Magical Studies at Hogwarts

"...Your son Morfin attacked a Muggle last night..."

"...Why is it illegal for him to show off to a dirty Muggle..."

"...Look at this! Engraved on this gem is Peverell's emblem...Salazar Slytherin! We are his last living descendants..."

"...Every time the Muggle passed by, she was watching him from the fence..."

"...Is this true! My daughter, a pure-blooded descendant of Salazar Slytherin, actually pursued a dirty Muggle..."

Just like a drama, the ups and downs of what happened to the Gaunt family made Harry unable to relax for a moment.

Finally, the plot reached its climax. Merope, the pure-blooded daughter of Gaunt, fell in love with a Muggle named Tom. Mr. Gaunt was furious and pulled out his wand to clean up the house, but was stopped by Ogden. As a result, Ogden Gordon was beaten up by Morfin's crazy attack and ran away in panic.

Harry was still waiting to watch, but Dumbledore pulled him out of this memory, and they returned to the principal's office.

"What happened next? Sir, that girl?" Harry asked.

"Oh, she survived." Dumbledore asked Harry to leave the secret room where the pensieve was placed, and sat back behind the table. "Ogden apparated back to the Ministry of Magic. Fifteen minutes later, he took the Ministry of Magic's Reinforcements returned to Gunter's old house and arrested Morfin and his father, Old Gunter."

"Morfin attacked Muggles many times and was sentenced to three years in Azkaban. Marvolo was sentenced to six months for hurting multiple officials of the Ministry of Magic..."

"Marvolo?" Harry immediately grasped the key to Dumbledore's words, which earned him an appreciative smile.

"Yes, it's what you think." Dumbledore said with a smile, "Old Gunter is Voldemort's grandfather."

"Marvolo, Morfin, and Merope are the last descendants of the Gaunt family." He said, "The Gaunt family is a very old pure-blood family, known for its restlessness and violence. This may be due to their habit of marrying close relatives. Related. The young man you saw, the one Merope was madly obsessed with, was Voldemort's father."

"Is he the one Morfin attacked?" Harry asked.

"Yes, but compared to the rest of the story, it's not important," Dumbledore said.

"You should have noticed that when Merope broke the vase at the beginning, she used two restoration spells to restore it. In fact, this was because Marvolo's high-pressure rule restricted Merope's magical ability. .”

"Like squeezing a spring hard, after Marvolo and Morfin were imprisoned, Merope was completely free and let himself go."

"You might as well guess how she used to make Tom forget about his Muggle lover and fall in love with her?"

"Love potion?" Harry thought of the potion shown in Slughorn's class, but considering the twisted views of the Gaunt family, he added another answer.

"Or... the soul-stealing curse?"

"I prefer a love potion," Dumbledore said. "That would be easier to operate. You only need to persuade Tom to drink a glass of water when he passes by one day. But no matter what she did, as we just saw A few months after that scene, Tom and Merope eloped."

"What happened later was more interesting. A few months after they eloped, Tom came back alone, but without Merope by his side, and claimed that he had been deceived and deceived."

"I think he meant that he was under magic, but there was no way he could say such words at the time, as others would think him crazy. However, his departure and return were too strange, and the villagers also speculated that it was Merope tricked him into getting pregnant with his child and forced Tom to marry her.”

"But she did give birth to Voldemort!" Harry said, "But I remember that Voldemort grew up in an orphanage. Could it be that..."

"This is what we don't know," Dumbledore said. "Merope did not appear later. He probably died shortly after giving birth to Voldemort."

"This is a tragedy, Harry. The power of magic can never replace true human emotions."

"When you decide to use some means to play with emotions, you will definitely suffer a very serious backlash."

"Undoubtedly, Merope loved Tom terribly, so she used magic to make him fall in love with her and give birth to a child for him. But also because of this love, she felt that her husband loved her in the same way, so she Stopped the love potion."

"Perhaps Merope felt that Tom would at least stay for the sake of their children."

"But the truth is, she was wrong." Harry interjected.

"Yes, that's the truth." Dumbledore nodded, "Since then, Tom has never looked for her again, nor has he asked how his son is doing..."

"Wait!" Harry noticed the point, "Voldemort's father knows that he has a son?"

"Yes, but that's another story," said Dumbledore.

Harry fell into deep thought, completely immersed in the story Dumbledore was telling him.He suddenly understood why Voldemort was so crazy. He was born in such a family, and still had the crazy and violent blood of the Gaunt family in his body. Maybe just a small change was enough to make him what he is now.

Recalling what Dumbledore once said about his first meeting with Voldemort, maybe he was already what he is now at that time, but he was just hiding it at the time.

At this time, Harry remembered an inconspicuous thing in his memory again, and subconsciously looked at Dumbledore's left hand.

His move was noticed by Dumbledore, who then stretched out his left hand and shook it so that Harry could see the ring he was wearing more clearly.

"Sir, is that the ring that Marvolo Gaunt showed Ogden?" Harry asked.

Dumbledore nodded and replied: "Yes, it's that one."

"But...has it always been here with you?"

"No, I got it very recently," said Dumbledore, "just a few days before I went to pick you up from your aunt and uncle's house."

"That's when your hand was injured..." Harry looked at Dumbledore's right hand again, and then he remembered that this hand had already healed during the opening dinner.

"How is it so good?"

"That's another story too." Dumbledore stood up, looked at the time, and said, "But it's too late. I'll tell you next time."

Dumbledore walked Harry toward the office door. As soon as he opened the door, Harry stopped.He turned around, looked at Dumbledore's kind eyes, and asked: "Sir, can I tell Hermione and Ron what happened tonight?"

"Of course, but you have to ensure that they can't tell other people about these things." Dumbledore was silent for a moment and said, "Some things are not suitable for too many people to know."

"No sir, I promise!"

"I believe you...but now, it's time for you to go back to the dormitory and rest." Dumbledore patted Harry on the shoulder, "Good night, Harry."

"Good night, sir."