Evans/Petunia/ Grandpa Riddle

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86257

"ghinghapuss" wrote:
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. 

"Diana_Sirius_fan" wrote:
I think when young Tom Riddle (aka Voldemort) went to the Riddle 
 house he killed his grandfather, his grandmother and Tom Riddle 
sr., 
not his father, step-mother and ??brother.

Tom wrote: 
> I agree, and I think that's what is wrong at the grave yard. The 
> bones were his grandfather, not his father. Maybe DD was smart 
> enough to move his father's bones after Voldemort lost his powers....


Diana is right. He killed his father and his grandparents, "elderly
Mr. and Mrs. Riddle . . . and their grown-up son, Tom" (GoF 2, Am.
ed.). He himself was the teenage boy spotted by the gardener, Frank
Bryce, who protested his innocence and insisted that "the only person
he had seen near the house on the day of the Riddles' deaths had been
a teenage boy, a stranger, dark-haired and pale" (GoF 3), our young
TR, who had either just committed or was about to commit his second
through fourth murders at the age of seventeen. The bones were his
father's, as the name Tom Riddle on the gravestone indicates (GoF
638). (No doubt the birth and death years were there, too, so that
even if the grandfather had also been named Tom, Voldemort would not
have mistaken one grave for the other.) Otherwise, the incantation
"Bone of the father, unknowingly given, You will renew your son!" (GoF
641) would not have worked--not to mention that Voldemort would not
have completely achieved his vengeance against his hated muggle father.

As for taking over their fortune, he could not have done so by taking
on his father's identity and it would have been dangerous to reveal
his identity as heir to that fortune (he may well have been
disinherited anyway) without becoming a primary suspect (he had a lot
more motive than Frank Bryce). Possibly he bought the house later and
posed as the absentee muggle owner, but I doubt it. From what we know
he first went back to Hogwarts for his seventh year and became Head
Boy (sickening thought) then disappeared to learn as much as he could
about dark magic, transformation, and immortality. When he resurfaced,
it was not in a form that could possibly be mistaken for a muggle.

Carol