Chapter 164 Tom Riddle
1st Riddle
Wade looked into the yard.
There is no one in this former orphanage now. The whole yard is overgrown with weeds and has an old and corrupt atmosphere everywhere. There is also a notice on the wall outside that the government is planning to demolish it.
"I think you can guess that Merope actually captured old Tom Riddle with a love potion. When she stopped using the potion, the man left her and the unborn child without hesitation. ”
Dumbledore waved his wand lightly and said, "So, the boy named Tom Riddle grew up here."
In the phantom, the baby grew up quickly and turned into a little boy. The other children were far away from him. The boy often talked to the snake in the corner.
Then, the kid ran into the house, and Vader and the others followed.
The boy stretched out his palm, made a rabbit float out of thin air, and hung it from the beam.
Sometimes he would run into a room, rummage through the bed and closet, and sneak something into his pocket.
Dumbledore said: "I don't know if this child will be better off if he is in a normal family, but the orphanage is definitely not a good growing environment. Little Tom Riddle quickly learned some bad habits. Like stealing, or threatening others."
"He had some innate abilities that allowed him to easily harm kids who were older and stronger than he was."
At one point, the boy's behavior seemed to come to light. A skinny woman grabbed his arm, pushed him into the room and locked him up.
The woman's movements looked ferocious, but also revealed a hint of caution.
The boy is sitting on the bed and seems to be reading. Soon after, the screen flickered, and a tall man with a long beard walked in.
Although the image formed by the fog was not clear, Vader could still recognize it at a glance. The wizard was standing beside him at this moment.
"Oh, this is me." Dumbledore said: "That child is a wizard, and his name was recorded in the Hogwarts register when he was born. When he is eleven years old, I will come to take him to school."
The young Dumbledore didn't communicate with the boy for long. He suddenly raised his wand and ignited the illusory wardrobe next to him. The boy jumped up.
The flames disappeared, and Tom Riddle took out a cardboard box from the closet. The contents poured out of the box were exactly what he had stolen before.
The two spoke a few more words, and the young Dumbledore handed a money bag to Tom Riddle, and the meeting ended quickly.
"Let's go." Dumbledore stretched out his arm again and said, "The next story is in Hogwarts."
Dumbledore apparated directly to the school, but did not break the Disillusionment Curse.
Vader's Disillusionment Spell has the same effect as a chameleon's, and people who are very sensitive to colors may be able to notice the difference. But the effect of Dumbledore's Disillusionment Curse was like wearing an invisibility cloak, and it would not be noticed at all.
Students in the school were coming and going, and no one saw two more people in the corridor.
Soon, the class bell rang, students hurried into the classroom, and the corridor became empty.
Dumbledore took Vader with him, and the figure formed by the mist walked with them.
The little boy was wearing a Hogwarts uniform and walking in the corridor with a book in his arms. There were always people following him. And as he grew older, their numbers seemed to increase.
The professors all smiled at the boy, but Dumbledore always looked at him with a scrutinizing look.
"Riddle was extremely qualified, extremely intelligent, and an orphan. He attracted the attention and sympathy of the faculty as soon as he entered school. Almost everyone liked him very much," Dumbledore said.
"Soon, he surrounded himself with a group of devoted friends... or subordinates."
"They are complex and well-organized. Many malignant incidents have occurred in Hogwarts during their years at school, but there is no conclusive evidence linking them."
"The most serious one resulted in the death of a girl."
On the floor, a pale, bespectacled corpse lay on the ground, his eyes wide open and his body stiff.
At this time, they happened to be near the bathroom on the second floor, and the girl's whimpering sounds came from the toilet.
"Moaning Myrtle, she was once a student of Ravenclaw. She was ridiculed and bullied by her classmates and died suddenly while hiding in the toilet and crying."
Dumbledore said: "We still don't know what caused her death. I can only guess that it may have something to do with Riddle."
"After the death, Hogwarts was at risk of closing. But then, Riddle caught the 'murderer' - he reported another boy in the school, saying that he secretly kept a murderous pet."
Screen changes.
Tom Riddle struggled with a large boy as a huge, many-eyed spider quickly escaped through the corridor.
Riddle seemed to be shouting loudly, and soon many people came running over.
"Is that Hagrid?" Vader said.
"Yes." Dumbledore replied: "After that, Hagrid was expelled from school. The Ministry of Magic banned him from using magic and broke his wand."
"But I thought he was innocent and convinced Principal Dippet to keep him and train him as a gamekeeper."
"Because Hagrid's father had passed away at that time, and he had nowhere to go after leaving Hogwarts."
The scene changed again. Tom Riddle had grown tall and handsome. He became the president of the Boys' Union, won the school medal, and then graduated from school.
As the fog rolled, the picture that formed again seemed to be many years apart from the previous one.
The little boy had grown up completely, but his face had become pale and distorted. Many people followed him, wearing black robes, hoods and masks, like evil spirits crawling out of hell.
They broke into other people's homes and killed the owners inside; some people knelt in front of them and struggled. Although no sound was made, it could be seen that the person was suffering cruel torture.
People were constantly killed, but the fog did not disperse immediately, so the originally empty corridor seemed to have become a sea of blood and corpses. People fell to the ground in various postures, with pairs of lifeless eyes looking at the sky.
"After graduation, Tom Riddle applied to stay in school, but failed. He rejected the invitation of the Ministry of Magic and went to work in Borgin and Burke's in Knockturn Alley for a while, and then disappeared for many years."
Dumbledore continued.
"When he came back, he was called 'Voldemort', and his followers were called Death Eaters. But he did not regard them as family or friends, but as servants, and the honor he gave them was to let them kneel down and kiss his robes or insteps."
"They did a lot of terrible things, wizards and Muggles were dying, and there was panic everywhere. Until he was defeated by a baby at the peak of power."
In the picture, the wizard fell on his back and turned into mist and dissipated. Another baby clenched his fists and was crying loudly.
It seemed like a reincarnation.
