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[Kavitha Kannan]

No: HPFGUIDX 23547

Tom Riddle also has a strong resemblance to Harry. Maybe he fathered
> BOTH James AND Harry. Personally, I don't believe it -- I doubt that
> Riddle had much interest in sex and that Voldemort had any interest 
in
> sex (just power, cruelty, and immortality). Furthermore, it would be
> messy literature for all Harry's emotionalizing about James to go to
> waste. 

I find it difficult to believe that, if Harry was Riddle's son, Lily 
would be the mother.  After all, Voldemort's completely against 
Muggles and Mudbloods, so I doubt he could have fallen in love.  
Rape, I wouldn't rule out.  Then, there could have been some prophecy 
about the son being stronger than the father...but that strikes me as 
being far-fetched.  No; I'm afraid that James is Harry's father and 
there's no denying it.  However, I do think Riddle would want to 
father a child, not through any paternal instinct involving caring 
and warm fuzzy feelings, but because he's just the kind of guy to 
want hellspawn to carry on his work.  And sex is power, in a sense.  
The ability to put some poor woman through nine months of discomfort 
would doubtless amuse him.  Besides, death eaters strike me as the 
burn,-pillage-and-rape-all-the-local-women types. *shrug* but he'd 
only take to wife the daughter of a old pure-blood family...like 
Grindewald's daughter if he had one.  And there would just be the 
desire to have a son, that's all.  Somehow Voldemort strikes me as a 
sexist pig, so he wouldn't value women at any rate...but that's my 
opinion.  Of course, I can't help but wonder if his hatred of muggles 
is due to his father leaving when told that Tom's mother was a witch, 
and his sexism, if he is a sexist, could come from feeling betrayed 
by his mother's death.  After all, there's only one woman mentioned 
by name as a Death Eater for sure, so I get the impression women 
aren't valued in the ranks of evil.  Wow...that was a long first post 
by my standards.  Well, back to lurking. 
-Kavitha.