[HP Fudai] Knot of Life and Death

Hogwarts, the library, the night is very quiet.

A small gleam of light pierced through the air, but disappeared in an instant. The jet-haired boy held up his yew wand with a phoenix feather core, walked cautiously through the bookshelves, and squatted in a corner.

The large uniform with the logo of Slytherin House trembled in the faint moonlight, revealing the boy's white arms—almost all of them were bruises of various colors, overlapping with bruises, some of which were marks left by the splash of potion juice , and some came from the pranks played on him by his classmates.

A well-educated orphan was always susceptible to half-truths of mischief, but sometimes the mischief was a little too strong, as was common to Tom.

This is the third year that the boy named Tom Riddle has come to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Three years ago, the professor Mr. Dumbledore received him from the orphanage to the school-not so much as receiving, but as threatening.The 11-year-old watched the wardrobe burst into flames in front of him, and then the old brown-haired professor made him confess and confess to hanging other people's rabbits and abducting children of the same age into caves. "I repent." The child said, so on September 9 of the same year, he took a train to the unknown world.

In fact, Tom Riddle knew that he did not repent that day, he was just afraid, afraid that the wardrobe would burn on his head.

The white-haired old man in front of him has kind eyes, but has the most severe tone.So little Tom gave in.

He really wanted to argue to the old man that he was right - the boy called him a bastard and a bastard, and said he was worse than his rabbit's dung ball, which is a very vicious accusation, after all, everyone No father or mother, and the nuns at the orphanage did not help either of them.The boy also killed his little snake, his only friend in the orphanage, a turquoise snake that crawled up to him along the base of the wall.Tom likes it, feeds it, and tells him stories about the orphanage, but one day, that strong boy tramples it to death in front of Tom, and turns his shoe viciously, as if threatening .

The little snake's pulp left tragic marks on the ground. Long after the boy had left, Tom squatted on the ground and put them away bit by bit, and buried them.

Later, Tom saw the jumping rabbit on the grass, using its smelly hind legs to spoil the grass vigorously.Tom swore he had only looked at the rabbit a few times—perhaps a little harder.Then the rabbit died.Die on the ropes.It was hoisted like a hairy flag in the bleak wind.

Tom didn't actually move.

There were so many strange things that happened to him, each more bizarre than the last, that he never had any friends in the orphanage.By the time Tom was 11 years old, he was so old as an adult that he even accepted that he would exist as a "catastrophe" and "monster" in this orphanage that smelled of rotting furniture until - then he was kicked Go out, do a little handyman, and spend the rest of your life in such a miserable way.

Until he came to Hogwarts and became a member of Slytherin House.

He likes Slytherin because the Slytherin symbol reminds him of his little snake.

Tom can't remember how he felt when he saw Hogwarts for the first time. Unlike those innocent children, Tom always had a very decent silence on his face—it was just silence. The baby's face didn't even feel warm, which may be the reason why no one adopted him when he was in the orphanage.He looked at the huge castle that only appeared in fairy tale books, walked into the tall building with a star dome in ignorance and reverence, and watched the rich food magically appear from the dining table—by the way, this is magic.At that time, he was just silent, and the silence was more appropriate than before. This may be his way of expressing his inner joy, because on this day, Tom Riddle realized for the first time that he was not a freak, but a freak. Gifted wizard - until the age of 11, he just got lost in the Muggle world.

So, he frantically learned those complicated potions and spells. No matter what class he never missed or asked for leave, he would finish the professor's homework on time every day, and would take the initiative to ask for advice.

From the first grade to the third grade, Tom's wand can draw the most beautiful circle among all the people in the grade. In the transformation class, he can conjure the most lush trees and the most vigorous white doves - every time he tries, he can draw the most beautiful circle. It is No.1.

12-year-old Tom Riddle wants to be a good wizard.

But being a good wizard is actually much harder than he imagined. After he was "accidentally" cast a silence curse by students from different colleges for the seventh time, Tom Riddle finally understood that being a good wizard does not make people like him .

Maybe Tom Riddle shouldn't be liked by anyone in the first place—otherwise, why would he be thrown at the door of the orphanage by his parents in the early morning?He was just a baby then and couldn't even crawl.He always hid in the corner of the hall with a book in his hand, watching his classmates laughing and roaring as they accepted the roaring letters, or holding gifts from his family, such as broomsticks and winter sweaters.

Tom didn't even wear sweaters knitted by relatives or friends.He once used the Transfiguration Charm that he had secretly learned to change one, purposely making the stitches rough so that it looked more like hand-woven, and he wore it to the common room.

"Hey Tom, why are you wearing a sweater? Who sent it to you?"

"I remember that you have no father and no mother. You can't be so pitiful that you use spells to change it—our good student is proficient in those spells!"

So Tom hid in the living room, red-faced, and tore off the sweater, which rolled on the floor and became the original wool rug.

"I'm ridiculous," thought Tom Riddle, "with the rug over me. Why would I want a sweater so much, it's such an ugly one."

He sat on the window sill thinking about this question for a long time, and then realized that what he wanted to say might not be "ridiculous," but "sad."

But the latter is actually worse than the former.

In short, this is 12-year-old Tom Riddle.

And two years later, at the age of 14, he has become an outstanding wizard among his peers.One professor even predicted that he would become a prefect in two years.In fact, no matter whether there is this prophecy or not, he no longer doubts his own excellence.In the past two years, he has been studying magic even more like crazy, including those that are forbidden - he has already been able to cast many magics that are better and more powerful than those of the senior students.

Summoning Potion is one of them.

On the first shelf, the last page of "A Study of Ancient Potions and Spells" describes how to configure potions to summon powerful and tame monsters from those ancient magic books, although the duration is very short.Tom saw this recipe in his sex-peeking routine and memorized it.

Tom improved this potion with his own experience, so that the summoning time can be longer and sustainable. After all, the preparation of this potion took too much effort: two Guru fruits, seven Brazilian pythons' sloughs, A quarter of the title page of a hundred potions books, as well as all kinds of strange and exotic herbs, live toads...the most important thing is the fruit of the wandering tree.

The wandering tree ranks No. 17 among the [-] well-known magical plants in the textbook, far surpassing the Whomping Willow, because it moves its position all the time.Wandering around the magical continent, many wizards swear they have seen them, but they can't produce any proof.

The fruit of the wandering tree is even more expensive in the potion shop, and many advanced potion preparations use them.

A month ago, when Tom Riddle saw this tree in the Forbidden Forest, he immediately remembered the recipe for the Warcraft Summoning Potion recorded on the last page of "A Study of Ancient Potions and Spells", and had to pick one of its fruits Come.And then he did, wrestling with these thick, clumsy branches with great effort, and succeeded.

It took him another month to find the other ingredients needed for the recipe, and he even broke into a toad's nest once.

He succeeded.

Or close to success.

Tom Riddle took out the medicine bottle in his hand, looked at the boiling and bubbling blue liquid inside, and approached the drug shelf.He memorized the location, the second row in the third row, the third to last book from the left.During the last few days of potion preparation, he secretly came here to read this book almost every day.

Sure enough, he found the "A List of Warcraft in the Eighteenth Century"... He had already selected it, and there was a warcraft in it, a green two-headed serpent, which was the fifth name in Chapter 7.

As long as he opened the book, with the book facing up, read out the line number where the monster was located in front of the potion.

Tom cast a coming spell, and the heavy book flew to him, sprawling on the floor.Tom double-checked the title to make sure it was the one he was familiar with, and poured the liquid over the book.

When the cyan liquid met the book, it was like water meeting charcoal fire. It sizzled and evaporated quickly.