Harry, who was sleeping soundly, was awakened by a sudden severe pain in his brain. The pain, which he thought was just a nightmare, became more severe after waking up, and was accompanied by the pungent smell of blood.
"My head hurts...! Uh-huh...this is...blood?!"
He subconsciously reached out and tried to touch the painful spot on the back of his head, but he never thought of touching the blood on his hand. Moreover, the wound caused even more severe pain due to the touch of his fingers.
Therefore, Harry had no choice but to take back his hand and began to look around at the situation. He found himself in a small, dark room, with an iron chain tied to his left hand, limiting his range of movement to the wall of the room.
.
On the wall opposite him, there was also an iron chain embedded in it, and that iron chain also tied a person. However, the person did not wake up, and because of the angle and light, Harry could not see it.
I don’t know what he looks like.
But soon, he found that the other party seemed to move, and then sat up. Then he made the same movements as himself, and then seemed to be stimulated by the pain.
"Hello? Do you know where you are?"
"???"
"Hello? Can you understand what I'm saying?"
"..."
"Hello~, I'm Harry, Harry Potter"
"I can understand what you are saying, Mr. Potter."
"Oh, okay. Then you..."
"My name is Tom, Tom Riddle. I don't know where this is or why I am here. I was supposed to be..."
It wasn't until the other person stood up and introduced himself that Harry could see the other person's full face clearly. This also allowed the other person to see Harry's appearance clearly and stop what he was saying.
What caught Harry's eyes was a handsome young man with black hair like him. He was slightly taller than himself. His skin was a little pale, but it made him look more delicate.
The most important thing is that the other party is actually wearing a green Slytherin school uniform. It was only then that Harry discovered that he was also wearing a Ravenclaw school uniform.
Obviously, the other party also chose to interrupt the conversation after discovering this. The originally friendly atmosphere almost solidified the moment the two parties saw each other clearly, but they forgot that they were both still tied by an iron chain.
on the wall.
"Expelliarmus!"
Almost at the same time, they both took a step back, then looked wary and tried to take out their wands. Finally, Harry was one step ahead and knocked the wand out of Tom's hand with a disarming spell.
But when Harry tried to reach out his wandless hand to catch the flying wand of Tom, he failed due to the restrictions of the iron chain. However, this did not trouble Harry, because he had learned a skill specifically for opening locks.
Spell.
"Alohomora!"
The immovable lock made Harry once think that he had turned into a Muggle holding a wooden stick. After several attempts failed, Harry waved his finger at the chain that locked Tom and recited the unlocking spell.
But they also encountered failure.
"It seems that the chains that lock us have been counter-cursed to prevent us from using magic to unlock them."
"So what can you do?"
"Of course not. I could have tried several other magics, but now..."
As he spoke, Tom gestured with his eyes to his wand, which was lying at Harry's feet, and then showed a somewhat provocative but helpless smile.
"If I give it back to you, can you find a way to open the chains that lock us?"
"What did you say?"
"If I gave you your wand back, could you find a way to open the chains?"
"Of course... I'm not sure, but I can give it a try. After all, I am the President of the Boy Student Union at Hogwarts."
When Harry heard Tom's introduction, his pupils shrank. Because as far as he knew, the current President of the Student Union was not the Slytherin student who called himself Tom, but his friend Ron's brother Per
West.
But now is obviously not the time to pursue this, but whether you should trust the other person and return the wand to him. What if the other party is just lying to you and attacks you after getting the wand.
While Harry was struggling with whether to believe Tom or not, Dumbledore, who was watching all this through magic in the principal's office, also fell silent.
He glanced at Rolph, who was frantically enjoying his snacks and teasing Fox from time to time as he disliked the sweetness. In the end, he did not speak, but continued to read.
Compared to Harry who faced a difficult test and Dumbledore and others who went to the theater, Peter Pettigrew's experience was completely different. After getting off the cruise ship and getting rid of the damn orange cat, Peter finally got the relief from his hardships.<
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Of course, he has not forgotten the hardship he suffered because of not having a wand on the ship, so he is determined to get himself a wand right away. Whether it is stealing or robbing, he must get a wand.
Then, driven by fate, he met a somewhat confused and forgetful witch: Bertha Jorkins in an inn on the way to find his master.
This poor woman was not very popular when she was a student, and then she was cursed because she discovered the secret of her boss, which caused great damage to her memory.
After her memory was damaged, she was like a rubber ball, being driven from one department to another, but fortunately, the Department of Magical Sports and Sports kept her in the end.
Even so, not many people cared about her existence, so much so that after she disappeared during her vacation in Albania, no one even looked for her whereabouts.
Little did they know that she encountered Peter Pettigrew who escaped from Azkaban, and was brought to Voldemort by him, and Voldemort discovered a valuable secret from her, and finally succeeded in making himself rise again.
The cause of all this, Bertha Jorkins, lived an inconspicuous life and died quietly. Even Rolf, who had read the original work, had almost forgotten her existence.
I just remember that after Peter Pettigrew escaped, he came back with the baby Voldemort and Voldemort's wand, and then killed the warrior Cedric of Hogwarts.
Rove didn't have much impression of this tragedy that happened on the distant European continent, so much so that he even ignored one of the most basic facts: how little Crouch appeared next to Voldemort.
Of course, if he still remembers Bertha's existence, then he will also face a problem that is no simpler than the problem Harry faces at this time: whether to prevent Peter Pettigrew's escape plan.