Wizarding aristocracy (rather long)

[Dai Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 9851

--- 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.

No, no, no ,no. Tom Riddle Jnr. killed his father and his 
grandparents. Tom jnr. is spotted by Frank Bryce on the day of the 
Little Hangleton murders and he describes him as teenage, while the 
people murdered were all grown up. Hence, if Tom snr. had had another 
son he would have been younger than Tom jnr, and hence not grown up. 
Therefore the three victims at the Riddle house must have been his 
father and grandparents.


Dai