Voldy's mum

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 37380

Is there anyone besides me who wants to know more about this elusive
figure who died in childbirth but apparently held out long enough to
name her son after the bum who deserted her?

We keep trying to draw Ginny-Lily parallels, but is it possible that
the deceased person who is most Ginny-like is actually Mrs. Riddle?
It seems to me like she likely got taken advantage of and manipulated
by Tom Riddle senior much as TR Jr. did Ginny.  And she must have been
still in a state of being duped when she bestowed the b--t--d's name
on her son.  (I can just hear her on her deathbed moaning, "I still
love him!")  And was she a Slytherin?  (I say, "Not necessarily.")
And why was Tom raised in a Muggle orphanage?  Is it at all possible
that Mrs. R was "living as a Muggle" (perhaps to evade Grindelwald)
much as we're now being told James and Lily were?

And will we ever get any clues as to how Tom got so evil so fast?
He seems to have left Annakin Skywalker in the dust in the "get
evil at an early age" race.  And would mum be proud of what her son
has become or (as I'm curently imagining) appalled?

-- 
Dave