Hogwarts: I, Tom, am really not Voldemort!

"Resurrection Stone?"

Grindelwald looked at the ring on Tom's hand and asked in astonishment.

"Worthy of being Professor Grindelwald, you recognized it at a glance. I wonder if the old house is qualified to protect the Resurrection Stone?"

Tom caressed the ring in his hand, looking at Grindelwald with a smile.

Resurrection Stone, indeed qualified. Grindelwald began to believe Tom's words a little.

And Tom didn't mind further deepening Grindelwald's impression of the truthfulness of his lies.

"So, Professor Grindelwald, you should have learned from Professor Dumbledore the location of the Horcruxes I told him about, right? As a life-saving method, is it more suitable to hide a leaf in the forest so that people can't find it, or to hide it in the Gaunt Shack and be easily found by you with some time? I think any normal person would make the right choice."

Grindelwald put himself in Tom's perspective and thought about it. It was indeed most suitable to hide it in the place Tom said. However, in this way, the probability of collecting all of them was almost zero. No wonder Tom could say it so generously.

Grindelwald sighed softly, feeling sorry for Dumbledore in his heart, thinking about how to persuade Dumbledore to give up when he went back. After all, it wasn't that they were too weak, but that the opponent's brain circuits were too peculiar.

"So, Professor, is there anything else? Otherwise, I still have to go back and pack Christmas presents."

Tom's words interrupted Grindelwald's thoughts. He looked at Tom with a complicated expression, then turned his attention to the Resurrection Stone in his hand.

"Do you want to study the secrets of the Deathly Hallows with me?"

Grindelwald suddenly proposed to Tom.

Faced with Grindelwald's proposal, Tom subconsciously took a step back, looking panicked: "Professor, you already have Professor Dumbledore. If you attack me, it will make Professor Dumbledore unhappy. Besides, I'm still young and really can't satisfy you."

"? ? ?"

Grindelwald was full of question marks, feeling like he was about to be driven crazy by Tom. He's a lunatic. He just made a suggestion. What exactly are you talking about? Is there any demeanor of a magical world大佬? Or is your brain full of yellow waste?

Suppressing the anger in his heart, Grindelwald said coldly: "Put away those unrealistic fantasies in your mind. I'm just simply suggesting to study the Deathly Hallows together."

Tom looked at Grindelwald with a suspicious expression: "But, back then in Godric's Hollow, when you stayed at your great-aunt Bathilda Bagshot's house, didn't you use this excuse to hook up with Dumbledore? Now, don't you want to repeat the same trick?"

Grindelwald's back molars were almost crushed. How could there be someone like Tom in this world with such a low bottom line? The key is that this person is still very strong.

Just as Grindelwald wanted to say no loudly, he choked on his words in Tom's teasing eyes, because in fact, his encounter with Dumbledore back then was really as Tom said.

This is also what Tom is most annoying about, always using real facts to say disgusting words, and you can't refute it for a while.

Just as Grindelwald was about to send him away, Tom looked serious and said to him very earnestly: "The Resurrection Stone cannot truly resurrect the dead. As someone who understands the Deathly Hallows, you should be very clear about this. I believe you don't want Professor Dumbledore to be immersed in Ariana's illusions, do you?"

So, Tom, how can you be neurotic one second and so serious the next? The speed of personality split and face change is not as fast as you. It's just that Grindelwald has to consider Tom's opinion carefully.

"By the way, leave these headmaster portraits on the wall to you. I don't think you want Professor Dumbledore to know everything that happened today, do you?"

After speaking, Tom left Grindelwald and left the headmaster's office directly.

Back in the Slytherin common room, Tom looked at the ring in his hand and began to think about Grindelwald's words.

It seems that since getting this thing, besides showing off, it has been left in the storage space to gather dust. Why not take advantage of the Christmas holiday now to study it carefully? After all, this year even Harry went back to Sirius's place for the holiday. It's really too boring for him to stay in the castle alone.

However, today, Tom looked at the time, forget it, let's go to sleep first, and talk about it tomorrow if there's anything.

"This is the place, right, Lucius?"

Tom looked at the manor in front of him and said to Lucius beside him.

"Yes, Master."

Lucius replied respectfully, while secretly cursing in his heart.

Thinking back to this morning, he was originally enjoying Christmas with his wife and children in the manor, but he didn't expect that a certain uninvited guest would appear at the breakfast table again and again and again.

He thought that the Dark Lord was bringing trouble again, but the first thing he did when he arrived was actually to send Draco a Christmas present.

It's just that when Draco opened it, um, 《Chasing Wife Crematorium Series Collection》, this is simply unspeakable. Could it be that the Dark Lord has some hidden meaning? Lucius couldn't imagine how wonderful his face was at the time.

"Draco likes to read it. It's not bad to learn more. At least you can interact with a few more in the future, have children, and it can be regarded as a way to revitalize the Malfoy family."

Draco likes it? When did the Malfoy family become so tasteless? If it wasn't for Tom's presence, Lucius would have prepared to have a good heart-to-heart talk with Draco on the spot.

It's just that after the last sentence, Lucius thought about it, and considering the Malfoy family's population status, what the Dark Lord said made a lot of sense.

After sending Narcissa and Draco away, Lucius knew that Tom should be going to talk about serious business.

"Take me to the Crouch Manor."

After hearing Tom's simple and clear request, Lucius was stunned for a moment, unsure of what Tom wanted to do.

Just thinking about the Dark Lord's methods, adhering to the spirit of 'better a dead friend than a dead me', Lucius directly brought Tom to the Crouch Manor.

After some communication from Lucius, they were brought into the manor.

Unfortunately, the answer Barty Crouch received was.

"Stupefy!"