The sad history of Merope Gaunt | Wizarding World https://www.wizardingworld.com/features/the-sad-history-of-merope-gaunt
Descended from the line of Salazar Slytherin, Merope Gaunt was a pitiable figure – she fell in unrequited love with a Muggle and was terrorised by her pure-blood …
about being ‘hoodwinked’ and ‘taken in’ by the local tramp