Sharing names - Heritage

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 98761

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mandy" <ExSlytherin at a...> 
wrote:

Mandy:
> Keep in mind too that this was just after the war, and there were 
> many lost, orphaned and unclaimed children who were sent out to the 
> countryside for saftey and who's parents then died in air raids.  
> This obviously didn't happen to Tom Riddle Jr., but the system 
would 
> have been over loaded with orphaned children and stretched to the 
> limits.

Geoff:
Mandy, You've got your time frame wrong. Tom was about 15-16 at the 
time of COS and that was 1942 (50 years prior to Harry's second year 
which was 1992/3). So he was born about 1926/7. 

He might have gone to the countryside in the Second World War as a 
teenager. We had a thread on Stockwell Orphanage and its evacuation 
from London. It was part of a thread on Vauxhall Road and the diary 
and began around message 86880.