[HP Fudai] Knot of Life and Death

In the noisy town bar, the residents of the town and the senior Hogwarts students are sitting in twos and threes, laughing loudly, playing around, drinking lizard tequila and beer, if you look carefully A few flame worms wriggled happily in the wine, this is a new way of drinking recently passed down from London wizards.

"Tumbleweed, dragon scum," Tom Riddle said, pulling down his cloak, to the back door of the bar.

Then the door opened, but the outside of the door was not the outside as it should be, but a dark room—after chanting a specific spell, there would be a portal here, and few people knew this secret.

Tom walked in, and there was only a sofa in the dark room, facing the wall, with his back to the door. The back of a middle-aged man was sunk inside. He said in a hoarse voice, "Tom Riddle? You're here." .”

Tom responded.

"You've grown a lot taller over the years," the man said, but he didn't turn his head. He couldn't see Tom from where he sat—unless his eyes were on the back of his head, but his tone was So sure and understated, there's no point in joking.

Although he has experienced it many times, Tom Riddle still feels a chill on his back—this is a snake-like man.Although Tom Riddle likes snakes very much, he definitely doesn't like this man in front of him.Dark, slippery, spitting out letters—the bright red letter was in a language he couldn't understand.

This man appeared in front of him on the second day of his enrollment. A turquoise snake crawled into Tom Riddle's bed. He was sleeping soundly at that time, until he was awakened by the touch of the snake crawling across his skin. .The snake said to him, Go to the Forbidden Forest.

So Tom got up and found that all his roommates were asleep.Not only this, but the whole of Hogwarts seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep. Tom Riddle even suspected that he had entered an overly real dream, and he encountered almost no obstacles. He followed the footsteps of the little snake and came to the forbidden forest.

At that time, the man was the same as today, with his back to him, sitting on a dead tree trunk that was at least a hundred years old, and said in a Parseltongue, "Tom, you are here."

His tone was like asking how the weather is today.This is the first time Tom Riddle knows that he is not the only person in the world who can communicate with snakes.So he stepped forward, wanting to walk up to that man—but when he was one meter away from that man, a green flame suddenly burst into flames on the ground.So Tom had to stop.

A man doesn't want him to know what he looks like.

"Who are you? What do you want me to do?"

Tom Riddle tightly held the wand in his hand. In fact, he hadn't started learning basic spells yet, but the man in front of him looked very dangerous, and the wand could give him a slight sense of security.

Tom couldn't figure out the man's purpose, although he could speak Parseltongue—for a moment, he even suspected that this man was the father he was looking for.But no father would treat his son like this.Why did he call himself out late at night, and met in the dangerous Forbidden Forest, all kinds of thoughts crawled through Tom Riddle's mind, but was ended by the man's sentence: "I know your parents are here where."

"Tell me." Tom stared at the man's back, his heart beating wildly.

"Not yet," the man said. "Not yet."

Enraged by the man's strange words, Tom rushed towards the man--those green flames suddenly soared into the air and surrounded Tom Riddle, and the whole world seemed to be a strange shimmering green, the man's hoarse snakes. Loud accents sounded around him, "Tom Riddle, listen to me, it's not yet time. There is no free business in the world, you should exchange things."

"What do you want!" Tom couldn't open his eyes because of the flames.

"Good boy, I want you to find something for me." The man smiled.The flame was extinguished immediately, as if nothing had happened.

Little Tom stood on the ground trembling, looking at the man's back as if he were looking at a demon.

"You help me find a room, and I'll help you find your parents."

The final conversation ends with the man throwing him a book.Tom opened the book, and there were some spells in it—much more complicated than the basic spells recorded in those Hogwarts textbooks he had just bought.

"With this, you will progress faster, just treat it as a gift from me - I will give you magic, and you will find me a room, a secret room."

"Why me?" The 11-year-old Tom Riddle looked at the man cautiously, thinking about the possibility of being used and killed-he was much more realistic than those real children.

"You don't need to ask so many why, you just need to say that the deal is not a deal."

"make a deal."

Eleven-year-old Tom Riddle nodded.

At this moment, standing in the dark room, 14-year-old Tom Riddle looked at the man in front of him, expressionless, trying to make his voice sound more indifferent——

"You said you would tell me more about my parents."

"Don't worry, don't worry. Don't forget the exchange condition—the secret room."

"I will keep my promise, but if the people who carry it out know too little about the truth, our deal will also collapse." Tom Riddle held his tone, threatening the man in front of him in a circumstantial way.

After the first meeting, the man often used a small snake to tell him to go to the Forbidden Forest, and the strange thing is that he was never discovered by any of the teachers and classmates at Hogwarts, probably because of some witchcraft performed by the man, man Give him some drugs so that he can learn magic, and have to admit that the forbidden magic is more useful and satisfying than what he usually learns in school, but the man never told him anything else about the so-called "chamber of secrets" .

As he grows up day by day, the meeting with this man is less than before, but it has never stopped. In various ways, the man will tell him the meeting place with a small snake, and then During the meeting, he was asked to tell himself some things that happened in the school, such as the appointment and dismissal of professors and the anecdotes and strange things circulating among his classmates.He has never seen the man's face, but he chooses to believe it, because those spells and spells that are rapidly improving are real.

Although the man doesn't seem to want him to know anything.

"Well, I thought I should tell you something about your mother." The man waved his wand, and a woman's face suddenly appeared in the air—in a long dress, with curly hair—but Tom Riddle even Before he could see clearly, the face disappeared immediately.This image only lasted less than a second in the air.

"Tom, are you satisfied? Take this. This is the purpose of your trip and your next move."

The man tossed a ball of paper back, and Tom swung his wand and let it fly into his hand, holding it tightly.

The man was fiddling with the flip pocket watch or something like a jewelry box hanging around his neck, and the pendant made a crisp metal sound in his fingers.