Tommy Riddle's birth (was No Sex, Please)

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 84053

<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "grannybat84112" wrote:...Then 
the Sergeant Majorette said:"I...found one article which states that 
JKR's grandmother(doesn't say which one) was illegitimate 
and "abandoned" in a London orphanage..."
Excelsior!! Theorists assemble! 
Can you remember the approximate date of that article? I'd like to 
devour it myself.>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

(and she quotes) "...Harry's famous first trip to Hogwarts by steam 
train from King's Cross is a journey that has a special resonance for 
Rowling. Her parents met on a train from London to Edinburgh, and 
later returned to Scotland for a secret marriage at Gretna Green. 
Rowling's grandmother was illegitimate, born of Scottish parents, but 
abandoned in a London nursing home, whose owners adopted her. She was 
privately schooled and, until she was 14, lawyers used to visit her 
every year. Whoever her parents were, one of them had money."

Here's where I found it -- not a link, so cut and paste:
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/1999/0199-
scotlandsunday-goring.html

I thought it was odd that so interesting a tidbit hadn't been more 
widely disseminated if true, but then if it were false, I figure 
she'd have gone totally ballistic about it in court. There are a 
couple of other interesting things in that article, like the two kids 
named Potter she hung out with in Bristol, and the Welsh Hell's 
Angels who inspired Hagrid.

--JDR