[HPforGrownups] Re: Miscellaneous/ St Brutus/Riddle's orphanage

[Liz Sager]

No: HPFGUIDX 34807

Eloise wrote:

>That St Brutus thing bothers me. I mean, why would a family to whom
>respectability is all want to tell people that their nephew *whom they have
>brought up* is a criminal. A mental defective (to use Durleyesque
>terminology) perhaps, but a criminal? (Yes, I know it's a measure of how 
>much
>they hate magic)
>And a 'secure centre' that lets its inmates out for extended summer breaks?
>Its not as if Vernon made it up on the spur of the moment, its obviously 
>part
>of a long-term plan.

Yet another testimony that the Dursleys are not the most intelligent lot on 
the planet.

>And another thing....How does the orphanage account for Tom Riddle's 
>absences
>at Hogwarts?

I imagine that the head of the orphanage was given knowledge of Tom's 
whereabouts during the school year, and was given the low-down like 
muggle-born students are.

Liz (who is posting like mad, 233 e-mails to go)

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