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Harry Potter: What If Merope Never Released Tom Riddle?

Super Carlin Brothers

J and Ben Carlin

News, Entertainment News, Tv & Film

4.8 • 880 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month at http://BetterHelp.com/SUPER In Half-Blood Prince, we learn that Merope Gaunt used a love potion to force Tom Riddle Sr. into a relationship — but once she released him, he abandoned her, and she eventually died giving birth to Voldemort. But what if she never released him? Would Voldemort have had a “normal” childhood? Could love — even fake love — have changed the outcome? Or was Voldemort always destined for darkness? Today we explore how this alternate timeline could have unfolded, from Merope’s choices to Voldemort’s obsession with power, the Deathly Hallows, and even how it might erase Harry Potter from existence entirely. Would the Dark Lord have still risen… or might all have been saved? 🔔 Don’t forget to subscribe for more Harry Potter theories every week! THROUGH THE GRIFFIN TOUR MIDWEST Tickets ON SALE NOW! https://supercarlinbrothers.com/events/  Midwest Tour Dates:  Indianapolis, IN - 9/16 St. Louis, MO - 9/17 Des Moines, IA - 9/19 (SOLD OUT) St. Paul, MN - 9/20 (SOLD OUT) Milwaukee, WI - 9/21 Chicago, IL - 9/23 Detroit, MI - 9/24 (SOLD OUT) Cleveland, OH - 9/25 (SOLD OUT) #HarryPotter #SuperCarlinBrothers  Written by :: J Carlin Edited by :: Ethan Edghill

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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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