Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Little Hangleton
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| Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Place | |
| Little Hangleton | |
|---|---|
| Location | Somewhere in Great Britain |
| Permanent Residents | Villagers |
| First Appearance | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
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[edit] General Overview
Little Hangleton is a small village which is the ancestral home of Tom Riddle.
[edit] Extended Description
Little Hangleton is a village where the Riddle family used to live, and where the Riddle house is. The house is used by Lord Voldemort and Wormtail as a base for their activities at the beginning of Harry's fourth year.
[edit] Location
Its location is uncertain, however we are given a little detail during the summer vacation before the fourth year: Two hundred miles away, the boy called Harry Potter woke with a start.
[edit] Analysis
Little Hangleton is Tom Marvolo Riddle's "ancestral home;" while he was born in London, his mother Merope Gaunt and father, the muggle Tom Riddle, both lived in this area, and his father is buried here. This is part of the reason that Voldemort, as Tom Riddle was later known, set up his base of operations here; one of the necessary ingredients for the potion that restored Voldemort was "Bone of the father, unknowingly given", for which access to the graveyard in Little Hangleton was necessary.
Tom Marvolo Riddle feels no attachment for the place, however. Despite being the closest thing to an heir left by his father, Tom Riddle, and thus presumably the actual owner of the manor house, Riddle Jr. had only ever visited the house for long enough to murder his father and grandparents. For Voldemort, the house is a convenient place for headquarters, where he is unlikely to be disturbed (once he has murdered the Muggle gardener), with no claims on its ownership apart from his own.
