"I saw it, I saw it!" Ogden said hastily.

"Slytherin's!" cried Gaunt. "Salazar Slytherin's! We're his last living descendants. What do you say about that, eh?"

"Everyone pay attention to this necklace!" Dumbledore suddenly reminded loudly, "This may be another Horcrux!"

The three quickly turned their heads to look, only Lockhart had seen the real thing, and he had been waiting for a reasonable time to take it out.

"Mr. Gaunt, your daughter!" said Ogden in a panic, but Gaunt had let Merope go. She stumbled away from him and returned to her original corner, rubbing her neck and gasping for breath.

"How about it!" said Gaunt triumphantly, as if he had just made a complicated point so clear that there would be no more controversy, "so don't talk to us like that, don't think of us as the soles of your shoes. The mud on top! Our ancestors have been pure blood, all wizards - I believe, you have nothing to show off!"

"It's really inexplicable, is it amazing that all generations are pure-blood wizards?" Tonks said dissatisfiedly.

"There is no wizard in the world who can guarantee that all ancestors will be wizards..." Dumbledore said, "The first wizards to appear among humans, because the number was too small and scattered, could only choose to marry ordinary people, and now as long as parents add Parents whose parents are wizards can be called pure-blood wizards."

"There are always some romantic love stories with Muggles~" Lockhart also thought of his father, why did his mother like him? His property, or temperament, or...

Gaunt spat at Ogden's feet, and Morfin laughed again. Merope huddled by the window, head bowed, silent, her straight hair covering her face.

"Mr. Gaunt," said Ogden stubbornly, "I'm afraid neither your ancestors nor mine have anything to do with this. I'm here for Morfin, and for the Muggle he got into last night. We Got the information," he looked down at the scroll of parchment, "that Morfin chanted a curse on that Muggle, or cast a spell on him, causing him to develop painful hives all over his body."

Morfin giggled.

"%...&#!" Gaunt shouted in Parseltongue, and Morfin immediately fell silent.

"Even if he did, so what?" Gaunt said defiantly to Ogden. "I think you must have wiped that muggle's dirty face off, and his memory—"

"That's not the problem, is it, Mr. Gaunt?" said Ogden. "It was an unprovoked attack on an unsuspecting—"

"Ha, when I saw you just now, I knew you were a Muggle-loving person." Gaunt sneered and spat on the ground again.

"Nothing will come of this conversation," Ogden said sternly. "From the attitude of your son, he clearly has no remorse for what he did." He glanced at the scroll of parchment again. "Morfin will be tried on September 14th to answer charges that he used magic in the presence of, and caused harm and suffering to a Muggle—"

Ogden stopped suddenly. Tintin's bells, the crisp sound of horses' hooves, and loud laughter floated in from outside the open window. Apparently, the guttural path leading to the village was very close to the undergrowth where the house was located. Gaunt was stunned, his eyes widened as he listened; Morfin's mouth hissed, and he turned to look where the voice came from, a greedy expression on his face; Merope raised his head. Harry saw her face horribly pale.

"My God, what a sight!" A girl's crisp voice floated in from the open window, and they could hear her clearly, as if she were standing beside them in the room, "Tom, your father Can't we tear down that little broken shed?"

"That's not ours," said a young voice. "Everything on the other side of the valley belongs to our house, but the log cabin belongs to an old tramp named Gaunt and his children. The son is crazy. , you should have heard what the villagers said about him—"

The girl laughed, the bells and hooves getting louder and louder. Morfin tried to jump out of his armchair, but his father warned him in Parseltongue not to move.

"Tom," said the girl's voice again, now closer, and they were clearly next to the house, "I can't see wrong--did someone put a snake in that door?"

"Yeah, you read that right!" said the man's voice. "It must have been the son who did it. I told you he's out of his mind. Don't look at it, Cecilia, dear."

The hooves of Tintin's bells gradually faded away again.

"'Honey,'" Morfin looked at his sister, "he calls her 'Honey,' and it looks like he won't want you anymore."

Merope's face turned pale, and Dumbledore added at the right time, "Voldemort's father just passed by the door."

"What's the matter?" Gaunt asked sharply, looking at his son and then at his daughter, "What did you say, Morfin?"

"She likes to look at that Muggle," Morfin said, staring at his sister with a vicious look on his face, while Merope looked terrified, "every time that Muggle passed by, she would look across the fence in the garden. He, wasn't he? Last night—"

Merope shook his head pleadingly, but Morfin went on relentlessly: "She's hanging around outside the window, waiting to see the Muggle ride home, isn't she?"

"Wandering outside the window, waiting to see a Muggle?" Gaunt asked quietly.

All three of the Gaunt family seem to have forgotten Ogden's existence. Ogden looked bewildered and annoyed by the new flare-up.

"Is this true?" Gaunt asked in a gloomy voice, taking a step or two towards the terrified girl, "My daughter—a pure-blood of Salazar Slytherin—has pursued A dirty, filthy Muggle?"

Merope shook his head frantically, squeezing his body into the corner with all his might, apparently unable to say a word.

"But I taught the guy a lesson, Daddy!" Morfin chuckled, "I taught him as he walked by, he's got hives all over his face and he doesn't look so pretty, doesn't he, May Lope?"

"You nasty little squib, you filthy little scum!" Gaunt roared, he lost control and grabbed his daughter's throat with both hands.

"No!" Tonks and Ogden shouted at the same time. Ogden raised his wand and shouted, "Responsible!" Gaunt was struck back and forth, leaving his daughter behind. He tripped over a chair and fell to the ground on his back. With a roar, Morfin jumped up from his chair and charged at Ogden, wielding the **** knife and firing a gargantuan mess of curses from his wand.

Ogden ran away. Dumbledore motioned for them to follow, Merope's screams still ringing in his ears.

Covering his head with his arms, Ogden rushed onto the dirt road, then turned quickly onto the main road, hitting the shiny burgundy horse. The rider was a very handsome young man with dark hair, and he and the pretty girl next to him on a gray horse were amused by Ogden's appearance. Ogden bounced off the burgundy horse, and at once ran off and ran down the path, covered in dust from head to toe, his dress coat fluttering behind him.

"The memory ends here," said Dumbledore.

In a blink of an eye, they flew weightlessly higher and higher in the darkness, and finally landed steadily back into Dumbledore's office, when it was already dark outside the window.

"What happened to the girl in the log cabin?" Tonks asked immediately, Dumbledore waved his wand and lit a few more lights, "Is that the mother of You-Know-Who?"

"Oh, she's alive, or Voldemort wouldn't exist," said Dumbledore, and took a seat behind the table, motioning for them to sit down too, "Ogden Apparated to the Ministry and brought him fifteen minutes later. came back with a few Aurors. Morfin and his father fought hard, but both were subdued and taken out of the cabin, where they were later convicted by Wizengamot. Morfin had attacked Muggles before. Previous conviction, sentenced to three years in Azkaban. In addition to hurting Ogden, Marvolo also hurt several other officials of the Ministry of Magic and was sentenced to six months in prison.”

"This memory is really amazing, Mr. Principal..." Lupin praised, "The mysterious person's few relatives have all appeared."

"Mysterious Man's mother is so pitiful..." Tonks had tears in his eyes~lightnovelpub.net~ The hair also returned to its original color, obviously not in a good mood, "In such a family."

"When she was under her father's repressive reign of terror, her magical powers weren't even fully utilized. Once Marvolo and Morfin were locked up in Azkaban, once she was alone for the first time and could do whatever she wanted, I guess that's when she planned to escape the troubled life she'd spent 18 years."

"And then found that Muggle man? Also called Tom?" Black said disdainfully. Although he resisted the Death Eaters, he couldn't accept wizards marrying Muggles. He felt that it was a huge tolerance for him to accept Muggle wizards. .

"Can you imagine what Merope would do to make Tom Riddle forget his Muggle lover and fall in love with her?"

"The Imperius?" Tonks said. "Aphrodisiac?"

"I would choose an aphrodisiac, which is more reliable." Lockhart interjected, "Of course I haven't used it myself."

"Well, I'm personally inclined towards her using an aphrodisiac. I'm sure she'd find it more romantic that way, and it wouldn't be too difficult to operate. One hot day, Riddle rode up alone, and Merope persuaded him to drink it. A glass of water. Anyway, a staggering scandal broke out in Little Hangleton a few months after what we just witnessed. As you can imagine, when people heard about the squire's son and the tramp's daughter Merope After the news of the elopement together, there will be a lot of discussion."

"Why are they so poor? Wouldn't it be like doing anything?" Lupin asked.

"Lazy and inflexible, it can only be explained that 90% of the poverty in the world is caused by this," Dumbledore said, "and 10% are cursed, which is bad luck in layman's terms. ."

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