help me with the Riddles

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 98324

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Miller, Gina (JIS)" 
<ginamiller at j...> wrote:

Gina A. Miller:
> Okay guys. My mother and I are going back through all the books in 
our own
> sick effort to see if we can solve it all. I have seen lots of 
posts about
> the first chapter of GoF where people say that the three people 
were Tom Sr.
> and his parents (LV's father and grandparents). Can someone tell me 
if there
> is proof of this or if it is just a theory?

Geoff:
Canon seesm to imply this...

"Elderly Mr. and Mrs.Riddle had been rich, snobbish and rude and 
their grown-up son, Tom, had been even more so."

(GOF "The Riddle House" p.8 UK edition)

"Frank was stubbornly repeating, again and again, that he was 
innocent and that the only person he ahd seen near the house on the 
day of the Riddles' death had been a stranger, dark haired and pale."

(Same chapter p.9)

"My father's bone, naturally, meant that we would have to come here, 
where he was buried." (Voldemort's words)

(GOF "The Death Eaters" p.569 UK edition)

Tom was a teenager 50 years ago at Hogwarts. The character 
descriptions certainly fit those of his father - living as a widower 
with his grandparents.

I assume that the house is the same... There is agreement in the 
descriptions.

"It stood on a hill overlooking the village.....  ...Once a fine-
looking manor and easily the largest and grandest building for miles 
around, the Riddle House was now damp, derelict and unoccupied."

(GOF "The Riddle House" p.7 UK edition)

"A hill rose above them to their left.Harry could just make out the 
outline of a fine old house on the hillside."

(GOF "Flesh,Blood and Bone" p.552 UK edition)

I think the evidence is good enough for me.....