[HPforGrownups] Re: Sharing names - Heritage

[Miller, Gina (JIS)]

No: HPFGUIDX 98753

 
 

> Wanda:
> 
> I stand corrected.  Well, in that case, it was illogical writing on 
> Rowling's part.  If a woman from a small village had married the son 
> of the rich family who lived in the big house, it would have been 
> common knowledge to everyone in town.  If they'd kept it secret, she 
> could have exposed him when he deserted her.  A wife has power, a 
> mistress has none.  And there's no reason for the state to take care 
> of an "orphan" if he has a legal father or other relatives to do so, 
> so Tom could not have ended up in an orphanage the way she 
> describes.
> 
> Wanda


Gina: 
 
          I might add that in those days (ever seen or read Nicholas
Nickelby?) that if a father did not want a son he could pay to have him sent
away - school, orphanage, etc. and more often than not it was a horrible
place they landed. 


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