Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 625 Blank Diary

  When Harry bent down and picked up Riddle's diary from the ground, Tom Riddle, who was hidden in the diary, immediately noticed something was wrong.

   After all, Gilderoy Lockhart has never touched a Horcrux with his hands, and that feeling is very different from someone writing in a diary with a quill.

  With the level of caution Gilderoy Lockhart was doing, Tom didn't think that guy would be careless enough to let someone else take the diary from his hand.

   Could this be another trap that that guy prepared for himself?

   It’s no wonder that Tom has such an illusion. Lockhart deliberately pretended to be Ginny Weasley to tease him last time. God knows what new tricks he will play this time?

right!

   It must be another new conspiracy prepared by that bastard!

   Those who didn't know it thought Tom was suffering from persecution paranoia.

  Harry, who was holding the diary, didn't know that there were so many strange thoughts in the diary just now, and he was trying to dry the water stains on the diary with a rag.

  After noticing the hesitation of Ron next to him, Harry finally couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"

   "Nothing?" Ron finally didn't speak.

   "If you really have something to say, just say it, don't hold it in your heart!"

  After drying the water stains on the notebook, Harry slowly tore open the wet pages, only to find that the diary was completely blank, without any trace of writing.

  After repeated hesitation, Ron finally couldn't help but reminded: "Harry, did you know that in the wizarding world, some books are very dangerous."

   "Do you mean this diary is dangerous?" Harry looked up at Ron, smiled and comforted, "You should have seen it by now, this diary is not dangerous at all."

"No, it's your actions that are dangerous." Looking at the blank diary, Ron recalled: "My dad once told me that there was an unlucky Muggle who accidentally bought a book that leaked from the wizarding world. , As a result, when I turned the pages of the book, my eyes were directly burned out by the book."

  Harry raised his eyebrows slightly, apparently not believing such a thing.

   "There is another thing that is well-known in the wizarding world. Anyone who has read "The Wizard's Sonnet" can only speak in doggerel in this life, and..."

   "Okay, I already understand." Harry interrupted with a smile, "I will pay attention to it in the future, but how can I tell which books may be dangerous?"

  While speaking, Harry found the only page in this book with writing on it. On the first page of the diary, the writing had become blurred.

   "Tom Riddle."

  Harry read it softly. Ron, who was about to get up and walk away, stopped after hearing the name, frowning deeply.

   "Do you know this person?" Harry noticed Ron's strangeness and couldn't help asking.

"know."

  Ron leaned his head over, looked at the only place where the diary was written and said: "Tom Riddle received the Special Contribution Award to the school fifty years ago."

   "How do you know?" Harry wondered how Ron knew the news.

"Remember the last time I went to Filch's solitary confinement. At that time, he asked me to clean up the items in the prize showroom." Ron recalled this incident, and said rather annoyed, "That day, I had a hiccup Got slugs on it and it took a while to clean it off, if you've had a similar experience you'll remember his name."

"Tom didn't write a word, which is very abnormal." Harry ignored Ron's complaints, and said to himself: "You should have noticed that there are no traces of tearing on the diary, which is usually the case when you buy a diary." Write something on it."

   "Something is wrong, maybe it was a Christmas present that Riddle got, and he just didn't like it, so he threw it away and didn't use it again."

  "If Riddle didn't care, the diary wouldn't exist after fifty years. It's not parchment." Harry felt that things were not that simple, "Besides, Riddle must be a Muggle wizard."

"Why do you say that."

  Ron felt that he couldn't keep up with Harry's train of thought.

   "Only Muggle wizards buy diaries on Muggle streets." Harry turned the diary to the back cover, showing Ron that Vauxhall Road, London was printed on it.

  Ron had to admit that what Harry said was very reasonable, wizards usually don't go shopping on Muggle streets. In fact, his father still didn't understand the currency system of Muggles, let alone other wizards.

"There is one more thing I care about." At this moment, Harry seemed to be possessed by Hermione, talking to himself about his doubts, "Why would someone want to throw it away? It's unusual, isn't it? I always feel What secrets are hidden in this diary?"

  After Hermione came back from the library, Harry showed her Tom Riddle's diary and told her how he found it.

   "Your suspicion is right. There may be some secrets hidden in this diary." Hermione took the diary, looked at the date carefully and said, "Don't you think it's a coincidence that the fifty-year diary suddenly appeared?"

   "What a coincidence?" Ron's face was full of confusion and confusion, "Don't you expect this diary to contain the secret to open the secret room?"

"I remember you guys told me that Malfoy said that the Chamber of Secrets was opened fifty years ago." Hermione ignored Ron's words and continued to talk about her analysis, "At that time, Tom Riddle had obtained Hogwarts Ci's Special Contribution Award, don't you think it's a coincidence?"

   "What special contribution award?"

   "It should be said to be a special contribution award to the school." Ron explained: "I remember that Albert also won such an award. It seems that he won this award for saving Fred and George."

  Harry was a little confused, obviously not understanding what Ron said.

   "It seems that in the first grade, Fred and George entered the Forbidden Forest, and they ran into trouble. In the end, Albert discovered that they were missing, and broke into the Forbidden Forest alone in the middle of the night to bring them out."

"Do you think Riddle won the award for capturing the heir of Slytherin?" Hermione reached into her bag and took out a bright red eraser. "This is the visible eraser. I'm in Diagon Alley. Got it."

Hermione noticed that Harry and Ron were looking at her, so she explained, "You should know that if someone writes a diary and doesn't want others to know what's in it, they usually use invisible ink or invisible magic to change the writing on it hide."

   After finishing speaking, Hermione wiped vigorously on the page, but nothing appeared.

  Hermione was not discouraged, she took out her wand, tapped the diary three times, and said, "Hurry up!"

   Still no response.

   "It seems that this diary can't tell us everything it knows." Ron felt that Harry and Hermione were wasting their efforts. This is an ordinary diary.

  (end of this chapter)