war and peace

Ravenclaw's tactics were the same as Harry remembered.Cho Chang seemed determined to fly with Harry, hovering around him all the time, blocking his view.It should be said that they adopted the correct tactics, but Harry had seen this method before.If Qiu followed too closely, he would rise all the way up, then dive suddenly, and then turn the broom head and take off when he was almost on the ground.Cho's broom could not keep up with the speed of Harry's Firebolt, and several times she almost hit the ground.

So when Harry charged down again, she couldn't tell whether it was Ronski's feint or if Harry had actually seen the Snitch, and hesitated between following and stopping.But just as she was discerning, Harry had caught the little ball with the fluttering silver wings.The final score was 180 to forty.

As soon as the whistle sounded for the end of the game, all the members of the Gryffindor Quidditch team rushed towards Harry, many hands clapped him, and a group of people fell to the ground in a huddle.

"Well done, Harry!" said Fred and George in unison, with big smiles on their faces.

"The recent competitions have been won so quickly! It's unbelievable!" Angelina looked at Harry excitedly, "It's so fun!" There were three girls in the team, she, Alia, and Katie all kissed Harry.

"Very good!" Wood was obviously the most excited among them, because he seemed to want to rub Harry's whole body into his arms, "If I remember correctly, in the last match against Hufflepuff , they are going to win the Quidditch Cup, unless they can lead us by 180 points-let me put it bluntly, it is almost impossible-" Wood stared at Harry with a fanatical look, "You certainly won't let this That sort of thing happens, doesn't it, Harry?"

"Okay, Oliver, that's for the future too! That's not the important thing now, we won! We won!" the twin brothers emphasized loudly. "We should celebrate now! Come on, Harry, party! Greg The Lanffindor common room!"

Harry didn't know who to answer first, as a steady stream of scarlet-clad supporters came over the fence to congratulate him or praise his performance.The idea of ​​the Weasley brothers immediately got everyone's response. They surrounded Harry tightly and walked towards the castle mightily.During this process, Harry kept looking for a familiar figure in the crowd, but that person certainly did not like to be with a group of crazy Gryffindor lions-Tom remained in the stands, showing him A rare smile.

Time passed quickly in a cheerful atmosphere, and a new Hogsmeade weekend notice was posted on the bulletin board.

"It's just in time, I need to buy some toad mints... Crookshanks seems to like this taste very much!" said Hermione, when the three of them had left near the bulletin board and sat at a round table in the corner of the common room down.

Harry nodded, took out his quill, and began to write a short note. "Sirius asked about Hogsmeade's weekend time, and he has something to tell me." And from the letter, it seemed that his godfather seemed troubled and hadn't slept well recently.Harry guessed there was a special reason, because Sirius insisted on speaking with him in person.He quickly finished writing the letter, then rolled it up and tied it to Hedwig's leg, and fed her some corn flakes along the way.The snow-white owl pecked at his fingers affectionately, and flew out of the window.

"I'm not going," said Tom, with the expression of talking about the weather.

Hermione immediately asked: "Why?" She was a little skeptical, looking back and forth between the two friends, "You haven't had any conflicts recently, have you?"

Harry was helpless immediately.Hermione's outspokenness always made him feel a little embarrassed, which seemed to have nothing to do with the subject.But Voldemort didn't want to go, which probably has something to do with what happened after Hogsmeade came back last time.Harry thought back on his behavior at that time with rare embarrassment.He turned to Tom to read in his face whether it was that.

"No." Hearing Hermione's guess, Tom had a smile on his face. "There are too many people, I don't like it, that's all." Why does this Muggle girl make him so happy every time she says something?

Harry didn't know what "too many people" meant at this point.It wasn't until Saturday when he and Hermione arrived at the wizarding village with the crowd that he finally understood the meaning of that sentence.

In Hogsmeade, besides the permitted students, there were many wizards in black robes wandering the streets. "What day is today? These people don't seem to be parents?" Hermione asked suspiciously, "How did Tom know that this would happen?"

Harry pursed his lips, but didn't answer.He could see that it must be the same reason as when Lucius Malfoy came last time.Voldemort's identity was leaked out, at least among the Death Eaters, and more people began to know.Voldemort didn't want to come, which meant that he didn't want to meet these people who had heard the news.As for the reason, he didn't know, but judging from the tone of his parents' previous discussions, things could only go in a good direction-even so, he really wanted to know what Voldemort was doing now!

Since the streets are full of all kinds of wizards, bars like the Three Broomsticks are even more crowded (Harry doubts it is because the old Malfoy found Voldemort here last time, not for the mead of the beautiful proprietress), So Sirius and Harry had to give up the idea of ​​having a good conversation indoors and find another place where no one would be disturbed.Hermione went to Honey Duke, and she and Harry made an appointment to meet at the entrance of the village when they returned.

"No one should come to this place," Sirius led Harry through a path of greenish mud and up a small hill. "I'm glad you can come alone."

"Of course there is no one in the haunted house." Harry replied casually when he saw the dilapidated wooden house that was still cold in summer.He was still wondering what Voldemort could do to get his parents to say something like that, and was a little slow to react to Sirius' extremely solemn tone. "What's the matter?"

Sirius held his shoulders and half bent down so that their eyes were on a level line, facing each other. "Tell me honestly, what's your relationship with Tom?"

Harry was startled suddenly, and a bad premonition came out of him. "This..." he stammered, uncertain whether to tell the truth.But meeting his godfather's worried eyes, Harry realized that he really didn't have the courage to lie: "Is it so...obvious?"

This response is the default.Sirius heaved a long sigh, this was not the worst he expected, at least Harry was willing to confess to him: "I know I might be too much..." He put his hand on Harry's shoulder I tried harder, "But, I have to say this—you have to keep a distance from him, and your Defense Against the Dark Arts professor."

...The Order of the Phoenix also knows about Voldemort's identity?That was the first reaction in Harry's mind.Although I had thought about this possibility, I was still shocked when it was proved.Harry believed that was the expression on his face, because Sirius went on to explain, obviously feeling that Harry was completely unaware: "Dumbledore said that your Professor Roald is probably Voldemort himself; and Tom as his Adopted son, most likely one of the Death Eaters."

"Why? How could he think so?" Harry asked anxiously. What he wanted to know most now was where the Order of the Phoenix came to this conclusion.

"I know this is hard to believe..." Sirius said heavily, "Actually, we can't be sure, because Dumbledore has no definite evidence, but there are clues pointing to this possibility." He began to state one by one, " First, he got the dukedom left by Slytherin; second, he is quite powerful, I heard that he got the most powerful wand produced by Ollivander."

Harry saw the uncertainty right away. "Because Voldemort is the sole heir of Slytherin, so you are so suspicious? The one on the wand is added because of the existence of the previous one?"

"Yes," Sirius quickly admitted, "the wand is indeed a bit far-fetched... But Dumbledore asked Ollivander later, and he said that even someone like Dumbledore might not be able to subdue his dragon palm." Wooden wand. How many wizards in this world are more powerful than Dumbledore? Or about the same level? The returned Voldemort counts as one, and Grinwald is still locked up in Nurmengard! A young man in his twenties, can It's unbelievable to reach this level..."

Harry was silent, his mind racing.From this point of view, Dumbledore's doubts must not be a day or two.But Sirius was only warning him now, certainly not because of his godfather.Apparently, the Death Eaters have become more active recently, and it was only when Dumbledore spoke his mind.Hogsmeade has gathered so many wizards who are extremely likely to be Death Eaters, but Sirius didn't mention it. What's the reason?

But Sirius' next words explain it well. "Also, Harry, I hope this is the last time I see you in Hogsmeade." It was obvious from his words that Hogsmeade was not safe.

"But, it's still hard to imagine..." Harry said slowly, he didn't dare to tell Sirius that their guess was completely correct, he could only try his best to imagine his reaction if he really just heard the news. "Tom is very good to me, and so is Professor Roald...he is the most popular professor at Hogwarts...if he really is Voldemort, can you imagine such a thing?"

Sirius smiled wryly. "You're right, this is the biggest flaw."

How did Voldemort disappear in the first place?Everyone in the wizarding world knows that this is because Voldemort was rebounded by his own spell when he wanted to kill Harry.Now, is it possible that Voldemort cared for Harry?Apart from Avada, there is no other mode of relationship between the Dark Lord and the Savior.But the person who was suspected to be Voldemort did take good care of Harry. Dumbledore also took the opportunity to secretly check the Firebolt he gave Harry, and it turned out to be a lot of advanced protection spells.No black magic, not at all—if it was what they supposed, how would such a thing be explained?

Although Sirius himself was very suspicious, but for the sake of Harry's safety, he wanted to try his best to keep Harry alert to all this - even if Dumbledore forbade the news from spreading, he had to risk the possibility of being discovered by Dumbledore risks of.

"And why do you say that Tom might be a Death Eater? They don't seem to accept such a small one." Harry thought of another question, "I've seen that he doesn't have the Dark Mark on his arm."

"You know the Dark Mark..." Sirius obviously breathed a sigh of relief. Of course he didn't know that Harry had been fighting Voldemort for seven years, and he thought that Harry found out about it by himself. "It seems that you still have me I took what I said to you to heart.” In fact, this was not the case at all, Harry was a little ashamed, and continued to listen to him: “But we have reliable news that after Voldemort returned, he cleaned the Death Eater team. We guess , maybe he doesn't use the Dark Mark to mark new members anymore... Or, Tom's identity is different from ordinary Death Eaters... because in terms of his height, it happens to be the same as a masked newcomer who appeared in the Death Eater meeting People are about the same."

Harry figured it out.First of all, all these information came from Snape, and he was able to get so much information when Voldemort knew he was an undercover agent... Well, it's hard to say that Voldemort didn't do it on purpose.Moreover, the masked Death Eater who was considered by the Order of the Phoenix to be Tom was actually himself... Tom was taller than him. As for why he wasn't discovered, it was probably because Voldemort's costume was too deceptive.Whether it is the Death Eaters or the Order of the Phoenix, they will find this truth completely unacceptable, right?