Clever and curious he may be, but Riddle was not prone to sentimentality, and therefore didn’t want to listen to the stories Harry most wanted to tell. "Ron, Hermione and I used to visit our friend Hagrid – uh, Rubeus Hagrid. He’s a third year Hufflepuff. Er, fourth year now? I think Hufflepuff, anyway, I never approached him in this timeline because it’d be too awkward. You got him expelled by pining the basilisk attacks on his pet acromantula after you opened the Chamber – anyway, Hagrid was the groundskeeper and he was legitimately the worst cook I’ve ever met. He used to make these rock cakes and the first time Ron ever ate one he –"