Theres no time like the present to start a dairy, but why start from the now and the present? Why not start at the beggining?....

I was a troubled young boy ever since birth. For you see my mudblood of a father left my mother, who sadly died after giving birth to me, after he found out she was a witch. So that leads us to where I am now, at Wool's orphanage full of filthy muggles. At least I can practise my new found abilities on the unsuspecting idiot muggles here. For it wasn't untill I turned eleven years old, with a visit from a strange old man, that I found out what I could really do with these abilities.

I'm sure if your close with Dumboledore, then you all ready know the story of how we first met, of how he lit my wadrobe on fire, then exdingished it with a wave of his stick(I would later find out that this was called a wand) and confronted me about my misshabits with the other children. Also the first time, and the first person I ever told that I could speak to snakes parseltongue. After making sure he wasn't another one of those doctors Mrs Cole always made me see and all the finer deatials where lined out it was decided, that on the first of Septembere, I Tom Riddle would be attending this school called Hogwarts.