Tommy Riddle's birth (was Re: No Sex, Please, We're British)

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 83835

<<<--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
wrote:...in the case of adoptions and possibly orphanage situations 
(look at Oliver Twist for example), the details of parents are 
withheld...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

I was surfing through the "QuickQuotes" section of The Leaky 
Cauldron, and found one article which states that JKR's grandmother 
(doesn't say which one) was illegitimate and "abandoned" in a London 
orphanage where she was adopted by the proprietors. The quotation 
marks on the word 'abandoned' are mine: the article goes on to state 
that she was regularly visited by solicitors until she was 14.

Sort of puts an interesting spin on the Tommy Marvel story, doesn't 
it?

--JDR