? "Tom, where was your childhood?"

"St. John's Orphanage."

"How old were you when you went in?"

"It's been there since birth."

"Why did your parents abandon you?"

"My mother died after giving birth to me, and my father was tricked by my mother into conceiving me. My father hated me and my mother for that."

"How was life in the orphanage?"

"...bad."

"Did you expect your father to come to you?"

A moment of silence.

"... until I found out about my mother's family, I always believed my father was a great wizard. And earlier, when I was in the orphanage, I thought he was a big man who would come back to pick me up one day leave."

"Unfortunately he's not," Hannibal continued Tom's words. "Who was the one who freed you from orphanage life in his stead?"

There was another suffocating silence.Tom, who had fallen into deep hypnosis and had a peaceful face, frowned, his expression becoming tense.

Hannibal knew he had hit the nail on the head.The man who took on the role of Tom Riddle's father must have made a crucial impression on the trajectory of his life.So instead of giving up because of the other party's hesitation, he increased his tone: "Tell me Tom, who is that person?"

"..."

"Who took you away from the orphanage? Who made you realize your magical power?"

"..."

"Who showed you a new and great world? Tom, tell me! Who was the one who saved you? Who is it that you are grateful and in awe of?"

"It's Dumbledore!"

With a roar, Tom's originally calm face twisted violently with hatred: "He walked into the room and told me that you were a wizard. He announced to me that I could go to a magic school to study. He wore a weird suit, but his The magic is strong, the eyes are sharp. He took out a wand. He set my chest on fire! He hates me, he terrorizes me! He is my professor, but he keeps trying to destroy me! Dumbledore, he hates me!"

Tom's closed eyes suddenly opened, his dark brown pupils completely turned blood red, a shockingly gorgeous color, with a strange red light shining inside.Coupled with his pale and expressionless face, people mistakenly think that this is a vampire crawling out of some coffin!

Hannibal's blue eyes also burst into a startling light.He held on to Tom, who was struggling violently and wanted to escape from the bed, secretly annoyed that he didn't take another reagent along with him when he was preparing.

"Dumbledore... Dumbledore! It's you!" Tom glared at Hannibal with hatred, his blood-red eyes were full of anger and... injured?

At that moment, Hannibal realized that he was being mistaken for that Dumbledore.So he said at once: "Tom, I don't hate you."

The struggle stopped abruptly, and Tom opened his eyes wide.

"Tom." Hannibal said softly, "I am your teacher, how could I hate you? In my eyes, you will always be that little boy who longs for approval and magic."

"...Dumbledore, put away your hypocrisy, give up your lies." Tom was stunned for a while before putting away his shock and blankness, and returning to a deadpan expression, "I don't need your pity!"

He went back to his student days, when he was an excellent, beloved president of the student body.He never killed his own relatives, nor did he kill Muggle wizards for profit.When he was a boy, he often shuttled freely in the secret passages of Hogwarts at night, and the castle opened all its secrets to him.His favorite thing is to stand on the observatory and look at the dark forest and the huge and vast black lake.He often blows the night wind head-on, looks at the quiet Quidditch pitch under the night, and thinks: I must stay here in the future, and stay in this school to be an excellent teacher. A teacher who is full of prejudice like Lido and mistreats outstanding students.

At that time all the teachers loved Tom Riddle, only Dumbledore, only him, always looked at him with cold eyes.No matter how well he performed in the Transfiguration class, he couldn't get a word of affirmation.And he couldn't help but shrink back and dodge in front of those bright blue eyes full of wisdom.This kind of eternal retreat made him hate the most.

——"Why are you looking at me like that? Why are you obstructing me? Why are you suppressing me everywhere? Why, why, why!"

This sentence has become a nightmare that has plagued him for decades, and it seems that it will continue to haunt him in the future.

However, this is without meeting Hannibal, the psychiatrist.If Tom hadn't met him, maybe he would really be immersed in this painful puzzle all his life.

Now, Hannibal was beside him, hearing Tom's heartfelt confession.He said softly: "Tom, Dumbledore is not your father, you don't have to be afraid of him."

Tom blinked his misty eyes, and realized that the things in front of him began to change again.The "Dumbledore" with a pair of blue eyes in front of him began to deform, twist, and change.

That face slowly transformed into another one, which was——

"Hannibal Lecter?"

It felt like waking up in sweat from a horrible nightmare, and Tom turned his head with difficulty to find that he was no longer in the Slytherin dormitory, but in a rough glass cell.

This is... Oz Prison.

The effect of the medicine gradually receded, and my sanity began to gradually return.

Tom thought for a long time, and finally found a fact: "You hypnotized me?!"

Facing his rage, Hannibal looked extremely calm.He let go of the hand that had been on Tom's shoulder before, sat back in the chair, and admitted generously: "Yes. And I found a very interesting thing."

Tom sat up from the lower bunk and found that his body was still a little weak, but this feeling of powerlessness was disappearing rapidly, so fast that he could clearly feel the return of strength.He tried to squeeze his fist, then let go, trying to remember what happened just now.His fists clenched again as he thought about it: How much had he revealed to Hannibal?What exactly did Hannibal take the opportunity to ask?

Tom thought for a while, then reluctantly admitted that he could only recall the phrase "Dumbledore".

But this is enough.

Tom's already pale face grew even paler.His pupils were still blood red, he stared straight at Hannibal, and asked coldly, "What's interesting?"

"…" Hannibal stared at him.After a long time, he smiled: "Tom, you hate being owed so much, how much of it comes from that 'Dumbledore'?"

"I don't know what you mean." The answering voice was low and cold, like a sharp iron blade in the cold winter, with a huge attack power hidden under the cold appearance, "But this time, you are really hot Me, Hannibal."

Since he made a deal with the old man in front of him, he seldom called him by his first name, but always called him "Doctor Lecter".In Tom's view, even though Hannibal was just a non-magic Muggle, he was indeed an amazing genius.Moreover, he taught Tom a lot of knowledge in the name of trading, which benefited him a lot, and he could even be called Tom's teacher.However, this does not mean that Hannibal can unscrupulously lift Tom's reverse scales.

The so-called reverse scale means that no one can move, no matter you are the teacher or anyone else.About his humiliating childhood and Dumbledore being Tom's backstory.

Hannibal shook his head in disappointment: "Tom, don't you realize that the flaws in your personality are caused by those past experiences in your childhood? If you dare not face them, they will only become a permanent thorn in your heart , pricking you all the time, stabbing your heart, filling you with pain and resentment. They will be your nightmare for life. Don't you realize that you feel owed by this world, just pick you up from Dumbledore Did it start in the orphanage? You said they owed you, but you didn't realize that Dumbledore was the one who bore the brunt of it."

"..." Tom refused to answer the question.He jumped off the bed with his mouth tightly shut, took off his sweat-soaked shirt, and threw it on the ground.Then he rolled onto the bed with his naked upper body like this.

Hannibal sat silently on the chair for a while by himself, and after a few minutes he said to the young man who seemed to be asleep with his back turned to him: "Don't run away from that thorn in your heart, Tom. If you once If you escape, you will escape for the rest of your life."

Tom didn't answer Hannibal's advice.As soon as he closes his eyes now, his mind is full of the words Hannibal said before-"You feel owed by this world, it started when Dumbledore picked you up from the orphanage" "You said they owed you, but you I didn't realize that the first of them was Dumbledore."

Ridiculous, when did he treat that old bee as his father?He...he was only different because Dumbledore was the first wizard he saw.

However, Tom, who wanted to tell himself this, remembered how sad Dumbledore looked at him when he was caught. The old man seemed to have aged a lot in an instant in the face of his rebellious and murderous self.Dumbledore said: "Tom, I now know that I was wrong... I made a huge mistake, and this mistake directly caused you now. Tom, you don't understand love, and nothing makes me sad. It's gone."

He doesn't understand love?Of course he didn't understand, no one loved him.He used to think that Abu loved him, but Abu directly stabbed him in the heart with betrayal.He once thought he was in love with Hogwarts, but surrounded by pure-blood wizards, he left that castle without looking back, and did not set foot in the following ten years.

what is love?That dangerous thing had ruined both his parents' lives and his.

He...maybe loved Abraxas.However, the loved one stepped this love into the dust.

theyyouweme.theyoweme.

Those childhood pasts hurt him deeply and left an indelible mark on him.It's those pasts that make him who he is.If he got rid of those, Tom Riddle wouldn't exist either.

The author has something to say: Although Tom refused to admit it, Dr. Lecter's treatment did work. ?

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