[HPforGrownups] Voldemort's family

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 9816

plaeides at home.com wrote:

> > 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.

Um, where did you get the stepmother and brother? I've never seen that
interpretation. Steve, O Keeper of the Trivia, is it ever explicitly
stated that it was Voldemort's father and grandparents that died, or could
it be a stepfamily? That would require major revisions of the timelines,
yes?

--Amanda