Evans/Petunia/ Grandpa Riddle

[punkieshazam]

No: HPFGUIDX 86209

In July 2003, in post # 41073 I wrote:

(snippage)

> Anyway a little background about how I came to this theory I have 
> about Harry's relationship to LV. I bought a paperback edition of 
SS 
> for my granddaughter for Christmas 3-4 years ago, and being the 
kind 
> of mother and now grandmother who has to read any book for 
> appropriateness before I read or give it to a child, I read it and 
> was hooked. (My name is Punkie and I'm an addict.) I went right out 
> and bought books one and two in hardcover for myself and consumed 
#2 
> and later #3 with what Fritz Perls called the hanging on bite--just 
> bite on and suck it down. Then I would go back and read at leisure 
> for detail. With GoF, I just couldn't get past the first chapter 
for 
> a while. I read it at least three times because it was different 
from 
> the other books. I felt that there were a lot of clues for us 
there. 
> I finally finished it and reread all four two or three times trying 
> to figure out what it was about the chapter, The Riddle House, that 
> had caused me so much confusion/consternation. 
> 
> It was Voldemort's audacity at coming into someone else's house 
that 
> bothered me. Then I realized that in addition to being Slytherin's 
> heir on his mother's side, he was potentially Riddle's heir on his 
> father's side. I believe that young Tom Riddle claimed the Riddle 
> fortune and on leaving Hogwarts lived as a rich Muggle. He married 
> and had a family. I believe he changed his name and lived for a 
> while, using that assumed name in the Riddle house. He essentially 
> sold it to himself and under whatever name still owns it. 
> 
> The fortune made it possible, even natural, to travel on business. 
> The business was not only managing the Riddle assets, but learning 
> all the dark arts that he could. This was a deprived child who as a 
> man had his revenge on the Muggle world and the WW which didn't 
> appreciate him properly. 
> 
> My theory makes TR change his name to Evans and he and his 
> unsuspecting Muggle wife had two daughters, Lily and Petunia. It 
may 
> be that the real reason Lily and James took refuge in Goderics  
> Hollow was that they learned that Daddy Dearest wanted to take 
Harry 
> away to teach him to become a truly evil wizard. Maybe not. When 
Lily 
> tried to block his entrance to their house, he spoke very 
familiarly 
> to her. Something like, "Lily, you foolish girl. Stand aside." At 
any 
> rate I am convinced that Harry is related to Voldemort nee Tom 
Riddle 
> somehow.
> 
> Normally I'm not a person with too much time on my hands, so I 
guess 
> that I'll just go back to lurking.

Then in post #41099 Alora responded:
>>Nope. Lily is muggle-born. On pg 233 CoS, TR says "Both half-
>>bloods, orphans, raised by muggles". If Lily was Voldies daughter 
>>then she wouldn't be muggle born.

And I responded:
>In the Chamber, LV refers to Harry's Muggle mother. If Riddle, born 
>half Muggle and raised by Muggles, posed as a Muggle and married a 
>Muggle, then there you are--Lily and Petunia think that they are 
>Muggles. 

I know, I know this is really old stuff. But I am still defending my 
theory and had devoutly hoped that book 5 would prove me right or 
blow holes in the theory. Instead, we have only deepened mystery 
about Petunia.
 
> Punkie
> 
> Petunia is a squib! 
I am beginning to wonder if perhaps Petunia is a witch in denial.