[HP] Dearest Enemy

Tom had always had a regular schedule, and Harry had been stealthy when he got back to the apartment.Sure enough, Tom was already in the bedroom, but the light was still on, and he was not asleep.

"Are you back, Harry?" The man's magnetic voice came from the small crack of the door.

"Well, I'm back." Harry replied as he pushed open the door, and saw Tom reading a book by the bedside lamp, Nagini occupied the most spacious corner of the bedroom and coiled himself , apparently already asleep.Tom nodded to him, and Harry didn't know what to say for a while, so he took his pajamas and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

After Tom wakes Nagini up in Parseltongue and chases the reluctant Miss Snake out of the bedroom, Harry walks in steamy.Tom looked at the young man who was wiping his wet hair with a towel, sighed and put down the book.

"I've said it many times, don't toss your hair like this."

"I forgot again." Harry stuck out his tongue at Tom, and sat obediently on the bed to let Tom dry his hair.Tom looked calm, but Harry gradually became restless.

"Sorry, forgot to come back earlier." Harry whispered, "I kept you waiting."

Tom smiled, steamed the remaining moisture from Harry's hair with magic, and patted his face: "I understand. I heard everything you said. It's getting late, go to sleep."

"Tom..." Harry opened his mouth, but Tom had already thrown the towel aside and lay down, so Harry had to close his mouth and lie down on his side, trying to speak several times, but he didn't know what to say.

"Good night, Tom," said Harry finally.

"Good night." Tom replied lightly.

However, after lying down for a while, Harry couldn't help getting up, turning Tom's face and turning to himself.

"Listen, you don't have to feel guilty about agreeing to let me go with you. Don't show such an expression. I know what you're thinking."

Tom looked at him for a while, then turned his head to the side: "I don't think so."

"You're not being frank." Harry frowned, "Don't always be like this."

Tom closed his eyes, and Harry sighed.

"It's really not your fault," Harry said, pressing a kiss on his lips, "Tom."

Tom sighed, and Harry curled his lips.

"So are you going to tell me next, you want to go home and have a look?"

Harry froze, then flatly denied, "I didn't."

Tom smiled and stroked his cheek: "It's time for you to go back and have a look, isn't it?"

Harry looked at him, and dropped his eyes a second later.

"I'll go with you," said Tom softly, and kissed Harry on the forehead.

"It's going to mess up our travel plans," Harry whispered.

"We have no plans for our trip, Harry," said Tom. "Now you should go to bed, little boy."

The weather in early autumn is as good as ripe apples, crisp and full of sweetness.Lily placed the refreshments and tea trays suspended on the tip of her wand on the table in the garden, then tapped the teapot, a stream of steam spewed out from the spout, and jumped up herself to pour tea into each fine porcelain cup.

"Would you like some sugar, Severus?" Lily sat down at the table and asked the man sitting next to her.

"No, thank you." The hook-nosed Slytherin declined stiffly, and the hostess didn't force her, and handed him the teacup herself.

Sirius sat aside and stared angrily at Snape, whose skin was glowing with unhealthy luster, and snorted loudly.Snape gave Sirius a white look through the curtain-like black hair on his cheeks, and picked up his teacup nonchalantly.

Regulus coughed lightly, Lupine and Lily looked at each other, and the latter shrugged.

"Have a cookie, Alyssa." Lily pushed the dessert basket towards Regulus' wife, "Today is your favorite flavor."

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Harry stood under a tree not far away, watching the people chatting and laughing at the table, and he was surrounded by sadness and contradictions.Tom looked at the young man beside him who was integrated with the environment, and gently held his hand.

"Go, they'll be glad to see you."

"No, I don't want to bother them," Harry whispered. "They're fine now, and that's enough."

"You should at least go and see your mother," Tom advised softly.

Harry pursed his lips and shook his head: "Not yet."

Tom sighed: "Go and see her, it's not difficult."

But Harry didn't answer, didn't move, just watched the people in the garden silently.Tom stood with him for a while, then tapped him on the shoulder at last, and Apparated.

Harry stood under the tree and watched until Regulus and his wife got up to say goodbye, Lupine pulled away Sirius who was still talking with Snape, and Lily finally followed Sirius in black robe After saying goodbye, he came out from under the tree to remove the illusion spell.Standing for a long time made his body stiff, but Harry soon stopped in front of his own fence.

Lily looked as beautiful as ever, only older.Harry watched her tidy up the teacups and tea trays, hesitating whether to knock on the door.

Lily turned her head suddenly, Harry was startled, subconsciously wanted to leave, but finally held back.

"Harry?" Lily straightened up and looked at him in surprise, "Is that Harry?"

"It's me, Mom." Harry said with difficulty, "I'm back."

Lily stared at him blankly for a few seconds, then put down the saucer in her hand and walked over quickly.Harry pursed his lips, opened the wooden door to the enclosure, and hugged his mother.

"I'm sorry, Mom, for worrying you." Harry whispered, burying his face in Lily's shoulder, hearing his mother sobbing softly.

Tom leaned on the sofa cushions of the old house with his eyes closed, and the setting sun shone into the room through the dark curtains, and it was still dark.Waiting for Harry to come back, Tom was growing drowsy and closed his eyes.Someone seemed to be moving around in the room. Tom wanted to open his eyes to see who it was, but his body seemed to be out of the control of his brain, and his eyelids were too heavy to lift.

There was only one person in the room, who had been walking up and down, talking, but Tom couldn't make out a word.The man came to Tom and touched his forehead very lightly, and Tom slowly opened his eyes.

The man in front of him had messy black hair, a pair of emerald green eyes behind a pair of round black-rimmed glasses, and his slightly long bangs covered the scar on his forehead.The man stared at him tenderly, with a slight smile on his lips.

"Harry..." Tom muttered his name and sat up, only to find that he was actually wearing Hogwarts school robes, and his voice returned to his youthful appearance.

"You fell asleep," said Harry gently. "You'll catch a cold if you sleep like this. I'll get you a blanket."

As the green-eyed man said, he straightened up and turned around. Tom grabbed his wrist hurriedly, and Harry had to turn around.

"what happened?"

Tom's lips moved, but he didn't know what to say.

"I'll be right back," said Harry, taking his hand slowly out of Tom's. "You wait here for me."

"No, don't go!" said Tom, grasping his wrists, and getting up. "Don't go."

Harry was slightly surprised, but turned around anyway.

"Harry, I..." Tom felt a blockage in his throat, making him speechless, "I... I'm sorry."

Those green eyes looked at him through the lens, as gentle as the winter sun: "I don't blame you. I never blame you, dear Tom."

Tom's body began to tremble, his throat slid a few times, and he lowered his head not daring to look at those green eyes again.Harry still had a faint smile on his face as he wiped away the tears from Tom's face.

"It's over, Tom. It's over, you don't have to blame yourself." Harry pulled him into his arms and comforted him softly.

Tom hugged the green-eyed man tightly, whimpering on his shoulder.

"I've been watching you," Harry said softly, "I'm always worried, I'm afraid you won't be able to get out of the shadow of the past like me. Don't do this, Tom, you have a new start, everything will get better."

"I'm not entitled to that, Harry, I'm not," whispered Tom. "I shouldn't have let him stay with me, but I don't want to let him go. I don't want to see him go. I'm afraid, Harry." , I'm afraid he will leave."

"He won't leave you," whispered Harry, "and neither will I. We're one, Tom."

"Harry." Tom lay on Harry's shoulder, sobbing.

"Don't cry, Tom," said Harry softly, his voice growing further away, "Don't cry..."

Tom opened his eyes suddenly, and found that he had fallen on the armrest of the sofa at some point, and it was already dark.The room was pitch black, and there was no one else but him.

It turned out that it was just a dream?

The quiet room suddenly felt suffocating, Tom stood up abruptly, opened the door and strode out.

It was completely dark as Harry helped Lily wash the dishes and chatted with his mother.The two talked so much that they ate dinner for three full hours.

"If you didn't write a letter every month, Sirius would definitely hunt you both all over the world." Lily said, "When Dumbledore told him he was going to explode, I have never seen He lost such a big temper. After that, he was lost for a long time, and that time was very difficult for us." Lily glanced at her son who was speechless with guilt, "But you wrote to us , let me know if you are still safe, I am already very satisfied."

"You...didn't blame me?" Harry looked at Lily uneasily.

"Of course." Lily said, "She ran away without telling me to my face. It really pissed me off."

Harry bowed his head in shame, but Lily laughed: "Okay, don't make a bad face, James will be sad. Have you finished washing the dishes?"

"It's all done," Harry replied in a low voice.

Lily directed the plates to jump into the clear water pool one by one and then hung them up to dry. She turned her head and glanced at the clock on the wall, slightly surprised: "It's already so late, are you going back tonight?"

Harry wanted to say yes, but felt he couldn't say it, and finally just nodded.

"After that? Where are you going?" Lily asked again.

"Continuing our journey," Harry said, "Cairo is the next stop."

Lily was silent for a few seconds: "When will you come back?"

"Uh..." Harry didn't know how to reply, "I'll be back as soon as possible."

Harry put his hand under the tap to wash it off, and Lily looked at her son's face with love and reluctance in her eyes.

"I'll see you often, Mum," said Harry. "I promise."

Lily touched Harry's face as she had done when she was a child, and shook her head.

"Although I don't agree, I won't interfere with your choice." Lily said softly, "As long as you live happily, that's enough, Harry."

Harry was still a little absent-minded when he returned to his old house in London, and stopped in surprise when he reached the porch.Tom sat on the porch steps with a very old wooden pipe, looking at something and not at all.

"Tom, why don't you go in?" Harry asked, sitting down on the steps beside him.

"I don't want to be alone in there," answered Tom softly, holding his pipe in his hand.

"I didn't know you still smoked," said Harry.

Tom snorted softly, but didn't answer.

"Harry, have you ever regretted it?" Tom asked suddenly, "regretted being with me?"

Harry glanced at him, shook his head, "No."

Tom smiled: "I still remember what you said to me in the Forbidden Forest."

"I haven't forgotten," said Harry, taking the pipe out of Tom's hand and looking at it, raising an eyebrow. "Empty?"

"It's your thing. I never smoke," Tom replied.

Harry understood immediately, and put the empty pipe in his mouth.

The two sat side by side, the night wind in early autumn carried a faint chill, but it was not as cold as the winter wind.

"I never regretted meeting you, Tom," said Harry finally.

Tom looked at the young man beside him, and took his shoulders: "Me too."

THE END

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The timeline in the original HP

Trivial events before 1900

Ollivander began making wands in 382 BC.If you don't count the Egyptian pyramid magic mentioned by Ron, this is the earliest event that our aunt JK can detect.

In 962 AD, wizards in Europe began to use broomsticks.But the brooms back then were very uncomfortable to ride, far inferior to the Firebolts of today, as evidenced by a German manuscript, which records that three wizards got off the brooms, all of them were extremely uncomfortable.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was established before 993 AD.The European society at that time was extremely hostile to magicians. This situation led to the decision of the four most talented wizards at the time to open a wizard training school away from Muggles. These four wizards were: Godric Gryffindor , Rowena Ravenclaw, Salazar Slytherin and Helga Hufflepuff.They should also live in the 10th to 11th centuries AD.A few years after Hogwarts was founded, Salazar Slytherin built the Chamber of Secrets at the school and eventually left the school.

1000-1100 AD (11th century) The Quidditch movement began to emerge.This is courtesy of the writing of Gerty Kidder.From her diary we learn that the sport of Quidditch originated in a place called Quidditch Marsh, which is why the sport got its name.Of course, her record has become a well-preserved cultural relic now.

In 1163 AD Puddlemere United was formed.It is the oldest team in the Quidditch League.

The Holyhead Harpies were formed in 1203 AD.This team only recruits witches, and the well-known member of the Slug Club, GJ, is the team's current captain.She is Slughorn's lover.

Floo powder was invented by Ignace Wellsmith in 1227 AD.

The Golden Snitch was introduced to Quidditch in 1269 AD, which later evolved into the third ball in Quidditch: the Golden Snitch.

The Triwizard Tournament was established in 1294 AD.It is a traditional match between the three European schools of wizardry, Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang.

Nico Flamel was born in 1362 AD.He is currently the only known creator of the Sorcerer's Stone, and a good friend of Dumbledore's.

The first Quidditch World Cup was held in 1473 AD.One game at this World Cup will go down in history as one of the most violent ever.

Nearly Headless Nick was decapitated in 1492 AD.Before that his name was Sir Nicholas of Mimsy Popington.

1550-1620 A.D. St. Mungo's Magical Hospital was established.The hospital was called St. Mungo's because its founder was named Mungo Bonham.

Goblin rebellion in 1612 AD.They used the Hogsmeade tavern as their headquarters during the rebellion.

In 1637 AD, the "Werewolf Code of Conduct" was published.

In 1692 AD, the International Federation of Wizards held a summit, and this important meeting reached the Wizarding Secrets International Act.They listed 27 kinds of animals as magical creatures that cannot be detected by humans, and this number has been increasing since then.

In 1790, the wizarding conference outlawed keeping dragons.This later became a well-known prohibition.

The new Minister for Magic, Logan Stump Merchant, in 1811 AD.His great achievement was to issue a decree defining the distinction between humans and animals, the first definition accepted by most members of the wizarding world in centuries.

Albus Dumbledore was born in 1844 AD.

Albus Dumbledore entered Hogwarts' Gryffindor College in 1855.

Before Voldemort was born

(1900-1949)

Frank Bryce was born in 1917.He is the official price of the Riddle House.

Minerva McGonagall was born in 1925 AD.

Tom Marvolo Riddle was born in 1927 AD.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them first published in 1927

Rubeus Hagrid was born on December 1928, 12.

Her husband and children abandoned by Hagrid's mother in 1931 AD.Hagrid was 3 years old this year.

Minerva McGonagall entered Hogwarts' Gryffindor College in 1936.

In 1938, Dumbledore went to the orphanage to pick up Tom Marvolo Riddle to go to Hogwarts.He was sorted into Slytherin house.

In 1939, Riddle heard about the legend of the Chamber of Secrets and decided to find it.

Rubeus Hagrid entered Hogwarts' Gryffindor College in 1940.

Hagrid's father died in 1941-1942 AD.

In 1943, Riddle opened the Chamber of Secrets and released the basilisk hidden in it.Hogwarts student Myrtle is killed by a basilisk.

On June 1943, 6, Hagrid was accused of releasing the monster in the Chamber of Secrets, so he was expelled from school.Riddell received the Special Contribution Award to the school.

In the summer of 1943, Riddle murdered his father and grandparents at the Riddle House in Little Hangleton.

In September 1943, Riddle created his diary and turned it into a Horcrux.

In 1945, Dumbledore defeated the dark wizard Grinwald.Coincidentally, Hitler was also defeated by the anti-fascist camp in the Muggle world this year.That same year Riddle left Hogwarts and became Voldemort.

The Dark Ages Under Lord Voldemort

(1950-1990)

Rita Skeeter was born in 1951.

"The Magical Quidditch Ball" was first published in 1952.

Lucius Malfoy was born in 1954 AD.

McGonagall began teaching at Hogwarts in December 1956, when she was 12 years old.

Severus Snape was born on November 1960, 11.

Also born in 1960 AD were James Potter, Lily Evans, Sirius Black, Remus Lupine, and Peter Pettigrew.

Barty Crouch Jr. was born in 1962.

Lucius Malfoy entered Hogwarts in 1965.

Arthur Weasley married Molly Pruvitt in 1969.

Dumbledore became the Headmaster of Hogwarts from 1970 to 1971 AD.

Bill Weasley was born on November 1970, 11.

Stan Thorpak was born in 1974 AD.

Mundungus Fletcher was banned from the Hog's Head in 1975.

Sirius, James, Lupine and Peter Pettigrew became Animagus in 1975 AD.

Oliver Wood was born in 1976 AD.

Percy Weasley was born on August 1976, 8.

In September 1976, Sirius, James, Lupine and Peter Pettigrew created the Marauder's Map.That same month Sirius Black left his Black family.At the same time, the Black family no longer recognized him as a member of the family.

In September 1977, James and Lily were elected as the presidents of the male and female student unions.Cedric Diggory was born that same month.

Angelina Johnson was born in October 1977.

George and Fred Weasley were born on April 1978, 4.

In the autumn of 1979, Zhang was born.

Peter Pettigrew began tipping Voldemort in 1979.

Hermione Granger was born on September 1979, 9.

In 1980, Regulus Black was killed by Voldemort for trying to leave the Death Eater organization.That same year, Karkaroff and Dolorev, fellow Death Eaters, were arrested and sent to prison in Azkaban.

Susan Bones and Draco Malfoy were born in 1980 AD.

In 1980 AD Dumbledore interviewed Sybill Trelawney, who made a crucial statement.

Ron Weasley was born on March 1980, 3.

Dudley Dursley was born on June 1980, 6.

Neville Longbottom was born on July 1980, 7.

Harry Potter was born on July 1980, 7.

Snape began teaching at Hogwarts in 1981.He started with Defense Against the Dark Arts, but Dumbledore made him teach Potions instead.

Ginny Weasley was born on August 1981, 8.

On October 1981, 10, the Potters used the loyalty spell, and Peter Pettigrew became their secret keeper.

Voldemort was defeated on October 1981, 10 AD.

On November 1981 (or 11), 1 AD, Peter Pettigrew made a tragedy and pretended to be killed.Sirius was wronged.

On the evening of November 1981, 11, Hagrid sent Harry to Professor Dumbledore.Harry was placed with the Dursleys.

Bill Weasley entered Hogwarts' Gryffindor College in 1982.

In 1984, Charlie Weasley entered Hogwarts' Gryffindor College to study.

In 1985, Sirius Black's mother died.

Percy Weasley entered Hogwarts' Gryffindor College in 1987.

Bill became the president of the school student union in 1988.

In 1988, George and Fred Weasley entered Hogwarts' Gryffindor College to study.

Cedric Diggory and Angelina Johnson entered Hogwarts in 1989.The former was assigned to Hufflepuff and the latter to Gryffindor.

From 1989 to 1990, Professor Quirrell met Voldemort.

How the timeline is determined

There is no direct chronology for Harry's six years at Hogwarts, except for those ancient events that have a definite date. Fortunately, the only one that appears in the text of "Harry Potter" Point of speculation - but this one is enough.In Chamber of Secrets, our hero Harry attends the 6th anniversary party hosted by Nearly Headless Nick, and on the cake we read: "Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Popington died in October 500, 1492." Adding 10 years to that date, the death anniversary party was held - October 31, 500, when Harry was in his second year at Hogwarts.

So the day when Harry was studying at Hogwarts was determined, and the time of Voldemort's gains and losses was also determined.The whole story is printed on the real timeline.In this sense, we are all grateful to "Nearly Headless Nick" for his selfless help.