Hogwarts: I am Voldemort.

Chapter 194 Tom Riddle: Heir of Slytherin
The research and development of magic spells is not easy. In the research of flying magic, Riddle suffered a lot.

This made him think for a while that he was able to create the Throat-Cutting Curse so quickly because of his talent.

Outside of the black arts, he might not have such a talent.

This self-denial gradually disappeared as the study of flying magic deepened.

Riddle is not the first person who wants to fly in the flesh. Someone put forward this idea when flying carpets were still popular in the world.

There is a legend that the maker of the first flying broom invented a flying broom that could fly more freely because of the failure to study this magic.

Riddle is certainly adequate in lust, but in the rhythm of the spells and wand waves that make up this magic, it's hard to get right.

For this reason, he even consulted a large amount of information on an organization called [Huan Ye] hundreds of years ago.

The Nightcallers are an anti-Muggle extremist group, and they manifest their hatred of Muggles in a particular way by not lifting, carrying or moving anything without the use of magic.

To put it simply, it is to use the Summoning Charm—also called the Flying Curse—in various situations that require hands-on action.

It is said that this organization disbanded because their founder, Gideon Flatworthy, used a summoning spell to summon gold and property in Gringotts' own vault, which caused the goblins to be angry and disbanded-the reason for its establishment is as weird as the reason for its dissolution .

Moreover, the founder was finally crushed to death for calling the barn and livestock.

The ins and outs of this organization look like a stage comedy.

But what should not be underestimated is that there is indeed a large amount of in-depth research on summoning spells in the literature left behind by them—Hogwarts began to use them in the late 70s, written by Miranda Gosack's "Standard Spells, Level [-]". The incantations of the Summoning Spell in " also borrowed from the content in this part of the material.

Starting with this spell, Riddle began to try to study flying magic that no one had ever researched before.

At first, he devoted almost all his enthusiasm here, but as the barriers in the research kept appearing, he had to give up the idea of ​​completing it immediately.

Slowly, he began to treat this research as a pastime, and began to study Hogwarts fifth and sixth grade courses ahead of time—he thought that the failure to produce results quickly was related to his lack of understanding of magic.

Because of this adjustment, his third-year life became peaceful again, and he even started to seldom participate in the affairs of the Cavaliers team.

All the time was occupied by study and research, and Riddle lived day and night that his little friends couldn't understand.

"If I live like Tom, I'd rather die."

Both Avery and Mulciber think so, and the two seniors are a little better. They entered the fourth grade, and they have already begun to compete for the position of the fifth grade prefect, and the school life has also begun to become busy.

Only Geraint Knott accompanied Tom every day, studying with him or studying magic.

The third grade passed by in a hurry. During the summer vacation, he visited several friends' families - he seemed to be deliberately building a future network of contacts for himself.

During the summer vacation of this year, he did not give up studying flying magic, but he still failed.

Turning around, it was already his fourth year in Slytherin, and except for the seventh grade, he had mastered all the content through self-study and consulting professors.

And the seventh year at Hogwarts...

There may be some more courses in a few decades, but in this era, there is no substantive teaching content, and everyone is more likely to seek jobs or be proficient in the application of magic at school.

Faced with such a situation, Riddle finally took his eyes off the book temporarily, and he began to pay attention to a story that has been circulating in Hogwarts for a long time:
According to legend, before Salak Slytherin and the other three founders parted ways because of their ideas, they left a secret room in the castle.

Of course, this is just a legend. Neither the other three founders nor the previous principals have ever expressed the existence of this secret room.

But within Slytherin, this statement is quite popular.

Riddle, who was proud of his Slytherin blood, decided to explore this legendary chamber of secrets.

Every day before Christmas in the fourth grade, he spent every day looking for places in the castle that looked special.

He even asked Professor Horace Slughorn, who loved him so much, for a note that would allow him to enter the restricted section of the library.

However, after several months of hard work, there was no result, and the secret room seemed to really not exist.

But he didn't give up because of this. He began to think, if he was a Slytherin and built such a secret room by himself, what kind of clues would he leave behind?

Soon, he guessed two extremely important and crucial clues:

Slytherin logo and Parseltongue.

So, he began to look for snake-shaped marks all over the castle, which once made Dumbledore, who was always paying attention to him, puzzled.

The professor even approached Riddle himself to ask what he was doing.

However, Riddle was no longer the man he had been years ago, and Dumbledore couldn't get anything he wanted out of his head.

As for appearances... Riddle was always smiling, humble, and well-mannered.

The two broke up unhappy, but Riddle was still obsessed with exploring the secret room.

He began to read the records in the books, explore the stories passed down by the students, and even discovered the Room of Requirement in the process.

However, that damned secret room seemed to hide from him, and always made him pay for nothing.

Until one day, he suddenly thought of a scene he had seen in the orphanage—a snake crawled into the toilet along the pipe, and the children at that time were terrified.

This made him start to search for the pipes in the castle, starting from toilets, bathrooms and other places, until one day, he finally found the mark he was looking for next to a water pipe in a women's toilet on the second floor.

"hiss~~"

With the word "open", the wall moved with a bang, revealing the deep corridor behind.

Facing this tempting secret room, Riddle did not lose his mind.

He closed the door of the secret room, went back and made preparations for half a month before coming here again and entering it.

In the secret room filled with green mist, he saw dusty, quaint tables, chairs and benches, and many books neatly placed on the bookshelves against the wall.

He fell in love with it right away, and couldn't wait to read those books.

However, before he could reach the bookshelf, the tall Slytherin statue slowly appeared from behind the green mist, and the figure made of green mist standing on the statue made him stop in surprise.

"Welcome, Heir of Slytherin." The green figure said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)