Mrs Riddle? (WAS Re: Wizard Medicine)

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 34686

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "tex23236" <jbryson at r...> wrote:
> Wizard medicine doesn't seem to have kept up with Wizard cooking 
> and transportation.  Mrs. Crouch died of cancer and Mrs Riddle died 
> in childbirth.  You'd think a midwitch would have done an accio when
> trouble started. (Yes, yes, not that simple, I know.) Seems a 
medical 
> version accio would also have taken care of Mrs. Crouch's cancers,
>  too.

I had thought Riddle's mother died in the Muggle world. BTW, has 
anyone else noticed how similar this is to Oliver Twist. For those who 
aren't familiar with it :-), Oliver's mother dies giving birth to him 
in the poor house, and he is raised in an orphanages/workhouses for 
many years till he escapes, and discovers his family heritage at the 
end of the novel. It gets more interesting, imho, that Oliver was the 
product of a love affair between this young woman and already married 
man. I've heard many people suggest that we only hear the sanitized 
version, and very possibly, Tom's parents were never married, making 
abandonment so much easier, and explaining why the orphanage didn't 
just try to track down the dead woman's husband. 

However, why would she have died in the Muggle world in the 
firstplace? She had obviously not only been abandoned by her 
husband/lover, but by her wizard family. Two reasons could suffice.

1. If there never was a marriage, the family might have ostracized her 
for her deviation from their moral code.
2. Being pure-blood wizards, they might have been disgusted by her 
marrying a Muggle.

I remember once hypothesizing that his mother was a Potter by birth, 
thus explaining his hatred towards that family. :-) It would explain 
the similarities between Harry and Voldemort well enough, while not 
relating them too closely, and keeping the relation on James's side of 
the family (where the resemblance is). 

Eileen