Grandpa Riddle (was Re: Grandpa Voldemort)

[lizbot1981]

No: HPFGUIDX 40541


Wendy writes:
> 
> >Tom Riddle's father abandoned his son (and his wife?)
> >because of the magic in their blood.  Has anyone
> >considered that maybe Tom Sr. went on to have another
> >child, most likely a daughter?  This daughter could,
> >in turn, be EITHER Lily's mother or James' mother.
> >Voldemort, in turn, could have gone and murdered his
> >half-sister and brother-in-law, much in the same way
> >that he killed his own father and grandparents.

> > >If this connection were on Lily's side of the family,
> >then that would explain Petunia's extreme fear and
> >distrust of magic a little further.  In Petunia's
> >mind, her own parents were murdered by an evil and
> >power-thirsty wizard, therefore all wizards are evil
> >and power-thirsty.
> 

I like this theory a lot.  The only problem I can think of is one of 
time, I think.  OK, Tom Riddle Sr. abandons Voldemort's mother, goes 
off and has another kid (a grandparent of Harry's) but then what?  
Because he's living at home again with his parents when Voldemort 
comes back and kills them all, and it's just him and his parents, no 
daughter/son or wife.  So, hmm..  Even if Tom Riddle Sr. had had 
another kid, and then left that wife, too, Voldemort still would have 
had to hold off on killing his half-sister/brother.  Voldemort was a 
teenager when he killed his father and grandparents, his half-sibling 
would be younger.  Yet this person has to go on to give birth to Lily 
or James.  So Voldemort would have had to have had a reason to hold 
off on killing them.  Not knowing about them, perhaps, or something 
else?  These are just my thoughts on the theory.

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