He, as you saw, was left in squalor and poverty, with a very nasty temper, a fantastic amount of arrogance and pride, and a couple of family heirlooms that he treasured just as much as his son, and rather more than his daughter." - Mindset of the Gaunt family " Lack of sense coupled with a great liking for grandeur meant that the family gold was squandered several generations before Marvolo was born. However, their liking for grandeur in tandem with little sensibility when it came to indulgences meant the family gold was squandered long before the last of the lineage was born. They were very wealthy and prominent once, having descended from many powerful witches and wizards, most notably Salazar Slytherin and Cadmus Peverell. The last known members of the family lived just outside of Little Hangleton, a small village in northern England. The Gaunts had branches in Britain and Ireland, although it is not known exactly where they originated. They had a tendency of marrying their cousins to keep their blood pure and to retain the traits of their ancestor, Salazar Slytherin, most notably the ability to speak Parseltongue. The House of Gaunt was a pure-blood family, and one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight. " Marvolo, his son, Morfin, and his daughter, Merope, were the last of the Gaunts, a very ancient wizarding family noted for a vein of instability and violence that flourished through the generations due to their habit of marrying their own cousins." - Description of the Gaunts
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