HP Polar Night

Little Hangleton has not seen anyone from outside for a long time. This village is too remote, and young people like to run to the nearby Big Hangleton after they grow up, or to London, which is rumored to be full of prosperity city.Most of the people who still live here are old people who like nostalgia. They like to move a chair and sit on the largest square in the sunny afternoon, talking about their family and family.

When a group of young men and women from London arrived in Little Hangleton in a luxurious bus, the whole village became lively.

The old people gathered in the square with unconcealed curiosity, and many people went up to ask the group of young people why they came.

When they learned that they were from the best art school in London and came to Little Hangleton to sketch and paint, the old people burst out with great enthusiasm and invited the children to live in their homes.

London, that's an enviable place, and the kids from there, look, just aren't like the kids from Little Hangleton.So polite, well-dressed, and well-mannered.

Young people live in local people's homes in twos and threes, and they will stay here for a week.

Speaking of which, they still don't know why the tutor temporarily changed the sketching location to this remote village without TV and entertainment activities. Is it to train them to stay away from the bustling and find their true heart?

Oh, there isn't even a pretty girl here.

The boys were chagrined.

Aside from having no girls and no entertainment, Little Hangleton wasn't boring.

Many strange things have happened here, decades later, people still talk about it.For example, the once richest family in Little Hangleton, the strange story of all three members of the family dying strangely overnight.

The family's surname, I'm afraid others don't think there is anything, but for Agares who came here on purpose, it seems very special-Riddle reminds him of the person he saw in the alumni record, The best student at Hogwarts 50 years ago, Tom Riddle.

From the mouth of the old man, Agares heard something about 50 years ago.

How wonderful these things are for the villagers of Little Hangleton to talk about, so that 50 years have passed, and they have changed from youth to white hair today, and they still remember it in their hearts.

The Riddle family used to be a well-known big landowner, and their house was the most luxurious and imposing within a few miles. The Riddles were aloof and disdain to deal with ordinary villagers.They always sit on tall and strong horses and run quickly on the village road, regardless of whether the dust raised makes the villagers on the side of the road ashamed.

There are several maids working in Riddle's mansion, they are all recruited from the village, and many affairs and embarrassing stories of the Riddle family are resorted to their mouths.

The maids liked to talk about the young master of the Riddle family, he was so handsome, every girl who met him dreamed of marrying him.But Master Riddle was so ruthless, flirting with girls, dating them, and changing his mind so quickly.The girls who broke their hearts for Master Riddle could line up from the beginning of the village to the end of the village in Little Hangleton.

But such a romantic Master Riddle actually fell in love with an ugly and mediocre woman, Merope Gaunt.This woman lived with her crazy and violent father and brother on the hillside behind the woods outside the village of Little Hangleton. People never approached them. Talk to the snake through them.

How could a normal person talk to those cold beasts, only a lunatic would.

They never let anyone near their crumbling crumbling house, as if it had hidden gold.

But if their family had gold, how could they live in such a miserable life.

The news of Master Riddle's elopement with Merope Gaunt before his engagement flew all over Little Hangleton overnight, with whispers and girls stunned at what they heard.

Merope Gaunt, that mediocre and ugly woman who was so ugly that no one wanted to take a second look at her, eloped with the dream lover, Master Riddle, whom all girls dream of marrying!

This is simply horrible!

The elopement scandal made old Riddle furious, and he ordered his men to go after the rebellious son and tie him back.

But just a year later, Master Riddle, who realized his mistake, took the initiative to return to Little Hangleton.

Alone, without Merope Gaunt, he too was ashamed to talk about his affair.

People said that Master Riddle must have been fascinated by ghosts to fall in love with that woman. After the novelty wears off, he will naturally return home and continue to live his life as a young master.

And that shameless woman, of course, has no face to come back here.

Master Riddle's former fiancée, Miss Cecilia Acheson, who was also of extraordinary background, had already announced the end of her engagement because of this insult.As a result, the Acheson family and the Riddle family have changed from allies to enemies.

Master Riddle, who did something wrong, paid the price. He never married again, and was always alone.

Until 50 years ago, a bizarre murder occurred in the Riddle House.

On an ordinary late night, three members of the Riddle family, Thomas Riddle, Mary Riddle and Tom Riddle, died quietly in their own home.

At first, people suspected that it was the gardener of the Riddle family, Frank Bryce, who had returned from the battlefield. This man had a strange personality and was always cold and unreasonable.Frank also held the key to the Riddle House, so he could sneak into the house and kill the family of three.

Frank pleaded at the police station, claiming that on the day the Riddles died, he had seen a stranger near the house, a dark-haired boy of about a teenager, pale and suspicious.

But none of the villagers had ever seen the boy Frank was talking about.

Afterwards, because the autopsy report presented by the police station was too bizarre, the three members of the Riddle family did not have any wounds, were not poisoned, and did not suffocate to death, as if they died of fright.

The gardener was acquitted because the police found no evidence of his killing.

The person who later bought the Riddle House was Master Riddle's former fiancée, now Mrs. Cecilia Acheson Charles.For some unknown reason, she bought this dead house and still hired Frank as a gardener.

The villagers have rumored that Miss Acheson was angry at the fact that Master Riddle had abandoned her to elope with a mediocre woman, and secretly ordered Frank to kill the three members of the Riddle family, and then bought the house to cover up the truth.

It has to be said that these rumors were so true that Mrs. Charles was picked up by her husband after living in the Riddle Mansion for less than two months, and the Riddle Mansion also changed hands again within just two months and was sold to A rich man from a different place came.The rich man didn't buy the house to live in. Because of the death, the house always looks gloomy and unsuitable for living.The rich man bought it for some "tax issues" and he continues to employ Frank to look after the house to this day.

Everyone in the village regards the old events of the Riddle Mansion as bedtime stories to tell the children, and Frank, who is regarded by them as a murderer, is naturally not a good person in the story. They are like devils.

There are always hot-blooded boys with a sense of justice running to harass this 70-year-old man, whether throwing stones at the deserted Riddle Mansion, or breaking into the mansion at midnight to prove his bravery, it makes the old man feel uneasy. Frank was irritated.

These days, old Frank heard that Little Hangleton was staying with a group of young painters from London.Although he has always been withdrawn and ignored world affairs, people who pass by occasionally are always willing to talk about new things loudly, and old Frank will always hear a sentence or two.

Young people represent endless curiosity and trouble, and old Frank has seen through this long ago.

This day was still an ordinary Sunday. It had just snowed in Little Hangleton. The dilapidated Riddle Mansion was buried under heavy snow, and it didn't look so barren and dilapidated.

Old Frank was limping, and was slowly sweeping snow in the courtyard. The sky was cloudy, and an experienced old man could tell at a glance that there would be a heavy snowfall in the afternoon.He swept the snow in front of the door into a path, and there were no green plants in the winter garden, so there was no pruning.In such a cold day, he would rather stay in the gardener's cabin to boil a pot of hot water and pour it into a warm water bag to warm his stiff knees.

At this moment, a young man with brown hair approached here.

"Hello," the young man asked politely with an easel on his back, with a gentle smile on his face, "may I paint here?"

Old Frank, who was in his 70s, was already somewhat deaf, but the voice of the young man got into his ears strangely, so clearly.The old man leaned on the broom and turned around.He looked at the person coming, impatiently trying to tell him to go away, telling him that painting is not allowed here.

But the moment he saw the other party, he was in a trance, but for a moment, he nodded and said in a hoarse voice: "Come in, kid, you can have a cup of hot tea in my wooden house. chilly."

The young man thanked him gratefully, and then followed the old man into the house with the easel on his back.When he walked into the fence, an invisible wave rippled away from behind.The other young men with easels who came here a few minutes later suddenly remembered that they had important things to do, and left in a hurry.

In the cabin, Agares, who drank compound potion and pretended to be a young painter, used the confusion spell to make old Frank put down his guard.He asked the other party a few questions, and the information he got from the old man was no more than what the villagers had told him before, and even less about Riddle's elopement. After all, the old Frank who was a soldier was not a gossip in the village.

But as the only gardener in the Riddle Mansion, old Frank once saw a strange black-haired young man during the day when the murder happened.The old man clearly remembered that the young man looked exactly like Master Riddle, if not for the age difference, he would have thought it was Master Riddle.

Old Frank always felt that the death of the Riddle family had something to do with that boy, but he couldn't figure out how and why the boy did it.

Given the boy's resemblance to the Riddles so much, it was not difficult to infer his parentage.The past of Master Riddle's elopement also made old Frank guess that the boy might be the child born to Merope Gunter and Master Riddle.

It's just that lonely old Frank never spoke to the rest of the village, and he never told anyone about the boy.After all, he hadn't seen him since that day.

A feeling of shock surged in Agares, who learned the truth from the old man.

Tom Riddle, Merope Gaunt, outstanding student at Hogwarts, the last descendant of Slytherin who can speak Parseltongue, the person who opened the Chamber of Secrets 50 years ago, Special Contribution Award, a family that died strangely 50 years ago Three, a boy who looks exactly like Riddle...

All of this seems to constitute a terrible guess.

For pure-blood Death Eaters, it was a doomsday guess.

The Dark Lord they once pursued may have a rather disgraceful background, a Muggle father, a crazy Gaunt family, who killed his father and grandfather...

Tom Riddle, Voldemort, if the two were the same person, then all his guesses would seem terrible.

The author has something to say:

In fact, some Death Eaters should know about Voldemort's life experience?However, it does not rule out that Voldemort later let Wormtail and Barty know his biological father for the resurrection potion. After all, he wanted to take his father's bone...