Harry Potter: The Path of Destiny

"Really!" Nidia felt happy, but she immediately frowned, "But why? Why did I become like that?"

"How much do you know about the Gaunt family?" Dumbledore asked.

"I only know that they are also one of the twenty-eight holy families and are descendants of Slytherin." Nydia's mind recalled the dilapidated cabin they said they were going to.

"The Gaunt family is an ancient pure-blood family. Their identity as descendants of Slytherin is what they are most proud of. Therefore, in order to maintain the so-called purity of their blood, they have been marrying close relatives for generations," Dumbledore said. .

"What! A close relative's marriage!" Nitya was surprised, with a look of disgust on her face.

"This is indeed very ridiculous, because such an approach will only make some bad characteristics of the descendants of the family more and more obvious. The characteristics shown in the Gaunt family are irritable, restless, and violent. It can be said that under Voldemort This characteristic is still quite obvious in my mother's generation," Dumbledore said.

"But isn't Voldemort's father a Muggle? If the Gaunt family is all consanguineous, then how could Voldemort's father be a Muggle?" Nydia asked.

"Nothing is absolute. Although we cannot know exactly what the situation was back then, the ending of the matter was that Merope Gaunt, who was supposed to marry his brother, married a Muggle." Dumbledore said.

"So I have also inherited the violent characteristics of the Gunter family!" Nidia couldn't help but frown when she thought that her ancestors were actually married to close relatives.

"This is inevitable, but fortunately Voldemort is not the product of inbreeding, and your mother comes from a French family that has nothing to do with the Gaunt family, so this trait has been very rare in you. That's why the practice of palliatives and Occlumency can help you." Dumbledore solved a confusion in Nydia's mind.

"So these methods are ineffective against Voldemort, right? Is it because of the characteristics of the Gaunt family that he became what he is now?" Nydia asked excitedly.

"I think this is one of the factors, but it is not the key factor." Dumbledore shook his head.

Nydia looked a little disappointed, "Did Merope Gaunt send him to the orphanage because he was a Muggle child? She hated Muggle blood, so she abandoned him."

"No, as far as I know Merope Gaunt died less than an hour after leaving Voldemort." Dumbledore replied.

"How could it be! Is it because of dystocia?" Nidia thought that her mother also encountered dystocia when she gave birth to her.

"She was already very weak when she went to the orphanage. No one knows what she went through before that." Dumbledore replied.

"Well, at least he wasn't abandoned." With these thoughts, Nidia felt some comfort in her heart. "What was he like when you first saw him? He grew up in a Muggle orphanage. He probably never knew his identity as a wizard!"

"He does not know his identity as a wizard, but he has also realized that he is different. He is very talented and has shown his talent for magic early. But it is because of this that he has become a Muggle He was ostracized from the world, and other children in the orphanage didn't want to be with him, and even the staff at the orphanage didn't like him," Dumbledore said.

"Has he been bullied by other people?" Nydia remembered Harry once saying that he had been bullied by other children when he lived in the Muggle world because they thought he was weird.

"Bullyed! I'm surprised that you would associate this word with Voldemort. He is not a person who is willing to be bullied. On the contrary, he has been able to master and control the basic use of some magic very early. He uses He used his abilities to teach other children that no one wanted to be with him because other children were afraid of him." Dumbledore looked at Nydia seriously, and he realized that Nydia still had some concerns about Voldemort. of emotion.

"Yeah..." Nydia noticed Dumbledore's scrutinizing gaze, so she didn't speak out her thoughts. She thought that even if Voldemort was not bullied by other children, he was still very lonely. This feeling I couldn’t understand it better.

"He once said that he was used to being alone, so I once thought that he would be a loner even after he arrived at Hogwarts. But things did not develop like this. After entering Hogwarts, he did not do it at all. The cruel, mysterious and domineering person he showed when I first met him became polite and polite. Coupled with his handsome appearance and excellent grades, he soon became the favorite of teachers and the target of students. These followers basically became the first group of Death Eaters," Dumbledore recalled.

"You mean that he has been very good at disguising himself since he was a child." Nidia was very surprised.

"If I were in my office now, I could show you the situation more intuitively. For a young wizard, his abilities are amazingly perfect and mature." Dumbledore looked at Nydia and said . "Is this what you want to know?"

"Yes, and no." Nidia frowned and shook her head, "Judging from what you said, it seems that he showed signs of cruelty when you first met him, but you said you I don’t think anyone is born evil, so why did he become like this?”

"What do you think it could be?" Dumbledore asked.

"I can't tell... maybe it's because of loneliness, or maybe it's because he wants to prove himself to everyone and let others notice him. Many complex behaviors are actually just because of a very simple reason at first." Ni Tia said her guess.

"If his personality changed due to some bad experiences in his childhood, do you think everything he did after that was excusable?" Dumbledore asked.

"No! I don't think so." Nitya shook her head without hesitation, "It's wrong if it's wrong. Even if he really encountered any misfortune, his own pain is not the reason to bring pain to others. "

Dumbledore nodded, relieved by Nydia's answer.

"I asked so many questions just to understand the reason why he became like this. I didn't want to find excuses and reasons for him to commit these cruel behaviors. Professor, I still know how to distinguish between right and wrong in these things." Nydia could see the worry in Dumbledore's eyes before.

"That's the best thing you can think of. I've told you everything I know. Now it's really time for you to return to school." Dumbledore stood up and said, "It's time for me to leave too."

Nydia also stood up. She thought that Dumbledore brought her to the Shrieking Shack to make it easier for her to return to school.

"Oh, I almost forgot." Dumbledore patted his forehead, "In your employment conversation, Minerva told me that you never went to talk to her."

"You are in contact!" Nydia said in surprise, "But aren't all the school's communications monitored by Umbridge now?"

"All members of the Order of the Phoenix have our own contact information, which Umbridge cannot find." Dumbledore smiled, with a hint of pride in his smile, "Promise me that you will definitely go to Miller Let’s talk.”

Nydia wanted to refuse, but in the end she nodded. Although Dumbledore said that members of the Order of the Phoenix all have their own contact information, this method must not be used to convey some boring information. Since Mai Professor Ge told Dumbledore about this matter, which shows that she really cares about this matter, and she has no reason to reject someone who cares about her.