COS - Riddle's Orphanage; Legimency

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 121465


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gelite67" <gelite67 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" 
<meriaugust at y...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > gelite67 wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm re-reading and I have two questions.
> > > 
> > > 1) Is anyone curious as to why Riddle was in a Muggle orphanage 
> > > instead of being adopted by a wizarding family?  
> 
>  <snip> 
> > Meri here: I always assumed that the reason he was sent to a 
Muggle 
> > orphanage was because no one knew he was a wizard after his 
mother 
> > died. She was, IIRC, a witch who was spurned by her husband (Tom, 
> > Sr.) when he found out what she was. Mrs. Riddle then gave birth 
to 
> > her son and died, leaving baby Tom with nothing but a name 
because 
> I 
> > am assuming that his mother had no family.  <snip>
>  And 
> > as to why no WW family volunteered to take baby Tom while many 
> would 
> > have raised Harry as their own, I think the answer to that is 
> fairly 
> > simple: Harry was the Boy Who Lived and Tom was just some random 
> > baby. As much as I hate to write it, people's compassion is not 
> > always evenly applied, and taking in the baby that defeated LV is 
> > much more attractive than taking in some random foundling. 
> > 
> > Meri - hoping she did not insult anyone who adopts, is adopted or 
> is 
> > thinking about adopting...
> 
> Angie replies:
> 
> Yes, I'm sure it would have been bragging point for the wizarding 
> family that took Harry in, but shame on the wizarding world if 
that's 
> the reason for not taking Riddle in!  It looks to me like the 
school 
> would have an obligation, if "only" a moral obligation, to try to 
> find Riddle a wizarding home.  They knew where he lived -- they 
sent 
> his letters to him.  And of course, all of this begs the question 
of 
> how it was explained to the orphanage where Riddle went during the 
> schoolyear.

Geoff:
About 15 months ago, there was a lot of discussion about Tom Riddle 
and his background. Much of it stemmed from the famous (or 
infamous) "Vauxhall Road" threads - which were to do with where Tom 
got the diary. This then led to speculation about Stockwell Orphanage 
and on to Tom's mother and her dealings with the Muggle and Wizarding 
worlds.

If you pick up at nmessage 83683 or thereabouts (No Sex Please, We're 
British) there is a lot of discussion about her status. Follow it 
through - the threads do change names on occasions.