Orphan TMR (was AlwaysMonday/book date/orphan TMR/Salicylic/HouseElves/Names

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 110124

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cathy Drolet" wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/110101 :
 
Catlady wrote:
<< I like to think that baby Tom Marvie lived with his maternal
grandparents long enough to remember all they told him about their
wonderful ancestry and his father's bad behavior. I also like to think
that they, um, *exaggerated* how married his parents were... They must
have died for him to end up in an orphanage. >>
 
DuffyPoo replied:
<<I think Tom Riddle, Jr, in stating that he and HP were alike, said
"both half-bloods, both orphans, raised by Muggles" because TR
considered himself an orphan since he was abandoned by his father. 
His father was, to him, as good as dead. >>

Oh, pronoun problem! When I said "they"  must have died, I was
referring to the maternal grandparents rather than to the parents.

Either little Tommy went straight into the orphanage when he was born
or he lived with someone for some time before the orphanaage. 

I prefer the latter because it explains how he got all that info about
being descended from Salazar Slytherin and the reason his father left
his mother was that he discovered that she was a witch. Info which it
is not likely that a Muggle orphanage would tell him. 

If he lived with someone at first, why was he in an orphanage by the
time he started Hogwarts? Presumably because the 'someone' had died. 

If he got his info from his foster parents, why did he tell Dippet
that "they told me at the orphanage that my mother had died when I was
born" instead of sayinsg his foster parents told him? Easy! TMR has no
objection to lying in order to make people feel sorry for him so he
can get his own way. Besides, it probably isn't literally a LIE.