[HPforGrownups] RE: grandpa Riddle / Snape / A LOT OF BASELESS SPECULATION about The Prank

[Ronale Stevens]

No: HPFGUIDX 39354


--- catlady_de_los_angeles <catlady at wicca.net> wrote:
> 
> I don't believe that Riddle was James Potter's
> father because it is 
> Such a Big Deal and James and Harry are Potters, and
> I don't believe 
> that Riddle was James's mother because sex-change
> doesn't seem to 
> have been one of his habits. I could believe that he
> is James's 
> mother's father and James inherited his looks from
> his mother, if you 
> can make the dates fit. Let's see. If he was born in
> 1927, he could 
> have fathered a child born in 1947 (it is not
> altogether necessary 
> that he was married to the mother or that the child
> was planned), 
> who... would have been 12 in 1960, and only 10 if
> James was born in 
> 1957 like I think. No.
> 
>

The Lexicon says Riddle was born in 1927 and James
about 1960.  Why shouldn't a 33 year old man father a
child?  

The name Potter could have come from anywhere--it may
be James's mother's name.

As for being a big deal, parricide shows up in myths
all over the world just because it's an important
concept.  Rowling's not afraid of it--she puts three
parricides in GF.   She may be foreshadowing another:
Harry's defeat of his grandfather.

--Ronale7


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