Mentor and Friends

It never occurred to Ron that he would be living under one roof with the future Voldemort for so many days, in Harry's absence.

But in fact, he didn't see Tom many times. Most of the time, Tom stayed in his room and would only show up at meal times, and then beat Ron's table manners with perfect etiquette.

Of course, Ron was used to being hit by Draco at the time.

Although they lived under the same roof, Ron didn't have much communication with him, but Moody often came to visit him. Once he let go of his grudges, Ron found that he and Moody actually got along very well, and it could even be said that they had nothing to do with each other. Nothing to talk about.

On Christmas Day, because Harry was away, Ron had to get up and decorate the house.

Except for the war years, it was the first time he spent Christmas in a place with so few people.

But at least you have to make the house look better, right?

When Moody came, he saw Ron unpacking the big and small bags.

"Ron," he started to call Ron's name familiarly because he was familiar with it these days, "are you arranging a Christmas tree?"

"Yes." Ron nodded, "It was done before, but I have to decorate it today."

Only at this moment, Ron will complain about the common magic that he can't control well.

But luckily, at least he can move some heavy objects with magic.

He placed the Christmas tree in the position he had studied with Harry, and then took the tree decorations apart.

Moody watched him climb up and down alone, shook his head and reached out to pick up the rest of the decorations, helping him arrange them together.

Tom was amazed for a moment at the disorder of the house as he went downstairs.

Then he remembered that it was Christmas.

"Are you up?" Ron asked seeing Tom appear. His greatest achievement these days was to put away his unease when facing Tom.

I think he was the main force against Voldemort at the beginning, even Voldemort was not afraid, how could he be afraid of this little guy who didn't grow up-someone selectively forgot that it has been three months since he first met Tom , In other words, it took him three months to adjust his mood.

"Breakfast is in the kitchen. You may not be able to enjoy it here today. It's a bit messy here." Ron pointed to a pile of things under his feet.

Tom nodded, went into the kitchen and returned to his room with his own breakfast.

"How did Harry invite him?" This was something Moody had never understood.

"Who knows." Ron shrugged, "Harry's brain circuit has never been the same as mine."

Moody watched Tom disappear upstairs, lost in thought.

"Don't be dazed, give that to me..."

Tom was eating his breakfast peacefully in his room.

Today is Christmas, but in fact Christmas doesn't mean much to him.

When he was in the orphanage, Christmas could not bring them a little bit more bread or clear soup, nor could he save them from the labor he had to do every day. thirst for knowledge.

Christmas, for him, is not very special.

Tom washed the dishes after breakfast, then picked up a book of black magic that he had put on the shelf openly, and sat down on the wicker chair.

Before opening the book, he habitually looked out the window for a while.

From the second day Harry left, he began to look out of the window from time to time, as if as long as he looked there, a familiar and thin figure would appear in his sight.

But unfortunately, after so many days, there is still nothing.

The moment he opened the book, his eyes became dark.

He vaguely found out the reason why he was sensitive to black magic some time ago, because it was the aftereffect of making Horcruxes.

He needs to perfect the relevant content of the Horcrux, otherwise he is worried that he will have problems before he flies away from death.

"The longer the magic item has been handed down, the deeper the magic power is. It is not suitable for making Horcruxes, but if you can collect things from the Big Four, it is not impossible. Just be careful, or put the magic imprint on it It’s okay to eliminate it, but...except for Gryffindor’s, I don’t know where the others have gone. It seems that we need to search again, and there is still a year..."

There is still one year to graduate. He originally wanted to stay in Hogwarts after graduation. After all, staying in Hogwarts can get more information, but now it seems...

Harry wasn't that trash after all, he was doing well in class and the students liked him, so I guess he wouldn't have to leave Hogwarts anytime soon like that trash.

If Harry had stayed at Hogwarts, Hogwarts probably would not need to recruit because of the lack of professors, and with Ron as an assistant, even if a professor left, the headmaster would probably look at Harry's face Thinking about him, so he needs to get things sorted out at Hogwarts before he graduates.

If he can get the Boys' Council President badge next year, then...

Tom's eyes gradually drifted away, and some plans had already taken shape in his heart.

He needs to catch up with all the previous plans in this year and a half. If he leaves Hogwarts, it will be very difficult for him to intervene in Hogwarts affairs.

And I heard that Dumbledore should soon become the headmaster. That old guy has always been at odds with him. When he becomes the headmaster, he probably will be hindered in many of his movements.

Tom has been planning for the future all day, because of Harry's appearance, because of Harry's performance at Hogwarts, so it is estimated that it is impossible for him to apply for the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor after graduation Yes, the original plan needs to be revised. If possible, he must have all the news about the things left by the Big Four when he graduates.

Now that I think about it, even though he started to care about Harry, he hasn’t changed much. He is still the powerful student of black magic, ambitious but pretending to be gentle and elegant. Thinking about how to bring the original plan back on track.

Harry's appearance didn't change him too much.

Tom comforted himself in his heart.

At supper time, Ron knocked on his door.

This was the first time in so many days that Ron took the initiative to ask him to go down for dinner. Usually, Tom loved it like this.

"So?" He opened the door and looked at Ron with a cloudy expression on his face.

Ron's eyes wandered for a moment:

"Go down to dinner, Harry has something for you."

Even Tom didn't notice a gleam of joy in his eyes: "He's back?"

"No," said Ron, "but he had a message from the Patronus today asking me to prepare something for you."

Harry didn't come back, Tom was a little disappointed for no reason, but he was curious about what Ron said and asked him to prepare, so he closed the door and followed Ron down.

The first floor was decorated with festive colors by Ron, but Tom didn't like these colors. You must know that the Slytherin side is dominated by cool colors. So many bright colors appeared all at once, which really surprised Tom. Not used to, even every Christmas, Hogwarts Great Hall will be completely new.

Moody didn't go back, he still stayed here, and when he saw Tom coming down, he nodded as a greeting.

There is a cake on the table.

Tom looked at Ron and Moody suspiciously.

Ron touched his nose, and it seemed that it was difficult to speak, but he said it anyway: "Happy birthday."

Tom was really taken aback.

"Harry specially reminded me not to forget to celebrate your birthday. We went to order a cake in the afternoon. Forgive me, I'm not good at these." He can cook and so on, but not much. There are a lot of people in the family, and the money in the family is not too much, but at least his mother will not starve their brothers. The food made by his mother is delicious. With his mother, it is impossible for him to help in the kitchen. As far as Mom was concerned, it was just getting in the way—of course, not necessarily if Harry was in the kitchen.

He barely learned how to cook in recent years, and it's not bad that he can learn these things. When Harry sent the letter, he didn't expect Ron to make the cake himself, but just asked Ron to go to the cake shop to order one.

Of course, there was his situation, the information Hermione had sent, but these Ron didn't think he needed to tell Tom.

To be honest, when Harry sent the letter he thought he had read it wrong.

When he really saw that Harry really wanted to celebrate Tom's birthday by himself, he rolled his eyes involuntarily.

Without such a thing, asking him to celebrate the birthday of the future Voldemort is to celebrate that he is one year older, and the disaster of the wizarding world is about to come

The complaints are the complaints, and Ron finally went to order the cake.

Not to say that he was reluctant, although he had some grudges about Tom's future, but as Harry said, Tom was still a child.

Birthdays are a big event every year, not to mention birthdays are celebrated with Christmas.

Obviously, he should have had a happy birthday, but because of Tom's background and the place where he grew up, Tom couldn't spend his birthday well.

Even though his family has a large population, parents attach great importance to every child's birthday.

Birthdays are supposed to be fun, right?

Although Ron doubted whether he could see the expression called "happy" on Tom's face.

"Tom, come here." Ron said to Tom while putting on a candle.

Tom looked at the cake in front of him, and he felt that he couldn't figure out what kind of mood he was in.