Grandpa Riddle

[punkieshazam]

No: HPFGUIDX 41073

I had intended to contribute to this thread about 5-6 weeks ago, but 
something about a forest fire threatening my summer business put me 
2,000 posts behind. (It was contained five miles away--whew! Thank 
you firefighters and Forest Service.)

Anyway a little background about how I came to this theory I have 
about Harry's relationship to LV. I bought a paperback edition of SS 
for my granddaughter for Christmas 3-4 years ago, and being the kind 
of mother and now grandmother who has to read any book for 
appropriateness before I read or give it to a child, I read it and 
was hooked. (My name is Punkie and I'm an addict.) I went right out 
and bought books one and two in hardcover for myself and consumed #2 
and later #3 with what Fritz Perls called the hanging on bite--just 
bite on and suck it down. Then I would go back and read at leisure 
for detail. With GoF, I just couldn't get past the first chapter for 
a while. I read it at least three times because it was different from 
the other books. I felt that there were a lot of clues for us there. 
I finally finished it and reread all four two or three times trying 
to figure out what it was about the chapter, The Riddle House, that 
had caused me so much confusion/consternation. 

It was Voldemort's audacity at coming into someone else's house that 
bothered me. Then I realized that in addition to being Slytherin's 
heir on his mother's side, he was potentially Riddle's heir on his 
father's side. I believe that young Tom Riddle claimed the Riddle 
fortune and on leaving Hogwarts lived as a rich Muggle. He married 
and had a family. I believe he changed his name and lived for a 
while, using that assumed name in the Riddle house. He essentially 
sold it to himself and under whatever name still owns it. 

The fortune made it possible, even natural, to travel on business. 
The business was not only managing the Riddle assets, but learning 
all the dark arts that he could. This was a deprived child who as a 
man had his revenge on the Muggle world and the WW which didn't 
appreciate him properly. 

My theory makes TR change his name to Evans and he and his 
unsuspecting Muggle wife had two daughters, Lily and Petunia. It may 
be that the real reason Lily and James took refuge in Godericks (sp) 
Hollow was that they learned that Daddy Dearest wanted to take Harry 
away to teach him to become a truly evil wizard. Maybe not. When Lily 
tried to block his entrance to their house, he spoke very familiarly 
to her. Something like, "Lily, you foolish girl. Stand aside." At any 
rate I am convinced that Harry is related to Voldemort nee Tom Riddle 
somehow.

Normally I'm not a person with too much time on my hands, so I guess 
that I'll just go back to lurking.

Punkie

Petunia is a squib!