[HP] Companion

Tom decided to put the blame on Hagrid.

Later I found out that Hagrid originally had eight-eyed spiders. He has always liked animals, but eight-eyed spiders... is there anything to like about this kind of thing?Besides, eight-eyed spiders are very dangerous creatures, and they are very likely to hurt others.Even if Hagrid liked it, it would be too reckless to bring it into school.

The Chamber of Secrets was opened, people in Hogwarts were panicked, and Principal Dippet even asked us to prepare to close the school.A few days later, the elderly headmaster looked even older.After the incident, I never met Tom again, and within a few days, I was called to the office by Professor Dumbledore. I knocked on the door to ease my uneasy mood, and he looked at me with a gentle smile: "Please Sit down, Miss Hunter. Would you like some pumpkin juice?"

"No," I shook my head and sat down on the sofa, "Professor, you asked me to come...?"

"It's about your friend Warren. I'm sorry, Miss Hunter. What happened. . . . everyone is very sad."

So what do you want to say, Professor Dumbledore?I lowered my head not to pay attention to his gaze, and Dumbledore also cut into the topic with great interest: "As Myrtle's friend, who do you think the murderer of this matter will be?"

"I don't know, Professor."

Professor Dumbledore always makes me feel nervous, and I couldn't help shivering: "You know, she is a timid girl who never causes trouble. Who would think...kill her, Professor?"

Professor Dumbledore pondered for a while: "It is said that the Chamber of Secrets was built by Salazar Slytherin. Only the descendants of Slytherin can open it."

And one of the traits of the offspring of Slytherin is that they can speak Parseltongue...

Is he suspicious of Tom?I can't be sure: "You also said that this is just a legend."

"Yeah, it's just a legend."

Professor Dumbledore's voice was low, and the office fell into a brief, suffocating silence.Only the ancient clock on the wall ticked, and the volume seemed to be several times louder than usual.Dumbledore and I looked at each other, trying to restrain my fear: "Miss Hunter, you and Tom are students I picked up personally, I value and care about you—but you don't seem to get along very well."

"A few years ago...we had a bit of a dispute and broke up. You know, we are in different colleges, and some views will naturally be different."

Dumbledore nodded thoughtfully: "I understand, Miss Hunter, but even so, I still hope you get along well."

Then he asked me to leave.

After leaving the office, I realized that I was covered in cold sweat, and the cold sweat was sticking to my body, and the wind only made me colder.My hands were cold and pale, and so must my face.Dumbledore may have seen the clues, I was a little unsure about the promise I made with Tom - I told him that the professor would not get any information from me.

Dumbledore's office is on the seventh floor, where you can see more of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.I subconsciously avoided the crowded place, and when I turned a corner, someone grabbed my wrist. My vision blurred, and a narrow room that I had never seen before appeared in front of me.Room of Requirement, I discovered this amazing room when I was in third grade.

"What do you want Dumbledore to do?"

Tom's tone was cold, and he didn't seem worried about it. Before I could reply, he had already talked about the outcome of the incident triumphantly: "Rubus Hagrid is going to be fired."

"Just now Dumbledore was asking me who I thought the murderer was."

It's a dramatic reversal.Dumbledore was still skeptical one second, and the headmaster had already fired Hagrid the next.But it's reasonable to think about it. After all, a rich and brainless board of directors and an old headmaster who can't use his brain are much easier to fool than Dumbledore.Others' evaluation of Hagrid was not good in the first place, and it was expected that he would be treated as a scapegoat.

I do sympathize with him, but that's all.

"Okay, now your troubles are completely gone," the pressure that Dumbledore brought to me before disappeared instantly, I walked briskly towards the door, Tom suddenly put his arms around my waist, and held me Pushed against the wall, "Tom! What are you doing—"

Could it be that he wants to kill someone?Now is not a good time to kill people, he may give me a forgetful, I can't let him succeed.I reached for my wand in my pocket.Tom has grown so much over the past three years that I have to look up at him, his face so close I can even feel his breathing.Warm breath sprayed on the face.

...This posture doesn't look like it's trying to cast a spell on me.I stared at him with wide eyes.

"You surprised me, dear Alice."

Tom smiled rarely, although the smile was not obvious, but I saw the joy in his eyes: "I thought you would inform the professor... I was worried about it for a few days. You know, I can't hurt you .”

"I apologize to you for what happened three years ago. But I want you to know, Alice, that everything I do is for us. I will not hurt you."

"Let's not be separated again."

Tom took my right hand and we interlocked.He gradually leaned towards me.I blinked, hooked his neck with one hand, and moved closer to him.

It was just a simple meeting of lips, and they separated immediately like a superficial touch.But he still hugged me, the cold-blooded Tom Riddle's chest was actually warm.It's incredible.

But it's normal, smart Alice Hunter can also be stupid.Like now.Because of Tom's few words, my indifference and alienation immediately collapsed.I'm doing fine without him, but I do hope that one day he'll put down his arrogance and make up with me.

I long for him.

"Don't hurt me, you promised."

"I promise." He let go of me, walked to a cabinet in the corner, and searched for something inside, "Where were you last night?"

"Last night? Stayed in the dormitory all the time."

Tom's question confuses me.However, it was not until late at night that I understood what he meant.

I have had several correspondences with the Hellmans over the past three years, from which I learned that the patriarch, Edith Hellmans, was my aunt, and that my mother had indeed died in that forest.Because the situation in Europe is unstable now, she told me to study at Hogwarts without worrying too much about wars and the like.After I graduate, I will take me back to the family.

In addition to the clear identity, I also know one thing.The dreams I had were not fanciful dreams, they were real things that happened in the past.This is the characteristic of the Hellman family, who can see the past in dreams.But it is said that this ability has disappeared for more than 100 years, and Merlin knows why it appeared in my mother and me.

Although the ability has not always been passed down, the Hellman family has many such records and studies.Through Edith's guidance, I quickly learned to master this ability, and I can peer into the past when I want to see-but it is very energy-consuming.So there are also dreams that are out of my control.

Like tonight.

Now I'm at Hogwarts.I waved my wand, and the time displayed was ten o'clock last night.I'm standing in front of a door carved with many snakes.This is a place I have never seen before, and there is no one around.This might be some Slytherin room.I pushed the door hard, but it didn't open.

"Alahoo is open." There was no response.

I babbled a few more words in snake language, but I don't know which ones I got right.Finally the door opened slowly and I walked in.Giant snakes of different types and in different postures were engraved on both sides of the corridor. Tom stood at the end of the corridor with a few magic books by his side.

"Alice, why are you here?"

? ? ?Can Tom see me?

I was surprised, even disturbed.After all, I was only seeing it in my dream, how could it be seen by others?Edith never mentioned such things.

"He came in after saying a few words in Parseltongue," Tom looked at me suspiciously, and I quickly changed the subject, "What are you doing here?"

I picked up one of them and turned two pages: "...Horcruxes?"

"This book says that people can gain immortality by making Horcruxes—do you know such a thing, Alice?"

"Heard that," I handed the book back to him, realizing something was wrong when I saw the look on his face, "wait, Tom. You don't want to do that, do you? Divide—soul?!"

"Professor Slughorn said that killing people is a condition for making Horcruxes, and now is the right time."

"Wait, wait," I said when I first discovered that Tom was reckless, "haven't you considered what would happen if you split the soul? What if you fail to make it? Even if it succeeds, the Horcrux will not be given Do you have side effects? Your memory, knowledge, and emotions are all owned by your soul. Have you figured out what will happen to these things after the soul is split?"

Apparently Tom hadn't thought about that.He was silent for a long time before saying, "Someone has to try."

"Do you have to try it yourself?" I felt that there must be some kind of confusion spell in this book, which confused his mind. "Just grab someone and try it, wouldn't it be good?"

Finally I finally convinced Tom.

He didn't give up his plan to make a Horcrux, but he also said that he would study it again. The name "Horcrux" sounds bad.

Finally, we left here together—that is, the legendary chamber of secrets.The Chamber of Secrets leads to the women's bathroom on the second floor, so Tom was there with the basilisk that day, leading to Myrtle's death.But then again, why did Tom discover the secret passage in the ladies' bathroom?

We parted on the first floor, he went back to Slytherin, and I woke up from the dream.I stopped Tom from being a Horcrux, I changed the past.But in the morning I told him that I had been staying in the dormitory last night.

You can't change the past, at least you can't change it in your dreams.I vividly remember what Edith once said.But what is going on now?Why am I being seen by Tom?Why can I change his actions?Is this a paradox?Regardless of it being still dark in the early morning, I took out the parchment and wrote to Edith.

Later I realized that my physical weakness started from this night.