Chapter 52 HP World

  Yahiko nodded: "I have this idea, but the final decision is still up to you and Aileen."

  "Can I think about it for a few more years?" Tom asked after some deliberation.

  Erin is only three years old now, and he can't be certain that their relationship will only be sibling-like in the future. Moreover, neither the ordinary Riddle family nor the declining Gant family of the wizarding world can compare to the still prosperous Prinz family.

  Controlling nearly 70% of the wizarding world's magical plant cultivation and supplying 90% of the finished magical potions, the Prinz family is considered one of the top noble families in the wizarding world.

  But such a nobleman ended up like that in the original work, and it's hard not to sigh. This is the rule of fate, nothing is eternal, especially for humans. Wizards, even with magical powers stronger than ordinary people, are still human.

  Tom found out about his true parentage on his birthday, a year after arriving at the Gantz estate, which was what he had asked Yagou for as a birthday present. Yagou showed him everything without reserve: the defects of the Gantz family's long history of inbreeding, such as their short tempers; how his father had been seduced by his mother using an aphrodisiac and abandoned her when she stopped giving it to him while pregnant with Tom; how his mother struggled to make ends meet in the ordinary world, unable to give birth to him, at the cost of her own life.

  After learning the truth, Tom was silent for a few days and finally cheered up after having a good talk with Yago. Family background is important, but personal ability is more important. Whether it's the history of wizards or ordinary people, there are those who have a poor family background but become legendary figures in the end. And he is much better than those people, at least he is still a descendant of Slytherin and now also an adopted son of the Prince family!

  Tom, brought up by Agatha, learned to analyze and look at things intelligently, and after secretly going to Little Hangerford to see the handsome gentleman who was already married with children, he had no more expectations for his real father. Compared to his foster father Brian, Tom Riddle as an ordinary person really made little Tom look down on him, and at this time he finally understood the meaning of the charm of personality that his foster father said.

  As for his deceased mother, Tom is not as cynical and bitter as in the original work. He only mourns her misfortune and resents her lack of struggle. Since he chose to use love potions, why did he later hope that the man could truly love her after she became pregnant? Either use love potions to keep happiness for a lifetime, or don't start at all!

  Mellor Gant is not worthy of being a descendant of Salazar Slytherin, there isn't a single trait of Salazar Slytherin in her!

  Now in Little Tom's eyes, his adoptive father is the most Slytherin person. Of course, if his adoptive father was born a thousand years ago, Hogwarts might not have been four founders but five!

  The existence being worshiped like this said he had an idea of making him his son-in-law, Tom couldn't help but feel conflicted.

  "Of course." Yaka smiled at the handsome, knotted young boy. "Tom, I want you to be a Prince, but it has to be your will. And also, it's the same for Irene, she must agree willingly too."

  Yahiko clearly knew how true Tom's last words were, and some of his nature was the same as Tom's. Seven years older than Aileen, if he really decided to be with Aileen, then he would absolutely not give Aileen any chance to fall in love with another man besides him.

  Tom pursed his lips, his eyes flashing with a hint of hesitation. In fact, he really wanted to agree now, but deep down, he was not entirely willing. He had ambitions and believed in himself that he could achieve something, but the hopes of his foster father...he also wanted to fulfill them for him. The future Black Magic King was now just a young boy barely ten years old, and no matter how precocious he was, he couldn't hide his thoughts from Yago's eyes.

  He patted the young boy's head, and Yago smiled: "Tom, wanting you to marry Irene and become the master of the Princes' house is just my own selfishness. Irene is our treasure with Alice, I hope she can be happy and carefree all her life. Becoming the patriarch of the Princes family is a very hard thing, if possible, I don't want her to bear this responsibility." He looked at little Tom with a pleased and appreciative gaze: "You are different from Irene, you are a man with ambition, handing over the Princes family to your hands, I am at ease. Of course, as I said before, if you don't have that kind of thought towards Irene, it's okay, I just hope you can take care of her more as an older brother. No matter what, I will always be your father, Tom."

  The affectionate gaze of Ya Ge made Tom almost immediately agree to become the next master of Prince, but he finally calmed down. He still needs to think about gains and losses, although he has learned a lot from various books, after all, he has only been in an orphanage, regarding human nature, concerning his own future, he still needs to think more.

  But anyway, Ya Ge felt his care and remembered it in her heart.

  Before he knew it, another year had passed and it was Tom's eleventh birthday. The Prince family of four were enjoying a sumptuous birthday dinner when Tom received the admission notice from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry delivered by an owl.

  Yahiko took the notice and scanned it, then looked up with a smile: "This Hogwarts acceptance letter is still so formulaic, just the textbook names and principal's name changed. So Tom, when are you planning to go shopping in Diagon Alley? I'll arrange my schedule to accompany you."

  "No need to go through so much trouble, Father. I can just use the mail-order catalog. To be honest, that kind of place... at first it was fun going there, but after a few times, it's really not that interesting. Not as interesting as the ordinary world, anyway." Tom shrugged. Having been influenced by the aristocracy and educated by Yaga, he had also become a man with taste, and didn't look down on or hate ordinary people like in the original story. "Besides, there's still half a year before school starts, I really don't know why the Hogwarts acceptance letter has to arrive on my birthday!"

  "Perhaps this is Hogwarts' birthday gift to the young wizard who turns eleven?" Yaxue said with a light laugh, "So Tom, what do you want for your birthday present this year?"

  "I never thought I'd say this, Father. You know, I don't lack anything now." Materially speaking, Tom was more than satisfied with the life of a noble; spiritually, the care from Yago and Halle, as well as Irene's dependence on him, made Tom feel happy.

  He is someone who is cared about, he is needed by others. He is increasingly moved by the proposal that Yago made at first, but a self-esteem in his heart as a young man still makes him unwilling to agree so easily. Even if he doesn't like the surname Riddle, he doesn't want to change his name to Prince for the time being either.

  "Alright, I've secretly prepared your eleventh birthday gift. Yago smiled mysteriously, "From now on, Little Tom, you'll have to work even harder on your studies. Now that you're eleven, you can start practicing some low-level spells."

  "Tom's eyes lit up as he looked at Yago: 'Father, can I finally have that magic wand?'"

  "Of course it is, I made it especially for you." Yaka said with a smile.

  When he first came to this world system, in addition to passing on the plot to him, it also packaged all the data of the magical fantasy world and handed it over to him, including the production of items such as wands. With this knowledge, looking at the magic wands in the HP world again, Yage didn't want to mock them anymore.

  Silent incantation belongs to advanced magic... In the world of magical fantasy, those magicians have been working hard to practice silent incantations since they were apprentices! Without a wand, no spell can be cast. Obviously, wands are auxiliary tools that accelerate casting speed and increase magical attacks, but somehow they came up with something called "destined wands"...

  Isn't "destined" supposed to be used between men and women?

  So, among the four people present, except for Aileen who was still young, the other three, including herself and Yaka, had all crafted their own wands according to their respective attributes. As a result, Tom no longer used the wand made from Dumbledore's phoenix feather that he had used since childhood, but instead used a wand made by Yaka using the water spirit essence she brought back from the Xianjian world as its base.

  Tom's basic attributes are dark and water systems, Yajiao doesn't have a dark system for refining artifacts, so he can only use the water system as a substitute. Finally, a small blood recognition array was set up on the staff, allowing no one else to use it except Tom.

  This is after all something that transcends the level of this world, and it's only allowed to be used in a small scope without spreading out. Yajiao is now not only probing the system but also probing the rules. Mastering these will allow him to complete his tasks better and lay the foundation for one day counterattacking the system.

  Tom walked onto the Hogwarts Express with a pale face, casually finding an empty compartment to enter. His hangover headache left him without the energy to care about what differences this steam train had from the ordinary world. In an era where electric trains and airplanes were gradually becoming widespread, he was well aware of the wizarding world's backwardness.

  Today he's going to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, last night Hagrid specially instructed the house-elf to prepare a pile of his favorite food for him, and later even got the underage boy drunk! And his father just stood by smiling and taking care of Erin, without even helping him refuse once!

  He rubbed his eyebrows, just about to close his eyes and rest for a while when Tom was interrupted by the sound of the carriage door opening. Standing at the entrance was a 14 or 15-year-old boy wearing a luxurious black robe. The robe was luxurious because it had dark lines embroidered with subtle patterns, and those subtle patterns were obviously some kind of defensive magic array.

  Nowadays, the wizarding world's magic patterns and magic texts have basically been lost. A young man who can wear such a robe is obviously from a pure-blood family with a good background. Looking at the young man's dreamy and beautiful light golden long hair, Tom's black eyes flashed, originally not wanting to pay attention to him, now there is such a worthy young man to get along with.

  Is this what they call bittersweet?

  "Good day, sorry to disturb you." A refined and delicate-looking young man with a mix of elegance and vigor bowed his head in greeting, "Excuse me, is there anyone else here?"

  "Good day, there's no one else here, please sit down." Tom bowed elegantly.

  "Are you a first year?" The boy looked Tom up and down curiously before saying proudly, "I am Abraxas Malfoy, a fifth-year student in Slytherin House."

  Malfo... indeed it is.

  Platinum blonde hair and grey-blue eyes, the Malfoy family's standard looks are just as famous as the Prince family's black hair and black eyes.

  "Yes, I am Tom Marvolo Riddle, this year's new student."

  "Riddell... Is there such a surname among the nobles?" Abraxas frowned.

  Tom's demeanor and behavior were those of a noble upbringing, but this surname, he had never heard of it before... Wait! It seemed that he occasionally heard his father mention that the head of the Prinz family had a mixed-blooded adopted son. Could it be that this was the boy in front of him?

  The author has something to say: Tom will soon find out how much the true pure-blood nobles value their bloodline!

  Even if he is a descendant of Slate Lin, the ordinary human blood in his body will be secretly despised by those people. At that time, he will think Eileen is his best choice.

  In his penniless state, Ya Ge was willing to give her daughter to him simply because of who he was, which was better than those noblewomen who would only crazily adore him after he had gained power, wasn't it?

  I've finally entered Hogwarts, and now the pace of our potatoes will speed up. Our professors are about to arrive!