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

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 110154

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:

> 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.

I wouldn't put it beyond TMR to lie, but he has no particular reason 
to do so - nothing to gain by doing so.

I think what's missing is the identity of his grandfather, Marvolo - 
I would think that perhaps he was a pwerful wizard at some time.

Remember, there were many families willing to take Harry in when his 
parents dies, and I would assume that TMR could have been taken in by 
a wizarding family as well - but his mother had married a muggle, and 
was perhaps shunned by her family.  If TMR is in fact the last 
remaining descendant of Slytherin, then he has no cousins, so perhaps 
his mother had no family to return to when her husband abandoned 
her.  Otherwise, I would have expected her to return to her family 
and if she died, one of them would have rased him.

This of course raises other questions - like what happened to the 
rest of Slytherin's line?  Sirius Black was the last of the Black 
line, but not the last descendant from that family.  TMR is, however, 
the LAST of his line.

I think we have to take it at face value that his mother died at the 
orphanage, or at least in the company of muggles, and that's how TMR 
ended up raised by muggles.  I would think he would have otherwise 
ended up fostered to a wizarding family.