Hogwarts: I, Tom, am not the Dark Lord

Tom didn't know what Neville's grandmother was thinking. The family was not short of money. Buying a wand was nothing to the Longbottom family.

Why pin our hopes on such an intangible object? Could it be that by using this wand Neville could become enlightened and become an elite Auror like his father?

That's really a blind thought... 0

Although it's not allowed to talk too much when you're just friends, Tom just wanted to say that it's Neville's business whether to listen or not, as long as he can understand his own thoughts.

Neville lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

On the other side, a conflict suddenly broke out between Hermione and Ron.

Ron waved his arms like a windmill—"Wingardium Leviosa!"

After trying several times without success, Hermione, who was sitting across the table, couldn't help but remind him, "Your movements are wrong, and you're chanting the spell without any emotion. It's a wonder it works."

After that, he gave Ron a demonstration.

"That's amazing!" Ron glared at her angrily, turned his head and continued swinging the windmill.

By the end of the get out of class, he was already mentally broken.

"No wonder no one can stand her. Honestly, she definitely doesn't have any friends."

Although Ron didn't shout loudly, he didn't lower his voice deliberately, and Hermione's face turned pale.

Daphne, who had been silent the whole time, frowned and glanced at him sideways: "Weasley, does your family's upbringing allow you to slander others behind their backs at will?"

"No, you said it to my face. That's even more despicable."

"I simply cannot imagine a pureblood like you emerging as a scum."

Hermione looked at Daphne in disbelief, never expecting her to stand up for her.

"None of your business!" Ron, caught in the act, blushed and stiffened his neck as he retorted, "It's not for a Slytherin like you to judge what kind of person I am!"

Daphne's expression was even more disdainful, which reminded Harry of the way Malfoy looked at Ron. He couldn't imagine that Daphne, who was usually as docile as a doll beside Tom, would actually have such a side.

"What kind of person you are has nothing to do with me, but you are evaluating my friend, so I can naturally evaluate you."

"What? Are you unhappy when I tell you a few truths?"

"According to Tom...people like you have double standards."

"Disrespectful, rude, and lacking in talent... Compared to your brothers, you're far behind."

puff--!

Ron almost vomited blood. This was definitely true damage plus a critical hit.

What he hated most was being compared with his other brothers, because it only made him look more incompetent, not like Weasley's biological son, but like he was picked up.

The eldest brother Bill is the student union president, the second brother Charlie is the Quidditch captain and student union president, and the third brother Percy is a prefect. If he continues to develop at this pace, he will most likely become the president.

The twin brothers are not that dazzling, but their popularity is almost the best among the Weasleys, and their words are more effective in Gryffindor than Percy.

And he himself...isn't he a waste or something?

Just then the bell rang for the end of get out of class. Ron picked up his textbooks and rushed out, ignoring Harry's attempts to stop him.

Hermione followed Daphne out of the classroom, hesitated for a moment, and then whispered, "Thank you."

"Thank me for what I did."

Daphne didn't look at her, and went around the crowd to find Tom. "I just can't stand Weasley's jealousy of others because of his own incompetence. It has nothing to do with you."

Hermione said seriously, "No matter what, you helped me vent my anger."

"That was just by the way, don't think too much about it."

"So what you said just now...we are friends, were we also lying to them?" Hermione suddenly became nervous and asked tentatively.

"You're talking about this..." Daphne's eyes wandered, "For Tom's sake... you can just be my friend."

Hermione's depressed mood suddenly improved a lot.

By the time the two found Tom going out the back door, Hermione had a smile on her face.

Tom raised his eyebrows: "Why does it feel like... your relationship has suddenly improved?"

In the past, when these two people walked together, he had to be between them, but now they walk shoulder to shoulder, almost holding hands.

"Tom, you don't know..."

Faced with the beauty trap, Daphne immediately abandoned her newly recognized sister, skipped to Tom, and told him what had just happened.

Tom frowned.

With the presence of this butterfly, the relationship between Hermione and Ron and Harry has actually become very distant. Now they are still calling each other Potter and Weasley, but I didn't expect the plot to happen again.

He glanced at Hermione's condition.

The little witch had a rosy complexion, but her eyes were not red, and there was a smile on the corners of her mouth. It was obvious that she was not affected by Ron's words, and it was even less likely that she would run to the ladies' room and cry for an entire afternoon.

Daphne made great contributions in this wave.

"Well done, Daphne." Tom patted Daphne's head as a reward, and the girl's eyes narrowed with laughter.

Chapter 62: Something will happen at the Halloween Eve dinner, Voldemort suffers a severe blow

"Hermione, you don't have to take Ron's words to heart."

After rewarding Daphne, Tom began to give Hermione some inspirational speeches: "This is just an incompetent person expressing his envy and jealousy."

"Think about it, what Ron did just now is very similar to the time when Malfoy came to bother me not long ago?"

Hermione became thoughtful.

Of course she knew what had happened not long ago.

After Tom said that, it was indeed somewhat similar. The difference was that Malfoy came to cause trouble for Tom on his own initiative, while Ron was angry because she pointed out the mistake Ron made when casting the spell.

From this perspective, Ron is actually not as good as Malfoy?

Malfoy did that to improve himself, Ron was just angry and embarrassed.

"Have you figured it out?" Tom said slowly. "No matter if it's Slytherin or Gryffindor, there are people like this in every house. They don't want to admit their mediocrity, and they hope that everyone in the world is as mediocre as them."

"Your kindness may be seen as a mockery by them. Don't get angry when you meet such people, because it's not worth wasting your precious energy and time."

"Don't even think about changing their fate. Just do your own thing."

Hermione nodded heavily, "I understand, Tom. Learning magic is the most important thing."

"Yes."

Tom snapped his fingers, and the three of them stepped onto the stairs. "Of course, friends are important too. Who said you don't have friends? You and I have known each other for several years. Am I not your friend?"

"Daphne offered to help you. Isn't she your friend?"

"No." Daphne turned her head away with a slightly red face.

Hermione smiled even brighter, all the resentment in her heart disappeared.

Like Tom said, getting angry with this kind of person is the most ridiculous thing to do.

Seeing Hermione fully recovered, Tom finally felt relieved. Otherwise, he would have to go and rescue people today and the plan could not be implemented normally.

As for whether other unlucky people would encounter the troll, that had nothing to do with him.

Protecting his own people and not actively harming others is the highest manifestation of his quality.

In the magical world, this is considered a very high moral standard.

...

Because it was Halloween that night, the dinner would last longer than usual, and it would basically be curfew time after it ended, so after finishing his afternoon classes, Tom moved up his evening training and took Daphne to the Room of Requirement.

Nearly a month of training has shown initial results. Daphne has seen significant improvements in both the speed of magic recovery and the total amount of magic.

The most important thing is that Daphne has found the feeling of casting spells and can apply it to most spells, which will make it easier for her to learn other spells in the future.

In this week alone, the girl had already learned five spells.

This made Daphne very excited, and she felt that her efforts during this period were not in vain.

After an hour of training, Tom gave Daphne a bottle of energy potion to help her recover her severely depleted spirit.

As for the lack of physical energy, it will be made up at the dinner.

By the time the two entered the auditorium, the place they were most familiar with had completely changed.

Thousands of bats flapped their wings on the walls and ceiling, and some gathered together and circled, like low dark clouds, circling above the dining table.

Hundreds of pumpkin lanterns were floating in the air, with candlelight flickering inside the hollowed-out pumpkins.

Except for the start-of-term dinner, Tom had never seen so many ghosts appear at once—almost all the ghosts in Hogwarts were there.

Moaning Myrtle, legend of the girls' bathroom, and Ms. Grey, Ravenclaw's resident ghost, were absent.

Tom had never seen Myrtle, but he had a deep impression of Ms. Grey. She was a very beautiful woman with a cold temperament and a deep, obvious scar on her chest.

Yeah, what a scar.

"Hurry up, Tom." Daphne urged from the front. The newly renovated auditorium made the girl excited. She had never experienced spending a festival with so many people.

Tom took two quick steps and glanced in the direction of Gryffindor when he entered. Hermione was happily talking to Lavender Brown. Perhaps it was a coincidence, or perhaps she felt Tom's gaze, but Hermione looked up and their eyes met.

The girl winked at Tom and they smiled at each other.

After what happened in the morning, Tom felt that Hermione suddenly became much more cheerful.

As he passed by the Hufflepuff table, he overheard a conversation between Justin Finch-Fletchley and a senior student.

Finch-Fletchley was worried. "Clatum, are you sure these bats won't poop? What if something falls on the plate? How can we eat it?"

"It's okay. If it falls in, just take it out immediately. If it doesn't last more than three seconds, it doesn't count as contact. I have experience with this kind of situation."

Tom: “…”