Merope (Was: Dumbledore's Plan/Deaths in DH/Catharsis)

[Hagrid]

No: HPFGUIDX 177572

> > Carol responds:
> > 
> > That's a problem for me. How did Merope learn to read or make a 
love
> > potion?
> 
> Pippin:
> I wouldn't assume she learned how from a book.
> She must have had a mother once. Love potions being a  village 
> witch's stock in trade,  perhaps Mrs. Gaunt was selling them to 
> Muggles.  It could be the Ministry found out, and put a stop to it, 
> but Merope remembered enough of her mother's 
> recipe to attempt it herself when she was desperate enough. 

Aussie now:
Did the Gaunts even trust other wizarding communities?

Once Slytherin split from Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and especially, 
Godric's school, the orderly Wizarding communities would have been 
shunned, and related to as seldom as possible.

The treatment of the Ministry of Magic official was good evidence of 
that. And Merope could have sold the locket anywhere, but went to 
Nocturn Alley since it was safely away from where her dad or brother 
could trace her,

Tom showed a creative streak with his Dark Arts. I agree Merope's 
mother taught her some things, but Molovo may not have seen any point 
in getting a wand for his magically deficient daughter.

Hogwarts? The gaunts would never go to that school until blood was 
pure and lessons were given in Parseltongue