Mentor and Friends

Tom's reappearance in the Slytherin dormitory reassured most people, at least, they knew that the head of the house was not murdered by someone, and that the head of the house was not injured or anything.

It seems that his dean has helped him explain during his absence, and he only needs to say that he is fine in the face of cryptic inquiries from his classmates.

The next day, when he appeared in the auditorium for dinner, many people came to congratulate him, after all, he was still very popular at Hogwarts.

While sitting at the dining table, he glanced at the teacher's seat, and saw that their new dean was talking to the teaching assistant, but it seemed that the teaching assistant's expression was not very good.

"It's really gratifying to see that Tom is fine." Principal Dippet waited for Harry and Ron to finish talking, then turned his head sideways, "Harry, I'm really sorry for your inconvenience."

"Where, I'm the head of Slytherin House now, so I want to give some special care to the students in my house, don't I?"

"Oh, yes, yes, it was a good decision to entrust these children to you, wasn't it?" Principal Dippet said with satisfaction.

Harry responded modestly.

Tom looked at everything above with cold eyes. If it hadn't been for this incident, he would have thought that this person was a simple and gentle person, but now it seems that this person is more scheming than everyone else. , I know how to use other words to bury the real situation.

In Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the morning, this guy was as gentle as ever, and he always had a way to make Gryffindors and Slytherins "peaceful", yes, at least in his class.

Even Slytherins have to admit that the professor's course is very interesting, and they like it without knowing it, although sometimes Gryffindors will complain that Harry assigns too much homework It will also make them agree.

Some studious students stopped Harry after class, and Harry answered all their questions gently.

Before Tom walked out of the classroom, he glanced at the podium. The man who was actually not a few years older than him was answering the students' questions with his always gentle smile.

Really hypocritical.

Tom thought so.

He went to the auditorium for lunch and then went to the library.

He urgently needs to look up some information about his own body and the sequelae of making that thing.

but……

Tom sat in the far corner of the library, feeling a little distressed.

The "those" should be found in the Forbidden and Books section. In the past, Professor Slughorn had approved his application slips, but that professor was so busy this semester that they sometimes even used Potions class. It needs to be changed to self-study.

And this situation means that he can't find anyone to approve his application. After all, what he is looking for is cutting-edge black magic. Apart from Defense Against the Dark Arts, potions, and spells, he doesn't think there are any other subjects that he needs. It involves these, and the trouble is that the most recent charm class is about attack magic, oh, how can he tell the professor that he will find a black magic book for reference while studying this?

"To better learn how to attack"?

Give me a break.

Defense against the Dark Arts is fine. The defense they have learned since the fifth grade is to learn how to resist the more advanced black arts. If the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts was not too negligent in his duties last semester, most people's defense skills are probably not good enough. To move up a notch.

but……

Want to find that person?

Tom asked himself inwardly.

But that person should already know that he has been exposed to black magic from the fact that he was injured, and he might not approve it for himself because of "for his own good".

Could it be that the next time Professor Slughorn appeared in class?

Merlin knew how long that would be.

While thinking wildly, he saw a person holding a few thick books coming out of the j□j area.

His messy hair made it easy for people to recognize him. He was holding a few books and talking to the librarian, as if he wanted to borrow these books from the library.

Tom looked at the few books in his hand, and found that there were not only black magic books, but also alchemy books.

The books about alchemy that can be placed in the forbidden and book areas are probably either human body alchemy or magic circle alchemy.

Professor interested in this?

As if feeling Tom's gaze, Harry turned his head and met Tom's gaze.

Tom felt that he seemed to see something like a sigh in the other's eyes, but when he looked carefully, he found that there was only gentleness and a smile.

Harry walked towards him, just in time to see his unfinished thesis spread out on the table, which was the homework he assigned today. At the same time, there were several books about defense against the dark arts and simple dark arts beside Tom Introducing the book.

"Tom likes Defense Against the Dark Arts?" Harry asked with a smile, "Mind if I sit across from you?"

Tom shook his head to show that he didn't mind, and he replied: "For a child from the Muggle world, everything in the wizarding world is so pleasing, because it's all so magical." He then looked at Harry's hand. "What about the professor, you like Defense Against the Dark Arts?"

"I think so," Harry put the book on the table, "I like to study these," he pointed to the book about the dark arts on the table, "and find ways to defend against it, yes, I like it .”

"It's hard to imagine, professor, that you would like to study black magic. I thought you would think it was dirty or dark, or that it was disgusting." These books introducing black magic, especially the books in the j□j area of ​​Hogwarts, From the words to the illustrations, there is nothing comfortable. It is hard to imagine that such a gentle person can read the introductions in these books.

"I do think about it when it's being used for bad things, so we need to stop it when they're not being used for bad things, so I'm working on Defense Against the Dark Arts, Dark Arts and Dark Arts while I'm working on them. Defense Against Magic is inseparable." Harry didn't open those cutting-edge books of dark magic in front of Tom, who seemed more interested in chatting.

"But not all dark arts have magic to defend against, do they?" said Tom.

"Yes." Harry nodded, "What's more, there are a lot of black magic with the ability to confuse, just from the description in words, it is enough to make people fascinated by it and desperately want to learn this black magic, but often Because I am too obsessed, I will be careless for a moment and never recover from it."

"So, what if you have made all the preparations in advance?" Tom asked, staring at Harry with his eyes darkened.

Harry shook his head: "Tom, you have to know that those black magic that can confuse people are usually in the forbidden and book area. Since it is in the forbidden and book area, it means that it needs to be banned and banned. , Don’t be seen by others, because it’s too dangerous, because it’s too dark, no matter how beautiful it is described in the book, it’s still very dangerous. Magic, never again. Until then, they insisted that they were not kin to trolls or ordinary people. They thought they were people who were going to achieve great things, but they were ruined by practicing those black magics. Those who can deceive people Black magic can be said to be defenseless. As long as people believe the written description, no matter what others say to them, it will be useless. Therefore, we need to prohibit this type of black magic, and we must also prohibit it. .”

Tom looked at Harry in surprise, and even his eyes were a little defensive.

For some reason, he always felt that the professor was warning him not to believe in the method that he believed in before he could take him away from death. The professor seemed to be warning him not to make Horcruxes, otherwise he would be doomed?

"Before then, they insisted that they were not kin of trolls or ordinary people, they thought they were people who were going to achieve great things, only to be doomed by practicing those dark arts" Harry said, which seems to be alluding to He himself, when he saw the warnings about the consequences of making Horcruxes in the book, didn't he just sneer?

Don't you also think that you can't be a close relative of a troll or an ordinary person?

but……

Tom glanced at Harry.

The professor's eyes were full of sadness at the memory of the past, and he seemed genuinely saddened by the fate of those he didn't know.

Is he careless?

It didn't take long for Harry to recover from being immersed in his own memories: "Well, Tom, I shouldn't scare you with those words, but you are a very good boy, and Professor Slughorn always praised me for being a good boy. What a smart and hard-working child, he said that you have read many, many books and worked harder than other children. I just hope that when you have to read those black magic one day, you can control your mind and not be confused , you know, that's a very sad thing, isn't it?"

"Thank you for your kindness, Professor." Regardless of whether the other party was sincere or not, Tom still thanked him on the surface.Just like a student thanking the professor for his care, suddenly, he thought of something and took out an application, "Then professor, if I say that I can insist on reading them just to finish my thesis better, would you Agree?"

It was an application slip for borrowing from the forbidden book section, and the books listed on it were all extreme introductions to black magic.

Harry looked at the application for a while, and Tom wasn't sure what he saw on his face, but he was sure he saw a fleeting moment of sadness.

Immediately, the professor in front of him laughed and took Tom's quill: "Of course, you are the best student at Hogwarts, I believe you are not?"

No one saw the sarcasm in Harry's eyes, not even Tom.

What is he doing now?The birth of the Dark Lord who contributed to this world?What a sarcasm.

Tom, who was approved, was indeed a little happy, so he ignored the abnormal emotion in Harry's eyes. Harry left with his book, and now he just wanted Ron to come back quickly. He really wanted to know, what was the thing he cared about? How is it.

After Harry left, Tom stared at his half-written paper in a daze.

These things were meant to be put on display, but unexpectedly they sparked a conversation about black magic, and I didn't expect that I could use them as bait to get approval to borrow books, although the professor seemed a little strange.

What Harry said began to echo in his mind, and he narrowed his eyes slightly while holding the approval note in his hand.

Was what that person said unintentional, or was it a warning?

at night:

Ron, who had disappeared for most of the day, appeared in the cellar with a bad expression on his face.

"How is it?" Harry was sitting at his desk grading papers, pausing when Ron entered.

"You guessed right Harry, the wand didn't respond." He returned the wand he took away today to Harry, and sat down on the sofa. "How did you find the difference?"

"Since I found out that Tom Riddle's wand is not a yew wand." Harry narrowed his eyes, slowly rubbing the wand in his hand, "Ron, you can never imagine how much I was at that time." Shocked, you see, nothing has changed, Tom Riddle's admission time, his rigid relationship with Dumbledore, his illusion of perfection, his outstanding ability, nothing has changed, and I thought nothing would changed, but I found the only change during his coma, his wand wasn't yew, not even thirteen inches, nothing changed, but his wand did."

"So you asked me to go to Diagon Alley with your wand, and find a way to test this matter."

He went to Diagon Alley and cast a spell Harry had taught him outside Ollivander's wand shop.

Harry sent Ron down to Diagon Alley with his holly wand, to check it out.

If there are still twin wands in the Ollivander Temple, no matter which one is there, my wand can sense it. If everything really turned around when Tom went to pick the wand, then it is very likely that the twin wands no longer exists.

As a result, the news that Ron brought back did confirm Harry's guess. The holly wand did not respond in any way, and it seemed that the two wands had never existed.

"Ron, are you saying that our arrival has changed the history, or the history here will not develop in the way we know?" Harry folded his hands on the table, his expression a little dignified.

"What did you think of?" Ron asked, sitting next to Harry. "Harry, I have to say that your instincts are always accurate, but I hope this time your hunch won't be too bad for us."

"I don't know, my only thought now is that we hurry up and find a way to contact Hermione, and then find a way to get out of here, I don't know if the change of his wand is a sign that history is different from what we know, I just know If we continue to stay here, we are likely to be the beginning of the change." Harry said and brought the books he borrowed from the library to Ron: "These are the cutting-edge alchemists I found from the library We all remember the magic circle that day, but we don’t know how the spar shifted due to the magic power shock, let’s find a way to pass the information to Hermione and then ask her about the magic circle.”

Hermione is such a smart person, she will definitely handle everything on the scene carefully when they leave due to an accident, and she will definitely not touch the spar on the magic circle when they have not returned, not only because she is afraid of them If you can't go back, you have to study according to the spar above.

So as long as Hermione can be contacted, everything will be easy to handle.

"Oh no." Ron said painfully, looking at the books Harry put on the table, "I don't understand why I still read these thick books after graduation, Merlin, you know even though I'm in school The information I found during my homework was not as good as this book."

With such a thick book, maybe only Hermione has the patience to finish it?

"Stop complaining, buddy." Harry patted Ron on the shoulder with a smile. "In order for us to go back sooner, you'd better finish it earlier."

"That's still jjj people's cutting-edge alchemy, which is very likely mixed with the temptation of black magic...Harry, you really don't worry that I will be tempted." He tried to break away from the fate of being buried.

"It's all right, buddy," Harry smiled without any pressure, "you can even get rid of the influence of the locket, and these books are of course not a problem."

"Merlin, Hermione, I miss you..."