Grindelwald

[ratalman]

No: HPFGUIDX 76154

> OK, get ready for some serious speculation! I wondered if 
Grindelwald 
> had disowned his daughter for dirtying his blood. He would 
want 
> nothing to do with his half-blood grandson.  However he may 
have kept 
> an eye on his grandson at Hogwarts, and maybe warmed to 
Tom as 
> his 'talent' became apparent. Maybe he then starts to influence 
Tom 
> (a sort of Emperor-Annakin type thing), informing him about 
Slytherin 
> etc (he had to learn it from someone). If my calculations are 
> correct, then Riddle opened the chamber of secrets in 1943 
(did 
> Grindelwald help him?). Grindelwald was defeated in 1945 
(Was Riddle 
> secretly helping his grandfather? Did this start his obsession 
with 
> immortality?). I could go on!!!

What has always been a sticky point for me is the fact that Tom 
Riddle's mother chose to consort with a Muggle in the first place.  
After all, she was one of the last (if not "the" last, before the
birth of her son, Tom) descendants of Salazar Slytherin.  What's 
she doing falling for a Muggle?

I like the idea that Grindelwald = Marvolo.  And that Marvolo 
spurned Tom's mother because of the mudblood issue.  That 
does make sense.  But that still takes me back to the same 
point:  what was she doing falling for a Muggle?  And a pretty 
rotten one too, by all accounts.

I've been wondering whether Tom's mother may have herself 
been trying to prevent a (heretofore unnamed) prophesy from 
unfolding that pertained to her future offspring.  Maybe she 
feared precisely the destiny that her son now faces.  Maybe it 
was foretold that her child would bring about the destruction of 
the world.  And she attemped to thwart that destiny by turning 
away from the wizarding world.

Robyn