ans are pretty certain that three Harry Potter characters Albus Dumbledore, Gellert Grindelwald, and Bathilda Bagshotwill make appearances in Scamander's stateside adventures. Will Voldemort be inFantastic Beasts? Maybe. But the odds look good that his father, Tom Riddle, Sr., will be.
See, Tom Riddle, Sr., under the influence of Merope Gaunt's love potion, married her in 1925, but abandoned her before his son was born, after she stopped using alchemy on him. We know that he left London, and that Voldemort killed him and his parents at the Riddle House in Little Hangleton in the s
Well, assuming that the Riddles were already uneasy with the idea of magic after living next to the Gaunts for so long, it's possible that Tom Riddle, Sr. would have hidden any latent magical abilities from others, for fear of being associated with his Parselmouth neighbors. Parents will perform all
neighbors, and that would lead the Riddles to conclude that the shack-dwellers made up rumors about magic to keep the wider community afraid and away. The sudden realization that witches and wizards are realand the fridge horror that he is one of themwould have shocked Tom Riddle, Sr. into hu