Mentor and Friends

Harry pulled Tom out on his way out.

In fact, Harry didn’t come here many times. When he and Ron were just teleported here, it was mid-August. They had just bought a house, and Harry brought them to Hogwarts. They didn't live in this house for long before going to Hogwarts.

Although Harry would come back occasionally during this period, to be honest, he didn't have much time to go out to see his neighbors.

It was a rare holiday this time, and while Tom didn't want to be bored in the house, Harry felt that he should also meet his neighbors, so he pulled Tom out early in the morning.

The neighbors next to Harry's house have all met, but only limited to meeting each other. This is the first time they have seen their new neighbor appear in the past few months, so they are very enthusiastic about Harry and Tom.

This makes them a little uncomfortable.

The environment he was in made him like the indifference of the surrounding environment, so many people became enthusiastic about him all of a sudden, to be honest, he was not just a little uncomfortable.

The one who was far away from Harry was seeing Harry for the first time.

But that didn't stop them from welcoming Harry.

Tom just walked around with Harry all morning.

He just followed behind Harry silently, watching Harry happily chatting with the new neighbors, Harry tried to pull him up, but Tom was too taciturn, so Harry had to give up.

It’s just that every time Harry met a new neighbor, after introducing himself, Harry had to be sure to introduce Tom at the first time. He didn’t ignore Tom. Time to say goodbye to the neighbors.

In this way, Tom couldn't even get mad at him - of course, he couldn't get mad at Harry over this matter.

At eleven o'clock in the morning, Harry said goodbye to his neighbors and was about to go home when he heard a familiar voice.

"Professor Harry."

Harry turned to look and was surprised to see Moody standing not far from them.

"Professor, this is..." Moody walked towards Harry with some surprise.

"We went for a walk in the morning and said hello to the neighbors," Harry said with a smile, "Alastor, why are you here?" He remembered that Moody's house should not be in Godric's Hollow.

"I'm here with my parents to see grandma," Moody said. "Professor, do you live here?"

"Ron and I just moved here not long ago, because we've been living in the school and haven't gotten to know the surroundings well, so today we took Tom to walk with me." Harry pointed to the man standing beside him. Tom.

"Tom?" Moody looked at Tom who came out from behind Harry in surprise. "Oh, I thought Tom should stay at Hogwarts. I heard that he spends his holidays in the library." Then he said hello to Tom briefly.

"I asked Tom to come over for Christmas," said Harry, grinning. "You know, Christmas is pretty boring if it's just me and Ron."

"Assistant Ron is here?" Moody blinked.

"Of course, would Moody come to my place for a cup of tea? I guess Ron should be up at this time."

Moody nodded kindly: "I'm going to say hello to my parents."

There were two people when they went out, and three people when they came back. Tom remained silent as usual, while Moody followed Harry thoughtfully.

When Harry opened the door, Ron was sitting on the sofa eating a snack, playing wizard chess against himself.

"Back?" When Harry came back, Ron waved his hand without looking back, "Where did you go?" The pieces on the wizard chessboard kept shouting.

"Going out for a stroll." Harry beckoned the two of them into the house, "When did you get up?"

"For a while, I felt a little bored and stayed here." Ron said.

"Then find something for you to do." Harry approached him from behind with a smile, and took away the snacks in his hand, "Come and greet the guests."

"You..." After the snack was robbed, Ron jumped up and overturned the wizard chess. The chess pieces kept shouting and asked Ron to apologize to them repeatedly, saying that Ron's behavior hurt them very much. big.

"Get up." Harry put the snacks away, and then went into the kitchen, "What do you want to eat? Let's talk about coffee first."

Ron touched his nose, ordered the snack he wanted immediately, and then urged the two people present, "You are welcome too, Harry's craftsmanship is very good, and he will have no chance when he returns to Hogwarts." have eaten."

Tom looked at Ron, his eyes flickered, as if he was thinking about something, he didn't say what he wanted to eat in the end, Moody just said casually.

But Harry still prepared snacks for the two of them. Not long after he put down the snacks, there was a knock at the door.

Harry turned around suspiciously, and in an instant, his eyes widened.

"What's the matter..." Ron looked at Harry, turned his head with some doubts, and then even he was stunned.

The entire door glowed, and then, a silver-white otter appeared in their sight.

The otter circled happily around Harry, then stopped in front of Harry, and rubbed his face affectionately against Harry's.

Harry reached out his hand tremblingly, making a stroking motion.

Tom frowned as he looked at the beautiful Patronus.

The Patronus nodded at Harry, then turned, as if to leave.

"Ron, wait for me here." Harry seemed to understand what the patron saint wanted to express, he hurriedly put on a robe for himself, and then followed the patron saint out the door.

"Harry..." Seeing Harry's back hurriedly chasing the Patronus away, Tom suddenly stopped him out of nowhere.

Harry turned his head and smiled at Tom: "Stay home and wait for me to come back." Then he left in a hurry.

Looking at the background of Harry leaving, Tom pursed his lips.

After Harry left, Ron was very excited first. It seemed that he knew who the owner of this Patronus was. He seemed much more excited than before.

However, until the evening, Harry did not come back.

At dinner Tom saw a stag Patronus come running in.

This was the first time Tom had seen a Patronus in flesh, and at first sight of him he had even thought it was a real animal after all--although stags were not normal around this place.

"I have something to do, wait for me for a few days." Harry's hurried voice came through the Patronus, and Ron nodded to the Patronus.

The patron saint walked around the house, and then ran to Tom: "Tom, I'm sorry, I invited you to be a guest but I didn't stay by your side. I'll bring you a gift to make up for it when I come back. I'm sorry."

After the voice from the Patronus disappeared, the Patronus disappeared after turning around the house. Before Tom could react, he could only watch the lifelike stag disappear until only a little fluorescent light remained. .

"Ron..." Tom was silent for a while, but still gave Ron's name.

This time Ron was startled by Tom.

Well, he probably never imagined that there would be a day when Voldemort—or at least the future Voldemort—could call his name so peacefully.

"Uh...huh?" Ron was a little uncomfortable, but he responded to Tom calmly.

"Harry... will he be okay?"

"It's okay." Even Ron himself hesitated at this point, "Harry should be busy temporarily, he still has time to send the Patronus back, so nothing will happen for so long." Moreover, Harry's The magic power is already comparable to that of Principal Dumbledore, so there shouldn't be any danger.

Hermione's Patronus appeared, but Harry didn't send him a message immediately, probably because he didn't see Hermione, then Hermione couldn't come, so he had to find a way to contact them.

Harry should be trying to find a way to reply to Hermione.

It's just that I don't know what this guy is going to do, leaving him here alone with the future Dark Lord, to be honest, Ron is really uncomfortable.

Tom without Harry became taciturn again. Knowing that Harry would have nothing to do, he returned to his room after dinner.

After that, Harry didn't come back for several days.

Except the first day Tom never went out, and seldom even from his room.

Moody often came to visit, maybe because of Gryffindor. Although Ron was a little uncomfortable when he faced Moody, they chatted surprisingly well. It didn't take long for Ron to meet Moody. The uneasiness disappeared completely.

Tom always stays in his room these days. He likes to sit in that chair and read a book leisurely.

But every time, he came back to himself in a daze.

He didn't seem to be paying attention since Harry left, either.

He always drifted away in the middle of the book, and then he would start thinking about where Harry is now. Harry didn't bring any clothes when he went out, so he just went out in a robe, and Christmas was approaching , the temperature has dropped again. A few days ago, there were occasional warm suns, but it has basically been snowing these two days.

Tom has never experienced what it feels like to miss someone. Even when he just entered the magic world, when he investigated his life experience and thought that maybe his father was from a big family, he didn't miss his father much in his heart. At that time, what he thought most about was his own noble status.

Over the years, he has cared about his own knowledge, when he can grow his power, and when he can really fly away from death. He has cared a lot, thought a lot, and never imagined that one day he would be able to fly away from death. Start missing someone.

He didn't spend much time with Harry.

If we could really get along, it was probably when they were in the library at Hogwarts, the two discussed about the dark arts and their defenses. At that time, most of his thoughts were on how to get rid of Harry. Get signed, let him go to borrow books.

Later, he discovered that every time he asked for an autograph from Harry, although Harry readily signed it for himself, there was always a mockery or bitterness in his eyes that he couldn't understand.

At that moment he wondered if Harry knew something.

Later, I heard more and more frequent things about Harry from Gryffindor. They discussed how powerful Harry was and how gentle he was to others. The treatment he received was unfair. At that time, even he himself was mocking the status quo.

The good dean of his own college actually came from the mouths of students from other colleges.

Even other colleges complained about Harry's treatment in Slytherin, but Harry was able to face this matter so gently, as if he wasn't the one who was rejected by the college students.

At that time, he began to care about everything about Harry.

For Tom, he can accurately grasp everyone's psychology. Even Dumbledore, he is confident that he can only guess five or six points.

But he couldn't read Harry.

Harry looks so innocent.

Treat people gently, do things calmly, kind and generous.

But no one seems to know that Harry's knowledge is much more profound than what he has realized. At least Tom knows that Harry is not only proficient in Defense Against the Dark Arts, but no one seems to know that sometimes when Harry becomes ruthless, he is actually better than him. Any dark wizard comes across as frightening.

Tom once wandered around the Forbidden Forest and watched from a distance as Harry rescued a unicorn from under the claws of a vicious magical creature.

He watched as Harry used black magic neatly, defeating the magical creature in one move.

That was the first time he saw Harry without his gentle smile. He was cold and cruel, but Tom was inexplicably excited.

At that time, he always felt that he was so close to Harry.

The same cruelty, the same cruelty.

It's a pity that he only saw Harry like that once.

Harry is a mystery to Tom, a mystery that Tom wants to solve and see the truth.

Then in the process of unraveling its mystery, he suddenly discovered that Harry had inexplicably affected many of his habits.

Most importantly, he didn't reject Harry's approach, nor did he reject Harry's own unconscious influence.

He didn't expect Harry to have such a deep influence on him. He thought a lot in the room these days, but he found that the last thing he thought of was Harry.

He didn't know whether it was good or bad, and he didn't know if it was normal for him to miss someone like this.

He only knew that when Harry rushed back to bring him a so-called birthday present on the night of Christmas, he silently confirmed a certain idea in his heart.

At that time, he didn't know the feelings in his heart.

At that time, he only knew that the unscrupulousness that had been silently suppressed since he went to Hogwarts finally broke out because of Harry's return.

He wants to monopolize Harry's good, and treat him alone, just like many years ago, when he was in the orphanage, he always held everything he wanted firmly in his own hands without any scruples. ...