Orphan TMR

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 110309

Josh wrote:
> Regarding TMR/LV's discovery of his Slytherin ancestory... one would 
> assume that he, having been told his mother's maiden name by the 
> orphanage at somepoint, managed to research the answer? Why would he 
> do so? He would have discovered that he was a parselmouth at 
> somepoint... that raises interesting questions, of course, and he 
> seeks the source. He was a bright kid, don't forget.


Carol adds:
Also the orphanage had told him that his middle name, Marvolo, was
that of his maternal grandfather. If Marvolo was the grandfather's
first name, Tom could combine that name with his mother's maiden name
and see if his grandfather was in any of the books on famous
twentieth- (or nineteenth-) century wizards. He could also, as I've
suggested previously, have asked the head of Slytherin House about his
family history. He may have learned that way that Grandfather Marvolo
was a descendant of Salazar Slytherin.

Once he knew that, and put it together with his own unusual gift of
Parseltongue, I wouldn't be surprised if he used his charm and
intellect to talk his head of house into allowing him to use the
restricted portion of the library. From there he could have found
everything he needed to know to discover the Chamber of Secrets.

Carol