Harry's moral core vs. Voldie's

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No: HPFGUIDX 117588


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> 
> Carol wrote :
> " Mrs. Riddle making the effort as she's dying to name her son after
> his father and her own strikes me as an act of love not only for the
> infant but for the two men involved. 
> (snip)
> 
> Carol, hoping the mothers on the list will understand the 
significance
> of such a moment"
> 
> Del replies :
> If you're right, then it's downright tragically ironic that Tom Jr
> came to hate and despise that name ! An act of love turned into a 
seed
> of hate...
> 
> Del, who is a mother and was indeed moved by Carol's explanation


Snow:


Ditto on the mothering attributes
if this is what actually happened?

But
Young Tom Riddle was fed information about his early family, as 
was Harry. We know that Harry's information about his parents demise 
was falsified, why not Tom's? 
What do we actually know about Tom's parents? His father was rich and 
as snobbish as they come and his maternal grandfather's name was 
Marvalo whom was a descendant of Salazar Slytherin. Everything else 
is conjecture! DiaryTom claims may not be substantiated. Yes, 
someone, presumably the orphanage, told Tom that his mother told them 
what his name was to be etc. but Harry was also told that `his' 
parents died in a car crash. Harry believed his parents fate until he 
was told and proven otherwise. Likewise, I believe that Tom under 
similar (in a way best representative of the currant circumstance) 
was told something to appease his questioning. Tom believed what he 
was told, as did Harry, and both were lied to for rationalizing 
purposes. I personally believe that Tom's mother lived, and may still 
be living, but was forced to choose between her son and his rejecting 
father or her wizarding world connection with the last of the pure 
royalty line of Slytherin. 

I am curious why everyone appears to take young Tom Riddle's facts, 
as were given to Tom at a young age, so seriously?  This is muggle 
world (orphanage) vs. wizarding world, the Harry/Dursley world vs. 
the Dumbledore/wizarding world. The out and out lies of a muggle 
world that does not want to accept the wizarding world compared to 
the truth, and all it entails, that has been denied to both Harry and 
Tom; the wizarding world. 

Harry and Tom are more alike than maybe we realize or would like to 
admit. What is the difference between them and especially their 
mothers? 

It is the lack of information about Tom's mother and her past that 
allows me to question young Tom's beliefs that had been told to him. 
We, the readers, have at least been aloud a glimpse into what Harry's 
mother Lily was like through the eyes of her friends and teachers but 
the absence of Tom's mother's former information leaves me in denial 
of a truthful explanation from Tom's caretakers let alone to believe 
young Tom's second hand knowledge of the so called events. 

Snow