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t ca fro a sgle gutterg candle pced at the feet of a an with hair and beard overgrown harry uld see neither eyes nor outh he was sped an archair by the fire, and harry wondered for a ont whether he was dead but
then there ca a loud knock on the door and the an jerked awake, raisg a wand his right hand and a short knife his left
the door creaked open there on the threshold, holdg an old-fashioned p, stood a boy harry regnized at once: tall, pale, dark-haired, and hand — the teena voldeort
voldeort39s eyes oved slowly around the hovel and then found the an the archair for a few sends they looked at each other, then the an ered upright, the any epty bottles at his feet ctterg and tklg across the floor
”you!” he bellowed ”you!”
and he hurtled drunkenly at riddle, wand and knife held aloft
”s”
riddle spoke parseltongue the an skidded to the table, sendg oldy pots crashg to the floor he stared at riddle there was a long silence while they ntepted each other the an
oke it
”you speak it?”
”yes, i speak it,” said riddle he oved forward to the roo, allog the door to sg shut behd hi harry uld not help but feel a resentful adiration for voldeort39s plete ck of fear his race rely expressed disgt and, perhaps, disappotnt
”where is arvolo?” he asked
”dead,” said the other ”died years ago, didn39t he?”
riddle frowned
”who are you, then?”
”i’ orf, a39t i?”
”arvolo39s n?”
”39urse i a, then” ? ,,
orf phed the hair out of his dirty face, the better to see riddle, and harry saw that he wore arvolo39s bck-stoned rg on his right hand
”i thought you was that le,” whispered orf ”you look ighty like that le”
”what le?” said riddle sharply
”that le what y sister took a fancy to, that le what lives the big hoe over the way,” said orf, and he spat unexpectedly upon the floor beeen the ”you look right like hi riddle but he39s older now, 39e? he39s older39n you, now i thk on it ”
orf looked slightly dazed and swayed a little, still ctchg the ed of the table for support ”he e back, see,” he added stupidly
voldeort was gazg at orf as though appraisg his possibilities now he oved a little closer and said, ”riddle ca back?”
”ar, he left her, and serve her right, arryg filth!” said orf, spittg on the floor aga ”robbed , d, before she ran off , where39s the locket, eh, where39s slyther39s locket?”
voldeort did not answer orf was workg hiself to a ra aga he
andished his knife and shouted, ”dishonored , , she did, that little st! and whore you, g here and askg estions about all that? it39s over, nit it39s over ”
he looked away, erg slightly, and voldeort oved forward as he did , an unnatural darkness fell, extguishg voldeort39s p and orf39s candle, extguishg everythg dubledore39s frs closed tightly around harry39s ar and they were arg back to the present aga the ft golden light dubledore39s office seed to dazzle harry39s eyes after that iperable darkness |
”is that all?” said harry at once ”why did it go dark, what happened?”
”becae orf uld not reber anythg fro that pot onward,” said dubledore, sturg harry back to his seat ”when he awoke next orng, he was lyg on the floor, ite alone arvolo39s rg had gone
”anwhile, the vil of little hangleton, a aid was runng along the high street, screag that there were three bodies lyg the drag roo of the big hoe: to riddle senior and his other and father
”the le authorities were perplexed as far as i a aware, they do not know to this day how the riddles died, for the avadu kedavra curse does not ually leave any sign of daa the exception sits before ,” dubledore added, with a nod to harry39s scar ”the istry, on the other hand, knew at once that this was a wizard39s urder they al knew that a nvicted le-hater lived across the valley fro the riddle hoe, a le-hater who had already been iprined once for attackg one of the urdered people
” the istry called upon orf they did not need to estion hi, to e veritaseru or legilincy he aditted to the urder on the sp