Mr. Gaunt has always been a strange person to the villagers of Badley Barberton.

Mr. Gaunt looked to be forty or fifty years old, pale, haggard, and had suffered from the vicissitudes of time at first sight.

However, there is still a heroic spirit between the eyebrows, and it is conceivable that he must have been a rather handsome guy when he was young.

He had lived in the village of Badley Barberton for three years, but during these three years everyone knew him only as "Gaunt", not even what his name was.

He seems idle, has no job, rarely goes out, and rarely communicates with his neighbors...... But there is never a shortage of money, and it is spent lavishly.

Every day he locks himself up in his house, not knowing what weird things to do.

The occasional visitors are also some strange people.

All in all, it is incompatible with the entire village of Badley Barberton.

......

In fact, Mr. Gaunt is a wizard.

An incognito wizard.

His full name is Tom Gaunt.

Former name, Tom Riddle.

Speaking of which, Mr. Gaunt's life can be said to be ill-fated.

His father was a Muggle and his mother was a witch, but his mother was cruelly abandoned by his father when she conceived him.

On the last day of 1926, his mother gave birth to him in an orphanage, and he died soon after.

Poor Tom grew up in this orphanage.

It wasn't until he was eleven years old that a wizard named Albus Dumbledore approached him and told him that he was actually a wizard.

Tom then succeeded in becoming a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

During his time at Hogwarts, he showed a remarkable talent for magic. Assigned to Slytherin House, he became a prefect, then a male student council, and a large group of vassals.

At the age of sixteen, Tom avenged his mother by setting a trap and killing his own father, Tom Riddle Sr., and framing his uncle Murphy Gaunt.

After graduating, he planned to continue his research in extreme magic (then known as black magic).

So when he graduated from Hogwarts at the age of 18, he came to an extreme magical goods store, the Boginbock store, and became a clerk here.

But at the same time, the situation changed abruptly.

Albus Dumbledore, a Hogwarts Transfiguration teacher at the time, was revealed to be a dark wizard, and he was defeated by Gellert Grindelwald in a duel and imprisoned in Newmontgard Prison.

At the same time, Leonard Munn, then Minister of Magic, was also forced to step down, and committed suicide a week after stepping down.

The headmaster of Hogwarts, Armando Duppet, soon announced his resignation and died shortly after.

Mr. Grindelwald led the re-establishment of the British Ministry of Magic at the time and volunteered to be the Headmaster of Hogwarts.

Tom Riddle, who had just graduated, was targeted by the Aurors because of his close relationship with the dark wizard Albus Dumbledore (he knew that the wizarding world was guided by Dumbledore, and according to the revealed information, Dumbledore had been extremely concerned about Tom in the years before 1945).

In January 1946, Tom was arrested for dealing in extreme magical items.

Soon, he was sentenced to three years in prison...... Due to his lack of qualifications to enter the Nunmengard prison, he was imprisoned in Azkaban prison.

And in January 1949, on the eve of Tom's imminent release from prison -

The Ministry of Magic's Law Enforcement Division uncovered another unjust case, a wizard named "Morfin Gaunt" was imprisoned for the murder of three Muggles, but subsequent evidence showed that he was not the real culprit in this case, and that the real murderer was Tom (referring to the case of Tom killed his own father, Tom Riddle Sr., and framed his uncle).

The case was quickly retried and Tom was sentenced to another 50 years in prison.

Life in prison had to go on.

He spent another 11 years in Azkaban prison and then transferred to Nhumungard prison where he was held for another 21 years before being released early for good behaviour in prison.

On October 31, 1981, Tom, who was in his fifties, finally regained his freedom.

After his release from prison, he changed his name to Tom Gaunt and began a life of incognito.

And, he reconnected with some of his student vassals......

Even after years in prison, he still earned their respect for his outstanding talent in extreme magic.

Over the course of a few years, Tom gathered a small group of vassals and formed an illegal group called the Death Eaters, with Tom as their leader.

Soon the group had to retreat underground due to the attack of the Ministry of Magic.

Since 1988, Tom has been engaged in the study of occult magic.

Due to his frequent exposure to contraband, he began to choose to live in Muggle towns.

......

Six ancient books, all placed in front of Tom.

"Ahh

He spent 200,000 Galleons on the books that Lucius Malfoy had stolen from abroad......

But now, he found that these books were worthless, if not worthless!

The core content of the six books all points to another -

That is, the seventh book, which is not in his hands at all!

If he can't get that seventh book, then it's completely meaningless, and he can't do anything!

Tom's face began to tremble with anger, and there was even a flash of red light in his dark eyes.

Suddenly, a strange instrument on the table began to "buzz".

Then he began to squirm violently.

Tom's face changed suddenly, and he quickly turned on the instrument and lowered his head—

The expression in his eyes quickly turned into ecstasy.

Because he suddenly felt that the seventh book did exist......

And a few minutes ago, someone opened it!

And the location of the seventh book, it seems, is at Hogwarts!

Tom's face soon changed from ecstasy to a bit of gloom.

Because the person he hated the most was also at Hogwarts!

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