Sharing names - Heritage

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 98679

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" 
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote: 

Wanda:
> Unless his parents weren't married, which I don't believe they 
were, 
> which would be yet another bitter pill for Tom Jr.  Just giving the 
> boy the same name as her lover would be of no use at all in trying 
> stake a claim.  And the fact that Tom was brought up in an 
orphanage 
> would argue that Tom Sr. had no legal obligation to him.  This 
would 
> not be the case if he'd married his mother; parents can't just 
> refuse to acknowledge legitimate children, they're legally 
> responsible for them.  If she'd had a marriage certificate, she 
> could not have been cast off so easily, and her son would have had 
> legal protection.  Even if he'd divorced her (which is not stated - 
> the word is "abandoned") he'd have had to provide for their son.

Geoff:
I quote below a part of my message 83700 which was part of a 
thread "No sex please, we're British."

"Geoff:

Perhaps I should point out that your argument is not upheld by
evidence in canon:

"'You think I was going to use my filthy Muggle father's name for
ever? I, in whose veins runs the blood of Salazar Slytherin himself,
through my mother's side? I, keep the name of a foul, common, Muggle
who abandoned me even before I was born, just because he found out
his /wife/ was a witch? (my emphasis)'"

Tom Riddle to Harry (COS UK edition p.231)"