hogwarts themselves.  I think they had this important occupation
(whatever it was) for several years at least.  I would peg them as being
mid to late 20s when they had Harry.

> He shunned his wife not his son, he might not even have known he had
> a son.

He said in CoS that his father abandoned his mother before he was even
born -- because she was a witch.  You could be right - he might not know
he had a son.  But, if he sired another "witch" (Lily), he *sure*
wouldn't be proud of her.

Penny


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