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

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 84054

In a message dated 11/3/2003 4:23:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
gbannister10 at aol.com writes:
Sherrie:
> Incidentally, do we even have evidence in canon that Riddle's mum & 
dad were 
> married?
> 
> Sherrie

I quote again what I posted a couple of weeks ago:

"'You think I was going to use my filthy Muggle father's name for 
ever? I, in whose veins runs the blood of Salazar Slytherin himself, 
through my mother's side? I, keep the name of a foul, common Muggle, 
who abandoned me even before I was born, just because he found out 
his wife was a with?'"

Tom Riddle to Harry Potter. COS UK edition p.231


Sherrie again:

Thanks for that - but IMHO, that's only canon that Tom BELIEVED they were 
married.  He could as easily be mistaken in that belief.

(I'm not saying they weren't - just that it's a grey area.)

Sherrie


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