Vauxhall Road and the Elixir of Life ( was The Diary (just where did V get

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 86830

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "manawydan" <manawydan at n...> 
wrote:

Ffred:
> Do you mean here that JKR got the idea of the orphanage from one in 
London,
> or that Tom Riddle was incarcerated in one in London? If the 
latter, then
> I'd be interested to know how he actually got there - my reading 
suggested
> that Hangleton was in the North of England, which would have meant 
that
> Tom's mother would have either had to have trekked down to London 
to give
> birth 

Geoff:
I'm interested why you think Hangleton is in the north? The only clue 
I can recall is that it is 200 miles from Little Whinging (end of the 
first chapter of GOF). Agreed, that still places it a long way from 
London but Mrs.Riddle could have come to London after she was thrown 
out. The orphanage knew Tom's name and we have discussed how he might 
have located his father in a previous thread with that knowledge.