[HP] Dearest Enemy

It rained heavily on the day of the exam, and the children who were finally liberated had to stare at the sky in the lounge depressingly.Tom took the reluctant Alpha to the place where the library frequented to find peace.The end of the exam meant peace in the library, so when two Hogwarts figures slipped into the library, the administrator raised his glasses in surprise.

"Why do you have to hide here?" Alpha asked in a low voice.There were fewer chattering girls around, and it was so quiet that I could hear my heartbeat.

"Who says I'm hiding here?" Tom put his long legs on the table and flipped through the books lazily. "Is the library just for studying?"

Alfat shook his head, watched Tom take out the Marauder's Map from his schoolbag and unfold it, and then sat beside him: "You take it with you?"

"Of course." Tom replied casually. "This is Harry's property. I have to keep it safe, don't I?"

"It's better for you to pay him back, Harry will be angry." Alfat reminded.

Tom snorted.angry?Then let him get angry, take a map and stare at him, what does that green-eyed idiot think of him!Tom thought furiously, completely ignoring that he had ordered Nagini to spy on Harry.Seeing that his friend's face was gloomy again, Alphat couldn't help sighing, shaking his head and looking at the map.

"Tom, Irene is here." Alfred pointed to a moving dot on the map.Frowning, Tom turned the map back into a blank parchment and put it away.Sure enough, after a while, Irene Prince walked up to him, but her face was a little red for some reason.

"Good morning, Erin," Tom greeted her.

"Good morning, Mr. Riddle, Mr. Black." Irene whispered, her eyes kept sweeping back and forth between the two.

"You don't have to be so polite, Irene." Arfat said with a smile, "Just call us by our first names. What can you do?"

"Mr. Riddle." The little girl smiled apologetically, "Professor Potter asked me to bring you a message. If you have nothing to do, he hopes you can come to his office."

"I see."

Alfart looked at Tom, but there was no change on his friend's face.The black-eyed boy stood up, patted the girl's head, and left with his schoolbag on his back.

Harry leaned against the window with a cup of coffee, watching the rain outside.Prince will no doubt take his word, and Tom will certainly come.The question is what should I tell him?Or how should I get the map back from him?Harry believes that with Tom's cleverness, he will soon be able to figure out how to use the map, and the Marauder's Map is a rare treasure for every Hogwarts student.

There were two familiar knocks on the door behind him, and then the door opened, and a tall and slender young man walked into the room with bottomless black eyes.

"Harry, are you looking for me?" Tom asked standing at the door without approaching.

The green-eyed man looked at his godson for a while, put down the coffee cup in his hand, and pointed to the armchair in the corner.

"Sit down, Tom."

The black-eyed boy hesitated for a moment, walked to the chair he had designated and sat down, and Harry sat down opposite him.

"Do you have the Marauder's Map?" the man asked calmly.

Tom looked up at his guardian and nodded: "Yes."

"Give it back to me," said Harry.

"I refuse." Tom's tone was equally calm.

"It means a lot to me," Harry said emphatically.

"It's important to me, too." Tom was tough.

The man and the boy looked at each other, and Tom found himself trying to run away under the gaze of those green eyes, but he still stubbornly refused to look away.

"Tom." Harry stood up and held the boy's shoulders, "It's something my father and my godfather left me, it means a lot to me, I hope you can give it back to me. "

Tom looked at his godfather.Again, like last time, he didn't blame himself, he just asked for the things to be returned to him.But for some reason, the black-eyed boy felt as if his heart was on fire, and he didn't want to hand over the map even more.

"I refuse." The boy's tone was as cold as ice, and the green-eyed man's expression became serious, and the hand holding the boy's shoulder gradually increased his strength.

"Tom."

"I'm sorry, Harry." Tom moved his godfather's hand and stood up, "If it wasn't for that damn map that you suspected of having the tendency to harm your classmates, I would be more than happy to offer the map with both hands and sincerely say You apologize. But I won't apologize to you, and I don't intend to return the map to you. But you can rest assured that I will keep it safe."

Tom bowed to Harry and wanted to go out, but Harry stopped him: "Are you blaming me for catching you violating school rules?"

"I just don't like being watched every day by you as a murderer candidate!" The black-eyed boy said sharply, "You always think I'm a dangerous person, staring at me all the time. I don't know why you think so, and I don't know you Why don't you trust me so much. Harry, I'm your godson, not your enemy!"

Harry looked at the dark-eyed boy who gradually raised his voice, and the light in his green eyes gradually dimmed.Tom, if possible, I also hope that you are not my enemy, just my relatives.

But those things that have happened to me, I can't forget them together with my past.

"Tom, you-"

"Harry!" The door opened suddenly, and another guy who could come in without knocking happily pushed open the door and came in. He soon found the two people standing face to face in the room, and raised a stick to Tom unexpectedly. Eyebrows, "Yo, boy, came to harass your dear godfather early in the morning?"

"I think the person who is suitable to use the word 'harassment' is the professor, not me." The black-eyed boy said lightly, emphasizing the word professor, and turned to his guardian, "Then I won't bother you."

Tom bowed politely to Harry, walked out without looking at Alex, and slammed the door behind him.

Alex stared at the door dumbfounded for a while, then turned to look at his friend with a complicated expression: "What's wrong with this kid?"

"It's nothing." Harry shook his head, with a slightly gentle expression on his face, "Seeing you are so happy, what good thing happened?"

"The Quidditch World Cup." Alex immediately beamed when he mentioned Quidditch, "This time the venue is in Ireland. You know, due to the war, there are not many people participating in the Quidditch World Cup. But we can still watch some good games."

"How many games to watch?" Harry couldn't help laughing, "Are you going to watch the whole thing?"

"That's what I think, but tickets are hard to buy." Alex spread his hands, "And several strong teams didn't participate this year, so it's not easy to watch a wonderful game."

Harry nodded. He has always subscribed to "Quidditch Weekly". Because of the war, the British Quidditch Federation's league ticket revenue in the first half of this year was quite bleak: "Which team do you prefer? I think the England team The chances of qualifying are relatively high..."

The two chatted about Quidditch for a while, and Alex brought up the topic when he entered the door again.

"What's wrong with you again, Tom?"

Harry glanced at him, and said with a slight smile: "It's just adolescence rebellion."

"It's obviously not like it, buddy." Alex leaned in front of his friend, "Your brows are so frown that you can kill mosquitoes."

Harry was stunned for a moment, then reacted immediately, and helplessly pushed away his friend's approaching face: "Aaron, don't stare at me like that."

The gray-eyed man smiled, and patted his friend on the shoulder: "Come and live at my house during the holidays. I can't bear to face the old man's stinky face all day long."

"If Tom wants to," Harry said softly, but with a little bitterness in his tone.

"You really dote on him." Alex drew out the tone meaningfully.Harry frowned, feeling that there seemed to be something else in his friend's words.Looking at it in a blink of an eye, he smiled as arrogantly and lazy as usual, and the unclear meaning in his words was immediately diluted a lot.

Is there something wrong?Harry was puzzled.

Tom had no objection to spending the summer at Palampion Manor, although meeting people in Abertillery was a bit difficult, and it was impossible for him to continue to work in Knockturn Alley, but he didn't finish the stack he liked during the winter vacation. Now I can continue to read the books, and I can still get the personal guidance of Mr. Palan Penn when I am studying, which can make up for Tom's regret that he can't go out freely.

This summer vacation comes with a bonus, that is Alex’s grandfather, a lively old man who loves to travel and instills in his grandson that “happy life comes first”.Stanley Palampeon prefers Harry to the current Patriarch's son, rather than an obvious decision to make the most of every minute of Tom.He always chats with Harry and Alex, and is also very keen to fly around the sky twice a day on a broomstick with them. Harry has to say that at his age, there is such a vigorous Energy is really rare.

The summer vacation was very long, and sometimes Harry would accompany Tom to read books in the library of Palampion, but Tom never returned the Marauder's Map to Harry, nor did he give him a chance to talk to himself alone.The huge manor is actually very empty. Except for the large living room on the first floor and the small living room on the second floor, few people go to other places. It is not difficult to avoid people you don't want to see.When he couldn't avoid it, Tom would run to Mr. Palampion and pretend to be a good baby.

He was sure that Harry hadn't told anyone about it, not even Alex, and although that damned prickly-haired man was still trying to mess with Harry in front of him as usual, Tom basically ignored it. His provocation.The result of flirting with Alex is often that he makes him angry, while the other party looks innocent and happy, and Tom feels that he is right to ignore his decision.As for the game... It was just a verbal agreement, and the content of the game was not clearly stated at the time. If you don't want to play, you can quit. It's just a game.

But every time he saw that arrogant guy using various excuses to hang shoulders with Harry, Tom still couldn't help but want to cast a curse on him.

Standing on the balcony with a glass of lemonade, Tom saw Alex and Harry frolicking like two children downstairs, and walked back into the house frowning.Recently, he has been afraid to see Harry more and more, not because he is afraid that he will ask him for a map again, nor because he is afraid that he will reason with him, but... Tom doesn't know how to describe this strange feeling.At some point, he began to be afraid of meeting Harry's emerald green eyes, afraid of his expression when he looked at him.But Tom would feel bad if he couldn't see Harry.The daily routine of eating dinner in the restaurant is almost a kind of torture for Tom. He must do his best to ensure that he does not observe Harry's every move carefully, but every word and every word he says will make Tom feel in his heart. I studied for a long time at night, although most of those words were not addressed to him.

Tom felt like he was back when Alex was there a year ago, only this desire to not let anyone else get too close to Harry had grown stronger.He wanted to be with Harry all the time without being noticed by him.This feeling is not like the feeling for his godfather. Tom is a little panicked, and the reasons he used before can no longer convince himself.The black-eyed boy rarely looked for books in the library that could explain his strange mood, but he found nothing.It seems that the only books that explain this kind of thing can be found on the Muggle side, but will the Muggle theory help me?Tom was a little uncertain.

The teenager's troubles are not limited to these, Harry's attitude also makes Tom very upset.Harry would stare at himself for a moment whenever the two of them met alone in the corridor or in the library, but he never said he wanted to talk to Tom alone.Having lived at Palampion Manor for almost two weeks, Tom and Harry have not spoken more than twenty words in total.Could it be that Harry was waiting for himself to initiate a conversation with him?It doesn't look like much.

Tom's dark-eyed boy was very depressed about this situation, and he would become like this every time he and Harry quarreled.Harry will give him a chance to reconcile, but Harry will not apologize to him for his mistakes.Naturally, Tom would not accept such a settlement, and the two would fall into a state of lukewarm non-interference.Many times, Tom actually wanted to call Harry, but he always forced himself to walk over without looking away, and he couldn't say it.

Tom unfolded the worn parchment, took out his wand and tapped it lightly.Hogwarts was empty during the holidays, and the small dots piled together on weekdays turned into single digits, and the one or two that moved seemed very conspicuous.In fact, half of the map he held was out of revenge. Harry said that it was left to him by his father and godfather... Tom bit his lip lightly, held the map and thought for a moment, put away the map and folded it Take it and walk out.

Harry was not in the manor, and he went to the nearest Muggle town with Alex in the afternoon.Tom walked into Harry's bedroom, glanced at the room where there were not many personal items, put the map on the desk by the window, and stood there for a while before leaving.

The two young men returned to the manor very late, and when Harry walked into the bedroom, he didn't find anything extra on his desk.It wasn't until he was about to go to bed after taking a shower that he found an old piece of parchment on the table, which looked surprisingly familiar.Harry was taken aback for a moment, picked up the familiar map, and sighed slightly in his heart, the corners of his lips curled up slightly.

This awkward brat.