[HPforGrownups] Salazar Slytherin's descendants (Was Re: A strange silver instrument)

[Taryn Kimel]

No: HPFGUIDX 86455

JJPandy's:  
OK, Tom Riddle is a descendant of Salazar Slytherin.  This is through 
his mother's side of the family, right?, since Tom Riddle becomes 
Voldemorte who wants nothing to do with his muggle father.  But if 
Tom Riddle's mother was a descendant of Salazar Slytherin who was 
very much into keeping the wizard blood pure, then why did she go off 
and marry a muggle?   

Taryn:
Just because she's a descendent doesn't mean she's a carbon copy of his beliefs. Tom's pretty obsessive about it. (I, for one, think Salazar Slytherin's views and history have been skewed throughout the years and that he's not such an evil guy.)

JJPandy:
Is this why Tom Riddle turns into such an angry 
person?  Is it because his mother went against the family tradition 
which in turn led to his shameful birth as a half-blood?  

Taryn:
Oh, I think they're many reasons TR's such an angry person. (I don't think one single thing can cause an entire complex like that.) But I don't think his anger is directed much at his mother--do we see him talk badly about her? It's always about his father, the filthy muggle who abandoned his mother. He's obviously ashamed of his half-blood status, but, from what we've seen, it doesn't seem to be blamed on his mother.

JJPandy:
Also, in the graveyard scene of GoF, why does Voldemorte use 
the "bone of his father" instead of his mother, since she is the one 
with the wizard blood?

Taryn:
I believe it's part of the whole spell. It wasn't something Voldemort chose, it was just the necessary ingredient.

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