He was deeply disturbed by what he’d learned about Voldemort’s life. Tom couldn’t countenance failing so severely, and as a result of his shrewd bargaining he wouldn’t have to. For the small price of forgoing setting Slytherin’s monster on Hogwarts’ student body he’d gained tremendous advantage: the things he could do with knowledge of the future ... what was finding an alternate way to prove his Slytherin heritage in the face of that?