[HP] Seven Nights Talk

Chapter 30 Cinderella Tom

The basement room with the magic mirror has really become a secret this time.

When Harry came out, he carefully eliminated any traces of magic he might have left behind—not many, because it was basically Quirrell’s own hands—and then returned to the tower in stealth with the diary in his pocket, and he was still untouched. Anyone find out.But it is impossible for Dumbledore and other professors not to know what happened inside, because the mechanism was touched, and Quirrell died inside, which could not be concealed at all.

In fact, at the same time that Harry climbed back into his four-poster bed, Dumbledore had already arrived in front of the magic mirror and expressed his shock at the fact he saw—the checkpoints they had arranged were all broken, and the hands It was Quirrell (he was not surprised, Snape said several times that Quirrell was suspicious), but why is the Philosopher's Stone still there?The person who wanted the Philosopher's Stone was lying in the innermost room, and the cause of death seemed to be excessive weakness and some unknown burning; but the Philosopher's Stone was taken out and placed on a chessboard with two flames in a room apart.As for Voldemort who has no form, most likely he escaped...

That means someone stopped Quirrell.It's likely the same person who took the Philosopher's Stone out of the Mirror of Erised and really didn't want to use it.He left the Philosopher's Stone behind and left on his own.

Dumbledore could imagine who would want the Philosopher's Stone, no one but Voldemort in his weakened state.But he couldn't think of anyone who could meet the above criteria at the same time - able to stop Voldemort before him, and successfully deal with Quirrell without attracting anyone's attention.The person basically has to be at Hogwarts, but no one can - all the professors say they don't know.

...Could it be Harry?

Dumbledore himself didn't know why he had this association, because the possibility of such a guess was quickly killed by himself.Harry is smart and hardworking, but it sounds more like he has inherited Lily's strengths; and no matter how good a first-year student is, he can't deal with Quirrell single-handedly, right?The magic of directly turning people into ashes requires extremely advanced magical attainments, and he doesn't think this is the level that a first-year student would have.

The new mysterious person is the biggest doubt in this matter.But more importantly, the Sorcerer's Stone is obviously not very safe in Hogwarts.Dumbledore temporarily put aside his many doubts and contacted his old friend Nicole Flamel.This time someone helped them stop the Philosopher's Stone from falling into Voldemort's hands, but what about next time, and next time?It is impossible for him to leave Voldemort with a chance to make a comeback, and the Sorcerer's Stone has only one deserved result-destruction.

But Harry didn't care about that.On the second day of the confinement corridor incident, he noticed that the atmosphere in the teacher's seat was different from the past - tense and somewhat grateful, apparently mostly fearful - but he didn't take it seriously at all.It was his own idea to put the Philosopher's Stone on the chessboard, because he had considered for a moment whether to leave it to Voldemort to recast his body, but then gave up-what a bad idea!According to what Voldemort could do in the past, isn't the diary still safer and more reliable?Maybe Voldemort will question him about this in the future, and he can say that even the Sorcerer's Stone can't solve Death's Transfiguration Curse, what a good reason...

But the first condition to do these things is that Voldemort must wake up.

The diary has been silent all night.This is not unheard of before, but this time is obviously different from other times.If it was a cold war or something else, Harry could still hear Voldemort's snort of disdain occasionally, which indicated the existence of the other party-Voldemort would never let go of any opportunity to laugh at him-but now he even heard the other party I can't even hear the sound!

In order to prevent Voldemort from deliberately teasing him, Harry deliberately lifted the entire diary upside down and shook it many times, deliberately thinking a lot in his heart, such as "the brain will split the soul into a snake face" and "you have to deal with it." Many of the Horcruxes you make yourself are really shooting yourself in the foot", but Voldemort, who was sensitive to this, still didn't respond.

This can only illustrate one point.It wasn't that Voldemort was playing any trick on purpose, it was that he really didn't know these things were happening.

Harry thought this was a bad omen.He just found out now that although he felt that Voldemort was not a good teammate from the beginning (it was barely useful later), he couldn't hide his worries in this situation, and he couldn't even deceive himself and others that it didn't concern him. arrive.Well, he never thought of killing Voldemort, so this kind of thinking is normal; and if something happened to Voldemort, he must be implicated together-after all, what Voldemort said before is that if a People fail, then they have to die together, don't they?

So the only good news in this matter is that Harry is still alive and well, and can even prepare for the upcoming final exams in the increasingly sweltering weather.That is to say, although Voldemort seems to have fallen into a deep coma, he is not dead.

Harry didn't know if that counted as bittersweet.He himself didn't know how he passed those exams, it seemed short and long, because most of his time was nervous about Voldemort who didn't know when he would wake up.

Although Harry tried his best to hide this, it was impossible for Ron and Hermione, who had been with him, not to notice.When the last exam was over, the two dragged Harry out of the castle's oak gates and stopped under a tall and thick beech tree by the lake.

"What's the matter with you?" Hermione asked first, with a worried look on her face. "I think you've been absent-minded for a long time recently." She always likes to check the answers to the questions again after the exam, but she didn't mention it this time, which shows that she is very nervous about Harry.

"Yeah!" Ron echoed, "You said you had test anxiety before...but why do I think that after the test, your condition looks worse?"

Harry rubbed his sore temple.More than a month has passed since the night of the Sorcerer's Stone, and Voldemort has not moved at all.This time it was quiet, but unfortunately his spirit became more tense.He even thinks now that maybe a headache is a good thing, at least it will let him know that Voldemort is really alive, instead of guessing like he is now-he even considered trying to give the diary points like Hagrid hatching dragon eggs. If there are other stimuli, can't Voldemort wake up?

But these things cannot be told to the two friends who looked at him with worried eyes.Harry closed his eyes and leaned heavily against the tree trunk. "It's okay," he said vaguely, "I think I probably need a good night's sleep... I should go to the school hospital and ask Madam Pomfrey for some dreamless potions." Voldemort is dead.

This sounded like a good reason, and Hermione's face recovered a little.Ron thought about it, and felt that this was the best way: "You can ask for more. I'll wake you up before the last Quidditch match—Wood is still counting on you to win a complete victory!" "

Harry nodded wildly.Two days after the final exam, Gryffindor faced Ravenclaw.In the past, he would have been very excited; now he still likes Quidditch, but he really can't get excited. "Then I'd better go to the hospital hospital now," he said, pushing his head to his feet, feeling like he would have a splitting headache even without Voldemort, although it wasn't the same type of headache: "I'm going to get a good night's sleep. No up, Ron, bring me something to eat."

Ron agreed right away and asked if he wanted to accompany him, as did Hermione.Harry didn't want to talk much now, so he politely declined their offer, then went to the school hospital, and then returned to the tower.When he was drinking the purple potion, he was still thinking, take care of yourself, there are only a few days left at the end of the term, even if it is a comatose Voldemort, the god of death should throw him a look.

But maybe Reaper is being kind in this regard.Harry slept very soundly after taking the medicine, but when he woke up, he felt something was wrong—something pressed on his body, so heavy.It was dark all around, obviously late at night.He thought he was being haunted halfway, but soon realized his mistake - he noticed his movement, and things on his body moved, and then he saw a pair of eyes that were slightly reflecting light in the darkness , and a tone he is very familiar with——

"Are you awake at last, boy?"