Hogwarts: This Dark Lord is so evil.

Chapter 9: Tom, stand up and don’t lose face!
"He can't beat me."

Levid stopped and turned to meet Dumbledore's blue eyes.

Dumbledore was slightly stunned. Levid's answer could be said to be very reasonable.

"We're here." Li Weide said again.

Dumbledore then realized that they were standing in front of a wooden door.

Li Weide pushed open the door of Tom's room as if he was returning home.

"Tom, this... Mr. Dumbledore, wants to talk to us about something." Levitra walked in.

Levitra deliberately mispronounced Dumbledore's name because Mrs. Cole had made a mistake when introducing him just now.

Dumbledore helplessly corrected, "In fact, my name is Dumbledore, Albus Dumbledore. I am a professor."

Tom sat on his blanket, holding a book in his hand, looking at the guy who called himself a professor with some caution.

Dumbledore held out his hand. "Hello, Tom."

Tom hesitated for a moment, looked at Levitra again, then stretched out his hand and shook hands with Dumbledore.

Dumbledore pulled over a chair and sat down, while Levid sat directly on Tom's bed.

"Professor? Is that similar to 'Doctor'? What are you doing here?" Tom said, and glanced at Li Weide warily again.

"I'm Professor Dumbledore, and I work at a school called Hogwarts. I'm here to take you to my school... or your new school, if you will."

After hearing what Dumbledore said, Tom reacted very strongly. He jumped up from the carpet and hid far away from Dumbledore, with anger on his face.

"Who are you? What are you doing here? Tell the truth!" He said the last three words loudly, as if he was giving an order.

He glared at Dumbledore with wide eyes, but Dumbledore just smiled pleasantly and made no reply.

"Who are you?" Tom asked again word by word.

Dumbledore said patiently: "I have just said it, I am Professor Dumbledore..."

"No! Don't try to fool me! You're from the mental hospital, right? 'Professor', yes, of course! I'm not going, got it?"

Tom was speaking excitedly, and suddenly, his eyes fell on Li Weide, and then his face changed drastically.

Thinking of Li Weide's unusual behavior today asking him to come back early to rest, Tom instantly understood the "truth"!
"…You called him here, didn't you? You are finally going to attack me, right? Yes, you are going to send me to a mental hospital! You…you are so cruel!"

Dumbledore looked at Levid with a strange look.

Li Weide shrugged, "You know, we fought."

Thinking of what Levitra said before, that Tom couldn't beat him, Dumbledore's look became even stranger.

It is obvious that the incident between Li Weide and Tom was definitely more than just a fight.

Judging from Tom's stress reaction, he must have been severely oppressed by Wade...

"I am not from a mental hospital," Dumbledore turned his head and said patiently to Tom again. "I am a teacher. If you can sit quietly, I will tell you what Hogwarts is like. Of course, if you don't want to go there, no one will force you..."

"And..." Dumbledore looked at Livid again, "In addition to you, Wade is also on my list of invites."

"That means he...he will go too?" Tom looked at Dumbledore suspiciously, then at Levitra.

"Tom, could you calm down and stand up straight and not lose face?"

Li Weide's words made Tom blush. He was really embarrassed for being so startled just now...

After seeing Tom finally calm down, Dumbledore continued: "Hogwarts is a school for students with special abilities..." To Tom, this description sounded too much like a mental hospital!

"I'm not crazy..." Tom had just started to speak when he met Levi's calm gaze again.

In the end, he closed his mouth, swallowed the second half of the sentence, and let Dumbledore continue.

"…it's a magic school."

"Magic?" Tom repeated the word in a low voice.

"Yes."

"It turns out that what I know is magic..." Tom looked at his hands excitedly.

"What can you do?" Dumbledore asked with interest.

"Anything," Riddle panted, a flush of excitement appearing on his hollow cheeks, looking enthusiastic.

"I can make things move without touching them. I can make animals obey me without training. I can make people suffer if they annoy me. If I want, I can make them hurt..."

Tom hadn't finished his words yet, and he met Li Weide's gaze again and again, and his excitement instantly calmed down...

"...Except for Levitra! That bastard!" Tom calmed down and sat down slowly again.

Dumbledore also looked at Levitra, "Levitra, you don't seem that excited. Do you know what your ability is?"

"No, I just found out about it too... Just like Tom, I know exactly what makes me different from others. But since this is my ability, I only know what it is now. Why should I be so excited?"

Dumbledore nodded. "You are right, Vader..."

"This is a really strange child... He is so stable that he doesn't even look like an 11-year-old. What has he been through?"

"You are all wizards," Dumbledore continued.

"So, you must be a wizard too?" asked Levid.

"Yes, I am a wizard too. I have special abilities just like you."

"Prove it to me," Riddle said quickly.

The tone of the command was exactly the same as when he had just said "tell the truth".

Dumbledore raised his eyebrows.

"If I prove this, you will come to Hogwarts with me..."

"of course!"

"Then you have to call me 'Professor' or 'Sir'."

Riddle's expression froze for a moment before he spoke. He said in an almost imperceptible polite tone, "Excuse me, sir, I mean...Excuse me, professor, can you show me..."

Dumbledore didn't waste any words and pulled out a slender black wand from the inside pocket of his suit jacket.

Li Weide raised his eyebrows, with a hint of expectation in his eyes.

Dumbledore pointed his wand at the broken wardrobe in the corner and waved it casually.

"boom!"

The fierce flames instantly engulfed the broken wardrobe!
"Ah!" Tom screamed and jumped up again. All his belongings were in the closet!
Just as Tom was about to jump up and down and question Dumbledore, the flames disappeared instantly, and the wardrobe was still standing there intact, as if nothing had happened.

(End of this chapter)