[HPforGrownups] riddles.....

[Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner]

No: HPFGUIDX 18207

> at the start of gof, the riddle house has three dead
> bodies found in it - mummy riddle, daddy riddle, and
> tom riddle. aka voldemort?????

Jill --

Don't feel stupid, this one threw me too (okay, maybe we're BOTH stupid).

At first I thought that V. had faked his own death, as a way of saying "The
Tom Riddle you knew no longer exists.  I am now Voldemort."  However, what
*really* happened was that the Tom Riddle who died in the Riddle House was
Voldemort's *father*, and the other two were Voldy's grandparents.

Voldemort was originally named Tom after his father, and Marvolo after his
(maternal) grandfather.  But Tom Sr. was a Muggle who deserted his wife and
little Voldy after he learned he had married a witch.  Obviously Tom Sr.
went back home to his parents after that.  And then Voldy grew up with a
major chip on his shoulder, looked up his delinquent dad and grandparents,
and killed the lot of them with Avada Kedavra.
--
Rebecca J. Bohner
rebeccaj at pobox.com
http://home.golden.net/~rebeccaj