1. The Heir
Isabelle Dumbledore was a beautiful, powerful, and intelligent witch. On Holiday in France, she was taken prisoner by Death Eaters. It was clear that the Dark Lord had favored her, having never requested any of the other female subjects held captive, preferring to leave them for the Death Eaters. Along with her many magical talents she was also from a prominent family, and though his ego was quite massive, the Dark Lord believed her to be his equal. When he was alone he contemplated his fear that she might even be more powerful than he. His train of thought always led him to the conclusion that she could not possibly be as gifted if she was so easliy captured. But he also held the lingering suspicion that she may have wanted to be captured; that she did so to act as a spy for Dumbledore.
Though he would never admit it, Tom Riddle was infatuated. He wanted her. He wanted to keep her in his possession forever; to know that no one would ever own anything as rare. Knowing she would never give into his demands willingly, Voldemort cursed her with the Imperius and secretly married her. He first felt shame and anger, as he had not been able to lure her willingly into the alliance but he soon got over it. She was locked in their chamber, no one allowed to see her save himself and the house elf.
And so she was trapped. She stayed there and thought of nothing until a command from her master was given. But sunbeknownst to Tom, Isabelle soon began to fight the Imperius. The time she was left alone gave her time to fight off the effects. Tom had been too proud in his abilities, taking for granted those of his wife. She began to formulate a plan for her escape.
But she never had the time to put it into effect. Something was taking place in the mansion. There was scrambling and confussion outside her chamber door. Yells and commands flew about; instructions were given that the compound be vacted while others insisted on staying to fully serve their Lord. To her delight (and to be truthful, her disappointment as she had looked forward to showing off), a year after her capture, she learned of Voldemort's defeat – and by child no less!
Hours after Voldemort's defeat, the Aurors had finally found the compound of the Death Eaters. Wards came down as their maker was no longer able to preserve them. Aurors began to take down the building, while also attempting to release all of the victims. They found her in her room. Isabelle, taking the child she bore Voldemort during her captivity, Henry, ran with them and attempted to keep up. But she was weak and tired. She was malnutritioned during her stay with Riddle, she struggled to keep pace. She wanted to pass on her child to one of her fleeing companions to ensure he got out safely, but all were concerned with their own well being.
One of the Aurors urged her along, "Come on! Keep up! You're almost out."
He further helped her by taking her bundle and holding her arm. Their destination was but a short distance away, but the field they ran across was scatted with bodies and flying spells that the journey became much too complicated.
Isabelle was exhausted. As she looked forward she didn't feel she was any nearer to where the group was being led. She wanted to lie down and rest. The baby was safe and he would make it out. But she wanted to be with him when he did. So she struggle to keep up with the Auror that was guiding her and after what she felt was a very long time they reached a clearing out of the forest from which Voldemort's compound was encased.
She and her fellow prisoners were then transported to St Mungo's where they received a variety of treatments depending on one's malady and for Isabelle it was rest and food, with her baby never leaving her side. No family visted her, because she no longer had any aside from the child. They had all died fighting in the war. She was the last of a prominent purblood family; large contributors of the very hospital she was in.
Now that she was out of her imprisionment, Isabelle was not sure how whe felt about this new baby in her life. While she was trapped, he had been her only companion and therefore had not minded his presence. Without each other they were both alone. Henry Riddle was his name and he was about a year old.
He had given Henry his muggle name, and she would always wonder why. But perhaps it was better this way as there were only two others who knew Lord Voldemort's true identity. There were people who knew of Tom Riddle, but after Hogwarts many had wondered what had happened to him. She could just fill in the story with Henry as the result.
A couple of months after the war, having decided to keep him, she and Henry moved to diffent places all around the world, never staying in one place for more than a year. But as he got older, she saw that he began to resemble his father and was constantly reminded of her imprisonment. She could not say that the child was evil, because he in fact happened to be quite sweet and intelligent. She could just never quite face him because he looked so much like Tom; just as pale and handsome with the same dark hair and light eyes. And so Isabelle made another decision. She could not keep him and have them both remain healthy.
On Henry's 8th birthday, a man with white-blondish hair and a pointed face came to collect the boy from the small cottage where they stayed. Isabelle made herself believe that was a world in which he belonged. He might be sweet now, but that would change because it was in his blood. Isabelle knew that Henry would be taken care of if a bit pampered or overwatched. The blond man seemed to think it was some sort of honor. As he and the boy prepared to leave, Henry had a feeling that he might not be coming back and began to wonder why his mother was not coming also.
The blond man tried to steer him out the door but he kept looking back at his mother wondering why she was not getting up or wishing him good luck or saying good bye or anything. He wanted to go back but the blond man was too strong leading him out of the cottage, and Henry slowly but steadily began to cry out for his mother.
Henry was outside now and confused and started to yell. He was squirming then fighting out of the blond man's grasp. The blond man let him go, and he raced back toward the house. He could see his mother through the door and saw that she still had not gotten up from her chair at the kitchen table where they'd finshed breakfast together.
Henry yelled out to her, "Mother! What did I do?! I won't do it again! I promise!"
But she didn't get up. She did not get up so he stopped running toward her. He stared at her. She did not look at him. She did not want him.
The blond man, Lucius Malfoy, came up behind him and put his hand on his shoulders. He gave the boy a moment longer to look at his mother then steered him around toward the waiting carraige. This time the boy did not fight, but merely kept his head down and jaw clenched.
Henry was taken to the live with the Malfoy family, and asked no questions troubled by what would happen should he dare. While in that residence he was required to learn many skills that were not required by Malfoy's own son. He was assigned many tutors for hunting, physical fighting, politics, languages, the wizarding world's history, and broomstick riding. On his 10th birthday, he was given his first wand and more tutors were assigned to him; he learned proper wand waving, dueling, the Dark Arts, and other various fields of magic.
On Henry's 11th birthday, he was surprised to learn that he would not be going to Hogwarts like his mother and the young Draco Malfoy. He had heard so much about it and was anxious to go. Henry had received his letter but it had been decided without his input that he would attend Beauxbatons in France. Henry would always be curious as to why he had not been sent to Durmstrang, as they were a school that fully supported teaching the Dark Arts and was a field of study that the Malfoy family fully supported. Nevertheless, while he felt anger and betrayal at first, it was a very pleasurable experience. He had made many friends and alliances during his stay there. But these alliances were not to last as once again he would be uprooted from comfortable surroundings
It was at the end of Henry's 4th year of Wizarding School that he would finally be going to Hogwarts. He knew that the Malfoy's were Death Eaters and he knew why he was being called back. Voldemort had been resurrected and suffered a defeat from Harry Potter. He probably wanted to make Henry and Draco Death Eaters.