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

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 84124

<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "erinellii" <erinellii at y...> 
wrote:...Why not just show up with a tabloid reporter???  Hello!  We 
happen to be talking about the most evil dark wizard in a hundred 
years. When Voldemort wants revenge, he wants REVENGE.  Humiliating 
his father wasn't going to do it for him....You are correct in saying 
that he isn't the only kid ever whose mother has been abandoned by 
his father.  But how many of those mothers actually die as a direct 
result of abandonment?...And when you add in that abandonment was a 
lot less common back then, probably it was pretty rare for a kid to 
end up in an orphange *just* because his mother had been 
abandoned...>>>  

The Sergeant Majorette says

He wasn't the most evil dark wizard in a hundred years when he killed 
his father and grandparents. He was a teenager with a screw loose, or 
he could have simply taken the Riddles for every penny they had and 
left them destitute and suffering.

And did his mother die as a direct result of abandonment? "My mother 
died just after I was born, sir. They told me at the orphanage she 
lived just long enough to name me..." Okay, septic shock, but a 
broken heart? We don't buy it in the ballet Giselle and we don't buy 
it in a witch with the blood of the great Salazar Slytherin.

And was abandonment *less* or *more* common back then? I'd be willing 
to bet that orphanage placement was standard procedure for the 
children of abandoned wives, wayward girls and other fallen women.

Tom Riddle is *insane*. And the Quibbler is a tabloid...

--JDR