[HPforGrownups] Re: Tom Riddle's Origins (was No Sex, Please)

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 84029

In a message dated 11/3/2003 1:04:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
grannybat at hotmail.com writes:
I just can't picture any functioning 
witch with a sliver of backbone-–particularly not a woman of a proud 
Slytherin family directly descended from Salazar himself–-suffering 
that kind of abuse without fighting back. She'd have zapped her 
husband into a toad at the very least. Nothing the narrator or the 
characters say in the opening chapter of GoF leads me to believe that 
Riddle's father had suffered years earlier from a confrontation with 
his cast-off wife.


Sherrie here:

I've always assumed (yes, I know...) that her good Slytherin family disowned 
her, upon discovering her liaison with a ::gasp!::: Muggle.  THEY may have 
broken her wand - "If you want to lower yourself to live with a Muggle, you'll 
live AS a Muggle!"

Incidentally, do we even have evidence in canon that Riddle's mum & dad were 
married?

Sherrie


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