And wasn’t that an interesting insight? Tom was a survivor; he had to have good instincts that he could trust to keep himself alive. If he, himself, felt that Henrik was still out there somehow, then he was most likely right. Dumbledore might not have killed Henrik, but he did something else, something worse to have been able to keep the Hufflepuff away for so long. Maybe it was the grief that prevented Tom from coming to the same conclusion, but either way, it seemed like Ashley had some more digging to do. Nobody deserved to have love forcibly taken away like that, not even Tom, as horrible as he’d been in the past (or still was, if the majority of the light side was asked).