Speculation on Tom Riddle's origins

[felix_quinn]

No: HPFGUIDX 154968

>small snip<Lissa wrote
> I believe Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley may be Tom Riddle's 
biological
> parents.

Phew. It's taken me a while to get through the thread,
(the the newer
related one) But my main question is whether this
original theory was
concieved before/after HBP? If it was before, have you
revisted the
theory, and how was it affected by the extra info on
LV's parentage?
And the growing relationship between Harry/Ginny?

>snip<Lissa wrote:
>I believe Ginny Weasley was also given a symbolic name
by Rowling.  I
> assume Ginny is short for Virginia and I suspect
this is a nod to the
> Virgin Mary, mother of the Christian lord.

I believe Ginny is short for Genevra, although that
alone does little
to poo-poo the theory ;-)

I do find it one of the more interesting theories,
although I
personally disagree. One part of your theory (You might've mentioned 
it in the "far fetched analysis of the prohpecy thread")
that I find rather plausible, is the idea that by
using Harry's blood
for his resurrection, LV has crippled himself in some
way. I always
thought that using Harry's blood somehow created a
vulnerability
because of the connection that now exists, but I love
the idea that
somehow, Harry's blood was MISTAKENLY used, and
because of the
improper usage there is now a flaw in the result of
the spell. But that's just by-line.

As to the idea of a more extensive use of time-travel
in the last
book, it's a definite possibility, although somehow I
doubt it will be
to such a large extent. Although JKR's plots and
by-plots have been
quite intricate up to now, it's always fit together in
such a way that
although it requires some thought, always seems to
make sense in
a 'simple' way once all the facts have been revealed
to us. It's kind
of like a Sherlock Holmes mystery, in that Sherlock
was always
hesitant to reveal his exact process of deduction,
because when
everyone knows how he did it they suddenly feel it was
simple,
although it was actually rather difficult. But the
idea of such a
brain-breaking paradoxical time-line would be more
fitting of a Dianna
Wynne Jones novel, not really a Harry Potter one. Not
to say it's not
interesting!

One more thing that seems to me to suggest otherwise,
is also the idea
of Ginny getting pregnant so young. Although we all
know that by no
means is Harry Potter an exclusively children's book,
a very large
chunk of HP's readership is juvenile. While JKR has
never written in
such a way as to explicitly AVOID going into slighty
more *cough* grey
areas, the story has never really lent itself to
anything pertaining
to the sexual. This is the same problem I have with
theories involving
a love affair between Lily and Remus- it's just too
out of context.
For all of this theory to pan out, quite a lot of
sexual encounters
have to occur, (and Ginny would have to be
pregnant in Harry's
last year, because we assume the last book will span
his 7th year,
with only an epilogue that will prove an excpetion) So
she would
really have to be quite young. Even if JK decided that
plot-lines of a
sexual nature could be included, I somehow doubt
Harry's going to have
time to get lucky in between Voldemort-smiting.;-)

But major kudos for such a well-thought out theory,
anyway. Greatly
entertaining.

Felix