Some things that bother me
Matt
hpfanmatt at gmx.net
Fri Jul 22 18:41:35 UTC 2005
No: HPFGUIDX 134192
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, momy424 at a... wrote:
> I was almost 99% sure in GoF, in the opening chapters when
> they are at the Riddle house that the information on the deaths
> of the Riddle's included the son (Tom) whose body was not found
> or domething to that effect, however in HBP, Riddle finds out
> about his father from his uncle and kills them that same night
> and it is quite clear that no one knew about Tom before that.
> Am I imagining this?
They found all three bodies:
"Fifty years before, at daybreak on a fine summer's morning
when the Riddle House had still been well kept and impressive,
a maid had entered the drawing room to find all three Riddles
dead."
The reference to "all three Riddles" is later spelled out:
"Elderly Mr. and Mrs. Riddle had been rich, snobbish, and
rude, and their grown-up son, Tom [i.e., Tom Sr., who was
Voldemort's father], had been, if anything, worse."
I think you might be conflating the discovery of the bodies with this
passage about the interrogation of the gardener, Frank Bryce:
"But over in the neighboring town of Great Hangleton, in the
dark and dingy police station, Frank was stubbornly repeating,
again and again, that he was innocent, and that the only person
he had seen near the house on the day of the Riddles' deaths
had been a teenage boy, a stranger, dark-haired and pale.
Nobody else in the village had seen any such boy, and the
police were quite sure Frank had invented him."
(all quotes from GF1)
--Matt
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