0.3.Rise Of Voldemort

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The First Wizarding War had its roots secretly planted when Tom Marvolo Riddle was born on 31 December 1926 to Tom Riddle Senior, a wealthy Muggle aristocrat whose family was the locally unpopular gentry within the village of Little Hangleton, England, Great Britain, and Merope Gaunt, a pure-blood vagabond witch born into the antisocially dysfunctional and heavily inbred supremacist House of Gaunt, who lived in poverty across the valley from the village. Having eloped with Riddle Snr, while the latter was secretly influenced by a Love Potion, the couple caused a great scandal among the villagers over the common unpopularity (although for differing reasons) of the two families. But Merope grew tired of living such a lie when pregnant three months later, and thus lifted the bewitchment on her husband in hopes that he would either return her feelings or stay for their child's sake.

Instead, Riddle Snr fled back to Little Hangleton in utter disgust, leaving his wife in a state of depression in which she gave up the use of magic. Spending the rest of her life as a pauper on the streets of London, England, Merope sold a few stolen Gaunt heirlooms, and died in childbirth while sheltered in the Muggle-run Wool's Orphanage, unable to summon the strength to prolong her life, even for her son's sake. As a result, the orphaned Riddle was left to spend the first eleven years of his life in said orphanage. The coercive circumstances of his conception and extreme lack of parental love likely contributed to his many early warning signs of juvenile delinquency.

During this time, the secret wizarding world to which Riddle unknowingly belonged to developed new levels of anti-Muggle sentiment and economic growth. At some point before his birth, for instance, the notorious and radical Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald began launching his own magical supremacist revolution on the European mainland and indeed, across the entire wizarding world, fuelled by his quest to obtain all three of the fabled Deathly Hallows and his desire to expose the Wizarding World's corrupt and unethical laws and establishments. With his army of followers and one of the Hallows, the Elder Wand (which he stole from celebrated wandmaker Mykew Gregorovitch), in his possession, Grindelwald aimed to abolish the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy and subjugate Muggles under a new world order run by wizards, banking on the growth in fear and distrust for the non-magical people to grow his force until his defeat in 1945. Around the same time, cosmetic potioneer Fleamont Potter developed the wizarding beauty product Sleekeazy's Hair Potion, the sales of which quadrupled his family gold. He retired with his wife Euphemia a few years later but sold his company at a vast profit.

Between January and March of 1927, Magizoologist Newton "Newt" Scamander had his bestselling book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them published by Obscurus Books. Having faced Grindelwald thrice, and even aided in his first capture and loss in the election for Supreme Mugwump in 1932, Newt became a nationwide celebrity, and was known for having an integral part in the resistance and eventual defeat of the dark wizard and his acolytes. In the 1930s, magical historian Cantankerus Nott was suspected to have anonymously published the Pure-Blood Directory, which listed the 28 remaining famous pure-blood families in Great Britain, including the House of Black, Lestrange family, the Averys, and Riddle's own family: the Gaunts. Many (but not all) of these families considered themselves superior due to their blood status and looked down on "blood traitors" that supposedly betrayed their proud wizarding lineage by associating with Muggle-borns, who were referred to by many supremacists by the derogative title of "Mudbloods". Some pure-blood families were not included, such as the Dumbledore family, the Potter family, and the Scamander family, despite the Potters' high status in the wizarding community and influential background.

Riddle was finally brought into the wizarding world in 1938, by Professor Albus Dumbledore, at the time the renowned Transfiguration teacher and Deputy Headmaster at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, who noticed not only the boy's unusually strong and well-developed natural power, but his secretiveness, vindictiveness and will to dominate as well. Despite being concerned about his propensity for malignance, Dumbledore otherwise was impressed with Tom, considering him to be a misunderstood young prodigy. Even Tom Riddle's ability to speak Parseltongue, a power that was closely associated with the dark arts, was of no great concern to Dumbledore, as, Parseltongue or not, the path all comes down to the individual. With a little financial aid from the school, Tom Riddle began attending Hogwarts later that year and was sorted into Slytherin House instantly, where he, unsurprisingly, quickly proved to be an exceptionally gifted student, with Dumbledore himself stating that Tom was the most brilliant and talented student to ever attend the school.

Although his unhealthy mental state secretly worsened as he began his quest for magical power and social domination, he simultaneously got better at concealing his nature and used his good looks and charm to ingratiate himself with his teachers (with the notable exception of Dumbledore) and classmates. Many of them were instantly taken in by his charisma, and by the start of his second year, Riddle was made leader of a like-minded gang of Slytherin students (including Avery and Lestrange).[2] The members of this gang, who all came from wealthy pure-blood families, several of whom were included in the Sacred Twenty-Eight, were involved in a number of nasty incidents during their school years, though Riddle was careful to never become implicated in any wrongdoing or leave any links between them and his band, and was held as a model student, particularly by Professor Horace Slughorn, the Potions Master.

Over time, Riddle grew obsessed with discovering his magical ancestry. He came to the conclusion that his father must have been a wizard because his mother suffered death, a mysterious and terrifying fate that secretly was Riddle's greatest fear above anything; which he foolishly assumed powerful witches and wizards could avoid. When he could find no trace of any Riddles with magical blood, he was forced to accept that his father was a "filthy Muggle" and that the magically powerful could indeed, die. Enraged by this discovery, he forsook his given name and rearranged the letters to create a new title: "Tom Marvolo Riddle" became "I Am Lord Voldemort", and he even began going by Lord Voldemort while still a student, though only with his closest 'friends'.

Riddle finally found his magical ancestry in his fourth year, when he used his middle name Marvolo (derived from his maternal grandfather Marvolo Gaunt) to discover the Gaunts and their descent from the Slytherin family. This explained that his exceptionally rare ability to speak Parseltongue made him the "Heir of Slytherin", rumoured in Hogwarts History to be the sole person who could open the legendary Chamber of Secrets constructed by his ancestor to house the means to purge to school within of all that the founder of Slytherin considered unworthy of learning magic, namely Muggle-borns, who Salazar Slytherin had long mistrusted due to the understandable fear that developed from the witch-hunts that were being carried out at the time of Hogwarts's construction.

By opening the Chamber entrance built long ago by a previous Gaunt, Riddle's ancestry would be undeniable and thus, though Tom continued to pursue other ambitions, his most burning obsession at the time remained the Chamber itself, the hidden entrance of which he spent the majority of his fifth year searching for despite most people insisting it was nothing but a myth. Finally, near the end of the year, he succeeded where countless others had failed, by discovering the entrance in a girl's bathroom, which led down into the sewers beneath Hogwarts Lake. Entering the chamber, Riddle encountered the millennium-old Basilisk living inside and by suborning her to his will, he confirmed his connection to the historical dark wizard who bred her: Salazar Slytherin.

On 13 June 1943, Riddle unleashed the beast into Hogwarts to continue Slytherin's "noble work" of purging the school of Muggle-born students. Several students were petrified and one Muggle-born belonging to Ravenclaw named Myrtle Warren was killed, becoming Riddle's first murder victim. However, this prompted Headmaster Armando Dippet and the Hogwarts Board of Governors to discuss closing the school in the interest of student safety. Faced with returning to the Muggle orphanage he so secretly despised, Riddle abandoned the Chamber of Secrets, sealed the Serpent within until the time was right for her to once again be unleashed and secretly framed half-giant third year Gryffindor student Rubeus Hagrid and his illegal pet acromantula Aragog for the crimes.As a result, Hagrid was expelled but offered to be trained as the school's Groundskeeper at Dumbledore's request, whereas Riddle was unjustly rewarded the Special Award for Services to the School by Dippet. With his fear of death exacerbated by having stared it in the face, he used the murder of Myrtle to turn his school diary into his first Horcrux, the method to create which he feverishly researched in the Hogwarts Library's Restricted Section and learned from a copy of Secrets of the Darkest Art that was held there; in addition to further valuable information that he secretly charmed out of Professor Slughorn. Not only would the diary act as Riddle's safeguard against death, but its creator would later on realise that the book could be a potential weapon in the foreseeable future.

Around August 1943, Riddle tracked down his Gaunt relatives to Little Hangleton, where he found his drunken maternal uncle Morfin Gaunt living in squalor, a far cry from the glorious imaginings that he had had in mind. Regardless, after his nephew confirmed his identity as a fellow Parselmouth, Morfin gave him a biased account of his father leaving his mother to die and abandoning him to the orphanage. In a desire for revenge on the man who had abandoned his mother and him, he entered the Riddle House and used the Killing Curse to kill his father, Tom Riddle Snr, alongside his Muggle grandparents, Thomas and Mary Riddle, then framed Gaunt for the crimes by placing him under the influence of a false memory spell in revenge for the abuse Merope had suffered at Riddle's uncle and grandfather's hands.

As a result, Gaunt boastfully confessed to killing his own in-laws and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Dementor-infested wizard prison Azkaban (whereas the Riddles' caretaker Frank Bryce was suspected, though not prosecuted, of the murders within the Muggle community), while Riddle stole the Gaunts' signet ring (which, unbeknownst to anyone at the time, including Riddle, contained another of the Deathly Hallows, the Resurrection Stone) and started wearing it as a trophy.

Shortly afterwards, Riddle returned to Hogwarts for his sixth year and discussed the theoretical possibility of creating six Horcruxes (thus splitting the soul into seven pieces) with Professor Horace Slughorn, the Potions Master and his Head of Slytherin House, who was taken aback by Riddle's extreme interest in such powerful and horrific Dark Magic. Although reluctant at first, Slughorn nonetheless gave him an overview of such an experiment with the promise of keeping their discussion between only them. It was revealed to Riddle by Slughorn that Horcruxes were objects that a wizard could place part of their soul into, in order to become immortal and avoid death; though Slughorn warned that in order to split one's soul they must commit murder: killing rips the spirit apart and is a violation against the laws of nature itself. When Riddle mentioned the possibility of creating six Horcruxes, Slughorn was deeply and mortified by the idea of killing even one person for such a ghastly purpose. This apparently gave Riddle what he wanted to hear, and he used the murder of his own father to turn the ring into his second Horcrux.

Following Grindelwald's defeat, Dumbledore obtained ownership of the Elder Wand. Grindelwald was imprisoned for life in his own prison Nurmengard in Austria, his army was destroyed, the Global Wizarding War ended, and peace was restored to the wizarding communities of continental Europe. Dumbledore became an international celebrity and even Tom Riddle showed a reluctant respect towards the elder wizard. Around this time, Riddle also graduated from Hogwarts and quickly applied for the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, which had just been vacated by the retirement of Galatea Merrythought.

Grey Lady

Dumbledore, now a world-famous household name, argued against having him on the staff, warning Armando Dippet of Riddle's untrustworthiness, so Dippet ended up cordially rejecting Riddle on the basis of being too young, though encouraged him to reapply for the position in a few years. Riddle meanwhile began developing an interest in the relics of the Hogwarts founders, and before leaving the school, he charmed the Grey Lady, secretly Helena Ravenclaw; the ghost of Ravenclaw House who was the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw, to reveal where she had hidden her mother's famous diadem: in a remote forest in Albania. So, he travelled there and retrieved it from a hollow tree, using the murder of an Albanian peasant he encountered along the way and brutally killed, in order to turn the diadem into his third Horcrux.

When he returned to England, Riddle was offered several positions in the British Ministry of Magic, but turned them all down and began working at Borgin and Burkes, a dirty and disreputable Dark Arts shop in Knockturn Alley, at the time run by Caractacus Burke, which many believed was a waste of his talents.

At some point between 1955 and 1961, Riddle visited hepzibah to negotiate the sale of a goblin-made suit of armour in her possession, which Hepzibah used as an opportunity to show him two of her most prized treasures: Helga Hufflepuff's cup and Salazar Slytherin's locket, the latter of which Riddle's mother sold to Burke after stealing it from the Gaunts years earlier. In a desire for more selfish gain, he used a little known poison to secretly kill Hepzibah two days later, then framed her house-elf Hokey, for the crime by placing her under the influence of another False Memory Charm. As a result, Hokey was convicted of accidental manslaughter, while Riddle resigned his post at Borgin And Burkes and disappeared without a trace, eventually using the murders of Hepzibah and a Muggle tramp whom he encountered in London, England; to turn the cup and locket into his fourth and fifth Horcruxes respectively.

By the time he was a full-fledged adult, around 1968, Riddle donned a hooded cloak (though he physically still did not resemble the monstrous creature he would later in his life) which concealed him completely and he began plotting a wizarding coup, claiming that he was greatly dissatisfied with the current state of the Wizarding World and that he would succeed where so many, including Gellert Grindelwald and Salazar Slytherin, had failed. Voldemort convinced his underlings that to truly create a world full of peace and power, the old regime needed to be torn down at any and all costs and only those who shared pure blood, will and idealism would be allowed to live and thrive in it. In truth however, Lord Voldemort had little interest in political idealism himself. He was completely devoted to amassing his own magical power, and in becoming the most powerful and skilled wizard to have ever lived, invincible and eternal.

A/n: Sorry but had to add this chapter for those who do not have deep understanding of how the first Wizarding war began and Voldemort arised. This is the base of story. The events were same till now but soon some will change from canon in the next chapter. Thank You.