James' Father - was (Re: Lily and Petunia Riddle)

[eliasheldon at ivillage.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 2196

Hey - here's an interesting theory that just occured to me:

What if Tom Riddle (Voldy) is the father of James Potter?

 - wait, this couldn't happen, one might argue, and point out the 
dates and ages
 - but - one thing we must remember is something that was said in 
PoA, and I am paraphrasing:  many witches and wizards have messed up 
their lives with time manipulation.  Perhaps Tom Riddle was one of 
them!
 - Tom, James, and Harry all have that jet black hair - perhaps that 
is one of the reasons JKR pointed that out....
 - we know nothing of James' or Lily's parentage, so this is a theory 
about how James' could have been affected by time manipulation
 - this would give us a good sense as to the motivation of Voldy to 
kill Harry - maybe the Trelawny prophesy was that Voldy's grandson 
would be his undoing?

This whole time manipulation thing will probably come up again....

Thoughts?

 - E

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer 
<linsenma at h...> wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> eggplant88 at h... 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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