Tom Marvolo Riddle

[Catlady]

No: HPFGUIDX 9903

<plaeides at h...> wrote:
> 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.

And his mother died after birthing him, living just long enough to name
him after his father and grandfather. What you and I just said is what
Tom Riddle told Harry and probably what Tom himself had been told as a
child. It might not be exactly true.

In my universe, one wizarding family lived in the village of Little
Hangleton: Marvolo and Miranda Magicker and their daughter Mireille, who
was 18 or 19 years old in 1925. Mireille bobbed her hair and wore short
dresses and talked about socialism, free love, and collaboration with
Muggles, and constantly mocked at her parents's Victorian ideas.

When she allowed herself to be seduced by the handsome, charming, son of
the Big House, she actually believed that he loved her and she loved him
-- when his response to her telling him she was pregnant was not an
offer of marriage nor even of running away to live in sin in London or
Italy, but merely telling her that that's her problem, not his, she
realized that her parents were not quite as stupid as she had thought.
(The senior Tom never even knew that his local slut was a witch.)

She started to wear her mother's long, voluminous, billowing robes and
grow her hair out, and they made plans for the family to go to Brighton
on holiday and come back with a baby that they would tell everyone was
Miranda's baby. That plan was slightly snagged when Mireille, late in
pregnancy, fell ill, and then she died in childbirth due to having no
more will to live.

The parents, who had raged at Mireille about how much the child would
suffer from her plan of being named Tom [Marvolo] Riddle -- a public
proclamation of illegitimacy, named the child as she had desired as a
way of honoring her last wish. But they did call him Little Volly as his
nickname, rather than Little Tommy, as they raised him for his first few
years....

It is my understanding that young children often become tremendously
angry at their parents/caretakers, a total fury because Mommy won't let
them have candy or doesn't make the pain in their throat go away. A
furious young child with the kind of magic power that Little Volly had
might well have unintentionally killed his caretakers, probably one at a
time. That would be how he ended up in the orphanage, but at an age old
enough to remember his grandparents and what they had told him about his
parents. Which was a cleaned-up Victorian version of the truth.
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