[HP] Comparative

Harry wasn't among the first group of students rushing to watch, and he wasn't even in the second or third group.Not only because his schedule for the day was full, but also because he wanted to remove himself from this incident.

However, he suspects that the person he really wants to hide has a high probability of knowing that he did it - after all, the two did bump into each other outside the women's bathroom, and he once used this matter to viciously Sarcastic about Tom.

Strangely, Harry had been on edge all day long before some elusive Slytherin prefect approached him to ask him what to do.One of the reasons why he wants to return to the Marauder's map is to avoid being caught by Tom when he blows up the toilet, so as to leave room for excuses: as long as he can handle this once, he can pick up when Tom is not free in the future A closer look at the ladies' room.

However, the tall boy didn't respond.

This made Harry, who was already prepared to face the storm, feel a sense of relief like the aftermath, and at the same time, he became more and more confused.

Could it be that Tom couldn't guess that he did it?

Maybe not even half a point.

Or is there no secrets in it, so Tom doesn't care?

It seems possible, but it doesn't explain Tom's behavior before...

After dinner, Harry was still muttering desperately as he was pulled away by an excited Ron.The three soon arrived at the scene of the explosion, and found that several students were looking in the women's bathroom on tiptoe through the yellow wire, whispering to each other from time to time.Harry walked slowly over, peering in ahead of Hermione's abrupt gasps—

Water overflowed everywhere on the ground, broken tiles, stones, toilet seat and the like abounded in such a mess that it was no different from a large garbage dump.The original row of compartments were almost inseparable from each other, only sporadic and small half of the door panels were precariously supported.The side of the marble sink was also damaged by the bombing, exposing the dark sewer opening inside.

The destructive power of the fireworks exploding in the narrow pipe was much greater than he had imagined...

Looking at the catastrophic scene he had created, Harry felt a little guilty.But then it occurred to him that if the damage was not done thoroughly, he would probably have to overcome the difficulty that the repair time was too short to find suspicious things.In comparison, the current situation may be more favorable... The big deal is that he donated anonymously to the foundation responsible for the maintenance of the castle, and his small coffers are enough to renovate this bathroom... Wait, it should be enough, right?

"No matter who did it, it's a big deal!" Just as Harry was secretly estimating how much pocket money he had saved over the years, Ron's attitude had changed from full of curiosity to full of shock. "I bet Fred and George won't be happy, their rogue thrones are about to be surrendered!"

After hearing these words, Hermione, who had turned pale because of the situation in front of her, came back to her senses and stared at him in disbelief. "Someone blew up an entire bathroom, and that's all you can think of?"

"It's not that no one is affected..." Ron wanted to speak hard, but his voice became smaller and smaller under the stare of the brunette girl, "...well, fortunately, it was in the middle of the night when it was fried, and no one Injuried."

Hermione gave him one last hard look before letting him go. "I'm just wondering, all the students are going to bed at that time, who would wander outside and blow up here?" She looked at the bathroom again, extremely worried. "I heard that Peeves was scribbling in the classroom, didn't you?"

"Except for the professors, it's the prefects of the night watch!" Ron replied immediately, obviously wanting to save himself some face.

But now Hermione couldn't even roll her eyes. "That's impossible!" she said firmly.

Ron seemed to want to say that wasn't necessarily the case, but it was pointless arguing with Hermione whether the prefects were all good and all lead by example.So he thought for a while, and added: "They're all saying, Filch was the first to arrive. The corridor was flooded with water, and he was going crazy with anger." Between words, there wasn't much The meaning of sympathy, even some gloating.

Whatever Hermione thought, Harry understood.You know, Filch's latest impression on Harry was punishing him for scrubbing the trophy room that hadn't been cleaned in about 50 years.Even if he is full of guilt at the moment, it is definitely not for the key manager. "Filch can't fix these, can he?"

"What are you thinking, of course it's impossible!" Hermione scratched her head in annoyance, "The last time he repaired the faucet, he almost flooded the whole bathroom, let alone these—" She waved it wildly at the smoky air all over the floor arm.

Ron clicked his tongue, as if he was about to comment on Filch, who couldn't even handle such a trivial matter.But Harry noticed a detail keenly: "Change the faucet? Is it in this bathroom?"

"Yeah, there's a faucet that hasn't come out since we started school. Filch thought it must be clogged somewhere. He tried to change the faucet, but he couldn't unscrew it no matter how hard he tried. He also broke the side faucet... Oh, and Riddle, who was passing by, helped him solve it in the end."

Harry's ears perked up immediately.Tom?pass by?Is it such a coincidence?

He wanted to ask if there were snakes carved into the side of the tap that didn't flow, but he couldn't because he couldn't explain how he knew so well what a tap in a ladies' room looked like.

"How did he solve it? Changed the faucet? Or reconnected the water pipe?" Harry continued to ask, pretending to be unintentional.

"Probably a water pipe problem, because it came out of water later." Hermione replied, sighing helplessly again, "It seems to be a waste of effort now-it blew up like this, I guess they will have to hire someone to deal with it, and it will take a lot of money." It's a lot of work."

Harry dared not say that this was exactly what he wanted to see.He stared in the direction of the sink, thinking that it was right to blow up the faucet near the faucet last night.Without damaging it, you can observe what's behind it from the side...

"So that guy," interrupted Ron, judging from the emphasis in his tone that he had no interest in the tap, "whoever it was, how did he make the bathroom look like this? If it was a student, it would be too loud Some, no?"

This is true.Such a degree of destruction cannot be achieved by the students' general magic level alone.Of course, Tom must be an exception; but if it is really Tom, I am afraid that three floors are not enough for him to blow up...

Just when Harry couldn't hold back his thoughts, Hermione had already found new clues from the garbage all over the floor. "There's a lot of tiny bits of confetti in the debris pile," she said in a low voice to the other students, since they hadn't left yet. "I guess it's fireworks or something."

Ron didn't pay attention at all, and almost jumped up when he heard it suddenly. "Aren't many people suspected? I have a lot of fireworks!" He looked frightened and swore, "But I didn't do it! I'm serious!"

"Me too." Harry echoed, trying to look innocent enough, "Sirius sent me, and there's still half a box."

Hermione glanced at each of them in turn, troubled. "I know! I guess, the professors didn't go all out to find the culprit because they knew this. What's more, there are people from the other two schools, so it's better to treat it as an accident."

Hearing that she thought the same made Harry's heart go back halfway.His plan is basically well-planned... "It seems that we won't be able to know what's going on for a while." When he said this, he had no confidence. After all, he knew that he did it, but he still pretended to be sorry It was a bit difficult for him, "Let's go back and do our homework first?"

After a whole day of class, there are naturally a lot of homework.Hermione immediately agreed, and Ron began to moan.When the three of them followed the original path back to the tower, Harry reconsidered his next course of action, trying his best to ensure that nothing went wrong.

But the next few days were uneventful.Harry didn't even see the tall boy, let alone carry out a policy that he would firmly deny no matter how hard the other party asked him, so he couldn't help but feel like he had been punched on the soft cotton.It was a bit aggrieved, indeed; but on the other hand, Tom's actions would go more smoothly if he didn't take it seriously.

In fact, by next Monday, the only person who seemed to be thinking about the ladies' room was Durmstrang's headmaster, Igor Karkaroff.The explosion was too loud, and he rushed over from Durmstrang's big ship to check it out. After that, he insisted on Dumbledore's not doing his best on security, and his goatee raised his eyebrows at the Triwizard hegemony. The organization of the game is very picky.

Given that this was nothing new, neither Harry nor Ron took it to heart.Only Hermione was uncharacteristically following Karkaroff quietly when she was free.Ron declared that she must be trying to find Karkaroff's flaws, Hermione was noncommittal, and Harry didn't bother to ask.

Because he had other things to watch out for—

At the breakfast table, the owl brought him a letter from Sirius.This was an ordinary event, but after seeing what was written in it, Harry realized that it was unusual.Because his godfather brought up the "heir of Slytherin" again, and asked Harry to be careful when dealing with Tom.

"More and more people believe that the 'Heir of Slytherin' really exists, and speaks for it. James and I, of course, think they're crazy. But even Lily can tell from colleagues in the Ministry Hearing about this, I guess they might have some cryptic evidence, no matter how much. We'll try to find out as best we can...

"How is your relationship with Riddle now? First of all, I'm not trying to interfere with your friendship, but it's really strange that rumors can spread to this extent. If there are no special circumstances, you should not associate with Riddle for now. .

"Of course, this is just my personal suggestion, at least Lily disagrees. In her opinion, even if Riddle is really the 'Heir of Slytherin', it doesn't mean much. However, she also has to admit, be careful There's no downside to..."

Harry read the letter over and over twice, feeling a little heavy in his heart.He could see that although Sirius had written that he thought those people were crazy, he was actually beginning to waver, or else he wouldn't have been kept at a distance from Tom.

Obviously it wasn't like this last time...During this period of time, did someone do something to cause this kind of rumor to spread more widely?At least, Tom himself is sure to enjoy the title...

This conjecture connected easily with his previous reasoning about Tom unleashing the basilisk.Harry shook his head vigorously, trying to shake them out.Evidence, he stressed to himself, you can't just say Tom's a dark wizard.Besides, Lily was right, the heir of Slytherin must be a dark wizard?

In any case, this letter has strengthened Harry's determination to find out the truth.This afternoon, right after the divination class ended, he slipped down the silver stairs first on the pretext of going to the bathroom.As soon as he got to a place where no one was around, he immediately took out the invisibility cloak hidden in his schoolbag and put it on, then unfolded the Marauder's Map——

The dot marked Tom Riddle was sitting in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom with the other students in class.The recess passed quickly, and Xiao Dian remained motionless.

Harry shoved the map back into his bag, and ran downstairs at a quick trot.

It's now!

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