the Gambler

The ancient magic text classroom is two corners past the water drop monster stone statue on the seventh floor. Harry has never been there before. He remembers that Hermione took this course. The witch said that this is a really fascinating movie. subject.In fact, Harry would not have liked the subject at all. Runes seemed to him to be all kinds of twisted lines, and it was difficult for him to distinguish them, let alone study them with Tom.Yep, Harry didn't take that subject, he took that nasty bastard.

Professor Babling is a beautiful witch with water-blue eyes, a small and delicate face, and waist-length blond curly hair tied with a blue ribbon.Harry was in a hurry, and the moving ladder on the sixth floor took time to play with him for a while. By the time he got to the classroom, it was already 3 minutes into class.

"Mr. Potter, I'm glad you caught up." Professor Babling said with a thick Swedish accent. Her smile quickly relieved Harry's nervousness. The boy swept across the classroom and saw Hermione waving to him. Then he walked over with strides until he was interrupted by the professor again.

"Students in Rune have always been singular, Mr. Potter. You need to partner with Mr. Riddle," Professor Babbling smiled at Harry's horrified gaze, "Mr. Riddle is the best in our class, I hope This cooperation can improve your performance, after all, it is difficult for beginners to keep up with the progress quickly."

Harry wrinkled his nose away from the professor.Tom, who was sitting in the middle of the classroom, raised the corners of his mouth and promised the witch with a sincere smile on his face: "Harry and I have always had a good relationship, and I am happy to help him with tutoring."

Babling clapped her hands happily: "That's really great." She reached out her hand to signal Harry to take a seat quickly, then turned around and wrote down the goals for this year on the blackboard, "I want to see you design or improve an interesting magic trick this semester. Curse, you can go to the library to collect relevant materials, and the restricted//book area will also relax permissions, my dear Alma and I have already said hello."

"This is a long-term project. I hope you can cooperate happily. Just choose your partner." Professor Babling winked at Tom and Hermione. "I look forward to your two groups' in-depth research on the topic."

"I will definitely live up to your expectations!" Hermione said happily, she has always liked ancient runes, especially the professor also recognized her.Harry couldn't help but marvel at the witch's cleverness. Considering that almost all the students who took this course were Ravenclaws, Hermione still occupied the top student position.Sometimes Harry really doubts that something wrong with the Sorting Hat will throw the perfect schoolmaster into Gryffindor, but the witch also deserves the evaluation of bravery.

"I will work hard." Tom got up and bowed to the witch.Harry sniffed.

"Looks like we're going to have to spend more time together," Tom said in a low voice, handing Harry a large rune from the book on parchment, who looked so bewildered that Tom had to explain, "This is the most basic vocabulary. I wrote the notes later. You need to refer to the magic word dictionary. If the translation is correct, the notes will appear on paper."

Harry clenched his fist. It looked like a second grade diary.He couldn't help asking: "You invented it yourself?"

"I was interested and tried it last year." Tom shrugged, as if inventing a magic spell was an easy thing to do.

"Then let's talk about this year's project. What good ideas do you have? Or which field are you more interested in?" Harry changed the subject. He didn't want to be reminded of the fact that Tom in the diary was 16 years old. happy memories.

"Time travel."

Harry bit his lower lip and thought for a while. He could understand Tom's thoughts, but it seemed difficult. The Department of Mysteries has not yet been able to research a method for people to travel to the past or future across nearly 50 years. According to history books Almost all time travels in time travel unintentionally trigger some magical items, and there are more people who go there without returning, and are decapitated in different places. This is why time travel has always been mysterious.Harry refuted Tom's idea: "I think this is too dangerous, and we are not good at experimenting."

"Then what do you want to do?"

"The soul mate ceremony." Harry thought for a while before speaking, "The principal said that the ceremony should be two-way. Generally, in order not to destroy the timeline, the magic power should take me to the past instead of taking you to the future."

Tom was intrigued, and he closed the ancient runes textbook, focusing entirely on Harry: "You want the ceremony to be a real two-way?"

"To a certain extent, considering that you already exist in this time and space, I think this can become a convenient way to move in space, similar to apparation." Harry opened the dictionary and carefully compared the solution. Most of it already showed Tom's notes, which made him feel a little proud in his chest.

"It's a good suggestion indeed, and it belongs to the two of us alone," Tom tilted his head to watch Harry's progress. "Only soul mates will respond to that ceremony. I like this."

"Then the subject is settled?"

"I'll explain it to Professor Babling." Tom pulled out another piece of parchment, and Harry watched him draw a lot of weird patterns on it.Tom chose the ring in the end, although Harry didn't understand what he wanted to do.Noticing the boy's confusion, Tom explained: "If it succeeds, I want to engrave the rune on the inner wall of the ring, one for you and one for me, so that we can quickly appear beside each other in any situation."

A strange warmth filled Harry's body, Tom's performance made him feel loved, the boy shook his head to shake off the strange thought, this is Tom Riddle, the young Dark Lord, no matter what excuse he used, he behavior has a specific purpose.He doesn't care about you at all, Harry reminded himself, he just wants to control you.

Harry forcefully inserted the quill// into the parchment, and a large drop of ink spread out. Tom wiped off the ink and looked at Harry suspiciously.The little boy shrugged. He filled the quill with ink and re-wrote the answer. Soon the entire parchment was filled with dense words.Harry stuffed the homework into Tom's arms, and the latter showed a satisfied smile: "You are smarter than I thought, and after a few more exercises like this, we can start the research of the project."

"I can't guarantee how much force I will use." Harry threw the quill into the ink bottle, and the tip of the pen hit the glass with a crisp sound, "Beautiful throw! Gryffindor scored a goal!"

Tom raised his eyebrows: "You always talk to yourself like this?"

Harry choked back, "It's better than talking to yourself."

Tom ignored Harry again, he raised his hand to call Professor Babling over, and explained the general situation. The witch was very interested in this subject, although she didn't understand why Tom emphasized that only Harry and him could use it, Slytherin assured It will be well explained after the project is completed.

"There are no classes in the afternoon, so I suggest going to the library to stay? It's better to end early, you seem eager to stay away from me." Tom packed his things and watched Harry slowly roll up the parchment and stuff it into his bag. He tilted his head and asked, "You took my parchment?"

"Of course, it's useful to keep. I can practice a few more times. If necessary, I can give you a new parchment." Harry made a plausible excuse.He didn't really think so.Ha hopes to show Hermione to study that thing, the witch will definitely be very interested in this unknown spell.

"If you really want to know, I can demonstrate it to you. I don't think Granger can research it," Tom poked at Harry's purpose. "She just reads more books and is not that smart in practice. I I'm sure the twins can surpass her." Tom trapped Harry between himself and the table, reached out to retrieve his parchment from the boy's bag, and smiled smugly at Harry, "Don't look at me like that, aren't you serious? Learners, find a better excuse next time. In fact, I'd rather you just ask me."

"Then let's hurry up." Harry grabbed Tom and dragged him to the Hufflepuff lounge, where there was a portrait full of fruits, Harry scratched the giggling pear, and the portrait spun The door opening at the back is exposed, and the aroma of food is constantly coming out of it.Tom followed Harry into the kitchen without saying a word, though he was eager to ask Harry how he had found out about it.

As soon as Harry walked into the kitchen, Dobby rushed up to the boy excitedly. He wore six or seven woolen hats on his head, a tan teacup cover on his body, and two socks of different colors on his feet. Just bright red and one brilliant gold.Dobby's spirit was much better than the last time he saw it, and Harry could see the joy that could not be concealed in the other's huge, shining eyes.

"Good morning, Dobby, you look good," Harry said.

"Great Mr. Harry Potter!" Dobby exclaimed happily. "Dobby didn't expect to meet Mr. Harry Potter here! He even said hello to Dobby! Dobby was very happy! Dobby was very happy." Good, sir!"

"I wanted to come over to check on you after the DA accident, but I never found the time." Harry lied, and seeing the big tears that were about to overflow from Dobby's eyes, he hurriedly added, "Don't cry, Dobby !"

"The kind sir is very concerned about Dobby's situation. Dobby knows that sir is the greatest wizard!" Dobby lifted his clothes and blew his nose violently, making a snort. Elbow bumped Harry to signal the other party to explain his purpose and get out of here quickly.

"Actually, I have a small request." Harry said, looking at Dobby who had readjusted his emotions, "Marvolo and I have an important project to do, and we want to finish it early so we can't go to the auditorium for dinner. I don't know if you can-"

Dobby cut Harry off with a shriek, and almost at the same moment all the elves gathered around the two of them, all carrying all kinds of delicious food in their hands.Harry nodded gratefully, a little too much for him to resist the enthusiasm of the elves.He struggled for a while, stuffing some from each plate into his stretch pocket.

Dobby lowered his head and kept rubbing his fingers on the teacup cover, obviously wanting to say something.Harry had no choice but to open the topic first: "You can tell me, Dobby, aren't we friends?"

"Mr. Harry Potter regards Dobby as a friend!" The elf began to cry again, Harry twitched the corner of his mouth, he silently waited for the other party to finish crying, and Dobby looked up again, "Winky is very bad, sir She's drinking every day, she doesn't want to work and she doesn't want to get paid." The elves around suddenly lowered their faces, and they looked at Dobby as if they were watching the plague, and dispersed.

"Are you still getting paid?" Tom asked in disbelief, and was slapped hard by Harry.

"Dobby loves freedom, Mr. Riddle, and Dobby is happy with salary and holidays, but Winky is unhappy—"

"She wants to have a master." Tom immediately understood that Dobby was special. Those house-elves like to be bound to the family, and Winky is no exception, although he has an intuition that the story in the middle must have something to do with Harry .It seems that all the inexplicable things have something to do with the boy.

"I can't help him, Dobby," said Harry helplessly. "I can't provide her with a master."

"Why don't you just bind her to you?" Tom said suddenly, "You are the future head of the Potter family. After inheriting the title, you can bind Winky to the Potter family, and she will feel much better. Of course, you You can continue to pay her wages."

"I--"

"This is really good, sir!" Dobby pulled the drunken Winky out of the corner, her eyes still red and swollen, and burped at Dobby, and the strong smell made Tom frown.

"You need to stop drinking, Winky." Tom said seriously. If the other party was going to be Harry's house-elf, she had to be conscientious.Tom also needed someone who would watch over Harry's safety, "Harry is willing to bind you to the Potter family."