Hello. This was a plot bunny that's been bugging me for a while. Please read and tell me what you think!
To the wizarding world, Voldemort was simply a creature of the dark, who had sprung up from some forgotten corner of the globe, with only a goal of complete domination. To those who had researched, he was a man, lost in the dark arts, in his 'Flight from Death'. And to those select few who had been there as he had grown up, he was Tom Marvolo Riddle, a brilliant, charming and, at times, lovable young man who had gone insane.
Bu there is always another side to every villain's story, and that is the side that they keep a secret, a side that no-one ever Voldemort too had a hidden side to his story, a secret he had kept hidden on pain of death, and the only ones who knew were the lost souls he had hidden away in an unknown location. And they wold never see the light of day again.
And what was it they knew? T was simple, and it was terrifying.
Lord Voldemort, Terror of the British Isles, Monster in a thousand nightmares should not have existed. He was an impossibility, born in a terrified orphan's nightmare, strengthened on spells cast by an interfering, glory-blind old man, and brought to life in a desperate attempt to be rid of him.
Voldemort had started out as no-more than a figment of the lonely and abused mind of Tom Marvolo Riddle.