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  hough he had shown no ht of reorse, it was possible that he felt rry for how he had behaved before and was relved to turn over a fresh leaf i chose to give hi that chance”
  dubledore paed and looked irgly at harry, who had opened his outh to speak here, aga, was dubledore39s tendency to trt people spite of overwhelg evidence that they did not deserve it! but then harry rebered thg
  ”but you didn39t really trt hi, sir, did you? he told   the riddle who ca out of that diary said, 39dubledore never seed to like as uch as the other teachers did39”
  ”let say that i did not take it for granted that he was trorthy,” said dubledore ”i had, as i have already dicated, relved to keep a close eye upon hi, and i did i cannot pretend that i gleaned a great deal fro y observations at first he was very guarded with he felt, i a sure, that the thrill of disverg his true identity he had told a little too uch he was careful never to reveal as uch aga, but he uld not take back what he had let slip his excitent, nor what rs le had nfided  however, he had the sense never to try and char as he chard any of y lleagues
  ”as he oved up the school, he gathered about hi a group of dedicated friends i call the that, for want of a better ter, although as i have already dicated, riddle undoubtedly felt no affection for any of the this group had a kd of dark gour with the castle they were a otley llection a ixture of the weak seekg protection, the abitio seekg shared glory, and the ish gravitatg toward a leader who uld show the ore refed fors of cruelty other words, they were the forerunners of the death eaters, and deed of the beca the first death eaters after leavg hogwarts
  ”rigidly ntrolled by riddle, they were never detected open wrongdog, although their seven years at hogwarts were arked by a nuber of nasty cidents to which they were never satisfactorily lked, the ost serio of which was, of urse, the openg of the chaber of secrets, which resulted the death of a girl as you know, hagrid was wrongly aed of that cri
  ”i have not been able to fd any ories of riddle at hogwarts,” said dubledore, pcg his withered hand on the pensieve ”few who knew hi then are prepared to talk about hi they are too terrified what i know, i found out after he had left hogwarts, after uch pastakg effort, after tracg those few who uld be tricked to speakg, after searchg old rerds and estiong le and wizard witnesses alike
  ”those who i uld persuade to talk told that riddle was obsessed with his parenta this is understandable, of urse he had grown up an orphana and naturally wished to know how he ca to be there it sees that he searched va for trace of to riddle senior on the shields the trophy roo, on the lists of prefects the old school rerds, even the books of wizardg history fally he was forced to aept that his father had never set foot hogwarts i believe that it was then that he dropped the na forever, assud the identity of lord volde-ort, and began his vestigations to his previoly despised other39s faily — the woan who, you will reber, he had thought uld not be a witch if she had ubed to the shaful huan weakness of death
  ”all he had to go upon was the sgle na 39arvolo,39 which he knew fro those who ran the orphana had been his other39s father39s na fally, after pastakg research, through old books of wizardg failies, he disvered the existence of slyther39s survivg le the sur of his sixteenth year, he left the orphana to which he returned annually and set off to fd his gaunt retives and now, harry, if you will stand ” :
  dubledore rose, and harry saw that he was aga holdg a sall crystal bottle filled with swirlg, pearly ory
  ”i was very cky to llect this,” he said, as he poured the gleag ass to the pensieve ”as you will understand when we have experienced it shall we?”
  harry stepped up to the stone bas and bowed obediently until his face sank through the surface of the ory he felt the failiar sensation of fallg through nothgness and then nded upon a dirty stone floor alost total darkness
  it took hi several sends to regnize the pce, by which ti dubledore had nded beside hi the gaunts39 hoe was now ore describably filthy than anywhere harry had ever seen the ceilg was thick with bwebs, the floor ated gri oldy and rottg food y upon the table aidst a ass of crted pots the only ligh