Title: Morfin Gaunt's Son

By: René Nathair

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling does.

AU: Morfin Gaunt believes Harry, AKA Salazar Gaunt, to be his son, after seeing him speaking with a snake near the orphanage Harry lives at in 1984. Longer summary inside!!!

Long Summary: AU: Morfin Gaunt was released from Azkaban when the truth came to light in Spring 1970, but was sent to St. Mungo's in Winter 1970 for mental instability, and released in Summer 1978. The Dursley's put Harry in an orphanage where he grew up with the name Salazar Mavolo Gaunt. Morfin goes to that orphanage after seeing a boy, Harry/Salazar, talking to a snake, and after learning his 'name' believes Harry/Salazar to be his son with an unknown (there were many, and he could not recall their names), but of course pureblood (he wouldn't even have a one night stand with anyone of non-pure ancestry), one night stand.

Chapter: To The Orphanage Harry Goes

Notes: Mrs. Cole is the same person who ran the orphanage Voldemort went to, but it is not the same orphanage.

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It was 4:30 am, and at the Dursley's residence, Petunia and her husband sat reading the letter that came with Harry.

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Dursley,

Last night Harry and his parents were attacked by the a man named Tom Marvolo Riddle, more commonly known as known as the Dark Lord Voldemort, You-Know-Who, and/or He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. I am sorry to say that James and Lily Potter died by a curse known as the 'Killing Curse'. Your nephew though, is a very special boy, he survived the curse, and it backfired temporarily destroying Tom Riddle. As his last living relatives, I ask you to take Harry James Potter, who was born July 31, 1980, into your loving care.

Sincerely,

Albus Dumbledore

"What are we going to do?!" Hissed Petunia, who had no intention of raising the freak around her perfect, normal, son. "Give me a piece of paper, I don't want the other freaks blaming us for getting rid of him so if they come by, tell them we never had him. I might not like their kind, but I am not killing a baby, so we'll send him to an orphanage under a false name and date of birth. Got any ideas for a name?" Vernon replied. "I did, unfortunately, overhear my freak of a sister saying the names Salazar Slytherin and Something I cannot remember Gaunt in contempt, so we could always give him the name Salazar Gaunt, we could also use their murders middle name for the boy..." Petunia answered happily, knowing how much her sister would have hated her for that. "Perfect" Vernon grumbled writing down the note.

Dear Sir/Ma'am,

I am a single mother, who is no longer able to care for my child, Salazar Mavolo Gaunt (born June 29, 1980), so I am abandoning him here in hopes that he might have a better life.

After the note was finished he drove to a faraway orphanage, run by an elderly women named Mrs. Cole, and left the boy on the steps. He rang the doorbell and ran back to his car, before driving away quickly.

"Who could it be this early..." Mrs. Cole muttered before seeing no one there, she then looked down and saw the quiet baby before muttering about irresponsible parents leaving babies on the doorstep instead of staying to talk to the staff. After going back inside with the babe in her arms, she went and put him into an empty cot and opened the unsigned letter. What she saw surprised her. It was that odd name, Marvolo, again, together with the name Gaunt. It might have been ages ago, back when she worked at the old orphanage, that was destroyed in 1956, but she still remembered the woman with an odd name, Merope Gaunt Riddle, telling her to give Tom Riddle her father, Marvolo Gaunt's name as his middle name... Could this boy somehow be related to that Gaunt family?

She shook her head, it has highly unlikely, but still... Mrs. Cole looked at the boy and gasp at the cut on his forehead. "Oh my, what happened to you?! Better take care of that so it don't scar up..."

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A/N: Forgive my English!

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