Chapter 425: Riddle
According to the parchment he received at the beginning of the school year, at eight o'clock in the evening, Harry went to Dumbledore's office, and when he returned, he told them what he had seen and heard, two memories. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"The new school year has begun, and Tom Riddle has arrived, a quiet boy in second-hand robes, lining up with the other freshmen for the sorting ceremony, and the sorting hat almost touches his head and sorts him into Slytherin. ”
Perhaps he had frightened or made his Slytherin classmates admire him in the common room, but none of this reached the faculty, he did not show the slightest hint of arrogance or aggression, and as an exceptionally gifted and handsome orphan, he naturally attracted the attention and sympathy of the faculty, and he seemed polite, quiet, and thirsty for knowledge, and almost all of them had a good impression of him. ”
"You didn't tell them what he was like when you saw him at the orphanage?"
"Nope. Although he never expressed remorse, perhaps he blamed himself for his previous actions and was determined to be a new man, and I chose to give him this opportunity. ”
During his years at school, he was surrounded by a group of die-hard friends, and Riddle undoubtedly had no affection for them, a group of people who formed a kind of dark force in the castle, they were a complex group, the weak sought refuge, careerists wanted to be powerful, and the cruel by nature were attracted to a leader who could teach them a higher form of cruelty, in other words, they were the precursors of the Death Eaters, and some of them really became the first Death Eaters after leaving Hogwarts. ”
"Riddle kept them under strict control, and the gang was never found to have done anything bad in public, and although there were many vicious incidents at Hogwarts during their seven years at school, none of them were conclusively linked to them, the most serious of which was of course the opening of the secret room, which resulted in the death of a girl. For this, Hagrid was wronged. ”
"Riddle was fascinated by his origins. Of course, this is understandable, he grew up in an orphanage, and naturally wondered how he got there, it seems that he had searched for Tom Riddle Sr. in the prize room, in the prefect list of the school's old records, and even in the history of magic books, but found nothing, and finally he was forced to admit that his father had never been to Hogwarts, and it is believed that it was then that he abandoned the name, changed his name to Voldemort's, and began to investigate the family history of his mother, whom he had previously despised. ”
His only clue was the name 'Marvolo', which he learned from the orphanage administrator that it was his maternal grandfather's name, and after a painstaking search of old books and wizarding families, he finally found the remnants of the Slytherin family. In the summer of sixteen, he left the orphanage, to which he had to return every year, to look for his relatives in the Gaunt family...... First memories. ”
"Morfin, whom I had seen in Ogden's memories before, was the Gaunt house, but it was indescribably filthy, with thick cobwebs on the ceiling, a black floor, moldy food and a pile of rusty pots resting on the table, and his hair and beard had grown to cover his eyes and mouth. ”
With a loud knock on the door, Morfin woke up, raised his wand in his right hand, picked up a short knife in his left, and the door creaked open, and a boy stood in the doorway, carrying an old-fashioned oil lamp, Tom Riddle. ”
"Morfin drunkenly lunges at Riddle, holding his wand and dagger aloft, but when the Parseltongue says, 'Stop,' he can't stop and slam into the table, then glaring at Riddle. ”
"Would you say something like that?"
"Yes, I would say. ”
"Where's Marvolo?" he asked.
"Dead, dead for years, haven't you?"
"And who are you?"
"I'm Mofen, isn't I?"
"Marvolo's son?"
"Of course, ......"
"I thought you were the Muggle, you looked like the Muggle. ”
"Which Muggle?"
"That Muggle my sister is obsessed with, that Muggle who lives in the big mansion across the street, you look just like him, Riddle, but he's older now, isn't he? He's older than you, I remember......"
"He's back, you know. ”
"Riddle is back?"
"Ah, he abandoned my sister, my sister deserved it, married to trash! and robbed us of our things, before she escaped! Where's the locket, hmph, where is the Slytherin locket?"
"Shame on us, she, that little slut! Who are you? Come here and ask these questions? It's all gone, isn't it...... It's all gone......"
"That's all, why is it dark all of a sudden, what happened?"
"Because Morfin can't remember what happened after that. Dumbledore beckoned Harry to sit down, "He woke up the next morning to be alone on the ground, Marvolo's ring gone. ”
Meanwhile, in the village of Little Hangleton, a maid screamed and ran down the street, saying that there were three bodies in the living room of the big house: Tom Riddle Sr. and his parents. ”
"Muggle authorities are at a loss. As far as I know, they still don't know how the Riddles died, as the Avadaso Curse usually doesn't leave any scars...... The only exception is sitting in front of me. Dumbledore nodded at Harry's scar and continued, "But the Ministry of Magic knew right away that it was a wizard's killer. They also knew of a Muggle-hater who lived across the street from Riddle's house, and who had been in prison for assaulting one of the victims in the case. ”
The Ministry of Magic then approached Morfin, but without any interrogation, no truth potion or deception, he immediately confessed, providing details known only to the murderer, and saying that he was proud to have killed the Muggles, and that he had been waiting for this opportunity for years. The wand he handed over was immediately proven to be the murder weapon used to kill the Riddles. He did not resist and was obediently taken into Azkaban. The only thing that bothered him was that his father's ring was missing. He's going to kill me. He repeatedly said to his captors, 'I lost his ring, and he will kill me.'" That seemed to be all he had to say next. He spent the rest of his life in Azkaban, mourning the loss of Mavolo's last family heirloom and being buried next to the prison, along with the other poor people who died in prison. ”
"Dumbledore thought Voldemort had knocked his uncle unconscious, took his wand, walked across the valley to the 'mansion opposite', killed the Muggle who had abandoned his wizarding mother, and the Muggle grandparents, erased the unruly Riddle family, and took revenge on his biological father who never wanted him, and then he returned to the Gaunt house, cast that little complicated magic, implanted false memories into his uncle's brain, placed his wand next to his unconscious master, took the ring and walked away. ”