HP Cronos

Nora woke up suddenly in the night.She picked up her wand and went out, and faintly heard whispers coming from the next room, which was particularly terrifying in the dark night, just like a scene in a classic horror movie, Nora put her ears on the door, there was no movement inside, she knocked Door: "Merope?"

No one responded to her.

She pointed the tip of her stick at the lock: "Alahoo is open."

The door opened, and she walked in lightly, and saw Merope hugging her stomach and muttering to herself: "Son...my son...as long as there is you...he will change his mind...he will definitely Change your mind..."

"... Merope?" Nora asked cautiously.

But Merope didn't realize it, and murmured to herself, with a dreamlike sense of satisfaction on her face: "...he said he loved me...he said that I couldn't live without him... ...when he hugged me...he only had eyes for me...no!—”

She suddenly let out a piercing scream, then frantically grabbed her hair and beat her stomach: "It's all fake! It's a liar! A lie! It's not true at all! No! No one will love Me! Nobody loves Merope Gaunt!"

"Stop! Merope! Stop!" Nora yelled in vain.She dared not use the spell, she hurt Merope - Gryffindor was notoriously poor at controlling the power of spells.

"It's all because of you!" Merope said fiercely, "It's all because of you! He left me! It's all your fault!" She beat her stomach desperately.

Nora could only bite the bullet and make a move: "Quickly imprison!"

Merope was tightly bound, her chest was still heaving violently.

The hotel owner who heard the noise knocked on the door and asked, "Guest? What happened?"

"...nothing," said Nora.

"Please let me come in and take a look."

"It's really nothing, I can handle it, don't need to come in!" Nora said hurriedly.

But the boss had already opened the door with the spare key.The oil lamp he was carrying illuminated the room, and he looked at Merope who was tied to the bed in bewilderment.

Nora hastily cast a confusion spell on him.

The Forgetting Curse is a very complicated spell, and it might leave lifelong damage, so she dare not use it indiscriminately.

The cursed boss showed a confused expression. He looked at Nora and then at Merope confusedly: "Oh...guest, it seems that there is nothing wrong, so I'll go first."

"Okay, let's go." Nora hastily opened the door and pushed him out.Nora breathed a sigh of relief after closing the door.

She shouldn't have lived in a Muggle hotel just because she wanted to be cheap—although the wizard's hotel is really expensive, and I don't know where Tom who took her to the hotel got so much money, logically he should just work for a year little clerk.

Merope was lying on the bed unable to move, her protruding eyes stared blankly at the ceiling, and suddenly she began to sob softly.

"...I'm sorry...I'm sorry...forgive me..." She repeated these words, "Mom didn't mean to...forgive me..."

All the words Nora wanted to question were stuck in her throat.Maybe it's better to let her cry for a while.she thinks.

She didn't know how Merope got here by himself during the months after being abandoned by old Tom Riddle.

Actually Tom Riddle did nothing wrong.He was also an innocent victim.There is a rich family, a beautiful fiancée, but a witch ruins everything.

It seems that there is no one to blame except fate.

However, Tom Riddle was able to be born safely and smoothly—no, it was not smooth, let alone safe, his mother died of dystocia—and it was a miracle to some extent that he was able to be born in good health.It shows his strong desire to survive and tenacious vitality. No wonder he will divide his soul into eight parts in the future, even Dumbledore can't do anything about him.

What's more terrifying than a Dark Lord?The Dark Lord with eight lives, of course.

Nora sat by Merope's bed and watched over her, listening to her almost constant whispers.She didn't have any hypnotic potions at hand, and she didn't dare to use the Sleeping Charm, so she had no other choice.

Merope's belly bulged high.Little Tom Riddle was asleep in it.

Fate always has some kind of wonderful connection.At this time, Grindelwald's power was in full swing, expanding his territory in Europe and North America, and the magic world was shrouded in the shadow of the Dark Lord.I heard that he was recently arrested by the US Ministry of Magic, and the major wizarding newspapers reported the matter in great detail, but everyone was not optimistic that he would die down, or that it was only a matter of time before he escaped from prison.

Albus Dumbledore is still teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts, and his beard is not as long as it will be more than ten years later.Although he can no longer be called a young man now, he is still terribly young compared to many years later.

Karakkusta Blog, who runs the Bojin-Blog store, would never have imagined that the child in the pregnant woman's womb he saw today would become his most capable shop assistant in the future.

In 1926, nothing had yet happened.No one knows that the poor pregnant woman in Diagon Alley is pregnant with a Dark Lord that is no less than Grindelwald.

Merope seemed calm at last. After a long silence, she suddenly asked in a daze, "Where is this? Why can't I move?"

"There was a little accident just now, I can only tie you up." Nora said, "How do you feel, don't you remember anything?"

Merope still looked at her blankly.

"Merope, you...you need to rest," said Nora, waving her wand and untying her bondage. "The child needs rest too. You are so tired, go to sleep, I'll be right here with you." looking at you."

Merope nodded and closed his eyes.Slytherin's gold locket hung on her chest.It wasn't a Horcrux yet, and the emerald "S" glowed faintly.

Nora couldn't sleep, she opened Tom Riddle's diary, and after being pierced by the basilisk's fangs, it returned to an ordinary diary, stained with ink and venom, but still able to tell the difference. less content.

Nora didn't expect Tom to actually use it to write a diary.

No wonder.

At that time, he was young and energetic, full of ambitions, but he was surrounded by a group of idiots who only cared about homework, love and Quidditch, and he had to pretend to be a good student, so he could only write in his diary to express his feelings. Sincere feelings.

Jumping over a large area of ​​blur, Nora finally found a line of legible writing:

1942. 2, 7

My father was a Muggle.

So I don't like the name Tom Riddle.

1942. 3, 16

I opened the chamber of secrets.

As I expected, Slytherin left behind more than just basilisks.

1942. 5, 2

A few attacks made them hug each other like frightened sheep and tremble.

Nora asked if she would be attacked.

She has nothing to worry about.

She didn't know her mother was a Parseltongue witch until her parents died.

Gryffindors are equally dull.

1942. 6, 3

I made sure the deaths of Pollux Avery and Algee Cardo were painful and long enough.

Nagini would love it.

Nora seemed to notice.

In some things she was annoyingly sharp.

1942. 6, 7

Everything is going according to plan.No one even wondered how that big, stupid Hagrid would be able to open the Chamber of Secrets.

Maybe I still overestimate the intelligence of other people.

Except Dumbledore.

Nora didn't reveal a word to Dumbledore.

She is indeed my good girl.Maybe she's a Gryffindor and it's not so unbearable.

1942. 6, 23

It won't be long before I fully understand my origins.

Know exactly who I am.

Nora turned another page, and there were only a few lines:

1942. 7, 9

everything is over.

I killed him.

I kill them all.

Behind it is a large area of ​​blankness and filth.

Everyone knows the story behind it.

Nora sighed and put the diary away.

Merope fell asleep.Her sleep was not very stable, and she muttered about something from time to time.

That is Parseltongue.

Thinking about it now, when she murmured and screamed just now, she also mixed in a lot of snake language.English and Parseltonese were mixed together, as if her personality had also been split into two halves, tearing each other apart.

A mother with a nervous breakdown, a father who ran away, and a deformed marriage finally created a child without tears.

After taking care of children, she has to take care of pregnant women.

Maybe it's a hint that she'll be a good mother later on?

Nora shook her head and smiled, pushing the thought out of her head.

She will not be a good mother.

Caring for a pregnant woman is much harder than caring for a child.

Nora specifically asked the kitchen to prepare a "nutritious and digestible breakfast, varied and delicious".

If it weren't for the fact that she gave so many tips, the chef would have quit long ago.

They have breakfast together.Merope never refuses food, but fortunately she has passed the period of morning sickness.She was so thin, her sunken cheeks made her belly bloated.

Nora, who had been thinking about it all night, asked, "Do you want to meet Tom Riddle?"

Merope's eyes lit up for a moment, then darkened again.

"He won't want to see me." She said with a frustrated expression.

"It's not whether he wants to see you, but whether you want to see him." Nora said, "Merope, you should make it clear to him that he is the father of the child after all."

"He doesn't want to see me." Merope looked a little shaken, "He said I was evil...evil...witch..."

"I don't mean you guys...uh... get back together." Or that it's not possible at all, unless you bring a bottle of love potion there." I mean, you have to let him know that his baby is still alive .If you don't want to go..."

Merope was watching Nora eagerly.Her gaze hadn't been so glamorous yet.

"Well, it looks like you'd like to," said Nora.

She began to wonder if she was making a very bad offer.But judging by Merope's appearance, if she suddenly changes her mind, maybe she will start beating her stomach again.

Nora deeply suspected that it was because of her pounding that Tom was born with a twisted personality.

The author has something to say: Tom was born on New Year's Day in 1926.

The timeline is pushed forward a few months, which is the time when "Fantastic Beasts 1" happened.Newt and his future wife, sister-in-law and sister-in-law's boyfriend are fighting Grindelwald for [-] rounds in New York.

In the 20 years after Tom's birth, they would quarrel in major European cities four times (five films in the Fantastic Beasts series), until Dumbledore won the duel in 1945.

At this time Tom just killed the Hepziba scroll locket and gold cup and ran away, and the Horcrux was basically completed.

The rise of the two Dark Lords is seamlessly connected, but I don’t know if Tom Riddle will have a chance to appear in Fantastic Beasts, and who will be cast when he appears.

Look at his former actors, even if he played the noseless Ralph Fiennes, it’s not unreasonable to pull out his face to face Depp and Jude Law. "There is still a consensus on that.

But Dumbledore has never been praised for being handsome, but his father was said to be "handsome", but it does not prevent everyone from making GGAD into a handsome guy. After all, find Jude Law, who is called "Qiuhua" The acting also speaks volumes.