181. Reason for betrayal
"Elaine, are you kidding?" Ron twisted his body crazily, "Why is he? What are you doing? Let us go."
"That's a good question about what I want to do." Elaine shrugged and answered him calmly: "I plan to kill Hermione, let Harry duel with the Basilisk, and then put Mr. Riddle's soul into your body. , he will devour your soul and live in your identity, that’s it, it’s nothing.”
"It's nothing - you're crazy," Harry yelled, "Aren't we friends? Why are you doing this? Wake up!"
"Wake up." Elaine leaned forward slightly, and two beams of red light passed by her. "You seem to have misunderstood something. I am very conscious. There is no control or hypnosis. I know what I am doing and what the consequences will be."
"Lies," Daphne snapped as she and Hermione both raised their wands and aimed them at Elaine. "You must be controlled by Voldemort. You must be controlled. You can't choose to help him. There must be dark magic on that wand, so you become like this."
"It's okay." Hermione's expression was quite sad, but her tone was firm, "Let's go find Dumbledore. He will definitely have a way to help you. It's not too late yet, and the Imperius Curse can be broken before things are irreversible. Nothing will happen to you, absolutely."
"Imperius Curse" Elaine shook her head slightly. "You are insulting me."
She spread her arms, like a performance gesture before taking the stage. With this movement, violent sound waves hit the ears of the four people. An indescribable sharp buzz echoed in the secret room, and the four people's heads were buzzing. .
Harry remembered the sound, the sound a car or siren used to signal danger.
Immediately afterwards, a huge, violent, and despairing magical force emerged together with the heavy, majestic, and shocking music, which made the four people breathless.
"Neil - The beautiful song, although the meaning is not quite right, it is enough to shock people. Besides, this song is not bad." Elaine's cold voice can be clearly heard in the enchanting singing, "Even in its heyday Dumbledore or the Dark Lord, it’s not that easy to manipulate me, as I said, my consciousness is very clear.”
"Indeed, with such a large amount of magic power, it is indeed very troublesome to control." Riddle, who was leaning on a stone pillar watching the show, echoed, a trace of curiosity and desire flashed in his dark pupils. "Be happy, everyone, your friend has a very clear mind. In the name of Lord Voldemort, I admit that she is not controlled by any power."
"In the name of the mysterious man." Ron's teeth kept chattering. He finally managed to squeeze out the question, "Who are you? Don't be kidding. Isn't the mysterious man dead? He can't possibly care about this. But Hogwarts"
"I am a memory, Tom Riddle's memory. Perhaps the name Voldemort is more familiar to you." Riddle smiled kindly at Ron, "I opened the Chamber of Secrets 50 years ago, but I only killed one girl and was killed by Dumbledore." Lido was focused on it. So I left a diary and sealed the sixteen-year-old me inside, so that one day, with luck, I could guide another student to fulfill the last wish of my ancestor Slytherin and purify Hogwart. tz.”
"And Miss Shafik got my diary. Before I tempted her, she put forward the terms of cooperation. She told me a lot of news and hoped that I would give her the wisdom of Slytherin to complete the inheritance of the Shafiq family. , for this reason she is willing to send me. To be honest, I am very surprised that I will be defeated by a baby in the future."
He turned to look at Harry with eyes like a hungry wolf.
"Harry Potter, do you know how angry I am? Just because of your luck and the sacrifice of your mudblood mother, you destroyed the greatest wizard in the world." Riddle said with an evil smile. "I'm going to give you a little lesson to let you know how big of a mistake you made."
"I don't think I did anything wrong," Harry interrupted, shouting. "The greatest wizard in the world is Albus Dumbledore. Everyone says this. Even when you were at your most powerful, you didn't dare to go near Hogwarts. You can catch me now because Elaine, help you, you are not strong at all”
Riddle's smile disappeared, and he raised his wand angrily, preparing to torture Harry, but at this moment, a new song came from the distance. The two songs echoed in the empty chamber at the same time, interfering with each other, causing Everyone's attention.
Elaine frowned, because the new singing voice completely overwhelmed her music. Even though the volume was the same, the other person's song was obviously more attractive than her own, making people involuntarily focus on the illusion. On the ethereal and mysterious voice.
She shrugged her shoulders and took the initiative to stop her own music. Neil's music was excellent, but it was not as good as the Phoenix music. He had to use better music to overcome it. But if he really managed to overcome it, Harry and the others would really be doomed. , she'd better pretend to be dead.
Harry, Ron, Hermione and Daphne were all affected by the song of the phoenix and cheered up again. They subconsciously looked up to find the source of the music - in the air, a group of sparks suddenly appeared, and a crimson phoenix burst out of the fire. It flies and sings its strange music from the vaulted ceiling, clutching a tattered package in its talons.
After flying around in a circle, it folded its two huge wings and landed next to Harry. It threw the tattered thing on its claws on his chest, and at the same time, its sharp claws tore away the restraints on him and Ron.
"Dumbledore's Phoenix." Riddle glared at the bird fiercely, "The Phoenix has the power to travel through space, but it is the school's classification hat."
Harry glanced at what he was holding in his arms. Yes, it was a dirty, wrinkled hat with patches on it.
"So, Dumbledore plans to protect you with a broken hat and a singing bird." Riddle laughed loudly, "Harry Potter, do you think you are safe? Hahaha"
"Now that Dumbledore has taken action, I think we'd better hurry up." Elaine reminded him, "There are a lot of things to do, and I have to send you into Weasley's body. Master, deal with them as soon as possible." .”
The four of them stared at Elaine in disbelief, as if she had just said something dirty.
Ron and Harry raised their wands angrily and prepared to fight. They were now very angry.
Hermione also raised her wand, but she looked uncomfortable.
Daphne was the only one still hesitating, and the only one who didn't raise her wand and point it at Elaine.
"That's very good." Riddle was quite satisfied with this title. "Then you will take care of the remaining three people. Leave Potter to me. No problem."
"No."
"Elaine" Daphne couldn't bear it anymore, she asked loudly, "Are you serious? Do you really want to kill me and Hermione? If it is true, why don't you let me see your heart? What on earth are you doing?" Answer me what’s going on”
"Mind Reading" Riddle looked at Daphne curiously, "By the way, you mentioned her, I remember she is a Legilimency, a girl from the Greengrass family."
"Yes, it's because she is so tight that I can't contact you." Elaine replied, "I gave her a chance, but she insisted on staying and she couldn't interfere with me anyway with her little strength. I didn't stop her from following."
"Elaine"
"Stop screaming, I'm not deaf." Elaine turned her head irritably, "You are a Legilimency. We are going to duel later, so isn't it normal for me to use Occlumency? Don't you do anything, let You read my next move"
"Then you should explain that you have no reason to turn to Voldemort." Hermione shouted angrily, "Even if you help him resurrect, so what? He will still kill you. You just stopped him from getting the Sorcerer's Stone six months ago. You forgot "
"Elaine, please, what's wrong with you?" Daphne continued to shout, "This is not you. You are not this kind of person. You clearly hate pure-blood supremacy, disdain magic and power, and are unwilling to harm innocent people. You close yourself off. Your heart is the best proof that you definitely don’t really want to help him, right?”
"It's not too late, Elaine." Harry couldn't help but join in the persuasion. He really didn't want to fight Elaine. "He killed your whole family. I don't know why you helped him, but it's not too late now──"
"It's so noisy. What do you know about me? This is the final decision of the Shafiq family. Don't talk about me. Even if Adair is here, he will still take action." Elaine said impatiently, "What should I do with you?" Just explain that you are going to die here anyway─"
"It doesn't matter, just let them know how to die, no less than these ten minutes." Riddle said suddenly, "And I'm also very curious, do you still have secrets? Since you plan to take refuge with me, shouldn't you explain everything clearly?"
Elaine paused, and she showed a troubled expression, but she still spoke helplessly.
"It's nothing, it's just the ability to predict." She sighed, obviously not wanting to talk more about it. "When I was asleep, I could see fragments of certain people's pasts and futures. I saw the Dark Lord resurrected and Dumbledore died. So, in order to survive, I had to do this, it's that simple. "
"Precognition," Hermione repeated in astonishment.
"Of course, otherwise why do you think I would go to your school specially? I have seen you take the first place in grade for several years. It just so happens that I need someone to help me study and check my homework." Elaine continued expressionlessly. Said, "But this ability also has a big drawback. I can't see my future. If I had known that Adair guy was still alive, I wouldn't have to go through so much trouble."
"So you understand, Harry." Elaine looked directly into Harry's eyes, "If you and Dumbledore lose, the wizarding world will fall into the hands of the Dark Lord. I must make plans for myself, so I can't help you." Be thankful that there are many wizards who will survive because of your early death who would have died in vain protecting you."
"Nonsense." Ron was furious. "You just told us that you could see the future because you had a nightmare. It was just your own delusion. You haven't woken up yet──"
"Delusional, so you are not afraid of spiders" Elaine asked him with a sneer. "I saw the doll you were holding suddenly grew eight legs when you were five or six years old. Fred and George's pranks were too much, weren't they?"
"You, how come you must have been told by George and Fred?"
"Not only you, but also Sirius, Peter Pettigrew, and even Dumbledore. I have seen the past and future of many people, so I also know many interesting secrets, such as who Dumbledore was killed." Ignore. Everyone's eyes were about to fall out, Elaine continued. "I even saw it the night the Dark Lord went to kill you, Harry. I'm sorry I didn't tell the truth before, but Bathilda did hear what happened."
"But even so, you can tell Dumbledore the matter," Harry yelled at her. He could not accept Elaine's betrayal for such an inexplicable reason. "Isn't it just a matter of stopping all that? Why should we give in? The future may not be true."
"You think I haven't tried," Elaine yelled back even louder, "I tried to change. I told Dumbledore what I saw a long time ago. I told him last year, but the future is still the same, no matter what the Dark Lord They will be resurrected and you will die in his hands.”
"Why did I want to liberate Sirius and capture Peter Pettigrew? Because it was Peter Pettigrew who presided over the resurrection of the Dark Lord. The future did change after I captured him, but he was just the person who presided over the resurrection ceremony and became another person I have never Foreign wizards I’ve seen and heard about”
Elaine gritted her teeth and roared at the four people.
"You don't understand how hard I struggled. I used every means I could think of, but all I changed was the future. Dumbledore's death time was even earlier. He was dead. Even Dumbledore couldn't be beaten. If you win against the Dark Lord, what about me? Since the Dark Lord will eventually rule the world, why should I ask for trouble?"
"Those are just dreams, they may not happen," Hermione retorted, but her tone didn't sound very sure. "Maybe you used the wrong method. There must be another way, Elaine, please."
"Another way." Elaine opened her mouth stiffly and smiled, "Yes, this is another way. Let Harry die here. As long as he dies, all problems will disappear."
"Very good, that's great, Elaine." Riddle clapped his hands happily, "You made the right choice, don't worry, Lord Voldemort is tolerant, especially to an outstanding pure-blood wizard like you. , as long as you truly surrender to me, nothing will happen to the Shafiq family, I can promise you."