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Tom kept comforting Jia Min and Daiyu all morning. At noon, he had a quick meal and returned to London under the worried eyes of his family.

Tom waited an hour at the window, and it was exactly two o'clock, and the man arrived exactly on time.

Tom was still sitting by the window when he came in, unconsciously emptying himself, holding a small pouch in his hand.

Tom heard the knock on the door and turned his head, just as the man opened it and walked in.He was a tall man with deep wrinkles on his face and a long, brown beard.He was wearing an old suit, and a long scarf was hung around his neck, which was not wrapped around, just hung.He was holding a gentleman's hat in his hand, and there was nothing else on his body except a silver ring on his hand.

He has a kind of composure common to middle-aged people, and looks very reliable, but his whole body exudes an aura that ordinary people don't have, and looks like a sharp knife with a hidden front.It felt like the big knife that had been used in battle in the old soldier's house that taught Tom martial arts.

He has a pair of blue eyes, but reveals a very cold tiredness and sadness. Such tiredness and sadness just soften the sharpness around him, making him look softer.

"Hello, Mr. Riddle." He greeted Tom first, with a gentle tone, but with a bit of force in his actions: "I think you have received my letter, please allow me to introduce myself, I am Hogwarts Here's Professor, Alples Dumbledore."

Tom was taught by Lin Ruhai to respect the elders, but in Tom's current consciousness, Dumbledore is obviously not in the ranks of the elders, so he still sat there without getting up, and his chin was slightly raised, showing a little arrogance He watched the man who called himself Dumbledore sit on his bed.

Tom was overly possessive of his own things, and now Dumbledore used his things without his permission, which made him unhappy, so he frowned.But the urgency of this letter and this matter in his heart made him hold back the fire in his heart: "Hi, sir, maybe you can explain this letter to me. You know, this kind of thing is not Not often."

When Dumbledore first came, he had already learned something about Tom through Mrs. Colin's explanation and the fear of Tom from other children in the orphanage.In his opinion, Tom should be bad, not a child's bad, a bad child, but a cruel, adult bad and evil.

He thought that maybe this child was the teenage version of Gellert Grindelwald, and he didn't even know whether it was the right choice to let this child enter Hogwarts and let him master more powerful power under the current environment.

Although he repeatedly reminded himself not to be preconceived, this judgment kept echoing in his heart.

Thinking of Gellert, Dumbledore's eyes darkened even more, Tom noticed, but didn't know why.

Dumbledore tried his best to ignore the preconceptions in his heart, and when Tom looked at him, he also looked at Tom carefully.Although the boy was wearing shabby clothes, he cleaned them up very cleanly, and even had a faint fragrance, which was different from all the perfumes on the market, with some oriental beauty.His movements are quite beautiful, his tone of voice is neither high nor low, his posture is very elegant and calm, with some charming charms that he has never seen before, even more thoughtful than some nobles who claim to have passed on for many years.

It's not like the kids in this orphanage.

He thought he would see a gloomy, hysterical and crazy child, but the boy in front of him was as calm and elegant as an oriental bluegrass.

Not long after Dumbledore came in, Podo came over with a teapot. This teapot was now dedicated to Tom. He always disliked the inexplicable smell of the teapot in the orphanage, so he asked Podo to buy a new copper pot.

Bodo put the copper pot aside, took out a set of teapots from the closet, carefully placed them on the desk next to Tom with a tray, and took out some scented tea from a small drawer.After filling the water, poured out two glasses separately, bought one and placed it next to Tom, and he carefully placed the other beside Dumbledore.

Then, Bodo left the room like a shadow and closed the door behind him.He didn't make a sound from beginning to end.

"Tea, please." Tom raised his hand.

Dumbledore picked up the cup and looked at the small cup. This kind of oriental porcelain was more precious than gold of equal weight a few decades ago. Although there are more of them now, such a good quality can only be obtained by the aristocrats. Affordable.Take a sip of scented tea, which is also a unique scented tea in the East.

These expenses are obviously not something that a child in an orphanage can afford.Dumbledore checked the lies that Tom and Mrs. Colin told, and he was sure that Tom didn't have a father he couldn't recognize, so the origin of the things he uses now must be investigated.

These are actually Tom's Pots.

When Tom was in the orphanage, he hadn't seen any good things. When he arrived at Lin's house, everything was top-grade in terms of food and clothing, and anything less would appear in front of him.Whether it was before or now in London, he has never really seen the food and clothing of the nobles in London, so although he has the idea of ​​hiding wealth, he thinks that the things he uses are in line with the grades of his false father. , and never found out that only the girl-grade things he used in the orphanage are already treasures in London now.

This has the same meaning as "why not eat minced meat", which is the scourge of ignorance at a young age.

Dumbledore wanted to ask, but a strong sense of crisis locked him in. Dumbledore felt that if he asked even one word, he might be turned into a pile of ashes next.This sense of crisis came inexplicably and suddenly, but when the idea of ​​giving up asking questions a little bit, the sense of crisis began to weaken.

This may be Merlin's arrangement.

Dumbledore slowed down his nerves and buried this question in his heart first. After all, even if there is something wrong with such a young child, it is okay to put it under surveillance at Hogwarts.Dumbledore then answered Tom's questions, especially about magic and school.

"You mean, I'm actually a magician, not a demon. And I have to go to that school to learn how to use magic, otherwise I'm likely to become a squib...well, that is, an ordinary person. Tom listened carefully, but the world was not complete before his eyes: "Sir, as you said, can I understand that this school just teaches us some magic, some methods of controlling him."

Tom asked a lot of questions about the magic world, especially the origin, structure and development of the magic world, and even asked many questions about the witches mentioned in the book.For the first time, a child who grew up in the Muggle world used clear logic to ask everything about the wizarding world, and Dumbledore's attention to Tom rose to another level.

Having finished talking about the wizarding world, Dumbledore mentioned the orphanage: "I came here two days ago and had a conversation with Mrs. Colin. It seems that your life here is very lonely." Dumbledore Lido was concerned about Tom's age, and tried hard to be subtle, so that he didn't look so strict.

But Tom didn't appreciate it very much, and he made the matter plain.Lin Ruhai once taught him that 'a gentleman has nothing to say to others', and he really carried it out very well. In his heart, he didn't think it was something that he couldn't say: "You know, this kind of power, as long as I am willing, I can easily hurt them. They are so fragile."

When Tom talked about the people he hurt, and even the two children he killed, his tone was indifferent, as if those were just a few ants he accidentally stepped on, and he even felt disgusted by the feeling that the ants stained his shoes.

Tom did think he was right.

Because of his own differences, Tom has an arrogance in his bones that ordinary people can't match. Later, he came to the Lin family. On the outside, Tom was the object of flattery.

Although Lin Ruhai and Jia Min's strict upbringing made him look humble and polite, this layer of modesty and politeness is just a layer of clothing. Inside, Tom is still a proud person.

Apparently he didn't understand the moral values ​​of ordinary people well during the orphanage period, and after living in the Lin family for more than a year, a class view that is more profound and severe than the current Europeans has been deeply rooted in his bones.The unsuccessful integration of the two cultures has led to Tom's disregard and disrespect for human life.

Powerful cognitive differences manifest themselves at this time.

Dumbledore has never experienced the harshness of an orphanage, he has never felt the feeling of being starved to death at any time, and he has never experienced a world where people can be dismissed casually because the temperature of the tea is not right. normal.

He now clearly felt that Tom was indeed different from Gellert.

Gellert gazes at this world with a profound madness, obsession with the dark arts and mad obsession with destruction, this world is like Gellert's amusement park.

Unlike Gellert, who is like a lunatic, Tom is like a high god. He indifferently watches the world perform in front of him, but the world is not in his eyes. What he has in this world is just a kind of indifference .The world that is not in his eyes, whether it is destroyed or exists, is not in his mind at all.

This recognition made Dumbledore feel chills behind him.He wanted to suppress Tom's arrogance at possessing such power.

The closet behind him suddenly burst into flames, and Tom clearly sensed a familiar force that did not belong to him roaming the room.

By the way, this is magic.

"Similarly, I can easily hurt you, you know, you are still too weak for me." Dumbledore showed his great strength, trying to make Tom wake up from the false strength he felt.

Tom has played this kind of trick himself. Although it is not so powerful, he is not surprised. The power suppressed by Dumbledore now is not as good as the layer of pressure that Tom felt in the Lin family during the competition for emperor.All he was burning now was the anger of being offended by Dumbledore and the desire for great power.

Although he is proud, Tom still has a sense of reality. No matter how angry he is, there is no abnormality on his face, but the normality of this face clearly tells Dumbledore that "I am not happy now": "Yes, Sir, I think I understand what you mean."

The closet fire went out like it had never been burned.

The author has something to say:

Can't sign the contract, can't sign every time, so desperate.I beg everyone to make bricks, so that this baby has a direction to improve.Thank you guys.