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{{Quote|Lying there with their eyes wide open! Cold as ice! Still in their dinner things!|The maid, rousing the [[Little Hangleton]] villagers after she found the three [[Riddle family|Riddles]] dead.|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire}}
 
{{Quote|Lying there with their eyes wide open! Cold as ice! Still in their dinner things!|The maid, rousing the [[Little Hangleton]] villagers after she found the three [[Riddle family|Riddles]] dead.|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire}}
 
 
The '''Riddles' maid''' was a [[Muggle]] woman who worked in the [[Riddle House]].
 
The '''Riddles' maid''' was a [[Muggle]] woman who worked in the [[Riddle House]].
 
 
==Biography==
 
==Biography==
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This woman was born sometime before [[1943]], presumably in [[Great Britain]]. She worked as a maid for the [[Riddle family]] sometime in her later life, and lived either in the village of [[Little Hangleton]], or in the [[Riddle House]].<ref name="GOF">''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' Chapter 1: ''The Riddle House''</ref>
===Maid for the Riddles===
 
She worked in the capacity of a maid for the [[Riddle family|Riddles]]. She lived either in [[Little Hangleton]] or in her [[Riddle House|masters' manor]].<ref name="GoF">''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' Chapter 1: ''The Riddle House''</ref>
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At daybreak on a fine day in the summer of [[1943]], she found her masters dead, with a look of terror on their faces and still wearing their dinner clothes from the night before. She ran away from the house, rousing all the villagers she saw in her way.<ref name="GOF">''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]''</ref>
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[[Albus Dumbledore]] later explained the Riddles' deaths to [[Harry Potter]] in [[1996]].<ref>''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]''</ref>
 
===The Riddle Murders===
 
At daybreak, on a fine day in the summer of [[1940s|1943]], this maid stepped into the drawing room at the [[Riddle House]], to find the three [[Riddle family|Riddles]] dead, with a look of terror on their faces and still wearing their dinner clothes from the night before. She entered in panic and ran away from the House, down the hill heading to the [[Little Hangleton|village]], rousing all the villagers she saw in her way.<ref name="GoF"></ref> [[Albus Dumbledore]] later explained this to [[Harry Potter]] during their [[Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore's private lessons|lessons]] about [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]]'s past.<ref name="Half-Blood Prince" />
 
 
 
==Appearances==
 
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*''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]''
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]''
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)]]'' {{Mention}}
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)]]'' {{Mention}}
 
*[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]] {{Mention}}
 
*[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]] {{Mention}}
 
 
==Notes and references==
 
==Notes and references==
 
{{Reflist}}
 
{{Reflist}}
 
{{Reflist|<ref name="HBP">''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' Chapter 17: ''A Sluggish Memory''</ref>}}
 
 
 
 
 
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Revision as of 17:06, 23 September 2012

"Lying there with their eyes wide open! Cold as ice! Still in their dinner things!"
— The maid, rousing the Little Hangleton villagers after she found the three Riddles dead.[src]

The Riddles' maid was a Muggle woman who worked in the Riddle House.

Biography

This woman was born sometime before 1943, presumably in Great Britain. She worked as a maid for the Riddle family sometime in her later life, and lived either in the village of Little Hangleton, or in the Riddle House.[2] At daybreak on a fine day in the summer of 1943, she found her masters dead, with a look of terror on their faces and still wearing their dinner clothes from the night before. She ran away from the house, rousing all the villagers she saw in her way.[2] Albus Dumbledore later explained the Riddles' deaths to Harry Potter in 1996.[3]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. She worked for the Riddles before their deaths, which occurred in 1943, and hence she was born before then.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Chapter 1: The Riddle House Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "GOF" defined multiple times with different content
  3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince