*Remus' upset hasn't escaped his notice, but now's not the time.*
. . . I don't know. I can't make heads or tails of it. I mean, it's just genealogy, tracing Slytherin down through the ages, to some mess of a man named Marvolo Gaunt. Lives--or, well, lived, he went to Azkaban and then died soon after he got out--in a shack out in Little Hangleton. Not a very illustrious pureblood line either, the Gaunts were destitute and his daughter, Merope, ended up dying giving birth to--Tom Riddle Junior, I guess we should call him. It's not just to play up his pureblood side, it's to cover both up entirely and go further back, all the way to Slytherin. But I don't really know what to make of it beyond that. I suppose I understand why Voldemort's done that but I don't know what put Reg on it. If we find out why Reg started this, then I think we might find something valuable about Voldemort. But the only one who can answer that is Reg.
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. . . I don't know. I can't make heads or tails of it. I mean, it's just genealogy, tracing Slytherin down through the ages, to some mess of a man named Marvolo Gaunt. Lives--or, well, lived, he went to Azkaban and then died soon after he got out--in a shack out in Little Hangleton. Not a very illustrious pureblood line either, the Gaunts were destitute and his daughter, Merope, ended up dying giving birth to--Tom Riddle Junior, I guess we should call him. It's not just to play up his pureblood side, it's to cover both up entirely and go further back, all the way to Slytherin. But I don't really know what to make of it beyond that. I suppose I understand why Voldemort's done that but I don't know what put Reg on it. If we find out why Reg started this, then I think we might find something valuable about Voldemort. But the only one who can answer that is Reg.