Civilization and Harmony Hogwarts

As the sky dimmed, so did the street lights.

But only key arterial streets and luxurious and prosperous rich areas can enjoy the treatment of bright lights.

And Wu's Orphanage is located on a deserted and dilapidated street in London. The street lamps on the side of the street are flickering faintly because of the aging circuit and disrepair. Mottled and broken.

In order to save money, the orphanage does not turn on the lights - the bright lights are only turned on for a short while on special festivals or when people from the community come to donate money to help.

At this time, the children were driven to bed early by the nurses to fall asleep, leaving only a dim kerosene lamp burning in the office.

A woman hunched over, leaning on the dirty gray wall step by step towards the old but solid door not far away under the flickering lights.

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Relying on the little Galleons he got from selling Slytherin lockets cheaply, Merope barely rented a small, damp and cold basement in a London slum.

On this night when the new year is about to usher in, she was lying on the cold ground, with a dirty old blanket barely spread under her body - this was something she scavenged from a waste treatment plant somewhere" baby".

Merope suppressed the fire-like hunger in his stomach, and tried his best to slow down his breathing to reduce physical exertion.

Merope was very thin, only a handful of bones remained, and her sunken facial features made her already unremarkable appearance even more terrifying.

From a distance, her thin body is so incongruous with the high swollen abdomen, it seems that she has used all the flesh and blood to support the child in her womb.

The matted hair has not been taken care of since the beginning of winter, and the thick stains have knotted the fine strands into lumps.

On her lackluster face, only a pair of bright eyes still burned with a kind of burning desire that was crazy.

"Soup, Tom..."

She called out in a low voice, fascinated, her hoarse voice revealing a pain like weeping blood, but also with a burst of dreamlike imagination.

She opened her eyes and stared at the mottled and rusty door, hoping that the man she had been thinking about would walk in the next moment.

Suddenly, she felt a pain in her abdomen.

The pain finally made her look away from the door.

A rare kindness appeared on her face, but it was quickly replaced by a maddened eagerness.

"Tom, Tom and my boy."

She first murmured softly, then a dry smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and then she fell into some kind of secret joy.

She struggled to get up, slow and stumbling—not having enough strength from not eating for a long time.

She carefully protected her abdomen and stood up with the dirty wall.

Then, she stood up tremblingly, supported the wall with her bony arms that seemed to be broken, and walked out bit by bit.

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Merope braved the cold wind and endured the pain of impending childbirth.

Her consciousness has long been blurred, and at this moment, she is only walking towards her destination with the remaining muscle memory in her body.

After her Tom left cruelly for a few months, and she had no choice but to pawn the locket at a low price because of her livelihood, she knew clearly that she might be able to give birth to this child with all her life, but she definitely did not have the strength to raise it he.

Are you going home?

Or go to Tom?

Her cruel father and cruel brother will definitely know!

They would never have allowed her to be a "family disgrace", much less a child who "stained the great Slytherin blood".

So she can't go back!

So, when she felt that her body was getting worse, she came up with this idea-if I die, Tom and my children will be orphans, so...he can grow up in an orphanage.

No need to go back to the quagmire of the Gaunt family, just grow up like an ordinary person!

In the past few months, she visited all the orphanages in London, large and small, and finally chose this Wu's orphanage.

Public charities with large scale and relatively sufficient funding sources...

Merope didn't know so much, she only knew that the children in Wu's Orphanage at least had clothes to wear and food to eat - the clothes were old but not damaged, and the children were not fat but not skinny.

After confirming Wu's Orphanage, Merope immediately squeezed out of the little money he had and rented a basement nearby at a low price.

Even though she repeatedly cut back on her diet because of it.

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About Merope:

Among all the orphanages in London at that time, Wu's Orphanage was among the best in terms of facilities and scale. I don't think Merope just happened to be at the gate of Wu's Orphanage by such a coincidence. She must have died during her pregnancy. I've figured it out - I may have inspected many orphanages, and finally decided on Wu's Orphanage.

The money in her hand can hardly even support her to give birth to a child, let alone raise the child, and she dare not go back, so the best place for the child is an orphanage, and her mother is best to die.

I don't think Merope really doesn't have any love for Braised Egghead, it's just that this love is more mixed with the obsession with old Riddle, or because he is his child, Merope is right Braised Dan had the initial love, and then gradually developed a mother's love for her children, so she will find this orphanage for Braised Dan.

To sum up, Merope loves marinated eggs, but not much.

(Of course, the above are my personal thoughts.)

As for the saying that Pretty Tom is a product of a love potion and doesn’t understand love, for example, a normal person’s ability to perceive and produce love is 100, and the product of a love potion is only 1. It’s not that they can’t feel it at all, it’s hard to feel it , and after Tom's experience in the orphanage and finally learning of his life experience, his last 1 was wiped out again.

Baidu Encyclopedia has a saying that if Merope did not die and gave Tom enough love during his growth, he might not have a chance to become a normal person, even if this chance is very small.The more likely situation is that they will love, but it is not up to the level of 100 for normal people, but at least it is more than 1.