Being a bastard at Hogwarts is not safe.

Chapter 191 Old Tom Riddle

On the way back to the dormitory after leaving the screaming house, Brian was filled with emotion when he thought about what happened tonight.

This was the most difficult and complicated problem he had faced since he entered Hogwarts. Any calculations and plans were completely useless, and there was not even an entry point for him to find the truth of the whole thing.

The situation of Tom Riddle is completely different from the experience in the novels and movies I read in my previous life. Using the words in the novels of my previous life, I seem to have traveled to a brand new world based on the world of Harry Potter. Ordinary in a parallel world.

From Brian's understanding, the more things that are out of his control, the more upset he feels, but fortunately, Xiao Kong finally traded his own benefits. Through this contact, Brian did not gain nothing.

Although it took a full three upgrade points, it was indeed quite profitable.

Although his three questions did not seem to be able to obtain the most critical information in the whole matter, for Brian, the information hidden in these answers played a particularly critical role in his safety at Hogwarts.

Naturally, these questions were not raised at will, but the result of careful consideration.

First of all, what Tom Riddle said is true or false can give Brian enough evidence to prove that it is not a Horcrux like the crown and diary. Otherwise, the first thing Brian has to do is to prevent it from being the most critical to him. His trump card-hands and feet in the secret realm of time and space, destroying his base camp.

Secondly, even Tom Riddle, who is in the fifth grade, his erudition will bring great help to Brian in the days to come. kind of.

Second, Bryan also wanted to know if Dumbledore played some kind of role in the Tom Riddle incident.

Although it was not what he wanted at the beginning, in the past two years, in order to ensure his safety in Hogwarts and to keep the biggest thigh in the wizarding world, Brian had several deep or shallow contacts with Dumbledore. Deng dealt with a lot of trouble at Hogwarts.

To put it bluntly, it's like taking advantage of each other.Brian needs Dumbledore to keep him safe at Hogwarts, and Dumbledore needs someone to take care of some troubles for him, but he is so devoted to Harry.

Although Dumbledore had never shown any distaste for him right now, Brian had never been able to figure out what his attitude towards him was.Brian has always felt that Dumbledore's attitude towards the young Tom Riddle is very similar to his own. If Dumbledore really played a role in fueling the Tom Riddle incident, Brian's first thing is to ask All he had to do was to leave Hogwarts and hide his name from now on, so as not to fall into the same fate as Tom Riddle.

Fortunately, this matter has nothing to do with Dumbledore, so Brian didn't comment much on it, and he didn't dare to reserve any right to speak.

Dumbledore, who is famous for his double standards, must not let him have the opportunity to wear small shoes for himself.

As for why Dumbledore made up false memories for Harry to watch in the end, this was entirely to satisfy Brian's own curiosity.

Brian pondered for a few moments, and had already stepped into the Room of Requirement, spread out a blank sheet of paper, and began to organize his thoughts in the old way.

Silver-faced Xiaokong's last reminder is very important to Brian.

If he wanted to understand the real reason why Dumbledore did all this, he had to distinguish the differences between the two memories. As for rescuing Tom Riddle or rehabilitating him, Brian didn't dare to speak nonsense.

On the one hand, it is too difficult. It is like asking religion to prove that the omnipotent God can create a rock that he cannot move by himself?Brian hadn't lived enough, and he didn't really want to be tied to a cross by the Ministry of Magic and burned alive.

On the one hand, this matter has nothing to do with me. The matter of my existence in the wizarding world has not been fully resolved. There is no need to do these things for Tom Riddle who just met.

But figuring out Dumbledore's purpose might be of some help to Brian's own future safety. He lowered his head and pondered for a while, thinking carefully in his heart.

At this time, the flexibility of thinking is particularly important.

In Bryan's view, there is no need for Dumbledore to deepen Harry's bad impression of Tom Riddle at this time. Just like he thought before, Harry's parents were killed by Tom Riddle, and the little Not long ago, Sirius Black was hit by his cousin Bellatrix with the Killing Curse because of Voldemort's conspiracy. Even if Tom Riddle was kind and innocent when he was a child, Harry would not be able to reconcile with him.

According to Dumbledore's usual method, based on the situation at this time, it is reasonable to speculate that the purpose of Dumbledore's doing this should be to hide something, and if something is known by Harry or other people in the wizarding world, it will cause a major earthquake things.

So which parts of Dumbledore's conversation with Tom Riddle lead to this outcome?Brian's mind sank, carefully reviewing the conversation with Dumbledore in Tom Riddle's memory.

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"I'm not from a madhouse. I'm a teacher. If you can sit down calmly, I'll tell you about Hogwarts. Of course, if you don't want to go to that school, no one will force you you--"

"I said I don't want to!"

"Hogwarts is a school for people with special talents."

"This joke is not funny at all... As I said, I'm not crazy."

"I've met your mother, she hopes you can come with me to study at Hogwarts!"

"How many times do you want me to repeat! Did I say I wouldn't...my mother?"

"Yes!"

"Who is he? Why doesn't he come to me..."

"Your mother wasn't ready to meet you, and she begged me not to tell you everything about her. I said yes."

"Tell me about that Hogwarts."

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"did you see it?"

"Which part are you talking about?"

"My first meeting with Dumbledore."

"You mean that Dumbledore performed insanity on you? I don't understand why you were not affected. With Dumbledore's level of magic, it is absolutely impossible to fail a child who has just awakened the ability of a wizard. "

"Yes, until now I don't understand why I have the illusion that Professor Dumbledore wants to stay away from me from the beginning.

I have been able to clearly feel other people's attitudes towards me since I was a child, and the probability of making mistakes is very low.Mrs. Cole stayed away from me because she thought Frank's rabbit, and little Amy, Benson and Dennis, Bishop's thing was my doing, and the rest of the orphanage stayed away from me out of fear.

Only Professor Dumbledore was different, even though he brought me into Hogwarts, even though he had a gentle smile on his face from the beginning to the end, I always felt that his attitude towards me was not very good! "

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Brian suddenly remembered a flashing scene in Tom Riddle's memory. This was the first time he saw his own father, Tom Riddle Sr., in Little Hangleton during his fourth grade vacation. Obviously Riddle was not He didn't want people to watch this experience that caused him infinite pain.

Brian was able to understand Tom Riddle's feelings very well at the time, and this memory had nothing to do with what he was concerned about, so he didn't care.

But thinking about it now, it seems that a certain passage of old Tom Riddle is particularly meaningful.

"You came."

Old Tom Riddle is completely different from what he saw in the Mirror of Erised. He is no longer the suave youthful man. He is sitting on the rocking chair in the Riddle Mansion, his temples are slightly white, and he is walking a few times on his face. There are deep wrinkles, and the eyes look a little narrow under the weight of wrinkles.

"Yes, I'm here." The young man was taken aback for a moment, and after a while he glanced at old Tom Riddle with eyes that shouldn't be at that age, and said in a low voice, "You know me?"

"Four years ago, I knew that I had a son." Old Tom Riddle seemed to have a trace of sadness in his eyes, and he looked a bit like a hero in his twilight years.

"Then why didn't you come to me?" Tom Riddle's words were very calm, even a little cold, only the trembling hands that fell on the sides of his waist made people feel that he was not like the one in his tone. calm.

"I don't know, I thought about doing this, but I don't know how to face you, and I don't know how to tell my current family about it."

"You all know it, but you don't come to me. 15 years, 15 years, do you know how I spent these 15 years? What's even more ridiculous is that the ones who gave up on me turned out to be my own parents."

Tom Riddle's voice was dry and hoarse, and there was an indescribable hatred and sadness in his eyes, such eyes that even ordinary people dare not look at him.

But old Tom Riddle looked at him and smiled wryly, his eyes were cloudy, he was expressionless, and he sighed lightly: "This is all my fault.

I don't like your mother, but she used a special magic on me back then, and I fell in love with her uncontrollably, and I had you.

But the dream will wake up eventually, when I woke up from the dream, I was very angry, I abandoned her and you who were not yet born, because I felt that my life should not be bound by such a woman, I still Have something to pursue.

I've regretted it all these years because I heard your mother died an hour after giving birth to you in front of the Wall Orphanage.

I don't know how to face you, and I don't know how to think about her who has passed away if I see you. "

Tom Riddle raised his head and took a serious look at the Muggle father for the first time. He obviously looked abnormally old. He was in his forties and even looked like an old man in his fifties or sixties. He had silver hair, a high nose bridge, and deep eye sockets. trap.

"She's not dead." Tom Riddle said in a very soft tone involuntarily.

Old Tom Riddle was visibly stunned for a moment, first he closed his mouth hastily, his facial muscles were slightly stiff, and the corners of his eyes trembled slightly, then he calmed down and spoke slowly.

"I know, I've seen her before."

"Where is she now?"

"I don't know, she left the next day after I saw her." Old Tom Riddle said.

The two of them suddenly fell into a long silence again. Tom Riddle lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking, while the old man in front of him kept staring at him. After watching for a long time, his face gradually became pale. He was dignified, as if he was suffering some kind of indescribable suffering in his heart.

After a long time, he gritted his teeth, with a trace of deep sorrow in his eyes, and said slowly: "Son, if you want to hate, then hate me, don't, don't blame your mother.

I know you can't understand me, but my experiences in my youth have taught me about every woman.

Your mother obviously has difficulties. She never talked to me about you, but I can see from her eyes that she misses you infinitely.

That night, she even called your name in her dreams. There is no mother in the world who does not love her children.

I even heard that she did a lot to get you into that magic school. "

Tom Riddle didn't expect old Tom Riddle to say such words suddenly at the end, he was immediately taken aback, half covered his mouth with his right hand, and his ring finger trembled uncontrollably.

"What do you mean? Where is she now? Why do you say that she paid a lot for me to study at Hogwarts? Isn't all wizards allowed to enter there?"

No matter how Tom Riddle asked, old Tom never said a word. He raised his head slightly, leaned on the recliner behind him, and slowly swayed.

Tom Riddle was extremely disappointed. The moment he turned and left the Riddle Mansion, he heard old Tom's voice from behind: "Remember her name, Merope Gaunt."

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When Brian saw this memory in the Time and Space Secret Realm, he actually only had sorrow for Riddle's life experience in his heart. At that time, he was eager to know why Riddle went to the restricted area to search for "Advanced Dark Magic" because of Slughorn's words. Reveal the secret".But now that I think about it carefully, there is a ray of doubt in my heart.

It seems that something is not quite right...

The memory shown by Tom Riddle is not much different from the memory Dumbledore gave Harry. The most critical part of the burning wardrobe did appear, but there are differences in language, attitude, and details.

Brian put his hands behind his back and bowed his head, thinking carefully about the difference.

【If I were Dumbledore, where would I want to cover up by fabricating such a memory? 】

Riddle is kind by nature?

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Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in Brian's heart, and he understood the true meaning of the system.

Dumbledore's real purpose was not to let Harry know about Tom Riddle's mother, Merope Gaunt.

In other words, what Merope Gaunt paid for Tom Riddle to enter Hogwarts is the most critical thing throughout the Tom Riddle incident.

Perhaps, it will also cause a major earthquake in the entire wizarding world!