RPAGF Chapter 215 Voldemort's Past and Present
Chapter 215 Voldemort's Past and Present
Chapter 215 Voldemort's Past and Present
"Here is my memory. 62 years ago, my hair was still brown. I really miss it."
They came to a boxy, gloomy and old-fashioned building, surrounded by high railings, and the oppressive yard was not like a house, but like a juvenile detention center for disobedient children.
"This is the orphanage where Tom grew up."
Dumbledore led Ron into the door that opened automatically. After passing through the shabby hall with black and white tiles, they walked up the stone stairs and came to the platform on the third floor. They came to the first part of the long corridor. The door of a room, the closed door was opened when they arrived.
Dumbledore, who was wearing an elegant fuchsia velvet suit, stood opposite a handsome boy. As he said, Dumbledore still had auburn hair at that time, but his beard was also grown early.
There was only an old wardrobe, a wooden chair and an iron bed in the room. Just like this orphanage similar to a juvenile prison, the room here was also very similar to a prison cell, narrow, crowded, dilapidated and shabby.
At this time, Tom Riddle couldn't see a trace of the Gaunt family on his face. He was almost exactly the same as his handsome father, or should be his miniature version. Although he lived in such a poor environment, he gave People have a feeling of being out of place and not blending in with this small world.
"Hello, Tom." Young Dumbledore said, stepping forward and holding out his hand.
Tom hesitated, then reached out to shake Dumbledore's hand, and Dumbledore pulled the hard chair and sat beside Tom, so that they looked like hospital patients. Patients and visiting doctors, if the doctor wears a suit.
"I'm Professor Dumbledore."
"Professor?" repeated Tom, with a wary look on his face. "Is it like a doctor? What are you doing here? Did she tell you to come and check me?"
Tom pointed to the door. He thought that the director of the orphanage had sent Dumbledore.
"No, it's not." Dumbledore said with a smile, but a few simple words could not gain trust.
"I don't believe you." Tom said to Dumbledore coldly, "She wants someone to come and see me, doesn't she?"
"to be frank!"
The last three words were spoken fiercely and loudly by Tom. It is hard to believe that an 11-year-old boy can burst out with such momentum.
Dumbledore looked sideways at Ron, but only got a grin.
"I don't want to be bullied in the orphanage. Isn't it normal to be fierce? I don't think he fits in here."
Of course Dumbledore noticed Tom's out of place temperament, but Dumbledore was a little surprised by Ron's statement.
And the young Tom opened his eyes wide at this time, he stared at Dumbledore fiercely, but Dumbledore did not answer, but continued to smile kindly, after a few seconds, Tom's eyes relaxed, but he But became more vigilant.
"who are you?"
"I have already told you that I am Professor Dumbledore and I work in a school called Hogwarts, and I have come to invite you to study at my school—your new school, if you wish .”
But after hearing these words, Tom jumped out of bed immediately, and he gave Dumbledore an annoyed look, which seemed to irritate him.
"You can't fool me! You're from the madhouse, aren't you?"
"Professor? Huh~"
"Yeah, I'm telling you, I'm not going, understand? That damned old hag should go to the madhouse, I didn't do anything to little Amy Benson and Dennis Bishop, you can do it yourself Go ask them and they'll tell you!"
"I'm not from the madhouse." Dumbledore said patiently, "I'm a teacher, if you can sit down calmly, I'll tell you about Hogwarts, of course, if you don't want to Go to that school, and no one will force you—"
"I want to see who dares!" Tom pouted contemptuously.
"Hogwarts is a school for the exceptionally gifted—"
"I'm not crazy!" Tom said angrily, which seemed to make him feel extremely humiliated.
"I know you're not crazy." Dumbledore was not affected by his excitement, "Hogwarts is not a school for madmen, but a school for magic."
In an instant, the room fell silent, and the expression on Tom's face froze immediately. There was no expression on his face, but his eyes quickly scanned Dumbledore's two eyes in turn, as if he wanted to get some information from one of them. Only one eye saw him lying.
"Magic?" he asked softly.
"good."
"My abilities are... magic?"
"What skills do you have?"
"All sorts of things." Tom lowered his voice, but his excited blush quickly spread from his neck to his cheeks, and he seemed very excited at this moment, as if he had found a soulmate.
"I can make things move without touching them, I can make animals do what I tell them without training them, I can make bad luck for anyone who makes me angry, and I can make them hurt if they want to."
His legs were shaking, and he stumbled forward and sat back on the bed, staring at his hands as if praying.
"I've known for a long time that I'm different."
"I've known for a long time that I'm special."
"I already knew there was something in it."
"Yes, your idea is not wrong." Dumbledore restrained his smile, and he stared at Tom Riddle intently, "You are a wizard."
After hearing this affirmative answer, Tom looked up, and his face suddenly changed into another look. He revealed a kind of wild joy, but somehow, this over-excited joy made him handsome. There was a look of ferocity on his face.
"Are you a wizard too?"
"Yes."
"Prove it to me!" Tom snapped in the same tone as 'tell the truth' before.
The haughty tone made Dumbledore raise his eyebrows.
"If, as I understand it, you agree to go to Hogwarts—"
"Of course I agree!"
"Then you will call me Professor or Sir."
Tom's expression froze for a moment, and then he changed into a polite tone for a moment, "I'm sorry, sir, I mean. Professor, can you let me see?"
This quick face-changing reveals a kind of shrewd tact, his precocity and precociousness, but he is not at all like an 11-year-old boy, Tom's intelligence was revealed very early.
Dumbledore pulled his wand out of his suit, then waved casually at the wardrobe in the corner.
The raging flames engulfed the closet in an instant, and Tom jumped up suddenly. He let out a panic and angry roar. It might contain all his property.
Just when he was about to raise a teacher to question the crime, the flame disappeared as abruptly as it appeared suddenly, and the wardrobe was intact.
"Where can I get one?"
"There will be at that time."
"There seems to be something trying to get out of your closet."
As Dumbledore spoke, there was a slight rattling sound from the wardrobe, and for the first time a look of panic appeared on Tom's face.
"Open the door," said Dumbledore.
Tom hesitated for a moment, and then slammed the door open. A few old clothes were dangling gently on the thin hangers. On the top shelf of the old wardrobe, a cardboard box was constantly moving, as if the inside There are a few rats jumping around.
"Bring him out," said Dumbledore.
Tom looked a little bewildered as he unloaded the wobbly cardboard box.
"Is there something in that box that you shouldn't have?" asked Dumbledore.
Tom took a deep look at Dumbledore with clear, scrutinizing and deliberate eyes.
"Yes, I think so, sir," he began in a dry voice, but he made no attempt to defend himself.
"Open it," continued Dumbledore.
Tom opened the lid and dumped the contents on his bed without looking.
What good can a child who grows up in an orphanage or children who grow up in an orphanage have?
Some unremarkable little toys fell on the bed, such as a toy pulling reel, a silver thimble, and a tarnished harmonica. After leaving the box, they stopped moving and lay quietly on the thin bed on the blanket.
"You have to return these things to their owners and apologize to them." Dumbledore said calmly, and he put his wand back into his coat pocket, "I will know if you did it, and I will warn you: Stealing will not be tolerated at Hogwarts."
There was no shame on Tom's face, he stared at Dumbledore coldly, and then said in a dry voice: "Understood, sir."
"At Hogwarts, we teach you not only to use magic, but also to control it, and you used your magic in that way, I'm sure unintentionally, but that's something our school would never teach and never teach. Intolerable, let your own magic get out of control, you're not the first and you won't be the last, but you should know."
Dumbledore's voice seemed a little heavier here.
"Hogwarts can expel students, and the Ministry of Magic—yes, there is a Ministry of Magic—will punish offenders in a harsher way, and every new wizard must accept: once entering our world , obey our laws."
"Understood, sir." Tom still responded dryly.
"Professor Dumbledore." When he saw this, Ron, who was a little tired, waved to Dumbledore, "Let's go back first."
And Ron didn't intend to continue watching the subsequent things. He probably knew about the subsequent things, and they were not important. However, seeing these things in words and seeing the real scene with his own eyes gave Ron a completely different feeling. feelings.
This world of memories is fading rapidly, they flew in the dark, and then landed steadily on the floor of the principal's office.
"Can you tell me what you think of Tom? With your current thoughts, after reviewing your memory, what kind of person do you think Tom was at that time?"
"Maybe we should finish it, and then I took Tom to Diagon Alley—"
"Let me guess, he expressed displeasure, or disgust, with the owner of the bar also called Tom, and then went out and bought everything he needed without your company?"
"It's easy to guess, Professor, you don't need to be surprised."
"I want to hear how you feel about 11-year-old Tom."
Dumbledore stared at Ron for a while, and the two sat down at a small round table.
"To me, Tom's abilities are surprisingly well-rounded and mature, especially for an 11-year-old wizard, and the most interesting, and most ominous, is that he has discovered that he can control the His abilities, and using them consciously."
"The children in the orphanage were threatened and punished by him. For example, we didn't see the rabbit who was hanged, and a man and a woman who were brought into the cave by him during the spring outing. 'I can make them as long as I want Injuried'."
"Intelligent, sensible but impulsive and arrogant, I think he had shown at that time that he wanted to be different and independent, and he had no friends and didn't trust other people."
"But what worried me the most was the cruel, secretive and domineering nature he showed in front of me. I should have paid more attention to him when he went to Hogwarts, but at that time I did the same."
After Dumbledore finished speaking, he picked up the teacup and took a sip of the sweet and greasy drink, while Ron squinted slightly, looking up at the chandelier on the ceiling.
"He's an orphan."
Ron opened his mouth to say something, but then fell silent.
'So I know more than you do, Professor. '
Ron held back this sentence in his heart and didn't say it.
"What's wrong with him being an orphan?"
"So we can't stand in our shoes and see what an orphan is doing."
"If you have time, you might as well go to the orphanage in London. There is a saying in the Muggle world, it's called: the strong eat the weak."
Ron opened the corner of his eyes, and then looked at Dumbledore with burning eyes.
"Tom Riddle was born with his mother's expectations, sustenance and... love for him."
"I don't deny that there was no mutual love between his mother and his father. His mother, as the last heir of a long-established magical family, fell in love with a Muggle who was absolutely ostracized and looked down upon by the family. man."
"Merope's love is distorted and painful. She doesn't even care for Old Tom as a person, but as an object to possess."
"I think Morfin and Marvolo, who were taken away by the Ministry of Magic, should have a hard time seeing her again, right?"
"Without the oppression from the family, if it was a family, I think she used a love potion or something, she did a thing that was against love, she raped (violated) old Tom's soul , obtained his body, so old Tom will not really fall in love with their mother and child, and will not even accept this child at all."
"Merope's love is distorted, awkward, and one-sided, and she pinned her love for old Tom on Tom, just like his name: Tom Riddle."
"Do you agree with this point of view? Voldemort, Tom Riddle, was born with his mother's expectations, sustenance and love for him."
Dumbledore fell into a long silence. He always believed that Tom Riddle had never had love and would not feel love because he was the result of coercion, not the crystallization of love.
(Here are Rowling’s words, but I don’t agree with them. I think this is a setting that was imposed because of the need. It is a selfish and illogical fallacy. If the HP world is regarded as real, this is farting, just like Qiong Yao's Xiaosan is just as outrageous.)
Dumbledore didn't speak, he couldn't come to a definite conclusion for the time being, his rationality told him that this was correct and there were traces to follow, but it was difficult for him to accept this statement easily.
"If he is an orphan, a special orphan, he has some powers that others don't have - magic, even if he is precocious, I think he should not be very big when he awakens the power of magic."
"As with any child in the Muggle world, upon discovering his own special powers, we assume that Tom is not afraid of his own powers, and happily accepts it, and begins to act purposefully. exercise."
"Since Tom didn't choose to hide, then he will definitely become a different kind. I think you, Professor Dumbledore, can see that he is out of place in that orphanage."
"And you know, in an orphanage, among a group of children, what it's like to be an outlier?"
"You will be excluded and bullied. This is the inferiority of human beings, just like what is happening between Muggles and wizards in England now."
"Things have been like this since ancient times. I don't think there is anything wrong with that, right? In the past, witches were burned. Hogwarts was established to prevent those gifted children from becoming silent due to the external environment, which intensifies the conflict between wizards and witches." Conflict between Muggles."
"It is an instinct to reject people who are different from oneself. Although it can be overcome and alleviated, it is a kind of rejection to separate the wizarding world from the Muggle world. It can even be said that the appearance of the word Muggle represents A disparaging term for a wizard for a human being who cannot use magic."
"In fact, this is not fundamentally different from names like Mudblood. It's just defined as a derogatory term, and the other is accepted by all wizards, or they are used to it."
Ron drank black tea to moisten his throat, and Dumbledore listened quietly at this time, and there was no excessive emotion on his face.
"We can conclude that Tom is not a person who is bullied and does not resist. He has a strong desire to control and has a domineering nature. This is the fact we have just seen."
"So, he will not leave those who bully him alone. He will definitely resist and use his own strength to make those guys obedient, instead of making trouble for himself. The strength he showed deepened his confidence. Domineering, after possessing a power that others cannot resist, he becomes inflated."
"Did Tom have any conflicts with the owner of the rabbit before he hanged the rabbit?"
"They had a quarrel."
"And what about the two children who were taken to the cave?"
"I don't know that."
Ron showed a knowing expression, "In a shabby orphanage, children can fight in private over a piece of candy, even if the child who gets the candy eats the candy immediately, if he is not strong enough If you don't, you will definitely be beaten up by the older children, and bullying will never go away."
"Especially when they're dealing with someone they consider a freak, an outlier."
"Tom is not a generous person, so he will retaliate, after he has powers, after he can use these powers."
"You seem" Dumbledore tapped his fingers on the table lightly, "I feel like you understand what Tom is doing?"
This is not a good signal for Dumbledore, if Ron goes that way, it will be a nightmare for the world.
"I'm just making a simple deduction. I'm sick to do those messy things like Tom. The teacher also suggested that I promote the Ministry of Magic and establish the Holy British Magic Empire. You didn't see me contact Merlin Knight. The Knights of the Round Table and the Knights of the Round Table, right, I really want them not to raise their hands in ecstasy?"
"I bet that someday when I find the broken steel sword, as long as I raise my arms and shout: 'It's time to recreate the glory of the Holy British Empire!' those old grandpas will be able to swing the sword and dismantle it in 5 minutes The Ministry of Magic will make me a throne."
Ron rolled his eyes, which made Dumbledore laugh out loud. Nicole May would really do this kind of thing. Although the French love Lou, they are [-]% sure about things like revolution. The enthusiasm of the two hundred, and the Knights of Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table, they would definitely dare to do such a thing.
"We keep going back to Tom."
At this moment, Ron looked at Dumbledore with a sigh in his eyes.
"You shouldn't have done that."
"You had more ways to ask Tom to apologize, to admit his mistakes, maybe he won't really reflect on it, but using a burning wardrobe to ask him to confess, I don't think there is any more stupid way than this."
"Professor, I have to say, you deepened, or you planted a seed in Tom's heart."
"A seed called: 'Power equals power' can also be a seed that 'power can override the will of others'."
"Some people break their spines when they are under pressure, and some people endure when they find it, learn from it, and emulate it."
"Tom wasn't the former, so he chose to say 'I see, sir' and take it to heart."
"I'm going to make a bold guess, Tom... When he was in school, did he really want you to notice him, recognize him, and praise him? He wants your praise and recognition."
"Or in other words, you are his magic leader and his idol."
"I think he should have expressed his closeness to you more than once, but without exception, he was rejected."
Dumbledore stood up with a very dignified expression. There was no anger on his face, he was just thinking seriously and seriously, constantly recalling the past.
After a long silence, Dumbledore nodded slightly.
"I can feel his thoughts. Tom has been recognized and loved by all the teachers at school, but I am the only one."
"Because you think you see through him? See his 'cruel, secretive and domineering nature'?"
"Yes."
"I think so. I have observed him closely since he came to Hogwarts. In school, I saw his genius and growing ambition. I am more convinced of this."
"You think virtue above all else?"
"Yes."
"Then why Quirrell and Lockhart?"
Ron's sharp words made Dumbledore blush.
"I know it's for Harry, so you're going to compromise, right?"
"For the greater good, I once thought so."
Dumbledore doesn't deny any of this.
"But Tom believes that ability is above all else."
"This is the root of your differences. With his strength and your distrust, these two sharp questions have become irreconcilable. Perhaps Voldemort could have been changed, but unfortunately, he was lucky enough to meet you Unfortunately, I met you."
"His break with you was in the Chamber of Secrets at the age of 16. He framed a Gryffindor whose character you agree with, and used his method to strengthen the idea that his ability is above all else, so he changed his name to Voldemort (Voldemort), Becoming someone who wants to fly away from death (French: Vole De Mort), he wants to be stronger, the strongest."
These words made Dumbledore think of a person, a person who imprisoned himself alone in an unguarded and uninhabited building.
Gellert Grindelwald.
Isn't the difference between him and Voldemort the difference between him and Grindelwald?
It's just that Grindelwald and Voldemort made completely different choices.
One of them had love and experienced love, and the other had love but never experienced love.
This created a completely different choice for them in the end.
they are actually very similar
"Professor, it's not your fault. Tom's character will drive him to stand in a higher position. Maybe he won't become Voldemort after receiving the correct teaching, but he will definitely not become a decent person either. He lacks a very important thing, and that is vision."
"He is a short-sighted person. It can be seen from his performance in the orphanage. He has power, but after he can control it, he can't wait to show it. Therefore, he caused a lot of trouble for himself. Maybe Huo If Gwartz hadn't invited him, he might actually have met a madhouse doctor and dragged him into a madhouse."
"But it wasn't all Tom himself who was at fault."
"It's the world that's wrong."
"As long as Muggles and wizards still maintain this mutual incomprehension, even discriminatory attitude, then this problem cannot be resolved one day."
"But is it possible? I think it's impossible, because jealousy is also the original sin of human beings. Even if everyone in the world can use magic, discrimination will still exist."
"Just like the current contradiction between pure blood and non-pure blood, this kind of thing is impossible to eliminate."
Dumbledore's silence finally turned into a helpless sigh.
How could he not understand these things?Even if he hadn't thought of this before, he could fully understand it after being sorted out.
"There is one last memory. Actually, after talking so much, I don't think it's that important anymore."
"what is that?"
"Tom's speech when he formed his army of Death Eaters, everyone who heard this speech was bound by Tom, and we can only know what happened at that time from him."
"Look, it's all here."
So they entered the swirling silver vortex, and came to a land where clouds wandered.
Clouds brewing with raindrops enveloped the sky. In this oppressive land, werewolves showed ferocious smiles, giants stood upright, dementors roared into dark clouds, and those death eaters who took off their hoods However, he looked at the man in front of him frantically.
He is tall, handsome, and powerful.
Is the king at the top of this black ocean.
"Gentlemen, the sky is no longer our sky, where Muggles are flying around in their planes; the earth is no longer our land, Muggles are constantly expanding their territory and grabbing (jué) our land. resources; and the ocean is no longer our ocean, full of Muggle ships and their rubbish floating in the sea.”
"Muggles have been accumulating power. In 1945, at the critical moment when we celebrated Grindelwald's downfall, Muggles miraculously showed the world their newly acquired power to destroy the world. Perhaps being a wizard would not Afraid, but what about the others? This weapon is the epitome of Muggle malice all along."
"We! All the magic races, as beings above them, we have never sought the power to conquer the world, but they, this group of monkey-turned-Muggles, have always pursued the power to destroy the world."
"They are not only a threat to our magical world, but a threat to the entire planet!"
"Everyone! The stupidity, barbarism and malice of Muggles have been fully displayed as early as the witch-hunting era. Although we just took it as a joke at that time, what about next time? What about next time?"
"Do we want our children and our future to be shrouded in terror and threats from these inferior things?"
No one spoke, no one moved. The shocking aura erupting from Voldemort made those wizards, or those magical creatures who were with him, subdued under the aura and aura he brought, and the surging magic power It seemed to stir up the dark clouds in the sky, the huge vortex swallowed the thunder, and the dark sky became even darker.
"Our world is in danger, but we can't change it. Muggles are working hard to develop, but our world is stagnant. Those stupid old people control resources and restrict us with tradition. They are even naive. Think we'll be safe as long as we're separated from the Muggle world."
A sneer escaped Voldemort's mouth.
"But is it realistic?"
"Should we wait until the Muggles stand before us as human beings and declare us heretics before we start rebelling?"
"Those inferior pigs are dreaming!"
"Our world is stagnant because of those demented old people. I know that all of you here are the elites of various noble families. You represent the interests of your respective families, but you represent the interests of all our magical creatures!"
"You are the elite of the wizarding world, and you should shoulder the glory of the entire wizarding world! For our world to be more prosperous! We must break the current useless system, let go of our prejudice and discrimination, although our appearances vary widely, but we have One same identity, same magic power flowing in us!"
"We are a race that has been endowed with the truth and can cause miracles to change the world. We want to bring a new order to this chaotic world, our order!"
"Wizards! I promise you eternal glory!"
"Werewolves! I promise to give you a prosperous life!"
"Giants! I promise you an equal world!"
"Dementors! I promise to give you the sky to fly freely!"
"All noble beings who stand with me, flowing with magic power! I promise you an eternal and prosperous world!"
"The lowly Muggles will return to their pigsty! We are the only kings in this world!"
"Let's wave the wand for the future! Let's conquer the world for the future!"
"Use our humiliating sacrifices to change this decadent world!"
"Everyone! For tomorrow!"
"The world only needs one voice, my voice."
The boiling black ocean was roaring and roaring, and the two listening quietly knew that after today, it would be the day when Voldemort would start to spread fear and become the devil that people dare not even mention his name.
"It's the same as the Japanese 'tomb opening' style. It's really hellish."
"Didn't it mean that in 1962 China's Yunding Tiangong appeared? Even if it is a Muggle nuclear bomb, in front of this ancient miracle fortress, I think it will be a little louder than a fart?"
"Not everyone is as well-informed as Nicolas. Don't you know about his relationship with Huaxia?"
"The God of Brahma can be shattered by a single shot." Dumbledore twitched the corner of his mouth. "This has a lot to do with the group of cow dung eaters who thought they were intact after they dug it up."
"After all. They are a wonderful country that even if I think about it for three days and three nights, I can't figure out why they dare to provoke China."
"But we also saw it." Dumbledore restrained his smile.
He looked at the frozen Voldemort.
"What he is after is something as precious as eternal life."
"It's really the world that's wrong"
Dumbledore sighed, even though it was so, he would not have the so-called sympathy or understanding because of it.
"But he chose the wrong path, which was the worst and most stupid choice."
Ron grumbled, Voldemort's words were passionate and beautiful, but as long as he said them for his own selfish desires, they could not be called noble.
"By the way, professor, isn't there another piece of good news? The one brought by Lucius."
"This will probably delay your rest tomorrow."
"That's not good news for me"
"Remember to get up early." Dumbledore said with a smile. After returning to the principal's office, he picked up the jar piled up with cockroaches and waved at Ron.
"Eating sugar before going to bed will rot your teeth."
Ron, whose mouth was twitching, pushed open the door and left, a feeling of exhaustion made him extremely emaciated.
"The sweet date is gone!"
"The happy days of boating on the Black Lake are over!"
This loud complaint was heard by Dumbledore, and he suddenly felt a little full in his stomach, and he put down the scary sweets jar in his hand.
He kind of missed the feeling of being a couple.
"It's nice to be young."
"Ugh"
(End of this chapter)