[HPforGrownups] Heir defined

[Meliss9900 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 58821

In a message dated 5/28/2003 11:23:53 AM Central Standard Time, 
adanaleigh at hotmail.com writes:

> Who says TR is the descendent of Slytherin?  Is it TR himself?  If so, why 
> would we believe him?  

As I recall Dumbledore himself tells Harry that Tom Riddle is the last 
descendant of Salazar Slytherin.  Unfortunately I don't have COS handy to get the 
exact quote. For some reason I think that they are talking in hard facts here 
not some spiritual belief. . I don't think it was a spiritual belief that formed 
Riddle's hatred for Muggles.  It was his abandonment by his birth father.  I


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