Chapter 475 Voldemort: Sorry, Dumbledore, I Won't Choose You This Time

With doubts, Tom Riddle walked to the reception room.

What appeared in front of him was the Dumbledore he had seen in the fragments of his sleep in the latter half of the night.

The other person is tall, with strands of metallic gray hair and beard hanging down quietly. Behind the dirty lenses is a pair of bright, sharp eyes.

"They said you were in solitary confinement. It seems I came at the right time."

Dumbledore looked at him with a smile, "Otherwise, kid, you will be locked up for a few more days. This is a bit too harsh for a child under seven years old. I will definitely report it to Dean Cole."

"I don't think it's going to be helpful to raise your concerns with a woman who stole government funds to buy gin."

Tom Riddle recovered from the shock, took a deep breath and replied to the other party.

He didn't expect that he would actually see Dumbledore in reality.

It seems that the dream I had in the second half of the night also has a certain degree of authenticity.

Could it be that the other party really came to ask me whether to join Hogwarts, just like in the dream?

He was thinking wildly when Dumbledore smiled and said to him: "I heard about your strange behavior in the orphanage. As the principal of Hogwarts, Tom, I hope to invite you to enroll."

"Hogwarts?"

Tom Riddle frowned slightly.

"Yes, it's a great wizarding school."

Dumbledore stood up, walked to the window and looked at the roses outside.

"Magic exists in our world. Magic in the narrow sense. Wizards can demonstrate extraordinary means through their own magic. Magic in the broad sense, on the basis of magic in the narrow sense, also includes magical knowledge such as potions, spells, and transformations, and The related connotations of all magical creatures and magical creations.”

Tom Riddle listened to Dumbledore's explanation and asked him: "Are you the principal of the magic school and have mastered all magic?"

"The connotation of magic is broad and profound. Even a legendary wizard like Nico Mele can only make achievements in a certain field at most."

Dumbledore shook his head and said

Tom Riddle nodded, stood up and wanted to speak, but accidentally dropped the glass on the table to the ground.

"Wow"!

Broken glass shards flew everywhere.

Dumbledore turned around, saw the broken glass on the ground, and took out his magic wand.

"Clean up!"

"Restored to the original condition!"

As he waved his wand, he chanted two spells

Under Tom Riddle's shocked eyes, while Dumbledore was chanting the spell, the glass appeared intact on the table.

The water stains on the ground also disappeared, and the entire ground became as tidy as new.

"And the wand is the magic tool used by wizards."

After demonstrating the secret of wand casting, he explained to the stunned Tom: "The relationship between wizards, magic and wands can be summed up in one sentence: wizards use wands to cast magic."

"Mr. Ollivander, the wand master, often said, 'The wizard chooses the wand, and the wand chooses the wizard.' This makes sense, because first of all, wands have their own special casting directions depending on their materials."

He walked up to Tom and said to him: "Every wand is unique." Each wand has its casting direction and specific qualities. Tom, if you become a wizard, you will also have one. A wand of your own. "

"Would you like to join Hogwarts, Tom?"

Dumbledore looked into his eyes, waiting quietly for an answer.

According to the rules of Hogwarts, Tom Riddle is not yet old enough to enter school.

But because he was interested in the other person's qualifications, Dumbledore came to see him in advance and wanted to find a home for him.

Wait until Tom Riddle is eleven years old before taking him to school.

Now after showing the other party the secrets of magic, Dumbledore believed that Tom Riddle would be willing to follow him.

"I"

After a while, Tom Riddle raised his head and looked at him with stern eyes, "Sorry, I refuse."

Dumbledore: "?!"

He was stunned for a moment, not expecting that the child in front of him would reject him.

Is the other party not interested in magic? !

Or, what happened in the middle?

"Sorry, Headmaster Dumbledore, I have a magic teacher and I am willing to follow him."

Tom Riddle said to the principal whose face was frozen.

Which wizard is one step ahead of me?

"Is it the wizard I know?"

Dumbledore put away his wand and asked Tom curiously.

"I can't say his name, but he should be a great wizard. I have never seen him use a wand to control dreams at will, and he...he understands me."

Tom Riddle took a deep breath and said to Dumbledore: "The important thing is that we made an agreement and I can't break my promise."

The most important reason he didn't say was that compared to Dumbledore in front of him, he felt that Peter made him feel more close and affectionate.

He felt that he had known Mr. Peter before or in the future.

Listening to Tom Riddle's words, Dumbledore began to guess the identity of the other party.

Release magic without a wand and control dreams at will

African wizards are better at casting spells without a wand, but their magic requires complicated dances or gestures to cast, takes a long time to cast, and is less powerful.

Who is this magician who can impress Tom? !

Dumbledore's brow furrowed.

He didn't expect that a mysterious man would jump out halfway and intercept the student he was promising.

Padrick Farm.

Peter was in the room holding the sandbag, feeling the position of the grain of sand he had given to Tom.

But no matter how he positioned himself, he could not feel the trace of the grain of sand.

Sighing, he put away the sandbag.

It seems that the world that Tom Riddle lives in is not a simple matter for him to locate now.

If you want to see him, you can only see him in a dream.

Could it really be him, the sixth "father-worried person"?

It is not an easy thing for him to change the original fate of this father-stricken man.

Holding the sandbag, Peter looked towards the bright spring light outside the window.

I remember that Dumbledore once said that only love can influence him.

All he means is "Love is greater than its own magic."

(Tom Riddle once said this with a mocking and skeptical tone)

Tom Riddle's character from Peter's perspective is not complicated.

It’s not that he’s not bad, it’s just that all his actions follow linear logic.

If you don't like being bullied, use magic to tease your peers in the orphanage. If you don't like Muggles, you'll start by attacking the Muggles inside and stir up trouble for the Muggle Prime Minister. If you want to recruit subordinates, use force instead of real organization and belief control.

Tom has been tortured and insulted enough for his talent.

Therefore, in the later period, he only knew how to destroy but could not really build. This is a path that humans who lack love in childhood can easily take.

But at the same time, Hogwarts also gave him the illusion of warmth, and professors and classmates were kind to him. Otherwise, the target of his revenge would not be simply the so-called "alien". Until the end, he would still say "any drop of it" The blood of wizards is precious."

It shows that his subconscious identity is the same as that of the wizard.

If you want this naughty child to avoid becoming evil, you need to expand the scope of your identity.

As for Dumbledore's education, Peter believed that the other party was not entirely correct.

There is something about Tom Riddle that is too much like Dumbledore and Grindelwald in the past.

The more anxious Dumbledore was to reverse this pattern, the more he reinforced this view to himself.

At first it was forced by magic, and then it was always guarded against suspicion.

And Tom has actually been looking for an orthodox identity in the wizarding world. If he can't get it from Dumbledore, he will explore in a deeper direction.

He may have thought that only a great magician like Dumbledore could understand him, so he was very wanton in front of Dumbledore, but always pretended to be well-behaved in front of others.

It wasn't until he was rejected for the last time in Dumbledore's office that he probably gave up completely.

Of course, this kind of truth is not something Dumbledore can understand because he cannot overcome his own psychological barrier.

This is also an irreversible tragedy in a sense.

Peter thought for a while and walked downstairs.

If the "father-sad person" is really Tom this time, the baby is getting older and older.

Peter also had doubts about the origin of "the one who grieves his father".

Azu, Star-Lord and Loki were sent to their own world, but their peers still existed in the original world.

It looks like the system uses the quantum shuttle tunnel in the Marvel world to go back to the past of Azu's world, and then sends the babies from the past here.

In this way, although the past has been changed, it is only the past world line that creates a new multidimensional world. The original black robe world and Marvel world will not change much. Azu and Loki and their peers will always exist. Will disappear as the past baby self is taken away.

He even had some doubts as to whether his son or daughter was responsible for this system.

One of my naughty children went back in time and gave him sons or daughters of different ages.

If it was your son or daughter who did it, who would it be?

Peter was lost in thought.

At breakfast.

Loki was working on the toast when he looked up and saw Peter's eyes fixed on him.

"What's the problem? Dad."

Loki asked feeling strange.

"No, Loki, do you still have the Time Stone in your hand?"

Peter asked him quietly.

"Yes."

"Do you want to go back in time and give me something?"

Peter asked tentatively.

"Well, I don't, dad. You know, the time stone only works in the Marvel world. Even if I want to go back to the past, I can't do it here."

Loki said that the time stone is just a beautiful stone to him.

"Really? Do you want to be the God of Stories?"