mystery lover

After parting with Tom, Charles, who returned to school with peace of mind, began to live a life of eating, going to class, going to the library, and studying the fourth grade notes in his hand.

As for the eyes of the people around you, since you can't control it, just ignore it.

Charles, who drank extremely bitter potions every day, said that it is serious to improve the magic power to improve the magic that wizards rely on for survival. It is best not to do this kind of thing that was almost sent to see Merlin by magical creatures!

When Charles poured the potion down his throat without intervals, the boy twisted his face and wondered for a moment whether Tom made the potion taste so weird on purpose, and this was indeed a good lesson.

At seven o'clock in the evening, when Charles went to the library with a few books as usual, he suddenly felt something flying over behind him, but before Charles could turn around, that person was always wearing bright clothes, wearing The ghost of an old hat had already flown over his head.

Seeing the ghost that had flown several meters away, Charles secretly heaved a sigh of relief, after all, Peeves is notorious for teasing people.

But Little Badger obviously overestimated his luck, because the next moment, the almost transparent ghost had turned around, and a smirk was drawn on its broad face.

"Hey!"

It was too late to stop, and the corridor where Charles was in had already suffered.

The mud was all over the ground, making the young man's eyes sluggishly rest on the objects that Peeves kept throwing from his hand.

As if having played enough, the ghost flew over Charles quickly, and flew back in the direction it came from. If it weren't for the laughter echoing in the corridor and the evidence everywhere, Charles would doubt whether he was dazzled , everything happened so fast that he could hardly react.

"You nasty brats!!!"

Oh damn, that was definitely the last sound Charles wanted to hear at the moment.

When the middle-aged man who had begun to bald rushed in front of Charles aggressively holding the pet cat in his hand, there were only three words left in the boy's mind.

Ruined.

"Hufflepuff kid, look what you've done!" Argus Filch looked at the mud all over the corridor, pointed his thin fingers at the kid in front of him, "You! Clean up this place, and then go to the trophy room to wipe the trophies! All! You heard me right! All the trophies!"

"Sir... it was thrown by Peeves."

Although what he said was true, Charles knew that he must be responsible for today's matter.

He was unlucky enough to meet Filch, the administrator who was famous for punishing students.

"You still dare to argue?!" Filch's patience ran out, "Now, immediately, clean this place up for me!"

"...Clean it up."

Charles took out the wand in his sleeve and waved it lightly, and the corridor immediately returned to normal, but his actions seemed to have accidentally irritated Mr. Administrator, Filch's face changed, and the sneer at the corner of his mouth was full of malice .

"Come with me." After speaking, Filch led Charles to the showroom full of trophies.

"gentlemen?"

Charles stood in the trophy room of Hogwarts with some puzzlement, looking at Filch's appearance, this gloomy administrator seemed to be planning to stand at the door and watch him all the time?

"Wipe it." Filch said, took out a rag that he didn't know where to pick up, and threw it into Charles' hands.

"..."

Silently said unlucky in his heart, after Charles put aside the textbooks in his hand, he no longer neglected to start this temporary labor work, it seems that the time scheduled to go to the library will be spent here Speaking of which, he was really interested in the method of making Felix Elixir in the notes of that student named Nico.

It seems that it is time to find another time to study, and the little badger sighed silently again.

In fact, if Filch had half the interest in punishing students to pay attention to the news in the Daily Prophet and the movements of the entire wizarding world or Hogwarts, I believe he would not be in the same position as almost everyone. The badger cubs made trouble for Charles by making such a unique behavior when he backed away, although one of the badger cubs didn't seem to notice.

Charles had never been to this place on purpose before. Although he had heard about it all the time, he only came here during the visit organized by the college when he entered the freshman year. Of course, that was just a hasty appreciation and envy. There is no follow-up.

At this moment, after wiping the trophies one after another, Charles carefully flipped through the names on these trophies. Is it considered a kind of entertainment?

Just under such repetitive work.

Suddenly, the boy's eyes fixed on a slightly old trophy.

For some reason, Charles felt that his heart rate suddenly beat at an extremely abnormal frequency. In the dark, the boy's hand touched the trophy that was placed on the third row of the locker .

Charles looked at the words engraved on the trophy, and his mind went blank for a moment.

'Tom Riddle - Special Contribution to the School'

After a while, the boy stared at the words on the trophy and blinked uncertainly.

Tom, is it Tom?

Although Tom is a very common name, Riddle is definitely a rare surname. In fact, as early as the first day Charles knew that Tom was a wizard, he was sure that Riddle was not a wizard's surname, at least not A pure blood wizard.

But at this moment, the teenager's mood has changed from shock at the beginning to excitement.

He found out about Tom's past!

Surprisingly, even Charles was a little thankful to Filch at this moment.

Aha, I don't know what expression will appear on Tom's face if I tell this secret to Tom!

So Tom wasn't so bad at Hogwarts, was he?Thinking of the other person's temperament, Charles suddenly had an urge to know about this man's past.

What was it like when Tom was at school...?

If Charles was surprised and excited when he found the first trophy with Tom Riddle's name engraved on it, then when he saw several other trophies or medals with Tom Riddle's name engraved on it, the boy was completely astonished.

'Tom Riddle - Hogwarts Outstanding Student Award'

……

'Tom Riddle - Excellence in Character Award'

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'Tom Riddle - Honorary Student Council President'

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*****

"Lucas, do you know where I can find the records of Hogwarts students over the years?"

The next morning, when Charles and Lucas went to the auditorium together, the teenager with a pair of dark circles asked his companions nervously.

"Student records? Are you talking about school history?" Lucas glanced at the boy beside him, not missing the tired yet excited look on his face, "Charles, who do you want to check?"

"Well, a friend of mine, he used to study at Hogwarts too."

friend?

Listening to his friend's words, Lucas still frowned slightly. If you want to check through the school history, Charles' friend should have left the school for many years, or at least he should have graduated before Charles entered school. Otherwise, Charl wouldn't be able to get the other party's information in this way.

It's just... when was this friend?It seems that Charles has never been mentioned.

Charles didn't know yet that due to his various abnormalities, he had been assigned a position that required more attention by his friends.

"You can go directly to the library, the school history will have the basic information of each class of students, of course..."

Noticing Lucas' pause, Charles cheered up, "What?"

"You know that in our college... there will always be people who like to collect campus deeds and compile them into books, well, this is probably a tradition in our Hufflepuff house, if your friend... is outstanding ? Then I guess it should be..."

For some reason, Lucas' intuition told him that the friend Charles mentioned should be unusual?

Probably because there are too many facts that have happened to my friends recently...

"I only know that he used to be the chairman of the Boys' Union and won the school's special contribution award..." Charles added after thinking for a while, "By the way, he belongs to Slytherin, Luca, you said those from our college Will there be any Slytherin students in the booklet?"

To be honest, Charles really doesn't know much about the campus deed book that Lucas said.

"Then don't worry, there should be a record of this person."

If he is the chairman of the student union, he would be considered the best student ever. There is no reason why there is no record of him. You must know that their college is also known for gossip, ahaha.

"But having said that, I heard that that one was also the chairman of the male student union."

"Uh……"

It took several seconds for Lucas's topic to end before Charles realized that he was referring to Voldemort.

This made the young man feel in a trance.

Why did you mention Lord again...

"Char, what's the name of your friend?" Lucas asked casually.

"Tom Riddle."

"Oh, after the afternoon class, I'll go back to the lounge and look for it for you."

*****

After Potions class, Lucas went straight back to the Hufflepuff common room, while Char went to the library first.

There is no corresponding enrollment time, and Charles is not as easy to find as he originally imagined.

Little Badger felt a deep sense of frustration when he found out that he didn't know his partner's age, but this couldn't dispel the burning desire in the boy's heart to know that man better.

In fact, there is still a bit of complacency and complacency, and there is even a feeling of asking for credit.

Tom, this is what I have learned about you!

As time went by, the school history in Charles's hand was replaced by a more advanced one, but the name of that person was still not found. When he was flipping through it, he accidentally left out Tom's name?

Under the dim light, a Hufflepuff boy, who was frowning more and more tightly, stood quietly between two rows of bookshelves, flipping through the pages of books with his fingers, but he didn't seem tired.

Charles finally found Tom Riddle in the 1938 admission list until the time was approaching the closing of the library.

In fact, when Charles turned forward to 1960, he turned it over again from the year before he entered school until 1960. After making sure that he really did not miss Tom's name, Little Badger hit twelve. With a little spirit, I began to look through the school history records before 1960.

In fact, what Charles thought was that Tom looked very young. Even if he was a wizard, he should be in his 40s. However, when Tom was not found in 1960, Charles had already passed a hurdle in his heart.

So when Little Badger looked at the familiar name that was sorted into Slytherin in 1938, and the very young face that belonged to Tom, the first thing Charles thought of It turned out to be:

Tom Riddle, graduated in 1945, which means that damn man is now 69 years old!

Merlin!