Top student, proud, confident and dignified… Riddle wanted to live up to those expectations his mother set up for him even before he was born. It was Hell, but Riddle was willingly going through it- he had no choice but to move on after all.

That’s why you were so bad for him.

Rebellious, who won’t just mindlessly obey nor follow the rules- You were everything Riddle despised, yet so badly craved, in the depths of his soul. He craved the very antithesis you were, to him.

Why did he feel the need to let you ruin him?

Now THAT was beyond his own understanding.