Being a bastard at Hogwarts is not safe.

When Tom Riddle saw Mrs. Cole, whose face was sinking like water, a bad premonition filled his heart inexplicably.

Mrs. Cole looked Tom Riddle up and down, and suddenly said: "Tom, did you leave the room last night?"

Tom Riddle was startled when he heard that, and then said with a pale face: "Mrs. Cole, I never left the room, and I didn't do what happened to Frank Rabbit."

After pondering for a moment, Mrs. Cole nodded, turned her back to Tom Riddle, and said in a strange tone, "Yeah, I don't think it's you, and I don't think you can do it either.

It can be said that, the rabbit will not hang itself on the beam, let alone you and Frank yesterday..."

Mrs. Cole didn't finish speaking, but Tom Riddle had already understood what she meant, and his face became even uglier, so he could only keep silent.

He didn't like to talk very much, but he was still a child after all, what happened now was too similar to his dream last night, so he said something in a moment of panic.

"Well, I can't figure out who climbed up there to do it. Stay away from Frank today. His rabbit died, and you just had a fight with him yesterday."

Mrs. Cole turned around, took a deep look at him, and said, "It's time for you to get up and go to dinner, and the meal time will be over if you are later."

Tom Riddle sat on the bed in a daze, watched Mrs. Cole walk out of the room, and lowered his head in thought.

This is not the first time he has dreamed of such a strange dream, and even since he was a child, strange things often happened around him, but it is the first time that this kind of dream is reflected in reality today.

Even he himself did not believe that such a coincidence would happen!

If this matter is not handled well, everyone in the orphanage will isolate him. Although he doesn't want to stay with those idiots, it is not Tom Riddle's wish to bear these grievances for nothing.

He had no other thoughts in his mind at the moment. After packing up and getting up from the bed, he only wanted to figure out the matter, but the news spread throughout the Wall Orphanage in a very short period of time.

The eyes of everyone looking at Tom Riddle also changed again.

"Tom Riddle has appeared!"

"Shh, keep your voice down, be careful he kills your pets too!"

"Hiss, he actually did such a cruel thing. I heard that he was talking to the snake in the yard yesterday. He must be a cold-blooded animal just like the snake."

......

Brian stands in the perspective of Tom Riddle and experiences everything he experienced in childhood. Frank's rabbit is just the beginning, far from the end.He saw people go from alienation to fear, and he saw Mrs. Cole go from kindness to panic to numbness.

From the moment Frank's rabbit was hung from the beam, Tom Riddle's world became a lonely gray.After several things happened, no one wanted to stay with him anymore, and Tom was alone in endless doubts about himself every day, until Dumbledore appeared.

bang bang

"Tom? Someone's coming to see you. This is Mr. Dumbleton—I'm sorry, it's Mr. Dumbledore. He's coming to tell you—well, let him tell you himself."

Mrs. Cole opened the door on the third floor, and Dumbledore walked into the empty room. He didn't look much different from now, maybe only the color of his hair was darker than now.

"Hello, Tom." Dumbledore said, stepped forward and held out his hand.

Tom Riddle hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his hand to shake it, then quickly took it back.

Dumbledore pulled the hard wooden chair to Riddle and sat on it. With a kind smile on his face, he said, "I am Professor Dumbledore."

"'Professor'?" Tom Riddle repeated, looking at Dumbledore alertly, leaning back against the wall. "Is it like a 'doctor'? What are you doing here? Did she ask you to check me up?"

"No, it's not," said Dumbledore, smiling.

"I don't believe you." Tom Riddle said, "Several people like you have come here, did she ask you to see me? Tell the truth!"

Dumbledore didn't answer, but continued to smile kindly.

Tom Riddle looked at Dumbledore, and then looked away quickly.

"who are you?"

"I've told you. I'm Professor Dumbledore, and I work at a school called Hogwarts. I've come to invite you to study at Hogwarts—your new school, if you'd like if."

Riddle jumped up from the bed, stepped back and left Dumbledore, with an inexplicable premonition in his heart, he said in a deep voice:

"You don't try to lie to me, you must be from the madhouse, don't you? 'Professor', huh, yes - tell you, I won't go, understand? She's been trying to send me to The madhouse is gone.

I have nothing to do with the Frank Rabbit thing, really, and I don't care about little Amy, Benson, or Dennis Bishop.

I don't know what's going on, I don't know anything!

I'm not going to Hogwarts or anything, never! "

"I'm not from the madhouse," said Dumbledore, smiling, "I'm a teacher, and if you'll sit down calmly, I'll tell you about Hogwarts. Of course, if you don't If you are willing to go to that school, no one will force you—"

"I said I don't want to!"

"Hogwarts," continued Dumbledore, "is a school for exceptionally gifted people."

"This joke is not funny at all... As I said, I'm not crazy."

"I've met your mother, she hopes you can come with me to study at Hogwarts!"

"How many times do you want me to repeat it! I said I won't..." Tom Riddle roared loudly, suddenly he stopped and looked at the old man in disbelief, his lips moved for a long time Only then said in a low voice: "My mother?"

"Yes!"

Tom Riddle couldn't help but trembled, and said, "Who is he? Why didn't he come to me..."

"Your mother is not ready to meet you yet, and at the same time she begged me not to tell you everything about her." Dumbledore said calmly, "I agree."

Tom Riddle was silent for a moment, and asked, "Tell me about that Hogwarts."

There was no expression on Dumbledore's face, his eyes glanced at Tom Riddle several times, stopped on Tom Riddle's face, and said: "Of course, that's why I'm here.

But before that, I'm very interested in Frank's rabbit, and little Amy, Benson and Dennis, Bishop. "

He looked at Tom Riddle's eyes with a deep blue light.