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Chapter 586: First Contact with Senior Tom

Zhou Ming had been preparing for this day for a long time.

During this period of time, he has been strengthening his spells, mainly learning more protective spells. Of course, the main purpose of doing this is for Hermione. If it was just him, then he wouldn't care at all, because Voldemort's soul could not really hurt him.

The Room of Requirement has many different rooms, which will change according to the needs of the user. This time Zhou Ming chose the training room used by the DA in the original book.

It was Hermione's first time here. After entering the room, everything she saw was new to her and she was curious about everything.

"What a magical room, Zhou, how did you find this place?"

Hermione asked curiously.

It was hard for her to imagine how someone who had no idea of ​​the existence of this room could find this magical place.

"Just see where the magic power is flowing."

Zhou Ming answered casually.

"..."

Hermione didn't know what to say for a moment and could only look at him speechlessly.

Zhou Ming smiled.

"Magic is everywhere. You need to develop your ability to observe."

He explained.

In the world of Harry Potter, magic is a magical power. It is similar to light waves, omnipresent but difficult to detect with the naked eye. Wizards and magical creatures can use or even create this power because of their own specificity, but it does not appear in the human body out of thin air. It exists in all things in the world.

The reason why powerful wizards can make the spells they release last for many years without dissipating is that they have mobilized a large amount of magic power between heaven and earth. They can even make their spells automatically interact with the outside world to ensure that they can obtain energy continuously.

It was perfectly normal for Zhou Ming to see the flow of magic power, but for ordinary wizards, this kind of behavior was almost like a fairy tale.

Another person Zhou Ming clearly knew could observe magic was Dumbledore.

He has performed similar actions more than once in the original book, including but not limited to directly observing the magic strength of others with his naked eyes, being able to see through the invisibility cloak, and various actions when searching for Horcruxes. Another person who may have this ability is Moody, who has a magic eye. Although we don't know what the specific functions of that eye are, he should have the ability to check magic.

It can be seen that it is difficult for ordinary wizards to do this.

Hermione had never even heard of such a statement before, so she found it incredible.

"Okay, we're ready, come over here."

Zhou Ming suddenly spoke.

Hermione and Cynthia's attention was immediately drawn to it.

At this moment, Zhou Ming was sitting in the center of the room, surrounded by candles that surrounded him and the Horcrux in circles.

"Be careful not to knock over the candles. These candles are the key to suppressing Voldemort."

he reminded.

Hermione, who was about to take a step, was startled and quickly slowed down her pace and movements, fearing that she would accidentally blow out or knock over the candle.

Cynthia was very calm. She just walked in. Wherever she passed, there was not even a trace of wind, and the candle flame did not change at all.

It's a pity that Hermione didn't notice this scene, otherwise she would have been surprised several times.

The two men came to Zhou Ming and looked at him in unison.

Zhou Ming nodded, took out his wand, raised it above his head and flicked it gently.

"Flame blockade."

He chanted the spell softly.

The next second, the flames of hundreds of candles around them all rose up in unison, as if a gust of wind was blowing towards the three people. All the flames fell towards the center, and then these flames connected to each other one by one, eventually forming a dozen horizontal thin fire lines, connecting to the innermost circle of candles around the Horcrux.

Immediately afterwards, the flames of the candles in the innermost circle also fell sideways, but they did not continue to extend inward, but instead formed a circle horizontally.

The Horcrux is located in the exact center of the circle.

If viewed from above, the flames of these candles formed a huge sun-shaped pattern, enveloping the Horcrux.

After doing this, Zhou Ming put down his wand and lightly tapped the Ravenclaw crown.

The next second, black smoke suddenly emerged from the Horcrux, rising into the sky and forming a human figure in mid-air.

The figure looked to be in his twenties or thirties, with fair skin, wearing a gorgeous wizard robe, slightly curly black hair, and very delicate facial features.

He closed his eyes and seemed to be still asleep, but at this moment one could clearly see his eyeballs moving under his eyelids, and it was obvious that he was waking up.

Hermione suddenly became nervous, drew out her wand, and stared at the figure opposite her.

Zhou Ming patted her arm, signaling her to relax. Although Voldemort was indeed terrifying, he did not feel that Voldemort posed any direct threat in this situation, not to mention that it was just a remnant soul.

Soon, the young version of Voldemort slowly opened his eyes.

His eyes were very deep. It had to be said that Tom could charm many girls just by his looks, temperament and eyes. No wonder Helena, who had turned into a ghost, was still fooled by him.

"who are you?"

When Tom first saw Zhou Ming and the other two, his consciousness was still a little fuzzy. He asked while looking around.

Soon, he realized where he was and quickly confirmed the identities of the three people opposite him.

"Hello, Senior Voldemort. The three of us are all students at Hogwarts. It's our first meeting. You are even more handsome than I thought."

Zhou Ming held the magic wand and said with a chuckle.

"The Required Item... Ravenclaw, and two Gryffindors... I never expected that you would be the ones to wake me up. And it seems that you already know my identity?"

"Of course, there are not many people in the world who know how to make and are willing to make something as evil as a Horcrux. I can guess that you are the most likely person to do it."

"very smart."

Tom nodded. He didn't seem nervous at all about having his identity exposed.

"So why did you wake me up? To hand me over to Dumbledore? Now that you know my identity, aren't you afraid at all?"

"Of course I am a little scared, but I believe that you are someone I can communicate with, Senior Tom. So before you show enough danger, I am willing to talk to you for a few more words."

"But she doesn't look like she thinks so." Tom looked at Hermione.

This action made Hermione even more nervous. She subconsciously wanted to take a step back, but Cynthia held her back.

"It's normal for her to be nervous. I'm the abnormal one. Okay, let's stop chatting. Senior Tom, we woke you up for a simple reason. You are the most dangerous and powerful dark wizard in the world. You have created a terrifying era by yourself. I think you must have many secrets and knowledge that is not taught in school. I hope to obtain this knowledge."

Zhou Ming took a step forward, came in front of Tom, looked directly into his eyes and said.

"Haha, I do have a lot of knowledge, but why should I teach you?"

Tom smiled and moved his wrists casually, looking harmless.

"This requires you and I to discuss. I think we should be able to find some common ground to deepen our communication."

"That's a good point, but I'm not interested in communicating with you, kid. You're not qualified yet."

Tom suddenly laughed, and a large cloud of black mist suddenly rose from his body, hiding his figure in it. Tom's cold voice was heard from the black mist.

"I am very grateful to you for waking me up. As a thank you, please use your life and theirs to help me revive!"

The black smoke suddenly rolled up, like a vicious beast, opening its bloody mouth and pouncing towards Zhou Ming and the other two.

Hermione let out a scream.

But Zhou Ming was not afraid at all. He shook his wand lightly.

"Don't worry, I will make you willing to communicate with me."

As a spell was cast, the surrounding flames suddenly surged, and the sun-patterned flames released strong light, blocking all the black flames that had already rushed in front of Zhou Ming. Not only that, the flames burned the black flames and actually forced the black smoke back, restoring it to Tom's appearance.

Then the flames swirled up Tom's body, carving red lines on his body with flames flowing in the lines. Tom let out a shrill scream.

"What kind of spell is this? What have you done to me!?"

He struggled to get away from the flames, but unfortunately the flames seemed to have grown on his body, like maggots on his tarsus, and he could not get rid of them no matter what.

"This is just a small precaution. I know that you, Senior Tom, are dangerous and dishonest. In order to make you calm down and communicate with me, I can only use this method. Please don't mind. I am also forced to do this."

Zhou Ming said cheerfully.

Tom opened his eyes and gave him a vicious look.

"Okay, take back your little tricks. I'm willing to communicate with you!"

This kind of pain in the soul is no less than the experience when making the Horcrux. What's even worse is that when making the Horcrux, the soul was torn apart, and the pain was over after a moment. Unlike now, the pain has been going on and there is no sign of stopping.

Tom is a smart man. He knows he can't get rid of this situation, so he has to choose to give in.

"Wouldn't it be better if we did this earlier? Today we are just saying hello, Senior Tom. We still have time to communicate with each other."

Zhou Ming smiled slightly, tapped his wand, and all the flames disappeared without a trace. The black smoke also quickly moved into the interior of the Horcrux.

In fact, Tom should not have shown his complete human form now. He is currently just a Horcrux, just a remnant soul in the Horcrux. He is not like the diary that later swallowed a lot of Ginny's vitality. He can only restore his basic form by using Ginny's vitality.

The current Tom actually borrowed Zhou Ming's magic power to temporarily reshape his body, but this is just a rootless duckweed. As long as Zhou Ming takes back the magic power, Tom will have to go back into the Horcrux without even any spell.

The reason why Zhou Ming still cast the spell was mainly to make Tom remember it, and also to tell Hermione - look, with me here, Voldemort can't do anything.

As all the black smoke returned to the Horcrux, the surrounding flames also returned to their original state.

Zhou Ming waved his hand and all the candles were extinguished. Except for the faint smell of burning candles in the air, there was no sign that a super villain like Voldemort had ever appeared here.

Hermione was still in a daze until Zhou Ming turned around.

He glanced at Cynthia, who smiled and raised her hand, creating a little light at her fingertips, then waved it gently in front of Hermione.

Hermione quickly came back to her senses and her heartbeat calmed down.

"Just now, that was really..."

"Voldemort, also known as Tom Riddle, is his original name."

"Did you really lock him up?"

"As you can see."

Zhou Ming spread his hands and said with a smile.

Hermione bit her lip.

"The gap between you and me is getting bigger and bigger... I don't understand these spells of yours at all, and I have never seen them before..."

"I modified them myself by combining other spells. Don't worry, as long as you study hard, you will be able to do it in the future. Now we should talk about business, Hermione, do you think we can continue to contact Voldemort? You see, he can't pose any threat to me."

If it was the complete form of Voldemort, he might still pose a slight threat to Zhou Ming at this stage.

The premise is that Zhou Ming does not lift the seal and continues to maintain the current state.

"I think...I think we can have some more contact."

Hermione thought about it, and finally nodded slightly, not objecting to Zhou Ming's plan.

There are two reasons for this.

The first level was naturally because Zhou Ming had indeed locked up Voldemort's remaining soul again, and judging from the way he looked before being locked up, he was obviously in great pain. This showed that Zhou Ming's spell was effective, which made Hermione feel a lot more relieved.

The second level was because she felt that the gap between her and Zhou Ming was getting bigger and bigger. As a top student since childhood, she was not unable to accept the reality that she was lagging behind others, but the gap was so big and it was still widening, which made her a little incomprehensible.

After all, Zhou Ming doesn't look like a child born in a wizard family. It is obvious that Zhou Ming, like her, is a wizard who came from an ordinary family.

He has neither powerful bloodline nor magic-related preschool education or family education. Why is he so strong?
Hermione was not convinced, so she longed to become stronger. Voldemort was a good opportunity, as it could help her learn a lot of knowledge that she didn't have in school.

Finally, there is one more point that Hermione herself doesn't know, which is that she is an adventurous person, otherwise she would not have been sorted into Gryffindor.

Hearing Hermione's words, Zhou Ming smiled happily.

"Okay, then we'll do as we agreed before and come to contact Voldemort twice a week. This time is just a greeting, and next time we'll have formal contact with him."

At the same time, it is also a warning to the other party, otherwise Senior Tom will not be so easy to talk to.

(End of this chapter)