Dudley the Victim-- Side note

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 43148

Jenny from ravenclaw writes;

>>At the rate he is going, Dudley will end up a 45 year old who still lives 
with Mommy and Daddy, doesn't work to support himself and has no family or 
friends of his own to care about.<<

Sounds familiar.  And haven't we all just seen this kind of thing before? In 
fact, it sounds a bit like another Riddle family in the making. It's a 
parallel that I had noticed myself, but haven't seen brought up since I came 
on board. And I doubt that it is accidental. (And just maybe young Tom should 
have been grateful that he was farmed out to an orphanage.) 

I've always suspected that the Riddle's of Little Hangleton were New Money. 
Son and grandson of some mid-Victorian industrialist from the midlands (much 
like Vernon Dursley, in fact. Only sharper, luckier and opperating in a time 
before personal income tax) whose kids were educated at Eton and fancied 
themselves as "quality". I also suspect that as richest local resident old Mr 
Riddle had served as the local Magistrate and had facilitated the "disposal" 
of his son's inconvenient wife and eventual child.)

I suspect this may be yet another example of the comment (Mark Twain's? I 
can't recall) that "History doesn't repeat itself. But it rhymes."

-JOdel