[HP] Dearest Enemy

Tom threw Nagini to Alfart with a displeased face, and told him not to give Nagini any biscuits of any flavor until the next semester started, ignoring the little snake begging to act like a spoiled child, and went out with a dark face .Tom was very angry. Nagini had stabbed such a big basket and bit Harry's hand. It would be impossible not to punish him.

I have to go to Harry's office tonight, if Harry asks... Tom looked towards the classroom mat while eating dinner, Harry was not there, Alex was talking to Dumbledore cheerfully, sit down The professors around the two were laughing.It seemed that Hedgehog didn't know about Harry's injury, and Tom turned his gaze back to his dinner plate, wondering if he was relieved or more nervous.

As Tom's supper was nearly finished, Alfred sat down beside him, pouting.

"Don't leave her to me in the future." The long-haired boy angrily poked the barbecue on the plate with a fork, "She almost stalked me to death!"

"I apologize to you." Tom said flatly, "I'll pay attention next time."

Alphat snorted unceremoniously through his nose.next time?And next time he will tie up this old bully and throw him into Dumbledore's office for training!Or tell Harry Tom to toss him again!Alphard thought dejectedly.Of course, he just thought about this kind of thing.

Tom put down his knife and fork, wiped his mouth and stood up, intending to go to Harry's office.He couldn't hide from him anyway, and it was his pet that bit him.

"Good evening, Harry." The dark-eyed boy bowed slightly to his godfather, noticing that Harry's left hand was wrapped in a bandage, he frowned imperceptibly.

"Good evening, Tom." Harry's gentle attitude was the same as usual, he just nodded and continued to look at the documents in his hand.Tom walked to his place, hesitated, and didn't ask what happened to Harry's hand.

After reading the document, Harry glanced at Tom who was seriously reviewing, slightly surprised.He didn't expect Tom to sit there nonchalantly without saying a word about his bandaged hand.But this just shows that the snake is indeed raised by him, otherwise he will ask about it as soon as he enters the door.Harry turned his gaze back to the work at hand without saying a word.

The two remained silent like this, until Alex pushed the door in without knocking as usual, and the almost frozen air in the office began to flow again.

"Hey, man... what did you do with your hand?" Alex asked grandly, grabbing Harry's arm, eyes widening.Tom, who looked down at the book, raised his head slightly and stared at the yelling man from the corner of his eye.

"I accidentally scratched it when I was doing an experiment in the afternoon." Harry smiled, and took his arm out of his friend's hand. "It's nothing serious, it will be fine in a few days."

"Scratched?" Alex narrowed his eyes. "You didn't do it because you were messing with something dangerous, did you?"

"Oh? Then I have to remember it well." Harry smiled and said slowly, "There are not many things that can make you feel dangerous."

"Harry." Seeing that his friend had been playing sloppy with him, Alex knew he wouldn't say anything, so he couldn't help frowning.

Tom coughed lightly.

"Okay, Aaron, what would you like to drink today?" Harry asked as he walked to his usual armchair with his friend.

"You didn't come to dinner, let me see what happened to you," said Alex, without sitting down. "I have to go back to Albertillery later. You know, my father never gave up. The idea of ​​letting me go back, besides, my grandpa is still at home." Alex sighed, stroked his hair, and walked towards the door.

"You can't hide at Hogwarts forever," said Harry.

"It's a while to hide." Alex smiled lazily. "I say good night to you in advance, dear Harry."

"Good night, Aaron." Harry nodded to his friend, closed the office door and sat down in his chair. The room fell into silence again.Tom never looked up, and Harry didn't look at him.

time flies.Tom got up and said good night to Harry.Harry walked him to the door as usual.

"Harry, your hand..." Tom felt he had to say something, and lowered his eyes guiltily, "I'm sorry."

"Remember to take care of it," Harry said flatly.Tom froze involuntarily.

"Harry!" Tom felt that he could no longer maintain a calm attitude, and asked eagerly, "Don't you have anything to ask?"

Harry looked into the boy's night-like eyes: "What do you want me to ask you?"

Tom opened his mouth.He was ready to be questioned by Harry, waiting for his godfather to ask why Nagini was in his office.But Harry didn't ask anything.Last year at this time, Tom wished Harry would let him have nothing to do with him, but now he wished Harry would blame himself for negligence and ulterior motives.

"I'm... sorry," Tom said deflatedly.He really couldn't tell about the fact that he let Nagini hide in Harry's office to eavesdrop, let alone the excuse he had just thought up.

"Go back to sleep, Tom." Harry patted the boy on the cheek and opened the door. "Don't do what you shouldn't do."

"I see." Tom replied a little stiffly, bowed to Harry, turned and left.

The black-eyed boy returned to the dormitory in a low mood, and Miss Snake, who had been waiting for him, came over immediately.She wasn't afraid of Tom throwing herself out, but Nagini would feel bad if there were no biscuits to eat.

"Tom, you're back!" Nagini said, wagging his tail.The teenager didn't even look at the little snake. He tore off the tie around his neck, took off his robe and went straight into the bathroom.Alfat, who was still wiping his hair, looked at Tom who suddenly walked in in surprise, and turned around to look at him reflexively.

"When did you come back?"

"Just got back," said Tom dryly.

"Are you unhappy?" Alfred saw that his friend was depressed, and leaned over to look at his face, "Did Harry blame you?"

Tom shook his head and fell straight to Alpha.Alfat was startled, subconsciously dodged backwards, bumped into the washstand, and was crushed by the black-eyed boy.

"Tom, Tom, what are you doing!" Alfart asked quickly.

"Lean on me." The boy said sullenly, resting his chin on his friend's shoulder.

"Didn't Harry not blame you?" Alphard felt strange.

"He knew that Nagini was raised by me." Tom said still sullenly, "He reminded me to take care of it."

"He didn't ask anything?" Arafate asked in surprise.

"Yeah." Tom replied.That's the best outcome, isn't it?Harry let him go so easily, and the relationship between the two was not affected in any way, but for some reason, Tom felt a little lost in his heart.Although Harry told him that it was okay with his actions, Tom felt that Harry's parting smile was a little distant, and his heart hurt like a needle.

The short-haired boy suddenly reached out and hugged the long-haired boy whose hair was still dripping, and buried his face on his friend's shoulder. He inadvertently smelled the good smell of shower gel, shampoo and fresh water vapor mixed on his body, and couldn't help but feel deeply. Take a breath.

"Don't do this, it's so itchy." Alfat shivered involuntarily when he felt the warm breath on the exposed skin at the collar of his pajamas.However, the other party seemed to have not heard his words, and rubbed an inch twice.The long-haired boy rushed to push his friend, but the short-haired boy relentlessly locked his friend's arms, preventing him from moving.

"Tom!" Alfred's face was burning and he began to struggle.He knew that half of the students at Hogwarts were saying that he was Tom Riddle's darling. He couldn't help but blush when he heard such ambiguous rumors. Many girls even attributed the reason why Tom didn't have a girlfriend so far. to him.Of course, nothing happened between him and Tom, but he had been careful to avoid any relatively intimate physical contact with the handsome teenager.Tom also knows this, but in many cases he will deliberately make some misleading intimacy, which makes Alphat helpless.

The boy's head finally left Arfurt's shoulder.Tom sighed helplessly, lifted his friend's chin with one hand, and looked at Alfat who was always half a head shorter than himself: "It's just a hug, why such a big reaction?"

"You can't take it out on me every time you're in a bad mood, can you?" Arafat protested dissatisfiedly, the blush on his face hadn't faded, "You know exactly what they said!"

"You care?" Tom asked casually, in a leisurely tone.

Alfat frowned: "I don't have as much patience as you."

The black-eyed boy laughed, with a mischievous curve on his lips, and leaned into his friend's ear: "Dear Al, the whole Hogwarts knows that you are mine, and you also know that I am happy to be misunderstood by them. "

"I just hope you don't make such jokes again." Alfat grabbed the hand of his friend pinching his chin and moved it aside, his brows frowned more tightly.

"I just hugged you." Tom said lightly, slightly helpless, "You are too sensitive, Al."

Arafat blushed even more, pushed his friend away and slammed the door to go out.Tom covered his belly and laughed, feeling much better all of a sudden.

Nagini was completely ignored by Tom.Miss Snake thought it was just a normal reaction to her being frightened, but Tom refused to talk to her, and Nagini had to go to the Basilisk for advice.Although Briente liked the boy very much, he also felt that Tom was going too far in this matter.It was a snake's instinct to attack indiscriminately everything that alarmed him, and Tom shouldn't have started ignoring Nagini just because she had bitten his guardian without knowing it, she was a little girl after all.

Tom, however, is more stubborn than he imagined.

"I can understand what you mean." The boy said politely and indifferently, "but I can't forgive Nagini's mistake so quickly. She violated my request first, because a little mistake that was completely avoidable was discovered by Harry , there is nothing inappropriate about my punishment method..."

Until Tom left, Bryant did not persuade the stubborn boy to forgive Nagini.The little snake watched the tall and slender boy walk out of the secret room with aggrieved eyes, and sadly coiled himself into a circle.

"He won't be angry with you for too long." The basilisk said reassuringly, "Just don't make such a mistake again in the future."

"But I have no biscuits to eat," said Nagini sadly. "The biscuits in the kitchen are not as good as Tom's."

Tom heard the heavy stone door closing slowly behind him, and heaved a long sigh.Sure enough, Bryant's thinking was as simple as Nagini's. Of course he forgave Nagini, but punishment was necessary, otherwise the two of them really thought of themselves as fools.Tom snorted coldly and walked slowly towards the cellar.The exam will start next week, and he needs to ensure relatively adequate sleep.

"Tom." A voice suddenly rang in my ear.Reflexively pointing his wand at the other party, Tom watched in horror as his godfather seemed to come out of the wall, with a gloomy and frightening face.

"Harry." Tom quickly retracted his wand.Harry had already reminded himself not to go out at night before the exam, and he had agreed.But that's not the most important thing, Tom couldn't figure out how Harry found the secret passage.After he came out of the cellar today, he went straight to the secret room, but Harry seemed to have stayed here for a long time, as if he was guarding here specially to wait for him.

Harry hadn't planned to catch Tom the Nightwalker, and it had become his habit to glance at the Marauder's Map before going to bed.When he saw Tom slipping out of the cellar in the middle of the night, he habitually looked at where he was going, but he didn't expect Tom to go in a direction he had never been before, and then his name disappeared from the map.Harry couldn't help being stunned, maps don't lie, if a person's name suddenly disappears, there are only three reasons: first, that person is not in the castle; second, that person died, and third, that person went to The place is outside the label range of the map.

Of course Tom wouldn't die, there's no way to apparate on the grounds of Hogwarts, the only thing that makes sense is that he went somewhere the map doesn't know.However, the Marauder's Map was plotted in great detail, although it was slightly different from when Harry was at school, but Harry had changed those places.Harry immediately followed the map to find Tom, and found this secret passage that no one had discovered for hundreds of years.Tom is indeed very secretive. If Harry hadn't used a black magic, he would never have found out where his godson went in the middle of the night.Harry probed for a long time outside the stone door with the Slytherin totem painted on it, and he came to the conclusion that Tom had gone to the Chamber of Secrets again.

When Harry came to this conclusion, he really wanted to rush in and ask Tom what you wanted to do in the secret room again, but he finally restrained his urge and waited outside for the disobedient kid to come out by himself.

"I thought you knew you were going to take the OWLS exam." Harry said coldly, "What are you going to do in the Chamber of Secrets again?"

"I didn't do anything, I just chatted with the Slytherin pet." The excessive shock made Tom unexpectedly calm down, and he noticed that Harry's body was tense.

"Chat?" Harry's deep voice contained danger, "talked to a snake for so long?"

"I'll pay attention to the time next time." Tom replied in a low voice, his voice a little cold because of Harry's unkindness.

Harry stared into Tom's eyes, those green eyes reflecting the light from the boy's wand, as sharp as Dumbledore's eyes in the dark corridor.Tom couldn't help but secretly clenched his wand. He was familiar with this kind of look. It was a look of distrust and inquiry, and he hated seeing this kind of emotion in Harry's eyes.

The two stared at each other for a while, and Tom looked away and said, "If you want to deduct points or put me in detention, then please do so."

After the boy finished speaking, he turned and planned to leave, but Harry didn't want to let him go.The man who had been prepared quickly grabbed the boy's wrist and pushed it forward. Tom was caught off guard, and the wand rolled to the ground. The sudden pain made him groan.

"What are you doing!" Tom growled ferociously, but found that Harry's wand had hit his carotid artery precisely at some point, and his heart almost stopped beating in a moment of shock.

"Tell me what the hell are you trying to do?" the man asked sullenly, with an uncontrollable tremor in his voice, and Tom could feel his breath almost hitting his cheek.

"I didn't do anything," Tom replied, mouth dry, "I didn't intend to. Nagini made a mistake, I punished her, she asked the basilisk to intercede for her. That's why I'm here , What do you think I will do? As I said earlier, I am not interested in Slytherin purging students with impure blood, do you still suspect that I want to kill people?"

The other party's breath stagnated, and then there was a long silence.Tom clearly heard the powerful beating of his own heart, which sounded astonishingly like a drum in the quiet corridor.He didn't believe me, and his heart still didn't believe me, and Tom looked desperately into the eyes hidden behind the glasses.Tom could recite verbatim what Harry had said to him that day by the lake, but at this moment, he was pointing his wand at himself.Harry's face was gradually silhouetted in the darkness, and although he was very close, Tom still couldn't understand the expression on his face.After an unknown amount of time, Harry finally spoke.

"I'm sorry." The man let go of the boy, took a step back, his voice was full of exhaustion, "I'm sorry, Tom."

"When will you trust me again?" Tom found himself whispering.Harry hung his head and didn't answer, Tom picked up the wand that fell on the ground along the light source and walked out.Harry was still standing there like a statue, motionless.