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

[kempermentor]

No: HPFGUIDX 123822


Carol wrote and was snipped earlier:
> > 
> > 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 replied:
> 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.

Kemper now:
I think Carol gave a good explanation for Marvolo in Tom's name that 
being it is the first name of her father.  But I don't think that's 
quite it.  I think it was Tom's mother's maiden name.  I know that 
was some time ago and not very common in the Muggle world, but the WW 
had a witch prime minister well over a century ago so it would seem 
the WW is past any patriarchal social system.  Look at Hogwarts.  But 
I go off tangent... The reason Carol gave for his mom giving him that 
middle name, as a clue to his wizard heritage, is spot on.  

Kemper
who has more than a few friends whose middle name is their mom's 
maiden name.