The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Unexpectedly but within reason, Tom understood and knew everything at the last moment. Yes, how could Victorique's behavior after stealing Riddle's diary from her be ignored by Peggy, who was in the same dormitory?

These things no longer mattered, and Tom felt the darkness coming in like a tidal wave.

Tom lay on his back, surrounded by absolute silence, no human voice, no crackle of the fire, no wind outside the window. This kind of environment can only make people feel suffocatingly lonely. It was as if his hearing had been deprived, and his ability to judge time was also lost.

But Tom didn't seem to be in any discomfort. His current state is very strange, as if he has lost everything, leaving only a group of thoughts, like a program or a line of code. But fortunately, slowly, those lost things came back.

It may have been thousands of years, or it may have been just a moment, but Tom's senses gradually recovered. He could feel that he was lying on the surface of something, and he also felt the loneliness that made his heart feel so oppressive that it would explode. .

He stood up, and in the next moment he realized that he was naked, and the effects of the Polyjuice Potion had worn off. But being naked isn't a big deal as long as no one sees.

Tom finally remembered that he still had eyes, so he opened them and found that he was lying in a mist, and the surroundings were unexpectedly bright. He couldn't see anything because of the fog. However, it is somewhat different from ordinary fog. Ordinary fog covers the surrounding scenery and makes it impossible to see things clearly. Here, the surrounding scenery has not yet been generated.

Tom stood up. He wanted to put on some clothes. Of course, if he still looks like he did when the Polyjuice Potion took effect, what he wants immediately is a complicated question. After this idea came into his mind, a robe appeared not far away. The robe was warm and dry as if it had been in the sun for a while, with the scent of sunshine.

"Where is this place?" After this thought came to mind, the fog dissipated little by little: a huge circular glass roof, a floor paved with large gray tiles, benches, railway tracks...

Tom recognized where this was: this was Platform 9 at King's Cross Station, or the scene here was the same as that platform. He gradually remembered his previous experiences, and soon he realized that he was dead and in a trance.

Trance is a state between life and death. It is both reality and illusion.

"It turns out that the world after death is like this..." Tom thought thoughtfully. He had obtained a lot of information from various channels before, and he concluded that wizards would not reincarnate immediately after death, but would stay in a special boundary. Here, it is a confusing and illusive world.

"What a valuable knowledge and experience." Tom muttered.

He looked down at the ring on his hand and rubbed the phoenix pattern on it, but there was no reaction. In the trance, Tom lost the ability to transform. Tom was a little confused, he didn't know what to do next. After all, he has not experienced death yet, everything here is new, and he needs to explore a little bit.

Tom stood quietly on the platform and took a look at the surrounding scenery: it looked like a normal platform, except that there was thick white fog at the end of the track.

He figured out the direction and walked towards where the train came from. The station was not big, and he soon walked into the white mist. The white fog filled the air and obscured Tom's vision. He could not see anything. However, after walking for a certain distance, the white fog gradually dissipated, and there was a faint scenery in front of us.

It's the opening of a bridge, with some junk piled inside.

Tom recognized that this was the bridge hole he occupied back then. He remembered what Nick, the nearly headless man, had said to him, and he quickly stopped in his tracks. When I looked down again, I didn't know when my legs had become transparent, just like the ghosts in Hogwarts.

He immediately turned back and returned to Platform 9.

Fortunately, the "ghost transformation" just now was reversible, and as Tom returned to the platform, his body returned to normal. He sighed, chose a bench and sat down, bored.

He didn't know what to do next!

Obviously, he died. If he returns along the track, he will turn into a ghost. If he walks along the track, he can guess what will happen: reincarnation, what else can it be?

Life immediately restarted.

I just don’t know if I will be on Earth in my next life? Could it be that when he opens his eyes, he has returned to the late Northern Song Dynasty, and he has become an exiled clan member, and needs to help the Song clan and turn the tide? Or after opening your eyes, a crimson blood moon comes into view, and you are about to lose control just by seeing it? Or when you open your eyes, you find yourself on the battlefield above, with a little boy wearing glasses, a suit and a tie standing next to you. The little boy clapped his hands together, and a big tree appeared from the ground?

If given a choice, he hoped to receive an owl letter when he was eleven years old in his next life. At that time, I might have held my Hogwarts admission letter and sneered, saying: Magic? I don't believe it!

Then a tabby cat will come to the door of his home in the next life. After some operations, you will believe in magic and shout excitedly: "I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time!"

Tom's mood was a little confused. Suddenly, the back of a little brown-haired girl appeared in front of him.

What would happen if Hermione found out about her death?

It must be very sad, right?

Then...after a while, she might get over her grief and find her other half...maybe she would take her husband and children to visit her tombstone in the future?

Tom swatted away these disturbing thoughts like flies.

He breathed a long sigh of relief, calmed down, and began to seriously study this place where yin and yang meet between life and death. He looked at the robe that appeared out of thin air on his body and thought for a moment.

"It would be great if there was a desk." As soon as the idea came to his mind, a Hogwarts-style desk appeared in front of Tom.

Tom's eyes flickered slightly.

Soon, plates of steaming meals and several jugs of drinks appeared on the desk.

Just as Tom was trying to "reveal" something else, a whistle interrupted his thoughts. A train identical to the Hogwarts Express pulled up to the platform.

"Platform 9——?" Tom looked at the sign on the train and sighed. He was a little hesitant: Should he take this train or go back the same way and return to Hogwarts in ghost form?

What is your title? Handsome Yodel, Tom who can't grow taller?

Looking at the express train, Tom had the urge to walk in. This urge became stronger and stronger, and finally drove him into the carriage. There was no one in the carriage, and he found a seat to sit down casually.

The train set off.

With the whistle blowing, the train drove into the thick white fog. However, while driving, Tom heard a mysterious singing sound. He looked around for the source of the singing, but he couldn't find it. The singing gradually became louder, and Tom discovered that the singing came from his own chest!

Along with the singing, Tom's nose gradually became longer, and red feathers sprouted from his body. Suddenly, Tom turned into a golden-red phoenix! He fluttered his wings, flew out of the window, and soared into the sky.

This time when he passed through the white mist, he did not turn into a ghost.

…

"Unbelievable," Riddle said, retracting his hand from Tom's neck. He was sure that the guy who called himself Tom Yoder was dead. Even he was surprised by the fact that a first-year student could successfully use the Killing Curse to kill someone.

He taught this spell to Peggy.

Riddle recalled his life and asked himself, when he was in first grade, he should not be able to do what Peggy does today. Of course, he also believed that this was because he had not been exposed to the Killing Curse when he was in first grade.

Tom Riddle found and opened the secret room based on clues when he was in fifth grade. While searching for information, he also came into contact with a dark magic item called "Horcrux" and mastered how to make it. He controlled the basilisk in the secret room and directed it to attack several students, eventually killing the Muggle-born girl Myrtle Warren. His murderous act allowed him to successfully split his soul and create the first Horcrux: the Riddle Diary.

In the summer of the same year, he went to Little Hangleton Village and met his uncle Morfin Gaunt in the dilapidated old Gaunt house. He first knocked Morfin unconscious and took away his grandfather Marvolo Gaunt's He took the ring and his uncle Morfin's wand, and then went to Riddle House, where he killed his father, Old Tom, and his family with the stolen wand, and made the ring into a second Horcrux. He had already mastered the Forgetting Curse at that time. He modified Morfin's memory and blamed Morfin for the family murder case. Let Morfin be his scapegoat to cover up his crimes.

The first time Voldemort himself used the Killing Curse to kill someone was in fifth grade. From this point of view, Peggy can be regarded as "outstanding".

But Riddle was a little confused: Does Peggy have enough magic power?

"What a great talent." Voldemort also praised Peggy, with a smile on his lips and an appreciative look at her, "Among the little wizards I have ever seen, your talent is the highest."

Seemingly aware of his own doubts when he was young, Voldemort went out of his way to explain it to Riddle.

"If you want to cast black magic, just having magic power is not enough. You should understand that, unlike ordinary spells, if you want to use the Unforgivable Curses skillfully, you need to give them evil power, you need to really cause pain, and you need to be cold and evil enough. ——Magic is not the most important factor. Of course, I do not deny that Miss Grossman's talent is indeed outstanding. She knows how to develop her potential better than those mediocre people. After a long and arduous exploration, I found that the 'ultimate' is It is an extremely important factor for wizards. As long as you choose a certain direction and go to the extreme, you can reach the top. The more extreme, the better..."

After Voldemort finished speaking about his views on magic, magic, and curses, he turned to Peggy.

"I heard that I need to teach you a kind of magic?" Riddle's promise was naturally equivalent to Voldemort's promise.

"According to the agreement, you should teach me how to make Horcruxes." Peggy didn't feel any guilt about her killing. In her opinion, she did nothing wrong. She desperately wanted to cut off her soul and seal the cut piece of soul into a so-called Horcrux.

"Get rid of that burden." This is Peggy's deepest desire.

Making a Horcrux requires cutting off the soul, and how much is cut off can naturally be controlled. If divided equally every time, Voldemort made seven Horcruxes: Riddle's diary, Ravenclaw diadem, Hufflepuff gold cup, Slytherin locket, resurrection stone ring, Nagini and Ha Leigh Porter. If it is divided equally every time, and the soul is not a leek and can grow back after being cut off, then in the end there will only be eight thousandths of the soul in Voldemort's body...

This is so outrageous.

Therefore, when making a Horcrux, you can naturally control the degree of dividing the soul, which is exactly what Peggy needs. She happens to have a piece of soul that is "excessive". This soul will only hinder her, and the items that hinder her must be cleared away, even her own soul.

Hearing that Peggy actually wanted to make a Horcrux, Voldemort was stunned for a moment, and then he let out a cold laugh.

"First grade, I can make Horcruxes in the first grade! Today really challenged my understanding of the magic world again and again! First, I can turn into an Animagus into a basilisk, and then I can make souls in the first grade. A student of weapons..." Finally he stopped laughing and gently touched the wand in his hand.

"Dumbledore must be very satisfied, right? His current students are much more 'exciting' and 'lively' than I was back then! Since Lord Voldemort has made a promise, he will naturally not break his promise to you. Tell me, you What do you want to use as the carrier of the Horcrux?"

Without thinking, Peggy pointed to [Senior Sister] who was tied up with a black rope by Voldemort in the corner.

"I want to use it to make a Horcrux."

"Good choice. You do it with me -" Voldemort began to teach Peggy how to make Horcruxes.

In order to create a Horcrux, the wizard's soul must first be split through guilt-free murder. Peggy had already accomplished this, she had killed her senior without any guilt, and now her soul had met the conditions for splitting. Then, she learned a special spell from Voldemort to separate the split soul and transfer it to an object of her choice, thereby making a Horcrux.

Peggy learned the spell.

"You can leave this school with me. I can teach you the magic I have learned, and you only need to dedicate your talents to me." Voldemort planned to leave Hogwarts after the Horcrux was completed. He doesn't want to confront Dumbledore yet. Things he avoided when he was in his prime, he will naturally not do it now that he is not in a complete state. But before leaving, he extended an invitation to Peggy. He sincerely hoped that this girl could become one of his Death Eaters.

Peggy thought for a moment, agreed to Voldemort, and then she began to seize the time to make Horcruxes.

The production of the Horcrux has reached the final step. Peggy only needs to inject her split soul into [Senior], and the work will be done. She focused on peeling her torn soul away from her body. At this time, her soul was extremely unstable, and there was a tendency that she was about to lose her soul...

At this time, Tom, who was lying aside and ignored by several people, suddenly experienced a change.