Hogwarts: I am Voldemort.

Chapter 169 Tom Riddle: The Awakening
Chaos, ending after the life of an orphan.

A faint light shone into Wu's Orphanage—the newly married Mrs. Cole was transferred here as the dean because of the murder case in the orphanage.

The newly married Mrs. Cole is positive and optimistic, and she has her own principles.

She does not allow the children to fight, and strictly restrains several older children, prohibiting them from using violence.

Nine-year-old Riddle finally came out of the endless darkness, but it was too late.

He became aloof, he didn't like to talk to people, he stopped using telepathy - he closed himself off, away from everything.

This kind of life lasted for a year until Riddle was ten years old.

And in the winter of that year, Mrs. Cole encountered the greatest ordeal in her life, her husband died.

Violence, alcoholism, and Mrs. Cole, who ignored the affairs of the orphanage, heated up the struggle within the orphanage again.

After a simple test, the older children began to take the initiative to attack, and the first person they chose to stand up was the one who was silent and had no friends...

Tom Riddle.

Billy Stubbs, the notoriously bad boy at the orphanage.

He found Tom, asked him to kneel down to himself in public, and surrendered to him.

The silent Riddle did not compromise as before, he straightened his back and said no loudly.

This surprised the bad boy Billy, but because there were too many people around, he didn't do anything, but he warned him severely:

Be careful you won't survive tomorrow.

The next morning, Billy the Bad Boy woke everyone up with a scream.

When everyone rushed into his single room, they saw the bad boy Billy curled up in the corner.

With blood all over his face, he pointed to the beam with trembling fingers in horror. People were surprised to see a rabbit hanged there.

Bill Stubbs was terrified, and from that day on he was out of his mind.

Everyone was not surprised. Anyone who woke up and found that his beloved rabbit was hanged on the beam of the house, and there was blood dripping from it on his face, would be mentally disturbed.

Everyone said that it was the silent Riddle who did it. Although there is no evidence, this statement is widely accepted.

For a time, he became famous in the orphanage.

There were even rumors that whoever could persuade him to join his team would be able to truly rule the orphanage.

Riddle ignored these rumors.

He still lives in his small and humble room, leading a monotonous life.

Generally speaking, he would hold a few small stones in his hand and keep shaking them.

But some people say that they have seen his hands not moving, but the stone was still jumping.

Of course, not many people would believe this kind of nonsense, but it undoubtedly put a veil of mystery on Riddle.

And six months after Riddle's birthday, during an outing at the orphanage, two people approached him:

Amy Benson, with her boyfriend Dennis Bishop.

"Join us, Riddle, if you refuse, we will become enemies." Dennis threatened.

"Enemy?" Riddle asked indifferently, "Isn't it before?"

"Riddle, if you talk to Dennis like that again, I'll blow your head off." Amy Benson jumped out and said.

Riddle was silent, and the two felt that he was scared.

"Let's have a good communication, Dennis, I want to hear about your plans, about the future."

He said this, leading the two people away from the other children—in the eyes of the two, Riddle wanted to go to a place where there were few people to show his submission.

Dennis felt that he had won, and he began to tell Riddle how he would use these orphans to beg for food or sell them after leaving the orphanage...

Riddle seemed to be listening very carefully, but he always lowered his head and made a "hissing" sound from time to time, which made the two of them puzzled.

Finally, they came to a cave halfway up the mountain, and Riddle led them in.

To be honest, Amy was a little scared at this time.

Whether it was Riddle's abnormal "hissing" sound or this dark cave, she was terrified.

But Dennis looked very excited, he didn't care about these at all, he just kept explaining his grand plan and great cause-squeezing out the last surplus value of the orphans, letting himself lie on the corpse to make money, he thought it was great.

However, when Riddle stopped in the cave and looked at the two with a smile, a horrible scene happened.

Countless snakes and pythons wandered from the gaps in the cave, surrounding the three of them.

Amy slumped on the ground in an instant, and the urine flowed out uncontrollably. Dennis was better, but also backed away in horror.

"I did not mean to offend you two."

Riddle spoke, looking very elegant, like Mrs. Cole who had just entered the orphanage, with a chest full of pride.

"But at this moment when the snakes are worshiping me, I want to re-understand, what are you trying to do?"

The two raised their heads in horror, and saw the snakes hovering over Riddle's body. Then they all poked their heads out, opened their mouths, spit out the snake letter, and neighed at them.

"sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss~~~"

Such a sound echoed throughout the cave, and the two of them were completely frightened.

"Surrender, I just heard you say that."

Riddle patted the snakes on his body, and they immediately swam down obediently, climbed onto the bodies of the two, trapped their hands and feet with their bodies, and finally turned their heads to face the faces of the two.

"I want to ask, are you still willing to submit to me?" Voldemort asked.

"Yes, I am willing to surrender to you." Amy Benson, who was so frightened that she lost control, said without hesitation.

"What about you?" Voldemort turned to look at her boyfriend.

"I am willing too, Riddle, as long as you spare me and let them go, I am willing to do anything." Dennis said in horror.

"Stay away from me, I don't need you to do more."

After Riddle finished speaking, he turned around and left. The two were so frightened that they hurriedly called for his help, but he left without looking back.

The two were not buried in the belly of the snake, and even none of the snakes really hurt them.

At a later time, the snakes retreated, but the two men were terrified.

At this moment, they felt the terror of Billy Stubbs, maybe even more serious.

But fortunately, they are two people who can bear and face together.

However, the two who returned to the orphanage also became silent.

Struggle for power?

Forgive them, they feel lucky to be alive.

As for everything they experienced in the cave, none of them told.

"We just went to a cave together and nothing happened."

They insisted on saying it, but no one believed it.

When someone asked about Tom Riddle, he would show a mysterious smile, and then say:
"Just adventure, really, just adventure."

(End of this chapter)