Compared with Gloucester, Andover lay closer to the Massachusetts border. If Indians were going to attack, Andover was more likely to be the target.
That small village of only six hundred people was already on the verge of splitting apart. It was not merely because of witchcraft accusations and natural disasters, but because of the villagers' attitudes toward Indians. Some believed they should live peacefully with them, trade furs like the other trading posts, and make the village prosper. Others believed those devils should be driven away, since Indians often raided the outskirts.
Like the little schoolmaster's sister, she would rather go to prison than endure the mental torment her brother forced upon her again.
Many people in this world thought mental torment was nothing at all, that only physical suffering was truly terrifying. The depictions of hell were also mostly scenes of sinners being tortured.
That was why humanity chose to end the witchcraft accusations and cast God aside as well. As long as supernatural forces were excluded from people's thinking, there was no need to ponder those unwelcome and infuriating matters. If witchcraft persecution still occurred, it should be regarded as an atrocity. That was why Voldemort said it was important for Muggles to deny magic.
His father, Tom Riddle Sr., had a girlfriend. The wealthy young couple rode around the town and saw the Gaunt family's "dreary" house.
That handsome young gentleman and lady did not understand that the gap between rich and poor left some people unable to build such nice houses. They wished every place were as clean and beautiful as London, or at least built of brick and stone. A wooden shack like the Gaunt family's ought to have been torn down long ago. Yet even a wooden house was still a place that