Who did Tom Riddle Jr. (Voldy) Kill

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 9952

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> 
wrote:
> As far as I can tell, there is no specific line which states that 
the 
> three Riddles killed in 1944 were Tom/Volde's father and paternal 
> grandparents. But I strongly feel that that's who they were. Here's 
> why:
> 
> The three were "elderly Mr. and Mrs. Riddle...and their grown-up 
son 
> Tom." That sounds like parent and grandparent to me. We know that 
in 
> 1944 Tom Riddle Jr. was just out of Hogwarts, since his time at the 
> school coincided with the Chamber of Secrets being opened fifty 
years 
> before 1992-3. In the stepbrother scenario, the younger person 
killed 
> in the Riddle house in 1944, also inexplicably named Tom, would be 
> about Tom Jr.'s age, but a bit younger. That makes him younger than 
> 17 or 18, hardly to be described as a "grown-up son."
> 
> I think it's pretty clear that on that fateful summer night in 
1944, 
> Tom Riddle Jr. left Hogwarts, traveled to Little Hangleton, where 
he 
> was seen briefly by the gardener, a 28-year-old veteren of WWII 
named 
> Frank Bryce. Later he confronted his father, Tom Sr., and his 
> paternal grandparents, whose last name was Riddle but whose first 
> names we do not know, in the drawing room of their mansion and did 
> something to scare them silly before Avada Kedavra-ing them. He 
lined 
> them up on the rug and set off to begin his quest for immortality.
> 
> I think it's pretty clear, but it is not stated specifically.
> 
> Steve Vander Ark
> The Harry Potter Lexicon
> http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon

Fascinating. I had assumed it was Dad, Voldemort's father, Dad's new 
wife, and Dad's new son..let me go back and read