Harry Potter: The Path of Destiny

Nitya was sitting on the big rock next to the black lake with a depressed expression. She did not choose to go back to the lounge because there were too many people there. At this moment, she needed such a quiet environment with few people to think about the problem.

"I was so stupid, I should have listened to your advice." Nitya was very depressed at the moment.

"Draco and Harry are on opposite sides from their standpoints. They cannot be friends, at least not for now." Michelle sat on another big rock nearby, "You want to follow If they both maintain friendly relations at the same time, they can only maintain a neutral attitude.”

"I'm too greedy."

"You just cherish your friends too much." Michelle comforted.

"But I hurt Draco's heart, and he must be very angry with me now." Nydia was extremely annoyed, because she clearly knew how hard Draco was practicing.

"Because you are complaining for Hermione. The Mudblood is indeed too vicious, but Hermione may not quite understand the meaning of this word. She comes from the Muggle world, remember!"

"Oh! I feel even stupider when you say that!" Michelle's words made Nidia feel even more embarrassed.

"Feel sorry……"

"What should I do? Go to Draco and apologize?"

"Let's wait for him to subside first! Is he still angry at this moment?"

When they left Black Lake, it was already lunch time. Nidia and Michelle did not go back to the lounge, but went directly to the restaurant to eat. In the morning, they did not go to the restaurant to eat in order to avoid other people's sight. Now The two of them were already very hungry.

"Look! Pansy sat next to Draco again. She must have heard about what happened in the morning." Michelle bumped Nydia with her arm and motioned her to look in the direction of Slytherin House. .

"Isn't this great! They were friends a long time ago!" Nidia said disapprovingly.

"You are so arrogant now! There will be times when you will be in trouble in the future." Michelle felt like she hated iron.

"Look! Harry and the others are here." Nydia waved to the three of them. Harry and Ron walked over dejectedly, with Hermione following behind them.

"What's wrong with you?" Nydia asked after the three of them sat down, "Ron, are you feeling better?"

"Don't mention it again, I never want to think about it again." Ron's face was still a little ugly.

"Professor McGonagall just informed us that we will stay in solitary confinement tonight!" Harry explained to Nydia the reason for their dejection. Harry needed to help Lockhart reply to letters from his admirers, while Ron needed to help Filch polish the silver in the trophy room.

"Ron, are you sure you can do it? Your face doesn't look good." Nidia said worriedly.

"Filch could kill me," Ron said sadly. "No magic! There are at least a hundred trophies in that room. I'm not as good at scrubbing as Muggles."

"Not all Muggles are good at scrubbing, at least my father is not very good at it!" Michelle said.

"I'd be willing to trade with you anytime," Harry said listlessly. "I've done a lot of scrubbing and washing at the Dursleys. But writing back to Lockhart's admirers... that's like... A nightmare..."

"I'd better wipe my trophy!" Ron weighed the two in his mind, and finally felt that it might be easier to wipe the trophy.

In the evening, Harry and Ron were about to go into confinement. Ron's face still didn't improve much. Nydia wanted to help Ron clean the trophy, but Hermione didn't agree with this approach. She felt that Harry and Ron En indeed violated the school rules and should be punished, but Nidia believed that Ron's current situation was quite special, so she still chose to help Ron. Michelle saw that Nydia was going to help Ron clean the trophy, so she also chose to follow and help. This decision made Hermione even more unhappy.

"Thank you both so much. If I were the only one, I might never be able to polish these trophies in my lifetime!" Ron said gratefully while wiping the trophies.

"To be honest, I regret it a little. I didn't expect that there would be so many trophies!" Michelle sighed.

"Stop talking like that, let's wipe it quickly! There are so many trophies that can't be wiped by Ron alone! Filch is deliberately making things difficult." Nidia spoke, holding on to her hands The work has not stopped.

"Ugh..." Ron, who had stopped spitting out slugs, suddenly spit out another slug. Although it was not big, the mucus stained the medal he had wiped before.

"Oh my God! I asked you to sit aside and take a rest. If you keep spitting slugs on the medals like this, we may never be able to finish this job in our lifetime." Michelle looked at the slug-stricken man with some disgust. The medal was stained with mucus. After much hesitation, I took it over and wiped off the mucus with a rag. "Award for special contribution to the school? There is such a medal? What kind of special contribution is it!"

"Who is the winner?" Nitya asked curiously.

"Tom Riddle!"

"What?" The name Michelle read out surprised Nitya.

"Riddle? Why does this last name seem familiar!" Michelle thought about it carefully, "By the way, isn't this you..."

"Shh!" Nitya quickly motioned for Michelle to lower her voice.

"What's wrong? Did you find anything?" Ron, who was sitting aside to rest, asked weakly. He spit out some more small slugs.

"It's nothing, I just saw a strange name. You should have a good rest!" Nidia replied.

"Oh my god! Is this...?" Michelle said softly.

"It can't be wrong! He was also a student of Hogwarts before!" Nydia looked at the trophy carefully.

"He actually won the school's special contribution award! What did he do?" Michelle said incredulously.

"I don't know. Few people know what he was like when he was in school, but he must have done something remarkable for the school to award him this award. Does this mean that he was also a good person in the past?" Nitya said emotionally. Somewhat excited, she carefully wiped the medal again.

"This...maybe...maybe...it happened! But the things he did later..." Michelle hesitated to speak.

"I know that even if he was a good person in the past, it can't offset the bad things he did later. But... I just assumed that maybe he still had a little bit of kindness in his heart!" Nidia said expectantly.

"I don't know how to answer your question." Michelle couldn't bear to break Nitya's dream.

Nidia didn't say anything anymore, she just held the medal and wiped it again and again like a demon. When Ron saw this, he thought it was because the slug mucus was too difficult to wipe off, so Nidia wiped it with a medal so many times. He felt guilty and apologized repeatedly.

"Hey! Nidia, there may be another thing here that interests you." Michelle placed a medal in front of Nidia.

"The Outstanding Moral Award! It's his again!" Nitya said excitedly. "You see, excellent moral character, this proves that he was once a person with excellent moral character."

Michelle didn't know how to comment, so she just nodded perfunctorily and continued to wipe other trophies. Nitya suddenly had the motivation to wipe the trophies again. While wiping various trophies and medals, she looked for any honors he had received. In the end, although she didn't find any more trophies or medals, she saw Tom Riddle's name on a list of boys' student union presidents.

"It seems that it's a tradition in schools to be judgmental about people! No wonder people like Quirrell and Lockhart come in as professors!" Michelle sighed.

"Don't say that. Maybe it was because of what he experienced later that he changed."

"Do you know? The tone you speak now is particularly like the way Hermione defended Lockhart!" Seeing Nydia looking happily at the honors belonging to Tom Riddle, Michelle felt helpless, "School Why not destroy these things?"

When leaving the showroom, Nydia placed Tom Riddle's medal in a correct position, and then tried again and again to adjust it to a better angle. Her move caused Ron to complain repeatedly, saying that only wiping the contents of the confinement was not enough. Includes display.