Voldy, the family man

[Kelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 2438

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Christina Gross <Changeling at d...> 
wrote:
> I find it highly unlikely that Voldemort/Tom Riddle would get
> involved with a Muggle woman in the first place. He hated Muggles
> when he was at Hogwarts and the first thing he did out of school was
> to extinguish the Muggle side of the family tree. 

Thanks for the reply, Christina.  As to the above, I wasn't really 
thinking a muggle woman, but I guess it could be possible.  I suppose 
JKR could find ~some~ way to work that out.
 
> In CoS Tom Riddle states that he began calling himself Voldemort and
> gathering supporters while still at Hogwarts.

True, but I was meaning when he underwent the changes that made him 
unrecognizable as TR.  I would have no idea if Vold would be capable 
of fathering children after all those changes.  Maybe. 
 
> He might have a child he doesn't know about, but I don't believe 
it's> either James or Lily. JKR seems to set up James as the heir of 
Godric> Gryffindor, and Lily is muggle-born, which seems very 
important to> JKR. The acceptance of muggle-borns is a major theme of 
the books.> Besides, immortality is one of Voldemort's major goals 
and having> children is one of the ways to achieve it. I can't see 
him "spreading> his seed" carelessly.

Maybe instead of the "muggle-born" thing being a 'statement', it's 
just the set-up to some big twist.  As for Vold, I could see him 
wanting immortality through an offspring, but I can just as easily 
see him being self-centered and wanting to be the only powerful one, 
not wanting to share this even with his own son. 
  
> I'm sure JKR is going somewhere with it, but so far I have no idea
> where that could be. 
> 
> Greetings
> Christina

Same here.  Could be just a big coincidence--doubt it, or of course, 
the evil 'red herring'.

Kelley