[HP] Riddle's Spirit Behind

After curfew, Tom quietly left the common room again.A simple spell can perfectly hide the sound of his footsteps.He walked briskly forward, taking care not to run into Peeves or the patrolling warden.

He came to the eighth floor and stopped in front of a bare wall.Soon, he managed to get the door to the Room of Requirement revealed.

He pushed open the door and walked in.

It was a stunning, huge, dimly lit room, not much smaller than the Great Hall of the Chamber of Secrets.The room was filled with countless items, dilapidated furniture, hundreds of books, and many potions that had solidified and deteriorated.

He walked around a hill piled up with old books, and there was a big bed with black curtains.The curtains were dusty, but the bed was clean, as if it had been swept.

A girl was lying on the bed, and she could be clearly seen by the candlelight.She froze, her eyes wide open and staring at the ceiling like a lifeless statue.

Tom came to her side and looked down into her face.

Her face was still fixed on that frightened expression, and after staring at it for a long time, it turned out to be inexplicably funny.So Tom let out a chuckle, but he stopped laughing quickly.

More than a month has passed since Eleanor was petrified.But she still shows no signs of waking up.This confirms that people who are petrified by the basilisk's curse do not automatically heal.

The only thing that makes people feel puzzled is that she didn't turn into a form of black mist like a ghost, but turned into a statue-like entity.Removing the ring from her body did not make any difference.

Tom looked away from Eleanor's face, and walked over to the potted plant in the corner.He lowered his head and carefully checked the growth of the potted plant.Although there is no wind, its blades are swaying slightly.

He searched some information and found the formulas of several powerful restorative potions.Those potions might be able to revive her from her petrified state.

But those potions, without exception, require fully mature mandrakes, and the timing of harvesting must be very precise.

This kind of herb is so precious that it doesn't even exist in the Hogwarts greenhouse.Just when Tom was about to give up, he was surprised to find that there was a pot of mandrakes in Slughorn's office.

At a meeting of the Slug Club, Tom casually asked about the pot of mandrakes.

"Oh, it's a gift from Edith." Professor Slughorn said with a smile, "but be careful, don't touch it. This plant is about to mature, and its cry is deadly .”

Slughorn quickly turned to the other boy, smiling, completely unaware that Tom was staring intently at the mandrake.

A few days later, word spread throughout the school that a pot of Mandrakes had been lost from Professor Slughorn's office.

Losing dangerous items is no small feat, but they've never been able to find out who stole the Mandrake.Someone said he once saw a Hufflepuff boy loitering in front of Slughorn's office, but the boy always denied stealing.In the end, the matter had to be let go.

And the plant was currently swaying its leaves silently in front of Tom.If he judged correctly, it would be fully ripe in a week.

Tom gently stroked the leaves of the mandrake, and suddenly sneered at himself.Last week, he used the Imperius Curse for the first time, successfully manipulating a Hufflepuff boy into stealing the potted plant from Slughorn's office.

At first he just wanted to try the effect of the Imperius Curse, but when he looked at the potted plant in front of him, he realized that he just wanted to get it.

He didn't quite understand why he did this.Because no matter what aspect is considered, it is in his best interest to keep Eleanor in a petrified state.

But he has already firmly remembered the formula of the powerful recovery potion, and he will come to check the growth of the mandrake almost every day.

For the first time in his life Tom Riddle felt that something might be wrong with his head.He found that his actions no longer made sense or logic.What he is doing now is not only a waste of time, but also does him no good at all.

——This must be something wrong.

When he stared at the girl lying motionless on the bed, he suddenly realized where the source of the symptoms was.

He frowned tightly, staring at Eleanor's frozen face.At this time, she was not pretty at all, and her dark complexion made her face even look a little scary.

Eleanor's smiling face suddenly appeared clearly in Tom's mind.

"Hey, Tom, why are you morose?" he imagined her saying, smiling.In normal times she is quite a beauty, her green eyes always seeming to sparkle with excitement.

No one would talk to him with such an attitude.The other students were somewhat afraid of him, and some were jealous of him.

Only Eleanor Alford could have spoken to him in such a heartless tone.

Even though she had repeatedly claimed that she had been killed by him, Tom had never seen hatred in her eyes—which was why Tom never believed her words.

He once thought he hated Eleanor's way of speaking.She never knew the right time to speak, and always kept talking to herself.But he was completely unaware that he was used to all this, and instead took it for granted as part of his life.

But now that part is gone.

At this moment, Tom woke up suddenly, and quickly withdrew the hand that was reaching out to Eleanor.

"No, that's not it," he murmured, taking a few steps back and letting out a piercing sneer, "...that's so stupid."

He jerked his wand up, pointed at the mandrake, and quickly flashed through his mind a few spells that could kill the plant in an instant.

But he finally put down his wand dejectedly.

"I must be crazy," he said with a sneer.

He turned and left the Room of Requirement, and at the same time reminded himself that he would not come back any time soon.He needs a moment to clear his head.

At this time, in the boys' dormitory of Slytherin, Avery suddenly woke up from a nightmare, and his pajamas were soaked in cold sweat.He sat up abruptly from the bed, then got up to pour himself a glass of water.

He suddenly found that the shoes in front of Tom's bed were missing.

He walked cautiously, and through a chink in the drapery he saw that Tom's bed was empty.

He had thought Tom had gone to the bathroom.So he went back to his curtain, and waited for a long time without hearing the sound of the bedroom door being opened.

After an unknown amount of time, just as he was about to fall into a deep sleep again in a daze, he finally heard the door of the dormitory being opened.

He lifted the curtains a little and saw Tom walking to the bed with his back turned to him and beginning to unbutton his school gown.He realized that Tom hadn't just gone to the bathroom.

Avery lowered the curtain silently, knowing that it would be useless to question the other party now.He can only find the answer by himself.

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