Harry Potter: What If Merope Never Released Tom Riddle?
Super Carlin Brothers
J and Ben Carlin
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What if Merope never released Tom Riddle Sr.? |
| 0:05.0 | Spoilers, Harry may never have been born. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey, brother! |
| 0:08.0 | Guys, we all know Voldemort has a pretty tragic beginning, |
| 0:11.0 | you know, what was both of his parents abandoning him. |
| 0:14.0 | It all began. On the day of my actual birth, |
| 0:17.0 | both of my parents failed to show up. |
| 0:20.0 | In half blood, we learned that Voldemort was conceived by his parents after his mother, |
| 0:23.7 | Morope Begone, put his father, Tom Riddle, under a love potion. |
| 0:28.2 | Then, upon releasing Tom from the potion, he abandons Marope and his unborn son, |
| 0:34.2 | and then, upon giving birth the little Valdi Murrup goes ahead and dies rather than |
| 0:39.8 | you know raise her son I mean it's obviously very tragic but factual it's a bad beginning to a |
| 0:45.9 | horrible story which is probably why the story actually begins way later with baby Harry instead |
| 0:51.8 | and the death of his parents. |
| 0:57.0 | But what if Mirope never released Tom Sr. from the effects of the love potion? |
| 1:04.0 | What if they raise Lil Valdi together and he had a normal childhood. |
| 1:13.7 | Would he have still turned evil? |
| 1:19.9 | Would that nurturing outpace his nature and absolve him of his malicious ways, |
| 1:23.1 | or was he always destined for darkness? |
| 1:27.4 | Could his father have grown to love him, or perhaps more importantly? Could his mother might all have been saved? |
| 1:32.3 | Today we find out |
| 1:38.3 | Okay, so did Marope Gaunt doom the entire Wizarding World by dying rather than raising her own son? |
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