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In the next few days, Tom really imprisoned Ginny in the room as he said, forbidding her to take a step, and he himself never stepped into Ginny's room.The news of her being under house arrest quickly spread among the Death Eaters, causing some people to gloat.However, Lucius still cautiously waited and watched, and didn't make any comments on it.But the strange thing is that Bella didn't continue to slander Ginny after the first few days of complacency, but just fell silent.

As September approached, facing the chaotic wizarding world, Dumbledore hesitated again and again, but decided that Hogwarts would start school on time.And Snape followed Lucius to the Riddle Mansion for the first time before school started, and reported to Tom what he had learned about the so-called traitor these days.

Compared with the violence of the main soul, Tom is obviously much calmer and more elegant.After hearing what Snape had done about the main soul recently, Tom raised the corners of his mouth, with a hint of contempt in his eyes: "Severus, all the recent plans of that traitor revolve around finding ways to use magic Do you want to capture the prophecy ball?"

"Yes, Master." Snape bent down again, and said in a flat voice, "He wants to find out whether the savior really exists in that prophecy."

"Severus, you've done a good job." Tom nodded slightly to Snape, and said a word of appreciation, "As for the next thing, I will arrange it. If he really wants to go to the Ministry of Magic to grab the prophecy ball , you can find an excuse not to follow as much as you can.”

"I understand Master, I will try my best to stay at Hogwarts." Snape saluted again, then turned and left the hall under Tom's signal.

After walking out of the mansion, Snape met Lucius who was already waiting at the door, and the latter asked nervously, "How is it, did the master give you any new orders?"

Snape shook his head: "No, but it seems that the master is going to take some action on the other."

Lucius nodded knowingly, without asking any more questions, the two walked towards the gate in silence.When he walked to the door, Lucius glanced back at the main house, and then glanced back at Snape: "Be careful."

"I understand, and you too." Snape nodded slightly at Lucius, knowing that he was referring to the difficulty of his current double agent status.It's just—he smiled wryly—Lucius didn't know yet, but in fact, he was already carrying the mission of a triple agent.Finally, following Lucius' gaze at the still brightly lit house, Snape suddenly pointed to the only lit room on the second floor, seemingly inadvertently: "Who's there? Could it be that Weasley's house?" Where does your little girl live?"

"Yes, she and the master live here now." Lucius said casually.

"Then why didn't you see her in the hall today?" Snape stared thoughtfully at the lighted window.

Lucius hesitated for a while, with a look of hesitation, and finally said vaguely: "Master has been suspicious of her recently, so she is forbidden to go downstairs."

Seeing the flickering look in Lucius' eyes, Snape immediately guessed the possible situation.He didn't ask any more questions, but just greeted Lucius: "Then I'll go back first, goodbye!" As Lucius watched him off, he immediately Apparated and left the range of the Riddle Mansion.And Lucius stood alone in the dark for a while, finally exhaled lightly, and walked back into the hall.

With Snape's information, Tom immediately started to arrange for the capture of the prophecy ball.Since he preemptively deployed manpower in the Ministry of Magic, he had a favorable situation, so he calmly made a plan, determined to deal a psychological blow to the main soul, and let him feel the taste of failure.

So, on September [-], when Hogwarts started school, when all the Aurors were nervously dispatching to protect Harry, Voldemort led all the Death Eaters who were loyal to him, and broke into the obvious defenders. Inadequate Ministry of Magic.There was only a small amount of resistance encountered along the way, and he was easily swept away by him.When he finally entered the Department of Mysteries and found the glass ball with his and Harry's names written on it, he reached out, took the dirty little ball, and immediately left with all the Death Eaters. Ministry of Magic.

After hearing the news, Fudge came and only saw the mess all over the place, and the empty shelf where the prophecy ball was originally placed.Fudge stared at the ruined room for a while with tangled eyes, and finally waved his hand weakly: "Check, check for me, who did it." Everyone behind him nodded yes, but everyone said yes. I know that there is no one else except Voldemort for this move, but no one dared to say the name, let alone actually find out where Voldemort is, so he could only follow Fudge's words, pretending to know nothing and preparing to split up. Channa knows the result.

When everyone turned to leave, a tall man with a sparse black mustache who walked last looked back at the empty shelf again, showing a strange smile.A man walking in front of him noticed that he had stopped, so he couldn't help but turned around and called out in confusion, "McNeil? Walton McNeil?" The man called Walton McNeil suddenly turned back. Turning his head, pretending that nothing had happened, and smiling at him apologetically: "It's nothing, I'm just curious and have a look again." After speaking, he quickly walked a few steps to follow, and walked out side by side with the man who called him just now Department of Mysteries.

Immediately after Apparating back to the temporary foothold, Voldemort swung all the Death Eaters back.Then, he took out the prophecy ball he had snatched, and under the jumping candlelight, he spun around and looked at the shimmering light inside the ball, showing a ferocious smile, and his scarlet eyes gleamed proudly: "Finally found the ball." , Harry Potter, savior, what exactly do you portend?" He said, throwing the glass ball to the ground.

The moment the fragile glass ball touched the floor, it immediately shattered into pieces, and at the same time, a puff of silvery white smoke floated up. Voldemort stared intently at the puff of smoke, waiting for the prophecy stored within it.However, as the smoke cleared, there was no sound from inside, let alone any prophecy. Voldemort leaned over in disbelief, but saw a piece of paper lying quietly among the broken glass all over the floor.He stretched out his pale hand, picked up the note, and suddenly saw his familiar yet unfamiliar handwriting on it, his handwriting when he was 16 years old, the beautiful cursive characters with a hint of irony:

For the main soul:

Unfortunately, the prophecy you wanted was not shown to you in the end, which disappointed you, and I apologize.However, only you will still believe in it, and will regard a newborn child as an opponent, and even waste more than ten years for this. Regarding this stupid behavior, I can only attribute it to Merlin's cold joke.Perhaps, as I once told you, I was you once, but you will never be me in the future, so your doomed failure will herald a future of my victory.In fact, I think your experience may be the best prediction for me. Of course, it is the opposite prediction.

your tom marvolo riddle

After reading this note, Voldemort's eyes became more and more bloody, and finally twisted his face, roaring and burning the note with "blazing flames".Sitting on the chair and panting for breath, he finally clenched his hands slowly, and said through gritted teeth: "Tom Marvolo Riddle!" Word by word burst out between the teeth, full of deep-rooted emotion. Hatred, the name he abandoned has always represented bad memories, and now the past with this name has even become a real existence against him, and this feeling makes him even more annoyed.He suddenly got up and walked out of the room, he was determined to implement the plan that he had laid out for a long time, and implement it as soon as possible, so as to teach that ignorant soul piece a severe lesson.

At the same time, in the Riddle mansion, Tom was holding a glass ball with the same appearance in his hand, leaning lazily on the back of the chair, guessing that the prophecy ball that the main soul saw was fake What a wonderful expression it will be.The prophecy ball can only be taken off the shelf by the person involved in the prophecy, but he is also the person involved in the prophecy, isn't he? What Voldemort represented was not just the main soul. Therefore, he had already exchanged the prophecy ball through his influence in the Ministry of Magic, leaving a fake one as a gift for the main soul.

Throwing the glass ball casually on the ground, he waited with great interest for the prophecy to emerge.However, when the silver-white figure of Sybill Trelawney appeared in front of him, he could only see her lips opening and closing, but could not hear any sound.Tom leaned forward with some doubts, but found that Trelawney's figure faded away, and finally melted into a thin gas, disappearing without a trace.

This is how the same thing?Tom looked at the pool of shards of glass on the floor in surprise, wondering why the prophecy suddenly disappeared.With a wave of his wand, he cleared away all the shards of glass, wondering what this strange phenomenon might mean.Perhaps, the only possible explanation is that the prophecy has been invalidated due to his unexpected resurrection?In that case, Dumbledore's motivation to block possible new prophecies is somewhat doubtful.Tom wondered uncertainly, could it be because Dumbledore didn't figure out what the new prophecy implied, so he didn't make it public at all?

Unable to find an answer for a while, Tom could only put the question aside for the time being, thinking about trying to find a way to confirm his guess, and see if he could take advantage of the situation and create some new favorable conditions for himself.His fingers tapped on the table unconsciously. He always felt a little restless these days, as if he had been worrying about something inexplicably, and facing this somewhat chaotic situation rarely made him feel a little bored, like It's the same as missing any key factor that can make him think calmly.

Apart from power and power, Tom didn't understand what he was longing for for the first time, so he simply got up and pushed open the window, looking out at the dark sky without stars and moon, and the desolation stretching far into the distance shrouded in the night.It was very quiet all around, and no sound could be heard.Except for the light from the study where he was, only Ginny's room next door was still lit.

Thinking of Ginny, Tom felt an inexplicable irritability again. He knew that now was the time for him to win her over, to show her his generosity and disregard for previous suspicions, and to try to get her gratitude and loyalty.However, thinking that Ginny had been trying to betray him, and even tried to use the main soul to hit him, he felt extremely unforgivable.He seemed to be unable to use any of the usual methods of subduing followers on Ginny, but he didn't want to just kill Ginny just like that.This conflicting feeling never appeared on him, so he simply chose not to see Ginny again, but only stayed in a house, separated by an indifferent distance.

In the following days, in order to find out the truth of the failure of the prophecy, Tom can only choose to go out to investigate in person. After all, it is related to the soul of the Lord. If the Death Eaters are to investigate, it will cause a lot of inconvenience and make people suspicious.However, thinking of Ginny who was locked in the Riddle Mansion, he purposely strengthened the defense at the door.But after going out for a few days, seeing that there was no trace of attempted destruction on the defensive magic, Tom knew that Ginny did not try to escape, and thought that even if she escaped, she would indeed have nowhere to go, so perhaps he chose to stay. In the Riddle mansion, he also relaxed his vigilance a little.

When the weather gradually turned cooler and October came, Ginny was used to staying in the room, reading a book to pass the time.Tom has never seen her face to face, but he has been paying attention to her secretly.But Ginny never seemed to be in a hurry, nor did she try to talk to Tom, but spent her days peacefully.

One day when Tom went out again, Ginny ushered in an unexpected guest.Through the door, Bella's slightly arrogant voice sounded: "Weasley, are you still alive?"

Facing her provocative tone, Ginny did not show any anger. She just flipped through the book in her hand and raised her voice indifferently to respond, "Mrs. Lestrange, what advice do you have?"

Hearing the coldness in Ginny's words, Bella almost turned around and wanted to leave.But she seemed to remember something in the end, took a deep breath, and suppressed her anger: "I just came to ask you if you want to leave here."

"Leave here?" Ginny seemed to ask indifferently, "Do you want to help me leave? Do you know how to leave?"

"Yes, if you want to leave, I can let you go now." Bella explained impatiently, "Of course I have my sources, I already know how to break these defensive spells, now I come to you , is to be sure to take you away."

"Oh, what's the reason?" Ginny still responded in a leisurely tone, "Why did you save me? Or, you didn't actually want to save me, but just wanted me to get out of here? That would at least give me A reason."

A hideous look flashed across Bella's eyes, but in the end she frowned tightly and deliberately replied in an emotionless tone: "I don't like you, you know that. So, I hope you can leave Master and walk away." The farther the better."

"Then how do I know that you didn't want to take the opportunity to kill me after taking me out of here?" Ginny asked a sharp question.

"If I killed you, wouldn't the master not be able to find out?" Bella said with a gloomy expression, "Only if you leave far away, can the master not be deceived by you completely and lead us to make the right choice."

"Or, only if I run away can I show my guilt and make him hate me completely, and maybe even kill me himself if he has the chance?" Ginny seemed not afraid at all, with a joking tone He lightly described the most likely actions Tom would take after she escaped.

"Then do you think that if you stay like this forever, the master won't kill you someday?" Bella seemed to have lost her patience, "Are you going or not? If you don't, forget it, goodbye!"

"Wait a minute!" Ginny suddenly stopped Bella, and Bella outside the door suddenly showed a triumphant smile after hearing Ginny's persuasion.Through the door, the two couldn't see each other's expressions, but they could only speculate on each other's intentions based on their past understanding.After being silent for a while, Ginny seemed to have finally made up her mind, and said word by word: "Mrs. Lestrange, I'm going with you."

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So, everyone guessed, was Ginny fooled?