In the silence, apart from Flash's screams, there was only Tom's praise: "Good job."

"Ambulance! I need an ambulance!" Flash yelled, and the friends around him also looked helpless: "Flash, your hand was smashed, so it doesn't affect your walking?"

Peter was still in a daze, looking over and over at his hands, and Tom didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement, so he leaned over to Flash and said, "Shall I call Mommy for you, little Flash?"

Flash was taken to the hospital, and Peter, unfortunately, was asked to stay.He smashed the basketball. Although Tom proved that Flash provoked it first, but Peter caused the injury after all, so he still needs to bear the medical expenses.

Tom was sitting next to Peter. Peter was writing and drawing in his notebook dejectedly. When he turned around and saw Tom, he asked, "Why didn't you leave? get out of class is over long ago."

"I have nowhere to go anyway." Tom shrugged. "An orphanage is not a good place."

Peter opened his mouth, as if he didn't know what to say. In fact, he was also an orphan whose parents died, but fortunately he was entrusted to his uncle and aunt instead of being sent to the orphanage.

"Do you have any friends? Where are they?" After a moment of silence, Peter asked again.

Tom was biting his pen and worrying about the balance of chemical equations, when he heard this, he replied: "No."

"What about school?"

"No." Tom thought for a while, and raised the corner of his mouth at Peter, "Maybe there is one, if you want."

Peter pursed his lips in embarrassment, and nodded again and again: "Of course."

"Peter!" The two children were chatting vigorously when suddenly a sharp female voice pierced the eardrums of the two of them. Tom frowned slightly and looked back at the door of the detention room, stunned for a moment.

Standing in the doorway was a beautiful woman, no longer young, but still in very good shape, now with her hips akimbo menacingly, staring at Peter.

Peter stood up immediately: "...May!"

Tom looked at them with interest. This woman, whom Peter called May, looked nothing like Peter, and seemed to have no blood relationship.

"What happened? You fought with your classmates?" May noticed that Tom had been staring at her, and smiled at him suspiciously.

Peter touched his nose embarrassedly: "May, this is Tom, my classmate, Tom, this is my aunt, May."

Tom looks just like the elders like, and with his cute smile, Aunt Mei has a good impression of him.

Peter was led away by Aunt May with his head drooping, and Tom left the school and went to his orphanage.

He walked slowly along the way, and he didn't like all the orphanages. If he had to go to Central High School, he would rather rent a house outside, but the system had no money, and Tom certainly had no money.

He knew how to make money in the Muggle world, but he had been away from the Muggle world for too long—the time when he went back to the orphanage every summer vacation was almost just staying in the orphanage, or going to the beach, and rarely had contact with Muggles.

So he doesn't know how to work and what kind of work, maybe he can ask Peter.

Peter was a very clever man, and Tom thought that after building a good relationship with him, he would be a loyal follower in the future.

Central High School is a public high school with low fees, and the children in the orphanage can only go to public schools so that they will have government subsidies.Tom walked slowly back to the orphanage, looking around the street to see if there were any recruiting shops. By the time he reached the orphanage, it was past the usual arrival time.

He walked through a front yard where many younger children were playing in the doorway, and all the children—playing blocks, slides, skipping rope—stopped as Tom passed.

All the children looked at him with an undisguised mixture of fear and disgust, and even the younger children couldn't help but take a few steps back to stay away from Tom.

Tom frowned.

He had seldom been looked at like that since going to Hogwarts.He was very popular at Hogwarts, but every time he returned to the orphanage on vacation, the eyes of all the other children and nuns would beat him back to his original form.

They reminded Tom of how dark his childhood had been, that without the shell of the best wizard in Slytherin, he was still the orphan who had been born without parents and loved by no one.

Tom lowered his eyelids, suppressed the emotion in his eyes, went straight into the orphanage, and walked back to his bedroom.

His room was on the third floor, and just as he closed the door of his own bedroom, he heard the silence downstairs slowly being broken, and the children's laughter and noise came up again. Tom frowned and closed his eyes in annoyance. windows.

After a while, someone knocked on the door suddenly. It was Sister Jenny: "Tom, can I come in?"

Before Tom could answer, she walked in the door on her own.The rooms in the orphanage are unlocked, and apparently, the nuns don't respect the children's privacy.

"What's the matter?" Tom asked coldly, frowning and staring at Jenny.

Jenny's expression was a little strange. She sat on a chair, considered her words, and asked, "Thomas told me that his piggy bank was lost, and there were coins in it that he had saved for half a year. Tom, have you seen it?" His piggy bank?"

Tom's expression turned cold.

"Thomas' room is on the second floor, so far away from mine, why do you ask me?"

Jenny hesitated to speak.

Tom sneered: "I think I stole it, don't you?"

"No, I asked all the children—" Jenny was a little flustered, but at this moment, Tom suddenly raised his voice and asked sharply: "Tell the truth! Why are you asking me?"

Jenny's voice stopped stammering immediately: "Because other children told me that you have a gloomy personality and don't associate with other children, and bad things will happen when you get close to you. Once Thomas' piggy bank is lost, they will Immediately felt it was you."

If Voldemort 50 years later would not care about the remarks of these children, Tom Riddle did care when his character was not yet fully formed.

Tom whispered: "I didn't steal it, you can go."

Jenny stood up, left the room with a numb expression, and closed the door.

Tom's expression was gloomy, and he remembered some memories that he had buried deep in his heart.

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"He's a freak, Miss Smith, don't let me live next to him..."

"He steals! Martin's plane is gone!"

"I didn't steal it!" Hearing this accusation, four-year-old Tom couldn't help rushing in from the door, and eagerly explained to the nun, Miss Smith, "I didn't steal anything, and I don't know where his plane went. It's..."

However, as soon as Tom appeared in the room, all the children, even the nun, either backed away with terrified expressions, or looked away unnaturally.

Tom's difference came when he was three years old.At that time, he could not run steadily, no different from other Muggle children, until one day, when he was emotional, all the decorations in the room around him shook.

The nuns showed expressions of astonishment.

After that, strange things happened many times. When I was about to fall, I miraculously floated up by myself; Tom’s room was obviously unlocked, but the nuns often couldn’t open it; in the middle of the night, there were sometimes clanging noises in Tom’s room. sound.

It was the 30s, when people's fear of wizards reached a peak, and Tom's abnormal behavior made everyone in the orphanage afraid of him.

He was too young to know that he was different. He tried to blend in with other children, but found that wherever he went, he would be called a freak and isolated.

At first, the nuns treated him kindly—at least on the surface.Until that time when Tom was accused of stealing the plane, the orphanage did not allow theft. They searched Tom's room and found the toy plane in Tom's drawer.

But Tom never touched it.He just loved that plane and wanted to play with it too, but Martin never let Tom near him.He just stared at the plane for a while that day, but unexpectedly, it really appeared in his drawer.

Tom didn't know at that time that it was a magic that he couldn't control because he was young. After that, the nuns thought that Tom had been stealing since he was a child, and they looked at him even more strangely.

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If the children and the nuns in the London orphanage thought he was different and more suspicious of him because of his previous convictions, what about the orphanage in New York?

Nagini told him that whenever Tom entered a new world, the aborigines he would come into contact with in this world would automatically have memories of him, and so did the people in this orphanage.However, due to the limitations of the system capabilities, the aborigines will not clearly remember the interaction between them and Tom, but will only leave a vague impression of Tom. In their impression, Tom is a weird and withdrawn child .

But now, something went wrong, and he was the first person to be suspected.Doesn't matter which country or world you are in, are you a freak in the eyes of these muggles?

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