**Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. Simone Weil ** Tom Riddle had a power and an intellect he neither understood nor could control. It isolated him from the other children and made him at first an outcast and then someone to be feared. Mrs. Cole was sure she knew what happened that day at the seashore. She was so certain she never bothered to check the facts or even listen to Tom. But she was wrong. She couldn't have possibly imagined what really happened. Here then is the full account of what took place on that fateful day.