Chapter 64: Tom Riddle's Melancholy

Tom Riddle has found out that his luck has been bad since he came back this time.

From Ginny's description, Tom Riddle is very curious about Harry Potter. How did a baby, without any particularly magical spells, defeat the greatest wizard of all time? How could he escape unharmed, leaving only a scar and Voldemort's power destroyed?

So Tom Riddle planned to take the basilisk out to farm Harry Potter in an attempt to find the secret that he was able to defeat Voldemort as a baby, but it didn't go well.

Last year, when Tom Riddle first controlled Ginny to enter the Chamber of Secrets, he didn't expect that a large number of magic traps would be laid in the corridors that had been open all the way fifty years ago. Without noticing, Tom Riddle, who had touched the trap, was blown up all over his body. Since he controlled Ginny's body, the feeling of hurt in Ginny's body was fed back into his soul at the same time. Tom Riddle, who was blown to death, was afraid that Ginny's body would be left in front of the secret room and fall into this dark underground with his Horcrux, so he tried his best to escape from the secret room.

After Ginny's injuries were healed, Tom Riddle controlled Ginny for the second time and saw the one-eyed basilisk when he entered the secret room.

Thinking of the magic trap outside the door of the chamber, Tom Riddle thinks that someone has discovered the secrets of the chamber in the past 50 years, arranged it and entered it, leaving no trace except for destroying one of the basilisk's eyes, and may have been eaten by the basilisk in the end.

The little girl controlled by Tom Riddle is not strong in vitality and magic to cure the basilisk's eyes. So the first few times I could only go out with a basilisk with one eye.

The first time he took the basilisk out of the Chamber of Secrets was when Tom Riddle decided to ambush Harry Potter on his way back to the common room after Ginny wrote in her diary that Harry Potter and his two classmates were going to attend a ghost death party on Halloween Eve.

When Tom Riddle and the basilisk have just left the bathroom, they leave a secret room warning on the wall, intending to lure Harry Potter and them to the bathroom door, then rush out of the bathroom and knock him down before tying him up to the secret room. As a result, a cat was petrified and hung on the other side of the hallway. Harry Potter and the others only stayed in front of the cat, not in front of the bathroom door, and then the students appeared after the dinner. Tom Riddle, who missed the opportunity, could only let the basilisk go back first.

Later, Tom Riddle learns from Ginny that Harry Potter is injured and lives alone in the school infirmary, so he decides to strike again.

This time, I met a student with a camera and grapes on the way, and this student was petrified when trying to take a picture of the basilisk with the camera. And at this moment there was the sound of Dumbledore's footsteps on the stairs, and Tom Riddle would not mistake this sound. Tom Riddle, who did not dare to clash with Dumbledore, retreated again.

Before Christmas, the defeated Tom Riddle hatched another plan for a sneak attack, only to have a man and a ghost break in before Harry Potter could enter the ambush. Just when Tom Riddle is determined to continue the ambush plan, Peeves appears and finds the victim lying on the ground.

After Christmas, Tom Riddle, whose luck is getting worse and worse, finds himself in the middle of a diary that is picked up by a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor named Gilderoy Lockhart.

It took months for Tom Riddle to finally grasp the psychological loophole of his new prey and trick him into opening his soul. Tom Riddle devours the deepest fears, the deepest secrets of his new prey. Gilderoy Lockhart is stronger than Ginny in every way, and Tom Riddle is stronger than before.

Gaining power, Tom Riddle controlled Gilderoy Lockhart to travel frequently back and forth to the Chamber of Secrets, and finally healed the basilisk's other eye.

At this time, Tom Riddle learned that after Dumbledore went abroad temporarily, he thought that he had a great advantage, so he decided to take Basilisk A over, and while Harry Potter was having breakfast in the cafeteria, he directly entered the cafeteria to capture Harry Potter, and then hid back in the secret room to find out the secret of Harry Potter. Once he had figured out the secret of Harry Potter, Tom Riddle decided that even Dumbledore would not be able to stop him.

As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will win all battles, knowing oneself and not knowing one's opponent, playing GG.

Tom Riddle thought that Hogwarts now was the same as it was fifty years ago, and that the appearance of the Chamber of Secrets would be overwhelming for students and professors. As soon as the basilisk came out, the professors shivered, and the students fled in all directions. Without Dumbledore's obstruction, he could have taken Harry Potter away by simply killing him in front of him.

Tom Riddle can't be blamed for this, after all, Hogwarts has changed more in the past two years than at any other time.

The only thing Ginny wrote in her diary was the sweet love story with Harry Potter.

Gilderoy Lockhart wrote in his diary only about his own abduction and fear of being discovered.

Neither of them mentioned anything in their journals about the various efforts of the Hogwarts students to deal with the basilisk.

So, Tom Riddle's final attack this time was the first step to pounce.

Tom Riddle had barely walked out of the girls' bathroom with the basilisk when a rooster crow echoed throughout the hallways, followed by a rooster crow throughout Hogwarts Castle.

The basilisk writhed on the ground in agony as he heard the rooster crow, and Tom Riddle heard someone directing the students to evacuate.

Tom Riddle, knowing that he had been exposed, decided to take a gamble, knowing that if he missed this opportunity, it would never be again.

Tom Riddle can only destroy the horn that makes the rooster crow, and kill the cafeteria with the basilisk.

Just as Tom Riddle walked to the foyer on the first floor, the annoying rooster crows along the way had stopped, and the tortured basilisk was getting a respite.

However, at this time, an unexpected person from Tom Riddle appeared.

Peeves suddenly flew out from behind, and smashed the two packets of white powder he was holding into the basilisk's eyes.

Tom Riddle only had time to clean the powder from the basilisk's right eye, and the basilisk's left freshly healed eye was bleeding black blood again.

At this moment, Peeves was glared at by the basilisk's right eye, and then turned into a black, smoky appearance.

After pacifying the basilisk, Tom Riddle was just about to make the basilisk rush to the cafeteria when a huge rooster crow sounded in the foyer.

Just as Tom Riddle raised his wand to destroy the loudspeaker disguised as a wall decoration in the foyer, five students with strange masks shouted "For Slytherin glory" and rushed out of the cafeteria and threw several black objects at him.

Just as the black objects landed on the ground around Tom Riddle, they suddenly exploded with a "bang".

Tom Riddle suddenly felt as if he had been hit by a running Hagrid, and then he found that he could no longer control Gilderoy Lockhart's body, and his whole body felt as if he had been petrified.

Lying on the ground, Tom Riddle saw that two of the five strangely masked students who had just rushed out had fallen, and two of the remaining three students had rushed up to the small room where the freshmen had stayed before the sorting ceremony, shouting "They're just petrified!" as they ran. Another student pointed his wand in Tom Riddle's direction and shouted, "Gilderoy Lockhart is flying!" ”