[HP] Dearest Enemy

The red light was particularly dazzling in the night, and the man hit by the light beam fell limply to the ground.A tall man wearing a strange robe came out of the darkness, carelessly grabbed the unconscious man by the collar, and dragged him into the alley where he was hiding.

"Just because you want to stun me?" Alex kicked the unconscious man hard, "You should be glad I didn't kill you, idiot!"

After kicking the unconscious stalker aside, Alex raised his wand to his chest, looked around vigilantly at the entrance of the alley, and then walked quickly to the depths of the alley.After turning seven or eight corners, Alex reconfirmed that there was no one following him, and then Apparated into another alley in the darkness.It was a dead end, and Alex quickly came to the end.He drew something on the hard wall with his wand, then put the wand away and walked straight through the wall.

As soon as he entered the door, a cold thing pressed against Alex's temple, and at the same time Alex found that except for his mouth, other parts of his body were frozen.

"Who are you?" a hollow voice from the iron pipe asked in the darkness.

"Alex Palampeon, I am a friend of Harry Potter." Alex replied.

"prove."

"Tom Riddle's Christmas present was a Muggle camera."

The feeling of being restrained subsided, and the weight on his head disappeared.Only then did Alex realize that his palms were covered with sweat, he took a few deep breaths, and walked forward.

"Aaron, I heard you coming." A door swung open, and a warm yellow light instantly illuminated the darkened porch.A figure with a disheveled head appeared at the door, his tired face was full of smiles, "Come in, I just made a pot of tea."

"What's that thing at the door?" Alex walked into the room, looking at the owner who was closing the door, "The one pointing at my head?"

"A revolver, a kind of Muggle weapon." Harry waved his wand, and a teacup flew to the teapot by the stove, catching the liquid poured from the spout, "Do you want to add sugar?"

"Add two spoons." Alex sat down on the wooden chair by the table, and Harry cleaned up the messy papers on the table, and put the quilt in front of his friend.

"Not being followed?"

"Someone tried to cast the Imperius Curse on me, but I knocked him unconscious, and now he is lying like a dead dog in the alley outside Liujie Street." Alex took a sip from his teacup unceremoniously, satisfied Exhaled deeply, "When did you move here?"

"I've lived here less than a month," Harry replied. "My cabin was attacked by a dark wizard two months ago, and I had to move."

Alex was shocked, and asked quickly: "You weren't found, were you?"

"No, I wasn't there." Harry said nonchalantly, "It's just that I had to start from scratch. Fortunately, this time I know how to do it, and it's much faster than the last time."

"Your experiment was sabotaged?" Alex asked eagerly. "Are you injured?"

"I wasn't the one who got hurt." Harry smiled wryly. "I heard that two of the people who broke into my house still haven't regained their sanity. It's just a pity that some of the materials I collected were from my own life." Rare things from Finland, it’s not easy to find the same thing again.”

Alex breathed a sigh of relief: "Go back and continue your research, it's too dangerous here."

"It's relatively safe here for the time being, and I've started to redo that experiment," Harry said cheerfully, "I think it'll only take a few months to finish this time."

"You're not going back yet?" Alex sighed.Harry's face was full of tiredness, and he was more haggard than when he saw it half a year ago, and there was already a shadow under the green eyes behind the lens, "You don't look very good."

"There's not much I want in there." Harry shifted into a more comfortable position. "That's why I'm here. It's nothing to me, Aaron, to have a safe place where I can continue my work." Research, this is much more comfortable than fleeing to another place every other day."

Alex wanted to refute, but was preempted by Harry, "You know, the time-turner has been developed, just last month. I got one from the black market, please wait a moment."

Harry went out and Alex heard him coming upstairs.Annoyed that this man still didn't take his health seriously, Alex scanned the messy room.This was supposed to be a Muggle house, and this room was supposed to be the kitchen. Harry piled all the miscellaneous things into a corner, leaving only this wooden table full of papers, a few chairs, and Simple kitchen.

Presently Harry came down the stairs, clutching a small shiny gold timepiece attached to a slender gold chain.

"This thing has a lot of flaws." Harry said regretfully, "I can only use it to travel for 24 hours at most, which is far from the length of time I want."

Alex took the timer and looked at it carefully for a while, then gave it back to Harry: "How long do you want to travel?"

"Probably decades," Harry said casually, with an unnatural smile.He put the timer back in his pocket, "What are you doing in Germany?"

"Travel, and help Dumbledore inquire about something by the way." Alex didn't seem to notice Harry changing the subject, "I can't stand the nagging of the old man at home."

"Mr. Palampion's request is not too much." Harry said slowly, "After all, you are the only heir of Palampion."

"I'm not the only one. My cousin Lowell was born last month, so I sneaked out. I don't want to be bored to death with family affairs." Alex frowned, carrying his teacup.

Harry shrugged and took a sip from his teacup irresistibly.

"Muggles are preparing for war?" Alex looked at Harry. "The situation was not as severe as it is now last year."

"Yes." Harry replied with a sullen face. "Actually, wizards are relatively easy to deal with, while Muggles are a little troublesome. Those Nazis are even more cruel than dark wizards. You haven't seen what they did to those poor Jews." ..."

Harry stopped talking and sighed heavily: "What are you going to do for Dumbledore?"

"Find out for him what Grindelwald's wizards are doing, and the whereabouts of the Dark Lord himself." Alex said casually, "Actually, this is just what I told my father, Dumbledore doesn't need me Really going to be a spy. He doesn't seem to be planning to do anything to Grindelwald, just staring at him."

"Dumbledore's organization is called the Order of the Phoenix, isn't it?" Harry asked.

"Organization?" Alex thought for a while, then shook his head, "He didn't set up any organization, he just ordered so."

Whether it was the light or not, Alex felt that Harry looked confused and puzzled.

"It's already so late." Harry looked at his watch and stood up from his chair. "I'm going to tidy up the next room for you. You don't need to perform Dumbledore's mission tonight, do you?"

Alex shook his head: "I don't have anywhere to go. If you want, I think I can help you."

"Thank you for your kindness, Aaron." The green-eyed man smiled, "But I don't want anyone to participate in my research."

"Oh, I'm sorry," Alex said.Although he knew that nine times out of ten he would be rejected, Alex still felt a little lost.

Alex watched in amazement at Harry's skillful tidying of the room, and exclaimed: "You are very skilled, buddy."

"If you raise a child from birth until he enters Hogwarts, he will be just as proficient." Harry smiled, "Aaron, I didn't ask you just now, is Tom okay?"

"He's fine, but he's angry with you." Alex recalled Tom's sly smile, and looked at the man who was making the sheets, "You don't intend to give up his custody, do you?"

"Why should I give up Tom's custody?" Harry straightened up. "Even if he's an adult, I'll keep an eye on him. Where do you always hear that?"

"Tom said it himself. He said you didn't want him."

"This kid." Harry shook his head helplessly, "When will he trust me once?"

"He also asked me to bring you a message." Alex coughed lightly, perfectly imitating Tom's pretended indifference, "I will take good care of myself as he expected!"

Alex thought Harry would laugh, but he saw that Harry's face became more and more serious, and his expression seemed regretful and disturbed.

"Harry?"

"Sorry." Harry curled his mouth reluctantly and patted him on the shoulder, "It's time to rest. Good night, Aaron."

Alex took up residence at Harry's house.Harry locked himself in the upstairs studio almost every day, and basically never went downstairs except to eat and go to the bathroom, and he often didn't go to rest until late at night.Sometimes Harry would disappear for a day or two and come back with some potion ingredients or something.Alex has almost nothing to do. Apart from reading the newspaper every day, he wanders around the city and inquires about various news.Harry's experiment seemed to be making little progress, and he became more and more silent at the dinner table, and his face became more and more grim.Alex was a little anxious, so he picked up a topic that Harry was interested in secondarily besides research.

"Have you been writing to Tom lately?"

"No." Harry replied dryly, froze when he heard Tom's name.

"Why didn't you contact him?" Alex frowned, "He's very worried about you."

"The owl will be intercepted by the dark wizard." Harry said a little gloomily, "I don't want to contact the kid, after all he... I tried using owls or other birds, but every time it would give away my whereabouts. I don't want to be discovered so soon."

"Don't you two have other ways to contact?" Alex asked with a frown.

"No." Harry replied.

"I want to criticize your irresponsible godfather for Tom." Alex put on a straight face, "I heard from Professor Dumbledore that Tom cried quite pitifully on Christmas night."

Harry looked up, and the fork in his hand dropped with a thud to the plate.

"He cried?!"

"Yeah, crying." Alex raised his eyebrows, "When I saw him, his eyes were still swollen like walnuts."

For the first time a look of guilt appeared on Harry's face.

"Go back after your experiment is complete." Alex said, "I can help you collect the materials for research, and it's too dangerous for you to stay here."

Harry nodded, picking up his fork again: "I'll go back as soon as the experiment is done."

"I promised him to watch you." Alex said lazily, "If you don't go back, I will tie you back."

"You don't need to tie me up." Harry was a little embarrassed, "I will apologize to him myself."

"Then you'd better not keep him waiting too long," said Alex. "That kid is very good at holding grudges."

"I understand, Aaron," said Harry, his voice somewhat bitter for some reason, "I understand."

One morning four months later, Alex, still trapped in his pillow, heard a deafening explosion and the violent shaking of the house that accompanied the explosion.Alex jumped to his feet, quickly grabbed the wand on the nightstand and rushed out.

"Harry! Harry!"

That damned green-eyed idiot!Isn't he studying time magic?How could there be such a big commotion!He shouldn't be injured, right?

"Harry! Are you okay? Harry!" Alex beat on the wooden door of the studio, but no one opened the door.Finally Alex kicked open the door, the wooden door swayed a few times on the door frame, and fell to the ground full of debris and confetti.

"Merlin! Harry, are you still alive!" A big hole was blown out in the wall of the studio, and Alex rushed to the man next to the hole who was crushed by a pile of broken masonry and glass shards, using his wand Throwing aside the brick and dust covering him, he turned him carefully, "Can you hear me, Harry!"

"I failed." Harry's glasses were shattered, his head was cut, and half of his face was bleeding. "The Time-Turner blew up half the wall."

"Now is not the time to talk about that!" Alex yelled while hugging him, "Where's your medicine chest?"

"No, Aaron." Harry stretched out his hand to grab Alex who was about to stand up, still holding his wand tightly in his hand, "Disappar from here quickly, we've been spotted."

Harry was right, Alex had already heard the knock on the door downstairs.

"Hold on to me, Harry." Alex took Harry's hand and disappeared into thin air with a snap.