Voldemort and his Mom

[ingachristsuperstar <ingachristsuperstar@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48372

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, jodel at a... wrote:
> Cheryl asks:
> 
> >>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?<<
> 
 -JOdel:
> Bingo. That IS the $64,000 question. Or one of them. because 
he sure the hell 
> didn't get that information from the orphanage!
> 
> Either; Somebody with reason to take an interest in the Heir of 
Slytherin, 
> even if the boy was a half-blood, "got" to him when he showed 
up at Hogwarts. 
> (Enter the "Professor Grendlwald" theory.) Or; he made it up 
himself as a 
> classic adolescent wish fulfilment/cuckoo tale (i.e., "my 
parents aren't my 
> *real* parents. *I'm* royalty!") and ended up convincing himself 
that it was 
> true. That Dumbledore concedes that his mother had indeed 
been the last known 
> decendent of Salizar Slytherin suggests that the first is the 
more likely.
> 

There is another possibility too.  He knew his maternal 
grandfather's name and presumably his mother's.  He might 
have researched his family and found out the connection to 
Slytherin himself.  The info may have been obscure, but maybe 
not impossible to discover.

I'm sure a muggle-raised but wizard-born kid would be curious 
about his wizard heritage.  Hmm, kind of makes you wonder 
about the lack of questions from a certain _other_ wizard-born, 
muggle-raised kid that we all know and love.

-Ing