war and peace

Tom fell ill.

To be honest, standing in the open air for five or six hours on a snowy winter night is really not a wise choice.Haven't put on enough clothes yet, hasn't put any spells on himself... "Don't you take your medicine yet?" said Harry angrily.One moment they were standing there perfectly, and the next moment Tom was falling straight on top of him, his face flushed and his body stiff, which almost scared him to death.After trying his forehead, he realized that the man had already had a fever, and Harry had to work as a porter to bring the fainted man back to the dormitory.

Those who were complained didn't care at all.Tom was sitting on the bed, covered with the quilt Harry had tucked him in, turning a crystal bottle in his hand. "The one you took out last time..." he said researchingly, keeping his eyes fixed on Harry, "it's on the cap too."

"Don't tell me, you're still in the mood to study this!" Harry muttered angrily.At the same time, he had to admit that Tom's eyesight was very sharp. The crystal bottle containing the snake venom antidote was shattered shortly after he took it out, but Tom clearly saw it. "As I said, that is the potion you made, and it has a seal on it."

"My mark?" Tom raised his eyebrows, clearly very interested. "This shape... is it a ring? I must say that the shape of the gemstone set on it is very strange."

"Did I tell you that you would drink the medicine obediently?" Harry looked at him helplessly.Tom had grown up in the Muggle world and knew nothing about the Deathly Hallows, and he wasn't sure if it was a good idea to tell him.To be honest, the Deathly Hallows is really a legend, even if Tom later changed his name to "Flying away from death" (Author's Note: Vol-de-mort, which means "Flying away from death" in French), it is just a legend. It's just a wish of his own.

Tom didn't answer, but his eyes were on Harry.

"Okay, okay, let me think about how to tell you..." Obviously he must want to know, Harry was thinking quickly.

If Tom was told he would be interested in the Deathly Hallows, there was no doubt about it.Now the ring was in Morfin Gaunt's hand, the Invisibility Cloak was supposed to be in his grandfather Charles Potter's; as for the elder wand, Gellert Greenwald, the Dark Lord of Germany, was holding it.

As for Tom, he is now working hard to let everyone know that he is the heir of Slytherin, and he will not go to Little Hangleton to find his biological father until next summer vacation.So the top priority now is to get rid of the female basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, and then let Tom realize that the Deathly Hallows are just a few powerful magical objects, and he will definitely not want to slice his soul very much.

The problem was how to convince Tom that he was telling the truth.Based on his own words alone, can he believe it?After all, that's not what the legend says.Need someone of high standing, whom Tom can trust... Harry blinked.Oh, he is so stupid, isn't there such a ready-made candidate?

"Well, have you figured it out?" Tom leaned back to make himself more comfortable.He saw Harry's shifting expressions—hesitation, worry, and finally a flash of inspiration.He suddenly wanted to laugh... Ah, really, it was almost clear from Harry's face that the gears of his mind were running, so it must be impossible to make him lie?

"Okay..." Harry sat down on the edge of his bed and gave a brief overview of the legend of the Deathly Hallows.

"Oh, so this is the mark left by the Resurrection Stone Ring?" Tom looked more closely at the ink pad on the crystal bottle. "Sounds boring." Can you see the dead?He didn't have anyone he wanted to see. Could it be that his mother told him how she left him in the orphanage?What a ridiculous idea...

Sounds... boring?Harry had never expected such an answer.He stared dumbfounded at Tom, who uncorked the bottle and drank the medicine cleanly. "Fortunately, it's not bad." Tom commented.Then he noticed Harry's expression, "What's wrong with you?"

You can't say that I thought you wanted to live forever, right? "No, nothing." Harry shook his head decisively.It seems that Tom's thoughts came after the Chamber of Secrets incident was resolved, and I couldn't inspire him to think in that direction.

"So is the Invisibility Cloak, that thing is a cumbersome thing..." Tom went on to comment on the Deathly Hallows, "And the Elder Wand sounds good too." Anyway, Harry seemed to know him enough to say what he really thought. .From the change in his expression just now, one can guess his assumptions about his reaction after knowing it.

This is Voldemort, interested in things with great power.Harry wisely kept his mouth shut and refrained from commenting on the matter.

Tom watched his expression carefully. "Looking at you... I'm assuming you know where that wand is?" The tone was quite certain.It's entirely possible, Harry is from the future after all.

"Gellert Greenwald." Harry answered his name dryly.Rather than letting Tom look for it secretly, he might as well tell him now.

"Oh~~" Tom dragged out the sound. "No wonder he's always invincible...he has a wand that defeats all other weapons~~"

Seeing the yearning look on his face, Harry couldn't help retorting loudly: "It's not invincible! As far as I know, there have been three times when its owner was defeated by others!" Greenwald lost to Dumbledore Lido, Draco Malfoy disarmed Dumbledore again, and he used the Disarming Curse to deflect Voldemort's Avada Kedavra...Greenwald didn't know the specific situation, Dumbledore did it voluntarily, and Voldemort was killed directly by a rebound of his own spell...

"You don't want it." Tom pursed his lips tightly, before saying it after a long time.

"Yes, I don't want it, it can only bring people war and killing, why would I need such a thing?" Harry said recklessly, "I threw it away... yes, I ended up throwing it away Throw it off the edge of the cliff!"

In fact, after the final battle, he was back in the baby's body, and Voldemort, who also came back, was still determined to kill him... Yet Harry had a strong feeling that Voldemort later told him that when the Death Curse bounced back on himself— - if Voldemort was really dead, the next development would be this - he wouldn't keep that wand that was stained with blood from so many people, the legend would let it be legend forever...Harry couldn't be more convinced of that suspect.

It really seemed like something Gryffindor would do on impulse... Tom wanted to say that, but a part of his heart told him that what Harry said was true.He didn't want an elder wand, because he thought it was unclean and would bring disaster to people... "It's a noble sentiment, it's eye-catching," said Tom at last, and gave two weak clappings.

Harry glanced at him without any surprise.He didn't think he'd be able to get Tom off his mind with a few words, but there was still some time until the summer vacation, and he could certainly do it in the meantime.He stood up and reached out to adjust the angle of the pillow behind Tom. "It's almost dawn, you'd better sleep for a while." Let's tell Tom the secret after he regains his strength. At least he doesn't resist himself as much as he did at the beginning... You have to do things one by one, don't you?

"Yet I sure do," said Tom abruptly.

Harry froze, then realized Tom was talking about his future self.

Seeing Harry's reaction, Tom went on more quickly: "I got it, probably not in a fair way...but it didn't bring me victory. On the contrary, you who didn't want it ended up I won." Otherwise, how could it be possible to tell him that he failed three times with an angry face?

"Well, I can at least take that to mean that you know yourself pretty well." Harry let out a long breath.

"Did the scar on your head come from that time?" Tom continued to ask persistently.

To be honest, Harry didn't intend to tell Tom the fact that he was born again.It's not intentional concealment, but he still hasn't figured out whether he returned to history or something else.Everything was real, but he always had a vague feeling that something was wrong.

But Tom was really good enough to deduce from just a few small clues that Voldemort--later he--had attempted to do something to him more than once, and hadn't succeeded.

"I told you, sleep!" Harry didn't want to say.But Tom held on to the quilt to keep himself from sliding down, although his mind was beginning to blur from the effects of the medicine. "What is this..." He fell asleep with his head tilted without uttering the last few words.

"It's just a common cold potion, and the quick effect is that you have to sleep well!" Knowing that Tom had fallen into a deep sleep, Harry still replied angrily.Every time he was so clever that he frustrated himself, should he be called Voldemort?He helped the sleeping man to the bed, looking at that quiet face, Harry couldn't help but bent down and kissed him.Really... Even if his temper is so bad, he still feels distressed for no reason!

As the evening wore on, Tom was still critical of Harry's various Gryffindor-like traits, but he had finally given up his insidious sarcasm.That's a good sign, Harry thought.And then there was another thing, after Christmas, they didn't see Professor Dumbledore at the dinner table.According to Professor Slughorn, he was here to help: "The battle over Kursk is in full swing!" Harry's history of magic is not very good, he can only roughly remember the victory in the Nordic battlefield in February next year. won.It was a good thing that Dumbledore wasn't there, though, because he was about to break Hogwarts' rules -- well, probably a big one.

The night before New Year's Eve, Harry woke Tom out of bed in the middle of the night.

"If you want to hear the New Year's bell, it's not at this time, is it?" Tom complained about being dug out of the warm quilt, knowing that he just lay down for a long time.

"Get up, come out with me." Harry didn't mind his attitude at all, and just urged.

Sure enough, Tom was finally willing to move after hearing this sentence. "I thought you were a guy who followed the rules..."

Harry thought that if Professor Snape heard Tom's comment, he would be very happy to tell him——Harry Potter, since entering this school, has been violating school rules non-stop! "That's because you violated the school rules before me every time!"

Tom's reaction to this was...well, don't care.

Basically, Dumbledore's not there, and their biggest discovery is probably gone, so it's no trouble at all to get into the Chamber of Secrets.Tom was still at a loss until Harry and Tom passed through the dark sewers that were wet and smelled of decay, and finally entered the hall with the giant old man's face sculpture. "What did you call me here in the middle of the night?"

"Birthday present for you~~" Harry said as he pushed him forward until he stood by the sink at the end of the hall.It looked a little deep in there, because the color of the water was black and dark because of the age.

"Birthday present? A pool of black water?" Tom turned to look at Harry, wanting to make sure it wasn't an April Fool's joke.It's no surprise that Harry knew his birthday, but compared to the small book (annotated version of "The Tales of Beedle the Bard") and a large box of Scotch whiskey-filled hard candies that were given at Christmas, this gift is too incomprehensible right? "I thought there was no more unimaginable birthday present than fairy tale books and candy?" Tom wondered, no, he was sure, no one would give him such things like Harry.But to be honest, the whiskey tastes pretty good.

Harry ignored him, he drew out his wand, pointed at the pool, and cast a spell.The water inside gradually gathered into shape, a column of water rose up in a swirl, and then rushed towards another exit. "Look down, what's there?"

There are still some silt and rock dust accumulated over the years at the bottom of the pool.But the traces of engraving are still obvious, and someone obviously left a mark on it. "What's this?" Even Tom, as clever as he was, couldn't guess what was under there.

"You'll know when you open it." Harry's nerves tensed.To be honest, he didn't know what it was like when he entered the Chamber of Secrets for the first time.He's just betting that Salazar Slytherin won't set any traps for his offspring, that Tom Riddle will believe him, and that Salazar Slytherin will tell Tom about life and death the truth.