[HP] Riddle's Spirit Behind

"What are you going to do next?" Avery looked at Eleanor while picking up a piece of potato.

"They said I could stay at Hogwarts temporarily," Eleanor replied, "and they also wanted to know what happened to me."

Immediately afterwards her mouth was filled with perfectly cooked tender steak, baked potatoes.She has never felt so fulfilled.

As they were finishing their lunch, Eleanor looked up just in time to see Tom coming in through the hall door.

Tom is not alone, Lestrange and Nott are behind him.Lestrange was the first to notice Eleanor, and he whispered something in Tom's ear.

Tom immediately looked in Eleanor's direction expressionlessly.Eleanor raised her eyebrows and waved at him to signal him to come over, but he just frowned and sat down nearby.

"Damn." Eleanor cursed secretly, then stood up from the chair and strode towards Tom.

"Eleanor?" Avery called her name after her, but she didn't look back.

She walked behind Tom and cleared her throat, ignoring the stares of Lestrange and Nott.

"Tom," she said, "we have to talk."

Tom turned his head slowly and glanced at her indifferently, "What are you talking about?"

"Please, you know what I'm talking about - about the Chamber of Secrets," Eleanor replied.

Lestrange and Nott immediately looked at each other and gave each other a wink.

"I've already talked to the professors." Tom's tone was as cold as ever. "If you want to know anything, you can ask Professor Slughorn directly."

Tom's attitude made Eleanor feel a little angry, so she deliberately said loudly: "Then you also explained to them why you hid me?"

Several students at the Gryffindor table behind them immediately stared at them curiously, including Eleanor's new friend, Nicholas Potter.

And Tom's tone was still flat and monotonous, "Yes, I said it." He raised his chin slightly and showed an emotionless smile, "If it can make you feel at ease, I can tell you that they have given you a lot of money because of this." Points were deducted from Leitling, and I had to go to detention every weekend this month."

Eleanor opened her eyes slightly, she had never heard of Tom being punished.

"So it's none of your business. If you don't want to cause more trouble, go away, Muggle." Lestrange said, looking at Eleanor with a sneer.

Seeing that Eleanor was still standing still, he immediately showed an impatient expression, "Did you hear me, Muggle?"

Eleanor turned her head to stare at Lestrange, and suddenly laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Lestrange glared at Eleanor.

"I do have a question for you, Mr. Lestrange." Eleanor folded her arms and said, "You always like to trouble me and get my attention—do you just look at me? Are you not pleasing to the eye, or are you secretly in love with me?"

Lestrange's face immediately turned like a green eggplant.

The Gryffindor students whistled immediately, and even Nott, who was sitting by the side, showed a look of wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh.

Instead, Tom laughed softly, although the laughter did not contain much joy, but made people feel a little chilly.He raised his head to look at Lestrange, took a sip of his drink casually, "If I were you, I wouldn't cause her any trouble."

Lestrange glared at Tom, "Even you?" He looked at Eleanor again, suddenly sneered evilly, and said viciously: "Don't think that the professors allow you to stay here, you are really You're on an equal footing with us. Remember, you're just a nasty Muggle. You're going to be kicked out sooner or later, bitch—"

As soon as he finished speaking, Eleanor heard Nicholas' cold voice, "Shut up, Lestrange. If I hear you say insulting words again, I will deduct ten points from you. Come on, Eleanor."

After he finished speaking, he took Eleanor's arm and led her out of the hall.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Eleanor with a grin, "To be honest, even if I was a prefect, I couldn't deduct points for him just now. I was just scaring him."

"Uh, thank you for helping me out." Eleanor said uncertainly, "Did you not want me to quarrel with him just now?"

"Yes." Nicholas sighed, "It's best not to mess with Riddle's group, they are very dangerous. There are many bad rumors about them in our college, and everyone is used to avoiding them and not conflicting with them."

"What rumors?" Eleanor asked curiously.

"Someone said they were studying black magic, and they had something to do with Knockturn Alley. Someone saw them going in and out of it during the holidays." Nicholas replied.

"Knockturn Alley?"

"Yes, that's not a good place," Nicholas replied.As he spoke, he suddenly laughed at himself, "By the way, speaking of which, you used to be very close to Tom Riddle, right? So you must know them better than I do."

"No, it's not as close as you imagined." Eleanor sighed and whispered, "Anyway, thank you for your advice."

"You're welcome." Nicholas said with a smile, he looked at Eleanor hesitantly, and asked suddenly, "Are you planning to leave Hogwarts?"

"Not yet," Eleanor replied, "but I'm not sure about the future. I haven't figured it out yet."

"If you want to stay, you are welcome to live in Gryffindor Tower." Nicholas grinned, "People in our academy will definitely welcome you."

"Thank you."

After saying goodbye to Nicholas, Eleanor saw Avery just coming out of the hall.

"I saw you guys chatting." Avery frowned slightly, "What are you talking about?"

"Nothing." Eleanor replied lightly.She turned her head to look at Avery who was walking beside her, and suddenly smiled and said, "Have you grown taller again?"

She remembered being able to see the top of Avery's head before, but now they were at full eye level.She couldn't help but secretly lamented how time flies.

But Avery said unhappily: "Of course it will grow taller. It's not surprising."

"A sensitive age." Eleanor shrugged. "By the way, why didn't you see Abraxas with you? He wouldn't have quarreled with you, would he?"

"Of course not." Avery said coldly, as if he was reluctant to bring up the matter, "He's just been busy recently."

Soon, Eleanor knew what Avery meant by "busier."

She saw Abraxas sitting in the library talking intimately with a girl she didn't know.

"Are they in love?" Eleanor whispered to Avery, who was sitting next to her.

Avery glanced up, "Yes."

"Oh. This is really surprising." Eleanor looked at the couple with great interest and said, "I didn't expect him to be the first among you to get a girlfriend."

"It's not a girlfriend, it's a fiancée." Avery said coldly, "He said she was the fiancée assigned to him by his family, and they would get married after graduation."

"What—marriage?" Eleanor's eyes widened in surprise. "Oh, God, he shouldn't be 14 years old. Their family thinks so far."

"It's nothing unusual," Avery replied, "The pure-blood wizarding family likes to do this."

Eleanor turned to look at Avery, and joked, "What about you? I remember that you are also from a pure-blood family. Didn't your family find you a fiancee or something?"

"I don't," Avery said immediately. He closed his textbook and let out a long breath. "I'd rather choose my own marriage partner."

"I agree with your opinion." Eleanor said with a smile, "It's better to decide for yourself."

Avery turned his head and stared at Eleanor hesitantly.

"What?" Eleanor turned her head and looked at him suspiciously.

"Nothing," Avery muttered, "I'm going back, how about you?"

Eleanor shook her head, "I'm going to sit here for a while. I have to go to Professor Slughorn before dinner, and he promised to give me a place to live."

Not long after Avery left, Eleanor began to feel drowsy.Probably because she was too full at noon, she felt that her eyelids were clenched, and the books spread out in front of her eyes began to have double images.

So she closed her eyes and dozed off on the table.

Half asleep, she felt someone sitting next to her.She felt cold fingers brush her cheeks, as light as a breeze.

When she opened her eyes, the man was gone.She blinked suspiciously, reached out to test the seat next to her, and found that there was still a little warmth on it.

At this moment, Lestrange sat on the armchair and stared at a girl not far away.She was chatting intimately with another boy.

"□." He cursed in a low voice.

He knew that if his father heard him curse like this, he would whip him.He only dared to be so unscrupulous when he was in school.

That girl was the object of his wooing last week.She accepted his gift, but then ran off to make out with another boy, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with using the word □ to scold her.

At this time, he saw Tom coming in from the outside.Immediately he regained his spirits, looked up and said, "Where have you been, Tom?"

"The library," Tom replied curtly.

"You really like the library. If you continue like this, you will become a complete nerd." Lestrange said, crossing his legs.

Tom showed no sign of anger, but smiled slightly, "Really? I just want to look up the spell we studied last time."

"So you have an answer?"

"Yes, I've got it all figured out. I'll tell you about it at the next meeting," Tom replied calmly.

Lestrange found himself less and less able to read the true emotion on the boy's face.Tom Riddle was better at hiding himself than before, which made Lestrange vaguely feel a hint of danger.

He used to be able to convince himself that he was the leader of this group, but now he was not sure at all.He had to admit that Riddle had mastered everything and officially became their leader.

This somewhat made him feel a little uncomfortable.Because he still had contempt for Riddle, thinking he was just a poor kid from a Muggle orphanage.

His father has been educating him to know what kind of people are worth dealing with, and what kind of people are inferior and dirty.He shared his father's aversion to belittling anything that had anything to do with Muggles, though sometimes he didn't even know exactly where that aversion came from.

But Tom Riddle succeeded in changing his attitude.Although somewhat displeased, Lestrange found himself admiring him from the bottom of his heart.Every time they get together, Tom will always bring them some little surprises and teach them how to deal with their enemies without anyone noticing.

And the Chamber of Secrets incident completely raised Tom's reputation to a new level, and even the most skeptical people began to believe that he was the heir of Slytherin.

Lestrange is not a fool, he knows what he should do.When everyone has a good impression of a person, the most important thing you should do is to become friends with him instead of showing your jealousy on your face.

But Lestrange failed.He found that Tom's attitude towards him was becoming more and more cold, and at noon today, he was still publicly warning himself not to mess with that Muggle at the dinner table.

The others didn't notice it, but Lestrange did.Although Tom didn't show any anger at the time, after that, he didn't speak to Lestrange for a full half an hour.

Lestrange could feel that Tom was angry, and directed at him alone.

He couldn't help but remember that the last time Tom was visibly angry had something to do with this Muggle girl.

A strange idea suddenly appeared in his mind—maybe that girl really holds a special place in Tom's heart.

Thinking of this, Lestrange couldn't help but want to test them out.Because if he was right, it would be enough to shake Tom's position as leader among them, and maybe even make some Muggle-hating people part ways with him.

The author has something to say: In order to make up for yesterday, I added a little more today~

Suddenly found that the sentence Lestrange scolded was dropped, so let's keep it like this, it seems to be more emotional~

Brother Lestrange is actually just used by me to lead the red line~

Lestrange: I can only help you so far╭(╯3╰)╮[Everyone: Who are you? ! 】

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Diving fish come out and spit bubbles~

I don't know what extra episode you want to watch?The Mid-Autumn Festival episode is in the making... The incompetent stars of the episode are here to QAQ

In addition, thanks to Huaxin Xiaoluobo for the landmine, I just saw it today, okay.