Mentor and Friends

Chapter 93 Apprentice and Companion

"The Black family will never treat you badly after all." The other party looked at Harry meaningfully, but Harry did not ignore the disdain in his eyes, "And the Black family can provide you with all kinds of help. To defend against black magic, you must understand it, don't you?"

Harry took a deep breath: "Thank you for your invitation, but..."

"But I'm sorry, the professor already has an apprentice." There was a cold voice at the door, and it was unknown when the door had been opened, and Tom walked in.

Harry frowned. Some time ago he asked Medusa not to let Tom in, but he had been away for so long a while ago, and the password for the cellar hadn't been changed since he came back. He came in.

"Oh?" The Patriarch Black, who knew Tom's details, was not surprised by Tom's arrival. After all, he knew that Harry was the other's advisor and the two might have some relationship, after all, they both spoke Parseltongue.

Tom reached Harry's side and hugged him from behind, resting his head on Harry's shoulder. Harry's body stiffened in an instant, but before Harry could move, Tom had evoked the most polite He smiled, then looked at each other, as if apologetically apologetic: "The professor has already decided to accept me as an apprentice, and not long ago, I have expressed my heart to the professor, I hope to be his partner after graduation, and He also agreed, so...as the professor's current apprentice, I'm afraid the professor will accept another apprentice who is excellent in black magic before I graduate."

The first ones to jump up were not the two people behind Patriarch Black, but Ron, who sat beside him and started to widen his eyes when Tom hugged Harry: "What? What did you just say?"

"Assistant Ron," Tom chuckled, "You heard me right."

"Do you like Harry? Do you like Harry?" Although Ron knew about apprentices, he was surprised that Harry didn't know when to let Tom be his apprentice, but all of this seemed reasonable. Among them, so although he was a little surprised before, but at this moment...

"I hope to be Harry's partner after graduation." Tom whispered in Harry's ear.

"Tom..." Harry just stayed where he was, he didn't know whether Tom was trying to save himself, or reminding him that what he said in the Room of Requirement that day was not a joke.

"If this is the case, it's really a pity." Patriarch Black's eyes were gradually stained with haze, "However, I think we regret that we should still have the opportunity to cooperate."

"Of course, if you need my help." Harry nodded. It is necessary to maintain a certain relationship with the Black family. He doesn't want to be remembered by the Black family. After all, dealing with a group of lunatics is not what he wants.

Although the goal was not achieved, it was actually good to get Harry's guarantee. After chatting with Harry for a while, the head of the Black family used the excuse that he had something to leave, as if he was really just visiting.

And just after they left, Ron, who had been in a state of shock, finally found a chance to speak: "It's impossible, Harry, tell me it's not true." He shook Harry's shoulder, "That's Riddle , it's Tom Riddle!"

Tom beside him frowned.

Harry had hesitated the same way before in the Room of Requirement.

Just because he was "Tom Riddle?" How much of a shock had Harry and Ron been shocked by that name?

this name...

"It is true that I am lying about the previous apprenticeship. I think Harry is not willing to accept their so-called 'unfeeling invitation' to accept an apprentice who has never met, so I can only say this, just It seems that the Black family doesn't intend to give up. Harry and I... probably will really make a contract, and the matter of partner..." He looked at Harry, who had been frowning tightly, "I'm serious. "

Once the apprenticeship contract is concluded, Tom will be Harry's apprentice. Since then, both of them have been honored and lost. This is why the Black family "hopes" that Harry will become their apprentice. Someone's teacher's reason.

In the magic world, the apprenticeship contract is the oldest contract. It is impossible to verify its date. People only know that it was very popular before the Big Four appeared. At that time, the relationship between wizards and the Holy See was the most tense. The cruelty of cubs caused the number of wizards to drop sharply, and the protection of minor wizards became the most critical at that time.

The apprenticeship system has flourished since then. The system at that time was that after adult wizards took the cubs as apprentices, they had to be responsible for protecting them from growing up. shall be punished.

Later, when Hogwarts was established, the apprenticeship system was replaced by the college system, but such a contract was preserved in that ancient age. What Hogwarts taught children was basic magic. If you don't study, you have to go to another teacher.

Although the establishment of Hogwarts made the apprenticeship system forgotten by many people, it is still preserved to this day.

It's just that this system has changed since then. It has limited the number of apprentices accepted by wizards back then to the current limit, and apprentices in those days can automatically become teachers after they reach adulthood, as long as they prove that they can survive safely. Then even if he is killed by the Holy See due to an accident in the future, his mentor will not be punished, and today's apprentices can no longer become teachers, and some apprentices are even banned by mentors when they encounter bad people. It doesn't mean that the Ministry of Magic doesn't care about these things. It's just that those apprentices who have been restricted in their actions must have the ability to appear in the Ministry of Magic and have the ability to sue their mentors for it. Of course, most of these things happen in Knockturn Alley.

In today's apprenticeship system, because everything about apprentices belongs to the mentor, if they are not forced to, they will not go to apprentice. After all, magic schools are popular now, and there is no danger from the Holy See. The so-called apprenticeship system is actually in the black wizard relatively prosperous among them.

But there is one thing that has been preserved, that is, the joint relationship of all prosperity and one loss.

If the mentor commits a crime, the apprentice will be implicated, because he is the property of the mentor, and if the apprentice commits a crime, the mentor will also be affected, because he failed to teach his apprentice well.

And if you form a partner under such a contract, it will have another meaning.

At that point, everything will be shared.

Magic, soul, life.

That's why when Tom said that he wanted to be Harry's partner after graduation, Master Black didn't force Harry to accept another apprentice.

Using family members to contain this unknown person is in favor of everyone. Under the premise that they are all partners, the apprenticeship contract can only be between two people.

The source of the apprenticeship contract that Harry knew came from the word Hermione saw in a book, and then asked Draco, but Draco didn't answer it in detail, but Ron, as a wizard since he was a child, A wizard who grew up in the world naturally knows this.

Magic power sharing, life sharing, soul sharing...

Harry and Riddle share everything about themselves?

Forgive him!

Ron cried and said, "Harry, you know your situation."

Riddle lost a part of his soul, is this the rhythm to be repaired with Harry's soul?There is still a thorny dead soul on Harry's body that has not been cleared. Is it really okay for the souls of these three people to mix together?

wait, no!

Now is not the time for him to pay attention to Harry's soul, shouldn't he tell Harry that he should not agree to Riddle?

As long as you reject it, there will be no such soul shocks, okay?

"He didn't agree." Tom looked at Harry, and then at Ron, with a slightly irritable expression on his face. Of course, Harry didn't agree. They were both in the Cold War these days, and they didn't speak to each other when they met. , the way that professors and students should be, so cold that he almost thought that what happened in the Room of Requirement that day never happened at all!

"But... I won't give up either."

If he hadn't keenly seen Black's people walking this way at that time, if he hadn't sneaked into the cellar out of fear, he wouldn't have seized this opportunity.

In any case, he could see that Harry didn't want to have anything to do with Black, and he was trying to force Harry to enter into an apprenticeship contract with him, even though he never liked to entrust his life to others, But this is only temporary.

In the future, he could always wait until Harry agreed to him, he could always wait until... the apprenticeship contract became a companionship contract, couldn't he?

"Merlin..." Ron scratched his hair after Tom left, "Harry, I really think we need to go back soon." The people Slytherin wants to get never give up, and De Laco has dealt with him for so many years, no matter whether it is the period of hostility or the period of friendship, it is enough for him to see Slytherin clearly. He doesn't know how Riddle fell in love with Harry, but he feels that under such circumstances , It is safer for them to leave as soon as possible, Harry Potter and Tom Riddle are entangled, it is too frightening.

On the other side, the head of the Black family, who returned to the Black family, issued an investigation order.

"Patriarch?" The person who went with him and returned with him looked at him puzzled.

"Although they are not [-]% or [-]% similar, they are at least five points similar..." Patriarch Black sat on the main seat with deep eyes, "Check, no matter what method, you must find out for me, this haha Leigh Evans must be related to the Potter family."

The author has something to say: I don’t remember whether Charus and Doria were married at this time, so I didn’t ask Black to ask for Doria’s information, and I asked for the evidence party to appear qaq, I only remember that Charus and Doria were married It took a long time to give birth to James, which resulted in James being the same age as Sirius