Merope gaunt

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While she never spoke Parseltongue, she definitely passed on the ability to her son, Tom. Merope was intensely attracted to the wealthy Muggle Tom Riddle, the handsome but vain son of the local gentry. She knew her father would be violently opposed to a match with a Muggle, but even had he approved, she knew that Tom saw her as an object of derision and disgust. However, after her brother and father were sent to Azkaban, Merope tricked Riddle into marrying her, most likely using a love potion. It is unknown why, but after she became pregnant she allowed the potion to wear off and Riddle abandoned her.

Merope gaunt

The Harry Potter books dived into Lord Voldemort's tragic family history, but the movies left this out entirely. Though the story of how Tom Riddle came to be born didn't affect the outcome of his rivalry with Harry Potter, it supported the themes the Dark Lord represented. The villain descended from powerful wizarding families, and this served to demonstrate how the preference for pure blood could be damaging to the wizarding world. This was primarily seen in the tragic life and crimes of Voldemort's mother, Merope Gaunt, who suffered due to her family's pride—something that extended to her son. Learning this had been no easy task since Riddle had grown up in a Muggle orphanage. However, the headmaster had learned through the orphanage's staff that Tom Marvolo Riddle had been given his middle name after his grandfather, and this provided Dumbledore a starting point. From there, the details of the Harry Potter villain's family and conception began to unfold. After Dumbledore discovered Marvolo Gaunt, he managed to track down a Ministry of Magic official unfortunate enough to have met the man. Bob Ogden had come to the Gaunt home to confront Morfin, Marvolo's son, about his crime against a Muggle. When he arrived, he was shocked to see an entirely neglected home and a very aggressive Marvolo. Still, nothing was more shocking than Merope, Marvolo's daughter, who was so terribly abused and fearful that she had limited control over her powers.

Bob Ogden visits the Gaunt house on a routine follow-up Harry has his first one-on-one lesson with Dumbledore. When Albus Dumbledore visited Tom, and told him that he was a wizardTom hoped that it came from his father, merope gaunt, but merope gaunt disappointed to find that he got it from the maternal side of his family, when after considerable research of the school registry he could not find Tom Riddle Senior as a Hogwarts alumnus.

She is not a pretty woman at all: 'Her hair was lank and dull and she had a plain, pale, rather heavy face. Her eyes stared in opposite directions. We see Merope only through the recorded memories of various wizards, and the ensuing discussions with Professor Dumbledore. When we first see her, she is eighteen years old, and keeping house more or less adequately for her father and brother. She was in love with the Muggle Tom Riddle.

While she never spoke Parseltongue, she definitely passed on the ability to her son, Tom. Merope was intensely attracted to the wealthy Muggle Tom Riddle, the handsome but vain son of the local gentry. She knew her father would be violently opposed to a match with a Muggle, but even had he approved, she knew that Tom saw her as an object of derision and disgust. However, after her brother and father were sent to Azkaban, Merope tricked Riddle into marrying her, most likely using a love potion. It is unknown why, but after she became pregnant she allowed the potion to wear off and Riddle abandoned her. This reason has been advanced, that of the seven, six mated with immortals; the seventh was said to have been the wife of [mortal] Sisyphus On account of her other sisters she was placed among the constellations, but because she married a mortal, her star is dim. An unrelated Merope was a Queen of Corinth and Oedipus' foster mother. Why I Like Merope Gaunt by marauderthesn.

Merope gaunt

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Tom Riddle was a handsome and wealthy Muggle, who lived near Merope's house. Merope Gaunt had lived in a shack near Little Hangleton with her father, Marvolo, and brother, Morfin. He left her, never saw her again, and never troubled to discover what became of his son. Dumbledore discovered that Voldemort's grandfather, Marvolo Gaunt, was descended from powerful wizarding families, showcasing the obsession with blood purity. However, Marvolo was shocked when he learned that Merope had left the house, despite never loving her to begin with, and never mentioned her name or existence ever again, and this was probably a shock that led to his death or possibly due to Merope no longer feeding him, as he never learned to feed himself. Tom Riddle Sr. With her family gone, Merope manipulated Tom Riddle into marrying her. Her son would grow up believing his father married Merope of his own free will, only leaving her after discovering she was a witch. Even the responsibility of having a baby to look after was not enough to give Merope the will to live after her husband abandoned her. When Albus Dumbledore visited Tom, and told him that he was a wizard , Tom hoped that it came from his father, but was disappointed to find that he got it from the maternal side of his family, when after considerable research of the school registry he could not find Tom Riddle Senior as a Hogwarts alumnus. If Merope had been beautiful, Riddle might have fallen naturally in love with her and perhaps even staid by her side. She told Mrs Cole , a woman who worked in the orphanage, to name him Tom for his father, Marvolo for her father, and Riddle to be his surname. Perhaps, besotted as she was, she had convinced herself that he would by now have fallen in love with her in return.

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Without her help, both Marvolo and Morfin live in abject squalor. These circumstances caused even Harry Potter to feel a twinge of reluctant sympathy for Riddle. My daughter — pure-blooded descendant of Salazar Slytherin — hankering after a filthy , dirt-veined Muggle? Merope got her wish; Tom Marvolo Riddle was described as looking very like his father, who was very good looking. Like many people in Little Hangleton, Tom looked on with disdain on her father and brother , because of their poverty, their strange shabby appearances, and antisocial tendencies to those around them. It is not surprising, then, that Merope should fall in love with Tom, if only because he was possibly the only Muggle who had ever dared to go near the ugly, scary Gaunt shack while she was living there. On the night of New Year's Eve in , she staggered up the front steps of an orphanage, ready to give birth to a son. Gormlaith Gaunt. Having lived an almost entirely miserable life, Merope had no hope left and not enough courage to make her want to keep trying, even for the sake of her newborn son. She was in love with the Muggle Tom Riddle. Merope had lank, dull hair and a pale, heavy face with eyes that looked in opposite directions. Specifically, she sold her locket , a family heirloom, to Caractacus Burke for only ten Galleons , either not knowing that it was a priceless artefact or just simply no longer caring. When he murders her in a fit of rage his first murder after he wiped out his father and grandparents, aged sixteen , he needs to flee, hence starting his path towards becoming Lord Voldemort. Her hair was lank and dull and she had a plain, pale, rather heavy face. Gaunt house.