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that dubledore would sist upon aopanyg riddle, but once aga he was surprised dubledore handed riddle the envelope ntag his list of eipnt, and after tellg riddle exactly how to t to the leaky cauldron fro the orphana, he said, ”you will be able to see it, although les around you ?non-agical people, that is ?will not ask for to the baran ?easy enough to reber, as he shares your na ?“
riddle gave an irritable itch, as though tryg to dispce an irk fly
”you dislike the na 39to39?”
”there are a lot of tos,” uttered riddle then, as though he uld not suppress the estion, as though it burst fro hi spite of hiself, he asked, ”was y father a wizard? he was called to riddle too, they39ve told ”
”i39 afraid i don39t know,” said dubledore, his voice ntle
”y other can39t have been agic, or she wouldn39t have died,” said riddle, ore to hiself than dubledore ”it t39ve been hi ?when i39ve got all y stuff?when do i e to this hogwarts?”
”all the details are on the send piece of parchnt your envelope,” said dubledore ”you will leave fro kg39s cross station on the first of septeber there is a tra ticket there too”
riddle nodded dubledore got to his feet and held out his hand aga takg it, riddle said, ”i can speak to snakes i found out when we39ve been to the untry on trips ?they fd , they whisper to is that noral for a wizard?”
harry uld tell that he had withheld ntion of this stranst power until that ont, detered to ipress
”it is unual,” said dubledore, after a ont39s hesitation, ”but not unheard of”
his tone was casual but his eyes oved curioly over riddle39s face they stood for a ont, an and boy, starg at each other then the handshake was
oken dubledore was at the door
”good-bye, to i shall see you at hogwarts”
”i thk that will do,” said the white-haired dubledore at harry39s side, and sends ter, they were arg weightlessly through darkness once ore, before ndg sarely the present-day office
”sit down,” said dubledore, ndg beside harry
harry obeyed, his d still full of what he had jt seen
”he believed it uch icker than i did ?i an, when you told hi he was a wizard,” said harry ”i didn39t believe hagrid at first, when he told ”
”yes, riddle was perfectly ready to believe that he was ?to e his word ?39special,39” said dubledore
”did you know ?then?” asked harry
”did i know that i had jt t the ost danro dark wizard of all ti?” said dubledore ”no, i had no idea that he was to grow up to be what he is however, i was certaly trigued by hi i returned to hogwarts tendg to keep an eye upon hi, thg i should have done any case, given that he was alone and friendless, but which, already, i felt i ought to do for others39 sake as uch as his
”his powers, as you heard, were surprisgly well-developed for such a young wizard and ?ost terestgly and ooly of all ?he had already disvered that he had asure of ntrol over the, and begun to e the nscioly and as you saw, they were not the rando experints typical of young wizards: he was already g agic agast other people, to frighten, to punish, to ntrol the little stories of the strangled rabbit and the young boy and girl he red to a cave were ost estive 39i can ake the hurt if i want to 39”
”and he was a parselouth,” terjected harry
”yes, deed a rare ability, and one supposedly nnected with the dark arts, although as we know, there are parselouths aong the great and the good too fact, his ability to speak to serpents did not ake nearly as uneasy as his obvio stcts for cruelty, secrecy, and doation
”ti is akg fools of aga,” said dubledore, dicatg the dark sky beyond the dows ”but before we part, i want to draw your attention to certa features of the scene we have jt witnessed, for they have a great bearg on the atters we shall be discsg future etgs
”firstly, i hope you noticed riddle39s reaction when i ntioned that another shared his first na, 39to39?”
harry nodded
”there he showed his ntept for anythg that tied hi to other people, anythg that ade hi ordary even then, he wished to be different, separate, notorio he shed his na, as you know, with a few short years of that nversation and create