Grandpa Riddle

[heiditandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 41095

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "alora67" <chrisnlorrie at y...> wrote:
> I have to agree with you that TR had a 
> family...I don't know why, but I've always thought he had somewhat 
> of a normal life and then something changed all that.  When I say 
> normal, I mean, yes, he still wanted to be the most powerful 
> wizard.  But something drastic happened and caused him to go off 
the 
> deep end.  

But he was off the deep end when he was 16, and releasing Slytherin's 
monster to attack Muggle-born students - and when he killed Myrtle. 
He was probably off the deep end when he was 11 or 12 and started 
researching Slytherin's dark history and the Chamber of Secrets. He 
was certainly off the deep end when he killed his father and 
grandparents when he was 16 or 17 (if not younger). 

While it's possible for a sociopath to committ murder and then lead 
an outwardly normal life, it's certainly not going to be an inwardly 
normal life, and it wouldn't take much, IMHO, to then set him off 
again.

I wouldn't completely toss aside the idea that he has a biological 
child or 2, but I can't imagine that he was ever a "father" to a 
child.

heidi
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