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

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 84082

<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" wrote:...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?>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

But why are we taking Tom's word for anything? The child's not right, 
as the old folks say. I think he constructed an elaborate fantasy 
from a few scraps of evidence. If there *was* a marriage certificate 
and his mother *was* an abandoned wife, why not just show up with a 
lawyer and a tabloid reporter?

Tom Riddle cannot possibly have been the only kid stuck in an 
orphanage because his/her father abandoned his mother when he found 
out she was a witch/pregnant/the wrong religion/underage/other/all of 
the above, and *they* didn't turn out to be psychotic evil dark 
lords/ladies.

--JDR