Descriptions Memory Engram Phails

That Harry Potter has seen

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Name	Desc	Bk	Pg
Engram- Buying Slytherin's locket	Merope Gaunt-Riddle came to Caractacus Burke, founder of Borgin and Burke's Dark Arts shop, destitute in every way except for her family heirloom heavy gold locket that once was Salazar Slytherin's and was therefore priceless. She was alone, covered in rags and ill and needed money to deliver her baby which was due any day. Burke proved it's authenticity by performing magical tests and seeing an easy mark who didn't know it's true value only gave her 10 galleons for it, thus condemning her to continued destitution and eventual death.	6	262
Engram- Catching Hagrid	Tom was in Headmaster Dippet's office. The wizened, frail-looking wizard told him that he couldn't let him stay over the summer and he must go back to the orphanage because it was too dangerous now that the Chamber of Secret's had been opened. Tom asked if he could stay if the Heir of Slytherin was caught but was dismissed. The sky showed a ruby-red sunset and he then went down to the dungeons where he waited for Hagrid to come by. They followed him into a room where he was trying to put a giant spider into a box. Tom accosted Hagrid and the spider with spells but the spider ran off. Tom lied that Hagrid was involved with the monster of the chamber (Aragog the spider).	2	244
Engram- Collecting Tom Riddle	A young Transfiguration teacher, Albus Dumbledore, spoke with Mrs. Cole the matron of Tom Marvolo Riddle's orphanage. Dumbledore needed to magic a letter and a bottle of Gin in order to get her to trust him. He didn't address that Hogwarts was a magical school but merely said Tom had a scholarship. Mrs. Cole related that she had just started working at the orphanage and was the same age as Merope when she came on New Years Eve. Merope delivered her baby within the hour and died within another hour. Before she died she said that the baby's surname was Riddle and Tom for HIS father and Marvolo for HER father. Tom was an "odd" baby hardly ever crying. After AD assured Mrs. Cole that Tom definitely had a place at school, she confided that no one would be sorry to see Tom gone because he "scared the other kids." He was hard to catch at being a bully. Billy Stubbs' rabbit was found dead hanging from the rafters after arguing with Tom and two children had "never been quite right" after going into a seaside cave with him. Tom was suspicious and Dumbledore had to cause Tom's wardrobe to burst into flames then extinguish in order to "prove" he was a wizard. Then Tom admitted that he could: make things move, make animals obey, make bad things happen to people who annoy me and "make them hurt if I want to." Dumbledore found that Tom had stolen things from other children who he had intimidated and made Tom take the things back with apologies. He advised Tom of ministry laws, calling adults professor or sir, thieving and other cruelty not being tolerated at school etc. Tom refused any companionship or help in obtaining his things from Diagon Alley. He said he "did things for himself." Tom discounted his mother as being magic because she died. He thought his father was the wizard. Dumbledore gave him a pouch of money without receiving a thanks. Tom added that he could converse with snakes as an afterthought.	6	262
Engram- Gaunt arrest	Bob Ogden, the Head of Department of Magical Law Enforcement went to the hillside home of Marvolo Gaunt overlooking Little Hangleton to serve a warrant on his son, Morfin, for hexing a Muggle, Tom Riddle, with hives. The house was run down and dirty with a snake nailed to the door. He was accosted by the mentally dull, in-bred, Morfin until Marvolo backed him down by speaking parseltongue (which all the family could speak being pure-blood descendants of Slytherin). Marvolo tried to impress Ogden by showing the black-stoned ring and heavy golden locket owned by Slytherin which were their family's heirlooms. Morfin said he hexed Riddle because Merope, his near-Squibb sister, was "making eyes" at him as he rode by with his girlfriend Cecilia. Marvolo became physically abusive of her for being a blood-traitor. When Ogden rescued her from Marvolo's attack he turned on Ogden causing him to flee. However, Ogden returned with reinforcement within 15 minutes and arrested Marvolo (who got 6 months in Azkaban) and Morfin (who got 3 years because of his history of previous Muggle attacks). When fleeing, Ogden, dressed in his muggle impersonating- frock coat, spats and bathing suit- stumbled into Tom Riddle (Sr) and Cecelia who laughed at him.	6	199
Engram- Morphin and Riddle	Dumbledore explained that when Morfin awoke he could remember nothing from that point onward. The ministry recognized the Avada Kedavra curse and visited Morfin. They didn't use Legilimency or Veritaserum he confessed, giving details implanted by Riddle. His wand was shown to have done the curse. The only thing that disturbed him was that his fathers ring had disappeared! Dumbledore visited him in Azkaban, used Legilimancy and tried to get him released. He died before that could happen.	6	366
	Morfin startled awake to a loud knock on his cabin door with a wand in one hand and a knife in the other. He initially attacked, thinking that the tall teenaged boy who entered was Tom Riddle Sr whom his sister had "run off with." When the visitor spoke in Parseltongue Morfin stopped his attack and divulged who he was and that his father, Marvolo, had died. He also said that he thought the visitor looked like that "muggle what my sister took a fancy to who lives in the big house over the way." Morfin said that the man "had run off from Merope, which served her right for marrying filth." But that she had "robbed us before she ran off" taking Slytherin's locket. When he moved forward to attack again the engram went dark extinguising the lamp, candle and everything.	6	363
Engram- the Cup and Locket	AD explained that 2 days after Riddles visit Hepzibah was poisoned by a little known poison which Hokey confesses she had put in her cocoa and the ministry concluded was done by accident. Harry & Dumbledore agreed it was so similar to Morfin's story that Riddle must have done it with the imperious curse and memory modification. After Hokey was convicted the family realized that the Cup and Locket were missing and Riddle had resigned and disappeared. Dumbledore thinks it was Riddles first murder after his family and was not for revenge but for greed. He wanted trophies like he did in the orphanage. He could not resist an object so steeped in Hogwarts history and the locket was his mothers.	6	439
	Working for Borgin and Burkes as his first job after Hogwarts (he was turned down for the DADA position as being too young) he met with a wealthy spinster Hepzibah Smith to try and purchase some goblin-made armor from her collection. She was so enamored with the attention he was showing her that she gussied herself up for his visits and showed him some "special" objects she owned. One she had never showed to anyone, even Burke, as her family couldn't wait to get their hands on it: Helga Hufflepuff's small golden cup with two finely wrought handles. It was engraved with a badger. It was supposed to have powers but she hadn't tested them thoroughly. Riddles eyes were filled with greed. He reluctantly gave the cup back to her. She also showed him a heavy golden locket that she had purchased from Burke several years before. It was marked with Slytherin's mark. She said Burke had bought it from a ragged girl who he thought had stolen it because she didn't know it's worth. Riddle's eyes turned scarlet with greed and only with difficulty did she get it back from him. Hepzibah died two days after the visit. Her old house elf Hokey "confessed" to accidentally putting something in the coffee that turned out to be poison. By the time they knew the cup and locket were missing Riddle had resigned his job and disappeared.	6	430
Engram- Tom Riddles questions (altered)	A much younger Horace Slughorn with thick, shiny, straw-colored hair, was surrounded in a nighttime meeting with a half-dozen mid-teen boys including Avery, Lestrange and Riddle who was already wearing Morfin's ring. Riddle asked if Professor Merrythought was retiring this year. The memory fogged and Slughorn's voice boomed loudly "You'll go wrong boy." The fog cleared and Slughorn dismissed them. Riddle hung back and asked about Horcruxes. The memory fogged again and Slughorn's voice said he "didn't know anything about them, wouldn't tell him if he did, and to never mention it again."	6	369
Engram- Tom Riddles questions (true)	A much younger Slughorn with his thick, shiny, straw-colored hair and his gingery-blond mustache sat on his comfortable winged armchair with his feet on a velvety pouffe drinking wine and eating crystallized pineapple and surrounded by 6 teenage boys including Tom Riddle. Riddle wore Marvolo Gaunt's gold-and-black ring and asked if professor Merrythought was retiring. Slughorn said he didn't know and wondered how Riddle was so knowledgeable. He suggested that Riddle would "rise to Minister of Magic within twenty years" or earlier if he kept giving Slughorn pineapple. Slughorn dismissed the boys at 11pm and all left except Riddle. Riddle very smoothly and practiced asked Slughorn about Horcruxes, for academic sake. At first Slughorn said he shouldn't talk about it, being very Dark stuff and forbidden by Dumbledore; but, with careful flattery, he said it "couldn't hurt to give him an overview." A Horcrux is an object in which a person had concealed part of their soul so that even if one's body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains. "Few would want it and death would be preferable," he told Riddle, whose hunger became apparent and asked how it was done. Slughorn explained it was an act "against nature" accomplished by a supreme act of evil- committing murder. Killing rips the soul apart and then with a magic spell (which he didn't know) the torn part is encased in the Horcrux. Riddle asked if "seven wasn't the most powerful magical number" and "wouldn't it be better to make seven parts?" Slughorn reeled at that, astonished, and needed reassurance from Riddle that the conversation was purely academic and he would keep it secret with a wildly happy expression on his face like that of the day he found out that he was a wizard.	6	494
Engram- Voldemort's request	Dumbledore believed that Riddle wanted to stay at Hogwarts for several reasons that he didn't reveal to anyone. First, he was more attached to the school than he had ever been to a person. Second, as the castle was a stronghold of magic he wanted to explore and use it more (i.e. Slytherin's secrets). And, Third, like Slughorn had been to him, he wanted to be influential to students and possibly use it as a recruiting ground to build himself an army.	6	431
	On a snowy day - 10 years after Hokey's memory - Voldemort had an appointment with Dumbledore to request the DADA position which was open. He reminded Dumbledore that Dippet had told him to reapply when he was turned down before. Voldemort's appearance already was dramatically changed, his features were burned and blurred, waxy and oddly distorted and the whites of his eyes were permanently bloody with a snowy white pale face. Dumbledore was gracious throughout although refused to call him Lord Voldemort claiming an "old professors" prerogative. Riddle wondered why Dumbledore was still at Hogwarts having been offered the minister of magic position three times. Riddle said he could "show and tell your students things they can gain from no other wizard." Dumbledore said he would be "sorry to believe half of the rumors" about Riddle. Riddle replied "greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies" to which Dumbledore replied "you call it 'greatness,' what you have been doing, do you?" Riddle said he had "pushed the boundaries of magic further perhaps than they have ever been pushed." Riddle ridiculed Dumbledore's "old argument that Love is more powerful than my kind of magic." Dumbledore asked what would happen to the Death Eaters if he was hired which startled Riddle. When he replied that "his friends" would get along without him, Dumbledore said he was surprised that he considered them "friends" as he had thought they were "more like servants." He challenged him with why he had brought Nott, Rosier, Mulciber, and Dolohov who were awaiting his return at the Hogs Head - according to information from the local barmen. Dumbledore asked him point blank WHY he was really asking for the position but Riddle avoided the question. Saying that they had no more to discuss he got up to leave. A great sadness filled Dumbledore's face "The time is long gone when I could frighten you with a burning wardrobe and force you to make repayment for your crimes. But I wish I could, Tom… I wish I could…" Dumbledore has never been able to keep a DADA teacher for longer than a year since I refused the post to Lord Voldemort.	6	440

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