Question about Book Four

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No: HPFGUIDX 27977

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., r_vonbickel at y... wrote:
> Hello--
> 
> I was wondering if someone could explain something that 
doesn' make any sense 
> to me. In the beginning of Book Four it says that all three 
Riddles are found dead, 
> including the teenage son, Tom, i.e. Voldemort. I still can't 
fingure out how this 
> can be the case. Did he stage his own death? Where is this 
ever explained? 

All three Riddles were killed.  The three Riddles were 
Voldemort's father and grandparents.  "Elderly Mr. and Mrs. 
Riddle had been rich, snobbish, and rude, and their grownup 
son Tom, had been, if anything, worse."  (GoF 1)
Voldemort never lived in that manor as we learn in CoS he spent 
his summers at the orphanage.  Voldemort simply came back to 
kill them for abandoning his mom when they found out she was 
a witch