the Gambler

The first weekend of school was a rare sunny day. The bright sun shone on the entire castle and the open space in front of it. Harry and the others sat down by the edge of the black lake, watching the giant squid jumping out of the water from time to time to show its presence.The school swept away the depression brought about by the exam week last year, and was enveloped in a joyful atmosphere. Many students chose to lazily bask in the sun outside like them.

When Harry passed by, the students all looked at him, some greeted him warmly, and some said that Harry was a real hero, which made the boy feel very delicate, and he remembered these people clearly two months ago Why didn't you show him a good face.Harry forced a smile, and Tom dragged him by the arm and sat down beside him, who naturally fell asleep on the boy's lap.Hermione's mouth curled up at the scene, and Ron looked away uncomfortably.

"I think the sixth grade is awesome, especially since I have so much more free time, and I don't have to worry about NEWTs exams!" Ron spread his slender arms and rolled around on the meadow, Hermione let out a guttural sound of dissatisfaction , is easily ignored by the former.

"By the way, Slughorn was blue when he saw you yesterday, did he recognize you?" Harry asked.

Without opening his eyes, Tom rubbed his head against Harry's leg, trying to find a more comfortable spot.This kind of behavior made Harry couldn't help muttering: "If you don't feel comfortable, you can find a girl, their thighs are much softer."

"Jealous, Harry?" said Tom flippantly. "Don't worry, I'm only interested in you, in every way."

"Oh, shut up." Harry slapped Tom on the forehead angrily, and the voice made Ron pale. "Back to the topic just now, Slughorn seems to be afraid of you."

"Yes. But I was his favorite student at the time. I guess Voldemort's reputation is not very good now, and he might not even admit it." Tom narrowed his eyes, and a calculating emotion flashed across his face. Harry has good dynamic vision and will presumably miss the past as well.Tom suddenly put on a disgusted expression again: "I'm really interested in why the old bee came back to him, maybe I should find a chance to visit Slughorn."

"You don't want to do anything bad." Harry said warily, only a person with a splendens on his head would believe in the Dark Lord!The other party is definitely playing tricks! "Professor Dumbledore will not allow it, and I will stop you."

"You can try it." There was no anger in Tom's tone, and Harry seemed to be able to feel the faint excitement hidden in it. "Whatever Dumbledore means, it is the future me who should deal with him." He stretched out his hand ambiguously Swipe across the inside of Harry's muscular thighs, "Of course I don't mind spending that time with you, if you can keep me interested—"

"Hey, that's Cho Chang." Ron shouted suddenly, pointing to a place not far from them, where the pretty Ravenclaw girl was staying with a strange boy whose face Harry didn't recognize.

Hermione reminded in a low voice, "I hear the two of them are dating. That Ravenclaw is Michael Corner."

"The name sounds familiar." Ron pursed his lips and thought for a while, before finally giving up.

"Ginny's ex-boyfriend," said Hermione. "They broke up after the Quidditch match. I don't think Ginny cares much. She's with Justin Fenriely."

Ron's originally improved mood fell down again in an instant. He muttered and promised to give the boy who hooked up with Ginny an unforgettable spell. Hermione gave her boyfriend a head scratch, reminding him of his responsibilities as a prefect .

"That would be great," said Tom, opening his eyes suddenly, and Harry looked at him suspiciously.

"At least I don't have to warn that woman to stay away from you." He glanced at Qiu's direction, his tone was bone-chillingly cold, "I originally planned to let her know the consequences of touching my things without authorization this year."

"Jealous, Tom?"

"Jealousy refers to a state of indifference, belittlement, rejection or hostility that people have towards the lucky or potential lucky person in order to compete for certain rights and interests. Obviously she does not have these conditions."

"I think Cho is one of the most beautiful girls at Hogwarts." Harry said in a statement of fact, he admired Cho's smiling face, which was still as bright as ever, "Many boys fell under her pomegranate skirt. "

"I can get all the girls to kiss where I go," said Tom coldly, as if that wasn't enough, and he added, "And some of the boys. Human beings are poor creatures, driven by looks and lust poor creature."

Harry was about to refute a few words, but suddenly realized that what Tom said was barely true, so he shut his mouth again.Since the beginning of school, more and more people have been flirting with the two of them, and there are quite a few blatant ones.Tom threw all the chocolates Harry received with the love potion into the blazing fireplace.

Harry couldn't have been more happy than lying on his back on the soft grass with his hands behind his head, and even Voldemort's little movements of late hadn't affected his mood.He told Ron and Hermione the contents of the prophecy last night. The terrified appearance of the two made him laugh out loud, and he felt relieved to spit out the secret. At least now there is no one among the three of them. It's a secret.

Dumbledore hadn't appeared since the opening ceremony, and it was Professor McGonagall who presided over it instead of the headmaster.Harry frowned, and Sirius used the double-sided mirror to tell Harry Dumbledore to plan to defeat Voldemort alone, and no one knew where he went.In fact, he accepts this explanation less completely.

While Harry was thinking, Colin approached them and stuffed the little note under Harry's nose, his face flushed with excitement, and Harry suspected that if time allowed, the boy might pull out the notebook for him to sign .Colin was one of the few people who supported Harry from beginning to end, even though it was really annoying at times, Harry was very grateful to each other.

"Principal Dumbledore wants you to visit him in the office, oh, by the way, he said he likes sour soda." Colin's sharp voice made Tom slip into Harry's clothes.

"Thank you, Colin." Harry nodded, and the little boy ran away cheering.

"Sour soda?" Tom looked disgusted. "Who likes that."

"Password from the Guardian Beast at the headmaster's office door," Harry explained, removing Tom from his lap, who grumbled disapprovingly.

"Then I'll go to the Slytherin lounge too." Tom stood up gracefully, brushed the blades of grass off his robes lightly, thinking of something, he looked up at Harry, "Does your scar still hurt these days? "

Harry replied puzzledly, "It doesn't hurt. I thought I'd be gasping for breath with all the movement he's been making these days."

"You're Occlumency now, and he realized he could get into your mind and you could get into his, so he gave up opening the connection. I guess he's using Occlumency on you as well."

"That's really great, I didn't intend to go inside his head, who knows what disgusting pictures I'll see." Harry wrinkled his nose, and there were a lot of grass blades in his hair, which he couldn't get rid of down.Tom moved closer, carefully undoing his hair.

"Okay," said Tom calmly, and he reached out to smooth out Harry's messy hair, although a few locks still stood up against gravity.Tom took Harry's hand and dragged the boy towards the castle, ignoring the strange looks from the others.Unlike Harry, Tom has always enjoyed being the center of attention, and these actions are tantamount to telling the stupid students that Harry and himself are out of the singles market, and they can't get them.Of course, these small-minded, dull boys didn't notice.Harry has long been used to Tom's physical contact, Slytherin couldn't help but smile, yes, there is nothing better than this, Harry's Gryffindor side is easy to use, although he prefers Tom Leitlin's part.

Harry noticed that the headmaster's office had been restored to its original state, and the portraits of the previous headmasters gave up pretending to take a nap, and looked at Harry and Dumbledore openly, making no attempt to hide their desire to eavesdrop on the conversation.Fox seems to have grown up a bit, and he is no longer bald like the last time I saw him, but he still looks sluggish.

Dumbledore was sitting behind a table with a plate of Lemon Oda in front of him, smiling brightly at Harry.Harry noticed that the old man's left hand on the table was scorched black, as if it had been scorched by a fire, and those black parts continued to the upper arm.

"Sir, what's wrong with your hand?" Harry swallowed the foreign object that hit his throat, and carefully inspected the old man's arm. His stomach was heavy. Perhaps this was the secret mission that Sirius said, even Dumbledore Hurt, he couldn't believe what happened to other people in this situation.Dumbledore has always been Harry's spiritual pillar. He thinks the old man is the most powerful wizard in history. Even rumors say that Voldemort is afraid of Dumbledore.

"That's exactly what I'm going to tell you." Dumbledore said softly, he stretched out his good finger to the empty chair beside him, and moved the plate full of candies in that direction, "It's better to sit down first , Harry?"

Dumbledore put a ring inlaid with black stones and Riddle's diary on the table. Harry could feel the same dark atmosphere from the two objects, and he looked up at the shining pupils behind the old man's half-moon glasses.Dumbledore said calmly: "This is the ring of the Gaunt family, and this, you can't be more familiar with, it is the diary you destroyed in the second grade. But before I explain, I want to tell you one thing About Voldemort's parents."

"I only know that they fell in love through the love potion." Harry whispered, Dumbledore seemed to be briefly stunned by this sentence, and soon, after the old man had absorbed the whole sentence, his eyes lit up Start flickering wildly.

"Surprisingly, it was just my guess. With all due respect, I guess that's what Tom told you?"

Harry nodded.

"Tom is not someone who tells these stories lightly. He must really care about you. He hates the past and even desires to erase it. It took me a lot of effort to find someone who is willing to give me the memory, but This seems to be meaningless." Dumbledore smiled, "Then I will briefly talk about those memories, and you can go back and rest as soon as possible."

Harry nodded again.

"Merope Gaunt fell in love with a handsome old Muggle Tom Riddle, and she offered him a bowl of water with a love potion when he passed the door, so that the latter abandoned his fiancée crazy fell in love with her, and then they had young Tom," Dumbledore explained, "Although Merope is a direct descendant of Slytherin, her magic level is quite low. The reason why she was unable to continue to survive in the end, or maybe she has no energy to continue to live after old Tom Riddle left."

"But it's wrong, she's a mother and should live for Tom!"

"Merope is a weak witch. She is different from Lily. Harry, Lily is the strongest person I have ever seen." Dumbledore waved his wand and drew a locket out of thin air with delicate patterns on it. It's a snake-shaped S. "This is Slytherin's locket, and this ring," he pushed the ring inlaid with black stones to Harry. "Both of these items belong to Slytherin." Ancestral treasure."

"If it's Voldemort's, why is it in your hand? Could it be that's why your right hand is like this? Uh, does knowing Voldemort's past play a role in defeating him?" Harry asked cautiously.

"It will help us find clues, but this is another story. As for the curse on the ring, I believe you can understand the little wish of an old man. There are always some people who hope to meet again even if they give up their lives. Dumbledore smiled. "We will continue next time. I have taken up a lot of your time now, Harry."

Harry knew that Dumbledore had ordered the eviction.