[HPforGrownups] Re: Wizarding aristocracy (rather long)

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From: <plaeides at home.com>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 7:08 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Wizarding aristocracy (rather long)


> > But wait..maybe my memory is failing...I seem to recall the in CoS
> > Riddle is described as being an orphan, but in GoF he's described as
> > murdering his wealthy parents....What have I missed?  I don't have a
> > book near me...help!
>
> In "Goblet of Fire" it is explained how Tom Riddle's father was a
> muggle and his mother a witch. However his father abandoned Tom and
> his mother when he learned of her, er, talents.  When she died and
> the father had the child forced into his care, he sent Tom off to an
> orphanage.  He re-married and (I presume) had another son.  Tom
> Riddle murdered his aristrocratic father, step mother and half
> brother in their home one night.  If I recall, these were the first
> deaths of his rise to power as the Dark Lord.
>
Strange, I for some reason interpreted the opening events of GoF as
Voldemort murdering his father and grandparents.  Doesn't it refer to the
son living with the couple as an adult son and therefore older than the then
teenaged Voldemort? I could be wrong. I don't have my books with me. They're
700 miles away.

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