[HP] Dearest Enemy

Tom has a bad habit that makes Harry quite helpless: night travel.Generally speaking, Tom's night excursions are quite regular, and he only goes out for a circle every week when he is on holiday on the second day of the week.If he was just wandering around the castle, he would usually go back before 01:30, but if he went outside the castle, he would usually sneak into the castle after two o'clock.

Sometimes Harry felt helpless watching the little black dot marked Tom Riddle on the map move down the corridor.It wasn't once or twice that he had caught Tom, but the boy was always going to sneak out and hang out in different ways.Tom is clearly not worried about being caught by him, and he is even happy to see himself appearing during the night tour, while half-heartedly marveling at why he always gets caught by himself.So Harry is just looking at where Tom probably went at night so that he can put away the map, take a shower and go to sleep, as long as it is not very dangerous, Harry will not bother.

Tom was a little puzzled. Since the beginning of this semester, he seldom met Harry on night tours. In the last few times, he didn't even see a single hair of Harry.It is true that Tom did not take the initiative to meet Harry when he was out at night before. His guardian would always pop up in unexpected places, asking himself angrily and helplessly why he ran out again.Tom didn't understand how Harry did this. Even Dumbledore couldn't match Harry's ability to hide and disappear. This once made Tom feel shocked.

But blows are blows, Tom still likes to wander around the quiet castle at night before going to sleep.Hogwarts in the night is like a sleeping baby, with a feeling that the whole world belongs to him.At night, Tom can put away the mask he has been wearing on his face during the day and let it go a little bit.In fact, a night tour in the castle is a very interesting thing. You will see many things that you cannot see during the day, and you will find many things that some people may never discover in their lifetime, such as the scene Tom saw now.

The two boys were embracing each other in the shadows by the window, their heads pressed together, kissing inseparably.Tom quietly hid in the corner of the stairs and put his head out to observe carefully, and it was not long before he recognized the two people.Tsk tsk, what an unexpected couple, Tom was surprised in his heart.The red-haired guy near the window was obviously Billy Weasley, who had found fault with Alfred and himself for five years, and the other was the usually taciturn but brilliant head of the Boys' Union, Krits Kay. Walter.

A fifth-year Gryffindor who speaks without thinking, and a smart and hard-working seventh-year Ravenclaw, and that Ravenclaw is also the president of the student council. Merlin, are you taking this joke too far?After a brief surprise, the corners of Tom's lips curled up.Leaving aside the Celtic, who was almost perfect except for being a bit stuffy, Tom was more than happy to catch Weasley.Although the wizarding world is not as opposed to homosexuality as the Muggle society, it does not advocate or allow same-sex marriage.The gap in the proportion of wizards and Muggles is too great, which makes wizards have to pass the coercive means of law.Over time, homosexuality has also become a word that people don't want to mention in the eyes of wizards.

It's not that Tom doesn't know how many pairs of unlucky children there are in the school, and he has them under his command.And when Tom first entered the school, Obather Malfoy had the best relationship with him. That flamboyant guy dared to shoot regardless of men and women, and he especially preferred beautiful boys with exquisite appearance. Now it has become even worse.Tom didn't have any prejudice against this. He felt that whether others liked men or women had nothing to do with him. As long as he didn't bother himself, even if Weasley and Celtic liked a troll, he didn't bother to take a second look, although in his It seems that Billy's brain is not much different from that of a troll.

But I didn't expect these two guys to be the same, and they were actually a pair. I caught such a good handle, and I was really sorry for these two unlucky ghosts who slipped out in the middle of the night.Tom laughed more and more happily, turned quietly and left.Tom knew that there was more than one person who liked to go to bed late like himself, and there was also a little Slytherin girl who was currently studying her favorite subject in the empty classroom he pointed out. As a prefect, he naturally had the obligation to Take good care of your juniors and younger sisters.

A few minutes later, after Celtic and Weasley reluctantly gave each other a final goodnight kiss, they were horrified to find a girl standing not far away staring at them in shock, her eyes wide open quite frighteningly.A second later, a figure both of them were very familiar with appeared behind the girl, gently holding the girl's thin shoulders.

"It seems that you are not the only one who didn't sleep well in your bed tonight, Irene." Tom said gently, looking up at the two people who were completely petrified because of his appearance, with a faint smile on his lips, "Night Well, Kritts, Mr Weasley, I didn't expect to meet you here."

The two of them couldn't speak for a while.The smile on Tom's face grew stronger, he gently pushed Irene who had been completely stunned, and nodded slightly to the two: "I think I should go back, Irene is different from us, staying outside so late It's unwise. Don't you think, Kretz?"

The expression on Celtic's face suddenly became very strange, and he still couldn't say a word.Tom bowed to him and walked away slowly with his arm around Irene Prince's shoulder.

"Mr. Riddle." The two walked all the way to the corridor outside the cellar before Irene spoke, "Mr. Celtic and Mr. Weasley are..."

"You can call me Tom, Irene," said Tom. "As you can see, they are lovers."

The girl stared at the unresponsive Tom for a while, then opened her mouth again: "But they...they are..."

"It's nothing to be surprised about," said Tom mildly. "You should be more careful with your time than that. I don't want to hear about Slytherins because some professor found you brewing potions in the middle of the night in an empty classroom." And lose points. Even Professor Slughorn would rather know that you sleep peacefully in your dormitory at night than wandering around outside."

"I see." The girl replied in a low voice, still looking shocked.

Tom laughed, grabbed the girl's shoulders and bent down to stare into her black eyes: "Finally, don't tell anyone what you saw tonight. Can you do it?"

The girl nodded and said slowly: "I didn't see anyone else tonight except Mr. Riddle."

"Good girl." Tom patted the girl's shoulder lightly, and said softly, "Go back to bed now. Good night, Irene."

"Good night, Tom." Irene bowed to Tom, turned and ran away in the direction of the girls' dormitory.

The consequences of this event were clear and immediate.From then on, Billy Weasley took a detour when he saw Tom, and never provoked Tom or Alfred, which made the friends of the Slytherin prefects puzzled; and Celtic suddenly got close to Tom inexplicably Many, and began to transfer the power of many student council presidents to this Slytherin prefect, both openly and secretly.Tom took over Celtic's rights smoothly. Although the prefects of other colleges (especially Gryffindor) were puzzled and puzzled by this, Tom's outstanding ability left them speechless.It's not yet May, and the power of the chairman of the male student union has basically been taken over by Tom. Tom's reputation and popularity in the entire school completely surpass other people, and he has almost become the leader of the students in essence.

Harry quietly watched Tom, who was concentrating on grading papers.Harry had been watching his godson for months, watching his rise to the status of student leader above the head of the Head Boys.He had known that Tom had great ambitions. He had an almost instinctive attachment and desire for power and strength, and he did not hide it at all at certain times.Harry was a little apprehensive, worried that power would disorient his child.Tom, however, was very measured in his handling of affairs. He always hid at the most opportune moment, and then did not hesitate to take advantage of that opportunity at the next opportune moment.

The kid was a born politician, Harry remembered what Slughorn had said about Tom.Harry didn't like politics, and even loathed the stuff.He has seen how ugly and dirty the faces of politicians are, and he knows that they can do anything to achieve their goals and use everything they can use.It wasn't what Harry wanted to see, he didn't want to see Tom stained with too much black.Of course, he can't expect everyone to be pure and flawless. This world is not black and white or white as he once thought, but more of the ambiguous gray between black and white.Dumbledore is the leader of the White Wizard, but he himself planned to start a war when he was a teenager and let the Muggles surrender under his feet; Harry himself was once called the savior of the world, but who knew that when he was in Germany How many people have been killed by saving their lives, and their hands are stained with the blood of wizards and Muggles.Everyone grows up dyed a variety of colors, and Harry can only hope that Tom doesn't get too caught up in those mottled colors and end up losing the most precious thing.

He's the reason he's here, he's his most important person.He won't let him go back to the path he shouldn't have taken, absolutely not!

Tom looked up after grading the last homework, and saw Harry staring at him intently, his eyes full of worry.Tom couldn't help being stunned. He was used to correcting his homework or reading under Harry's gaze, and getting used to his godfather's increasingly gentle eyes.Harry rarely showed such an expression, and Tom could hardly remember the last time he saw Harry look like this.Did I do something to apologize to him again?Tom recalled his recent behavior with some unease, not knowing exactly what went wrong.Harry is sometimes unimaginably simple and stubborn in some things, especially in his attitude towards power.Tom was vaguely aware of this, and never raised the subject with Harry, and Harry kept tacitly silent about it.So what was it that made Harry look at himself this way?This made Tom very uncomfortable.

"Harry, do you have anything to say?" Tom asked cautiously.

"Tom, do you want to be Minister for Magic in the future?" Harry asked.

Tom was taken aback for a moment. He didn't expect Harry to ask such a direct question, so he gave him a vague answer: "I do want to work in the Ministry of Magic. What's the matter, Harry?"

Harry shook his head: "It's nothing." Tom's desire to enter the Ministry of Magic means that he is interested in that high position, which is quite normal for a Slytherin.Could it be that I am too sensitive?

"I just..." Harry didn't know what to say, and finally sighed, "That's all for today, Tom, you can go back."

Tom looked at the man who hesitated to speak in surprise, hesitated for a moment, and stood up.

"Then I'm going back." He walked to the door and nodded to his godfather, "Good night, Harry."