[the_old_crowd] Re: Merope's Death

[Constance Vigilance]

Pip!Squeak:

Currently, we don't know what she [Merope Riddle] died of, 
only that she died within an hour of the birth.

Dumbledore seems to think Merope died because she refused to use 
magic. <snip>

CV: I've always assumed she died of a broken heart. Like she was sort of "walking dead" already out of sadness, but just stuck around long enough to have her child. When that was completed, she allowed her sadness to take her the rest of the way. Sort of agrees with not wanting to use magic. If she felt she had nothing to live for, why would she save herself? Who knows, there may even be magical suicide.

Anyway that's how I understood it when I read it.

CV, who has been is a similar state of overwhelming dispair and almost died of it herself. You just sort of stop living unless something comes along to rescue you first.


		
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