[HPforGrownups] Re: Voldemort descendents WAS BRAVE Riddle / Voldemort-Potter connection

[rvotaw at i-55.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 40329

Pip writes:

>I think it has to be taken as canon that *as-far-as-Dumbledore-
>knows*, Tom Riddle has no children. Of course, this doesn't mean that 
>he actually has no children, since it's possible that he may have one 
>or two little bastards that he (and Dumbledore) don't know about. And 
>the child him or herself may not know the identity of their real 
>father. 

I'm still clinging to my "Tom Riddle is Harry's grandfather" theory. On the 
hypothesis that Lily's mom had a fling of sorts with Tom Riddle, when he was 
still Tom Riddle, pre-Voldemort.  As to whether anyone knows about it-- I think 
that it's possible that no one at all knows.  I've had a odd opinion about that 
gleam in Dumbledore's eyes at the end of GoF, I think he suspected it and 
somehow the blood thing affirmed it.  Which if you want to really stretch it 
could make Harry both the heir of Slytherin and Griffyndor.  (stretching it, 
like I said)

>It depends how omniscient Dumbledore is - does he have a way of 
>finding out things that people don't know about themselves? That 
>quite possibly *no-one* living knows and is not in any known written 
>record? He knows things about Harry that Harry doesn't know about 
>himself; but that might be largely because he knew both of Harry's 
>parents.

I think Dumbledore knows a lot more than most wizards, but not omniscient.  
He's been fooled before, so it's highly possible that Tom Riddle had a child 
and he didn't know.

>Equally, the 'little bastard' theory might well apply to the 'last 
>remaining Slytherin descendant'. There are no known descendants of 
>Slytherin apart from Tom Riddle - but as Hermione points out in CoS, 
>it's awfully difficult to prove or deny descent from someone who 
>lived a thousand years ago; for all we know Harry, or his mother 
>Lily, or Snape, or Hermione, or Dumbledore himself could all be 
>descendants of Slytherin without actually knowing it.

True.  I still am holding out for Harry, though--it's those green eyes.  
There's something important there, that much has been said, but what?  The only 
other connection to green is Slytherin.  Which by the way is a big mistake in 
the SS movie due to the importance of the green eyes later on!  BTW, I found a 
pic online of Daniel Radcliffe as HP in which his eyes had been edited to 
bright green--now that is Harry Potter!

Speaking of eyes, does anyone know what color eyes Tom Riddle had?  I reread 
that portion of CoS last night looking, and his eyes kept being mentioned, but 
never the color.  Unless I missed it.

Richelle



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