[HP] How to properly feed the savior

"I knocked Ender unconscious so that he couldn't help you." Riddle stood in front of him, "Come at me if you have anything."

Harry stared at the two of them angrily, but said nothing.

"DA is brought out by me, I know their level." Riddle said quickly. "I also know the Death Eaters. Ron, Ginny, Neville and Luna are all pure blood, none of them are adults, and the Death Eaters will not kill them easily. I let the Death Eaters save your life , which is equivalent to five of you keeping their hands tied and unable to let go to attack. In this case, the possibility of you saving Hermione's life and persisting until the Order of the Phoenix comes to help or the Ministry of Magic returns to defense is very high, even if there is danger, The risk is worth taking. Because you will face the Death Eaters one day, and to join this war, you must be prepared."

"But Sirius—"

"There was bound to be conflict between the Order of the Phoenix and the Death Eaters. Sirius didn't join the Order to hide in a safe place and watch others charge. He wanted to fight, and fighting was dangerous. He deserved his death."

"You know what it means to die well?" Harry growled. "He might not have died! If it wasn't for me... I didn't think..."

"Your choice is just to let the battlefield take place in the Ministry of Magic." Riddle said calmly, "This is a battlefield that is more beneficial to the Order of the Phoenix. The death of Sirius cannot be completely attributed to your choice, although, I also think that if you do things Being more deliberate could reduce the chance of casualties."

"Shut up!" Harry grabbed a silverware from his side and threw it at Riddle.

"Crack!" The silverware exploded in the air.Riddle looked at Harry with eyes that were almost pity, "You need to calm down. I thought Sirius' death would improve you."

Without further ado, Harry threw another silverware over.

"If you don't mind my interjection," said the portrait of Phineas on the wall hesitantly, "may I understand that my great-great-great-grandson—the last of the Blacks—is dead?"

They were silent, and no one answered Phineas' question.

"I don't believe it!" Phineas said roughly, as if he had learned something from their silence, and turned and left from the frame.

He looked at Harry who was still furious, and could understand where the other party's anger came from.That's not anger at others, but anger at oneself. Riddle's explanation is reasonable, but logical persuasion cannot be equated with emotional approval.Even though Harry knew that Sirius' death could not be entirely attributed to this reckless action tonight, Harry still felt that he had to bear Sirius' death because it was the result of his actions.He is familiar with the feeling that as a commander, every decision he makes is deciding who can live and who can die.Life is priceless, such a choice is too heavy and weighs him down, but he has to make such a decision.Because this is his mission, his responsibility, even if he does not make this decision, someone else has to go through it, so it is better for him to bear it.

Dumbledore hopes that Harry can grow into a leader, and the necessary quality of a leader is to be responsible for his actions.Harry was too immature to afford Sirius' death.However, he has to agree with Riddle, this is necessary, every mistake, every regret can make people grow a little bit.Only by growing continuously can the consequences of one's behavior become more acceptable.Although he also wanted to make the best decision from the beginning, the reality is that that is not realistic.

He still doesn't know how to face those who died because of his decision, just like facing McGonagall's injury, he will also be at a loss.He believed that the pain Harry was feeling now was stronger and more unbearable than when he had seen Meg lying on the hospital bed.However, they still have to accept this, learn to adapt, and make this pain a part of themselves.The only thing he could do was to tell Harry, like Riddle, that it wasn't your fault and that you did your best.

At this time, a green flame rose from the fireplace in the office.Dumbledore came out.

"Harry, you'll be glad to hear that none of your classmates suffered permanent damage from tonight's clash. Tonks will need to stay at St Mungo's for a while, but she'll be there soon It will recover." Dumbledore put the young phoenix under the perch, and seeing that Harry did not answer, he whispered to them, "You guys go away first, I will talk to Harry alone."

"If you ask me, it's futile." Riddle raised an eyebrow. "He's simply unreasonable."

The small table where the silverware was placed flew over and smashed to pieces on the wall.

"If you want to take my place, you have to learn to be more patient with others." Dumbledore blinked and opened the door for them.

When he came to the corridor outside, it took Riddle a long time to react, "What does his last sentence mean? What does it mean if I want to take over his position? What does he mean, can I stay in school to teach after graduation?"

"Maybe." He couldn't make up his mind about Dumbledore's attitude.Perhaps Riddle's act of preventing Voldemort from killing Harry finally won Dumbledore's approval, but it cannot be ruled out that Dumbledore just wanted Riddle to think so.

"Tsk." The other party secretly raised the corner of his mouth.

"Why don't you comfort Harry the way you comfort me?" he asked softly. "You know he's already blaming himself, so there's no need to add insult to injury."

"He's not blaming himself, he's trying to evade responsibility, he wants to say that everything is someone else's fault, and he's right." Riddle curled his lips, "It's time for him to recognize the reality."

"He will realize it sooner or later. He just needs time to let this matter settle in his heart." He shook his head, "Forget it, let's not talk about it, Dumbledore will solve the follow-up problems."

"No, that old bee is as soft-hearted as you. He will only say something, ah, I was also at fault for this matter, I did it wrong, if I hadn't made a mistake, you wouldn't be like this..." Riddle Imitating Dumbledore's tone, "If you want me to say that Harry's bad temper is habitual, everything should be centered on him. The people around, whether it's you, or Ron and Hermione, are all concerned. Take care of his temperament. You never said no to him, which made him more and more willful and self-righteous."

He kept silent.What the other party said does make sense.

After a long time, Harry walked out of the principal's office in a daze.

"Why didn't you kill me?" Harry's voice was dry. "Only one of us will survive."

"Is that Trelawney's prophecy?" Riddle looked at Harry sharply.

"You, how do you know?" Harry's eyes widened.

"Because I happen to know that APWBD is the abbreviation of Albus Dumbledore's full name." Riddle said impatiently, "How many real prophets does that old bee know? Think again he will let Trelaw If a charlatan like Ni, who relies on fortune-telling to fool people, comes to teach, you can almost guess it. It just so happens that Sybill Trelawney's full name abbreviation is SPT."

"But that's a real prophecy, and it's not the same as Trelawney's usual nonsense."

"Do you remember what we said last time when we discussed Trelawney's prophecy? There are countless possibilities in the future, and Trelawney saw only a few of them. That is to say, maybe the parallel universe we are in , it may happen to be not foreseen by Trelawney. It is possible that our future is a future in which the two of us can coexist." Riddle showed an arrogant smile, "Besides, Trelawney's prophecy has never been It didn't happen to me."

"Huh? What did you say?" Harry seemed to have just been awakened from contemplation. "What didn't happen?"

"You remember that prophecy she made in your third year? The one that said Wormtail would escape and the Dark Lord would come back with his help."

"I remember, but that prophecy came true." Harry looked at Riddle blankly. "I did let Wormtail go, and Voldemort was indeed resurrected with the help of Wormtail, right?"

"Wormtail didn't help me," Riddle said with a half-smile. "From the situation of the Department of Mysteries, the prophecy also includes me. I am also the Dark Lord that Trelawney said, but her prophecy has nothing to do with me."

Harry stood there blankly, "That's right."

"If you really care about that prophecy, I have an idea." Riddle laughed more and more narrowly, "You find a good girl, have a lot of children with her, and live a peaceful life of more than 100 years. Wait. You are too old to walk, all your wishes in life have been fulfilled, and when you feel that your happy and happy life is about to end, call me again, and I will be happy to give you a euthanasia. the hand of the murderer?"

Harry showed a slightly relieved expression, "Trelawney certainly didn't expect you to appear."

"Don't be stupid. Come on, let's go to the medical wing, where everyone else is."

"Wait." Harry stopped when he started walking. "Speaking of Trelawney's prophecy, I remember you guys said last time that as long as there is a time-turner, Ender can change what happened in the past 24 hours, right?"

He and Riddle looked at each other.They all knew what Harry was planning: to send him back in time and try to save Sirius' life.

"Oh, I suppose so," he said slowly, "but as far as I know, you've smashed all the Time-Turners in the Ministry."

Harry stared at him blankly, as if he'd just robbed him of all hope.

"I'm sorry, Harry," he reassured softly.

"No, it's not your fault." Harry's tone sank. "I just……"

"He's gone. You have to accept that." Riddle twirled the ring on his hand uneasily. "He doesn't necessarily want to come back."

"What do you mean you don't necessarily want to come back?!" Harry suddenly yelled, "Of course he wants to come back! He wants to fight with us!"

"It's hard to say." Riddle's expression became more and more gloomy. "Think about his life. He was locked in the house he hated the most, and he couldn't do anything. His friends, like your parents, and Many people in the Order of the Phoenix are dead. All he has left is Lupine... and you. He is going to a world where there is no pain, but with friends. There, he is still the young man who was once a high-spirited man. Handsome, optimistic, full of joy, surrounded by those he loves and those who love him, they can be together forever, enjoying the summer sun under the trees by Hogwarts Lake, making jokes that each other only understands, Talking about Quidditch and girls you like...why would you want him back?"

Harry didn't answer, his green eyes filled with tears.

He looked at Riddle, whose hand was still on the ring.Riddle didn't know that the ancestral ring of the Gaunt family was the resurrection stone, but after going to the room with the arch, perhaps the other party had already learned part of the function of the resurrection stone.

"How do you know?" Harry wiped away tears. "Can you talk to him?"

"Maybe Dumbledore thinks I don't know what love is, but even he can't deny that no one knows what death is better than me." Riddle said in a deep voice, "Yes, I can talk to people who have died , but I can't choose whom to talk to. You've heard them, Harry, in that room, behind the curtain, and there they are."

"what did they say?"

"No matter how we understand death, they have accepted death calmly." Riddle lowered his eyes and replied gently, "Don't feel sorry for them, Harry, they just started the next journey."

"Who are you talking to?" he asked.If Voldemort had been so comfortable with death, he wouldn't have created so many Horcruxes.He didn't think it would be Riddle's own opinion.

The other unfastened the locket from his neck and opened it in front of them.Merope Gunter smiled coyly at them in the photo.

"Is she...?" Harry asked curiously.

"My mother." Riddle closed the locket and put it on again.

Harry looked at them, and after a long, long time, he forced a weak smile, "It's my luck to know you."

They went to the medical wing.Both Luna and Hermione woke up, Neville's nose and Ginny's ankle were back to normal, only Ron's arm was still there.When they arrived, Hermione was drinking a nasty potion, Luna was flipping through the latest issue of The Quibbler, and Ron was battling the chocolate frogs Fred and George had sent him.

"You never answered the question I asked in the Department of Mysteries," Neville whispered. "So, who are you?"

Ginny curled up and sat up, looking at Riddle.Hermione put the cup on the bedside, looking engrossed.Ron stopped eating chocolate frogs, too.But Luna was still flipping through the magazine, as if she didn't hear what Neville was saying.

"You already know my name." Riddle drew out his wand, drew a few times in the air, and outlined his full name with a golden thread:

Tom Marvolo Riddle

The wand was swung again, and the letters automatically switched positions, forming a brand new sentence:

i am voldemort

"Look, it's just a play on words." Riddle shrugged and erased that line.

Ron gasped, Neville looked at Riddle in horror, Hermione frowned, "Harry, you already knew that, didn't you?"

"I knew it last year." Harry spread his hands helplessly, "Professor Dumbledore told me not to say it, he thought it would cause panic."

"It couldn't be more correct." Ron said with difficulty as if he was stuck in the neck.

"So what are you going to do?" Riddle asked pretending to be nonchalant. "Call a ballot and join forces to expel me from the dormitory? I bet Seamus will vote for it."

Harry forced a smile, and Ron and Neville were a little embarrassed, but relaxed. "You're fine." Neville said sheepishly. "Really, I don't see any resemblance between you and that man."

"So what's your relationship with that person?" Hermione asked in a gesture of breaking the casserole. "I mean, you are not the same person, you have two bodies, you are not exactly the same as him, so you will teach us so much, and you will fight him with us-you smashed the prophecy ball on purpose, so as not to He got what he wanted, he just didn't think breaking it was the way to hear the prophecy. Am I right?"

"You're smart." Riddle nodded.

"What I don't understand is, why is this happening? How can there be two Voldemorts? Did you use a time-turner to get from the past to the present?"

"You guessed it wrong this time." Riddle showed a mysterious smile. "First of all, I didn't use the Time-Turner. Secondly, there are more than two Voldemorts. There is a third one standing in this room."

Hermione's eyes widened, "Who?"

"Me." Harry pointed to his own scar, "he left me this, transferred part of his soul into me. So he can control me for a while, although Professor Dumbledore thinks he won't Do it again."

"Of course. Being forced to stuff yourself into a clumsy, inflexible body would be hard on anyone."

"Professor Dumbledore said it was because there was a power in me that he hated and hated."

"Yeah, you have an impulsive, hot-blooded, often stupid, silly and naive soul in your body." Riddle curled his lips, "When you enter your body, you have to experience everything you have experienced. Seeing myself doing so many worthy things... Huh, anyway, I don't want to do it again."

He understood what made Voldemort so intolerable to Harry.It is precisely Harry's innocence, optimism, and heart filled with love, things that Voldemort disdains, that make it difficult for the two souls to overlap.

"Aren't you smart?" said Harry angrily.

"At least smarter than you."

"So you mean, you are a victim just like Harry? He put part of his soul in your body, which would explain why you look so different." Ron said suddenly Stopped, "That's not right..."

"I am Voldemort's past, but Voldemort is not my future. 54 years ago, he made a copy of all his memories and most of his soul, and put it in a diary. I am that copy, dusty for 50 years. years, until it was opened again four years ago." Riddle glanced at him. "As for appearance, Voldemort has always looked like me. The Voldemort you see now is another, because he fixed too many magical transformations on himself."

"What a pity." Hermione said calmly, without any pity in her tone. "If he hadn't changed shape, he would be even more powerful than he is now. Think about Lockhart's fan base, your looks and your real talents will be ten thousand times more attractive than Lockhart."

"Magic transformation is very practical." Riddle pointed to his left eye, the dark brown pupil was slowly turning bright red under their gaze. "This transformation, I showed Professor Maqiban as a human body transformation in the OWLs exam. Its effect is that it can automatically perform Legilimency every moment without spells and wands."

"You performed body transformation without using a wand!" Hermione was shocked. "How did you do it? Wandless magic is only suitable for certain types of magic, and partial body transformation is not included."

"Talent." Riddle replied simply, "I was born able to do it. Before I entered Hogwarts, or before I knew I was a wizard, I could control a lot of magic, including levitation, flying Mantras, Legilimency, Imperius Curse with weaker effects, and many more. For you, basic movement spells are the content of OWLs, but when I was five years old, I could control the rope to swim like a snake, Strangling in my sleep the life I want to take."

"It's just so unfair!" Ron exclaimed angrily.

"So what's the function of Voldemort's transformation?" Hermione asked eagerly.

"I can only recognize a few, since I'm only in fifth grade after all." Riddle recalled wistfully, "In addition to solidifying Legilimency, I can also recognize a snake shape, which is very complicated. The whole body transformation technique can make him not afraid of most toxins and sense the surrounding magic, which means that he cannot be poisoned, nor can he be attacked. He must also have a transformation that corresponds to the Dark Mark. This magic is I invented it, but I hadn't perfected it when I was made."

"Isn't it a transformation spell branded on the skin?" Hermione's breathing became rapid.

"No, of course not, that's too childish." Riddle laughed triumphantly. "The Dark Mark is a set of magic, it has a lot of functions. This is my inspiration from the way the Ministry of Magic tracks wizards. Underage wizards are marked so that the Ministry of Magic can know if we are on holiday Use magic. Marking cannot detect whether the marked object has cast a spell, but it can locate the marked object. If there are traces of spell casting near the marked object, and there are no other marked people, then the Ministry of Magic will consider it to be marked The magic cast by the subject."

"So they're blaming me for Dobby's magic," Harry grumbled.

"The Dark Mark is the same thing. I have a metamorphosis of the highest authority on me, so I can sense the location of other marked objects. I can know where they go, guess what they are doing, and when I need Sometimes, I can Apparate to the location of any marker, even if I have never been there. I can also briefly grant sub-clearance markers, let them locate one of the markers, and apparate them. Between markers and markers It can also be sensed at the same time, the highest authority can send a signal to the mark of any sub-authority, but the sub-authority can only send a signal to the highest authority."

"It's very similar to my Galleon magic." Hermione thought, "I can change the other coins by changing the parent coin, and notify the members of the DA to gather. But other coins can't send me a signal in turn, telling me they I can’t come here because of emergency. But I can’t figure out how to do that positioning function.”

"It's a contract magic, a bit similar to the one you cast on the DA's membership list. The premise of branding the Dark Mark is to swear allegiance to Voldemort. A contract is formed between the Death Eaters and Voldemort, and the Dark Mark can take effect." Riddle continued, "But the most important function of the Dark Mark is to identify objects. It's like the Muggle Repelling Curse, because wizards are marked, so we can create an enchantment, only the marked people can enter, there is no The people marked can only stare outside. The same is true for the Dark Mark, I can create an enchantment, and only those with the Dark Mark can enter, which is much more practical than the Fidelity Curse."

"But this also means that Death Eaters can be expelled in reverse." He immediately thought, "Set the target of the expulsion enchantment to the person carrying the mark, so that you can avoid being attacked by Death Eaters."

"Yes, it is possible, but obviously Dumbledore has never successfully deciphered the core of the Dark Mark." Riddle said proudly.

No, Dumbledore can't decipher it, but you don't need to decipher it at all, you hold the core.He said in his heart.This means that Voldemort's biggest threat is not Dumbledore, but Riddle.Voldemort had to either kill Riddle, or make sure Riddle was on his side, or the Death Eaters couldn't do anything.

"You just said that when you were created, this magic hadn't been perfected yet." Hermione said slowly, "How much did you accomplish then?"

"Mostly." Riddle's tone sounded as if it was just a trivial matter, "I haven't done the final simplification. At that time, I could already use the Dark Mark, but the method was too complicated and the magic Not stable enough, although with my control, I don't think there is a possibility of failure."

"You're only in fifth grade!" Hermione gasped, "And you invented an unprecedented magic!"

The others were shocked to realize what this meant.

"Merlin's socks!" Ron exclaimed, "How can such an opponent be defeated? The fifth grade can do so much..."

"Yeah, I noticed that too." Riddle said in an annoyed tone. "Students of your generation, except for Fred and George, don't seem to have the habit of creating their own spells."

"It's not easy to learn magic from textbooks, let alone invent spells." Hermione said weakly, "Could it be that in your day, students could create their own spells?"

"It's not all right, but the more outstanding students generally have their own unique spells." Riddle replied lightly, "This is a kind of popularity, and everyone feels that self-created spells are more individual, although most of the self-created spells Spells are dangerous and impractical, just for fun."

"That's amazing." Ron admired, "Professor March has no reason to think that you lack talent in transfiguration. What you can do is beyond my imagination."

"Uh." Riddle was embarrassed for a moment, "One obvious reason is that these are not standard transfiguration techniques."

"Dark magic!" Hermione suddenly realized, "You have combined black magic and transfiguration, so you can't show them in the exam!"

"I don't think it's that simple." He believed that Voldemort was indeed at the forefront in the field of magic. "If it was just human transformations, even if solidified, then those transformations should have disappeared together when Voldemort lost his last body. When he was resurrected, it should be the adult version of Riddle, not Now."

"That's right." Riddle clapped his palms together, "You've hit the point. That's not the transformation of the body, but the transformation of the soul."

"What's that?" Hermione frowned, as if very upset at her ignorance.

"Things that won't be written in school textbooks." Riddle sat down on the edge of the bed, and took a chocolate frog from Ron's lap, "You say, why are the Imperius Curse, the Cruciatus Curse and the Killing Curse so important? The Unforgivable Curse? Why not the other spells?"

"Well... because they can cause irreversible damage to people?" Neville asked cautiously.

"This is the official statement." Riddle threw aside the Dumbledore picture in the chocolate frog with disgust.

"If death is an irreversible injury, then the Levitation Curse can kill people, so it should be regarded as the Unforgivable Curse." He pointed out this point.

"Because the spells are evil?" Harry asked. "The woman said that for the spells to work, they must be given evil powers."

"The Cruciatus Curse uses evil powers to be more powerful, yes. But the Killing Curse and the Imperius Curse are not necessarily."

"You mentioned soul transfiguration earlier," Hermione frowned, "is it because these spells are related to souls?"

"This is one of the reasons." Riddle quickly got rid of the chocolate frog in his hand, "There are two conditions for an Unforgivable Curse, one is that it must be a standard spell, and the other is that it must be soul magic. Forgiveness spells are the only three eligible spells currently known to wizards."

"Standard spells? Soul magic?" Ron chewed on the words, "What does that mean?"

"We all learn standard spells." Hermione cleared her throat. "Standard spells have three requirements: accuracy, stability, and learnability. In other words, as long as anyone has read the correct spell and waved it in a fixed way If you use a magic wand, the magic effect that appears is fixed, but there will be differences in degree according to the idea. In other words, anyone can learn standard spells, and as long as they cast the spells correctly, there will be no unpredictable results."

"It doesn't sound bad at all." Ron said confusedly, "Then what about soul magic?"

"Soul magic is a taboo field in magic, because it is a true mystery." Riddle explained, "In some fields, people are ignorant just because they haven't studied it, not because they can't study it or know it. Department of Mysteries This is the case in some areas of human beings, such as prophecy, time, thinking, and the universe. Maybe their essence is also mysterious, but most of the content can still be recognized. The soul is something that is completely beyond human cognition, and there is no means It is possible to study it, observe it, and we cannot even confirm the existence of a soul."

"What do you mean you can't confirm the existence of a soul?" Harry frowned, "You still have a piece of your soul stuck to my forehead."

"The concept of soul exists only in our language. Just like the existence of the world is mysterious, we can't understand why the world exists, so we invented the concept of God, saying that God created the world. In fact, whether God exists or not is unknown. It has been proven that God is just an equivalent expression of the reason why the world exists." Riddle said patiently, "The same is true for the soul. We cannot understand why 'I' exists, what existence itself means, and we cannot even be sure' Does the 'I' really exist, or is all 'I' just a figment of another existence. The soul is just another expression of the essence of existence, of which we know nothing and have no way Cognition. Just as a person cannot pull himself out of the ground by his hair, existence is something beyond the boundaries of human cognition.”

"So what?" Harry said impatiently. "I don't see how it matters."

"It has a lot to do with it!" Riddle's tone became serious. "If you don't know anything about something, how do you use it? If it may not even exist, how do you deal with it? Soul magic is such a thing that is completely impossible to explain. Why Avada There is no breaking spell for the fate curse? It is a standard spell with fixed rules, and the standard spells that are not unforgivable curses have a breaking spell! The only reason is that soul magic cannot be explained, so it cannot be broken. Are you still Didn’t you find the contradiction? Standard spells are fixed and have rules to follow, but soul magic is unrecognizable. The combination of the two means that some rules are beyond human cognition. Certain laws of the world will never be understood!"

"So?" Harry was getting more and more confused.

"Is this so difficult for you to understand?" Riddle seemed to have finally run out of patience. "What is the source of magic power? It is will! What is will? Will is the resultant force formed by the sum of your thinking! What is your thinking? It is the structure formed by your biological impulse under the action of your logic! One sentence In a nutshell, magic is supported by logic! Soul magic represents another set of logic that is completely irrelevant to your own logic. It destroys your own logic, and its existence will transform your logic into An inexplicable thing, let alone using it! Every time you use soul magic, you go deeper into a field that you can't understand, and even in the end, you can't even understand what you are."

"But... according to you, Voldemort used a lot of soul magic." Hermione said cautiously, "he created you and Harry, you are part of his soul, he used soul transformation on himself, he He also frequently uses the Unforgivable Curse... In this way, he has already..."

"If you're going to look at it from a wizard's point of view, well, he can't be called a human anymore," Riddle replied dryly.

There was silence in the hospital wing.

"Let's talk about something else." Ron started to unwrap the Chocolate Frog again. "Hey, Luna, how's the magazine going? Is it selling well?"

"Daddy's sold the magazine," Luna mumbled, "and Harry's interview. He's getting a lot of money, and we're going to explore Sweden for the summer and see if we can catch one." Horned Snork."

"Sold?" Hermione asked aloud, "Sold to whom?"

"Me," Riddle replied, "now the ownership of the magazine is in my hands, and Rita Skeeter has become the new editor-in-chief of the magazine."

Hermione seemed to have gone through a long ideological struggle, and finally smiled reluctantly, "Congratulations."

"Rita rents a house for our editorial office. It's in London, near the Leaky Cauldron," he said.This was not so long ago, and Rita had complained to them about why she rented a Muggle house instead of moving directly into Diagon Alley. "We are going to spend the summer vacation there, if you are free, you can come to us."

"Of course." Harry nodded.