Dark Lord, please let go

Although there are no dementors in the school, the Patronus Charm that does not know Defense Against the Dark Arts is still being studied. Professor Melas seems to have a soft spot for this spell. After three consecutive classes, only a part of the students are still able to make it His wand spewed a cloud of white mist, but he still refused to give up the spell, and revealed to the students before class that the Patronus Charm might appear in the end-of-semester exams.

Draco was one of the students who could release the white mist, but that didn't give him any comfort.He can be sure that the Patronus Charm he released by recalling the memory of riding a broomstick for the first time will never let out a trace of white gas when encountering a real dementor.

He had to admit that the Patronus Charm was one of the spells he was not good at.

Compared with Draco's ability to release a cloud of white mist, Tom's Patronus Charm still hasn't improved, he hasn't even released the white gas, which makes Professor Mellors like to guide Tom even more in class, you know , this is the first time Tom has been stumped by a spell in Defense Against the Dark Arts class so far.

After dinner, Tom took Draco, Kassim and Devlin to Professor Slughorn's office.There is a meeting of the Slug Club tonight. Since the attack, the meeting has not been held for a long time. Professor Slughorn has no time to take care of other things. He goes back and forth between the castle and the greenhouse every day. He is waiting for the Mandrake Ripe and used to make potions.

And now, the Ministry of Magic announced that the dark wizard had left Hogwarts. Regardless of whether the conclusion of the Ministry of Magic was correct or not, at least the attack time did not happen during this period, which was more reassuring than anything else.

Tom and Draco sat on a bench around Professor Slughorn. There were more than a dozen club students in the room. They sat around the professor like the two, chatting and drinking Drinking the drinks the professor prepared for them.

"Professor, is it true what the Ministry of Magic said? About the Dark wizards in Germany?" a Ravenclaw boy asked Professor Slughorn, smiling.

"Oh, I have to say, the Ministry of Magic is not always right sometimes." Slughorn took a sip of the butterbeer in his glass, and twisted his ginger mustache on his lips, "Both the headmaster and the professor think There are no dark wizards in the castle, and although the petrified appearance of the students is similar to black magic, the German saints did not come to England."

Hearing Slughorn's words, the boys all laughed, and their expressions looked much more relaxed. There is nothing more gratifying than this news. Although the danger of being petrified still exists, as long as it is not a dark wizard, it is better than that. Everything needs to be reassuring.

"I heard that you are learning the Patronus Charm recently?" Professor Slughorn glanced at his favorite students present with a smile, and finally stopped his gaze on Tom. "I think Professor Mellors is a bit harsh. The Patronus Charm is a very special spell. Not everyone can use it successfully, especially the Slytherin students. There are very few of them."

When Draco felt Professor Slughorn looking at him, he gave the professor a decent smirk.

"Of course, Draco did a good job. Actually finding the trick to the Patronus Charm is very difficult, but when you succeed the first time, it will become very easy."

After Slughorn finished speaking, the other boys cast admiring glances at Draco, and Draco raised his chin as Tom expected, proud as a peacock.

So much for the topic of the Patronus Charm, and then Professor Slughorn and the boys chatted casually for a while, and it was not until curfew that Tom seized the opportunity to raise his doubts to Slughorn.

"Professor, is Oro quitting Hogwarts?"

Slughorn looked cheerful, pointing his chubby fingers at the armrest of the sofa chair, "How do you know about this Tom? I thought only the professors at the school would know about it. You have to understand that we just told you about Oro It didn't take long for the Ministry to protest."

The boys glanced at each other quickly when they heard Tom's words, they didn't know the news yet.

"I saw that Aurors seldom appear in the castle, and the range of patrols has retreated outside the castle, so I guess they are about to leave the professor." Tom said softly with a gentle smile.

"You are always such a smart Tom, keen observation, very good." Slughorn praised Tom without hesitation, and then told the boys that if nothing happens, Oro will leave Horn in two days. Gwartz.

After getting the exact answer, Tom and Draco knew that the time to go to the secret room could be determined. As long as the basilisk did not attack the students again before Oro left, they could boldly go to the bathroom on the third floor to enter the secret room. By the way Lock up the basilisk, although Draco hoped to get rid of the basilisk, but compared with the basilisk, Draco could only give up this idea in the end, although Tom could control the basilisk with a Parseltongue, But the basilisk was a dangerous magical creature after all, and he didn't want to die just yet.

The party lasted until almost eleven o'clock in the evening, Professor Slughorn clapped his hands, "Okay kids, it's time for you to go, it's almost time for curfew, be careful to be caught by the patrolling professor, today's patrolling The professor is Dumbledore, and I don't think you would want to meet him."

Sure enough, after mentioning Professor Dumbledore, the students who had planned to stay for a while stood up, said goodbye to the professor, and left the office.

Tom took Draco to the end, until the other students had all left, but he suddenly walked towards the professor's office.

"Oh hell, Tom, the Slytherin bedroom is not in that direction." Draco pursed his lips and said in a drawn out tone.

"Of course, I know the direction of the dormitory very well, but I need to talk to the professor about some things, if you go back first..."

"Don't even think about Tom!" Draco directly rejected Tom's proposal. In this sensitive period, he would not let Tom go to see Professor Slughorn alone.

Tom shrugged indifferently, pulled Draco back, and walked into Professor Slughorn's office again.

Slughorn was waving his wand to move the sofa chairs placed around the circle to their original positions, and he only looked up when he heard the door open, "Tom, Draco? Why are you back again? Do you want to be Did Dumbledore punish him for labor service?"

Draco was also puzzled. He didn't understand what was going on with Tom dragging him back, so he set his sights on Tom just like Slughorn.

"Professor, last time you gave me a note from the forbidden|book section, and then I found a very interesting book in the forbidden|book section, but I don't quite understand the contents, so I want to discuss it with you."

Hearing the words Restricted|Book Area, Professor Slughorn knew why Tom had returned at this time, and what he was going to discuss must not be what he wanted others to hear.

"Actually, you can do it after class, and there won't be anyone in the office at that time... But, well, you can ask Tom."

The three sat on the sofa again, and Professor Slughorn refilled a drink for the two of them, but Tom didn't pick up the glass.

"Professor, I saw an interesting description when I was looking for information in the forbidden | book area, so I want to ask you, do you know... Horcruxes?"

Draco's hand holding the cup trembled, almost spilling the drink on his robe, but he managed to stabilize it in time.But his panic didn't attract the attention of the other two people in the room. Professor Slughorn obviously didn't expect his student to ask this question, and was staring at Tom, who was also waiting for Slughorn's answer. answer.

Slughorn glanced at Draco who was sitting next to Tom, and looked away absently, "Oh, this is a very evil thing Tom, at your current age, you shouldn't be exposed to this kind of..."

"No, professor, you misunderstood." Tom still kept smiling, as if he didn't see Slughorn's rejection at all. "Just an academic discussion, you know, I'm always trying to figure out what's not clear."

"Of course, you're always hungry for knowledge." Slughorn's expression softened, as if the conversation between him and Tom had really been an academic discussion.

"Tom, first of all you have to know that the Horcrux is a very evil thing. He splits the soul in some way and injects the soul into a certain object, so that even if your body is destroyed, because you still have a part of the soul , so it still won't die..."

"That's not living at all!" Draco thought about Slughorn's words without thinking, but after seeing Slughorn's surprised expression, he immediately added two words, "...Professor .”

Oh hell, Draco knew how Tom alone could have thought of making a Horcrux, come to think of it, he was a student.But if some professors mentioned it to Tom, and Tom completely misunderstood Horcruxes, that would be a different matter.

At this point Draco wanted to give Tom an Oblivion Curse to make him completely forget everything about Horcruxes.

"You're right Draco, of course that can't be considered alive." When Draco interrupted, Slughorn was not angry at all, but looked at Draco quite approvingly.

"Splitting the soul is harmful. It will make the soul very unstable, making people irritable and even crazy. These are all possible. A soul without a body is worse than a ghost or a wandering soul .And splitting the soul is a very difficult thing, and there are very few people who can succeed."

Slughorn's words didn't dispel some of Tom's thoughts. When Draco saw Tom's expression, he knew that the most difficult thing had happened. Basilisks were harmless compared to Horcruxes. Tom had to be let Forget about crafting Horcruxes.

But Draco was also curious, when did Tom know that there was such a thing as a Horcrux?Obviously he had already burned the page with the Horcrux written on it.

After the two of them came out of Slughorn's office, Draco said slowly to Tom, "When did you know about Horcruxes? I mean, you never told me."

"You didn't tell me Draco—" Tom glanced at Draco, without the usual smile on his face, "—you know about Horcruxes, but you never mentioned it to me."

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ps: Tom knew about Horcruxes in the last chapter, in "Deciphering Advanced Dark Arts".This book contains an introduction to Horcruxes and detailed production methods.

This book was mentioned in the original book, and the Horcrux that let Xiaoha destroy V was mentioned.

ps of ps: I really want to go back this time orz

Because of the problem of saving manuscripts, I have the illusion of "going back soon", but now the manuscripts saved in the 30s are about to be sent out, so this time it is true.

I was wrong_(:з」∠)_