Voldemort and His Mom (formerly "Evil and Stuff")

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48369

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Cheryl Lynx412 at a... wrote:

> I just thought of something. How does he know this? She died soon 
> after he was born, only living long enough to name him-at least
> according to him. So, how does he know all this stuff? Who told
> him? How did he know he was the last descendent of Slytherin? I
> hope this is covered in some of the future books.

My theory: at first he lived with his late mother's parents and they 
told him all that stuff. Then they died with no wizarding relatives 
or neighbors, and the Muggle neighbors sent him to the Muggle 
orphanage. I think they may have been killed by young Tommy's 
unconscious magic when he was having an infantile temper tantrum -- 
I suppose he already had very strong magic, even before he knew 
how to use it.

I also think that not everything he was told by his grandparents was 
necessarily true. I personally think that his parents were never 
married and his father never knew that his mother was a witch. He 
didn't break up with her because he found out that she was a witch, 
he broke up with her because she wanted him to marry her just because 
she got pregnant. The grandparents were Victorians and made up that 
other story instead of telling him he was illegitimate. I like to 
think that Voldemort's whole anti-Muggle crusade was based on a 
wrong belief and he REALLY should have been crusading against 
premarital sex.