Hogwarts Outsider Chapter 25: Mr. Gunter
Mr. Gaunt has always been a strange man to the villagers of Budley Barberton.
Mr. Gunter looked about forty or fifty years old, his face was pale and haggard, and he could see the vicissitudes of time.
However, there is still a heroic spirit between his eyebrows, one can imagine that he must have been quite a handsome guy when he was young.
He has lived in the village of Budley Barberton for three years, but during these three years, everyone only knows his surname as "Gaunt", and they don't even know his name.
He seems to have nothing to do, no job, seldom go out, and seldom contact with neighbors... But he is never short of money, and spends money lavishly.
Every day he locked himself in his house, not knowing what weird things to do.
The occasional visitors are also some weird people.
All in all, it is out of place with the whole village of Badley Barberton.
……
In fact, Mr. Gunter is a wizard.
An incognito wizard.
His full name is Tom Gunter.
Former name, Tom Riddle.
Speaking of it, Mr. Gunter's life can be said to be ill-fated.
His father was a Muggle, and his mother was a witch; but after her mother was pregnant with him, she was cruelly abandoned by her father.
On the last day of 1926, in an orphanage, his mother gave birth to him and soon passed away.
Poor Tom lived and grew up in this orphanage since he was a child.
Until the age of eleven, a wizard named Albus Dumbledore found him and told him that he was actually a wizard.
Then Tom successfully became a student of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
During his time at Hogwarts, he showed an extremely outstanding talent for magic. After being assigned to Slytherin House, he became the prefect, the head of the boys student council, and has a large group of vassals.
At the age of sixteen, Tom avenged his mother. He set a trap, then killed his biological father, Tom Riddle Sr., and framed his uncle Murphy Gunter.
After graduating, he planned to continue the study of extreme magic (then known as black magic).
So when I graduated from Hogwarts at the age of 18, I came to an extreme magic item store, Bojinbok store, and became a clerk here.
But at the same time, the situation changed suddenly.
Albus Dumbledore, the Hogwarts transfiguration teacher at the time, was revealed as a dark wizard. He was also defeated by Gellert Grindelwald in a duel and imprisoned in Nurmengard prison.
At the same time, Leonard Moon, then Minister of Magic of the United Kingdom, was also forced to step down and committed suicide a week after stepping down.
Hogwarts headmaster Armando Dippet also soon announced his resignation and died shortly thereafter.
Mr. Grindelwald led the reconstruction of the British Ministry of Magic at that time, and took the initiative to serve as the headmaster of Hogwarts.
And Tom Riddle, who just graduated, because of his too close relationship with the dark wizard Albus Dumbledore (he knew that the guide of the wizarding world was Dumbledore, and according to the disclosed information, Dumbledore Has been extremely concerned about Tom in the years before 1945), and was targeted by the Aurors.
In January 1946, Tom was arrested for dealing in extreme magical items.
Soon, he was sentenced to three years in prison...Because he was not qualified enough to enter Nurmengard Prison, he was imprisoned in Azkaban Prison.
And in January 1949, on the eve of Tom's release from prison——
The Department of Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Magic discovered yet another wrongful case, a wizard named "Morfin Gunter", who was charged with murdering three Muggles and went to prison; but subsequent evidence showed that he was not The real culprit in this case, the real culprit is Tom (referring to the case that Tom killed his biological father, old Tom Riddle and his family, and framed his uncle).
The case was quickly retried, and Tom was finally sentenced to 50 years in prison again.
Prison life had to go on.
He spent another eleven years in Azkaban Prison, then transferred to Nurmengard Prison for another twenty-one years, and was finally released early due to good behavior in prison.
On October 31, 1981, Tom, who was already in his fifties, finally regained his freedom.
After he was released from prison, he changed his name to Tom Gunter and began his life of anonymity.
And, he reconnected with some vassals from the student days...
Even though he has been in prison for many years, his outstanding talent in extreme magic still won their respect.
It took several years, and Tom gathered a small group of vassals to form an illegal group called "Death Eaters" ~IndoMTL.com~ and Tom was their leader.
Soon the group had to retreat into underground activities due to the crackdown by the Ministry of Magic.
Since 1988, Tom has been engaged in the research of occult magic.
Since he often came into contact with some contraband, he began to choose to live in Muggle towns.
……
Six ancient books were placed in front of Tom in a mess.
"Ah!" He let out an angry roar, and then tore the six books in front of him to pieces.
He spent 200,000 Galleons to ask Lucius Malfoy to steal these books from abroad...
But now, he found that these books were even worthless!
The core content of the six books all point to another one——
That is, the seventh volume that is not in his hands at all!
If you can't get the seventh book, then it can be said that it is completely meaningless, and he can't do anything!
Because of anger, Tom's face began to tremble, and a red light even flashed in his black eyes.
Suddenly, a strange instrument on the table began to "buzz".
Then began to squirm violently.
Tom's face changed suddenly, he quickly turned on the instrument, lowered his head——
The expression in his eyes quickly turned into ecstasy.
Because he suddenly felt that the seventh volume did exist...
And a few minutes ago, someone opened it!
And the location of the seventh book, it seems, is in Hogwarts!
Tom's face soon changed from ecstasy to a bit of gloom.
Because the person he hated the most was also at Hogwarts!
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