![]() Riddle then returned to the Gaunt Shack and replaced Morfin's wand on his person and used his own wand to modify Morfin's memory to make him confess to killing the Riddles so there would be no further investigation into the murders by the Ministry of Magic. Riddle then proceeded to the Riddle House and murdered his father and his Muggle grandparents, Thomas and Mary Riddle, with the Killing Curse using Morfin's wand. This story enraged Riddle, who then used his wand to stun his uncle and take his wand from him in turn. Riddle came to the village and met his uncle, Morfin Gaunt, who told him the full story of Tom Riddle Snr and his sister Merope Gaunt. In the summer of 1943, Riddle used his wand to enact a plot of revenge against his father, Tom Riddle Snr, who had abandoned Riddle's mother, Merope Gaunt, along with himself many years before and fled back to the village of Little Hangleton to live in his family's home, the Riddle House. Although Riddle rose to stardom in the eyes of much of the Hogwarts staff, he was never fully trusted by Albus Dumbledore due to their first encounter at Riddle's orphanage, where he accidentally let his true personality show in Dumbledore's presence. The ends to which Riddle put his wand were less than noble and at times violent in his school years. Inside, however, he was cruel, greedy and murderous, with a disregard for anyone but himself and seeing all others as either obstacles to be overcome or tools to be manipulated. Over the course of his years at Hogwarts, Riddle's personality became darker and darker in secret, while to the outside world he appeared to be a model pupil. Riddle entered Ollivanders Wand Shop and purchased a wand thirteen and one half inches long, made of yew and with a core composed of a Phoenix feather which chose Riddle as its master. In 1938, the eleven-year-old Tom Riddle travelled to Diagon Alley. 1.5.2 Voldemort's search for the Elder Wand.On Voldemort's orders, Peter Pettigrew used this wand to kill Cedric Diggory in June of 1995 as well. It was with this wand that Riddle murdered James and Lily Potter and countless others, including Muggle Frank Bryce, Amelia Bones, and Ministry of Magic ex-employee Bertha Jorkins. It was manufactured by Garrick Ollivander and was the "brother" or "twin" of the wand of Harry Potter, as their wands share cores. ![]() The core of wand was taken from Fawkes, Albus Dumbledore's phoenix, whose tail feathers had also been used in the construction of Harry Potter's wand, making the two wands siblings. Tom Riddle's wand was 13½" long, crafted from yew, and affixed with a phoenix feather core. Yew." - Ollivander expounds on Voldemort's wand It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother, gave you that scar. " It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather - just one other.
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