Chapter 22 Past Events

Mu Yu can no longer remember how that dream ended. Her remaining memory only saw Tom Riddle's charming smile from beginning to end: "You did nothing wrong, Yu. I understand you." This was the only sentence he repeated.

The diary lay quietly on the bedside table, and Mu Yu fell into deep thought.

Yuyou appeared in the bedroom with a bang, with a nervous look on her face: "Master, you're awake. Yuyou, Yuyou called you many times...Yuyou didn't dare push Master..."

Mu Yu realized that she was about to be late.

She rubbed her brows and said, "I don't blame you, Yoyo."

Fortunately, all her luggage had been packed, and she quickly put on her clothes and activated the teleportation charm. However, even so, the clock had already passed eleven when she arrived at King's Cross Station. She can't catch the train. Mu Yu planned to go through the wall and enter the platform first, but she suddenly stopped when she was only one centimeter away from the wall. The wall is sealed.

Mu Yuzai carefully stroked the wall, and a voice whispered in her ear: "It was the house elf that did it." Mu Yu looked around and saw that no one noticed her, then she whispered in reply: "An isolation magic. If I want to crack it, I will spend all day here."

She turned and leaned against the wall and looked at the flow of people at the station: "They are really powerful."

Tom Riddle snorted without comment.

Staying here all the time was not an option. Mu Yu dragged his luggage out of King's Cross Station, but unexpectedly saw two familiar figures on the road opposite the station.

It's Harry and Ron. They were struggling to carry their luggage to a car.

Harry saw Mu Yu sharply, and he waved to Mu Yu: "Yu."

Mu Yu carried his luggage and struggled through the bustling crowd: "It seems that I am not the only one who is late." Mu Yu glanced at The dilapidated Ford car in front of them: "You want to drive there?"

Ron's face was full of excitement. He was already eager to try driving: "It's not our fault. The platform is blocked and we can't get through. Dad happens to have one We decided to drive the modified speed car to school. Do you want to come with us?" Mu Yu glanced at Harry. Although he was not as excited as Ron, his excitement was palpable.

They seemed serious. Even she was shocked by their bold idea. Mu Yu concealed her surprise well: "This... is not appropriate..." She was struggling with the words: "We can use owls to send the letter first. They will find a way. This is not our fault, at least. It's not your fault. After all, I was really late."

Ron thought for a while, but still insisted: "Yu, will they believe it? Because we can't get through the station wall, we can send the letter first and drive to the school at the same time. "

Mu Yu said seriously to them for the first time: "We can wait for their reply here, but driving to school is definitely something that touches the bottom line. And, do you know how to drive?"

Ron curled his lips. I've learned a little bit. The car was modified by my father and it's not particularly difficult to operate. "Yu, if you insist, you can wait here for Owl's reply." Ron has always been biased against Slytherin, and it looks like this. I totally disagree with his idea. He was a little unhappy: "Harry, what about you?"

Harry glanced at Mu Yu hesitantly: "Yu, are you sure you want to wait here?"

Mu Yu said calmly: "Yes. You go first, I'll give you some advice here." Write to the school. "She has told them the consequences of driving without permission. She didn't want to repeat it again.

"Then..." Before Harry could finish speaking, Ron pulled him away.

Muyu releases her owl from its cage, with which she is not very close. She is not a person who likes pets. She only bought an owl because it is convenient for communication. The owl apparently ignored her.

"I only need you to help me send a letter to Hogwarts." Mu Yu touched its body expressionlessly. The owl was reluctant, but still stretched out its legs. Mu Yu took out a few pieces of parchment and briefly explained the situation at platform nine and three-quarters. After all, she still didn't stress about Harry and Ron driving to school.

"Make three copies and send them to Professor Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, and Professor Snape respectively." After Mu Yu ordered the owl, she pulled her luggage and sat down on the bench next to the platform.

"Very stupid behavior." Tom Riddle looked at the back of Harry Ron leaving.

Mu Yu suddenly looked at him with a half-smile, "Tom, I'm afraid the platform being blocked has something to do with you, directly or indirectly."

He raised his eyebrows and did not answer Mu Yu. Mu Yu seemed to be talking to himself: "That was sealed by a house elf. House elves are very servile and would not do such things without authorization. But Harry was present... What a coincidence. But you think What you are doing has nothing to do with me."

Tom Riddle approached her and said, "You don't care at all that someone may lose his life." Mu Yu's tone was indifferent and inappropriate for his age: "Losing your life may not be the worst situation. The things I have done before are more terrible than letting people die."

"Yu, watch carefully. The Hogwarts plan cannot be separated from your cooperation," he leaned into her ear. He whispered something and entered the diary. He couldn't leave the diary for long just yet.

Mu Yu ignored him and took out a book to read.

Hogwarts responded very quickly, but Mu Yu saw Snape walking towards her. In his hand he held an old tea cup. Mu Yu put on a gentle and polite smile and greeted Snape: "Professor Snape." Snape glanced at her, and as usual it was difficult to detect any emotional fluctuations on his face: "Miss Mu. Although it is unbelievable for you to miss the train because of oversleeping, you still have a normal brain, unlike some idiots. Hold the door key and you have to get to Hogwarts first." Mu. Yu subconsciously ignored the cynicism in Snape's words. She held the old tea cup. There was a sudden spin, and in the blink of an eye she was in the cellar. Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall are both here at this time.

"Ah, Severus, thank you." Dumbledore said and smiled kindly at Mu Yu: "Yu, welcome back to Hogwarts."

Mu Yu nodded to several professors: "Thank you. It's just that I didn't expect to return to Hogwarts in this way. I didn't expect the platform..."

Dumbledore's smile subsided slightly when he mentioned the platform: "Oh, yes, the platform will not be missed. Unreasonable closure. We will investigate. "Yu, it's still early before the dinner, why don't you take this opportunity to take a good rest." Mu Yu looked at Professor McGonagall, who still had a serious look on her face, and she knew that they might still be discussing. What to do with Harry and Ron. It was not convenient for Mu Yu to stay here, so she left wisely: "Then I'll go back to the dormitory first, Professor."

When she was about to leave, Dumbledore stopped her: "Yu, I'm afraid we can't finish the training last semester. You have to continue. Every Wednesday evening, you know the password."

Mu Yu did not return to the common room as she said. She has always been curious about this living castle. Countless secrets are hidden in the laughter of students. She had long wanted to explore the castle alone, but something went wrong this time.

After a year, she was already familiar with the stairs that kept changing directions. Mu Yu walked towards the west tower. She knew that Helena must be near the tower. Only her footsteps could be heard in the empty corridor. A portrait in the aisle looked curiously at the girl with an oriental face.

When Mu Yu found Helena, she was leaning on the railing of the tower as always, looking at the endless black lake in the distance. She had always been introverted, and Mu Yu had never seen her talk to any ghost during their occasional encounters.

She was thinking about something, and even Mu Yu didn't notice when he was standing next to her. It wasn't until a portrait hanging on the wall screamed: "Students! How could there be students at this time!" Helena realized that Mu Yu had been standing beside her for an unknown amount of time.

"Little girl," Helena said softly.

"I have a name."

"It's all the same."

Mu Yu didn't dwell on this, she went straight to the point: "You know my mother, Olivia."

Helena's translucent body shook: " You know something. I thought you would ask in a more tactful way."

Mu Yu tapped the railing with his index finger: "There is no need to be tactful and roundabout sometimes. It's superfluous."

Helena floated next to Mu Yu, as if she was studying something: "So, what do you want to know?"

"Everything."

Helena didn't rush to tell Mu Yu the answer. Floating in the corridor, Mu Yu could only catch a light blue figure: "Have I ever said that you look like a person."

Mu Yu leaned against the wall and looked at the ghost of Ravenclaw quietly. , she did not rush, nor was she impatient. If first-year Helena could still capture her fleeting curiosity and exploration, it was now difficult for her to capture any emotions from Mu Yu's eyes. Her whole body was like that black lake, calm and calm on the surface, but there were countless wonderful dramas going on at the bottom of the lake.

"Everything still seems to have happened yesterday," Helena stopped in front of the door of the Ravenclaw common room, her transparent hand passed through the eagle ring on the door, "Twenty years ago, Olivier Like all children, Ya stepped into the door of Hogwarts with joy. Her surname was Welfare, but she was in an embarrassing situation because of her mother's affairs, especially at that time...she was so weak, walking from Hogsmeade to the Black Lake. She fainted once in such a short distance. No one believed that she could live beyond the age of fifteen. "

Mu Yu still leaned against the wall, and she didn't even move.

"She was sorted into Ravenclaw. She has powerful magic, but her body limits her power. If it weren't for her weak body, no one in Hogwarts could compare to her. Most of her She spent all her time in the lounge, and the professors were considerate of her special situation and would take time to give her private lessons in the lounge. "

Mu Yu had imagined many times how she would react if she was lucky enough to learn about her mother's past. Tears welled up in my eyes, but I was still filled with emotion. But when Helena's rhythmic tone echoed little by little in the corridor, Mu Yu found that she had no emotion at all.

There was no sadness or nostalgia, as if she was listening to a stranger's story.

Helena continued: "Olivia can only wander around the West Tower corridor at most. She knows every passage hidden behind the portrait. She is a very tolerant girl and a good Listener. The Mirror of Erised was still in a secret room in the west tower, Olivia's favorite place."

The story ends abruptly.

"Little girl, they are all gone." Helena's usually cold tone contained a rare hint of choking, "What's the use of worrying about this. You don't look like her at all." The last sentence seemed particularly sharp.

Helena controlled the surging emotions and returned to her previous calmness: "Over the past hundred years, countless students have passed by me. You are so similar to a boy." She added: "I'm not talking about you.

"I don't admit that he is my father." "

You are neither your father nor your mother. It doesn't make any sense whether you admit it or not." She gradually disappeared into a ball of light.

After Helena left, Mu Yu did not continue to wander around the west tower. She walked down the stairs. She overestimated her curiosity about her mother. She couldn't even imagine what Olivia should look like in her mind.

As Helena said, whether it is Mu Yi or Olivia, they are no longer in this world. She is no one and has never been for anyone.

Like or not, what does it matter?

When she came to her senses, she was already on the first floor without realizing it. The water covered most of the corridor on the first floor. Intermittent sobbing came from the bathroom on the first floor, and it was Moaning Myrtle again. Mu Yu didn't want to stay in this corridor any longer, but it was too late.

Myrtle had discovered her, and she screamed: "You are that girl from Slytherin! I know you look down on Myrtle. Who will pay attention to poor Myrtle?" Her cry became more and more shrill, The empty corridor was even a bit eerie.

More water overflowed from the bathroom, and Mu Yu secretly sweated for Filch, which kept him busy. Mu Yu stood at the door of the bathroom, and Myrtle had already gotten into a stall and cried loudly.

Such crying made her very headache and irritable, but on the surface she still maintained a gentle and polite image.

"I didn't mean that, Myrtle."

Myrtle ignored her and continued to hide in the compartment, sobbing.

Mu Yu was attracted by the sink in the middle. She approached the sink and groped carefully, her expression a little solemn. What's down here, it's in the pipe. She could feel that she was always very sensitive to energy. Something alive has been active in the pipe.

Mu Yu looked at the mirror, and the young man's handsome face was reflected in the mirror again. His dark eyes were bottomless, with a hint of confusion: "Yu, do you want to go down and have a look?"

Mu Yu continued to stare intently in front of him. On the sink, she touched a small groove in which a lifelike little snake was carved. She became interested, even though she clearly knew what Tom Riddle was trying to do: "Of course, Tom, I am willing to go down and have a look."

The smile of the boy in the mirror became more charming and dangerous: "Yu, this will be a surprise. "

You can clearly see from the mirror that he is gradually getting closer behind Mu Yu, as if he and Mu Yu have become one body. He used Mu Yu's mouth to spit out the hoarse syllables clearly. The sink slowly cracked open, revealing a bottomless deep passage.

He carefully observed Mu Yu's expression. But to his disappointment, Mu Yu still showed no signs of movement, as if such a secret passage was not enough to impress her.