pertwk Chapter 254 Black Demon Mark
Chapter 254 Black Demon Mark
When he returned to the dormitory, Crow was reading a book "Fighting Fire with Poison" with his paws on the table.
Tom closed the door without saying a word and sat down at the desk.
"Why is he angry today?" Tom asked bluntly.
The crow glanced at him, its dark red eyes like frosted glass beads.
"The heir to the Malfoy family," Crow began to explain unexpectedly, "previously made a suggestion about changing his image."
"Oh, I still remember how hard the Daily Prophet tried to prove how law-abiding and harmless the returning Dark Lord was." Tom said sarcastically.
Then he was slapped on the head by the crow with its wings.
"Although his pursuit of immortality was temporarily interrupted, now that he has regained his physical body... On the road of pursuit of immortality, the Dark Lord does not mind continuing to enjoy the rights and glory of the mortal world..." Crow As he spoke, he covered the book with his paw and paced back and forth on the table.
"Then?"
"Then he discovered that the 'firewood' came too little, too slowly, and too ineffective."
"It's a long process to reshape one's image," Tom said disapprovingly. "He doesn't think that after more than ten years, those fears and hatred will dissipate on their own, right?"
"Mortals are always forgetful." Crow said, "The problem is that he doesn't want to wait anymore."
The problem isn't that he doesn't want to wait anymore, it's that the aftermath of the resurrection ceremony makes him unable to wait, right?
"So?" Tom unconsciously stroked the magic mist on his hand, remembering the crow reading the Muggle newspaper before, and said, "Today's world is also in a mess, what a good news"...
"He..." Tom lowered his voice unconsciously, "He plans to change to a different kind of 'firewood'?"
"Return to the old taste that everyone is more familiar with," the crow said in a joking tone, but there was no joke on the bird's face covered with feathers. "Now that we are familiar with the way, my friends can operate it more easily." .”
Tom was convinced that Voldemort didn't really see those Death Eaters as "friends".
He let out a breath and leaned back in his chair.
"So all the bad news from the Muggle world is just a taste of what's going on?" he asked.
"After so many years, they are really not very efficient in doing things, are they?" Crow sighed in a dignified manner.
He wanted to do something, but he couldn't do it fast enough...
Tom thought again of Harry's interpretation.
"Then what's going on with that door?" He continued to inquire while the crow was willing to talk.
"Well, I'm sure you don't like that answer," Crow said, "so I'll just say...he's looking for something."
"It doesn't sound like it has anything to do with firewood." Tom said, "What is it? He couldn't have lost a Horcrux, right?"
"Anyway, it can be considered part of the ceremony." Crow said vaguely, "Don't ask about him, boy. You are in Hogwarts anyway, how much does the disturbance outside have to do with you?"
"In other words, you don't want those things to be closely related to you." Crow said meaningfully.
This sounds like a warning. Warn him not to try any tricks to get Voldemort to focus his attention here.
Does it have any secret plan?
"It's better than discovering that these things are closely related to us when things are over, right?" Tom smoothed the crow's hair.
"What you have to do is to stay less connected to him." Crow made it clear, "The closer the connection between you, the more troublesome it will be to separate later... I promised Dumbledore. You have to keep your It's better to keep as little of his business as possible, the more you know, the more trouble you'll have - don't bring trouble to me, boy."
The crow impatiently issued a warning and simply fluttered its wings and flew out of the window.
If he really didn't want him to know, Crow could obviously not tell him in the first place. This ambivalence made Tom's heart sink.
It may have indeed promised something to Dumbledore, but it also secretly exploited some loopholes. So the crow may not want him to maintain any occult "connection" with Voldemort, but at the same time he also wants him to maintain a "connection" with it?
Again, the crow did not object to Voldemort's plan, what it objected to was that it was not the ultimate beneficiary... Tom raised his hand, looked at his fingers, and thought: it might also be planning to change his body.
It doesn't matter... Tom thought silently, letting the magic mist spread wantonly, wandering quietly and thinly around the campus, swallowing up the magic power wandering outside. He is not a real Horcrux. If the crow really crashes in, it will be just another pendant on the robe of knowledge.
The next morning, a flock of owls glided in from the foyer and dropped newspapers directly over the dining room table. Whether it is the Daily Prophet or other niche newspapers and magazines, they almost always use photos with the same background - the only difference is the shooting angle -
A huge, glowing green fluorescent skull with a venomous snake spitting out of its mouth!
The auditorium suddenly burst into flames with exclamations and discussions.
"The Dark Mark!" Ron shouted, accidentally knocking over the cup and causing pumpkin juice to flow everywhere.
He didn't care to clean it up, just craned his neck to read the newspaper in Hermione's hand. "What happened..." Only halfway through the question, his voice became lower and lower - looking closer at the photo, he could quickly identify the street scene below the huge Dark Mark. Corner Alley!
"Merlin's garter socks..." Ron sighed weakly, looking at the dilapidated and familiar shops with black smoke billowing from the photos, "Is the Dark Lord crazy?!"
It's not just him who has this question, many people can't believe it: The Dark Lord was obviously fine a while ago, wasn't he? He and his Death Eaters can't be said to be a safe and stable team, but they can still be said to be law-abiding (the kind who regard the law as the bottom line), so everyone tries their best to support Li Baotao. In order to give the peaceful Dark Lord some positive feedback and encourage him to continue to be peaceful, they even took the initiative to deal with a group of ignorant guys like Dumbledore who "disobeyed the overall situation"! What was the result? How come the Death Eaters raided Diagon Alley without incident?
Someone in the newspaper even called for a self-examination to find out who was provoking the Dark Lord, or even provoking trouble and causing tragedy - the Dark Lord laughed out loud when he saw it.
"He's not crazy," Harry said grimly, "He's just back - when are people going to realize that?"
After a while, Harry said: "I had another dream last night."
"Harry?" Hermione said angrily, "Didn't you watch Advanced Mathematics last night?"
"I dreamed that I was walking in a windowless corridor again," Harry said in a low voice without answering Hermione's words. "The footsteps echoed in the silence. The door at the end of the corridor was getting closer and closer, and my heart was beating fast. Quickly...if you can push it away...and walk in..."
Tom asked eagerly: "What's behind the door?"
"I don't know." Harry spread his hands, "Then I woke up. You said...did he fail to find what he was looking for? That's why he got angry and attacked Diagon Alley?"
"That thing is hidden in Diagon Alley?" Ron was deep in thought. "The thing he wants to find shouldn't be something safe and harmless. It should be in Knockturn Alley."
"He is the leader of the dark wizards! If he wants something, do the dark wizards in Knockturn Alley dare not give it to him?" Harry retorted.
In the end, they never discussed what the Dark Lord was looking for, and where it would be more reasonable to hide it. But at least Harry and Ron agreed that the Dark Lord didn't get what he wanted - otherwise Harry would have felt the Dark Lord's ecstasy.
The Dark Lord didn't necessarily get what he wanted. Tom silently thought that at least his "firewood" must have gained something.