Mentor and Friends

Although Harry hadn't been able to eat well for several days, he didn't gobble it up. On the contrary, he ate very little, even he ate very little. He just ate some pumpkin pie and some pumpkin juice. He didn't even glance at the other delicacies.

"You need to rest," said Ron.

"I know." Harry rubbed his forehead, "but before that, I have something to tell you, but I need to take a shower first."

He walked up the stairs holding his forehead, looking tired, which made Tom frown.

Ron briefly cleared the table, nodded to Tom, and followed Harry upstairs.

Tom sat there for a while before getting up.

Before entering the room, he took a special look at the closed door of Harry's room. There was a faint voice coming from inside. Tom couldn't hear it very clearly, but vaguely, he seemed to hear a name: Hermione.

Tom lowered his eyelids.

This name is often mentioned by both Harry and Ron, and the tone is full of smiles. Tom knows that they are very good friends, but Tom has never seen her, but she seems very important, even Harry Can't wait until Christmas to deal with her affairs.

Tom returned to his room, he took a brief shower and lay down on the bed.

After Harry came back, his faint heart was finally relieved, and then the exhaustion of these days surged up.

It's not yet eleven o'clock. Generally speaking, some families don't even rest until late at night in such a lively festival like Christmas. Tom knows that the neighbors around them are still celebrating Christmas. Because this area is a gathering place for wizards, so People don't shy away from using magic, but on Christmas Day, they will still combine their magic powers to make a powerful Muggle banishing spell, and then make their home more beautiful and more... in Muggle It seems unbelievable to the eyes.

Some children are still outside, playing with children's wands without cores under the supervision of adults. Wands without cores cannot play the role of channeling and guiding magic power at all.

But the adults are not worried.

Generally speaking, children are only worried if they have not experienced magic violence until they are 11 years old.

Before the age of 11, adults will not let children hold a magic wand. Every time a child's magic power erupts, it is a replacement of magic power. The magic power will be stronger than before.

These wands without cores only carry part of the child's magic.

For example, they are now making snowballs with magic wands under the guidance of adults-of course, no one knows how much of this is due to the intervention of adults.

Tom didn't open the window, but the laughter outside still spread into his eardrums one by one. Christmas is indeed a lively festival. In previous years when the children were in the orphanage, Christmas was what the children looked forward to the most, but often this day was different from Tom's. Nothing to do.

The entire Godric's Hollow, probably only their family, was completely silent during this time period.

But Tom didn't care about that.

In fact, for Tom, he couldn't imagine what it would be like if he went outside to learn how those children made snowballs. Maybe he was eager to go to the orphanage to play snowballs, but since he entered Slytherin , that kind of "childish" thought never appeared in his mind again.

But not going out to "play" doesn't mean he's having a boring holiday.

He picked up the obsidian Harry had brought back and looked at it carefully before his eyes. He couldn't deny that he was deeply fascinated by it.

He never thought that he could get this obsidian so quickly. He used to plan to wait until he graduated, and then he would look for it by himself when he became stronger.

He had just said something casually to Harry that day.

However, Harry actually gave it to himself as a birthday present.

As a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, it is impossible for Harry not to know the importance of obsidian.

This thing is not only useful in potions, but also very important in black magic, especially in...horcruxes.

Tom smiled slightly.

Only he could tell, whether it was because his plans for making the Horcruxes could be advanced a lot or because the gift was from Harry.

"Harry." When Harry came out of the shower, he saw Ron sitting on his bed with his legs crossed, holding a notebook.

"Is there anything strange about Tom these days?" Harry walked to Ron's side and asked.

"That guy stays in the room all day long, and I don't know what he's doing," Ron pouted. "It's you, how are you?"

"I'm a little tired." In front of Ron and Hermione, Harry never had to hide himself, "Hermione finally figured out a way to send a message, but we took most of the magic crystals with us when we left, so they are looking for The same amount of magic crystals as before, we probably couldn't contact them before that, Hermione asked me to pay attention to the soul piece on my forehead, no matter if there is any situation, I should pay attention to it, and she asked me to collect some materials for future use , after she figured out what kind of force we were drawn into this space."

When Queen Hermione spoke, no one dared to say "no". Although he didn't know what method Hermione used to convey the information, Harry intuitively thought that Hermione would not ask him to collect those things for no reason, maybe This is the boost for them to go back, so he has been trying his best to find the things Hermione ordered to find these days, and some things are even in places that are too dangerous. When he went to that forest, he always kept a high level of vigilance , The magic power consumed during this period was too great, which caused him not to have a good sleep.

But these days have been fruitful.

Harry picked up his magic bag and showed Ron what he had found during this period.

"Merlin." Ron looked at the things Harry took out with twitching corners of his mouth, "Don't tell me you looted Smallwellyn Forest." These things should be the specialty of that dark forest, right?

"Hermione told me to look for it." Harry shrugged.

"You won't ask me to go with you?" What if you are in danger?Ron, who had followed Harry into that forest, knew the danger of that forest well.

"It's winter now, and many animals are hibernating, even magical creatures. In winter, few dark wizards go in. After all, many things only appear in summer, so it's not dangerous there. There is someone to take care of Tom, isn't it?" Harry smiled, Hermione's message was indeed to let him take Ron with him, so that it would be easy to take care of him, but then he thought about it at that time, in winter, the forest Not much danger, and it didn't occur to Hermione that he'd invite Tom over for Christmas (or that it didn't occur to Hermione that Harry would meet Voldemort as a boy at all) and if he and Ron were gone, what would Tom do?

So Harry didn't ask Ron to go with him.

"……"take care of?In the past few days, the fact that he and Riddle met less than ten times each time for no more than one and a half hours is also called he is taking care of people?

Ron glanced at Harry and sighed deeply.

"Okay, okay, I can't say no to you." Ron stood up, "Go to bed early."

Harry nodded.

"By the way," Ron stopped suddenly when he reached the door, "That obsidian... are you sure it's okay to give him obsidian?"

"...I don't know, Ron." Harry said after a long silence, "I just think he is very similar to me." When he was in Dumbledore's class in the sixth grade, he felt that Tom and himself They are very similar, both have no parents, the same grew up under the oppression of Muggles, and the same... long for the approval of others.

"You'd feel sorry for him?" Harry remembered Dumbledore asking himself in surprise when he said Voldemort's mother wouldn't even live for her son.

How did you answer yourself at that time?

"No...just, I mean, she has a choice, doesn't she? Unlike my mother..."

Thinking about it now, that wasn't sympathy, it was just the surprise of feeling sympathetic.

"Well," Ron shrugged, "I hope your choice is right." He shook his head and walked out the door.

"Actually, many of the choices I made were wrong." Harry said to himself with a wry smile.

In the fourth grade, fifth grade, and sixth grade, he actually made many wrong choices. Even when he was looking for Horcruxes with Hermione and the others, he made many wrong choices.

Many people say that he has become another great wizard after Dumbledore, and that his decisions are always right, but they don't know that even Dumbledore makes mistakes sometimes.

"I just...wanted to do it."

In fact, thinking about it now, some of Snape's words were correct. He was indeed a very impulsive kid, always ignorant of the heights of the sky and the earth, and did things without considering the consequences.

Oh well, Harry Potter would never admit to the old Bat that he was right, but now that he was dead, he had to admit it a little bit in his heart.

But even Harry didn't expect that, when he and Ron were tired and preoccupied, neither of them noticed that a small snake was crawling towards Tom's room not far from his door.

【What did you hear? ] Tom stroked Nagini's body and asked.

It took Nagini a lot of time to wake him up from hibernation. He was ready for no news, but he still wanted to try to see if Nagini could hear useful news for him. .

[I heard a voice asking "Are you sure it's okay to give him obsidian?" Then another voice replied that he didn't know. ] Nagini's answerer Tom said, 【Then someone replied that they don't know. 】

Tom was taken aback.

Not sure if his obsidian will be safe in his hands, Harry actually gave the obsidian to himself?

[Later he also said "I just want to do it". ] Nagini continued.

Now Tom was completely stupefied.

So much so that he missed the information that Nagini reported back to him later. After Nagini finished speaking, seeing that Tom had no response, he went to sleep. You know, it should still be in hibernation during this time period and was woken up by Tom It's really not a good thing...

Tom picked up the obsidian he was carrying and stared at it without saying a word.

He thought Harry gave this to himself because he believed that he could control himself to do something without obsidian, but he never expected that Harry's answer would be this...

Just... wanting to do this?