Hogwarts Melon Eater

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Frank Bruce vaguely heard the words “common old man”, he turned his head and glanced at Harry and Ron.

His eyes are very bright, and the old face looks a bit contrary to him. Frank’s beard is not shaved clean, and there is a scar that is not too long on his left cheek. His lips are very thin, making it difficult to look at his face. get along.

Ron and Harry opened Frank’s eyes more, only Anna fixed Frank’s eyes.

Can face determine a person? Obviously not, Frank Bruce is a good guy, but he was not lucky. He became the man behind the young Voldemort and lived in Little Hangleton under the charge of murder. He lives in the small wood house behind Riddle’s house and it’s raining. At that time, I stayed in the wood house and rubbed my aching feet to read.

Frank’s life is very monotonous, but sometimes there are new things, thanks to the boys who come to the garden to make trouble-they provide Frank with one of the few opportunities to communicate with people besides going to the convenience store to buy things. .

Sometimes the boys would bring some gifts, rotten eggs or sharp stones. They smirked and knocked down the fence, or broke into the old house of Riddle’s house, and then rode the bicycle tip when Frank came to drive them. Calling to slap around and leave, and sometimes politely greeted Frank, “The murderer is here! How is the murderer today?”

Frank doesn’t necessarily like these children so much. He waved his cane and moved towards them yelling, driving them away again and again, but the boys’ troublesome things were not all bad things, they made Frank feel that he was still there, instead of drifting. The solitary soul, unbound ghost around the old house.

Why didn’t Frank leave Little Hangleton? Many people have asked this question, and Frank himself has asked himself, standing in the garden with his cane, looking at the ruined Riddle villa in front of him.

Guilt, Frank stayed here because of guilt. Although he was not the murderer of the Riddle Family, of course, Frank’s stubbornness is also part of the reason. Also, he has no other relatives and has lived here for several decades. Treated as home.

This villa used to be very beautiful, it is the most beautiful house in Little Hangleton, but now, the roof tiles are incomplete, boston ivy densely packed, almost covering the whole house, the maid used to wipe the windows three times a day, now the upper side is full It is dust, or stoned by a child who has been troublesome.

Riddle’s villa is old, and Frank is also old, but he always remembers that afternoon when the young man limped to Little Hangleton, the place where his mother grew up, and wanted to come after the war. Look, he had been rejected by countless jobs at that time, because no one would want to hire a semi-disabled young man to work.

Frank was wandering around in Little Hangleton, and many people noticed him, watching him covered in dust, and someone kindly greeted him to come for a drink, he happily accepted, “Little Hangleton people are really enthusiastic”, Frank is so Thinking, until he unconsciously drank unconsciously, holding the goblet and yelling out——

“You don’t know, I have been on the battlefield… I have killed people…” This sentence frightened the people around, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and finally the bar boss threw the drunk Frank at The alley next to pub.

In the sky full of stars, Frank woke up dizzyly. The first thing he saw was this. He thought he was dreaming. Then, he stretched out a hand. It was a pampered young who looked rich. Master, Frank emptied his eyes, grabbed his hand, and struggled to stand up.

“Thanks,” he saw the handsome black-haired man smiling, “Little Young Master, I am not a lady in need,” Frank frowned. “Don’t admit the wrong person.” [19459002 ]

The black-haired man smiled happily, “Of course, of course, Mr. Frank Bruce, I heard your name in the bar, an excellent soldier.”

“It’s not anymore, sir,” Frank looked at the black-haired man’s dress, the refined brown suit, the expensive-looking leather shoes, and the silver watch on his wrist. Frank noticed when he extended the hand just now. Arrived, “So what’s the matter with you?”

“Then I’ll just say it straight, I hope you can be the bodyguard of Riddle’s Villa,” the black-haired man patted Frank on the shoulder, “Mr. Frank, I heard that you killed someone?” Without waiting for Frank to answer, he answered I said to myself, “Awesome! This is exactly what I need-a fierce person!”

Frank picked up the package that was thrown out on the side and pointed to his leg, “I am very grateful for your kindness, but my leg really does not allow me to take on such a bodyguard job. Good night, sir.” [19459002 ]

The black-haired man was a little anxious. He took Frank’s arm and was reflexively opened by Frank, “Wow, wow, calm down, Mr. Frank!” The man waved his hand to indicate that he was not malicious, and he looked all around. , And then lowered his voice like a thief, “I really need a bodyguard, sir, you don’t need to do anything, you just need to stay at my house!”

Frank did not speak, but his eyes let the black-haired man know that he needed to tell the reason, “I am ashamed, I met a beautiful lady a few days ago, this is just an ordinary game, but not ordinary The thing is, after a glass of strong wine, I found out after everything happened—she actually has seven big brothers!”

“Seven!” The black-haired man widened his eyes, “That lady forced me to get married, or she would tell her seven big brothers to beat me!”

“You should get married, sir, this is the best way to avoid bad things,” Frank sighed.

But the black-haired man shook the head, “Mr. Frank, I’m still too young, and I can enjoy it for a while-marriage is the grave, and married is the person who stepped into the grave with half one foot, oh, also There is a child! A child is the Imp cub that Satan sends to torture you, spend your money, and make you half-dead–”

“If you don’t get married, there won’t be these bad things,” the black-haired man said as it should be by rights, but Frank didn’t agree with this sentence. The veteran had always longed for a happy family, but conditions didn’t allow it.

He stared at the black-haired man, “Look, the world is so unfair. The lucky ones with the conditions never know to cherish it. ’

“So you will agree? Mr. Frank, uh, you can live in the wood house behind the villa. If you don’t have a place to live, you’d better start working today,” the black-haired man walked to the alley to look I looked a little nervous, “I saw the woman’s three big brothers just now in the bar, God, full of muscles, one punch, I am gone, and I can’t enjoy the Huahua world anymore!” [19459002 ]

“Okay, sir, I agree,” Frank was silent for a while, and then ordered nodded. He has nowhere to go. Now it is his luck to find such an easy job.

He looked at the very happy black-haired man, “I really killed someone, sir.”

“Yes, I know, I just like you,” the black-haired man nodded with satisfaction, “has been on the battlefield, killed people, and carried a machine gun! Listen, how deterrent it is, that The big brothers of women… never dare to come here!”

“I don’t have a machine gun, sir, only one pistol at most,” Frank laughed helplessly, “Aren’t you afraid of me?”

“Why should you be afraid? Will you kill me?”

“No,” Frank shook his head.

“Then you are an ordinary person,” the black-haired man smiled again, “Oh, I almost forgot to tell you my name,” he extended the hand politely, “Tom Riddle, yes, the most ordinary That Tom, but I think other Toms may not be richer than me.”

“Frank. Bruce,” Frank took old Tom’s hand, and from then on, began his Little Hangleton life.

Frank has no other relatives. He regards the old Tom as his brother and friend. Sometimes when he cleans the garden, he thinks of putting a swing in a corner, so that Tom’s child can have a good time. ——If he decides to get married and have children.

Frank noticed that old Tom often sits in the garden in a daze, shaking his head from time to time. The maid at home secretly told Frank that the old Tom eloped with a wild woman years ago, and then suddenly ran back one day and fell. At the entrance of the villa, I fell asleep for two days.

“After Young Master woke up, he thought it was the spring of 1925. He also asked Mary in our town if he had written back to him-my God, it frightened us at that time, because it was 1926. Years! Mary has been married a long time ago, and the child is almost there!”

When the maid talked about it, she made a tsk tsk voice, “Riddle Master specially invited some psychologist from Great Hangleton. The old man babbled and said that Young Master had selectively forgotten some things. Good memory,” the maid nodded, “Indeed, I can imagine what kind of torture it was. Why can’t Young Master elope with that woman? It’s really…”

“That woman?” Frank moved the bench and sat down.

“Yeah, that woman, look pale, with messy hair, I always feel her eyes have problems, always moved towards both sides, you know, it’s kind of scary…”

The maid tried to imitate, but failed. She twitched his lips, “I don’t know what the woman’s name is, oh, maybe it’s Mero Pu, or Melissa. I don’t know what Young Master thinks of her. Now, maybe she’s a witch, and fascinated Young Master with witchcraft, I kind of want to ask her for advice…”

The more the maid talked, the more outrageous he was. Frank didn’t care too much about the woman she mentioned. He was more willing to believe that the old Tom was kidnapped and escaped by himself instead of the bizarre love story that the maid said.

“Young Master is slowly recovering, he is now the same playboy before, but sometimes sitting there shaking his head, as if trying to think of the starting point,” the maid laughed heartily, “maybe thinking about yesterday The name of the pretty girl I met in the bar, or wondering if I forgot which girl to reply to?”

Old Tom was extremely insecure. Frank quickly discovered this. He was very concerned about the novel things that happened in the town, such as whose family had a frog with three eyes, whose broom was flying in the sky, whose girl was The baby can talk when he is born… These make old Tom very nervous.

In fact, the three-eyed frog only has a tumor on the side of the eye. The broomstick is a mischievous child hung on the eaves. As for the talking girl, who will not say “Wow” when she is born?

After living in Little Hangleton for a while, Frank discovered that there was no girl in the town with seven big brothers. He felt that he understood that the old Tom was guarding against other dangers, perhaps the person who had kidnapped him. This made Frank determined to fulfill his duties as a bodyguard and not stay in the garden as a gardener forever.

The quiet days lasted until 1943. In that ordinary summer, Frank woke up in the middle of the night. He turned over and got out of bed and walked to the edge of the wooden table to pour water for himself. His eyes were fascinated by the window. In a blur, Frank saw a teenage child standing outside the garden fence.

Black hair, pale skin, and the moonlight on him made the boy look a little unreal.’He looks angry.’ Frank drank the water. He didn’t wake up yet. He thought he was still dreaming. , Mumbled in his mouth “He really looks like Tom,” and then turned to sleep back on the bed.

In the morning, Frank got up as usual, washed, and then heard a knock on the door, opened the door in doubt, and was then controlled by the police.

“Go ahead, Frank Bruce, was it the one you killed?”

The light hit Frank’s face, his eyes were emptied, and he felt like he was dreaming again.