I'm a wizard with a proof from Hogwarts
Chapter 256 Tom Riddle and the Goblet of Fire (7)"
Looking at the students and teachers who are united in front of them.
Old Tom, who was shooting the life-killing spell, suddenly had a strange idea in his mind.
if....
'No!No if!He is Voldemort!The future king of magic!This time I am here to help these guys just for the sake of the little girl, and I am only helping the little girl for the magic of eternal life!All for himself! '
'I don't need any partners, they will only be a burden to me! '
Old Tom suddenly shouted to the sky, which frightened the students around him and looked at him in panic, thinking that he had been tricked.
However, he merely put down the wand in his hand.
He strode to Dumbledore and Hermione, looked at Hermione and asked, "Hey, little girl. - You keep your word, right? - The magic of immortality..."
Hermione nodded, and in order to reply, Old Tom looked at Dumbledore again and said, "I will be back after this battle is over, Dumbledore."
"Get ready for the return of the Dark Lord!"
After saying that, a large amount of dark green black mist began to overflow from all over his body. Old Tom raised his right hand, and a dark green transparent sword appeared out of thin air in his hand.
Swinging the sword horizontally, Old Tom said to Rudy: "The curse of ruin is everlasting and cannot be broken!"
The next second, the black mist wrapped around him was like an explosion. It exploded and surged, dragging him into the air in the blink of an eye, covering a small half of the sky.The huge black mist turned into a black dragon, hovering around him and roaring at Rudy.
Old Tom pointed the big sword in his hand at Rudy, and the Dragon of Black Mist quickly pounced out like a runaway horse.
He followed closely with a big sword in hand. Taking advantage of the black mist dragon to entangle Rudy, he slashed out with his sword and struck the scales on Rudy's waist.He thought he would conquer the city first and was about to continue, but found that the sword just left only a shallow scratch on his scales!
And in the blink of an eye, it was filled with magic power and repaired automatically!
He did not believe in evil and slashed the Blade of the Broken King in his hand again. The glowing sword kept slashing at Rudy's chest and arms, but nothing was left except the fire.
Hermione below knew that such an attack alone could not hurt Rudy, who was possessed by dragon scales, so she clenched the holy sword in her hand and shouted to Dumbledore beside her: "Professor Dumbledore, please!"
Dumbledore nodded seriously, then looked at the other principals around him and said, "Everyone..."
All the principals nodded in agreement and said: "Don't worry, since we are all here, of course we will help to the end!"
Hermione looked at them gratefully, and out of the corner of her eye she saw Harry, Ron, and her younger self in the crowd.
She squeezed into the crowd and came to the front of the trio. When she came to her, she looked at Hermione with messy long hair and smiled: "She is still so sloppy. Girls don't know how to dress up."
Hermione stared blankly at the girl in front of her who had at least [-]% of the same facial features as hers, and said blankly: "So, you are...me?"
Hermione shook her head, nodded and smiled at her: "In a sense, it is true. - I am you in the future, and you are me in the past. - But your future is not necessarily me now. .——Your life has just begun, and every decision you make in the future will change the rest of your life."
Hermione was confused, but she probably understood what the other person meant and nodded.
Hermione touched her long, disheveled hair happily, leaned in and whispered: "Harry's shampoo can't last long, so you need to improve it. - Just add a little bit of the Whomping Willow to it. Just powder.”
Hermione asked in surprise: "Really!? - Rudy also tried to improve it before, but the effect was not very good."
Hermione nodded with a smile and explained: "This is the latest result after his one thousand and eleventh attempt."
Just as the two were whispering, Old Tom's voice suddenly came - "Little girl, have you finished talking! I can't stand it anymore!"
In mid-air, Rudy pressed the sword with a fist with one hand, forcing Old Tom, who was holding the sword with both hands, to the ground. The black dragon that turned into black mist was unable to break free as his other hand grabbed the dragon's head.
Seeing Old Tom half-bent on the ground, Hermione turned around and rushed out with the holy sword. The magic power she had just recovered a little rushed to summon the Immortal Killing Sword Formation that had just been forced to stop, blocking Rudy's movements. , to relieve the pressure for Old Tom.
Looking at the ferocious-looking Rudy, Hermione couldn't help but blame herself for poor planning and such a change in her haste.
In this moment, Rudy also used the surging magic power outside his body to sway away the flying swords that were piercing around him.
Old Tom looked at the girl holding the holy sword beside him and was speechless for a moment.He could see that the girl was at the end of her strength, and even the hand holding the sword was trembling. This was obviously a sign that her magic power was about to be exhausted.
The flying swords wrapped around Rudy's body were even more powerless. They could only barely act as a source of harassment. If they really wanted to exert their power, it was completely insufficient.
What if it fails again this time?
Old Tom asked himself in his heart, should he go?
Seeing that this time the hope is still slim, but there is still some hope.Tom didn't know why he suddenly recalled the days when he and Hermione were in London.
At that time, they were studying ways to perfectly integrate souls, and both of them came across new ideas, so they exchanged their opinions.During this period, Old Tom asked - 'Miss, do you have any thoughts on pure-blood and Muggle-born wizards? '
Hermione asked him if he was talking about the same tactics he followed when he was Voldemort?
Old Tom nodded sheepishly, and Hermione thought for a while and told him, "It turns out I think you are quite boring. This blood theory is completely meaningless."
"But, think about it now. - These are your own ideas. It is wrong to impose it on others. Similarly, I feel bad. It is also wrong to force you to change your mind."
"So, I'm not interested in your ideas, and I'm not qualified to judge."
"When you are alive, you must live for yourself. - Just like me, I know that traveling through time and space will cause chaos and imbalance in time and space, but I still do it."
"Thinking about it now, there was nothing wrong in itself when you chose to abandon Tom Riddle's identity and become Voldemort for the sake of strength and power. - I think there is no problem except that the methods and actions are too bloody and inappropriate. "
At that time, these words almost made Old Tom cry. He never expected to hear these words from the mouth of Hermione from the order camp.It was from then on that he began to change his attitude towards Hermione.
Looking back, Old Tom looked at Hermione who was raising her sword to show off her strength, and frowned at Rudy who was about to escape from the Immortal Killing Sword Formation.
Now he has four souls in one, and there are still three soul fragments in his hand that have not been fused. If he continues to risk fusion, his current strength will be doubled.However, on the contrary, every subsequent fusion of soul fragments will be a huge risk.
Just as his thoughts were wandering, Hermione suddenly called him: "Hey, Old Tom."
"Speaking of which, it's really troublesome to force you to work for me for so long during this period."
Old Tom was about to speak, but Hermione raised her hand and interrupted him: "Let me finish."
"Actually, I have no clue or hope as to whether I can successfully recall all the fragments and re-fuse them after obtaining the soul fragments."
"Ultimately, these are just my assumptions about traveling back in time and hoping to reverse time and space and change the future."
"These days have been difficult for you, delaying your resurrection plan for so long."
As he spoke, he took off the dimmed Philosopher's Stone from his neck, handed it to Old Tom with reluctance, and said, "Do you still remember what I promised you? - eternal life."
"Actually, I'm bragging. I can't make you immortal. - However, this Philosopher's Stone still contains the power of time and space from two of the Infinity Stones. I have consumed a lot of it after traveling through time many times. Strength. - But even this little bit left now is enough to keep you alive for another 500 years."
"If I give it to you, it doesn't count as breaking my promise, right?"
"Go ahead and ask Professor Dumbledore and the others to leave too."
After speaking, he took a deep breath and walked towards Rudy who had broken free from the sword formation.
Old Tom stared blankly at the blue-green gem that was stuffed into his palm, held it tightly, and made a certain determination in his heart.
He suddenly appeared behind Hermione and shouted, "Miss."
Hermione looked back at him without knowing why, only to find that the other party had used the black mist to control her body unknowingly!
Old Tom walked up to Hermione step by step, hung the Philosopher's Stone around her neck again, touched her head and said with what he thought was the gentlest smile: "Don't just show off your power, listen. If I’ve ignored you for so long, it’s time for you to listen to me, right?”
"As the saying goes, everything depends on human effort. - Since you couldn't save him in the past, then go back and find a way. - Look at me, after so many years of life and death, which time has it not been a lot of hardships? - You are still young, and there are many things Opportunities, don’t give up easily.”
"Otherwise, even a villain like me will look down on you."
Hermione looked at the man in front of her with a confused expression. If she hadn't known that this guy had changed his body after being resurrected, she would have thought that she had roped in the wrong person when forming a team!
"What...are you talking about..." Before Hermione could ask, Old Tom sighed and continued: "Although you will definitely not listen to me. - But, let's just listen this time. .”
He reached out and took out a glass bottle from his arms. There were three smoke-like haloes floating inside, which were the three remaining unfused soul fragments of his.
"Leave this kid to me, you can go back in peace..." As he said that, Old Tom crushed the glass bottle.
"Wait, stop! You're like this..." Hermione watched with wide eyes as he absorbed the three haloes into his body. She wanted to stop him, but it was too late.
The process of making a Horcrux is very cruel, not only to the victim, but also to the caster himself.
Because the caster needs to sever his soul, which is different from his body. No matter how tough he is, he will never be able to withstand the pain of the soul being slit.What's more, the original Voldemort split six times in total. (Harry's time doesn't count. Even if he didn't know it, everyone else was gone after that time, let alone in pain)
Nowadays, if the divided souls are forcibly fused together, even if they are two halves of the same soul, they will feel uncomfortable.Not to mention, each of them now has varying degrees of self-awareness.
When the princes are divided into kings, how many people will be willing to hand over their thrones again and be willing to be subjects after gaining rights and freedom?
For the same reason, this is also the reason why Old Tom did not fuse the soul fragments immediately after he retrieved the soul fragments from the Horcrux.
Not to mention the strong rejection reaction, the inhumanly severe pain caused by soul fusion, even if it is not as strong as when the souls are separated, is not something that ordinary people can endure.
Not to mention that he has now swallowed three of them at once. The three of them are fighting with each other and with its body at the same time. It is like cutting out the bones while sprinkling salt and pepper water. The severe pain and pleasure are directly filling the body, and it is super doubled. .
Looking at Old Tom, his face was covered in sweat almost instantly. Hermione wanted to ask him to stop, but it was too late.
Old Tom lifted off the cloak on his body, and the powerful magic power generated by the fusion of souls began to gradually return to the body.
He screamed crazily, with both pain and joy in his voice.
That was the power he had lost for a long time, and it was back doubled!
As Rudy knocked the last blade of the Immortal Killing Sword Array into the ground, the magic power Hermione poured into the swords was completely exhausted. They could only be stuck on the ground and swayed, unable to get up again.
After dealing with the flies, Rudy turned around and continued to deal with the group of ants that had just attacked him.
But I saw a strange guy suddenly appeared in front of me.
Moreover, the almost visible magic power fluctuations permeating his body made him alert.
The old Tom, who was holding back the severe pain, knew that he might not be able to hold on for long, and he would die from the severe pain like the previous mouse.Although I was prepared to die in battle,...
"Boy, after being beaten by you so many times, it's my turn, right?"
Old Tom felt uncomfortable as he recalled the various restraints and abuses performed by Rudy before.
With a move from his right hand, the broken King's Blade, which was more solid than countless times before and filled with black mist, appeared in his hand.
Perhaps feeling his determination to plunge into the darkness, the Ruined Curse was more excited and irritable than ever before.
Rudy was like a provocative beast. After roaring angrily, he flapped his wings and rushed towards Old Tom.
The two sides exchanged swords and fists in close quarters, and started fighting fiercely again.With such powerful force, every collision will produce air explosions and shock waves splashing around.
The professors had to put up shields to protect the students. The students even exclaimed, "That's too strong. Who is this? Is he also a professor?"...
Dumbledore and the other eight principals, who had long been ready and waiting for the opportunity, were waiting anxiously aside, waiting for Hermione's signal at any time.Only Dumbledore looked at Tom Riddle who was fighting with Rudy with mixed emotions.
Because the other party's appearance had changed due to resurrection, and no one would have thought that the evil and dark Voldemort would fight for justice, the principals and professors present did not connect him with Voldemort at all.
Only Dumbledore looked at the figure fighting Rudy with joy in his eyes, as if he saw the child he brought back from the orphanage who loved and was obsessed with magic.
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[The plot requires that the author has no choice but to whitewash Voldemort without conscience. Of course, his role in the entire work is about to be completed]
【Please give me a reward...】
Old Tom, who was shooting the life-killing spell, suddenly had a strange idea in his mind.
if....
'No!No if!He is Voldemort!The future king of magic!This time I am here to help these guys just for the sake of the little girl, and I am only helping the little girl for the magic of eternal life!All for himself! '
'I don't need any partners, they will only be a burden to me! '
Old Tom suddenly shouted to the sky, which frightened the students around him and looked at him in panic, thinking that he had been tricked.
However, he merely put down the wand in his hand.
He strode to Dumbledore and Hermione, looked at Hermione and asked, "Hey, little girl. - You keep your word, right? - The magic of immortality..."
Hermione nodded, and in order to reply, Old Tom looked at Dumbledore again and said, "I will be back after this battle is over, Dumbledore."
"Get ready for the return of the Dark Lord!"
After saying that, a large amount of dark green black mist began to overflow from all over his body. Old Tom raised his right hand, and a dark green transparent sword appeared out of thin air in his hand.
Swinging the sword horizontally, Old Tom said to Rudy: "The curse of ruin is everlasting and cannot be broken!"
The next second, the black mist wrapped around him was like an explosion. It exploded and surged, dragging him into the air in the blink of an eye, covering a small half of the sky.The huge black mist turned into a black dragon, hovering around him and roaring at Rudy.
Old Tom pointed the big sword in his hand at Rudy, and the Dragon of Black Mist quickly pounced out like a runaway horse.
He followed closely with a big sword in hand. Taking advantage of the black mist dragon to entangle Rudy, he slashed out with his sword and struck the scales on Rudy's waist.He thought he would conquer the city first and was about to continue, but found that the sword just left only a shallow scratch on his scales!
And in the blink of an eye, it was filled with magic power and repaired automatically!
He did not believe in evil and slashed the Blade of the Broken King in his hand again. The glowing sword kept slashing at Rudy's chest and arms, but nothing was left except the fire.
Hermione below knew that such an attack alone could not hurt Rudy, who was possessed by dragon scales, so she clenched the holy sword in her hand and shouted to Dumbledore beside her: "Professor Dumbledore, please!"
Dumbledore nodded seriously, then looked at the other principals around him and said, "Everyone..."
All the principals nodded in agreement and said: "Don't worry, since we are all here, of course we will help to the end!"
Hermione looked at them gratefully, and out of the corner of her eye she saw Harry, Ron, and her younger self in the crowd.
She squeezed into the crowd and came to the front of the trio. When she came to her, she looked at Hermione with messy long hair and smiled: "She is still so sloppy. Girls don't know how to dress up."
Hermione stared blankly at the girl in front of her who had at least [-]% of the same facial features as hers, and said blankly: "So, you are...me?"
Hermione shook her head, nodded and smiled at her: "In a sense, it is true. - I am you in the future, and you are me in the past. - But your future is not necessarily me now. .——Your life has just begun, and every decision you make in the future will change the rest of your life."
Hermione was confused, but she probably understood what the other person meant and nodded.
Hermione touched her long, disheveled hair happily, leaned in and whispered: "Harry's shampoo can't last long, so you need to improve it. - Just add a little bit of the Whomping Willow to it. Just powder.”
Hermione asked in surprise: "Really!? - Rudy also tried to improve it before, but the effect was not very good."
Hermione nodded with a smile and explained: "This is the latest result after his one thousand and eleventh attempt."
Just as the two were whispering, Old Tom's voice suddenly came - "Little girl, have you finished talking! I can't stand it anymore!"
In mid-air, Rudy pressed the sword with a fist with one hand, forcing Old Tom, who was holding the sword with both hands, to the ground. The black dragon that turned into black mist was unable to break free as his other hand grabbed the dragon's head.
Seeing Old Tom half-bent on the ground, Hermione turned around and rushed out with the holy sword. The magic power she had just recovered a little rushed to summon the Immortal Killing Sword Formation that had just been forced to stop, blocking Rudy's movements. , to relieve the pressure for Old Tom.
Looking at the ferocious-looking Rudy, Hermione couldn't help but blame herself for poor planning and such a change in her haste.
In this moment, Rudy also used the surging magic power outside his body to sway away the flying swords that were piercing around him.
Old Tom looked at the girl holding the holy sword beside him and was speechless for a moment.He could see that the girl was at the end of her strength, and even the hand holding the sword was trembling. This was obviously a sign that her magic power was about to be exhausted.
The flying swords wrapped around Rudy's body were even more powerless. They could only barely act as a source of harassment. If they really wanted to exert their power, it was completely insufficient.
What if it fails again this time?
Old Tom asked himself in his heart, should he go?
Seeing that this time the hope is still slim, but there is still some hope.Tom didn't know why he suddenly recalled the days when he and Hermione were in London.
At that time, they were studying ways to perfectly integrate souls, and both of them came across new ideas, so they exchanged their opinions.During this period, Old Tom asked - 'Miss, do you have any thoughts on pure-blood and Muggle-born wizards? '
Hermione asked him if he was talking about the same tactics he followed when he was Voldemort?
Old Tom nodded sheepishly, and Hermione thought for a while and told him, "It turns out I think you are quite boring. This blood theory is completely meaningless."
"But, think about it now. - These are your own ideas. It is wrong to impose it on others. Similarly, I feel bad. It is also wrong to force you to change your mind."
"So, I'm not interested in your ideas, and I'm not qualified to judge."
"When you are alive, you must live for yourself. - Just like me, I know that traveling through time and space will cause chaos and imbalance in time and space, but I still do it."
"Thinking about it now, there was nothing wrong in itself when you chose to abandon Tom Riddle's identity and become Voldemort for the sake of strength and power. - I think there is no problem except that the methods and actions are too bloody and inappropriate. "
At that time, these words almost made Old Tom cry. He never expected to hear these words from the mouth of Hermione from the order camp.It was from then on that he began to change his attitude towards Hermione.
Looking back, Old Tom looked at Hermione who was raising her sword to show off her strength, and frowned at Rudy who was about to escape from the Immortal Killing Sword Formation.
Now he has four souls in one, and there are still three soul fragments in his hand that have not been fused. If he continues to risk fusion, his current strength will be doubled.However, on the contrary, every subsequent fusion of soul fragments will be a huge risk.
Just as his thoughts were wandering, Hermione suddenly called him: "Hey, Old Tom."
"Speaking of which, it's really troublesome to force you to work for me for so long during this period."
Old Tom was about to speak, but Hermione raised her hand and interrupted him: "Let me finish."
"Actually, I have no clue or hope as to whether I can successfully recall all the fragments and re-fuse them after obtaining the soul fragments."
"Ultimately, these are just my assumptions about traveling back in time and hoping to reverse time and space and change the future."
"These days have been difficult for you, delaying your resurrection plan for so long."
As he spoke, he took off the dimmed Philosopher's Stone from his neck, handed it to Old Tom with reluctance, and said, "Do you still remember what I promised you? - eternal life."
"Actually, I'm bragging. I can't make you immortal. - However, this Philosopher's Stone still contains the power of time and space from two of the Infinity Stones. I have consumed a lot of it after traveling through time many times. Strength. - But even this little bit left now is enough to keep you alive for another 500 years."
"If I give it to you, it doesn't count as breaking my promise, right?"
"Go ahead and ask Professor Dumbledore and the others to leave too."
After speaking, he took a deep breath and walked towards Rudy who had broken free from the sword formation.
Old Tom stared blankly at the blue-green gem that was stuffed into his palm, held it tightly, and made a certain determination in his heart.
He suddenly appeared behind Hermione and shouted, "Miss."
Hermione looked back at him without knowing why, only to find that the other party had used the black mist to control her body unknowingly!
Old Tom walked up to Hermione step by step, hung the Philosopher's Stone around her neck again, touched her head and said with what he thought was the gentlest smile: "Don't just show off your power, listen. If I’ve ignored you for so long, it’s time for you to listen to me, right?”
"As the saying goes, everything depends on human effort. - Since you couldn't save him in the past, then go back and find a way. - Look at me, after so many years of life and death, which time has it not been a lot of hardships? - You are still young, and there are many things Opportunities, don’t give up easily.”
"Otherwise, even a villain like me will look down on you."
Hermione looked at the man in front of her with a confused expression. If she hadn't known that this guy had changed his body after being resurrected, she would have thought that she had roped in the wrong person when forming a team!
"What...are you talking about..." Before Hermione could ask, Old Tom sighed and continued: "Although you will definitely not listen to me. - But, let's just listen this time. .”
He reached out and took out a glass bottle from his arms. There were three smoke-like haloes floating inside, which were the three remaining unfused soul fragments of his.
"Leave this kid to me, you can go back in peace..." As he said that, Old Tom crushed the glass bottle.
"Wait, stop! You're like this..." Hermione watched with wide eyes as he absorbed the three haloes into his body. She wanted to stop him, but it was too late.
The process of making a Horcrux is very cruel, not only to the victim, but also to the caster himself.
Because the caster needs to sever his soul, which is different from his body. No matter how tough he is, he will never be able to withstand the pain of the soul being slit.What's more, the original Voldemort split six times in total. (Harry's time doesn't count. Even if he didn't know it, everyone else was gone after that time, let alone in pain)
Nowadays, if the divided souls are forcibly fused together, even if they are two halves of the same soul, they will feel uncomfortable.Not to mention, each of them now has varying degrees of self-awareness.
When the princes are divided into kings, how many people will be willing to hand over their thrones again and be willing to be subjects after gaining rights and freedom?
For the same reason, this is also the reason why Old Tom did not fuse the soul fragments immediately after he retrieved the soul fragments from the Horcrux.
Not to mention the strong rejection reaction, the inhumanly severe pain caused by soul fusion, even if it is not as strong as when the souls are separated, is not something that ordinary people can endure.
Not to mention that he has now swallowed three of them at once. The three of them are fighting with each other and with its body at the same time. It is like cutting out the bones while sprinkling salt and pepper water. The severe pain and pleasure are directly filling the body, and it is super doubled. .
Looking at Old Tom, his face was covered in sweat almost instantly. Hermione wanted to ask him to stop, but it was too late.
Old Tom lifted off the cloak on his body, and the powerful magic power generated by the fusion of souls began to gradually return to the body.
He screamed crazily, with both pain and joy in his voice.
That was the power he had lost for a long time, and it was back doubled!
As Rudy knocked the last blade of the Immortal Killing Sword Array into the ground, the magic power Hermione poured into the swords was completely exhausted. They could only be stuck on the ground and swayed, unable to get up again.
After dealing with the flies, Rudy turned around and continued to deal with the group of ants that had just attacked him.
But I saw a strange guy suddenly appeared in front of me.
Moreover, the almost visible magic power fluctuations permeating his body made him alert.
The old Tom, who was holding back the severe pain, knew that he might not be able to hold on for long, and he would die from the severe pain like the previous mouse.Although I was prepared to die in battle,...
"Boy, after being beaten by you so many times, it's my turn, right?"
Old Tom felt uncomfortable as he recalled the various restraints and abuses performed by Rudy before.
With a move from his right hand, the broken King's Blade, which was more solid than countless times before and filled with black mist, appeared in his hand.
Perhaps feeling his determination to plunge into the darkness, the Ruined Curse was more excited and irritable than ever before.
Rudy was like a provocative beast. After roaring angrily, he flapped his wings and rushed towards Old Tom.
The two sides exchanged swords and fists in close quarters, and started fighting fiercely again.With such powerful force, every collision will produce air explosions and shock waves splashing around.
The professors had to put up shields to protect the students. The students even exclaimed, "That's too strong. Who is this? Is he also a professor?"...
Dumbledore and the other eight principals, who had long been ready and waiting for the opportunity, were waiting anxiously aside, waiting for Hermione's signal at any time.Only Dumbledore looked at Tom Riddle who was fighting with Rudy with mixed emotions.
Because the other party's appearance had changed due to resurrection, and no one would have thought that the evil and dark Voldemort would fight for justice, the principals and professors present did not connect him with Voldemort at all.
Only Dumbledore looked at the figure fighting Rudy with joy in his eyes, as if he saw the child he brought back from the orphanage who loved and was obsessed with magic.
...
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[The plot requires that the author has no choice but to whitewash Voldemort without conscience. Of course, his role in the entire work is about to be completed]
【Please give me a reward...】
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