Hogwarts: This Dark Lord is so evil

“You fellow, why are you still being mysterious?” Tom took the Resurrection Stone and looked at it in his hand. “How do you turn it again?”

“Hold it in your hand and turn it three times…”

Tom pinched the Resurrection Stone, but before he could start turning it, his eyes widened.

Because he discovered that mist was constantly emerging around him!

“Huh? It's starting?” Seeing Tom's reaction, Leavede asked in surprise.

“Yeah! It's starting…” Tom was a little flustered.

But thinking that Leavede hadn't been in any danger just now, he forcibly maintained his composure.

Leavede was a little surprised. According to the records in *The Tales of Beedle the Bard*, it really needed to be turned three times to take effect.

Otherwise, in the original timeline, Tom wouldn't have possessed the ring for several years without discovering the wonders of the Resurrection Stone.

But now, Tom had just gotten his hands on it, and the Resurrection Stone had already started to work?

At this moment, Tom stared intently at the mist, constantly on guard.

Suddenly, from behind him, came a call.

“Tom? Is that you?”

All of Tom's muscles tensed up.

Because the one calling his name was not Leavede next to him, but a woman's voice!

Tom slowly turned his head, and then he froze.

He saw a raggedly dressed, ordinary-looking woman standing in front of him… The person who had just called his name was also her!

“You… Were you the one who called my name just now? Who are you?”

Tom turned his head and said to Leavede in surprise, “Did you see that? There's a woman here!”

“Tom… I'm your mother…”

Hearing this, Tom suddenly turned his head to look at the woman.

“You… But… How is this possible? Aren't you already… dead? Are you a ghost?”

“I am indeed dead, but you have summoned me back again.” Merope paused for a moment, a strange look in her eyes as she looked at Tom. “Tom… My wish has come true, you… You look so much like him…”

“Pa!” Tom threw the Resurrection Stone hard onto the table.

As the Resurrection Stone left his hand, Merope's figure suddenly disappeared.

“What exactly is going on? What exactly is going on?” Tom gasped for breath, repeating this question, then stared fixedly at Leavede.

“That's the magic on this stone, Tom… It allows you to see the person you want to resurrect.” Leavede looked at Tom, his eyes a little complicated. “So… you want to resurrect your mother?”

“No… I didn't…” Tom denied it outright.

He looked up at Leavede again, “Did you also see your relatives?”

“Me? Well… Unfortunately, I don't have anyone I want to resurrect…” Leavede replied calmly.

Tom only felt that Leavede didn't want to tell him. If he hadn't seen anything, how would he know that the magic of this stone was to summon the dead?

Leavede looked at the Resurrection Stone lying quietly on the table, “What did your mother say to you? Why did you throw the stone away?”

This time, Tom was silent for a long time before he said softly, “Leavede… When she saw me, the first thing she said was that coward! She doesn't even care if I've been doing well these years! Her… Her eyes are always only on that coward!”

“Moreover, don't you think she's too selfish? I… I don't want to grow up in an orphanage at all. Since she didn't want to live, why did she give birth to me?”

Leavede silently picked up the Resurrection Stone and put it back into Tom's hand, “Since you want to know the answer, why don't you take this opportunity to ask her yourself?”

Tom looked at the Resurrection Stone in his hand, then turned to look at the corner just now.

Sure enough, Merope appeared there again.

At this time, her face was full of sadness.

“Child, are you unwilling to see me again?” Merope said sadly.

Tom silently looked at Merope, not answering her, and after a moment he turned to look at Leavede, “Is she real?”

Leavede shook his head, “I don't know either. Moreover, only the person holding the stone can see.”

If it was before, he might have said it was fake, but… Tom clearly didn't turn the Resurrection Stone, but Merope appeared, so it's hard to say…

Tom turned to look at Merope, “Whether you're real or fake, you've disappointed me… Mother. How could you leave me in an orphanage and die alone? Have you never thought about me?”

Merope's lips trembled, “I… I couldn't help it… I was already desperate at that time… I couldn't… I couldn't live anymore. I was about to die, Tom… I had no will to continue living…”

Tom said angrily, “Then why couldn't you generate even a little bit of will to survive for me? Or are you saying that in your eyes, I'm just a burden? A burden? How great… After throwing me, this burden, away, you could die in peace, right?”

“No… No… My love for you is no less! It's just that I was already exhausted at that time. I used all my strength to give birth to you, and then I did my best to arrange a place for you to go… I just wanted you to have a place to stay after I died…”

Merope walked over with a sad face, reaching out to stroke Tom's cheek.

However, Tom tilted his head to avoid it.

“Arrange a place to go… Are you referring to throwing me in an orphanage? Eleven years! I stayed in an orphanage for eleven years! Do you know how I spent these eleven years? If I hadn't awakened my ability as a wizard, do you know how dark my future would be? I hate that place… Mother! If I had a choice, I would rather never have been born!”

In Tom's heart, there had always been a faint dissatisfaction with his mother.

And after visiting the Riddell family, Tom's dissatisfaction with his mother could be said to have reached its peak.

After returning, he had secretly thought in his heart, what if his mother hadn't died in front of the orphanage?

If he had grown up under his mother's care…

What would that be like?

Tom was sure that if he had known he was a wizard earlier, and had been exposed to magic earlier.

Then with his ability, he could definitely make both mother and son live well! At least food and clothing would not be a problem!

Even if he couldn't use magic to commit crimes, would it be difficult to use magic to get some food and clothing?

That way, he wouldn't have started so late…

At the very least, he wouldn't be in the orphanage, not knowing anything, and then being stepped on by Leavede…

No mistake, one first, one hair, one inside, one content, one look!

Merope said apologetically, sadly and weakly, “I'm sorry… child… I'm sorry, I… I don't expect you to forgive me, but… at least, let me see you one more time.”

Tom took a deep breath, “Enough… Really enough…”

After taking one last deep look at his mother, he put the Resurrection Stone back on the table.

As the Resurrection Stone was put down, Merope's figure disappeared from the house.

He raised his head and looked at Leavede, who had been staying on the side without saying a word, “This stone… You take it, I… I don't want it.”

Leavede looked at Tom in surprise, “Why bother? Tom… Since you can see your mother, it proves that you want to resurrect her, which means that you don't have no feelings for her at all…”

“Is that so? I don't know either… But, I don't want to see her again…” After Tom finished speaking, he didn't look at the Resurrection Stone again, and turned to go upstairs.

“Tom… Even if you don't want to see your mother again, don't you want this Gaunt family ring anymore? Isn't this your family heirloom?” Leavede picked up the Resurrection Stone and asked.

“I don't want it anymore… That's still the Gaunt family's thing after all! In the future, I will naturally have something belonging to my own family to pass down! Starting from my generation!” Tom said, going upstairs without turning his head.

“Tsk tsk, young man, still too impulsive.” Leavede said with emotion, his gaze returning to the Resurrection Stone in his hand.

Although he didn't know what accident had just happened that caused Tom to have an abnormality when holding the Resurrection Stone.

But there was no doubt that the Resurrection Stone was indeed a good thing.

According to Leavede's memory, Grindelwald had also thought about collecting the Deathly Hallows, and his purpose in collecting the Resurrection Stone seemed to be to create an army of Inferi.

In other words, this thing can also create Inferi?

Leavede remained skeptical about this, because there was no record of this in *The Tales of Beedle the Bard*.

Thinking of this, Leavede ran back to his room, and from the bookshelf, he took out a copy of *The Tales of Beedle the Bard*.

This was something he had bought out of curiosity before, and now, it came in handy.

He looked at the inscription “Peverell” on the Resurrection Stone, and conveniently flipped the storybook to the page of *The Tale of the Three Brothers*.

Immediately afterwards, he put down the Resurrection Stone, then took out a piece of parchment and began to write a letter.

After he finished writing, he called Toby over and handed him the letter.

“Give the letter to Professor Dumbledore, you know where he is now.”

…

Dumbledore was originally busy in his office at Hogwarts Castle.

However, Leavede sent him a letter through a house-elf.

Dumbledore had originally thought it was just some trivial matter.

But after reading the letter, Dumbledore directly dropped his current work, and then at the fastest speed, came directly from the fireplace in his office to Leavede's safe house!

Resurrection Stone!

The Resurrection Stone, one of the Deathly Hallows!

The Deathly Hallows had great significance for both him and Grindelwald.

If Grindelwald most wanted the Elder Wand among the Deathly Hallows, then the Deathly Hallow he most wanted was the Resurrection Stone…

He dreamed of seeing his sister and his parents again…

And then saying to them in person…

I'm sorry!