[HPforGrownups] Grandpa Riddle

[ksnidget at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 41112

Punkie wrote:
>>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. 

Denise responds
>Okay this I can agree with. This would be a natural thing .. father relents 
and >names his son in his will which could possibly have included his parents 
house. >TR could be the "wealthy man" on pg 10, GoF 

BUT

Just above the "wealthy man who owned the Riddle house these days"

"But Frank did not leave. He stayed to tend the garden for the next
family who lived in the Riddle House, and then the next--for
neither family stayed long"  Unless you believe they were all
renters. It reads to me that the house got sold a few times until
someone who wasn't going to live there bought it.  

It was after that the wealthy man bought it.  I agree the guy who
owns it for tax purposes was LV, but I don't think he inherited it.

Now whether LV got any of the Riddle Estate is questionable.  They
could have died without wills and he might have been able to claim
he was the heir of the estate.  However, since  Tom, Sr., abandoned
his Mom, and rich people often have wills, I tend to doubt they willed
the estate to Tom, Jr. who they abandoned.

To me it would suit LV's IMO warped sense of humor that once
he got himself some power and some money to buy the old mansion
"for tax purposes".  Kind of a you wouldn't acknowledge me in life, but
I will use you in death (in more ways than one), and get what should 
have been mine from you.
Ksnidget.




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