Tom Marvolo Riddle
written by Louisa S R W
My Father, who I love and who loves me.
Last Updated
05/31/21
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Protecting us
Chapter 2
When my mother died, I was 2 years old. I don’t know if he thought that I had been killed at the same time but I suppose it doesn’t really matter. He had lost his wife, a woman that he cared so much for, the mother of his daughter. He became more violent than ever. My Uncle Severus had the Potter family hidden in Godric’s Hollow, although it wasn’t enough. The fact that the loss of someone could cause him to go into such an intense situation means that she must have meant a great deal to him in the first place. Dumbledore was one of the only other people to know the situation. I think he was also the only person, other than my mother to call him “Tom”.
When the Potters died, I lost my father. I like to think that he was supposed to come back in some way but he never did. It was many years that I spent dealing with the pain of loss. In a sense, he did come back to me but it wasn’t the father that I had known, yet I still loved him. Despite everything that he did I still loved him unconditionally.
The first time I had heard about his “return” was in 1992 and I use the word loosely as he was supposedly after the philosopher’s stone (sorcerer’s stone). He was more of a parasite really. It seemed he was simply a name or creation of people’s imagination until in 1994 when I actually saw him. He was just a small creature but he was able to break my heart. He told me how “he had never loved me or my mother, that I was stupid to think he ever had. No wonder I wasn’t a Slytherin” It’s funny how you will do anything to protect someone. He may have broken my heart by telling me that, he may have made me very sick but the truth is, by doing all these terrible things, he made me stronger. There are many future events that I would never have dealt with if it hadn’t been for that.
In 1995 he finally found a way of getting a human form. It didn’t look like him, not the man I remembered not the one my mother would have recognised. I didn’t see him for quite some time after that though. I was 17, I looked just like my mother had when he had known her. I wasn’t afraid of him. I would look around at others that seemed to be afraid but would look at him, trying to see what else was inside of him. I knew there had to be more but most of the time he didn’t show it. Was it possible for him to have no feelings? I didn’t think so.
When the Potters died, I lost my father. I like to think that he was supposed to come back in some way but he never did. It was many years that I spent dealing with the pain of loss. In a sense, he did come back to me but it wasn’t the father that I had known, yet I still loved him. Despite everything that he did I still loved him unconditionally.
The first time I had heard about his “return” was in 1992 and I use the word loosely as he was supposedly after the philosopher’s stone (sorcerer’s stone). He was more of a parasite really. It seemed he was simply a name or creation of people’s imagination until in 1994 when I actually saw him. He was just a small creature but he was able to break my heart. He told me how “he had never loved me or my mother, that I was stupid to think he ever had. No wonder I wasn’t a Slytherin” It’s funny how you will do anything to protect someone. He may have broken my heart by telling me that, he may have made me very sick but the truth is, by doing all these terrible things, he made me stronger. There are many future events that I would never have dealt with if it hadn’t been for that.
In 1995 he finally found a way of getting a human form. It didn’t look like him, not the man I remembered not the one my mother would have recognised. I didn’t see him for quite some time after that though. I was 17, I looked just like my mother had when he had known her. I wasn’t afraid of him. I would look around at others that seemed to be afraid but would look at him, trying to see what else was inside of him. I knew there had to be more but most of the time he didn’t show it. Was it possible for him to have no feelings? I didn’t think so.
