Tom Riddle - Age 11 Quotes in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

Mrs. Cole: I must admit to some confusion receiving your letter, Professor Dumbledore. In all the years Tom's been here, he's never once had a family visitor. There have been... incidents with the other children. Nasty things.

[opens the door]

Mrs. Cole: Tom? You have a visitor.

Albus Dumbledore: How do you do, Tom?

Tom Riddle - Age 11: [without turning around] Go.

[cut to a short time later, as Dumbledore sits opposite Tom]

Tom Riddle - Age 11: You're the doctor, aren't you?

Albus Dumbledore: No, I'm a professor.

Tom Riddle - Age 11: I don't believe you. She wants me looked at. They think I'm... different.

Albus Dumbledore: Well, perhaps they're right.

Tom Riddle - Age 11: I'm not mad.

Albus Dumbledore: Hogwarts is not a place for mad people. Hogwarts is a school. A school of magic. You can do things can't you, Tom? That other children can't.

Tom Riddle - Age 11: I can make things move without touching them. I can make animals do what I want without training them. I can make bad things happen to people who are mean to me. I can make them hurt, if I want... Who are you?

Albus Dumbledore: Well, I'm like you, Tom. I'm different.

Tom Riddle - Age 11: Prove it.

[Dumbledore turns and looks at the wardrobe, which bursts into flames. Something rattles on the inside]

Albus Dumbledore: I think there's something in the wardrobe trying to get out, Tom.

[Tom opens the wardrobe, and dumps out the contents]

Albus Dumbledore: Thievery is not tolerated at Hogwarts, Tom. At Hogwarts you will be taught not only how to use magic, but how to control it. Do you understand me?

[Dumbledore starts to leave]

Tom Riddle - Age 11: I can speak to snakes, too. They find me... whisper things.

[Dumbledore stops, looking surprised]

Tom Riddle - Age 11: Is that normal, for someone like me?

Albus Dumbledore: [to Harry] What you are looking at are memories. In this case containing to one individual. Voldemort. Or as he was known then, Tom Riddle.

[takes a memory]

Albus Dumbledore: This file contains the most particular memory. The day I first met him. I'd like you to see it. If you want.

[Harry takes the memory, poors its contents into the Pensieve, puts his head in the Pensieve, and watches Mrs. Cole leading a younger Dumbledore to Tom Riddle]

Mrs. Cole: I must admit to some confusion receiving your letter, Mr. Dumbledore. In all the years Tom's been here he's never had a family visitor. There have been incidents with the other children. Nasty things.

[knocks on Tom Riddle's door and opens it]

Mrs. Cole: Tom, you have a visitor.

Albus Dumbledore: How do you do, Tom?

Tom Riddle - Age 11: Go.

[Dumbledore seats himself]

Tom Riddle - Age 11: You're the doctor, aren't you?

Albus Dumbledore: No. I'm a professor.

Tom Riddle - Age 11: I don't believe you. She wants me looked at. They think I'm... different.

Albus Dumbledore: Well, perhaps they're right.

Tom Riddle - Age 11: I'm not mad.

Albus Dumbledore: Hogwarts is not a place for mad people. Hogwarts is a school. A school of magic.

[a puzzled expression comes across Riddle's face]

Albus Dumbledore: You can do things, can't you, Tom? Things to the children, Tom.

Tom Riddle - Age 11: I can make things move without touching them. I can make animals do what I want without touching them. I can make bad things happen to people who are mean to me. I can make them hurt. If I want. Who are you?

Albus Dumbledore: I'm like you, Tom. I'm different.

Tom Riddle - Age 11: Prove it.

[Dumbledore conjures a fire in the wardrobe]

Albus Dumbledore: I think there's something in your wardrobe that's trying to get out, Tom.

[Riddle opens the burning wardrobe and finds a small box rattling, while the flames disappear]

Albus Dumbledore: Thievery is not tolerated at Hogwarts, Tom. At Hogwarts you will not only be taught how to use magic, but how to control it. Do you understand me?

[leaves]

Tom Riddle - Age 11: I can speak to snakes, too. They find me... whisper things.

[Dumbledore turns around]

Tom Riddle - Age 11: Is that normal for someone like me?

[Dumbledore looks at Riddle and Harry suddenly takes his head out of the Pensieve]

Tom Riddle - Age 11: [from trailer] Are you here to adopt me?

Albus Dumbledore: No.

Tom Riddle - Age 11: Who are you?

Albus Dumbledore: When I'm like you, Tom, I'm different.

Tom Riddle - Age 11: Prove it.

[Dumbledore conjures a fire]

Tom Riddle - Age 11: [from trailer] I can make things move without touching them. I can make bad things happen to people that are mean to me. I can speak to snakes, too.