Time flies, and it is February in a blink of an eye.
After a brief communication on Christmas, Ivan didn't try to contact Tom Riddle again. He thought it was necessary to keep him cold for a while.
The atmosphere in the school has always been tense. Although there have been no more attacks since Justin Fenriely was attacked, and the mandrakes have begun to mature, most of the students are still fighting.
Under the circumstances, Lockhart seemed to think he needed to do something.
At the end of a Defense Against the Dark Arts class, he told everyone, "You don't have to worry at all, the Chamber of Secrets will never be opened. Those criminals must have known, and I will catch them sooner or later, but It's a matter of time. It would be wise to stop now, before I start to deal with them."
There was a burst of discussion from the audience, and most people expressed doubts about his statement.
"What the school needs now is to boost morale and eliminate those bad things in memory! I can't say more now, but I think I have a plan."
By breakfast time on the fourteenth of February, it was known what Lockhart had done to boost morale.
When Ai Wen entered the auditorium early in the morning, he saw that the four walls were covered with big and dazzling pink flowers. To make matters worse, there are also many heart-shaped confetti falling non-stop from the light blue ceiling.
At the teacher's table, Lockhart was wearing bright pink robes to match the ornaments, and the professors sitting across from him were all stern-faced. A muscle in Professor McGonagall's cheek bulged; as for Snape, he looked as if someone had just poured him a large glass of strong drink.
Next, Lockhart announced on his own initiative that he had arranged a small surprise for everyone.
Through the doors leading into the hall strode in a dozen sullen-faced dwarfs, unlike most dwarfs, with golden wings and harps on their backs.
Lohart calls them friendly little Cupids with greeting cards!
He encouraged students to use them to deliver Valentine's Day cards, or ask Snape for advice on how to concoct Ecstasy.
Aiwen didn't know if anyone dared to ask Snape for advice on how to prepare Ecstasy, but these dwarves kept rampaging in the school, sending Valentine's Day cards.
Among them, he received the most greeting cards, nearly two hundred.
This made him listed as the most unpopular person by the teachers. When a dwarf broke into the transformation classroom for the twelfth time, Professor McGonagall drove Ivan and the other party out of the classroom with an ugly face.
The two stared at each other for a long time in the corridor, and the dwarf seemed to remember his mission. This time, he brought Ivan a Valentine's Day gift with singing.
But Ivan was faster than him. He pulled out his wand, and a neat "Lock Tongue Sealing Throat" spell made the whole world quiet.
In order to prevent other dwarves from harassing him again, Ivan walked back to the common room dejectedly, and there was no one in it.
He weakly threw the schoolbag onto the sofa, and Tom Riddle's diary fell out of it.
Ai Wen's eyes flashed, this coincidence is not very happy, he is sure that his schoolbag will not be loose like this.
It seemed that after more than a month of neglect, the other party couldn't wait any longer.
Aiwen opened the diary, and before he could write, an article appeared on it, which perfectly answered the potion class homework he asked last time.
"Riddle, I have already finished and handed in that assignment by myself. Professor Snape gave me a terrible evaluation. My problem now is..." The corners of Ivan's mouth turned up slightly, and he moved himself closer The difficulties encountered in the process of magic research are written.
After about a minute, another answer appeared on the diary.
Riddle gave a perfect answer to the problems Ivan encountered, which gave him a feeling of sudden enlightenment, and several points were even deeper than the understanding of the professors.
In this way, Ivan started the second communication with Tom Riddle.
Every night, when everyone fell asleep, he quietly took out his diary and wrote down the difficulties he encountered in magic research. The difficulty of the problems became more and more difficult, and many of them were no longer ordinary little wizards. should be mastered.
Riddle didn't seem to notice, it was still Ivan who asked what he answered, and sometimes even took the initiative to impart relevant magical knowledge.
In addition to answering questions, Riddle has always wanted to talk to Ivan about things related to the secret room, and also wanted to tell him who was the person who opened the secret room fifty years ago.
But Aiwen changed the subject or closed the diary directly at the most critical moment every time, and Riddle gradually adapted to Aiwen's jumpy communication method. A strange tacit understanding was reached between the two. He often told a story about the secret room first, and then it was time for Ivan to ask questions.
As Voldemort in his youth, Tom Riddle has a very strong reserve of knowledge, as long as he is willing, he can answer almost all the questions raised by Ivan.
From the simplest classroom assignments to the most esoteric magical theories.
For example, the method of recording sound that has troubled Ivan for a long time, Riddle gave him an improved copy spell, which can save a sound on any item, and the saving time is related to the magic power of the caster and the material used.
Thanks to Riddle's help, the overall level of the "Academic Research" section of "Hogwarts Wizardry" is booming. It is no longer full of boring articles such as crucibles and horned snoring beasts, but real magic research. .
After a transfiguration class, Professor McGonagall even expressed to Ivan that she was surprised by the depth of his research on Animagus transfiguration.
In addition, Mr. Gu Fei, the editor-in-chief of the "Daily Prophet" who has been paying attention to this newspaper, also expressed his willingness to reprint some of the research articles. Ai Wen even received invitations from many professional magic academic journals.
Of course, most of these are the results of Tom Riddle's research.
I don’t know if the editors-in-chief of the magazines who asked Ivan to write papers would faint from fright after knowing that the academic articles they published were written by Voldemort.
In just over a month, Aiwen has improved very fast.
He learned a lot of theoretical knowledge from Riddle that would never be taught in the classroom, including even black magic. In fact, the other party seems to have been teaching black magic to Ivan intentionally or unintentionally, and verbally encouraged him to use these magics.
At first, Ivan didn't feel anything unusual.
He simply felt that these magic spells were very powerful, much stronger than normal spells.
After consulting Professor Flitwick, he realized that what Tom Riddle had been teaching him was black magic.
Until that time, Ivan did not realize the seriousness of the problem. He even thought that knowing more about black magic would be very helpful for improving his strength.
After going on for a long time, he finally noticed that something was wrong, the black magic seemed to be negatively affecting his thinking. He gradually became irritable, irritable, and sensitive, and whenever he practiced using these black arts, some cruel thoughts appeared in his head.
Especially during a recent conflict with Malfoy, Ivan took out his wand without even thinking about it, and used a newly learned spell on the other party.
This spell is a bit similar to the "Shen Feng Wu Ying" invented by Snape, but it is more powerful. If Malfoy is hit, it is estimated that Malfoy will be in danger, because Tom Riddle has not taught him to counter the curse.
Fortunately, Aiwen woke up at the last moment and cast the curse into the air aside, so that no one had irreversible consequences.
This incident made him terrified, which was an extremely dangerous signal.
He suddenly understood why Riddle was uncharacteristically teaching himself the magic knowledge. This was one of his methods of demagogy.
Riddle is looking for a loophole in Aiwen's mind. Since Aiwen is wary of him and not interested in the secret room, he uses powerful magic power to lure him to fall. If Aiwen is lost in the power and cannot extricate himself, then Riddle can take the opportunity to control him.
Even if he can't control it as he wants, Aiwen is likely to become an evil dark wizard like Voldemort in the end.
Since then, Ivan has never dared to touch that diary again. Tom Riddle is really terrifying. He can gradually control a person's mind invisibly.
Even someone like Ivan who has been on high alert against him from the very beginning is no exception.