[HPforGrownups] Young Tommy Riddle

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 50901

Annemehr:

> tell us more eventually.  Marvolo himself I believe to have been dead
> by then since we have heard nothing of Voldemort hating his "filthy
> Wizard grandfather" who, if he were alive, would also have had to have
> abandoned TMR.

Although we think of Voldemort having a major grudge against muggles, it's
quite likely he has a large chip on his shoulder about wizards too.

Probably, given the likely grim circumstances of being raised in a north
country workhouse or similar establishment, with good reason. He was
obviously a very damaged child - and I can't help but feel a certain
sympathy.

> In a similar vein, in the Muggle world, I'm sure an intelligent boy
> like Riddle would find ways of investigating his surname (and don't
> forget, he'd always been able to "charm the people [he] needed" to
> help tease information out of people).  Imagine his shock and fury to
> find that the father who abandoned him was alive, well, and very rich!

Having established his place of origin, it probably wouldn't have been
difficult to get the gossip. Depending of course on how close to his village
of origin he was brought up, it could well be that he had knowledge of the
gossip before he went to Hogwarts (though if the muggle authorities knew who
his father was, then why was he taken into the orphanage in the first
place?)

Cheers

Ffred

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