"Ding--"

[Witness the Flourish and Blotts Bookstore incident, witness point +0.5]

"Is this okay?" Brian blinked and held his chin thoughtfully.

Seeing Mr. Malfoy leave, he blended into the crowd and took advantage of the chaos to get the textbook from Ginny's cauldron.

Opening the worn pages, he took out the black-covered notebook inside, and then threw the textbook back.

He saw Harry staring at him with emerald green eyes, his expression somewhat confused and angry.

Brian put a finger on his lips, smiled softly and said: "Shh——"

Then he squeezed into the noisy crowd.

"Hey, Foley, stop!" Harry shouted and watched Brian disappear into the crowd.

"What's wrong?" Hermione asked as she struggled to pull out the corner of her clothes that was stuck.

"What bad thing did he do again?" Ron looked in the direction of Harry's gaze.

"I, I'm not sure... Foley seems to have taken a notebook from Ginny's textbook." Harry said.

"Oh? Stealing something!" Ron said excitedly, "We have to find out what is missing. Then we can tell everyone that Brian Foley is a thief!"

"But how is that possible?" Hermione said, "He doesn't have that need. His family should be very rich."

"Hermione, just wait and see. I will prove to you that Foley is not a good person at all!" Ron vowed, "Don't be fooled by him. Mom said that the Foley family is the best at lying. ”

"Wait a minute, Ginny!" Ron shouted after they finally squeezed out of Flourish and Blotts.

"What's the matter?" Ginny glanced back, her cheeks quickly turning red after seeing Harry. Mrs. Weasley also looked over.

"I'm telling you, Foley stole something from your cauldron." Ron said with a smile, rummaging through Ginny's textbook. "Which book is it in, Harry?"

"It should be an old textbook?" Harry said uncertainly.

"Oh, that's impossible." Mrs. Weasley said kindly, "I checked these second-hand textbooks carefully when I just bought them. There are no missing pages or anything sandwiched, dear."

Ron messed up Ginny's textbook in disbelief, causing the little girl to purse her lips in displeasure and snatch the cauldron.

"So, that's it?" Ron asked with a questioning look on his face, not noticing that Ginny had lost any textbooks, "Harry, don't tell me that Foley stole something that doesn't exist from a pile of old textbooks? "

Hermione breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Maybe Harry saw it wrong? Brian is not such a person."

Harry scratched his hair in confusion, and also doubted himself: "It's impossible, is it really my eyesight?"

"Okay, but we can't let down our guard!" Ron analyzed seriously, "Maybe Foley has put a curse on that textbook or put poison on it. He and Malfoy can definitely do such a thing. . Let dad check it carefully when you get home."

"Then remember to tell me what kind of curse it is after you're done with it." Hermione hugged her shoulders and said, "Okay, I should go back. Goodbye, Harry."

"Goodbye!" Harry and the Weasley family also returned to the Burrow via Floo.

"Brian, where have you been?"

After Brian squeezed out of the bookstore, Draco, who was waiting aside, said impatiently.

Mr. Malfoy was standing next to him, rubbing the corner of his eye where he had been hit by a book just now. His expression was relaxed and happy, and there was a trace of sarcasm hanging on the corner of his mouth.

"Nothing, do you have anything else to buy? It's time for me to go home." Brian smiled.

"Then you go back first, I have to go to the Jumping Magic Joke Shop to buy some gadgets," Draco said.

Brian said goodbye to Malfoy and his son and returned directly to the manor.

A large number of magic items are piled on the stone bricks in front of the manor, forming several hills. Mr. Foley is putting them into boxes by category. Brian also saw some items from the Malfoy house last night.

"Oh, this is really... I didn't realize there were so many messy things in the house until I cleaned it up." Mr. Foley said, "That's right, the house is so big, no one knows what is hidden in any corner. Last time I think I also found a boggart in one of the utility rooms."

"Oh? Where did you get the Boggart?" Brian became somewhat interested.

"Let it stay there, that guy should be an old guy by now." Mr. Foley said casually.

"When I was cleaning this morning, I also found an ancient secret door in my house." He said enthusiastically, "It was probably made secretly by some ancestor. What do you think I found inside?"

"What did you find? A room full of luxury toilets?" Brian joked.

"Of course not, that is a woman's boudoir! There are still traces of life in it." Mr. Foley exclaimed, "I think ordinary rooms don't need to be hidden, right? Probably one of our ancestors was a master. Tsk tsk.”

"Do you want some gadgets?" Mr. Foley looked at Brian with a smile and pointed at two piles of things. "These are things from the magic trick shop, and these are things from the weird magic shop. They are all I bought it when I was in school. Unfortunately, since the Ministry of Magic started to inventory these things, the store closed down."

Brian picked up a strange-looking red telescope and looked at it. Mr. Foley said with a smile, "You can try this telescope."

Brian looked at Mr. Foley's malicious smile, shook his head, and threw it back.

"Okay, you should be smart. This little thing will only swell your eyes, and then you won't be able to get rid of them for a week." Mr. Foley said regretfully.

Brian picked through it and picked out some interesting gadgets. He picked up another pair of goggle-like glasses.

"This is a weird goggle that makes you invisible when you put it on. Anyone can use it, even if you put it on an owl, it will fit well." Mr. Foley said casually, "It can be used for swimming and diving, but to be honest A head soaking spell can solve all problems. It is usually used to tease Muggles, and they will definitely treat it as a sacred object."

Brian mused and put it into his bag.

After helping sort some magic items, Mr. Foley refused to let him get close to those dangerous items and waved him back.

Brian went straight to the study and put the diary on the table.

This diary has a tattered black cover and looks unremarkable. The date on the cover indicates that it was fifty years ago.

Brian opened the cover and saw the vague signature on the first page: T.M. Riddle.

He closed the cover and rested his chin on his hands, lost in thought.

"Do you really want to do this?" He frowned, tapping his right hand on the desk, looking a little hesitant and uneasy for the first time.

Next year's plot is about the heir of Slytherin, so why can't it be him?

"Is Ginny's role important?" Brian closed his eyes and began to think from his perspective, "I don't think it's important. It can be anyone."

"That's right, I think that's the case..." He opened his eyes, with deep mockery and some vague uneasiness in his eyes.

"So, this needs to be verified..." He pressed his fingers lightly on the table, and the tapping sound echoed in his ears, "As long as this is verified, even if it wastes some witness points, it is worth it..."

It seemed like some secrets were about to surface, but he wasn't ready to accept them yet.

"It's really... unpleasant." Brian's black eyes were as deep as ink, making him look gloomy.

He put his finger on the diary, gently opened the cover, and felt a weak fluctuation, which was the fluctuation of Legilimency.

"So weak." Brian used Occlumency to throw away some of his curiosity and excitement, and secretly evaluated the diary's ability at this time, "This is really good news."

This diary was made by Riddle when he was a student. Even the Dark Lord was not as powerful as he was when he was a student. Especially since he was very weak in the diary at this time.

"As long as you control the speed, it won't threaten me." Brian thought.

He took out his quill and ink bottle, pondered for a moment, and scribbled a smiley face on his notebook.

He thought briefly in his mind: "This should be a powerful magic item, but how to use it?"

The ink on the notebook flickered, and then disappeared without a trace, as if it had been sucked in.

Next, a line of writing appeared on the page, using the same ink he had used before.

"Hello, my name is Tom Riddle. Do you have any questions for me?"

Thanks for the monthly ticket of Baishi21, thank you!

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like