Gaunt Family

The Gaunt family, also known as the House of Gaunt, is a family from Harry Potter.

Family Members

 * Corvinus Gaunt
 * Marvolo Gaunt
 * Morfin Gaunt
 * Merope Gaunt
 * Tom Riddle Sr. (previously)
 * Tom Marvolo Riddle

Family
Corvinus Gaunt is an ancestor of Marvolo Gaunt that hid the Chamber of Secrets when the plumbing system was being installed in Hogwarts. Marvolo Gaunt is the father of Merope and Morfin Gaunt. By their time, the Gaunt family was very impoverished and generations of inbreeding had made the Gaunts mentally unstable and very violent. Marvolo had abused Merope so badly that her magic became inhibited and she was then thought to be a squib. Morfin was sent to Azkaban for tormenting Muggles.

Merope married Tom Riddle Sr. against her family's wishes by love potions. While Tom Sr. was under a love potion they conceived a child, Tom Riddle Jr., who would be unable to feel affection and love due to his mother using a love potion.