Tom Riddle Jr's name

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 93037

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathy King" <kking0731 at h...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> There is something that has bugged me since GoF. Who gave Tom 
Riddle his 
> father's name? Voldemort tells Harry in the graveyard that his 
father left 
> his mother before he was born and his mother died giving 
childbirth. 
> Voldemort says " but I vowed to find him
I revenged myself upon 
him, that 
> fool who gave me his name
Tom Riddle
" So did the orphanage tell 
Riddle that 
> his son was born? Did the hospital or the orphanage know that Tom 
Riddle was 
> the father? Did Voldemort's mother actually die or was that 
something that 
> he was told happened at the orphanage? Is Voldemort's mother still 
alive? If 
> she is still alive, who might she be?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Kathy

My copy of CoS isn't with me at the moment, but I am pretty sure 
that somewhere in the book Tom explains that his mother lived just 
long enough after his birth to name him: Tom for his father, Marvolo 
for his grandfather. I am sorry I cannot find a direct quote, my 
books are not with me at the moment. 
Meri