<div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br><br>
</div>Lynda<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 6:31 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moony_loony@yahoo.com" target="_blank">moony_loony@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p></p><div>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?<div>
It explains a lot about Tom's character, though again I doubt that Rowling really internalized what this means for Tom's upbringing.</div><div><br></div><div>Loony</div></div><p></p>
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