CoS clues to Books 6 & 7 analysis

[Peggy]

No: HPFGUIDX 104054

Diana wrote:

"....Harry's discovered a lot about Tom Riddle's past and this
might be very important to how he defeats Voldemort. Harry knows a
lot about Riddle, from his being a half-blood [which Harry revealed
to the DEs in the MoM at the end of OotP] to Riddle's overwhelming
desire to stay at Hogwarts instead of going back to an orphange. I
wonder if Harry's going to discover some heretofore unknown weakness
of Voldemort's because of what he knows about his past?"

Now Peg:

I've been wondering about exactly how much Harry and Co. *really* 
know about Tom's past.  I've found it interesting in CoS and in GoF 
that, even though we know Tom's (Lord V's) father's name, we never, 
*ever* see his mother's name mentioned.  I find that very odd, and 
suspicious.

In the opening Chapter of GoF, the people of Little Hangleton are 
gossiping about the deaths of the Riddle family, but one would expect 
someone to say *something* about how the younger Riddle ran off with 
so-and-so's daughter, and then came home again, and now he's dead.  
When the local rich man's son runs off with a local girl, that's 
always big news in a small town.  On either side of the Atlantic.

I'm not going to jump to the conclusion that her last name was Evans, 
or Weasley, or any other family name that we've been introduced to.  
But her family history is significant, not just for the fact that 
she, too, must have been a descendent of Salazar, but also because 
she's been so peripheral to the story, so far.

Anyone else?

Peg