Wizarding aristocracy (rather long)

[Marvin Long]

No: HPFGUIDX 9842

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, plaeides at h... wrote:
> 
> 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.

Ok, that sounds pretty familiar.  Still, it sounds like Tom Riddle 
attended Hogwarts for a while without the acknowledgment or financial 
support of his family...so I wonder how he paid for school supplies.

marvin