The Story of Tom Marvolo Riddle
The story of Tom Marvolo Riddle is an interesting one that has a lot of loopholes where we don’t know what happened, but I will try my best to summarize it with some help from Albus Dumbledore. Riddle’s story starts before he was born in a town called Little Hangleton in a shack type place where his grandfather Marvolo, uncle Morfin, and mother Merope, so we can assume that they didn’t have a lot of money. Their last name was Gaunt and they were direct descendants of Salazar Slytherin who was a powerful wizard known for a pureblood family line. We can assume that the family was rich but the family before them spent it all and left them with barely any. Power and blood purity were more important to Marvolo than his children and his son was more important to him than his daughter. Marvolo’s daughter was neglected and probably felt alone, so she started to fancy a muggle who lived in the town, a handsome rich man named Tom Riddle.