Death in the Wizarding World

[deborahhbbrd]

No: HPFGUIDX 129898

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at y...> wrote:
> --- 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

Deborah now, and still unsnippable - grrr!

OK, this discussion is potentially something of a tear-jerker. But
there's a counter-example which reveals the limitations not only of WW
medicine (oops - healing - sorry!) but also of the WW's greatest power.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Mrs Crouch. The lady is dying. The
lady loves her son enough to sacrifice herself for him. The son
watches this happen, and is an adult at the time and well aware of all
the nuances and consequences. The lady dies. The son continues ESE!
with redoubled enthusiasm.

Bleak, yes. Unexpected, certainly. What surprises await us in mid-July?

Deborah, all eagerness