Mentor and Friends

There was only the sound of running water in the kitchen.

Harry and Tom each cleaned the dishes.

It's just tableware for three people, so it doesn't take much time to clean it.

When Harry put the cutlery away, Tom hesitated for a while, then wanted to go to the room, but Harry stopped him.

"Tom!"

Tom looked at Harry suspiciously.

"Maybe you have time to walk around the neighborhood with me?" Harry smiled at him.

Tom thought for a moment, then nodded.

At least he needs to know where he lives, doesn't he?

Harry asked Tom to change into Muggle clothes, which made Tom's first reaction that they lived among Muggles.

But it wasn't right until he followed Harry out.

As soon as he went out, he saw the same building as the house he was in. Most of them were small three-storey buildings with a small garden in front of the yard, but everyone arranged the garden and the appearance of the house differently. .

As far as Tom could see, people walking outside were wearing wizard robes and Muggle clothes.

This should be a gathering place for wizards.

"This is Godric's Hollow," Harry said to Tom, smiling.

Tom immediately remembered that this was the same wizarding village as Hogsmeade, and it was even more famous in the wizarding world because a great man was born in this valley.

But... Tom immediately remembered that this is also the residence of a certain professor!

Does he still have to live under his surveillance?

Harry didn't see what Tom was thinking, but continued to lead him along: "We are closer to the edge, and you can go down from here to the Muggle world. There is a commercial area in front of you. If you want to buy something , you can go there directly."

Harry first took Tom to the Muggle business district.

Tom let go of the haze in his heart for a while, and followed Harry.

At noon, there are many people in the business district, especially some restaurants. It is lunch time at this time, and there are so many people there that it is prohibitive to look from the door.

Although there are many people in some coffee shops, many people are sitting quietly in their seats and doing their own business. This difference is in contrast to restaurants.

Harry walked Tom around, letting Tom remember the distribution of businesses in the place.

Because there were so many people at noon, Harry himself was hit many times.

Tom didn't mind following Harry out and about, but he didn't like being bumped into; it could be said that he actually hated human contact.

After being hit for the fourth time and almost falling, Tom's eyes flashed red.

His right hand reached out to his left and pinched it at the elbow.

There, a small snake was wrapped around his hand.

For so many years, Nagini has long been turned into a magic snake by him, which can grow and shrink. However, Nagini's saliva is extremely poisonous. Although it is winter now, Nagini is hibernating, but... There is still a way to wake it up.

All Tom wanted to do now was to let Nagini bite those fools.

Don't let them die, at least let them suffer for a while.

Just as Tom whispered, ready to let Nagini go out, a pair of hands stretched out and took his left hand.

Tom was startled, and raised his head reflexively. The moment he saw Harry, he immediately lost the vigilance in his eyes.

How could Harry not know the hostility he had inadvertently exuded before?But he turned a blind eye to this, and just pulled Tom to his side with a smile: "There are so many people, be careful not to get lost." Then, he just pulled Tom to continue walking.

Because of Harry's sudden interruption, Tom stopped holding Nagini's hand. When he realized that Harry was not looking at him but pulling him forward, his right hand loosened without a trace. the elbow of the left hand.

Harry was still introducing the distribution of the business district, but Tom, looking at his hand held by Harry, fell into deep thought.

He doesn't like being touched by others, even Abraxas usually just pats him on the shoulder, hooks his shoulders and so on, and it is absolutely impossible to appear among them.

And Nagini's usual sense of presence is almost negligible. A small snake curled up on his arm to sleep without moving. His own body temperature is also relatively cool, so the temperature on Nagini's body can also be ignored. , So, for Tom, he really has little contact with other people.

When Harry reached out to hold him, his first reaction was to throw a silent wandless spell at him, which Muggle should damn hold him, it is simply unforgivable.

He really thought so at the time.

However, the moment he saw Harry, all the cruelty dissipated in an instant, and he was even afraid that Harry would find the anger in his eyes.

Even if he didn't break free, he was actually afraid that Harry would find out the ruthlessness in his eyes!

He knew his eyes would turn red when he was in a mood swing, another sign of his Slytherin heritage.

But, facing Harry, he subconsciously wanted to hide it.

Because, sometimes, for some wizards or wizards who have come out of the Muggle world, red pupils are terrifying and ominous after all.

Now that I think about it, he seems... too concerned about what Harry thinks of him...

Tom frowned and thought, when his eyes became clear, he suddenly realized that at some point, he had shaken Harry's hand back, not just Harry holding him and guiding him.

"Tom?" Harry looked at him suspiciously. "What's wrong? Uncomfortable?"

Tom shook his head: "No..."

"Is it too cold?" Harry touched his cheek, noticing that Tom's body temperature was terribly hypothermic.

"Oh, I was so careless." Harry patted his forehead.

Although the sun is out today and it's a little warmer than usual, it's winter after all!

Harry himself is not afraid of the cold, but it does not mean that others are not afraid of the cold.

"Sorry Tom," Harry said, casting a few spells on Tom without looking.

Tom didn't speak for a moment.

He didn't tell Harry that he was hypothermic, so he wasn't cold, and now that Harry had cast him a few spells, he was starting to feel hot instead.

It's just that he didn't say it.

He was a strong man himself, but he found that he did not reject Harry's concern for him.

This is not a good sign.

Tom narrowed his eyes.

Accepting other people's concern is the beginning of relying on others, which is not a good thing for him.

"Shall we go in and sell something and then go back?" Harry asked Tom.

Tom nodded.

In fact, this time when he came out to look around, Harry was in charge of the whole process, and he didn't need to pay attention to anything, because he thought maybe he wouldn't appear many times this holiday.And, to be honest, he really wanted to distance himself from the Muggles.

He's a descendant of the great Slytherins, and he doesn't think he should have too many Muggle ties.

Harry took Tom into the supermarket - this "supermarket" cannot be measured by the supermarket in Harry's era, it can be regarded as a relatively large store at most, and there was no computer intelligence in this period, and people needed waiters to buy goods Calculate by yourself, but some supermarkets should have, such as commodity prices, goods classification, and shopping trolleys have appeared, so Harry is still used to using the words of his own time to describe it.

Harry chose some daily necessities and some snacks. No matter what time period, snacks are no different from junk food, but this still can't stop Harry from liking them. Of course, Harry believes that Ron will be happy to help He wiped out these little treats.

Harry doesn't need to worry about the food. Ron went out and bought a lot today. If he uses a spell to keep it fresh, it can last for three to five days. It's right to let Ron go out at that time.

Harry thought as he picked out a snack.

Behind him, Tom was pushing the cart, watching the more and more snacks in the cart, the corners of his mouth twitching constantly.

In his concept, these should be things that children under ten years old would clamor to eat.

There must be no children in their house, which means that these snacks are either processed by the person in front of them or by another person.

Could it be that these two people are actually children who have used aging agents?

With so many snacks, it won’t be a problem to eat them until the summer vacation, right?

Of course, three days later, when Tom was pulled by Harley to buy snacks again, his face could not be described as twitching.

The two of them just swept through the store, one picking at the front and the other pushing at the back, without any reason, just so naturally.

How many eyes would fall on the ground if the Slytherins knew that their chief was so willing to be a "coach driver" for others.

"Well... this much should be enough." Harry looked at the food in the cart.

Tom was silent.

Sure enough!

It is said that you are here to buy daily necessities. The daily necessities you choose do not take up much space in this car. The entire big cart is full of your food. Can it be enough?

"I don't know how many days these are enough..." Harry was a little distressed, and seemed to want to buy more, but he finally gave up when he saw the shopping cart full of products.

"Forget it, come out to buy after eating, it's so close anyway, isn't it, Tom?"

Tom nodded blankly, looking at the food in the cart with hatred.

According to his calculations, if these foods are to be digested, they should be calculated according to the month, but he didn't expect the person in front of him to be worried that there would not be enough for this holiday?

You know, this holiday is only a little over two weeks!

This person actually treats snacks as meals, right?

No wonder it looks so thin, it must be caused by snacks.Someone hummed in his heart, seriously dissatisfied with the thin body dangling in front of his eyes.

After paying the bill, Harry looked at the four bags of snacks, feeling a little distressed.

He can make the bag shrink himself, but you must know that this is the Muggle world.

Although he could use spells to make them lighter, it was really ugly to carry four bags by yourself.

Just as he was thinking, Tom had already stretched out his hand and picked up two of the bags.

Harry froze for a moment, then smiled.

He cast a few spells on the bag Tom was carrying, and picked up the rest himself.

"Where are we going next?" Tom asked.

"Didn't you just say that?" Harry smiled gently, "We'll go home after shopping."

Looking at Harry's smiling face, Tom was silent for a long time before softly responding, "En."