Death in the Wizarding World

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 129840

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "inkling108" <inkling108 at y...> 
wrote:
  Maybe as Potioncat speculates, she was in a muggle 
> hospital or orphanage -- but why wouldn't she seek magical help at 
> such a crucial moment?  Did she reject the WW or was she 
rejected?  
> Arthur Levine said we would learn how Voldy became Voldy in book 6 
> and I'm guessing his mother's story has a lot to do with it.
> 


Tonks:
I think that Tom Riddle's mother was disowned by her family and they 
were, like the Malfoys, people with a lot of power and influence.  
She could not show her face anywhere. She had married a Muggle and 
was expecting a Muggle child, a half-breed.  She had "befouled the 
grand and noble house of ___", and the bloodline as well.  She was a 
disgrace to the WW.  She was then abandoned by that slime of a 
Muggle that she married and there she was. She was in the Muggle 
world but could not do magic there for fear of being arrested by the 
MOM for doing magic in the presence of Muggles. She did not want her 
child born in Azkaban.  She died alone in a Muggle hospital.  

Her son was left to be raised by Muggles in an unloving environment. 
Any sign of his *magic* was ridiculed by the other kids and probably 
feared by the adults.  He was a problem child from the beginning. Is 
it any wonder that Tom grew to hate the Muggles so much? Maybe he 
even hates his mother and the whole idea of "Love".  If she hadn't 
fallen in "love" with one of *them* he would be the important 
respected wizard from a pureblood family.  Poor Tom.  Look at what 
all of his anger and rage has made of him.  I suspect that DD has 
shed a tear for Tom too over the years. Maybe this is why LV isn't 
painted by the author to be as evil to us as some of the others such 
as Bella, or Umbridge. Or maybe it is just the bleeding heart 
liberal in me.  I hate Umbridge, but still have hope for Tom.

Tonks_op