Sharing names - Tom's story truth or fiction?

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 98773

animallover 11:
> It is possible that Tom has the story wrong.  It is possible that 
maybe his Mom left his dad (family pressure or something) and she 
told Tom Jr that dad left so he would not go looking for him.  It is 
possible that the whole situation was set up by his mother....


Jen: You have to wonder where Tom Jr. got his information. 
Documentation wouldn't be a priority in an orphanage at the time of 
TR's birth. And we don't know who took him to the orphanage, right? 
If a mid-wife or someone assisting with the birth took Tom Jr. 
there, who's to say how much of his family history she would even 
know?

Yet, Tom Jr. knows he's related to Salazar Slytherin. How? Did his 
mom leave him a letter? Then we have the very cryptic information 
from JKR herself that we will "find out more about the circumstances 
of his birth in the next book", which tells me Riddle could very 
well have misinformation, or not enough information, about how he 
ended up in a Muggle orphanage.

Whew! No answers here, just more questions. I take what Diary!Tom 
tells Harry in COS with a grain of salt, but I think *he* believes 
the story of his birth.

Jen, hoping someone will share a theory on how Tom found out about 
his history.