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  ot, givg details only the urderer uld know he was proud, he said, to have killed the les, had been awaitg his chance all these years he handed over his wand, which was proved at once to have been ed to kill the riddles and he peritted hiself to be led off to azkaban without a fight
  all that disturbed hi was the fact that his fathers rg had disappeared 39he39ll kill for losg it,39 he told his captors over and over aga 39he39ll kill for losg his rg39 and that, apparently, was all he ever said aga he lived out the reader of his life azkaban, ntg the loss of arvolo39s st heirloo, and is buried beside the prin, alongside the other poor uls who have expired with its walls”
  ” voldeort stole orf39s wand and ed it?” said harry, sittg up straight
  ”that39s right,” said dubledore ”we have no ories to show this, but i thk we can be fairly sure what happened voldeort stupefied his uncle, took his wand, and proceeded across the valley to 39the big hoe over the way39 there he urdered the le an who had abandoned his witch other, and, for good asure, his le grandparents, th obliteratg the st of the unworthy riddle le and revengg hiself upon the father who never wanted hi then he returned to the gaunt hovel, perford the plex bit of agic that would ipnt a false ory his uncle39s d, id orf39s wand beside its unnscio owner, pocketed the ancient rg he wore, and departed”
  ”and orf never realized he hadn39t done it?”
  ”never,” said dubledore ”he gave, as i say, a full and boastful nfession”
  ”but he had this real ory hi all the ti!” ”yes, but it took a great deal of skilled legilincy to ax it out of hi,” said dubledore, ”and why should anybody delve further to orf39s d when he had already nfessed to the cri? however, i was able to secure a visit to orf the st weeks of his life, by which ti i was atteptg to disver as uch as i uld about voldeort39s past i extracted this ory with difficulty when i saw what it ntaed, i attepted to e it to secure orf39s release fro azkaban before the istry reached their decision, however, orf had died”
  ”but how e the istry didn39t realize that voldeort had done all that to orf?” harry asked angrily ”he was undera at the ti, wasn39t he? i thought they uld detect undera agic!” ”you are ite right — they can detect agic, but not the perpetrator: you will reber that you were bd by the istry for the hover char that was, fact, cast by —”
  ”dobby,” growled harry this jtice still rankled ” if you39re undera and you do agic side an adult witch or wizard39s hoe, the istry won39t know?”
  ”they will certaly be unable to tell who perford the agic,” said dubledore, silg slightly at the look of great dignation on harrys face ”they rely on witch and wizard parents to enforce their offsprg39s obedience while with their walls”
  ”well, that39s rubbish,” snapped harry ”look what happened here, look what happened to orf!”
  ”i agree,” said dubledore ”whatever orf was, he did not deserve to die as he did, bd for urders he had not itted but it is ttg te, and i want you to see this other ory before we part ”
  dubledore took fro an side pocket another crystal phial and harry fell silent at once, reberg that dubledore had said it was the ost iportant one he had llected harry noticed that the ntents proved difficult to epty to the pensieve, as though they had naled slightly did ories go bad?
  ”this will not take long,” said dubledore, when he had fally eptied the phial ”we shall be back before you know it once ore to the pensieve, then  ”
  and harry fell aga through the silver surface, ndg this ti right front of a an he regnized at once
  it was a uch younr horace sghorn harry was ed to hi bald that he found the sight of sghorn with thick, shy, straw-lored hair ite disncertg it looked as though he had had his head thatched, though there was already a shy galleon-sized bald patch on his crown his tache, less assive than it was these days, was gry-blond he was not ite as rotund as the sghorn harry knew, though the golden buttons on his richly e
  oidered waistat were takg a fair aount of stra his little feet restg upon a velvet pouffe, he was sittg well back a fortable d archair, one hand graspg a sall gss