Delayed twin? Maybe a SPOILER

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 113508

 JoTwo said:
> I've checked on the web and there is such a thing as delayed twins 
> (or delayed interval delivery) in real life.  This is when one twin 
> is born first and then labour (or labor in the US) stops and the 
> second twin is born later.  Apparently the longest known gap was 95 
> days and happened in Louisiana.  One baby was born in 1994 and the 
> other in 1995.  In the past the first twin usually died because it 
> was too premature but these days it is not unknown for both babies 
to 
> survive.   Anyway the point is that delayed twins can happen.  As 
JKR 
> has allegedly written the phrase delayed twins, this is further 
> evidence for my big idea that Tom Marvolo Riddle was one of a set 
of 
> twins.

DuffyPoo:
Perhaps I am naive but Dobby answered this, did he not?  After Dobby told Harry "Not - not He Who Must Not Be Named, sir." in chapter two, he explains in chapter eighteen "It was a clue, sir." said Dobby, his eyes widening, as though this was obvious.  "Dobby was giving you a clue.  The Dark Lord, before he changed his name, could be freely named, you see?"  To Dobby, this was about Tom Riddle, though he could not tell HP that, by saying it was not H-W-M-N-B-N, he thought he was giving HP the hint that it was him before he became him.  

I presume from your theory that you are indicating that TMR is the second twin since his mother died giving birth to him (his words) so the other twin, the first, is out there somewhere?  Why wasn't it in the orphanage with TMR?  Could TMR have, after seeing/realizing Lily's dying sacrifice for HP, caused his sibling to die for him to gain a similar (not quite same) protection?  Is this one of the steps on the path to immortality?

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