war and peace

No one could have predicted this outcome.Harry's Patronus turned into a large snake, exactly like Tom's.Other than his own surprise, none of the other Slytherins seemed to think it was a bad thing.No one noticed Tom's initial surprise (although it's always hard to read his emotions on his face), so it was taken for granted that he must have known about it early on, otherwise how could Harry Can go to the dormitory, but still get his green eyes?

Of course Tom Riddle was excluded from those people.He already had considerable doubts about Harry's identity. Coupled with the infallible evidence of the Patronus spell, all the signs point to Harry Potter's deep connection with Slytherin.But at the same time, Tom was also sure that he had studied the bloodline left by Slytherin very thoroughly, and he was 100% sure that there was absolutely no Potter in it.

Harry himself was rather annoyed.He can't even figure out when his Patronus changed, which is so frustrating.The last time he used the Patronus spell was when Snape was acting as a substitute. In order to conceal his true level of magic, he deliberately issued a shapeless Patronus... The only thing that is certain is that after he was reborn It just changed.Maybe it was when he was tempted at the end of the semester, maybe it was when he found out that Tom was Voldemort, or maybe it was when he found out that Voldemort had been deliberately concealing him...

"So what else do you have to say now?" Slytherin's famous dormitory that night.Tom sat on his bed, languidly, with a smile on his face, but his slanted black eyes were impassive.He still had a book in his hand, but his attention was clearly not on it.

"If you want me to explain the Patronus, then I have nothing to say." Harry's mood could almost be described as depressed.He knew that Voldemort's Patronus later became a stag, so why didn't he think that his own Patronus would change as well?He was quite depressed, and fell on his back on the bed, reaching out and rubbing his hair into a mess.

Tom looked at him more closely.Black hair, which is quite Slytherin-like; emerald green eyes, although very beautiful, but there is no doubt that they lack the shrewdness of Slytherin in them; pointed chin, well, it looks really good, no wonder Abu Laxus salivated.But what was that weird mark on his forehead?

"Be careful with your movements." Tom reminded him softly, "Do you want your scars to be seen by everyone?"

Startled, Harry almost jumped up.Of course he didn't want it, least of all Tom Riddle noticing it, so he kept it covered with his hair.As a result...he raised his hand to cover his forehead, moaning in his heart, how could he be so careless?

"I guessed it right?" The frustration emanating from Harry was obvious, and Tom was a little surprised.It's just a scar, and this Potter doesn't look like a person who pays attention to appearance, why is he hiding it like that?He got up and got out of bed, he was sure that the scar must be weird.

"What are you doing?" Harry was lamenting his own acting skills with his eyes closed, when suddenly a hand reached out and pressed on his, and when he opened his eyes, Tom's magnified face appeared in front of him.After a moment's thought he knew he was interested in scars, and Harry stepped back quickly, trying to break Tom's hand away.

Tom gripped Harry's wrist tightly, a small smile on his face. "Is that the scar left by the spell?" That weird shape, like lightning.

Harry didn't speak, and struggled harder.Tom didn't even have time to think about it, he directly pressed half of his body against Harry, preventing him from moving, and continued to pull hard.Of course Harry couldn't let him get what he wanted, and he freed his hand to shield his forehead.

As they pushed and shoved, Tom felt his hands touch something, a warmth that he had never felt before from his fingertips to his brain.He froze, looking at his fingers and then at Harry, seeming a little lost.

Harry gasped, feeling the same way.He had expected a reaction a long time ago, but this reaction was rather weird, and he was stunned for a moment.But Harry quickly came to his senses, both of them were wearing nightgowns, the struggle was separated a lot, and a slight heat was transmitted through the touching skin.That sucks... Harry cursed inwardly, forgetting about his scar, and started trying to push Tom away.

As if awakened by his movement, Tom pressed him harder, then reached out to feel the scar.Harry watched the hand fall on his forehead, and the feeling hit his nerves again, and he couldn't help shaking.Tom's hand was still there, but the look in his eyes had changed, not the previous suspicion and indifference, but a kind of extreme consternation.

After the panic at the beginning, Harry calmed down instead, and looked at Tom without guilt.Suddenly there was a light on him, and Tom let go of him like an electric shock, no matter how he looked at it, he fled away with a little bit of frustration.

Whether he had guessed something, Harry didn't know.He straightened up slowly and straightened his clothes.When he was done, he found that Tom had crawled under the covers, leaving only the back of his head.He opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he just sighed silently, and got into his own quilt.

Tom lay on the bed with his eyes open, and his heart sank when he heard a slight rustling sound behind him.

That weird feeling... Tom clenched his fists.Harry Potter wasn't related to Salazar Slytherin, more likely to be related to himself.Spells generally only create a connection between the caster and the castee, and they both apparently respond to that spell.He was sure he had never seen this man before, let alone cast a spell on him, so where did this scar come from?

And the way Harry looked at him, how did he react to him?Most of the time, it's not fear, anger, or disgust. The attitude is helpless and conniving, and it seems that there is a little distress... as if you know him very well.

This is really terrifying... The vague guesses flashing through his mind startled him, and he didn't want to admit this possibility at all.

The next morning, the Slytherins hadn't noticed anything amiss.But after a week, no matter how dull people are, they can taste the weirdness in the air.

On weekend nights, the famous coterie of Slytherins still occupied their permanent seats in a corner of the common room, except Tom wasn't there.In fact, his absence is not a one-time or two-time thing, but now there are enough reasons for the rest of the people to guess.

"Go to his NEWs exam!" Michelle Knott finally couldn't bear to look at the history of magic in front of him, and threw it to the other side of the common room, and the clanging sound scared several junior students. Jump.He didn't care, and just pulled the pen in Malfoy's hand, "Do you think the boss doesn't like to talk to us recently?"

"Isn't that obvious, since that Harry Potter turned around, the boss hasn't even looked at us!" Len Mulciber's face wrinkled into a big ball, It made his angry look a little funny.

Abraxas Malfoy, who was preempted, gave him a displeased look. "Clearly Potter has a certain charm that we don't have," he drawled, "to make the Boss fall in love with him for a short time."

But the other three didn't think the cold joke was funny. "To be honest, don't you think the boss is afraid of that Potter?" Roderick Rozier was the youngest among them, but his mind might be the most complicated.

"You're kidding! Roderick! How is this possible?" The single-celled Mulciber immediately objected after hearing this without even thinking about it.

Rozier didn't respond to his words. "Think about it again, on Monday morning, the boss actually brought him breakfast, obviously trying to win him over?" He analyzed to others, "But Tuesday is different, the boss is the classroom he goes to , Potter ran after him."

Nott shrugged disapprovingly. "It's not that you don't know the charm of the boss, Potter like that is normal."

"It's normal for the two people's attitudes to be completely reversed in one day?" Rozier immediately asked. "And I'm sure you've also heard that on Monday, both Potter and the boss conjured up a physical Patronus in Defense Against the Dark Arts class, which is exactly the same animal, a snake."

"Are you saying that because of this, the boss is afraid of Potter? Although this can show that Potter's magic power is very high, and the patron saint is also very suspicious, but the possibility of chance cannot be ruled out, right?" Abu Laxus Malfoy also put away the smirk on his face, and began to think seriously.

"Really, by chance? By chance, Potter can always enter the dormitory alone? Are you sure you know how that door works?" Rozier laughed shortly.Everyone can see that every time the boss and Potter go back to the dormitory one after the other.

"You mean Potter will also..." Nott's expression was completely shocked now, "but how is this possible? The boss should be the last descendant of Slytherin!"

"So that's the problem! That's what I can't figure out." Rozier said worriedly, "Potter doesn't look like a Slytherin, I believe the boss, but this matter It's really weird."

"Based on what you're saying, it's very possible to be afraid." Malfoy mused, rubbing his fingers back and forth on his chin, "I would also be afraid..."

All three were lost in thought.Mulciber was left to stare blankly at this and that.With his mind, he couldn't turn the corner for a while.

While they were discussing, the two protagonists had already left the library one after the other and were on their way back to the cellar.

Turning into an empty corridor, Tom heard the unchanging footsteps behind him, which made him restless.He simply stopped, turned around and stood in the middle of the corridor: "I said, your perseverance is like the drought tolerance of a certain desert plant...Why do you always follow me?"

Harry blinked innocently: "I'll go back to the dormitory." Is this unbearable?Then he followed him for a month during the summer vacation. If Tom knew this, he would be so mad...

"Come on, you know what I mean." Tom took two steps closer to him, "I don't care where you learned Parseltongue, and I don't care why you have the same Patronus as me, but I hope you don't care What am I going to do, we don't mess with each other, huh?" After several days of observation, he can be sure that Harry Potter is a reckless and impulsive lion. Unfortunately, this lion is very persistent; The bad thing is, forget about the attachment, it's still hard for him to get rid of it!

Harry pursed his lips and said nothing.He knew what Tom was doing in the library all day and night, so he followed every step of the way.The Chamber of Secrets was opened by Tom in the first half of the year, and the wounding happened in the second half of the year.Judging from this, Tom has spent four years looking for the secret room, and now he should find the entrance to the secret room soon.

After Tom said these words, he turned around and wanted to go, but suddenly stopped in his tracks. "One more thing, please stop looking at me with that look, okay? I don't like that feeling of being seen through, and that kind of cheap sympathy, it's really terrible." He turned his back to Ha After Li finished speaking, he strode away without looking back.

Harry stood where he was, watching his back get further and further away.Had Tom already guessed something, and that was why he was in such a hurry to distance himself from him?Sensitive, with high self-esteem, is this Voldemort in his youth?He seemed to see a wall between them, tall and thick.But no matter what, if he doesn't achieve his goal, he will never give up.Harry took a few quick steps and chased after him.