Riddle's Ignorance

Tom Riddle, though he later became a notorious Dark Wizard, was undoubtedly an excellent student at Hogwarts, if you remove his inglorious future from his life.

As an exceptionally talented and handsome orphan, he naturally attracted the attention and sympathy of the teachers almost as soon as he arrived at school.

He appeared polite, quiet, and eager for knowledge.

Almost everyone had a good impression of him.

But if someone were to say that his grades weren't particularly good in the Muggle world, or that he didn't even enjoy reading, it would certainly draw ridicule from all the wizards who knew him, who would be convinced that it was a lie and a joke.

But that's the truth. Riddle's academic performance wasn't great for a while when he was in the orphanage, as his attention was more focused on his amazing special abilities.

Thanks to this power, although he was ostracized and even considered crazy by the orphanage nannies, who brought in a psychiatrist, in a sense, no orphan dared to mess with him anymore, and he didn't need friends in the conventional sense.

Dumbledore may not have known this either. Dumbledore may have thought that Riddle had a cruel, mysterious, and domineering nature, but he was not someone who disliked studying or had poor grades.

When Dumbledore first visited Wool's Orphanage, he told Mrs. Cole, the orphanage's administrator, that Riddle possessed the qualities required for Hogwarts. Mrs. Cole mistakenly believed that Riddle had received a scholarship to Hogwarts.

But what she didn't care about was that Riddle hadn't applied. According to her, if Riddle had applied, he could have received scholarships from some schools.

Furthermore, when Dumbledore entered Riddle's room, Riddle was also reading a book, looking every bit the intellectual.

This is why Dumbledore thought Riddle only had personality problems, but everyone else seemed like a good student.

But only Tom Riddle himself knew that his later academic success and his habit of reading were not due to a love of knowledge.

Wool's Orphanage, located in London, was a remarkably good orphanage compared to other orphanages of the same period, especially considering it was the capital of the Britain.

Although the place looked simple, with old and mismatched furniture, the entire environment was exceptionally clean and tidy. Each orphan was dressed in a uniform gray robe, suggesting they were receiving proper and attentive care.

The only drawback is that the atmosphere is very gloomy and oppressive, and the caregivers here don't have the time to take care of the children's psychological problems.

It was precisely because this orphanage was so good that after Riddle gained the position of the king of the children through his skillful special abilities, he had nothing else to worry about and didn't have to think about showing off and slapping people in the face all day long.

Riddle's itinerary also began to take him all over London, not just to the orphanage.

At this time, he pretended to be a good child and learned from some people the importance of knowledge, something that no one in the orphanage had ever mentioned.

As long as he gets good grades, he can go to a good university, find a good job, and earn several times more money than those who don't study.

They also had the opportunity to become British civil servants and dominate others.

So Riddle began to study seriously, which impressed Mrs. Cole. He stopped causing trouble and instead stayed in his room reading.

And that's when Dumbledore arrived.

After enrolling at Hogwarts, he maintained his good habit of reading, because Magic Book were more direct, unlike Muggle books which required exchanging them for diplomas, degrees, skill certificates, and the like.

Magic Book are synonymous with power, which led Riddle to begin to disregard Muggle knowledge.

I did not take the Muggle Studies course in my Third Year.

To Riddle, everything about Muggle was no different from that of an illiterate person.

This is why he didn't understand how great Dumbledore's idea of landing on the moon was. In his eyes, the most astonishing thing was the Magician's seemingly perfect self- Transfiguration, his skillful Wandless Magic, and his completely different way of becoming invisible—transforming into moonlight.

It's important to know that emerging from thin air is a common way for the invisible to appear—this is usually achieved through Apparition and the Disillusionment Charm.

"What shape is the Earth?" Dumbledore asked tentatively. Riddle's words made him think of a possibility: Voldemort's radicalism might be related to his lack of understanding of Muggle.

This is a new breakthrough!

He seemed to see a glimmer of hope in changing Riddle's views.

"Round, I know that," Riddle replied irritably, continuing to watch Harry Potter on the screen. As for that 'self,' what did Voldemort have to do with Tom Riddle?

"Then do you know why the Earth is round, and why we can stand on the ground and remain stable?" Dumbledore asked again.

"I had thought about it before, and later I learned the reason from a Magic Book."

"That's magic, the power of magic!"

"Wizards were very powerful in the beginning and were called gods, but because they intermarried with Muggle, their bloodline deteriorated generation after generation and became what it is now."

"The world used to be flat and round, and it was the wizards, who were once called gods, who transformed the earth," Riddle said solemnly.

This almost made Ryan, who was lying on his own sofa, stand up. Tom Riddle was really illiterate!

No, he can't be considered illiterate. Although this knowledge is wrong, he learned it from a book, and it's probably the mainstream view among Pure-blood families.

Unlike Ryan, their limited knowledge only allowed them to arrive at such a conclusion.

Ryan's ability to think, coupled with the correct power inherent in his skill panel, allows Ryan to glean the most accurate information from a multitude of sources.

That is, the weakness of wizards is not due to the deterioration of their bloodline, but rather because wizards are too powerful. They hold each other back and unconsciously curse their own offspring, causing the deterioration.

This resulted in the original Stones— Muggle-born wizards who should have been as powerful as gods—becoming no different from the Pure-blood wizard who survived the degeneration.

"Don't you know about gravity? When the Earth rotates, it generates a centripetal force, and everything on Earth is affected by it. That's why apples don't fly up, but fall to the ground." ("Nonsense, centripetal force? Gravity is something that exists on the object itself. It's the reason we're not flung away." Ryan was speechless.)

"Wizards do not become weaker by mating with Muggle; wizards are born from Muggle."

"You may not know this, but according to our family records, every Dumbledore has married a Dumbledore and had children. But we are still the same as the wizards you described who have been corrupted by marrying Muggle."

"Tom, it seems you'll need to brush up on your Muggle Studies before you become Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor." Dumbledore couldn't help but look at Riddle with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot.

Doge looked pained. Aunt Muriel chuckled again, then answered Harry.

"Dumbledore's mother was a terrible woman, a terrible woman, Muggle-born, but I heard she lied and said she wasn't—"

"She never lied about such a thing! Kendra is a very good woman."

Doge pleaded pitifully in a low voice, but Aunt Muriel completely ignored him.

The above is the original text. Some people may know that Albus Dumbledore was actually Half-blood wizard.

What I wrote was that every Dumbledore was married to a 'wizard' and had children, with the emphasis on 'wizards'.