Tom Riddle's Origins (was No Sex, Please)

[o_caipora]

No: HPFGUIDX 84077

"Geoff Bannister" wrote:
> I think you're splitting hairs here. If Tom had gone to the trouble 
> to find out about his family (even only with revenge in mind 
> perhaps), then I would have thought that he would have covered this 
> angle. Surely you're not expecting Voldemort to produce a marriage 
> certificate from his back pocket? :-)

Geoff has produced canon, and has a valid argument against quibbling. 
If Pop Riddle, for example, had had the marriage annulled (surely a 
priest could be found who would consider witchcraft cause?) it's 
impossible to imagine Voldemort explaining this tidbit. To Wormtail? 
While battling Dumbledore? It just doesn't fit.

Someone who doesn't want to be married to a witch may well not want 
to be the father of one, either. Many men are quite willing to date 
women they wouldn't care to have children with. 

The elder Riddle rejected his wife (who he presumably knew well and 
had affection for) on learning of her witchcraft. It must have been 
far easier to reject an unmet and unknown child for that reason.

Rowling doesn't "do" religion. We don't know if the Riddles (or the 
Weasleys, or the Potters) were married in a church or in a civil 
ceremony. 

It seems like one area where the Wizarding and Muggle worlds should 
intersect.

In "The King of Elfland's Daughter" the priest in stumped by how to 
marry the King's daughter to a mortal, and Dunsany has him choose a 
ceremony "to marry a mermaid who has forsaken the sea." But Rowling 
doesn't tell us.

 - Caipora