Source of LV's evil nau

[romuluslupin1]

No: HPFGUIDX 113930

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "littleleahstill" 
<cmjohnstone at h...> wrote:
> 
> Duffypoo wrote:
> >>I don't see that his father abandoned TR at all, except in TR's 
> mind. Divorce/separation isn't ususally about the kids but about 
the 
> adults in the situation. Did Riddle, Sr. even know his wife was 
> pregnant or had she just told him she was a witch? Did she even 
know 
> that she was pregnant, at the time of the magical revelation? > 
 
> Leah;
> After COS, I wondered if we would learn more about both Harry's 
and LV's parents (snip)However, I have 
> also discounted my 'LV's bad mother' theory since reading 
> GOF:  'Nobody wasted their breath pretending to be very sad about 
the 
> Riddles, for they had been most unpopular.  Elderly Mr and Mrs 
Riddle 
> had been rich, snobbish and rude, and their grown-up son, Tom, had 
> been even more so'.  It looks as if, with the Riddles, what you 
see 
> (and LV imagines) is what you get.

Now RL:
I could buy the "Mr Riddle didn't know of his wife pregnancy" 
theory, if it weren't for one tiny little detail: Tom knew who is 
father was. He didn't get that from his wizarding sources, so it 
stands to reason that info came from his muggle sources, that is 
from the orphanage. If they knew about Tom Sn, they must have 
informed him about his son, and he decided to ignore him (from what 
I've read, that was a common practice when the young bucks of the 
nobility/gentry/upper middle class married below their status and 
wanted to get rid of their "undeserving" family). Not conclusive 
proof, of course, but at least reasonable cause, don't you think?

Romulus Lupin, who wonders who Mark Hacking is