When Harry bent down and picked up Riddle's diary from the ground, Tom Riddle, who was hiding in the diary, immediately noticed that something was wrong.
After all, Gilderoy Lockhart had never touched a Horcrux with his bare hands, and that feeling was very different from someone writing in a diary with a quill.
Given Gilderoy Lockhart's level of caution, Tom didn't think that guy would be careless enough to let someone take the diary from him.
Could this be another trap that guy set for himself
It's no wonder that Tom had such an illusion. Last time, Lockhart deliberately pretended to be Ginny Weasley to tease him. God knows what new tricks he will play this time
right!
This must be another new conspiracy prepared by that bastard!
Those who don't know the truth might think Tom is suffering from paranoia.
Harry, who was holding the diary, had no idea that so many strange thoughts had just appeared in the diary in his hand. He was trying to wipe the water stains on the diary with a rag.
After noticing that Ron beside him seemed to be hesitant to speak, Harry finally couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing?" Ron finally said nothing.
"If you really have something to say, just say it, don't keep it in your heart!"
After Harry wiped the water off the notebook, he slowly tore open the damp pages, only to find that the diary was completely blank, without any trace of writing.
After hesitating for a long time, Ron finally couldn't help but remind him: "Harry, you know, in the wizarding world, some books are very dangerous."
"You mean this diary is dangerous?" Harry looked up at Ron and smiled comfortingly, "You should have seen by now that this diary is not dangerous at all."
"No, it's your actions that are dangerous." Ron looked at the blank diary and recalled, "My dad once told me that there was an unlucky Muggle who accidentally bought a book that had leaked out from the wizarding world. As a result, when he was flipping through the book, his eyes were burned by the book."
Harry raised his eyebrows slightly, obviously not believing this.
"There is another thing that is well-known in the wizarding world. Anyone who has read the Wizard's Sonnet will only be able to speak in limericks for the rest of his life. And..."
"Okay, I get it," Harry interrupted with a smile, "I'll pay attention next time, but how can I tell which books might be dangerous?"
As he spoke, Harry found the only page in the book with writing on it, on the first page of the diary, and the handwriting had become blurred.
"Tom Riddle."
Harry read it out quietly. Ron, who was about to get up and leave, stopped and frowned deeply after hearing the name.
"Do you know this person?" Harry noticed Ron's strangeness and couldn't help asking.
"know."
Ron leaned his head over, looked at the only place with writing in the diary and said, "Tom Riddle won an award for special contribution to the school fifty years ago."
"How did you know?" Harry was curious about how Ron knew the news.
"Remember the last time I was in detention with Filch? He asked me to clean up the items in the trophy room," Ron said angrily after recalling the incident. "That day, I burped and got a slug on it. It took me a while to clean it up. If you have a similar experience, you will remember his name."
"Tom didn't write a single word. That's unusual." Harry ignored Ron's complaints and said to himself, "You should have noticed that the diary hasn't been torn. When you buy a diary, you usually write something in it."
"That's not normal. Maybe this was a Christmas present that Riddle received, and he happened to not like it, so he threw it aside and didn't use it."
"If Riddle didn't care, the diary wouldn't have survived fifty years later. This isn't parchment." Harry felt that things were not that simple. "Besides, Riddle must be a Muggle wizard."
"Why do you say that?"
Ron felt that he could no longer keep up with Harry's train of thought.
"Only Muggle wizards would buy diaries on Muggle streets." Harry turned to the back cover of the diary and showed Ron the words Vauxhall Road, London, printed on it.
Ron had to admit that what Harry said made sense. Wizards usually didn't go shopping on Muggle streets. In fact, his father still didn't understand the Muggle monetary system, let alone other wizards.
"There's one more thing that I'm concerned about." Harry seemed to be possessed by Hermione at this moment, muttering to himself, "Why would someone want to throw it away? This is very unusual, isn't it? I always feel that there is some secret hidden in this diary."
When Hermione returned from the library, Harry showed her Tom Riddle's diary and told her how he had found it.
"Your suspicion is correct. This diary may contain some secrets." Hermione took the diary, looked at the date carefully and said, "Don't you think it's a coincidence that a diary from fifty years ago suddenly appeared?"
"What do you mean by coincidence?" Ron's face was full of confusion and bewilderment. "Do you still expect this diary to contain the secret to open the Chamber of Secrets?"
"I remember you told me that Malfoy said the Chamber of Secrets was opened fifty years ago." Hermione ignored Ron's words and continued her analysis. "Tom Riddle won the Hogwarts Special Contribution Award at that time. Don't you think this is a coincidence?"
"What special contribution award?"
"It should be said that it is an award for special contribution to the school." Ron explained: "I remember Albert also won such an award. It seems that he won this award because he saved Fred and George."
Harry was confused and obviously didn't understand what Ron said.
"It seems that in the first grade, Fred and George entered the Forbidden Forest and ran into trouble. In the end, it was Albert who discovered that they were missing and broke into the Forbidden Forest alone in the middle of the night to bring them out."
"Do you think Riddle will be awarded for catching the heir of Slytherin?" Hermione reached into her bag and pulled out a bright red eraser. "This is a reappearing eraser. I got it in Diagon Alley."
Hermione noticed that Harry and Ron were looking at her, so she explained, "You should know that if someone writes a diary and doesn't want others to know what's inside, they usually use invisible ink or invisibility magic to hide the writing on it."
After saying that, Hermione rubbed hard on the page, but nothing appeared.
Undeterred, Hermione drew her wand and tapped the diary three times, saying, "Show yourself!"
Still no response.
"It seems that this diary cannot tell us everything it knows." Ron felt that Harry and Hermione were wasting their time. It was just an ordinary diary.