Why didn't Lily run? (Was: James, a paragon of virtue?)

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 123809


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> But why a witch would die in childbirth or how her child could end 
up in a Muggle orphanage has never been clear to me. I would guess,
> though, that her own parents were already dead since Tom is the 
last descendant of Slytherin and that descent comes through his 
mother. So maybe, poor and ill and desperate, she went to a Muggle 
hospital to give birth, knowing that her child would at least be 
taken care of if not loved.

Tonk here:
I assume that Tom's mother was disowned by her family because she 
married a Muggle. And if she was poor, ill, alone and desperate it 
was because her own people turned their back on her. And here is a 
new thought: Maybe there was some reason she was hiding out in the 
Muggle world. Somewhat like Lily. Would her family have wanted the 
boy dead because he was a mud-blood? Befouling the blood line of the 
noble pureblood Slytherin himself? After all the name Marvolo 
doesn't sound like the sweet grandfather next door! Sounds rather 
sinster to me. Maybe Muggleland is where Wizards go to hide? Course, 
why would she give him his grandfather's name if that were the case. 
Yes, there is a *riddle* mystery here.

Tonks-op