A far-fetched analysis of the Prophecy

[Jennye]

No: HPFGUIDX 69730

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, lissbell at c... wrote:
> > I'm not sure what aspects of Tom Marvolo Riddle's parentage you
> believe
> > don't match well with Ginny, so I'm not sure how to respond.  I'd
> go
> > through my reasons here, but it would just be a re-hash, more or
> less,
> > of that old post.  If you do take a look at it and still have
> > questions/objections, please let me know.

My objections have to do with the fact that Riddle himself says that
his father was a muggle. And that his father left his mother when he 
found out that she was a witch. I don't think that Harry will be 
surprised to find out that Ginny is a witch. Not to mention the fact 
that Harry isn't a muggle. Both of his parents are magical (although 
his mother was born, so far as we know, into a muggle family) Riddle 
says that he was named after his father (Tom) and his grandfather 
(Marvolo) before his mother died. We assume Marvolo after his 
maternal grandfather. And Arthur is not easily mistaken for Marvolo. 
(although, FWIW, I am having difficulty integrating the information 
that someone else posted about Riddle being in Slytherin and the the 
Sorting hat saying that only purebloods were allowed in Slytherin. 
The question of course is, is that still the case, or was it only the 
case while salazar was around)
 
And since Riddle/Voldemort is such a powerful wizard, I really don't
think that we can assume he has been obliviated. People who have been 
obliviated usually have blank spots at best, not well known histories 
that they can easily describe.
 
The "jet black hair just like Harry's" might be a clue to his being
somehow linked to Harry genetically, but I don't think that means he 
is Harry's son.
 
I do, however, think that the time turner room was importnat, I just
don't know in what way. My impression about the "laws" for time 
turning from that room and from PoA are that it is limited and might 
only be limited to one's own lifetime (a la Quantum Leap) as we see 
the man trapped in the time turner going back to baby age and then 
aging but not disappearing into another time.

Jennye