The House of Gaunt

The House of Gaunt is a short film expanding on the lives of the Gaunt family who were created as part of the Harry Potter Universe. The Gaunt's were once a powerful magical family who practiced relative marriages to maintain their pureblood status. They were proud descendants of Salazar Slytherin which also made them wealthy. Over the centuries of incest and greed, Elvis Marvolo Gaunt and his children were victims of disorders and poverty. He was a staunch believer in purity and was angered when his daughter Merope had fallen in love with a local weathy muggle named Tom Riddle. Merope was subject to abuse from both her father and brother Morfin. After an altercation between Tom and Morfin, the Gaunt's came to the attention of the Ministry. Elvis was unhappy with the Ministry's attempt to intervene in what he believed to have been good act on Morfin's part. Both Morfin and Elvis would end up in Azkaban leaving Merope to fend for herself. Merope managed on her own by concocting a love potion for Tom Riddle. They were married and eventually became pregnant. Merope stopped feeding Tom the potion in hopes he'd return genuine feelings of affection. Alas, this was not to be and he would abandon his wife and unborn child. Merope would later give birth at an orphanage. Her handsome son which was named Tom Marvolo Riddle would later become known as Voldemort.