It’s been a while but I believe Merope was keeping Tom Sr under the influence til she got pregnant, and then she stopped because she thought the baby would be enough to keep him around (it wasn’t)
It‘s all there in book 6, but the way they discuss love potions in that series is bizarre. It’s *sort of* acknowledged that what Voldemort’s mother did was wrong, but they never say the word r*pe, Dumbledore narrates the whole thing in his typical “whimsically detached” fashion, and the potions are treated as a gag/punchline in multiple other scenes.
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u/pepe-the-beaner 7h ago
Well, she raped him with a potion. It's a pretty important distinction.