[HP Fudai] Knot of Life and Death

For the first time, Tom Riddle went to a Chinese student to consult a classic book, and he copied a page of that book with a feather pen-damn, I have to say that those square characters are more difficult to copy than any ancient spells.Tom even wanted to use a Apparition Charm, but he was afraid of disturbing the girl in the book, so he copied the words like a Muggle.

"This is "Dream of Red Mansions." The black-haired, dark-eyed Hufflepuff Chinese boy told him.

"What? Is it a Chinese witchcraft book?"

"No, it's a novel from a long time ago in China, a love story."

"What was said?"

"I told a love story about the struggle of the four major families. You can understand it as an infighting among the upper class. Just like the founders of our four major colleges, they supported each other and had rifts against each other. A lady named Lin Daiyu and a lady named Jia Baoyu's son and brother fell in love under such circumstances... There are many people who read it in China—where did you see this?"

Tom Riddle smiled, "I discovered it by accident. I'm very interested, but I can't understand it."

The Chinese student seemed pleasantly surprised, and said, "You can look for the English version, it's available in Muggle bookstores, but it should be quite difficult to find."

"Thank you."

Tom Riddle smiled politely at the person in front of him and waved away. Suddenly, he turned around and asked, "Do you know anyone in our grade who is interested in this?"

"I remember that our Chinese students once circulated "Dream of Red Mansions" for a while. It was brought by a girl who likes to read. It was very precious. Everyone felt very kind when they read the text of their hometown. Lost. The book has never been found again."

"Thanks a lot."

Someone deliberately replaced his potions book with a Chinese novel, which made his spell fail.

Who is doing this.

Tom Riddle walked through the corridor, thinking slowly, the face of the Chinese girl appeared in front of him again.

Tom hadn't seen many Chinese people, and this girl was undoubtedly the prettiest one.Her hair was as black as a cloud, and she had a pair of eyes that were different from everyone else's—when she was talking, those eyes always drooped slightly, staring at a little Chinese handkerchief or something in her hand, filled with water , but not that kind of deep pool, just that kind of shallow pond.The kind that ripples in the breeze, as if it's about to cry at any moment.

Do Chinese girls like to cry so much? Tom wondered. Thinking about it, although the girl cried in panic yesterday, after crying, she didn't speak or act like a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl at all. Same, very mature, that's not a kind of sophisticated maturity, but a maturity that has experienced something.

Tom also knew that people from the so-called high-class magical families in the college, such as the girls and boys of the Malfoy family, were very arrogant, impulsive, and often used magic to bully others.

Dai is different, she is gentle and polite, but not coquettish, unlike those girls in the same grade who can cry for three days and three nights in public after being bullied by classmates, Dai is elegant like a princess.

Maybe we should name her Princess Palm and tell her about Princess Thumb, this Chinese girl from a novel might blush and want to hit him.

Tom laughed at his own thought.

"Maybe I should find time to read this novel. I am very concerned about what happened to Princess Palm. Did she marry that gentleman named Jar?" Tom thought, and came to the Slytherin public rest room door.After reciting the mantra against the stone wall, he walked in slowly.

However, when he came to the door, he heard the sound of a group of people laughing—his rivals, the group that had made him bruised, and Tom Riddle walked slowly to the door and glanced in.It was the bastards of the Malfoy family, the fat man at the head was holding his princess in the palm of his hand, and poking her face very rudely with his fingers.

"Tom Riddle sneaked into Potions and wanted to make some kind of summoned beast, did he just come up with something like this?"

Then the group of people burst into laughter, and one of them responded, "I think Riddle wants to find himself a ghost girlfriend!"

Di's cry broke out from these disgusting voices—"Let me go!"

Her voice was crisp, and she had exhausted all her strength, but it still seemed so weak.

The fat man couldn't understand her words, and began to play with her clothes even more wantonly. Then, he found that his hands couldn't move suddenly.From the moment he touched Daiyu, his fat fingers suddenly turned blue, and then the skin quickly turned up, turning into a stone, and the petrification quickly extended from his hand to his face, leaving only One eye can still roll around.

Then Tom Riddle walked in from the door, and the teenagers immediately raised their wands to the black-haired boy in front of them, but only saw a sneer on his face: "If any of you want to be like him, just do it!" Curse." - As if to echo his words, the fat man rolled his eyes.

As a student of the same level, Tom Riddle's magic level is much higher than theirs. I heard that he even studied forbidden magic in private. Today's petrification spell is a proof. No one wants to fight against the poisonous snake when it starts to spit. .

So the teenagers put down their wands and stared at the sneering excellent wizard in front of them as if staring at a monster, and the latter had already gotten used to this look—in this case, they even missed it a little.With a proud face, he walked through the chopsticks, waved his wand, and untied the fat man's hand.

He stretched out his left hand, and Daiyu fell into his palm.

So he slowly glanced at those people.Said, "I don't want anyone to know about this, but if you want to inform me, I welcome it. You..." He stood far away, stretched out his hand expressionlessly, and tapped the fat man lightly with his wand like a stone With a lumpy face, "I heard that you are responsible for continuing the future generations of the Malfoy family. I hope you cherish this responsibility."

Then the black-haired and blue-eyed boy held the girl in his hands, turned and returned to the living room.As he turned around, the stones on the fat man began to shake off.

The moment the door was closed, Tom Riddle heard the bastards outside shouting indignantly, "Mudblood!"

The door slammed shut, and there were only two people left in the living room again.

Tom Riddle ignored those people's words, put Daiyu back on the book, and looked at her quietly. She was hastily arranging her dress, trembling, but did not shed a single tear.

So Tom touched Daiyu with his fingertips and said, "Cry."

Almost as soon as the words fell, the girl's tears fell.It can be seen that she has endured it for a long time - being rudely teased by those ugly strangers, even moving clothes, no matter who it is, it will not be able to bear it.But the girl held back.In front of that group of people, her expression was like frost.Angry, but not timid.

She is not as crying as she imagined, and she is even a little brave.

"I'm sorry to leave you here alone," said Tom Riddle.But Xiao Daiyu just kept crying and ignored him like she was angry.So Tom Riddle didn't know how to say the phrase "I think you are brave" when he came to his mouth.But this time, Daiyu quickly stopped crying.

"I'm the young lady of the Lin family, am I the one who can be bullied by those disciples?" Daiyu had a ruthless expression on her face.

Wringing up the handkerchief, gritting his teeth, he still said, "Thank you for saving me, Mr. Tang."

"You can call me Riddle or Tom."

"Dell." Daiyu nodded.

"It's up to you." Tom showed a relieved expression.

"Are those people enemies with you?"

"Well...they think I'm a Mudblood."

"Mudblood?"

"In our world, only pure-blood wizards are respected, and half-blood wizards are ridiculed by pure-blood wizards. I am a half-blood wizard, but Slytherin is a pure-blood house."

Tom touched the Snake Yard logo on his chest. The bronzing embroidery was very beautiful. He used to like it very much, but now he has complicated emotions.

"We were all sorted into Houses by the Sorting Hat when we were admitted, and the Sorting Hat thought I was a good fit for Gryffindor - it was my own strong desire that brought me to Slytherin."

"Why do you want to enter this college? Is the other college different from this one?"

"The four colleges each have their own characteristics. Gryffindor recruits brave and passionate wizards, while Slytherin recruits elites with pure bloodlines."

"But aren't you a half-blood wizard?" Daiyu asked.

"Half the students in Slytherin are half-blood wizards. But these half-blood wizards are not doing well in Slytherin-there will always be people like the Malfoys who will come and trample half-blood wizards under their feet."

"Then what do you think?" Daiyu tilted her head, looking at the blue-eyed young man in front of her.

"I wish I was a pure-blood wizard—that's why I came to Slytherin, to be an elite." Tom Riddle recalled the time when he was treated like a monster in the orphanage, so he said to the girl in front of him, "I When I was a child, I was not likable and was bullied."

"Do your parents care about you?"

"I grew up in an orphanage."

Daiyu covered her lips and was taken aback for a moment.She seemed a little sorry, but she couldn't say anything, but she, who lost her mother and father when she was young, felt a lot of sympathy for this skinny black-haired boy.

"By the way, you have been here for two days, but I haven't heard you mention your parents."

"My mother passed away long ago, and my father also drove a crane when he was nine years old." Daiyu answered with her head down.

"Do you miss them?" Tom Riddle understood the word "driving the crane" without any effort, and the Orientals spoke of death very elegantly.At the same time, he sketched the image of Daiyu's parents in his heart—probably two people like her, the father was brave, the mother was beautiful, and loved her deeply, but they left early.

"I also wanted to, but I know that those who have gone will never come back." Daiyu stroked the silk handkerchief in her hand.

"Not necessarily. In our world, there is a magic stone. It is said that it can make people immortal, but in fact——I don't understand the meaning of immortality."

"This is your ignorance," Daiyu said with a smile, turning her head to the side, "It's really boring to live alone, but if there are loved ones, parents, elders, brothers and sisters, and other people who are worried about you, then only I can't wait to stay together every day, every moment, why do I want to die and never be separated."

Tom smiled, "Maybe it's because I have no parents, no siblings, and no one who cares, so I don't understand."

So Daiyu was stunned, watching him say this sentence as a joke, but her tone was a bit bleak, realizing that she had poked the boy's sore spot, she shook her head, "It's too hard for you to live like this."

Maybe one day there will be a perfect pair of parents or some caring brother and sister who will come to save me with a magic wand.Tom Riddle thought in his heart, but Dumbledore's stern eyes... and the back of a man appeared in front of his eyes - until then, I had to live by myself.Try to live until the day they find me.

"By the way, Riddle, you said that I'm a man in a book with you."

"Yes, a character in a novel."

"Then can you take a look for me, what happened to me in the end? What happened to my brothers and sisters in the garden?"

Daiyu smiled and glanced at Tom Riddle with her smiling peach eyes.

"Maybe, when I find the English version of the novel, I haven't found the magic that allows me to read these square characters." Tom Riddle smiled, "Tomorrow the school will send students above the third grade to the nearby Hoag I've persuaded a professor to make an exception to take me with me in Maude town, and maybe I can ask the goblin in the grocery store there to get me a copy."

"Are you leaving again?" Daiyu looked at him, showing reluctance in her expression, but she refused to say it out.

"For your safety," Tom Riddle waved his wand at Daiyu, "I'd better make you bigger."

A short incantation came out of his mouth, and a green light poured into Daiyu's body. In an instant, she became the same size as an ordinary girl.

Tom looked at the beautiful oriental girl who was only a head shorter than himself, and subconsciously wanted to reach out to touch her, but suddenly realized that something was wrong, so he took his hand back.

"This magic is not very effective. My ability can only temporarily keep you in the normal state, and it can only last for one day, but I will re-cast the spell on you every day."

Tom thought for a while, waved his wand again, and said something, another ray of light flew out from Phoenix Feather Core's wand, passed through Daiyu's body like a green water ball, and then evaporated instantly.

"This spell allows you to be seen only by me."

He smiled at Daiyu, "You can wander around the academy, but avoid the professors, especially Dumbledore, who is proficient in Transfiguration. Of course, there is also the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office. Mind-linking spell It was originally intended to let the elf understand the master's words, forgive me for being abrupt, but it is actually more ingenious here, you can even understand the spell now."

"Then can I cast spells too?" Daiyu stretched out her hand and tapped the yew wood wand with her index finger, as if she was looking at some precious thing--it was true for her.

"Still not, you're not a wizard, Dai." Tom Riddle smiled at Daiyu.

With an annoyed look on her face, Daiyu sat on the bed with green curtains in Slytherin House. Suddenly, as if remembering something, she raised her head and asked the black-haired and blue-eyed boy in front of her:

"In fact, I've always wanted to ask you. You said that the magic failed and turned me out by mistake. So what did you want to change?"

"You don't want to hear it." Looking at Daiyu's innocent face, Tom shook his head.

"I want to hear it, so you can tell me." Daiyu became more curious, her tone softened, and she asked him earnestly.

"Turn into a green two-headed serpent."

Daiyu frowned, "What do you do when you become a big snake?"

Tom stood where he was, his eyes moved to the turquoise curtains, as if thinking about something, his ice blue eyes showed a complex emotion, as if he was recalling something long ago—something he couldn't control. things.

After a long time, he said:

"Because I'm looking for a secret room."