[HPforGrownups] Re: Thoughts about Voldy

[Sunnylove0 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 79143

In a message dated 8/28/2003 9:47:53 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
thomasmwall at yahoo.com writes:

> 
> Loony wrote: 
> It works too that his family wouldn't want him, half blood scum that 
> he is, and would ship him off to a muggle orphanage.
> 
> Tom replies:
> We also don't know anything about this lady's family... for all we 
> know, she had no family. We do know that Riddle's family didn't want 
> anything to do with her or her baby, and that ultimately she decided 
> to leave the baby at a *muggle* orphanage - which also sort-of begs 
> the question of whether or not the WW has wizard-orphanages, as well.
> 
Hmm.  In COS, Riddle tells us that the orphanage told him that his mother 
lived long enough to give birth to him and name him.  If she had no one but 
Muggles around her when she died, it may have not been her choice.  ( One wonders 
if she had a wizard present, especially a healer, he might have been able to 
save her.  Why would a witch die in childbirth anyway, is my question.) Or he 
might have been taken to his father at her death, who sent him to the orphanage 
out of fear.  Only Voldemort can tell us, and he should probably be taken with 
several tons of NaCl anyway.   


> I do concur with your argument for Riddle's being sorted into 
> Slytherin house, though. Not only was he a descendent of Slytherin, 
> but he also could speak Parseltongue, and probably (like Harry) had 
> a thirst to prove himself - all qualities that Slytherin would have 
> appreciated.
> 
> -Tom
> 
Hagrid does state in PS/SS that TMR/LV was sorted into Slytherin, and since 
he went to school with him ( and was screwed over by him ) he probably knows.

The Queen Of Serpents



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