[Comprehensive British and American] The Dark Lord's Growth History

?Thinking of the Duke of Darkness, Abraxas felt that the sunlight shining on him also became cold.This was a rare sunny day, but unfortunately, the dark clouds hanging over Abraxas made the warm sun look gray.Yesterday Dumbledore sent a letter asking him to stay in Malfoy Manor as much as possible during this time and avoid going out.Unfortunately, what the other party didn't know was that for Tom, even a noble manor full of defensive magic circles was never a safe hiding place.

Walking in a hurry in Diagon Alley, a sorcerer who was coming towards him was rushing with his head down, but after seeing Abraxas' long light golden hair, he dodged away like seeing a ghost, and detoured far away. the other side.This move of his made the nobleman even more depressed.Orion Black and the Daily Prophet informed the wizarding world of the Malfoys' betrayal of the Dark Lord.Now, except for the diehard members of the Order of the Phoenix, everyone avoids the Malfoys for fear of causing trouble.Not only were former fellow Death Eaters clamoring to tear Abraxas to pieces, but there were also wizards in the Ministry who pretended that they looked down on traitors - be they forced or willing.

An aristocratic official waved his hands angrily on the front page of the newspaper and shouted: "He has betrayed the Duke now, and he may betray the Order of the Phoenix in the future! He will even betray the entire wizarding world!"

Shit.Abraxas looked away from the newspaper in the hands of passers-by with a gloomy face. He knew the guy. On the surface, the other party was a neutral faction belonging to the Ministry of Magic, but in fact he was a diehard loyalist of the Duke of Darkness.When he was Tom's right-hand man, the other party even courted him and asked him to help speak well in front of the Duke.Now he is one of the loudest and most despising Malfoys in the Ministry.

In short, it has only been one month since the Dark Duke came back, and the Malfoy family is facing the danger of being completely ostracized by the noble circle.Abraxas couldn't help asking himself, is it really worth it? Did he really never regret betraying Tom in his heart?However, no matter whether he regrets it subconsciously or not, what he has done cannot be undone.

The hand in the pocket kept stroking the ring inside, Abraxas closed his eyes, turned a corner and prepared to go home immediately after finishing the last thing.

However, just as he turned the corner and walked into another road, footsteps came from behind him.

Da da, da da, da da.

Abraxas couldn't help tensing his body, the wand in the staff was ready to go.This is a narrow road between two shops, with walls of cold gray stones on both sides, the width is only wide enough for three adults to walk side by side.The path wasn't that long, and Abraxas could already see the brown robes of a wizard walking on the main road more than ten meters away.However, he felt that he might never reach that end.

He turned around slowly, and the footsteps behind him stopped abruptly.

Abraxas felt that his entire face was stiff, but he still forced himself to smile: "Good afternoon, Your Excellency the Duke."

He lost weight.This was his first reaction when he saw Tom.The black-haired and red-eyed man was pointing his wand at himself, with the corners of his mouth raised, his smile filled with deep sarcasm, and his eyes were cold: "Good afternoon, Malfoy."

Facing the yew wood wand that he was all too familiar with, Abraxas let go of the cane he was holding tightly, and the silver cane fell down, making a crisp sound when it hit the slate floor.The opponent's hand was very steady, and the tip of the staff did not tremble at all.

"Are you here to kill me?" Abraxas calmed down when the matter came to an end.He was not afraid of death, he had imagined this ending on the day he decided to betray, he just didn't think that the process of waiting for death was more terrifying than death.Moreover, the nature of human survival always makes his heart swing back and forth between the two thoughts of "maybe Tom just disappears into the wizarding world and I can survive" and "even if he dies because of this, he is worthy of the ancestors of the Malfoy family".

Death is not scary.Everyone is going to die.It would be nice to die at his hands, if not at the hands of other Death Eaters.

Abraxas opened his hands, and his whole body relaxed: "Kill me."

Tom looked at the smiling, fearless blond nobleman in front of his eyes, and didn't speak or move for a long time.He just recalled the scene of meeting Abraxas for the first time in an inappropriate moment.

It was in a corridor of Hogwarts. At that time, he had just come out of Dumbledore's office, full of resentment, but when he saw the oncoming noble boy, he reflexively smiled politely and greeted him.He couldn't remember what Malfoy's reaction was - it was strange that he remembered the first meeting with the other party so well a few months ago, but now he couldn't remember it at all.All he could think of now was the senior's face blurred in the shadows, and even the facial features could not be distinguished. The only thing he could identify was the other party's Slytherin emblem and long light blond hair.

"Today is not suitable for death." Tom heard his voice as calm as the other person's. He looked up at the eyes leaking into the alley from above the building, and couldn't help squinting slightly: "The weather is so good, I don't want to kill people."

"The wand is coming, hurry up." "Cruciatus." The white wand shook slightly in his hand, and a red light hit Malfoy who was about to release the restraining spell.

The blond noble fell to his knees on the ground in an instant.

Tom lowered his head and looked condescendingly at the person who was about to attack him just now, his smile deepened and he continued what he said just now: "I don't want to be killed either."

Tormented by the maddening pain that came up and down his body, he was powerless to refute his words, and Abraxas's forehead was covered with cold sweat.It took all his strength not to cry out now, let alone have the strength to argue with Tom that he hadn't thought of killing him.

As if guessing what he was thinking, Tom's soft voice floated from the top of his head, and it got closer and closer: "I know you don't want to kill me, Malfoy, otherwise it would have been a death curse just now."

He squatted down and wanted to put his hand into Malfoy's pocket, but changed his mind halfway through, hovering in the air for a few seconds before retracting it.Use the summoning spell directly to take out the Gaunt ring.

Satisfied, Tom put the ugly, er, black ring on his left hand, and said softly, "It seems that you have preserved it very well." The ring was as bright as new, and it could be seen that it was often touched by people.

He stood up and stopped the Cruciatus Curse.Looking at Malfoy, who was exhausted and fell to the ground, he announced, "This is my reward for betraying me, Malfoy."

"The Dark Lord never treats his friends badly." A healing curse was cast on Malfoy, and the pain left by the curse quickly faded away.

"But he also won't forgive the betrayer." The healing spell disappeared, just at the point where Abraxas felt the pain disappear, but he still didn't have the strength to stand up.

"Malfoy, take care of yourself." The head of the silver serpentine staff was held by the man's slender white fingers and stuffed into his arms. Abraxas raised his head from the ground with difficulty, looking at the man who strode away and turned away. figure.The black wizard robe was brought up by the Duke of Darkness, and the corner of the robe swept across Abraxas's face. He clenched his fist and said to him, "Next time we meet, I will kill you."

Hearing what the people behind him said, Tom didn't look back or stop. He walked out of the alley just now and walked onto the avenue with pedestrians.Several shopkeepers nearby saw him and rushed back to their shop, as if they were afraid that he would go crazy and kill someone at any time.Sneering at this behavior, Tom lazily squinted his eyes in the sun, raised his hand and looked at the resurrection stone ring on his finger.

Years ago he dreamed of a future.In that future, he split seven horcruxes, so he lost his mind and became a snake-faced lunatic who blindly pursued power, and was finally killed by a child as a joke.After Meng woke up, he hesitated for a few days, and split a Horcrux according to the original plan.Only this time he abandoned the diary he had prepared at the beginning and chose the ring from the Gunter family.He believed that the Horcrux would be extremely safe with the power of the resurrection stone, and it would become his last trump card.He couldn't have fallen twice in the same place.

... Now it seems that he was a little overbearing at that time.

It's better to recycle this thing as soon as possible.Tom thought, putting down his sun-heated hands and stuffing them into his pockets.As soon as his hand reached into the clear fabric, he felt a slight vibration.He took out the vibrating double-sided mirror, opened it, and Moriarty's face appeared on the mirror, looking at himself with a smile on his face.

Tom raised his eyebrows: "What's the matter?"

Moriarty touched his chin and said to him, "Let's join hands."

Tom put the yew wand back into his robes, and looked into the double-sided mirror as he walked. "What do you want?"

"I have an enemy who works for the British government, and he sent me to Oz. Of course, I also have my own troubles, but I'm still unhappy. Why don't we join forces and kill him."

"What does it have to do with me?" Tom stopped and looked at Moriarty blankly. "Killing your sworn enemy will do me no good."

Moriarty shrugged: "What if I said that my mortal enemy received a wizard today? And it is said that it is a wizard called the Order of the Phoenix. You know, the high bounty warrants for the two of us have been placed by the US police It's on the official website."

After pondering for three seconds, Tom replied bluntly: "I'll have someone deliver the door key to you later, come to my manor tonight and we'll talk about it in detail."

"Magic Manor?" Moriarty made an exaggerated expression over there, "Yohoo—this is the best welcome gift I've ever received since I came back!"

Closing the two-way mirror, Tom thought about some time to catch up with his teacher.