The only one he ever feared? / TR's past

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 117374


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kelsey Dangelo 
<kelsey_dangelo at y...> wrote:

Kim: 
> How did TR find out that he was the
> last heir of Slytherin? His father didn't tell him.
> Did his mother know and leave some sort of message for
> him before she died? <SNIP> Lately (like the last few
> days) I've been spending time conjecturing to myself
> on the details of TR's birth and childhood, the days
> before he came to Hogwarts to study as a wizard. How
> was he informed that he was eligible to study there?
> He was in a Muggle orphanage, wasn't he? Who, in a
> Muggle orphanage, would have received the owl mail
> from Hogwarts and given it to him? 

<snip>
 
Kelsey:
> Hi, Kim! I completely share your fascination with
> young Tom Riddle (I guess he fascinates me as the most
> human-view we get of Voldemort, and his frightening
> parallels with our dear Harry).
> 
> I'm also very interested in Tom's mother, and so want
> to learn more about her. 

<snip>

Geoff:
About a year ago, we had a couple of threads which touched on this 
subject which might make useful reading.

The first thread was "No Sex, please, we're British" and if you pick 
it up part way through at message 83683, follow it from there and 
then move over to the thread "Tommy Riddle's Birth" which begins at 
message 83878.

Geoff
http://www.aspectsofexmoor.com