Speculation on Tom Riddle's origins/Multiple Riddles

grlndgz grlndgz at earthlink.net
Fri May 9 17:48:42 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 57443

Kirstini wrote:
> Riiiight (snaps on a pair of rubber gloves). WHY WHY WHY does 
> everyone assume that the dead women identified as "Mrs Riddle" is 
> Voldemort's mother? READ. LOOK. 
> GoF (UK paperback) p7-8.
>       ...a maid had entered the house to find all three Riddles
dead.
>       ...Elderly Mr and Mrs Riddle had been rich, snobbish and      
> rude, and their grown up son Tom even more so.
> 

> Now, two other points occur to me.
> d) A *teenage* boy was seen near the Riddle house on the day of the 
> murder. If my theory is correct, the second Tom Riddle, already 
> grown-up, should be younger than the first, not older. Therefore,
if 
> this teenage boy is the young LV, and not a time-travelling Harry, 
> then some other kind of time-slip must have happened (can the time-
> turner go forward too, do we think?)


Hmm.  I always figured that the grown-up-son Tom was LV's dad, the
elderly folks his grand-parents, and the teen-ager LV himself.

amy






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