Who Is The Radle House?

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In this first chapter of the story, it introduces the reader to a muggle (a person that can’t use magic) inhabited village of Little Hangleton. Despite the fact that it may seem all ‘normal’, there was one incident that baffled everyone that lived there.
Decades ago, at the Riddle House that stood on top of the hill above Little Hangleton, the Riddles (like the name suggests, the owners of the Riddle House), consisting of Tom Riddle Sr. and his parents, have been found dead in their house. The police arrested the caretaker of the house: Frank Bryce, because he was the only one without an alibi at the time of the murder, but at the same time the police released Frank due to lack of evidence, and the autopsy reports that declared that the Riddles

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