[HP] Comparative

It was night, and everything was silent.Hogwarts faded away from the hustle and bustle of the day, and fell into a dark and deep silence.

Unexpectedly, a classroom door opened silently.No one spoke, and there was no shadow to be seen. After a few seconds, it closed again, as if nothing had happened.

Wearing the Invisibility Cloak, Harry quietly climbed the stairs leading to the Astronomy Tower.When the game was over and back in the Gryffindor common room, he deliberately slowed down.When everyone else climbed onto the bed, he also pretended to be resting and drew his own bed curtain.In fact, as soon as he was sure everyone else was asleep, he'd sneaked out of the dormitory, planning to get in after the first Gryffindor had left the tower the next morning, so he could pretend he'd been in bed all night.

The reason why Ron was not allowed to join was because Harry was sure that he would be opposed.You know, in the first grade, he, Ron, and Hermione were deducted 150 points by Professor McGonagall because of the midnight duel in the Astronomy Tower-although the duel never started, they were still in the eighth grade when they were caught. Upstairs corridor.

On the other hand, Harry wasn't sure it would be wise to let Ron know about it.If Ron had told Hermione, or had simply slipped the tongue, he wouldn't have been able to explain to the brunette girl why he'd taken a bigger risk on Tom's date.

Just this once, Harry told himself mentally as he counted the steps.Whatever Tom wants to do, he's going to take the chance and make it clear... If the other person still doesn't like him, or just wants to blame him, let them lay it all out so he can kill all illusions ...

Thinking of this, Harry recalled Lily's doubts in the afternoon.She asked him why Tom left before they arrived, and he couldn't answer at all; that's assuming she thought they were good friends.Thanks to the mermaid, if they hadn't given him some privacy, he couldn't even imagine what would happen if the adults found out...

So he had to come this time, Harry told himself again.He quickly turned the corner of the stairs and walked a little further.The winding corridor soon came to an end, and before the steep spiral staircase leading to the top, there was a small door locked with a silver latch.

There was silence all around.Harry didn't see Tom, or anyone who might be lurking.He was a little apprehensive, and took a deep breath before pulling out his wand.

"Alahoo is open." He read at his lowest volume.

The little door slid open.Harry stepped sideways and snapped it back shut again.Then, he climbed up the spiral staircase, and every step he took seemed to land on his heart, making him more nervous and blood flow faster.

But the top is empty.Thin white snow was piled up on the railing of the roof, and so was the ground.The air is cold, and the smell of ice and snow rushes into the nose.

Harry froze, and closed the door behind his back.As a Slytherin, if he was still Malfoy this time, he should have suspected that the other party had set a trap for him, and that Filch might get out at any time.But now, though he didn't see footprints or anything, he just didn't think Tom would break his appointment.

"Tom?" Harry called tentatively.

no respond.

Harry began to wonder.If the tall boy was really there, why didn't he answer?For a moment, he suspected that the other party was still on the way.But in the next second, he remembered the situation where Tom suddenly appeared after he reminded Cedric the dragon, and suddenly felt that he should at least check every corner.

"what are you doing?"

Harry was busy groping around a small patch of frozen wall when those words sounded.He was startled by a sudden voice behind him, and instinctively stood up straight. "No... nothing." After speaking, embarrassment also surfaced, and he turned around stiffly.

It was Tom who came.He closed the door behind his back, and during the process, those dark eyes kept staring at Harry, as if he felt that Harry's behavior was quite suspicious. "There's no one there," he said at last, guessing easily, "or do you think I'm playing hide-and-seek with you?"

Harry tried very hard not to blush from embarrassment at being poked. "Of course not..." His eyes flickered, and he talked about him from left to right, "I mean, well, you're pretty punctual."

Tom responded with a soft snort. "Do you have to start like this? Then I have to say, I thought you might not dare to come." To others, these words were probably provocative, but his tone was very calm, as lacking in warmth as the current weather.

This was indeed an unbearable past event, Harry became more and more embarrassed, and tried to change the subject again. "It's been several years..." He touched the tip of his nose, his hands were cold, and he suddenly shivered, "What's the matter with you today?"

However, Tom didn't seem to let Harry go easily. "You think I'm invisible, why?" He crossed his arms and leaned against the ice-covered stone wall, his gaze still not leaving Harry. "To be precise, why do you think I will definitely come?"

Harry looked back at the tall boy in bewilderment, wondering how this could be a problem. "You asked me out, didn't you?" Thinking of something, he hurriedly added: "You are different from Malfoy!"

"Draco and I are indeed different, but that's not the core." Tom pointed out sharply, his lips were slightly puckered, which was a bit critical, "If it were someone else, you would come out in the middle of the night without any suspicion ?"

Harry thought that the combination of "unsuspecting" and "out in the middle of the night" definitely conveyed the meaning that Tom felt that his actions were too rash.He'd love to argue that it was you who suggested it and that you were no one else, but he suspects that would only lead them into a pointless spat.

"Is that what you wanted to say when you called me out?" He asked again, subconsciously hugging the invisibility cloak in his arms.

From the moment he appeared, Tom had been staring at Harry non-stop.Hearing this, he finally blinked slowly. "Of course not, but it's about the same—" As if sensing Harry's rising defensiveness, he didn't try to test Harry's patience again, "I just want to make sure, do you really think the hostages are in danger of death?"

Harry was grateful that Tom didn't directly ask "how could you take something so unreliable to be true", but the question was not very polite now. "Thanks to you, I found out as soon as I came out of the water!" he replied, a little annoyed, "If you want to know what happened before, even I don't know why I got it wrong!"

Tom just shook his head at this. "Forget about the others," he said, with something odd in his tone that sounded condescending. "I'm wondering, haven't you seen me in the water? Do you think I Does it look like someone needs to be rescued?"

Harry blinked and blinked again, very confused, but then suddenly it dawned on him - he understood what the tall boy's problem was - Tom thought that everyone knew about the hostages in the second project There would be no threat to life; even less so when the hostage was Tom himself, since the tall boy's magical prowess was beyond the reach of ordinary people.

"I have no idea!"

Thinking of this, Harry became more and more annoyed—anyone who is repeatedly reminded of his mistakes in the game can't be in a good temper—

"You've got your eyes closed! You look passed out! Unconscious, gray face! What do you think I'm supposed to think at a time like that? 'Leave Tom alone, Tom can do it anyway'? That's what you want Did you see that? Not to mention you are still my hostage!"

After being yelled at so much, Tom's expression didn't change. "Actually, I woke up as soon as I got down into the lake," he explained calmly.

--What? !

—Does that mean Tom was awake the whole time? !

Harry stared at him in shock, mouth opening uncontrollably. "But Dumbledore..."

"A sleep spell was cast on the hostages." Tom added the end of the sentence for him, speaking quickly, "It's not difficult to undo the spell."

Harry was still staring at the tall boy in shock.He guessed that it was not difficult for Tom to unravel the sleep spell, but the question was, why did Tom undo it?Being sober at the bottom of the dark water isn't necessarily better, is it?

He wanted to ask Tom why he hadn't warned him then, and thought it was cheating; he wanted to ask Tom if he didn't trust Dumbledore, as much as he didn't, and felt the answer was too obvious to ask.

"So you know all about what's going on under the water..." Harry pointed out slowly, almost stammering.

Tom nodded.His expression was unflappable, and he didn't seem to mind at all what Harry thought of him. "Even though I'm your hostage, I guess, for a split second, you thought about revenge—just let go, it was a mistake; how easy, isn't it?" He grinned, briefly, but There was no smile in the eyes at all, "Did the game stop you? Or the mermaid who followed?"

One second, two seconds, the short silence instantly became tense——

"What are you talking about?!" No matter what kind of speculation was full of malice, Harry blushed uncontrollably, almost out of anger. "It has nothing to do with the competition, and it has nothing to do with the mermaid! I admit that I really thought about it—" Tom raised his eyebrows clearly, as if to say "I knew it", and Harry became even angrier, "But I absolutely, I will never really do that!" He clenched his fists, his eyes were firm, "Never!"

For a while, there was a tense silence on the rooftop, only the occasional sound of a few snowflakes whirling and falling.

Tom's piercing gaze took on a hesitation for the first time, and then disappeared again. "Why..." he asked, his voice lowered more to himself.

Harry couldn't catch it. "What did you say?" he pursued.

Hearing this, Tom raised his eyelids again and looked over. "I guess what you said may be true." He hooked the corners of his mouth, and his tone couldn't tell whether it was ridicule or something else. "After all, you have to take even hostages who are not yours."

"I just..." Harry tried to argue.He wanted to say that he regretted it, he thought the hostage would really die; but it was obvious that there was no point in arguing with the Slytherin in front of him about the "promoting spirit" that Dumbledore admired.In addition, he didn't feel that what he did could be described as noble, he just...

He slumped his shoulders feebly. "You may not believe it, but I just do what I feel I should do."

Tom kept staring at the boy who was half a head shorter than him, and really smiled when he heard this. "Really?" he teased, meeting Harry's glare. "My suggestion to this is that before then, you should at least reassess who you trust."

"Who are you referring to?" Harry tensed his shoulders again, staring at Slytherin who was still lazily leaning on the stone wall, not without vigilance.

Don't be nervous, though, Tom was totally unmoved. "Oh, I can only say that I'm usually not so kind." He pursed his lips, spread his hands, stood up straight and brushed off the fine shards of ice on his robe. "See you later, Harry."

This sounded very ordinary, but Harry tasted something else from it.Like a little self-deprecating, and... goodbye?

His heart constricted suddenly, followed by a frightened beating.This prompted him to react quickly - when the tall boy opened the door, he flew forward, and the Invisibility Cloak slipped from his arms without paying attention. "--were you implying yourself just now?!"

Suddenly being knocked against the door, Tom frowned. "Why do you use the same trick a second time..." He heard what Harry said in the middle of the question, and his face barely looked so ugly, "Can't you understand me?"

Seeing the change of expression on that handsome face up close, Harry couldn't believe his eyes. "The point of this matter is not whether I can understand or not!" He was a little annoyed, but fortunately he was not incoherent, "You just said—"

"It's wise to stay away from me, yes." Tom interrupted Harry roughly, already impatient. "Tell me, have I made it clear enough?"

Harry froze instantly. "But I..." He fell silent, and the hot and sour feeling in his eyes became clearer. "I..." He turned his head in a little embarrassment, not wanting the other party to find out that he seemed to be showing weakness.

But this cover-up is lame and futile.Tom even hated his keen observation a little bit—those eyes that were steaming, the face that was hesitant to speak, and the posture that was so close, all of them continued to say the unfinished sentence— —

I like you.

To tell the truth, Tom never doubted it.First of all, it was too easy to tell whether Harry was lying or not; second, everyone would like him if he wanted to, and Harry wasn't enough of an accident.In fact, he only prodded him a little, and Harry immediately fell for it, and couldn't wait to confess the fact that he liked him.

However, under normal circumstances, what people like is the way he pretends, such as being calm, quiet, and polite.Once his nature is touched, very few people will be wary, some people will kneel down, and the rest of him is probably full of fear.

And Harry knew enough about that.

Although the Gryffindor boy was indeed a little slow, he didn't believe that Harry was really oblivious to his malice.On the contrary, he thought Harry was quite sensitive about it.Leaving aside the prefect's bathroom, Harry could very well have sensed his intention to destroy the holly wand just from their first meeting on the Hogwarts Express.

only……

Harry still moved closer to him, still willing to believe him.

——Shouldn’t ordinary people keep his distance from him after the train incident?

——Is this also because of the so-called "love"?

Tom wondered, almost bewildered. "I don't understand..." He stared at the messy black-haired head in front of him and muttered, his voice approaching.

Because the two were so close, Harry heard it clearly this time.He was ready to be pushed away, but this reaction was far more than he expected. "You..." He turned his head, just in time to catch the expression on the other person's face that he didn't have time to put away, and that may have never appeared before——

Concentration and blankness are mixed, and there is an inexplicable attraction.

Harry had to admit, he was curious, he wanted to know why.But at the same time, he also had to admit that, within close proximity, familiar heat, the familiar longing soared rapidly in his body, and it grabbed his throat in a short while, making his breathing tight and thick. "I also do not understand……"

He must have had good reason to beat Tom up or down, but why did he just want to kiss him now?

Dark and emerald eyes stared inches away.All the muscles in Harry's body contracted under this urgent gaze, and he secretly groaned.He figured he could only hold on for a few more seconds—if Tom didn't do something else, he might be about to kiss as rashly as last time.But just before he secretly yelled at the disobedient feet—they refused to move back an inch—

A shadow fell in front of his eyes, and there was a touch as light as water on his lips.

Harry's eyes widened momentarily in horror.Could it be that he couldn't control himself in the end?

No no no, wait a minute, I can explain this...

He wanted to say that, but when he opened his mouth, his lips and tongue were attacked fiercely.The faint and cold smell on Tom's body permeated his whole body, he paused, and then instinctively greeted him——

There was a spin that was too fast to react, and then he was pushed against the wall.The waist was also firmly clasped, with such force that it would definitely leave bruises.But that's not something to think about right now...

Harry embraced the tall boy's thin but powerful shoulders, tightened his arms, tiptoed a little, and finally indulged himself and closed his eyes.

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