35, Halloween Horror
Why Aglaia is in Ravenclaw, Hoffa does not know. He didn't even know why he was in Ravenclaw, and everyone who came into contact with him thought he was a Gryffindor.
Fortunately, the little girl's temper comes and goes quickly. On Halloween, Aglaia barely recovered to normal, and was willing to go to school and eat with the two "cowardly" friends she said.
Of course, she still has an obsessive view of the library. Hoffa heard from Miranda that she often studied the Hogwarts history alone at night, reading it until midnight.
In November, after Halloween, the castle is full of pumpkins, and pumpkins are piled up at the door. Everywhere it takes on a dusk hue.
The pumpkins also had all sorts of candles stuffed into their mouths. Some pumpkins whine when wizards pass by.
Of course, this level of screaming could only cause a group of girls to giggle and walk underneath with their arms crossed.
Hoffa has always believed that the screams of girls are also a means of attracting boys to play with them.
His two friends are outliers among girls.
Aglaia disguises herself as a normal girl in front of other people, but the real one is that she never bothered to attract guys, she is only interested in the unknown.
In her words, the known world is boring.
Miranda, she's been playing haha most of the time, maybe it's because there is no teleportation array at Hogwarts this year to destroy. So there was nothing to attract her interest anymore, and she was always only hot about everything.
For Halloween, she also maintains a state of getting by.
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Halloween night, though.
When the three of them walked through the corridor filled with jack-o-lanterns and armored knights, past the shining Hogwarts orb, and entered the Great Hall, they saw two groups of men facing each other in the center of the Great Hall.
Their expressions were as solemn as those of robbers on fire in a small town in the American West.
On one side is a Gryffindor in a red school robe, and on the other side is a Slytherin in a dark green school robe.
The Gryffindors all had an uncontrollable look of rage on their faces, while the Slytherins were sarcastic, starting with Tom Riddle and Malfoy.
"Despicable villain, do you dare to come in while I'm there?"
A burly Gryffindor boy asked fiercely, with a shiny sign on his chest that he was the prefect of Gryffindor.
"Prefect, I'm phew. ”
Malfoy sneered.
"If you can't beat it, you can buckle your hat, this teaching assistant is something we earned by our ability! Even Professor Melles didn't speak, what are you farting here!"
"Okay, you've got it!"
A group of Gryffindors stepped forward.
"Do you dare to come to a duel?"
Malfoy said, putting his arm around Tom Riddle's shoulder.
The group of Gryffindors took another step back.
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"What's going on?" asked Miranda.
"I don't know. Miranda shook her head.
Aglaia sneered.
"Hmph, dog-eat-dog. I've heard that Tom Riddle of Slytherin used his position as a teacher's assistant to forcibly search the Gryffindor common room. caused a collective backlash from Gryffindor, and now Gryffindor is making trouble. ”
Hoffa was surprised, and the Slytherin men forcibly searched the Gryffindor common room.
He glanced at the group of red-robed wizards with furious expressions, and thought to himself that it was really an unheard of event. But is the power of this teacher's assistant really so big?
At the banquet, Gryffindor and Slytherin were still at loggerheads. As they ate, they smashed each other with candy.
But all this had nothing to do with Ravenclaw, nor with Hoffa, who calmly smeared his pie with pate, drank pumpkin juice, and ate pudding when they quarreled.
Everything seemed so rosy, and Hoffa looked at the food and thought of the war outside. It's inevitable that you'll be glad you live in a warm harbor.
After eating, a group of blue-robed Ravenclaws talked and laughed together and prepared to go back to their common room.
However, no sooner had Hoffa and his party walked up the narrow bridge than they saw a group of wizards standing in front of the Eagle Ring in the Ravenclaw common room.
If you look closely, the group of people are wearing green robes and have smug expressions, and they are actually the Slytherin people who have left the banquet early.
The Slytherin group slowly parted, and the tall and handsome Tom Riddle stood up with a smile, first bowing to the Ravenclaws, and then saying:
"After what happened last year, every corner of the castle needs to be thoroughly investigated. About, black--magic-law. ”
Tom Riddle spoke slowly, his eyes swirling around the three of Hofa and smiling.
The group of Slytherins behind him all nodded in agreement.
Riddle: "I hope you can offer to open the door to the common room for us and save us some unnecessary trouble." ”
Ravenclaw at the top of the stairs was stunned for a moment, and then became furious.
"Dark magic...?"
"Have you checked your own break room?"
"Why, do you think we're going to let a bunch of Slytherins into the common room?"
Aglaia even frowned and stood up: "Riddle, are you a prefect, who gave you the right to show off your might on the tower of Ravenclaw." ”
"Ahem. ”
Riddle smiled. He tapped his chest, which had a silver TA sign.
"I'm sorry, Miss Drasheth, but rules are rules. In fact, as a teaching assistant, I have this qualification, and as for who gave this right, I think it is Principal Dippert. ”
Everyone was in an uproar and exchanged their heads one after another.
Hoffa didn't expect that Gryffindor would be checked in the afternoon, and it would be Ravenclaw's turn in the evening. Tom Riddle is really using his position to explore Hogwarts.
"Then you go in. Aglaia turned pale and gritted her teeth and sneered: "
"If only you idiots could answer the Eagle Ring's question. ”
"You ......"
The Slytherin stirred, and Malfoy was enraged by Aglaia's words and was about to step out of the crowd.
But Tom Riddle raised his arm, calmly stopping the anger of the group behind him.
"I've heard about the rules of the Ravenclaw common room for a long time, and I happen to have a little bit of an interest in solving puzzles, so I'd like to try it if I could. ”
"Self-deed. ”
After saying it coldly, Aglaia retreated into the crowd.
Tom Riddle stepped forward, the metal eagle spreading its wings, but this time, the knight in the portrait did not kneel.
Eagle Ring asked, "The white father, the black son, the wingless bird, fly straight to the clouds, and those who touch it will cry and die in an instant." ”
At this moment, not only the students of Slytherin House gasped, but even the students of Ravenclaw House looked at each other.
Eagle Ring's question was far more difficult than any previous one.
The Slytherin students all looked at Tom Riddle.
I saw that his face was a little pale, but he did not panic, and he shook back and forth in place several times. There was silence for more than ten seconds.
All the Ravenclaws and Slytherins held their breath as he was silent.
Finally, Tom showed a sneer, he looked sideways at Eagle Ring, and said coldly, "Smoke." ”
The Slytherin students erupted in applause, followed by a loud whistle as if they had won the Quidditch House Cup.
Aglaia punched the wall in annoyance.
Ravenclaw's eagle ring folded its wings, and the blue corridor of the common room swirled open.
The Slytherin crowd screamed and tried to squeeze in, but Tom Riddle stopped them.
"You wait here for me, I'll let you in, and you come in again. ”
He commanded in a condescending tone, his eyes were cold, and at this moment, he seemed to be the same as the future Dark Lord.
Abraxas Malfoy wanted to go in too, and he put his arm on Riddle's shoulder, looking like he knew him best, but Riddle glanced at his palm, then made him retract his palm and stand on the spot.
The group of Slytherins stood still, and Ravenclaw watched Tom Riddle's back disappear into the blue corridor.
A few Ravenclaws whispered angrily, "It's really the sun is coming out in the west, when will the head of Gryffindor find a Slytherin to be his teaching assistant." ”
"Defence Against the Dark Arts, damn it, this guy didn't use Defence at all when he ran for assistant teaching, he used curse magic. ”
Aglaia whispered indignantly: "Still looking for a dark wizard, I think he is a dark wizard!"
"The Dean of Ravenclaw is still a Gryffindor!"
A new Ravenclaw prefect next to him shook his head self-deprecatingly: "Everything is messed up, if Professor Goshawk is still here, he will definitely not allow this guy to enter the Ravenclaw common room." ”
Hoffa's roommate William said, "God knows what this guy is doing in our break room......"
His voice had just fallen.
Rumble!!
Billowing smoke mixed with fire suddenly rushed out of the corridor.
A loud explosion came from through the doorway, as if someone had lit a bomb in the Ravenclaw common room.
The Ravenclaws and Slytherins at the doorway all screamed and crouched down with their heads in their hands.
The sudden convulsion made Hoffa take two steps back,
The crowd screamed.
Then, Riddle's roar was heard in the corridor.
Bang!
A short voice interrupted Riddle's roar.
Hoffa's eyes widened, and a bad premonition suddenly came to his heart, the voice was all too familiar.
Without thinking, he rushed into the break room.
At the moment, inside the common room.
The picture is too shocking.
He saw the statue of Ronald Ravenclaw fall to the ground.
He saw the bookshelves in the common room burning.
Billowing smoke and firelight licked every corner of the elegant blue room, burning shredded paper flying in the air, and Hofa's ears were filled with a pulsing hum that he could not hear anything but his own breath.
Hoffa shook his head vigorously and forced himself into a meditative state.
His mind cleared and calmed down a bit.
At this moment, in the corner, a hoarse moan was heard.
"Save ...... Destiny ......"
The moaning was actually coming from the girls' dormitory.
Holding his mouth and nose, Hoffa groaned and rushed into the spiral staircase of the girls' dormitory.
A tall figure flashed through the fog, slammed into Hoffa's shoulder, and disappeared directly into the wall.
Where he had disappeared, Hoffa saw a huge gap that had been blown out, and the smoke spiraled out of the house under the pressure.
Huo ...... Law ......"
A moan brought Hoffa back to his senses, and he slowly turned his head to see a bloody palm.
Tom Riddle.
The future Great Demon King, the genius assistant teacher of the Defence Against the Dark Arts class.
With his left hand on his lower abdomen, he sat at the corner of the spiral staircase, clutching his chest, gulping blood.
The billowing flames reflected the pale faces of the two,
Hoffa slowly approached and crouched down to take a look.
Between Tom's fingers, blood kept spilling.
A bullet blasted a large hole in his right rib.