[HP] Comparative

"You should be very clear, Harry, that not even Slughorn can make me do what I don't want to do."

When Tom expressed his attitude so bluntly, the two had already left the Potions Professor's office.The corridor was empty, and there was no one there. He opened his mouth as soon as he turned the corner.

Harry knew Tom had a problem. "No one can force you, I know for sure." He took a deep breath, raised his head to meet the handsome boy's dark eyes, and forced himself to face the other's sharp gaze, "I don't really expect what the professor said will come true , 'Strengthen tutoring' or something."

Hearing this, Tom narrowed his eyes slightly.He could see that Harry was telling the truth, but... "Then you still..." His doubts only started, and then immediately turned into certainty, "You don't have any plans."

... He has other plans?

Harry didn't know for a moment whether to be angry or laugh.He believes that Tom can find the answer in his eyes, but he never thinks that his plan can be described in negative words such as having other plans. "I don't care if Professor Slughorn wants to help me in the game," he paused at this point, "but I really don't mind if he has a good estimate of our relationship."

Tom's eyes narrowed even more. "What are you kidding, Harry?" he demanded sharply, with a little hiss. "You want him to spread a brief false relationship in public?"

Now Harry had to take a deep breath, otherwise he suspected he might impulsively punch that venomous mouth. "Who said that was false?" He tried to calm down—arguing with Tom wasn't going to help, and he suspected that Tom had switched on to deliberately provoke him again—but there was still a hint of anger in his voice that couldn't be suppressed.

Tom could have grabbed the "short" that Harry deliberately skipped and continued to make a fuss, but he keenly captured the more critical part. "What are you going to do?" He asked immediately, but there was no hesitation in his tone, "Don't you think..."

"I like you, it's not something shameful!" Harry finally couldn't hold back, and cried out fiercely, and clenched his fists, "So what if other people know? You and I, Do you have any relationship with them?"

The amount of information revealed by these words is getting bigger and bigger.Facing the face in front of him full of ruined boats, Tom pursed his lips and quickly recalled what happened recently. "Your mother knows." He quickly came to the correct conclusion, "I guess, and your two friends?"

Harry glared at him viciously, panting with his chest still heaving under his uniform robes. "That's right!"

Hearing this hard acknowledgment, the line of Tom's lips became a straight line.Since Harry confessed that he likes him, their relationship has developed in an increasingly unpredictable direction.He didn't pay much attention to it, because no third person knew the real inside story.He also thought that Harry would not want to be public.Think about how much trouble this will cause...

"How much do they know?" Tom took a step towards Harry, forcing the junior boy directly against the stone wall, and the shadow in the corner fell over both of them. "all?"

Harry could feel the hard, cool touch behind him, and he could hear the threat lurking beneath Tom's question.Although he wanted to push it back again, he realized with a little dismay that the other party would definitely find out that he was lying. "No," he admitted reluctantly, and at the same time felt that the close distance made him hold his breath involuntarily, "they only know the result."

The tense, deadly feeling in the air disappeared silently.

Tom narrowed his eyes again. "And you want more people to know?" He straightened up a little bit, shaking his head in disbelief, even a little pity in his heart, "You're driving yourself into a corner, Harry."

Because of the new space, Harry was able to breathe freely again. "That's what you said, I don't think so." Without waiting for the other party to ask further questions, he continued like a cannonball: "As I said before, there is no shame in liking you. If someone asks Attack me for that—" The corners of his mouth pulled down in disgust, as he remembered those Slytherin purebloods who deliberately ignored the Potters, "That's their own fault."

A few seconds of silence.They looked at each other and could tell that neither of them really cared.

"Also, I believe that Professor Slughorn will not mention any competition tutoring." Harry continued with a firm tone. "If he hinted to others that you helped me, that's true, and I can't deny it. Based on the above," he tilted his head, and looked at the tall boy in front of him more closely, "why should I refuse the professor?" Proposal, Tom?"

As if shocked by Harry's logic, Tom didn't speak for a while, with a sinister expression on his face. "So..." he said slowly, still with some disbelief in his voice, "You really plan to pursue me publicly?"

This was said so bluntly that even Harry couldn't help blushing. "Well, maybe not so fast?" He lowered his eyelashes, and his mind turned quickly-staring at Tom too much affected his thinking efficiency-"At least I won't be like some girls waiting helplessly in the library." Looking at you... I might need a plan..."

Seeing that Harry really had that intention, Tom opened his eyes slightly.He never dreamed that, after going through a lot of shit that had nothing to do with ordinary love, the Gryffindor boy would seriously regard him as the target of love.

A burst of anger came out of Tom's heart for no reason. "What the hell are you thinking?" he asked angrily, grabbing the drooping chin and forcing his face back up. "I warn you, Harry, don't do anything stupid!"

Harry blinked at the top of his palm, and rarely retorted, or even protested the rude treatment he had received.But Tom could only read one meaning from those clear green eyes, that is stubbornness.

Again, he really didn't understand why Harry was so stubborn...

Just like he didn't understand why he would accidentally close those slightly parted lips in the Astronomy Tower...

No, wait, Harry looked at him again with those wet eyes full of longing...

Damn!

The heat from the other person's fingertips suddenly became like a needle prick, and the originally high anger burst out.Tom dropped his hand sharply, as if on fire.Losing his shackles, the Gryffindor boy let out a small sound that was infinitely close to disappointment, and he wanted to agree with him...

Here we go again, dangerous tendency, a cold voice commented.

Tom closed his eyes and resolutely suppressed the two at the same time. "I think you'd better spend your time on the maze," he resumed, his tone echoing his inner cold comment, "if you can really make a plan."

Harry was rubbing his chin that had been pinched red, when he heard this, he gave Tom a cross look. "Of course I can make a plan." He muttered and complained, obviously angry, "There are still more than three months, can you have some confidence in me?"

Tom originally wanted to retaliate, "That requires you to give me confidence first."When the words came to his lips, he suddenly remembered the second project, combined with the current situation, he couldn't say it again.

He didn't feel embarrassed, but somehow he didn't want to mention it... He had a strange and hard to describe feeling: if he did say it, the topic would definitely be taken by Harry again in a direction he couldn't expect... …

"The maze isn't difficult, and Slughorn is right about that." Finally, Tom dropped another, safer subject, "Since you're an unregistered Animagus, I guess you You should have also learned a lot of spells that are not in other textbooks?"

When he heard the Animagus, Harry looked up, as fast as a Snitch had just passed by. "How do you know?" He was shocked.After meeting the eyes of the tall boy, a memory quickly flashed in his head, about how the two walked through the dark and deep forest...

"Damn it," Harry cursed in a low voice when he understood, and rubbed his face vigorously with his hand that he hadn't had time to let go, "I should have known..."

Tom responded with a typical Slytherin smirk. "Did I guess right?"

Harry rolled his eyes, trying not to notice the smug smugness on that handsome face.Maybe Tom was mad at him in the first place... he mused to himself, at least that was a real reaction...

"Not exactly," Harry replied honestly, although he was not very happy, "the learning process of Animagus is complicated and dangerous, and mistakes can be made if you are not careful... I mean, if you become half animal and half human Whatever, that's the end of it. My parents had a big fight about it, and James was a bit more careful about teaching me spells afterwards."

It didn't take much effort for Tom to recognize the resentment lurking in Harry's words.But Lily's words were enough to stop Harry, since he clearly didn't want to upset his mother.Then, according to this reverse reasoning, Harry declared that he would pursue him openly, and Lily probably got the consent of Harry.

——What do mother and son Potter think?

——Harry is reckless and doesn't know the seriousness, but a mother doesn't stop her son from being stupid?

Tom found himself puzzled again.He didn't really show his true self around Lily Potter, but he didn't bother to hide it much either, like the part where he commented on what old Crouch was doing.He was sure the average fifth grader couldn't draw that conclusion, and Lily could definitely see that.

So, as a mother, shouldn't she be more protective of Harry, after all Harry is so easy to deceive?Hugging him, even inviting him to the Potters' house, was unsuspecting...

Should he praise Lily and Harry for being mother and son?

For the next little while Tom ran through several conjectures, one after the other, without coming to a conclusion.If he could figure out what Harry was thinking, he would probably be able to make the boy give up already...

"Why don't you want Professor Slughorn to mention our relationship to more people?"

It was Harry's new question that interrupted Tom's thoughts.Hearing this, he looked at the shorter boy again, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help twitching. "Why do you say?"

Harry noticed the sneer that didn't really take shape. "Because you don't want to show off?" he asked tentatively.In fact, he has another answer in his mind-because you said you don't like me-but he would rather not say it if possible.

Tom snorted.He could see that Harry was deliberately avoiding more unfavorable answers, but it didn't hurt.In fact, he had noticed that the Gryffindor boy looked careless, but his choices at every key point were unexpectedly decisive and correct. "Since you remember, may I assume that this is the end of the matter?"

Harry blinked his eyes twice, but didn't answer the question head-on. "I also know that you hate accidents, and you hate trouble." He continued self-consciously, "but the professor will at most claim that we are good friends. I won't bother you about the maze, if the third item is really a maze words." He raised his right hand, "I promise."

The tone is absolutely sincere.

"Then you still have to follow his words in front of Slughorn?" Tom couldn't help frowning, "Do you know what that means?"

It meant that Harry had accepted Slughorn's affections, which Harry had always disliked, and both of them knew it.

"I..." Harry, who had been answering fluently just now, suddenly got stuck.His eyes began to flicker, and he quickly turned away after reacting. "I just want...a chance...with you..." As he spoke, his voice became softer, his face flushed rapidly from the base of his neck, as if he wanted to get into the crack of the ground in embarrassment.

Seeing this, Tom rarely had the urge to sigh.Clearly, Harry wanted to make the chance to get close to him, and nothing else mattered.But hadn't the boy been calm in Slughorn's office just now?Is it too late to be shy?

"Meet me around here at the same time next week." The words slipped from Tom's lips before he could really realize what he was doing.He was taken aback by this sudden decision, and then met Harry's expression that changed from stupefied to surprised, with repentance stuck in his throat.

Harry didn't notice the nuance - and to be fair, if he did, he'd pretend he didn't. "It's a deal!" He said happily, his excitement palpable. "See you then, Tom!"

Before he finished speaking, Harry strode down the side stairs, leaving no time for the other party to respond.The tall boy stood where he was, with an unpredictable expression.After a while, he also left.

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