[HPforGrownups] Speculation on Tom Riddle's origins

[Ladi lyndi]

No: HPFGUIDX 57322


--- Lissa wrote:
> <snip of long post that Harry Potter and Ginny
Weasley may be
> Tom Riddle's biological
> parents.>

Lynn:

Well, that certainly is an interesting theory but
(you knew that was coming, right?) I have one
really big problem with it and some other
problems as well.

Big problem:  Tom Riddle, Sr. was a Muggle, Harry
is not.

Now, unless everybody travelled back in time, how
does Tom Riddle, Jr. kill his father more than 50
years before his father was born?  How does Tom
Riddle, Jr. kill his paternal grandparents as old
people when he, as Voldemort, killed them when
they were in their 20s?  CoS doesn't say that Tom
Riddle, Jr. resemble each other physically, but
rather aspects of their life resemble each other
- orphaned early, raised by Muggle, etc.  As far
as the Potter name, JKR has already said she
picked that name because neighbors had the last
name of Potter and she liked it, the same way she
picked Harry's first name is because Harry is her
favorite boy's name.

We also know from PoA that time travel doesn't
prevent people from killing their former or later
selves so it stands to reason it wouldn't stop
them from killing anyone else so that wouldn't
have stopped Voldemort or Tom Riddle, Jr. from
killing Harry before he has a child.  As to Ginny
Weasley, I really don't see Molly Weasley
allowing her granddaughter to be raised in a
Muggle orphanage, do you?  Besides, that would
mean that the Weasleys were descendents of
Salazar Slytherin and I also don't see his
descendents being sorted into Gryffindor House. 
It would also stand to reason that at least one
of them, if not all, were Parselmouths.

Unless JKR comes out and says, oh, by the way,
you can't take anything in the books as truth,
it's all lies, for me at least, this theory
doensn't fly.

Lynn


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