Evans/Petunia/ Grandpa Riddle

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 86227

> punkieshazam wrote:
> (snippage)
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. <snip> My theory makes TR change 
his name to Evans and he and his unsuspecting Muggle wife had two 
daughters, Lily and Petunia. 


Now me:

I'm beginning to question just how easy it is to believe someone is 
muggle born.  What I mean by that is there are no outward, physical 
signs of being born into a non-wizarding family, you only have your 
parent's behavior as non-witches, and if they are dead there is 
nothing to show.  So it becomes only assumption, hearsay and the fact 
that the community of the WW is so small (that every one knows 
everyone else) that a person is known to be Muggle-born.  

So if this is the case, it seems to make it possible that someone can 
hide their true parentage. At least from every one except the 
Ministry of Magic.  

Tom Riddle could and did cover up his true parentage for his own 
advantage. We know he did it to create a new identity for himself as 
Lord Voldemort.  Perhaps he also did it to amass a muggle fortune as 
well.   What we know about him was he was an orphan living in an 
orphanage who then went to Hogwarts.  When he left school, it is an 
almost certainty he went to his fathers house and killed is Father, 
Stepmother and a teenage boy who I believe was their son, the muggle 
Tom Riddle.  The question is what did Wizard Tom do then?  We know at 
some point he went to live in Europe and became Lord Voldemort.  But 
perhaps he choose to stay for a while in England and if so would he 
have chosen to live for a while as a muggle when he despised them so? 
Was he trying, perhaps, to connect with his father in someway, to 
show him how powerful and strong a man and wizard he had become and 
was spurned by him a second time before Wizard Tom finally murdered 
them all? Did wizard Tom assume the identity of a relation of the 
elder Tom Riddle to inherit his estate?  Wizard Tom would need money 
to live on after leaving Hogwarts. And is there a chance wizard Tom 
fell in love during the time he was back at his fathers house and had 
a family that resulted in two daughters with the name Evens?  It all 
seems possible.

Mandy