"Who're you!? Why are you doing this!?" Harry asked in anger.
"Voldemort!" Tom exclaid with a smirk.
"Voldemort? Why do you care about Voldemort?" Harry asked bravely but still confused, "He was after your ti."
"Voldemort, Harry, is my past, my present and my future.", Tom said with a smile, his arms stretched out to reveal the grandness of his words.
Flicking Hary's wand through the air, Tom wrote the words 'TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE' in the air and with a flick caused the letters to rearrange themselves to spell out the sentence, 'I AM LORD VOLDEMORT'.
"You see? It was a na I was already using when I was in Hogwarts. Of course, only my most intimate friends knew of it. I wanted a na that wizards all around the world would one day fear to even speak. And I've achieved it."
Harry was looking at Tom with a scowl, his anger apparent in his bloodshot eyes but he forced himself to speak, "You're not!"
"Not what?" Tom asked, annoyed at having been interrupted while giving his grand speech.
"I'm not afraid to speak your na and so is Headmaster Dumbledore. I bet you're afraid of him aren't you?"
Tom's smile changed into a frown and he tried to argue, "'He' was driven out of the castle by a re mory of !"
"Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it!" Harry said repeating Dumbledore's advice to him from last year.
Tom opened his mouth to argue further but froze when he heard a song.
Harry looked around trying to spot the source of the song unsuccessfully since the song was echoing everywhere and made his heart swell to twice its size.
"A bird?" Tom said spotting a crimson bird that was rather large like a swan. "Haha! Is that what 'He' sent to help you? A bird and an old hat?" Tom mocked and then spoke in a sarcastic tone, "Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it!!"
Tom laughed with his hands on his knees as if he'd heard the funniest joke in a century, the large chamber they were in echoed Tom's laughing and poured water over Harry's burning morale that even the Phoenix landing on Harry's shoulder couldn't raise.
Tom then turned towards the statue and spoke to it in Parsletongue and said sothing Harry understood.
"Speak to , Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts Four."
The statue began to move and the dust that had collected on it began to fall, the statue slowly opened its mouth wider and wider forming a deep black hole that looked like the abyss.
The mouth acted as a natural echo chamber amplifying the movent of the slithering snake in it.
Harry imdiately closed his eyes and as he did he thought he heard a *squeak* from the Phoenix but the movent of the snake was too loud to accurately pinpoint the sound after the Phoenix took flight.
"What are you going to do now Potter." Tom said before turning to the Basilisk and speaking in parseltongue, "Kill him.".
The next mont Loki got up from the ground and dusted himself, "Damn, my robes are stained with blood, I'll need to clean them after I go back."
Loki looked at the six other creatures in the chamber, Tom, Harry, Ginny, the Basilisk and the Sorting Hat, all of them were in a daze.
"Good job putting them to sleep and pulling them into a dream Sunny.", Loki said petting the Niffler who was scampering around his shoulder. "You're sohow always super useful against you-know-who. I'll treat you to a pile of gold when we're back."
*Squeak*
"Do you need to stay here or will you co with ?"
*Squeak* *Squeak*
"Fine, stay here and digest your potion. Good luck." Loki said and began to walk into the now open mouth of the Slytherin that looked like it was calling to him.
Walking at a quick pace, Loki vanished into the tunnel that was Salazar Slytherin's mouth while Sunny kept watch on the six people who were currently trapped in a dream and were fighting each other.
'Good that the Ring of Harvest stole the ability to use Mr. A's powers to control his flesh from the Sequence 6 Rose Bishop.' Loki thought as he patted his chest where Tom had pierced him to remove the Beyonder characteristics.
'I've gotten my potion digested to about seventy per cent already by fooling Tom, I wonder how I'll digest the other thirty per cent.'
Delving deep into the tunnel, Loki finally ca across the end which was a large room that was probably the nesting site of the Basilisk.
'Is there really nothing here?' Loki wondered as he stepped around the room, but as he walked closer to the walls after activating his spirit vision he froze.
'Huh? Why can I feel there's sothing of value hidden behind the wall?'
'Is it a false wall?' Loki asked and moved closer.
Feeling the wall by knocking on it Loki determined that the wall was fake and was covering up sothing.
'How did Tom not notice this?'
'Perhaps he never thought that there could be a secret inside a secret chamber?' Loki wondered and pulled out his wand.
He tapped the wall with a little bit of his spirituality but nothing happened, and just when Loki decided he was going to use Diffindo to cut through the wall it sunk.
A clear line was created across its border as it inset into the floor. Loki pressed the wall deeper and forced it to open.
Behind it was a dark tunnel that Loki cautiously stepped into after igniting the tip of his wand using the Lumos charm, but the tunnel seed to have been artificially darkened since the light from the Lumos charm didn't even travel far enough to touch the walls that Loki could feel were only a ter away.
Thin strings of black hair seed to float in the air like a spider's web judging all that touched them.
'Darkness pathway artefact?' Loki wondered but otherwise continued to move deeper since the hair didn't strangle him or put him to sleep even after coming in direct contact with him.
It was only after a few minutes of soundless walking that Loki arrived at the source of the threads in the air, it ca from a transparent jar with a beating heart inside it.
The jar was placed on a stone slab where a shelf had been carved into the stone wall, but that wasn't what attracted Loki's attention.
There was a small letter underneath the jar that Loki felt compelled to pick up, it was absorbing most of his attention.
'The symbol baked into the wax seal seems familiar…but where have I seen it before?'
'I don't think there are any runes like this…'
'Is it a combination of runes?'
Opening the letter by breaking its seal Loki pulled out the letter within.
'To Mr. Error's Blessed.'
Loki froze in place as soon as he read the line with the hairs on his body standing on full alert as goosebumps ford on every inch of his skin.
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A/N : I had mistakenly only uploaded the first few paragraphs of chapter 139, so just in case you didn't get to read the full chapter, you might want to read it later. It's a side chapter so it doesn't affect the plot, but its up to you! Thank you for reading!
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