[HPforGrownups] Voldemort

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 50806

Milz:

>Riddle could have slipped in under the radar. He was half-Muggle. His
>mother died during or shortly after his birth and he was placed in an
>orphanage. If his grandfather, Marvolo, harbored the same anti-Muggle
>sentiments as Slytherin, then it would only follow that Riddle's
>mother did not tell him of her relationship with Tom Riddle Sr or

Something I have wondered.

1. Why was Tom Riddle given his father's name rather than his mother's (as
would have been normal for an orphan born at the time)? How did the muggle
authorities even know what his father's name was?

2. How did he later find out his family history, given that his mother was
dead and presumably (if he was in a muggle orphanage) there were no wizard
relatives nearby to bring him up?

3. Should not the MoM have had some sort of adoption arrangements to cover
that kind of situation? It seems harsh to leave a WW child to be brought up
in the less than salubrious kind of local authority care that there would
have been in the 1920s.

Cheers

Ffred

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