Chapter 170: The Past (2)
The encounter between the young Dark Lord and Bella was the beginning of a bad relationship, and the Dark Lord continued to torture Bella in order to completely destroy the persistence in the woman's heart. The Dark Lord succeeded www.biquge.info and he completely reinvented Bellatrix Lestrange and made the woman his most loyal Death Eater.
For Bella, it was from a nightmare, and for the Dark Lord, it was the only chance he had to fall in love with a woman.
The Dark Lord's childhood misery, as well as the curse that existed in his body, could have changed as a result, but now, the Dark Lord had turned down this opportunity, and he did not choose to leave any warm corners in his heart.
We focus on Tom, who has now become the Dark Lord, but few people ask why such a gifted wizard would choose such a dark path. Some people say that the side effects of aphrodisiac make the Dark Lord inherently lack this kind of affection, and it is also said that the long-term marriage of the Gaunt family makes them irritable and irritable, and these things may have an effect.
In the memories of the Longbottoms, there are very few memories of what the Dark Lord looked like, and the wizards who have seen the Dark Lord himself after the complete fall are only the loyal Death Eaters. As Bellatrix Lestrange tried desperately to find out the whereabouts of the Dark Lord from the Longbottoms' minds, the little memories of the Dark Lord in their minds became clear.
Dumbledore first wanted to find the Dark Lord's secret, and he chose to ask the Longbottoms to help him, and the prophecy had already been known to Dumbledore, but Dumbledore was not sure what the words meant. On the face of it, there are at least two families that meet this criteria, one is the Longbottom family and the other is the Potters.
Of the two families, the Longbottom family seems to be more likely. Although the Potter family is equally prominent and occupies an important position in the wizarding world, compared to the Longbottom family, now is the time for the Longbottom family to prosper.
Under such circumstances, even Dumbledore thought that the Longbottom family was very likely to be the prophesied family, and Neville Longbottom would be the important savior who would end the Dark Lord.
Under such circumstances, Dumbledore decided to ask the Longbottoms to assist him in investigating the Dark Lord's past.
Dumbledore was the Dark Lord's mentor, and it was he who brought the Dark Lord into the wizarding world. Dumbledore arranged for the Longbottoms to investigate the Muggles and find out what memories they had of the Dark Lord.
The Death Eaters were aware of the Order of the Phoenix's secret operation, and on the night the Dark Lord disappeared, they thought that the Order of the Phoenix's secret operation had worked, and that the Dark Lord had been attacked, and they didn't know that the Dark Lord had actually had an incident at the Potter house, and they had speculated that the Longbottoms were the key.
Bella tried her best to torment the Longbottoms in order to find the secret weapon and the whereabouts of the Dark Lord, and she even tried the Celestial Trick that she had never tried before, and Bella saw the Dark Lord's childhood as seen by the Longbottoms.
The Longbottoms had been in contact with almost all the Muggles in the orphanage, and they had pieced together the Dark Lord's first days from Muggle memories.
Tom Riddle was locked up today by Mrs. Cole, the director of the orphanage.
It's not news, but it's still a joy for a group of kids who have been against him. They took advantage of the break after eating to run to the door of the confinement room and taunt him. Tom was the only child born in the orphanage, and he had heard the director say how pitifully his mother had given birth to him in the orphanage and how she had died pitifully. He was born here, unlike those abandoned children. He made this his own territory, his own... Family.
But the other kids didn't think much of it, they kept complaining, they thought it was terrible, and Tom was a little impatient, he didn't mean to advise them, he just thought they were annoying. So Tom uses the strange abilities he has begun to get used to to make those children unlucky.
This small punishment would not trigger the Ministry of Magic's detection, but it would still be very effective, and the children would henceforth refer to Tom as the devil.
There are only a few words of ridicule from this group of children, "devil", "monster", "deserved", "go to hell" or something, there is nothing new. This group of poor worms who have never seen the world and have no school to go to, even scolding people is so boring. The teacher in the orphanage would teach them some basic questions, and the children would not want to learn, only Tom would endure the hunger and carefully copy all the words according to the teacher's meaning.
Riddle sat in the dark room, he felt especially hungry to-day, he didn't care at all about the children who watched his jokes, these wretched creatures had no entertainment, their future was the same as it was now, and the same as it had been in the past, in this foggy and filthy London, toiling so hard for a little food that they would eventually rot in a mass grave in the suburbs.
When Tom fused with the darkness in his heart that night, he not only gained that strange ability, but also realized that he was actually different from the rest of them. Tom didn't know how to describe the feeling, as if his life suddenly had meaning and his existence had become reasonable. Tom didn't seem to hear the shouts of "Devil" in unison, and he turned his back coldly to the door, focusing his attention on remembering the simple lessons the teacher had taught yesterday, so that he would not be so hungry.
Riddle disdained to admit his hunger and madness, as if admitting that he wanted bread would tarnish his great mission, and he felt that starvation was a ritual, and he learned from the nuns that ascetics always had to starve in order to stay awake.
He wanted to take this helplessness of his own as a kind of practice, and he tried to convince himself to persevere.
But...... , the body himself betrayed him. There was a gurgling sound, and it seemed that the little bread and soup in the morning had been completely digested, and Tom's stomach was empty.
"Haha, Riddle, I didn't have lunch today, how do you feel, aren't you very tolerant? The children outside laughed at Tom, Tom couldn't help but feel frustrated, and even he began to doubt his own future, does he still have a future?
"Shh......h Listen! Tom is crying inside! Haha, this lying devil is finally going to starve to death!".
"Really, really, get out of the way, let me see, haha, look, he's going to be hungry!" the other orphans tried to see Tom through the small window of the confinement room, but it was so dark that they could only see Tom's vague back.
"Look at him in the future, he dares to say that he is the bravest, haha, he is just a coward, and his good life will only begin in the future!" said one of the biggest boys, laughing.
"Hahahaha......" Some of the children smiled awkwardly, although they didn't think it was funny.
These idiots, who thought that such a small setback would make Tom Riddle give up? They didn't know me so well that when I was united with my dark side that night, I had nothing to fear.
Riddle subconsciously held his stomach down, he didn't realize that he was doing it to relieve that feeling of hunger, his whole energy was on identifying his differences, he was fanatical about embracing death, spreading fear, he had to prove that he was different.
"Snake Talk" Tom ...... Do you want me to find you a rat to eat?" a black snake swam out from under the bed, this dilapidated confinement cell had many rat holes, and for a snake, it couldn't be better.
Riddle replied in a cold hiss, "Snake Whisper: No. I really don't want to eat that stuff if I can. The last time I ate it, I had a stomach trouble for a long time, and I almost died!"
"Snake Whisper: Okay...... But I have to say, it's not enough for a child to be hungry. ”。
"Snake Whisper: I suspect the rat has to be cooked before it can be eaten. I'm not like you, I can't eat it raw!I'm hungry right now, but I'd better wait until I'm so hungry that I don't know anything,...... Thanks, Nagini. ”
Tom deliberately hissed loudly, so that the noisy children outside would also understand that now Tom was angry.
"Listen, it's that terrible sound again!" Tom used to warn them every time something bad happened.
"Riddle is speaking in that cold pronunciation again!
"He's a devil! Mrs. Cole doesn't know how terrible he is! He's going to hell!"
"Go to hell......" There was another panic outside, and they panicked and wanted to report to the dean.
"Snake Language: Although I don't understand their words, I can feel the panic of the group of people outside, they are talking about you again, I think you better talk to me less, I asked our people, in this country, no one can talk to snakes directly, but they said that there are some foreigners who can. Maybe your father was a foreigner from the Far East Indies. Nagini hissed, "Snake Language: the more different you behave, the more they will isolate you, this is the law of the animal world!"
Riddle's little face showed an age-inappropriate sneer: "Snake Whisper: Ignore them, a bunch of poor worms, I don't need such friends." ”
Still, he fell silent. Tom subconsciously rubbed his stomach, he felt his hands and stomach warm a little, even though his stomach was still empty.
Nagini hid under the table, looked up at Tom, and shook the snake's head: "Snake Language: Tom, you have to believe in the wisdom of a snake, this wisdom has been passed down from our snake ancestors, and this wisdom has helped me to live well in the snake group." ”
Riddle glanced down at it, and showed a helpless smile, he gently pushed Nagini's snake body with his foot: "Snake Language: Sometimes I think if I were a snake, I would be happier, Nagini." At least the snake doesn't care who its parents are. ”
Riddle had spent more than a day in the dark, damp confinement cell, the last time the dean had released him, but the last time, he had been locked up for three whole days. Just when Tom thought he was going to be so hungry that he would have to think about a rat feast again, Mrs. Cole lifted him from his confinement.
An introverted, cowardly, pale, freckled, emaciated girl volunteered to open the door to the confinement chamber and tell Riddle to go to the church to find Mrs. Cole.
Riddle glanced at the short girl, he was impressed, but not deeply, Tom nodded at the girl, and she quickly lowered her head, avoiding Tom's gaze.
Tom walked a little vaguely towards the church, trying to keep his hands and feet from trembling, and Tom felt himself shiver with cold.
Many children were gathered in the church, and Mrs. Cole was talking to a lady with a black veil and a mask. As soon as Riddle saw this posture, he knew that someone had come to pick another child to raise.
With a blank face, he found a seat to sit down, and in this squalid city, people die every moment, and men and women who have lost their children choose to come to the orphanage to adopt a replacement. Tom had always had a bad feeling at such things, feeling like a piece of goods, being picked around, which made his feeling of a heavy responsibility unreal.
Those children who were picked up, of course, had a good life, but more, those children did not have a good life, and some girls disappeared directly and were never found again, and even if they were picked up, they might be sent back.
Tom doesn't think there's anything wrong with the orphanage, at least here, he can learn to spell. When he goes out, he doesn't necessarily go to school. Whenever a well-dressed person comes to choose an adopted child, all the orphans will try to express themselves, because being adopted by such a family is the most likely to live a good life. And those who wear ill-fitting clothes, or who look like they are doing hard work, the children will try not to be selected, because then they may have to work hard to support themselves, and such people are not so much adopting children as recruiting child laborers.
Riddle wasn't interested in that kind of family, and he didn't bother to get involved in the low-level intrigues. He dimly knew that his own was different from any of the children here.
The lady, who wore a black veil to cover her face, spoke to Mrs. Cole in a weak voice, she should not be very old, and from the clothes she looked, she was born well.
Mrs. Cole whispered to her, "Thank you for your generosity, your husband, who has always been the main supporter of our orphanage, and it is so sad that such a kind family would do such a thing." ”
Lady Black Veil sobbed in a low voice, and she lowered her head and wiped her tears with her handkerchief. "I can't watch him go down like that, he always thought it was his fault, if he hadn't taken the child to swim, the child wouldn't have gotten sick, then maybe.... I want to take the child back and let him see that his good deeds may cheer him up. ”
"Of course, of course, your plan will work, these kids, you see, who you like, they are all very smart, and they will surely get Mr. Butler back on his feet. ”
The orphans, who were abandoned in the city in old clothes for various reasons, all looked at Mrs. Butler expectantly—they had heard, Butler's house!
Mrs. Butler sobbed for a while more before she looked up at the orphans sitting below, and through the black veil, the children could not see Mrs. Butler's face clearly, nor could they see her expression. Tom kept his head down.
The silence lasted for a while, and Tom couldn't help but look up, just in time to meet Mrs. Butler's gaze, Tom's face was expressionless, showing a coldness that did not match his age.
The boy withdrew his gaze indifferently and sat down in the corner without caring about himself. Mrs. Butler said, "What is the boy's name, I think he is a little embarrassed. ”
The Dean followed Mrs. Butler's gaze, and Tom was looking down, seemingly uninterested in what was going on here.