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

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 84131

> <<<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?
> 

Geoff again:
Why on earth should he? Consider the circumstances in which this 
remark was made. Tom has just revealed to Harry that he is Lord 
Voldemort. He could have said no more. But he goes on and I suspect 
his anger is beginning to come out...

"You think I was going to use my filthy Muggle father's name for 
ever?"

OK, you've made your point. But he wants to justify who he is....

"I, in whose veins runs the blood of Salazar Slytherin himself, 
through my mother's side..."

Right, we know who you are now, don't we boys and girls?

"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 witch? 
No, Harry, I fashioned myself a new name, a name I knew wizards 
everywhere would one day fear to speak..."

He didn't have to say the first sentence above. The point about his 
father being a Muggle had already been made. He could have gone 
straight on to the last sentence above. If he was lying about his 
parents being married, why bother to tell Harry when it wasn't his 
intention that Harry was going to walk out of the Chamber alive? 
Harry knows no other than what he has been told.

Let's also be realistic. You are introduced to someone new and their 
wife. You say "I'm not sure whether she is your wife. Would you 
please show me your marriage certificate?" Hmmm. Duck and run quickly!

Seriously, Voldemort lies. OK. But he cannot lie all the time about 
everything. As I said earlier, why should he lie about this 
information? Why can't we just accept that what he said was correct.

Geoff