[HP] Comparative

On the other end, Harry couldn't escape Hermione's investigation in the end.He confessed his intention to give Tom some books in an unobtrusive way, briefly skipping the middle and jumping directly to the conclusion: "...he said I would lend him. If there is something in it that can be used in the game , he will tell me."

"Wow——" Ron, who just found out that the cause was twin wands, was stunned and completely forgot his previous guess. "Is he helping you like this just because you both use similar wands? I've never heard of that before, by the way!"

"I can't think of a better way to deal with it," Hermione admitted.Immediately, she pointed out sharply: "As far as I know, Riddle never accepts things from other people."

The doubt was obvious, and Harry suspected that he might never escape Hermione's eyes. "Maybe he noticed that I was disappointed," he confessed further, "when he wanted to say no."

Ron was even more shocked, and he started looking at Harry in awe. "Riddle is too kind to you, isn't he? I'm not saying he's not helpful, after all, he helped me too—" He couldn't help waving his arms, "But he offered to assist you in the game! It's nothing Easy stuff!" At this point, he suddenly murmured to himself suspiciously, "Wait, maybe it's easy for Riddle?"

Hermione gave Ron a rare approving look when he said "great". "I was going to say before that Riddle was too keen." Harry guessed her "before" was referring to the badge thing, "even the twin wands were a little out of the ordinary—if I remember correctly , His attitude changed after he arrived at school, right?"

"Are you trying to say..." Harry followed Hermione's logic, "Tom may have found some records that you didn't, about twin wands? That stuff, whatever it was, made him change his mind?"

Hermione gritted her teeth at him. "I don't think he'll really think it doesn't exist," she finally said flatly, "and if he wants to figure it out, we're definitely behind him."

"What does that matter?" Ron said with complete disapproval. "The best student in the school wants to help Harry, and I don't see any harm in that. If he keeps his word, ha Li can definitely win!"

"I haven't thought about winning or not." Harry said honestly.Facing Ron's questioning eyes, he quickly corrected himself: "I'm not saying I don't want to win, but it's just... too far away." Then, he turned to Hermione, "I don't doubt that if Tom wants to To figure it out, then he'll figure it out better than we can—it's always been—

"I just trust him."

The last sentence was quiet, but so resolute that the two friends couldn't help but glance at each other - it was quite normal for Harry to respond, since Tom had said it first.

Hermione was visibly annoyed. "I..." She opened her mouth and closed it, repeated several times before saying, "I always feel that something is wrong, but I don't know what is wrong."

"I don't see anything suspicious about him." Ron shrugged. "Also, what spell did you just mention? What was it flashing?" He looked at Hermione.

"Flashback Curse," Harry answered for the brunette.

"Oh, yes, the Flashback Charm," Ron continued nonchalantly. "In my opinion, it's more gimmicky than practical. Harry's right, even when it comes to twin wands, Riddle knows better than him." Us, that's normal—at least I never judge him by the student's standard!"

As he spoke, Ron stuck out his tongue, vividly imitating Fred and George's exaggerated praise when they mentioned No. 1 in the fifth grade: "If Riddle knows more things that make him change his attitude towards Harry, then Maybe it just means that the twin wand bearers are more connected than he thought!" Then he resumed his tone: "I admit that Riddle doesn't really care that much about other people, but Harry cares about him." It might be different."

In order to preserve their newly repaired friendship, Ron kept the sourness of the last sentence to a minimum.The other two heard it, and no one wanted to refute at this moment.

"Oh, I also think I think too much." Hermione couldn't find any new arguments, so she could only sigh distressedly, "I think I'd better go upstairs and sleep first."

When her back disappeared at the entrance of the girls' dormitory, Ron approached Harry and asked in a low voice, "Do you think she's just jealous of you? After all, girls like Riddle a lot."

Harry guessed this meant that Hermione was jealous of Tom. "No way, he and I are both men!" He objected instinctively, and unexpectedly remembered those inappropriate heartbeats that stopped or accelerated.Although this was a bit different from what he thought he liked—he was so nervous that he couldn't speak well when facing Qiu Shi—but he still felt a little guilty for no reason.In order to drive away this feeling, he emphasized again: "I don't think so, at least not Hermione."

For some reason, Ron was suddenly a little happier. "That's why I'm thinking too much," he muttered, standing up briskly. "Let's go upstairs too, Harry."

**

The following Saturday, all students in Year [-] and above can go to Hogsmeade to play.Harry had been looking forward to this day, because Lily, James and Sirius were coming to see him.As soon as it was daybreak, he got up and went downstairs, and was the first to leave the castle under Filch's unfriendly gaze, heading towards the magic village.

Because it was still early, most of the shops on both sides of the street were still open.Harry didn't look sideways, and didn't stop until he reached the Hog's Head bar.He pushed open the creaking wooden door and found that the inside was almost empty, only three wizards were sitting around a small dirty table, concentrating on discussing something.

"Papa, Mama, Sirius!" he cried happily.

"Harry!" As early as the door rang, Lily turned her head in surprise.She stood up, took a few quick steps, squatted down, and pulled Harry into a warm embrace. "How are you?"

Harry hugged her hard, too. "I'm fine, Mom," he grinned, seeing over her shoulder that James and Sirius had stopped talking and were smiling at them.

"Lily's been worrying about you so much, Harry," said James, in a wry, complaining tone, "and I've barely had a good night's sleep lately!"

"That's normal, isn't it?" Sirius winked at Harry vigorously, and deliberately wrinkled his handsome face into a painful ball, "After all, James and I will only spoil you..."

James and Sirius were not very quiet students at school. Lily sometimes mentioned it to Harry, but the person obviously didn't pay much attention to it.

"Both of you, shut up!" Lily snorted coldly without looking back, slightly opened the distance between the two of them, and looked at Harry carefully. "Let mom see you—" The son didn't have dark circles on his face, and his eyes were bright, she finally believed what Harry said just now, and kissed him on both cheeks, "It seems that you are doing well? "

Harry's smile grew wider.When she stood up, the two walked towards the table together. "I think it's okay."

Sirius pulled out a chair for Harry so that Harry could sit between him and Lily. "'It's okay'?" He couldn't help repeating, with a rising sound at the end, "Based on my experience in school, there should be many people who trouble you."

"I agree," James nodded, watching Harry sit down with concern, "The other houses are fine, Slytherin..." Before he could finish speaking, he was stared at by Lily and had to sit down. Before his mouth, he made a movement of zipping up the zipper.

Lily reacted so strongly whenever James expressed hostility towards Slytherin that Harry could only guess that they might have been through something he didn't know.

But only in terms of the Triwizard Tournament did Harry think James was right. "A little bit," he admitted, immediately drawing the other three to stare nervously at him. "Malfoy got a lot of badges that said 'Potter stinks'. That's fixed."

"Malfoy... I knew it!" James said angrily, with a look of extreme disgust on his face, and Sirius was about the same.

And Lily's green eyes were full of concern. "How did you solve it then, Harry?"

So Harry told her exactly what happened in the courtyard.

Lily's reaction was exactly the same as Harry's. "He's been a real help! Have you thanked him, Harry?" she asked, obviously knowing her son very well.

Harry nodded quickly. "I was going to give all the books you gave me to Tom—" As soon as he said this, he immediately got a condemning look from Liu Dao, so he had no choice but to repeat what Tom said he would lend him and help .

The adults who hadn't expected the direction of the matter looked at each other in blank dismay.

"This boy is too smart." James was rarely interested, and leaned forward slightly. "What did you say his name was, Harry?"

"Tom," Harry replied, "Tom Riddle, the one with my twin wand."

James understood immediately. "You told him about the wand, didn't you?"

Harry nodded sheepishly. "I couldn't hold back..."

"I remembered, I've heard of this name before." Sirius suddenly interrupted their conversation with a thoughtful look on his face.

"Of course you've heard of it, after all I..." James was about to say that I told you about the wand, but seeing his friend's expression, he also became puzzled: "Where else have you heard of it?"

Sirius' eyebrows were frowned into an inconspicuous point in the centre. "Last Christmas," he said, as if caught in an unpleasant memory, "Regulus kept trying to persuade me to go back to Grimmauld Place for the holidays. He said my mother was very ill and I couldn't refuse him. But I went back It was later discovered that there were still many Malfoys and Lestranges in the house. They were discussing the heir of Slytherin and so on, so I stopped talking."

Harry felt that things must not have been so lightly described by Sirius.What do you mean by "I won't tell you when you see it"?They probably had a big fight!

Judging from the looks on Lily and James' faces, they most likely thought the same.

"What's 'Heir of Slytherin'?" Lily asked, with just the right amount of curiosity, while thoughtfully avoiding the ambiguity of Sirius.

Sirius cleared his throat forcefully, apparently not wanting to mention most of the Blacks' pure-blood relatives either. "I didn't hear all of it. But they say Riddle is a Parseltongue, and he must be the heir of Slytherin."

"Impossible?" James immediately expressed doubts. "Although Parseltongue is indeed inherited, I have never heard that the blood of Slytherin has continued to the present! Besides, which pure-blood family has the surname Riddle?"

Sirius shrugged. "Nor did I, so I didn't take it seriously. If Harry hadn't mentioned it, I might have forgotten it."

Lily thought for a while. "Is he really a Parseltongue?" She looked at Harry inquiringly. "After all, it's very rare. I'm sure there hasn't been any reports of it in nearly a century."

"I don't know." Harry decided to tell the truth, "but there are similar rumors in school, saying that Tom can speak Parseltongue and is the heir of Slytherin." Talk about it, no one mentioned it in front of Tom."

The three adults exchanged thoughtful glances.In the end, it was Sirius who spoke first: "Sounds like a groundless rumor, but by the standard of groundless rumors, it has spread too far. Besides, my relatives have no other skills-" At this point, he revealed With an expression of disgust, his tone was also full of sarcasm, "The study of pure blood may be first-rate."

"But if the heir of Slytherin is true, then the legend that Salazar Slytherin built a secret room in the school with monsters in it is also true?" James sneered, still in disbelief, "No I brag, there's nowhere in Hogwarts that we haven't been to - don't you, Padfoot?"

This title made Sirius smile nostalgicly. "Yes, prongs."

Harry didn't doubt what they said, because the Marauder's Map was in his hands.But he had to pretend to be dazed, otherwise Lily would have discovered the problem and asked him to hand over the cheating map.

Lily did recall the Gryffindor Four's illegal night tour at Hogwarts in illegal Animagus form.She gave James and Sirius a warning look, and said with prohibition: "Okay, let's do this first." Then, she turned to Harry with concern and asked: "Do you know what the first event of the competition is?" huh, Harry?"

Harry shook his head. "Not yet. My guess is, they either didn't want to give the Warriors too much time to prepare, or they didn't want to tell us at all."

Lily showed a little worried look again. "If they have a problem, let us know as soon as possible, okay?"

"Hmm," Harry promised, secretly suspecting the latter possibility was more likely.

Around the imminent Triwizard Tournament, the four discussed for a while.The mysterious person who signed up for Harry was also one of the topics, but they didn't even have anyone to suspect, so they had to put it aside for the time being.In the end, Lily, James, and Sirius all forgive Harry for wanting to give the book away.After all, in their eyes, the ranking in the competition didn't matter, Harry's safety was the most important thing.

The sun rose slowly, through the foggy window panes, together with the faintly louder human voice.Lily and James are on duty and must leave first.Afterwards, Sirius took Harry out of the Pig's Head Bar, preparing to go to the Honeydukes Candy Store for a sweep, and met Ron and Hermione along the way.

The three had a pleasant day in Hogsmeade.Harry was stuffed with bags and had to ask Ron to help him get some.Just as they were about to leave the Three Broomsticks, Hagrid suddenly walked over from the bar and grabbed Harry who was at the back. "Come and meet me in the cottage at twelve o'clock tonight," he whispered in Harry's ear, "you come alone, with the cloak on."

He walked away after saying that, and Harry didn't have time to ask him what he wanted to do.When they got back to school, Harry told Ron and Hermione about it, but neither of them could figure out Hagrid's sneaky intentions.

Anyway, Harry complied.At almost twelve o'clock at night, under the cover of Ron, he slipped out of the castle quietly.But soon he discovered that Hagrid also called Madam Maxime.This made him full of all kinds of guesses when he wore the invisibility cloak and followed them through the forbidden forest, and the most likely one was verified in a short time——

The Ministry of Magic hid four dragons in the Forbidden Forest, and they were the first item of the Triwizard Tournament.

Seeing that several dragon tamers cast spells at the same time to subdue a Hungarian Horntail, Harry was dumbfounded, and it would not be an exaggeration to describe it as frightened.He now knows why the game kills—

As long as these behemoths snort casually, the warriors' lives are in danger!

Charlie Weasley was one of the dragon tamers.He didn't see Harry wearing the Invisibility Cloak, and he had some complaints about Hagrid bringing Madame Maxime.And just when Harry decided he had seen enough and quietly returned to the castle, he bumped into the sneaky Karkaroff on the way.

Madam Maxim and Karkaroff will definitely tell their students what they saw, so that Cedric is the only one who doesn't know what the first item is...

The project was supposed to be kept secret, so even if he knew, he couldn't tell them as Lily said... If found out, he would get his parents, who work at the Ministry of Magic, into big trouble...

Seven or eight adult wizards can barely deal with a giant dragon, so how can he deal with it... Maybe the only advantage of seeing them in advance is that he will not be scared faint in front of the teachers and students in the official competition...

Harry arrived at the castle, slipped in quietly through the front door, and climbed the marble stairs.He was full of worries, but remembered to speed up so that Ron wouldn't have to wait too long for him.When he turned around the stairs on the third floor and turned to the fourth floor, he suddenly noticed someone in the corridor on the third floor——

It's Tom.The tall boy seemed to have just come out of the bathroom, looking around with a vigilant expression.

Harry couldn't help rubbing his eyes, trying to take a closer look.The prefect is indeed on the night watch, but the place Tom just walked out of is the women's bathroom, right?What was he doing in the ladies' room?

Before Harry could figure out why, there was a sudden gust of wind around him.Instinctively, he grasped the cloak tightly, but it was still lifted by a corner, and half of his arm was immediately exposed.

Oops……

As soon as Harry thought this, he realized that he couldn't move or speak suddenly.He had no choice but to maintain a stiff posture with his head tilted to the lower left, waiting for the footsteps to approach quickly.Although he tried desperately to raise his eyes, until Tom stopped a step away from him, he could only see the height of the wand in the opponent's hand——

Hell, he's clearly held by Tom's silent spell, and he has no idea how Tom found him, let alone how fast Tom casts the spell—

With a swipe, Tom tore off the invisibility cloak, which was half indelible. "Who is..." the tall boy asked sharply, his tone suddenly changed to surprise when he saw Harry clearly, "Harry? Why are you?"

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