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By Kara Hedash Published Aug 22, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Key Release Dates. It was around this time that Tom Marvolo Riddle gave himself the alias "Lord Voldemort" and begin to use it with his closest "friends", to spare himself of the reminder of his " filthy Muggle father". Morfin Gaunt telling his nephew the truth about the latter's heritage.
In the summer of , Tom Riddle visited the village of Little Hangleton after tracing the source of his middle name. He first stopped at the Gaunt Shack , only to find his maternal uncle Morfin Gaunt , who had long been released from Azkaban. Morfin, upon seeing his nephew, threatened him with a knife and wand, believing the boy to be his father. Even though Riddle did not disclose his identity during this meeting, Riddle spoke Parseltongue to calm Morfin down.
The two then discussed the whereabouts of Marvolo Gaunt who had died years before , the elder Riddle , and Merope Gaunt. When Morfin revealed to Riddle that his Riddle's father was a Muggle, Riddle Stupefied his uncle and stole his wand and the Gaunt ring. Riddle then proceeded to the Riddle House and found his father , grandfather , and grandmother in the drawing room. It is unknown if there were any words exchanged with the Riddles, but the youngest Riddle used his uncle's wand to cast the Killing Curse on his father and grandparents.
Riddle then returned to the Gaunt Shack and altered Morfin's memory, causing Gaunt to believe himself to be the murderer. After the attack, the Riddles' maid ran across the town, screaming about the corpses of the Riddle family. The Muggle police were baffled about the deaths of the Riddles, since there were no visible signs of damage on any of the bodies.
The only signs shown were the looks of horror on the lifeless faces of the family, leading to wonders of whether they were scared to death. The deaths of the Riddle family greatly shocked the other denizens of Little Hangleton , despite the fact that most of the villagers resented the Riddles for their arrogance and wealth.
The Riddles were later interned in the town cemetery. Since it was unknown that Tom Riddle Senior had sired a son , the Riddle House was purchased by a succession of owners, none of whom ever physically occupied the House. In addition, the police at the nearby town suspected Frank Bryce , the Riddle family's gardener, of being the murderer. Bryce remembered seeing " a dark-haired and pale" teenage boy climbing the hill on the night of the murders, which the police did not believe at first.
Even though the police dropped the charges due to lack of evidence, the cloud of suspicion hovered about Bryce for the rest of the life until he himself was murdered by the same teenage boy by then known as Voldemort , decades later. However, the Ministry instantly deduced that a wizard must have murdered the Riddles. The Ministry's first suspect was Morfin Gaunt , who had cursed the younger Riddle nearly eighteen years before. Upon being interrogated, the Ministry did not bother to use Legilimency or Veritaserum.
The reason why was that Morfin, still under the effects of the False memory spell , confessed himself to be the murderer, showing pride in "killing" the Riddles, and willingly allowed himself to be arrested. All that had bothered him was the fact that he lost his father's ring , which were said to be his last words. Morfin then spent the rest of his life locked up in Azkaban. He would later use the ring as one of his Horcruxes , and hid it away in the Gaunt Shack.
Over half a century later , Riddle, by then known publicly as Lord Voldemort , returned to the Riddle House while being tended to by his servant Peter Pettigrew and while discussing the former's return.
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