"No," Tom decided, not needing to ask who his soulmate was talking about. "His decisions might not have made a difference for me, but you would have suffered less in your childhood without his meddling. Maybe Sirius would have raised you a spoiled brat. But anything would have been better than these muggles." He was lying to himself, and they both knew it. Dumbledore had written Tom off the moment he met the powerful child in the orphanage. But Harry didn't want to poke that with a stick.