Wizard School / Tom Marvolo Riddle's parents / who will die

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No: HPFGUIDX 37463

I want all you guys to know that I love you so much that I'm doing 
this with a *broken* mouse. <snark>

Zoe Hooch wrote:

> Surely Stan wouldn't have the wits to pass most of the coursework
> we've seen the kids doing!

We don't have really strong evidence that Stan is dimmer than Gregory 
Goyle.

Grey Wolf wrote:

>  would like to know how many inches are in a foot

Twelve, of course, like ounces in a troy pound or eaches in a dozen.

Naama wrote:

> (what name would she have picked if it were a girl? Marvola?).

Marvolo was after her father (TMR said after his grandfather, but who
could believe that the Muggle grandfather was named Marvolo?) so I 
expect she would have named a girl after her mother.

Brenda Midgiecat wrote:

> I know that one body was Tom's father, but who were the other two 
> ....Tom Riddle's grandparents, or was Tom's father remarried and
> did he then have a child?

The younger corpse was Tom Riddle, Sr: Tom Marvolo Riddle's father. 
The other two were Tom Sr's parents.

Megs wrote:

> So, could the Grey Lady ghost be Voldemort's mum?

Yes, a new idea at this late date! If the Grey Lady is the ghost of 
Voldemort's mum, does that mean she was a Ravenclaw when she was a 
student? My idea of her, throwing away common sense as well as 
propriety for the sake of ideals (like free love) seems to suit a 
Ravenclaw better than a Slytherin.

Laura wrote:

> The only problem is that this would mean that Tom would have had
> his mother around during his years at Hogwarts, 

Maybe she could have been haunting elsewhere while Tom was in school, 
and come to Hogwarts when the previous Ravenclaw ghost moved on to the 
next great adventure...

Less unlikely, she was there and sometimes tried to baby him and 
sometimes tried to scold his bad behavior and teach him better 
ethics, all of which would have annoyed him, and made him hate her 
*almost* as much as his father, and made him tell her how unworthy an 
heir of the great Salazar she is...

Laura wrote:

> And it does seem as if no one really thinks about the possibility
> of Hermione getting killed off like they do about Ron.

I feel *certain* that JKR will not kill Hermione, because Hermione is 
JKR's Mary Sue, so killing her would be suicidal. I would not be 
greatly surprised if the seventh book ending with every character and 
the whole wizarding world dead except Hermione, who would write it 
all down in a book so that her friends' and mentors' courage and 
kindness and wit, and the beauty and glory of magic, would be 
remembered, even if only as a fantasy story.