My shocking idea

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 73851

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Scott Santangelo 
<owlery2003 at y...> wrote:
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> This seems a mystery that JKR has explained. V's mom was 
rejected/abandoned by her Muggle husband when he finds out she's a 
witch. I was looking for the canon that says she dies giving birth, 
but couldn't find it. V does say his dad "abandoned me even before I 
was born." >>>

COS p.182...chapter "The Very Secret Diary"

Tom Riddle talking to Armando Dippet:

"My mother died just after I was born, sir. They told me at the 
orphanage she lived just long enough to name me> Tom after my father, 
Marvolo after my grandfather."

"Geoff Bannister"