The Diary (just where did V get it & what is really going on ?)

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 86535

I am *so* impressed by this!  Whether or not it turns out to be true,
you sure tied together a lot of little things that need to be
connected to something somehow!

<snip almost everything to address one point>

Carolyn wrote:
> My theory is that: 
> 
> 1. Tom Riddle has muggle supporters, and they are quite important 
> muggles with influence, who are continuing to support him over the 
> years for devilish reasons of their own. These reasons could be 
> complicated ones of personal family and birthright, or they could be 
> part of some other group determined to get power over the muggle 
> world with wizard help. It is clear from the books that quite a lot 
> of muggles must know about the WW, through intermarriage, or their 
> children going to Hogwarts, and not least at government level. It is 
> not difficult to imagine that it has occurred to various muggles that 
> magic could come in useful for their own sinister purposes.

Annemehr: 
Are you familiar with this bit of article I remembered and looked up
on The Leaky Cauldron?

-Scotland on Sunday

-17 January 1999

"Harry's Fame"

-By Rosemary Goring

"Rowling's grandmother was illegitimate, born of Scottish parents, but
abandoned in a London nursing home, whose owners adopted her. She was
privately schooled and, until she was 14, lawyers used to visit her
every year. Whoever her parents were, one of them had money."

Which leaves me wondering:

Is this really true?

What if it is?  Could it have inspired part of JKR's plot?  What if
Tom wasn't *completely* abandoned by the Riddle family?  Then you
would be exactly right about reasons of "personal family and
birthright" being the reasons they supported Riddle.

If the heir of Slytherin remains the heir even though he's half blood,
maybe the same can be said if he's also the heir of the Riddles.  Ones
he hasn't killed, I mean!  Ones with power, too.

Did you *really* sit down to write a paragraph and come up with an
entire theory as you typed?  o.O

I think your theory rates an acronym: D.I.A.R.I.S.T.

Dual Intrigue: Amagical Rich Influence Slytherin's Tom

If you decide the muggle backers are Riddles, you can make that be
what the middle R stands for.

Annemehr