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

[ms_luna_knows]

No: HPFGUIDX 117390


Kim had written:
> 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?  

Kelsey:
> I got this impression that TR is angry at his mother for giving him his Muggle-father's name, but I could "hear" a hint of anger on her behalf because she loved a Muggle who snubbed and left her. I just feel like he carried out revenge on his father for abandoning his mother and him. I get an impression that Ms. Slytherin didn't marry Mr. Riddle, but that he abandoned his witch girlfriend when she was pregnant, and that she never got over her love for Mr. Riddle, and named her son after him. I have this feeling/theory that she was (despite her Slytherin heritage) good and met a tragic end, leaving her son to be bitter, angry, and evil.
> Kelsey, who would love to read a romantic-tragedy entitled "The Heir of Slytherin and The Muggle Snob"


Ms. Luna:
I share the same fascination with the Riddle mystery as you two.  And because of that I went back and read the threads suggested by Geoff and still questions are left unanswered.  Although I believe this thread has reached it's end and will most likely end with me, the reasons behind why a witch would remain in the muggle world to have a baby and name that baby after the man who abandoned her are curious.  My theory is that Tom's parents, being rich, snobbish and very rude (semi-quote from GOF) were threatening Tom with disinheritance if he remained with the Malvolo girl.  Maybe they saw her as unfit for their son. (although TMR says that he abandoned her because she was a witch, we all know that LV/TMR is a liar, and can't believe everything he says!)  Anyway, my 
thought is that they both still loved each other which would explain (to me anyway) why she remained near the Riddle's and named her son after the man she was still in love with. Hoping that after she had the baby that the family would welcome her in and the baby in. Obviously she was very wrong, otherwise they would have raised the baby after she died. TMR can't really KNOW exactly what went on between his parents, he is obviously filling in the blanks to suit his story.    

Ms. Luna's very humble opinion of the events surrounding TMR's birth.