Tom Riddle's backstory

[dreambeliever001]

No: HPFGUIDX 70428

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ratalman" <ratalman at y...> 
wrote:

> Why was Tom Riddle raised in a muggle orphanage, if he had a 
> witch mother?  Aren't there orphanages in the wizarding world?  
> To me, it would have made more sense for him to have been 
> taken in by a wizard's orphanage, or the like, unless his mother 
> had already completely disavowed her magical connections.  
> Did she do that? >>>  


Tom's mother died during childbirth.

"dreambeliever001"