Chapter 119 He can take his place

"Tell me, what do you think?"

In the dim Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office, Dracula looked at the black-haired young man in front of him and asked with interest,

"As Voldemort's Horcrux, it doesn't matter if he doesn't help his creator, but he still wants to come to my side to fight against him? I don't quite understand."

Riddle from the diary let out a breath, looked at Dracula seriously, and said: "Voldemort didn't pay me the attention I deserved at all. He just regarded me as another spare life."

"Now that I have created my sanity through the memories of his youth, it is difficult for me to convince myself to follow his established route and just treat myself as a tool and an object that cannot have independent consciousness!"

"Mr. Dracula, I want to break free from his control!" Riddle said.

A smile appeared on Dracula's lips, and he walked towards Riddle with interest, and did not stop until he came to his side.

"Let me take a look... Well, you are a body made of the power of the soul, right?" He looked at Riddle's somewhat illusory figure and asked, "I am not familiar with this kind of body structure. I have some impression that Voldemort was confronting me in this state in the restricted area where the Philosopher's Stone was stored."

"You are right." Riddle nodded lightly, "He was originally possessed by Quirrell, but under the tremendous pressure you brought, the parasitic state was not enough for him to have enough power, so He thought about his Horcrux."

"Voldemort has always known that I was the first Horcrux he made, and I also possess most of his memories before he was sixteen years old. I will definitely have stronger soul power than other Horcruxes... so he used some They took me out of the Malfoy Manor and wanted to absorb the soul essence left in the Horcrux."

"But what he didn't expect was that I had already developed self-awareness, and his forcible occupation aroused my resistance." Riddle said.

"As far as I know, as a Horcrux, it is difficult for you to resist the power of the original body." Dracula gave him a deep look. "In addition, when Voldemort officially started stealing the Sorcerer's Stone, I didn't notice your exist."

"Yes, I couldn't resist the power of the main soul at all, and he easily took over the soul body that I had worked so hard to condense." Riddle twitched the corner of his mouth with a very unwilling expression, "Even before the final action, he told I will not risk my Horcrux, or even return my body..."

"...But I know that Voldemort is not thinking about me, but is worried about the continuation of his own life. He will not risk any Horcrux. I am no different from those Horcruxes without self-awareness! "

"Actually, I also know that the mind that accidentally gave birth to a Horcrux is a burden and a disaster for my suspicious main soul... That is to say, he realized that he might fail in stealing the magic stone, so he He is willing to return his soul body to me and let me lurk in the castle to complete his backup plan..."

Riddle stared into Dracula's eyes, his eyes full of defiance.

Riddle used practical actions to show that he was born from the memory of the Dark Lord who cannot be named. He has a similar personality and traits to Voldemort, and he will never be manipulated by others and lose his autonomy!

Dracula also looked into Riddle's eyes, with some appreciation in his eyes.

"Voldemort's character and appearance when he was young were more stylish than the bald man he is now." He chuckled and said, "I really don't know what he did later to torture himself to look like that. "

"Although it's hard to accept, I can understand his choice." Riddle said softly, "For me, immortality and power are much more important than external things like looks."

"Ha, it's immortality again." Dracula sneered disdainfully, "What's so good about immortality? There are always so many superficial humans who want to pursue it. It's so boring!"

Riddle was about to retort, but Dracula raised his hand and interrupted what he was about to say, "Stop talking about those boring things. Tell me about the time you spent lurking in Hogwarts Castle." Something."

"Is the backup plan Voldemort gave you just to confuse Harry Potter's mind?" Dracula looked at Riddle and asked thoughtfully, "I can see that you have obtained Potter's mind. There’s a lot of trust and there should be a lot of hands-on opportunities.”

"There are so many opportunities to cause him to die violently by just causing an accident. However, you just do something like bewitching the mind. Isn't it a bit unnecessary?"

"There are other reasons here," Riddle shook his head and explained, "I can't kill Harry...my noisy main soul said it himself, asking me to leave Harry Potter to him. So. Not only can I not kill Harry directly, I even have to protect him from living well!"

"What's the point of this?" Dracula frowned, "Is Voldemort so stupid? He must kill a little wizard who is just in his second year just because he failed once? "

"That's not the reason. He's not that stupid yet." Riddle shook his head slightly, "Do you know the prophecy that Sybill Trelawney made twelve years ago?"

Dracula frowned slightly.

Of course he knows what a prophecy is. His friend Nico Flamel, who has been a friend for hundreds of years, is an extremely good prophet and can understand the meaning of the prophecy.

But twelve years ago, Dracula was still in a deep sleep and had no idea what was happening in the magical world, let alone the prophecy that was listed as a secret by both the Ministry of Magic and the Death Eaters.

‘Damn it, how many magnificent things have happened during the hundred years I have been sleeping? ! ’ Dracula gritted his teeth bitterly and looked at Riddle with cold eyes.

Seeing Dracula's cold eyes, Riddle's expression tightened, and he immediately told the prophecy he knew from the main soul——

"'The one who has the power to defeat the Dark Lord is approaching... Born to the man who has resisted him three times, born at the end of July... The Dark Lord will mark him as his great enemy...' - This is The prophecy that Voldemort learned may not be complete, but it is enough to select qualified candidates."

"So Voldemort chose Harry Potter as his powerful enemy, went to Godric's Hollow to kill him, but ended up falling under his own death curse?" Dracula asked with a strange expression, " If it weren’t for this prophecy, maybe he wouldn’t have failed, right?”

"Yes, this is one of the reasons why I am dissatisfied with him." Riddle said coldly, "Instead of trying his best to achieve his goals, he instead believed the prophecies he heard from hearsay and eventually fell into this prophecy... It's really stupid!"

"So... just because of this prophecy, he doesn't allow you to harm Potter?" Dracula asked, "If this is really the reason, then Voldemort's understanding of the prophecy is too shallow."

"Want to hear what a real prophet thinks of prophecies, Riddle?" He looked at Riddle with a chuckle and asked casually.

Dracula did not care that Riddle learned the true meaning of the prophecy, nor did he care about the slight possibility that he might reveal it to Voldemort.

Because this kind of knowledge needs to be understood and respected carefully, even if it is revealed to Voldemort himself, it will not make him, a dark wizard who has long lost his original belief, change his mind. On the contrary, it will be more likely to disturb his mind. Thoughts.

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Now Dracula is willing to tell Riddle about the prophecy. He wants to know how different Riddle is from Voldemort and whether it is really helpful.

"Have you thought about it, Riddle?" Dracula asked with a chuckle, "The prophecy ability of my prophet friend is not comparable to the current Divination professor at Hogwarts."

"Mr. Dracula, are you willing to tell me such important knowledge?" Riddle narrowed his eyes and looked at Dracula in disbelief, "I thought it would be difficult to gain your trust. thing."

"Get my trust?" Dracula raised his eyebrows, "Then you are overthinking. I can't possibly trust you. I will only consider how much help I can give you based on how much fun you can bring me. .”

Riddle was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed, "Then please tell me about prophecy, Mr. Dracula."

"I believe you can also guess who my prophet friend is," Dracula glanced at him with a smile and said, "Nicolas Flamel said that the reason why he studied prophecy was not just to pass the time. Boring time, not to accurately predict the future——"

"The meaning of prophecy does not lie in this, but in getting rid of the shackles of fate and letting us know that there are more possibilities in this world, thereby making our lives freer."

"In short, prophecy is a magic that is meant to help us live our lives, not to constrain our actions."

"Wait a minute, I have a question..." Riddle raised his hand and asked Dracula, "Now that we know the prophecy, how can we not be bound by it? If we completely put the prophecy aside, it will be different from completely What difference does it make if there is no wizard who knows the prophecy?"

"Riddle, no matter what the future mentioned in the prophecy looks like, everyone lives in the present." Dracula slowly walked behind the desk and sat comfortably on the sofa while speaking to Riddle said.

"The present is complete, but prophecy is not. Prophecy is fragmented. It cannot tell us all possibilities in the future, and naturally there is no need for it to interfere too much with our present."

"For that old guy Nico, the role of prophecy is just a hint and a choice; for me, prophecy is just one of the ways to find a more interesting future." Dracula said , "Voldemort's real life was interfered with by the prophecy, so he fell into the prophecy."

Unknowingly, the two people in the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office looked like ordinary professors and students. One asked questions and the other answered. There was no trace that one was the Dark Lord's Horcrux and the other was alive. A vampire count who has been around for over a thousand years.

"I understand, Professor." Suddenly, the young Riddle used the honorific he had only uttered sixty years ago, "All magic is controlled by wizards, not wizards controlled by magic."

"Not bad, quite savvy." Dracula chuckled, raised a goblet, and took a sip of the bright red wine. "But I suggest you replace 'wizard' with 'magical creature', otherwise I will You won’t be happy about it.”

"Yes, I subconsciously forgot that Professor Dracula is not a wizard." Riddle also changed his words with a smile.

For a time, the atmosphere in the office was full of fun, harmony and friendship, a warm school scene.

However, the next moment, this harmonious atmosphere was broken by one sentence——

"I'm quite sincere in telling you the true meaning of the prophecy, right?" Dracula gently placed the wine glass on the table in front of him and said softly, "In this case, shouldn't you also tell me something? What about more useful information?”

"Well, I won't embarrass you. I only need to know three things -"

"First, what is the most fundamental reason why you betrayed Voldemort; second, what is Voldemort's purpose of keeping you with Harry Potter; third, when was the last large-scale operation of the Death Eaters? , what activities are there?”

Wave after wave of dark aura with a strong sense of oppression emanated from Dracula, and the atmosphere in the office quietly became solemn, as if even the air was filled with lead, so heavy that Riddle could not breathe.

The wine-red light in Dracula's eyes moved, spinning quietly near the hole, making Riddle feel that all his secrets had nowhere to hide.

"...Staying by Harry's side is actually for his blood." After all, Riddle couldn't bear the heavy pressure in front of him and said honestly, "Father's bones, enemy's blood, servant's flesh, this is resurrection. The only three things needed now are Harry's blood..."

"As for the reason why I chose to betray... it's because I absorbed the soul origin from another Horcrux of the main soul. Sooner or later, he will find out about this..."

Hearing this, even Dracula glanced at Riddle in surprise.

He also didn't expect that this Horcrux Diary was so courageous that it directly absorbed one of Voldemort's Horcruxes...

"What about the last thing?" Dracula asked with interest.

"The latest large-scale operation was on Halloween..." Riddle said slowly, "Voldemort ordered me to get Harry's blood before then. He would be completely resurrected that night, and then defeat Azka in one fell swoop. Ben, rescue his most loyal servant!"

Riddle looked at Dracula, only to find that Dracula had raised the corners of his mouth exaggeratedly, revealing two sharp side teeth.

This is the most common way Dracula behaves when he thinks of something very interesting.

"Listen to me, Riddle..." Dracula said evilly with an exaggerated smile on his face.

"Do you have any ideas about replacing Voldemort?"

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