[HPforGrownups] Re: Tom Riddle and history

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 192637

Why would she not have? She's the one who wrote the character, placed him
in the setting he was born into, etc. Those things were done for a reason.
To set him in a place to develop as he did.

Lynda


On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 6:31 AM, <moony_loony at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> He was born 1926 and grew up in an orphanage during the Great Depression.
> He started school before WWII, 1938 and was in the orphanage in London when
> the bombings occurred. I wonder if JKRowling even realizes this?
> It explains a lot about Tom's character, though again I doubt that Rowling
> really internalized what this means for Tom's upbringing.
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> Loony
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