Mrs. Cole
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Orphanage Matron |
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Mrs. Cole was the matron of the orphanage where Tom Marvolo Riddle lived before attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She is described as being skinny, and harassed-looking, with a sharp-featured face. She is also an experienced drinker.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Matron of Wool's Orphanage
For most of her life Mrs. Cole was matron to a childrens orphanage.
[edit] New Year's Eve of 1926: Tom Marvolo Riddle's birth
Mrs. Cole was a young woman when Merope Riddle, no older than herself, stumbled into the orphanage on New Year's Eve of 1926, heavily pregnant with a baby boy and ready to give birth.
At first, she thought that Merope must have been from the circus seeing as she had such a strange name. Once Merope had given birth she was starting to lose the will to live, but in her last moments she instructed Mrs. Cole to name her newborn son after her husband, Tom Riddle Sr., and her father, Marvolo Gaunt, before she died. Mrs. Cole followed her instructions and named the baby boy Tom Marvolo Riddle.
[edit] Tom's childhood
As Tom grew up Mrs. Cole noticed that he was different to the other children, as a baby he rarely cried, and when he got older she started to notice "nasty" things seemed to happen to children who bothered him. For example when out on a day trip, two children disappeared.
[edit] Albus Dumbledore's visit
- "In all the years Tom's been here, he's never once had a family visitor"
- —Mrs. Cole to Albus Dumbledore when visting Tom Riddle.[src]
Later on in her career in 1938, Mrs. Cole was visited by Albus Dumbledore, who had come to tell her that the late Merope's eleven-year-old son, Tom Marvolo Riddle, had been accepted to Hogwarts School and that he was a wizard. This news came as a surprise to Mrs. Cole, but she allowed Dumbledore to visit Tom Riddle in person in his room at the orphanage. This news of finding out Tom was a wizard seemed to answer questions Mrs. Cole had about him.
[edit] Appearances
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (First appearance) (Appears in flashback(s))
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) (Appears in flashback(s))
[edit] Behind the scenes
Mrs. Cole was portrayed by British actress Amelda Brown in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.[1]
