mystery lover

After returning to Hogwarts, the boy who had not walked to the Hufflepuff common room was startled by the attitude of the Slytherins he met along the way when they saw him.

For Charles, no matter whether it was the hostility and ignorance of Slytherin House before, or the respect afterward, he was not as frightened by being bowed down as he is now.

When the first Slytherin student in green school robes did this, Charles would still be nervous and somewhat at a loss and ask what was wrong with the other party, and after more and more people bowed, in the end the boy almost returned as if he was running away. When he arrived at his dormitory, he met Lucas who he had forgotten at the banquet yesterday.

"Hi, Luca, you're back." Charles looked at his friend with the same weird expression in front of him, and the teenager greeted him with a guilty conscience, but the panic on his face was too late to put away.

"Well... I went back to school after the banquet yesterday." Lucas said, the expression on his face became more and more tangled, and finally he could only ask tentatively, "Charles, are you okay, I am Say...you and that...sir."

Oh, Lucas isn't sure if the friend already knows that his Mr. Riddle is the powerful... Minister, and the boy is struggling with how to tell Charles this has shocked him since last night and disturbing news.

Charles, who felt that something was wrong with his friend from the moment he entered the door, also faintly had an answer in his heart.

"Luca, do you know something?"

Hearing this question from his friend, Lucas's eyes flashed, as if he was relieved, and then he looked nervously at the boy opposite, "When Malfoy told me last night... I also felt that this was incredible... ...Charl..."

Lucas still remembered the process of getting acquainted with Mr. Riddle briefly mentioned by his friend at the time...

Now that I think about it, that was really a coincidence...

There's always something weird about it...

Like how the grown-up fell in love with Char in the first place.

"..." Listening to Lucas' words, Charles suddenly realized that even Draco had already known that Tom was Lord.

This kind of cognition caused an indescribable feeling in the young man's heart.

"Char, are you okay, he didn't do anything to you, did he?" Lucas looked worriedly at his friend who didn't understand his emotions.

"Of course, no, Lord is fine." After recovering, Charles felt his face burn when he said these words again.

I always feel that anything the Lord does to him should not be known to the second person...

"Huh, that's good." Lucas really breathed a sigh of relief this time, thinking of the Minister's undisguised love for Char, the boy couldn't help but sigh at this time, "Thinking about it It should be like this, that’s right, that lord is really kind to you, Charle!!! I heard that Slytherin’s locket is very precious..."

Having been popularized by the Platinum Prince for one night, Salazar Slytherin and Lucas of House Slytherin now knew very well what Voldemort had meant by giving Charles the locket.

But speaking of lockets...

When Charles thought that such a precious item was finally turned into a portkey by that man——

Finally, an unbearable expression appeared on the boy's face.

What to do, there is a sense of frustration that I want to teach others but dare not really put it into practice.

The friend around him seemed to say something again, Charles listened and answered and interrupted his friend on a question he was concerned about, "After I left last night, what happened at the banquet?"

It feels like the answer to that question explains the behavior of Slytherins today.

After listening to what happened just now described by his friend, Lucas thought for a while and then replied, "Probably because of the locket that the lord gave you... They all know about it. Char, you I don't know how much those people talked about after you left..."

When the young man listened, he felt that this was indeed the case.

*****

When Charles opened the gift box Voldemort gave him at Christmas, a delicate and beautiful double-sided mirror broke into his eyes.

……

So, that's the reason?

Picking up the double-sided mirror in his hand, the teenager only needs to open it to be able to contact the person on the opposite side.

And the locket too, the Lord seemed to have it all sorted out, and he didn't have to do anything himself to enjoy what that person had brought.

This feeling is really weird.

The boy put down the double-sided mirror in his hand, and carefully placed it beside the pillow.

I couldn't help but be led away by that man.

This made Little Badger couldn't help thinking about what the other party was doing now, thinking that Lord should be very busy.

It seems that even if you have the most convenient contact method, you don't dare to disturb the other party at all...

Hey.

After Tom became Lord, everything was different.

The feeling of always worrying about Tom, now seems to be superfluous, and it is himself——

... doomed to sleepless nights.

The next morning, when Charles met Draco in the corridor leading to the Great Hall, Little Badger, who wanted to ask for help, saw the Platinum Prince bowing to him as respectfully as the other Slytherins , the boy's footsteps that he wanted to move forward got stuck in the middle of the journey.

"Draco, can it be different?"

In front of the Platinum Prince, the boy looked like he had eaten the pepper ghost by mistake.

"Sorry, can not."

His Royal Highness refused gracefully.

"..."

Looking at the Hufflepuff in front of him who hesitated to speak, Draco said kindly, "Don't be pressured, McAvoy, this is just out of respect for the Lord."

The Platinum Prince spoke with the same tone, even though the curvature of the boy's brows was already different from usual.

"..." Draco you don't have to say it...

The little Badger who had already burst into tears in his heart.

"Professor Crouch." When he saw the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor parked behind Draco from the corner of his eye, Charles instinctively greeted the professor over there, but the boy in front of him was surprised by the name he said And the body froze for a moment.

For Charles' greeting, Barty Jr. nodded as usual, which made Badger, who had always thought that Professor Crouch was very good, very relieved. Sure enough, no matter what happened, Professor Crouch would not treat him differently? ?

At the moment, Barty Crouch Jr.'s attention was focused on the proud little peacock who was rarely silent beside Charles.

Looking at this young man who ignored his own existence, Crouch's eyes also sank.

At the banquet the day before yesterday... this brat was not so peaceful.

It seemed that the air had been frozen for too long, and even Charles felt the embarrassment inside.

Professor Crouch didn't seem to want to leave, and the professor's eyes seemed to be on Draco beside him, but Draco...

It seems that I just don't watch Professor Crouch ==

Finally, Prince Platinum showed an impatient look on his face, and said to the little badger beside him, "Let's go, what are you doing in a daze, don't you want to eat breakfast?"

After finishing speaking, the boy turned around decisively and walked towards the auditorium.

"Uh... oh."

Charles followed Draco's footsteps, and when passing by Barty Crouch Jr., Little Badger said in a regular manner, "Goodbye, Professor."

After the two walked a long way, Draco slowly slowed down, glanced at McAvoy beside him, the platinum prince cleared his throat, and said softly, "Mcavoy, you Why do you act like you obey that guy?"

"No," Charles was stunned, and then said, "Professor Crouch is a professor."

"Then he is just the Lord's servant, you don't need to pay attention to him at all, it should be him who compliments you." Draco said with a heavy snort in his nasal cavity.

"..."

Here is the little badger who didn't know how to continue the topic that came too suddenly.

Carefully looking at Draco's expression, the boy's face was slightly tangled, "Draco, do you dislike Professor Crouch very much?"

"do not like!"

A firm, unquestionable answer.