But Riddle was just about to calm down when Catherine's figure reappeared in front of him.

"Not bad!" Catherine smiled and said, her eyes looking at Riddle unusually presumptuously, "It's not bad, but I don't know how many desires are satisfied?" ”

"Do you think I need to treat people with my ability?" Riddle asked through gritted teeth, but his eyes couldn't help but start turning red.

"There are no secrets in front of Slytherin, because everything has a trace, you just need to observe it." Catherine replied with a Slytherin precept.

"You're guessing with those clues!" Riddle sarcastically sneered, but his eyes were as red as blood.

"You must have forgotten the penultimate of Slytherin's precepts," Catherine chuckled, "and don't speak out about yourself, for the more you expose, the more you expose your weaknesses to the enemy." ”

"Humph! It's just a bunch of nonsense! Riddle disdainfully shì, but the bloodshot color of his eyes did not fade in the slightest.

"Don't you know?" Catherine retorted in surprise, "This is the Slytherins' most prized possession." ”

"Nonsense!" Riddle roared, but his hands trembled slightly.

"You told her all that nonsense, and she told them what you saw as a failure, and now what you think is a failure, is Douglas's master." Catherine's smile was thick with mockery, "Don't tell me, you don't know who Douglas is?" I don't even know what it takes to be Douglas' master! ”

Riddle's mouth opened wide, but he couldn't say a word except gasping for air.

"The real loser should be you idiot who slices your soul!" Catherine looked up slightly. Looking down at Riddle with contemptuous gaze, "She didn't choose you. It's because she's already recognized your true nature, you're just a guy who's not even a Muggle! ”

"Impossible!" Riddle shouted hysterically. The surging magic surged, destroying Catherine's figure directly, but he then noticed that the figures of the red-haired girl appeared one after another around him, each of them repeating what she had just said.

"The real loser should be you idiot who slices your soul!"

"She didn't choose you because she had already recognized you for what you really were, and you were just a guy who wasn't even as good as a Muggle!"

Riddle covered his ears, but Catherine's voice kept coming into his head.

"Idiot who slices souls!"

"A guy who isn't even as good as a Muggle!"

Catherine's voice repeated over and over again, even as Riddle fell to his knees with his head in his hands. Until his blood-red eyes, which receded all color, and lost all light and shadow.

Seeing this, Catherine's heart slowly breathed a sigh of relief, waved her hand to undo the illusion beside Riddle, and withdrew the four water droplets back into the palm of her right hand, but they were obviously thinner than before.

As soon as she left the spirit world, Catherine immediately pressed the necklace on her chest. Snape's special gaseous potion of stress-relieving tension spread, and her nervous feelings were temporarily relieved.

If it weren't for the fact that she was going to meet Dumbledore later, Catherine wouldn't have taken action against Riddle at this time, after all, with her current strength. If you want to completely solve this soul fragment in the locket, you will only lose both.

If it weren't for the fact that the Black family's old mansion had been closed for a year and a half, the magic reserve of this soul fragment in the locket box would be insufficient. In addition, the people who used to stay at 12 Creman Square were some hopeless old people. It was only then that there was a big hole in this Riddle's mental state, otherwise Catherine would not have dared to be unprepared. Recklessly.

Truth be told, Catherine was not afraid of death, or rather, she had always hoped that the scythe of death would swing down with pleasure, rather than hanging over her head like the sword of Damocles.

But now she didn't want to die, because she had too many worries and too many expectations, and if she died at this time, Catherine would also turn herself into a lich and crawl out of the coffin.

"Are you feeling unwell?" Ixacey, who had just laid out his luggage, saw that Catherine's face was full of tiredness, and couldn't help but ask.

"Hmm!" Catherine wanted to nod, but found that even this action was laborious, so she had to answer gently, not wanting to waste her mental strength to find an excuse.

"Then you can sleep for a while! I tell people not to bother you. With that, Ixissi stepped out of the carriage and stood at the door to explain the situation to the other prefects, and then locked the door for Catherine and arranged the mute charm before going on patrol with the others.

With Ixissi's stopper, Catherine finally put her mind at ease and rested for a while in the prefect's car, she didn't dare to sleep, for fear of the "feat" of jumping off the train halfway, but the extra few hours of free time were enough for her to recover mentally before getting off the train, although not at the best, but enough to deal with Dumbledore.

"How does it feel?" As the train began to slow down, Ixissi heard the door open in the next car and asked Catherine, who had just come out of the car.

"Much better!" Catherine smiled slightly, then said apologetically, "Professor Dumbledore told me to go find him when I get back to school, I'm afraid I'll be later--" She glanced worriedly at the exit of the carriage.

"Go ahead! I'll just call Draco over and help. Ixissi said empathetically, and Catherine did not pretend to be modest.

"Senior Ixissi, how can I thank you?" Catherine asked with a chuckle.

"How about a late-night snack?" Ixissi touched his belly, "I heard Draco say you're good at your craft. ”

"It's over." Catherine smiled modestly, "I'll send it before the lights go out." ”

"Looks like I can't eat too much for dinner today!" Ixesy touched his belly, his expression full of hesitation.

"I'll give you another meal at most." Catherine joked with a smile.

"It's decided!" Without hesitation, Ixesy went up as soon as he saw the pole, "Next time I can get a meal!" ”

"That's not a good deal!" Catherine grumbled.

"I can do a little thing for you." Ixissi smiled and promised.

"How about taking this?" Catherine pulled out an address book with a green cover of a snake ring and handed it to Ixissi.

Ixissi hesitated for a moment, but finally reached out to take it, but shouted bitterly: "It's a loss! What a loss! ”

"You don't have to look at it!" Catherine smiled brightly.

"Do you think it's possible?" Ixissi raised her eyebrows and glared at the red-haired girl, and put away the address book, "The car is parked, you go to the appointment!" He reached out and patted Catherine on the shoulder, smiling and encouraging.

"Thank you!" Catherine bowed slightly, then turned and walked briskly off the train, and then she was dazed.

When she came to Hogwarts in the first year, because she had just entered the school, she took a boat across the lake to the castle, and at that time Catherine knew that it was definitely not the normal way to get to school from the station, but in the second year, due to Dobby's trouble, Catherine was forced to arrive at the school early, and when the third year started, she was in a coma until late at night due to a magical riot, so now she didn't know where to go for a while.

Catherine couldn't help but look left and right, and then saw a row of simple carriages parked on a dirt path next to the station, but it was not an ordinary horse pulling the cart, but Thestrals.

Thestrals are magical creatures that resemble Pegasus, but they have no flesh at all, their black fur is tightly attached to the skeleton, every bone is clearly visible, their heads are very similar to the heads of dragons, their eyes have no pupils, only a patch of white, and their wings are as big and black as bat's wings.

Thestrals look terrifying in appearance, love blood food, and can only be seen by those who have witnessed death, so there is a superstition among wizards that Thestrals will bring terrible disasters to those who see them, and are an inauspicious animal.

However, the Hogwarts school group had been tamed by Hagrid, and with their excellent sense of direction, they were arranged to transport students back and forth between the castle and the station. Catherine had heard the portraits in the castle gossiping before, but because she hadn't experienced it, she didn't think about it for a while, and she didn't remember these "campus gossip" until she saw Thestrals.

Catherine walked quickly to the front of the convoy, said to Thestrals, who were pulling the first car, "Please go to the principal's room", and immediately jumped into the carriage behind it, and as soon as Thestrals heard the sound of the door closing, they began to run quickly, and the two huge wings also spread out, but due to the weight of the carriage, they couldn't fly for a while.

Seeing this, Catherine immediately took out her wand and applied a levitation charm to the carriage, and as soon as the Thestrals pulling the carriage felt the weight behind him disappear, her wings immediately flapped vigorously a few times, and then she pulled the carriage into the air.

The students who couldn't see Thestrals saw that the carriage that was walking in front suddenly flew up, and they couldn't help but let out an exclamation, and several naughty students, thinking that it was the original function of the carriage, couldn't help but run on the carriage to study around, but in the end there was no gain.

Since it was flying, naturally there was no need to follow the road on the ground, and Thestrals didn't have to make any effort to pull the carriage and fly to the side of the Gryffindor Tower.

"It's the first payment to be made." Catherine jumped out of the carriage into the windowsill, pulled out a vial of animal blood, opened it, and leaned in front of Thestrals' head.

Smelling the strong smell of blood coming from the bottle, Thestrals, who was about to leave, immediately turned around and hovered in front of the window with her wings flapped, biting the mouth of the bottle and then looking up and taking a sip.

"I'll have my house-elf send you the rest of the payout, okay?" Catherine retrieved the empty bottle and kindly touched Thestrals' head, which nodded obediently as if she understood, before flapping her wings and turning her head towards the Forbidden Forest.

Seeing Thestrals leaving, Catherine immediately called out to Dobby and asked him to follow the magic mark she had left behind and send some fresh meat to the Thestrals as a reward before going to the Headmaster's Office. (To be continued......)