Mrs. Riddle (was: Re: Grindelwald)

[ratalman]

No: HPFGUIDX 76166

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bibphile" 
<bibphile at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ratalman" 
<ratalman at y...> 
> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Why do you have a problem with it?  Sirius's family freaked 
when one 
> of their own marrried a muggle-born, but he seems to have 
nothing 
> against muggles.  She had an ancestor 1000 years ago that 
didn't 
> trust muggle-borns.  That don't say anything at all about her.  
She 
> might have been a very nice person with no prejudices.
> 
> bibphile

What bothers me is that when she dies, she apparently has no 
friends and no family, and consequently her half-wizard baby has 
to be raised in a muggle orphanage.

Sure, that scenario is possible, she fell in love with a muggle, 
and despite her family's relation to Salazar, had no prejudices 
about muggles.

But my suspicions go to "how" did she have enough contact with, 
or knowledge of, the muggle population, to actually fall in love 
with one?  Was she already living her life as a muggle, prior to 
her relationship with Tom Sr?  Was she a squib?  Why did she 
have no one to turn to at the time of her death?  Why would she 
choose a life for herself and her child apart from other magical 
people?

Moreover, the fact that Tom Sr abandoned her upon learning she 
was a witch, certainly does not suggest that "he" was an 
enlightened person, and non-prejudiced himself.  Why would 
she choose "him"?

I'm wondering whether there is still much to learn about the 
parents of T.M. Riddle.

Robyn