[HP Doujin] 1943

Chapter 17 Graduation Season

At the end of August 1945, we returned to gloomy London in pouring rain.Standing in front of the rain-soaked and blurred lattice window, looking up at the gloomy sky, I thought of the blue and clear sky of Athens, and it felt like a world away.

On the day of returning to school, the weather was not bad, the sun shone lightly on the square on the street, and there was a weak wind.My father called a Muggle taxi to take me to King's Cross.

"Hey, Lizzie." He helped me move my luggage out of the trunk of the car, patted the dust off my clothes, and said to me a little awkwardly, "I hope... er, I hope you are in Hogwarts. Everything went well for the last year."

"Thank you." I said dryly.

"Prepare for the NEWTs," he said, as if searching for the right words, "if you still want to... well, we should go to the station."

"It's okay, Dad," I said, turning my head to stare at him with a big smile. "I always wanted to be a good therapist, just like you were."

He looked at me, there seemed to be some moisture in his pale blue eyes.I seemed to see in his face the figure of the young and handsome healer in the light green robe, who had not been drained by my mother.

We walked through the wall between platforms 9 and 10, and onto the steamy platform, the hooting of owls and toads, the slapstick and screaming of younger students.

I said goodbye to my father briefly, climbed awkwardly into the car, and pushed the luggage to find the Ravenclaw seventh years.I made my way through a group of chattering second-grade girls and made my way to the rear of the train.

"Lizzie!" Ida Woodson poked her head out of a door and waved me happily.She went to Spain with her family during the summer vacation. Her skin was tanned and her hair was cut short. She looked much prettier.

I was about to walk over when the group of noisy girls behind me suddenly fell silent.I turned around and saw four or five tall and burly Slytherin senior boys standing there.Most of them are in seventh grade, and some are in fifth and sixth grade.I've seen them, but can't pronounce their names.

The boys moved aside, and Tom Riddle squeezed out from behind and came up to me.He had already changed into a black school robe, tall and straight, with a hint of a smile in his dark eyes.I noticed that he had the Boys Council President badge pinned to his chest.

After Tony graduated, Tom became the new Head of Boys, which was totally expected.

Tom leaned down slightly, stretched out his hands habitually and pulled my hair scattered on my shoulders to my back, and said, "Come and sit in our car."

"What?" I stared at him, thinking he was joking.

After spending so much time with Tom, I gradually developed two survival instincts.If you don't want to die, first, don't deal with those people in his circle, and second, don't bother with his so-called "business".

I looked over his shoulder and saw the group of junior girls staring at Tom's back, poking each other's arms, giggling and jumping back to their own cars.

"I'll go talk to Ada." I said, turned around and walked towards Ada who looked surprised.Chris, Carl and Suzie are all in her car.

"I'm sorry, Ada," I said, "today I'm sitting with Tom...well, I mean, Riddle."

Ada was still staring blankly at the group of Slytherins behind me, with an expression of disbelief in her eyes.

"He's the most dangerous student in Slytherin," she said, trying to sound normal. "Margaret got into Azkaban because of him."

I see both Carl and Chris looking up at me.Avoiding their eyes, I said to Ada, "I'm sorry. See you later."

I was sitting next to Tom that afternoon, and the whole car was full of students from the gang who were devoted to him.Tom first introduced me to Lestrange, Avery, Rozier.They all nodded silently as Sylvia introduced them to me, with guarded and curious expressions on their faces.

"My sister Walburga has graduated. She didn't join," Sylvia told me, disdainfully. "That's my cousin, Orion Black, in fifth grade."

A tall, thin boy with dark hair and black eyes like Blake's nodded indifferently to me.

"Don't you have a younger brother?" I asked.

"Alphad?" Sylvia snorted. "He's not here. He's a useless idiot."

She took a sip of the pumpkin juice, turned and sat in the back row of seats.

I've seen Alphard.Alphard is also in the fourth grade.He also had Blake's black hair and eyes, and had a very bright, open smile, unlike Orion, who was always young and old with a sad face.I heard that the relationship between the two cousins ​​was pretty good when they first entered the school, but now they are at a standstill.

At the start-of-term banquet, I walked over to the Ravenclaw table, found Ada, Chris and Carl, and sat down in the empty seat opposite Ada.

"I hope they sort quickly," I said. "I'm so hungry."

To my surprise, Ada just took one look at me and said stiffly, "Oh, yeah."

Chris and Carl also looked weird.They glanced at me occasionally, as if they were looking at a different kind of person.This stiff and weird atmosphere lasted until the end of the banquet. I stood up and waited for Ada to go back to the dormitory together, but she left with Olive.

"Excuse me," she said to me as she passed me, "Olivy and I have to discuss some homework, so we're leaving."

"What's the matter?" I finally couldn't help it, and shouted at her back, "Just because I didn't sit with you on the train, have you decided not to be friends with me anymore?"

Surrounded by the noise of students leaving the auditorium, my voice was drowned out by the crowd.

"Hey," Carl said, coming up to me, rather awkwardly, "it's not really like that, Lizzie. She's terribly afraid of Tom Riddle and his Slytherin gang."

I looked at him and said, "You too?"

Carl shrugged frankly and said, "That's right, me too. In fact, most of the people in our academy are. There are many things that the teachers don't know, but there are rumors circulating among the students. That gang from Riddle It's different from the group under Malfoy in the past. They never show off, they don't make it public, they are polite in front of teachers and classmates, and no one knows who is a member and who is not. They never leave any behind. Evidence and trails. They are scary."

At this time, we walked out of the Great Hall with the flow of people and walked towards the Ravenclaw Tower.

"How can you be sure that group exists when there's no evidence?" I asked.

Carl smiled: "Everyone knows. As long as someone provokes them, it will be bad luck for a while. No one knows who did it. They are like an invisible black network covering the entire school. Li You also know about Del's tricks, the whole Slytherin is controlled by him, who knows how he scares others in the common room, Riddle keeps everyone's mouth firmly under control."

"But those are just rumors," I said.

"Who do you think Marguerite learned the Cruciatus Curse from?" Carl said to me in a low voice, looking around as if he was afraid that someone might be eavesdropping on us, "and Myrtle, do you think Was her death an accident?"

"Didn't the accident in the Chamber of Secrets be caused by Rupert Hagrid?" I asked, pretending to know nothing.

Carl laughed and shook his head.Now we followed a group of third-year students up a long stone staircase, through a dark corridor lit with torches on both sides, and came to the wooden door with an eagle-beaked buckle.

Carl pulled me behind a pair of armor, waiting for all the students in front to disappear behind the wooden door.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Trust me, you don't want to discuss topics like the Riddle gang in a crowded common room." Carl said blankly. "The school is full of eyes and ears."

After a while, he was sure that there was no one around, so he turned his head to look at me, and said seriously: "Lizzie, you know, Riddle has brought darkness and panic to people, I can't order you to do anything, but I Swear to Merlin, as a real Ravenclaw, I will never, never join Riddle's gang. If you are also one of them, then not only Ada, but also my friendship with you That's it for now."

I was silent for a moment, then I raised my head suddenly, with an unfathomable smile on the corner of my mouth: "Aren't you afraid that I'll tell him everything you said?"

Carl shuddered.

In terms of scaring ability, after staying with Tom for a period of time, no matter how dull a person is, he will improve to some extent.

He stared at me with wide eyes, as if he had never seen me before.I laughed lightly, lifted the robe on my arm, and stretched out my left forearm to his eyes.

For a moment, he seemed too frightened to speak.The soft moonlight fell from the high glass windows, illuminating the fair skin on my forearm, which was smooth and flawless.

"I...I thought..." he stammered, a drop of cold sweat dripping from his head.

I know that there have always been dark rumors in the school that Riddle would imprint a terrible mark on the arms of his followers.

"Thought I'd have a mark on my hand?" I said, very softly. "No, I didn't. I didn't join his organization, but I could still stand by his side. Do you know why?"

Carl stared at me pale, like I was crazy.

"Because I'm not his follower. I'm his lover."

After speaking, I gave him a bright smile, shook off my sleeves, got out of the shadow of the armor, and walked to the Ravenclaw common room.

Followers follow interests, lovers follow love.Interests change rapidly with time, and love becomes richer with time.Interests are always affected by power, status, and money, and love, as long as you are still you and I am still me, it will always be here.

However, at that time, I was only 17 years old after all, and I was not deeply involved in the world, so I had such thoughts and said such words.

Back then I didn't understand the difference between a man and a woman.The tragedy of many women's lives is that it is impossible for them to change the nature of a man, no matter how much they love each other.A man is always buried with the career that a woman gave him, and a woman, she is firmly buried with all her dreams and the love she gave her all her life.

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