Lord Voldemort did not show, for he did not exist. What if Tom Riddle Senior had fallen in love with Merope Gaunt, and Tom Marvolo Riddle was born into a loving, sociable environment? Suppose he didn’t turn into the power-hungry Lord Voldemort, but into an ordinarily talented wizard? Perhaps we can only hope. An imaginary one-shot of what could have happened, but did not.