He is a silly guy 🥰

Rotten root in Little Hangleton

The Gaunts

If Merope Gaunt had lived, Tom would’ve been the biggest mama’s boy ever.

Hogwarts Legacy Actor AU part 3

We have Mr. Sallow this time idk what i am doing AHAHHA

common consensus is that voldemort got his magical power from the gaunt line, but i have a headcanon that he got his capability to kill from the riddles.

merope wasn't a murderer, even if she easily could have been. she was abused and taken advantage of by her father and brother, yet all she did was endure. she didn't poison them, even if she was good at potions (good enough to make strong doses of amortentia) she didn't kill them in their sleep with a venomous snake (even though she could speak parseltongue) and she didn't turn vengeful and kill tom riddle snr. when he left her (whether it's because she loved him too much, or if she even tried, it is unknown).

morfin wasn't a killer, either. all he did was attack muggles, even though he could have easily killed them. he thought jinxing and hexing was funny, and didn't do any lasting damage. other than, well, painful hives.

and, like, marvolo wouldn't stoop that low to go out and look for muggles to kill, because he thinks them filthy and unworthy of his time.

but the riddles? oh, the rich, posh, snobby neighbours in that town? the family that was infamously disliked? you cannot tell me they don't have a kill count. they probably owned several guns, and voldemort's paternal grandfather probably worked in the army. it was war time, too, so he would have had experience with callously killing people.

like, the chances of the riddles murdering people are much higher when compared to the chances of the gaunts murdering people.

and then, boy oh boy, tom riddle jr. came along...

I really think that Voldemort (the one we read about in Half-Blood Prince) is a very interesting and complex villain. We are shown a broken child with a dangerous temper and fine intelligence. This child sees his few certainties crumble but new ones build quickly. He ends up in a world he doesn't know, in the most racist house, and discovers that he is the heir of the founding Lord of that house. From nothing he discovers that he has the nobility of his mother and then the muggle one of his father. Tom breaks down, deceives and then gets back on his feet several times, trying to belong to his two families involuntarily and yet desperately trying to distance himself from the normality of his father and the squalor of his mother. He has his father's face and ways, his mother's magical power and parseltongue. He has great potential but, despite his coldness, he lets himself be overcome by anger.

The Riddle Family

[Creds] IB: hrhfilm on TT // Hughes SCP: misspeachedits on TT // Merope Fancast: @vakariaan

Penitence

I'm in love with both of them.

Conclusion = I'm a gold digger

The murder of Hepzibah Smith and the creation of the Horcrux shown in an excellent fan film called 'The house of Gaunt.'

One thing I will always appreciate is the difference between Voldemorts reaction to the destruction of his horcruxes in the movies compared to the book.

In the books, he never becomes aware of the destruction of his horcruxes until much later, and that to me just made no sense. Like he never felt them getting destroyed? Literal pieces of his soul? I know he was all over the place but still.

In the movies, we see him react when they destroy Ravenclaw's diadem. He literally steps back in shock, gasping for air as if he had felt physical pain, even Nagini, his other living horcrux, withdraws into herself. It's what had made him even more paranoid the more time passed with Harry hunting his horcruxes down before that. When Nagini dies, his power collapses, and he has another physical reaction like it's just logical, and I love it so much.

I read once that Voldemort couldn't feel it because he split his soul too many times that it made him so unstable that he couldn't feel it anymore, if the creators could feel it that is since it's not acknowledged in the book like that, but it just- I don't care for that explanation.

I enjoyed that little addition they made. It made the connection between Voldemort and Harry deeper, and it made sense to have it in place to make him so much more paranoid in the movies, adding to his relationship to nagini which I thoroughly enjoy inspecting because of how protective, and caring he is with her, as someone like him could manage to be.

Sure, they have a lot of differences that I don't particularly care for, but that one is one I will always prefer over the book.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Marvolo Gaunt

Because of @legacyshenanigans I NEEDED to draw this asshole (thanks for your amazing drabbles btw)

Yeah,

I know

He’s an absolute pain in the ass and he’s quite psychotic but meh (who cares, he’s hot 🫶🏻)

Still prefer his brother ofc, we have good taste here come on

I had no right to make him that gorgeous-

“Delphi’s kicking again, my Lord.”

The pregnancy has begun to tire her out. She is grateful however, even as she feels the little creature inside of her stir and stretch, longing to hear her father’s voice and feel the assuaging presence of his magic. So his hand comes to the swell of her inside her mother.

“Hm,” he agrees as his heiress settles, “strong little creature, isn’t she, Bella?”