[HPforGrownups] Re: Tom's parents (was: JKR's best interview)

[lissbell at colfax.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 75398



Lissa wrote:

>>>I still believe Harry and Ginny are Tom's parents. (foolish &
>>>stubborn grin)


evangelina replied:
>>So Ginny is a descendant of Salazar Slytherin? Tom Riddle said he 
>> was related to 
>>him (SS) on his mother's side... Yep, that's all I had to say, and 
>> it seems that even you 
>>would be surprised by that small amount of objections. :)

Tim added:
> Better yet... Tom Riddle was taking possession of his own mother, and 
> had he succeeded would have killed her.



Lissa responded:
But Tim, don't you see how *perfectly* this parallels Tom Marvolo 
Riddle's birth?  The very first thing little Tom did in life was drain 
his mother's life away as she gave birth to him.  (I'm not trying to be 
a jerk here.  I don't doubt Tom Marvolo loves his mother as much as he 
is able and that he would never willfully have killed her as an infant.) 
  The CoS scene is actually a remarkably appropriate echo of that first 
birth.  The only difference is that if he'd succeeded in killing Ginny 
this time, he would also have destroyed himself.

If your objection involves the idea that Riddle would never willfully 
harm his mother--and that it would be suicidal to do so before she can 
actually conceive him--all I can say is there's no way Tom could know 
Ginny will be his mother.  Tom has questions--why does Harry resemble 
him, why did trying to kill Harry hurt him--but few facts.

If your objection is to the stylistic notion of Voldemort harming his 
own ancestors, I'd point out that by the time he's a teen, he 
*deliberately* kills the people he believes are his father and 
grandparents.  Voldemort's life is gruesome a spree of parental and 
psuedo-parental homicide.  It's sad and I feel sorry for the boy.

Yeah, I said it.  I feel sorry for Tom Marvolo Riddle.  I want to see 
the guy smothered in parental love and redeemed.  I've gone entirely 
mad.  Ignore me. (wistful sigh)

Cheers,
Lissa B