For a moment he didn't know whether to continue reading or not, but surprisingly, Harry didn't feel any sadness or anger in his heart, he even felt a little happy.

After learning about Tom Riddle, Harry found that his experience was too similar to that person's. He should have been angry, disgusted, and even terrified by these similarities. Because Voldemort was a terrible person who killed many people, including his parents. It was because of him that he had to live under someone else's roof.

But in fact, he was a little fortunate that there was someone who was very similar to him, almost like a brother. The feeling was very wonderful, just like the Weasley twins he knew, they were always inseparable.

Harry felt that he regarded Hogwarts as his home, and the same was true for "Mr. Riddle", and there was a strong resonance between them.

Another reason why Harry couldn't hate "Mr. Riddle" was that Harry had seen Voldemort at the end of his first year, so it was difficult for him to equate Voldemort with "Mr. Riddle".

The man was very weak at the time, but still terrifying. He possessed a teacher and almost killed Harry. Fortunately, Harry had a protective spell left by his mother before she died, which made Voldemort unable to hurt him. Quirrell just touched him slightly and he was immediately turned into ashes.

But for two whole semesters, Harry had come into contact with "Mr. Riddle" many times, but the spell never triggered once. Perhaps the spell failed, but Harry would rather think that "Mr. Riddle" never wanted to hurt him.

In fact, he didn't hurt anyone. According to Hermione, the basilisk could actually kill everyone easily. Even if it couldn't, "Mr. Riddle" could do it himself. It was not a difficult task for him, but all the people who were attacked were rescued in the end.

Harry continued reading:

"Yes, I am 'Riddle'. But actually I would prefer you to call me Cyrus. Riddle or Voldemort, to me, they are all in the past, not the present, let alone the future. As for other things, they are basically the same as what was said in the news.

"It is true that Sirius Black helped me leave Azkaban, but it is a bit far-fetched to say that we are accomplices. We just made a deal and our goals were different. On the contrary, you will be in trouble again next semester—"

Harry looked slightly embarrassed; he had certainly been in a lot of trouble over the past two school years.

He could already imagine the mocking expression on "Mr. Riddle's" face as he wrote these words.

However, Harry was confused by the "trouble" mentioned by "Mr. Riddle". He really didn't understand what else could be related to him? He continued to read, hoping to get some information from the rest of the letter. But Cyrus changed the subject and talked about something else.

"I guess you are probably wondering why I am writing to you now. Besides the fact that it happens to be your birthday, I also want you to help me apologize to Ginny. I have no choice but to lie to you."

Harry noticed that the words on the letter seemed to pause here for a long time, and the ink was smeared on the letter paper. It seemed that "Mr. Riddle" had more words to explain, but he finally ended the topic and continued:

"Here are some suggestions for you, Harry. The professor of the Divination class you and Ron chose this semester is Sybill Trelawney. Although she is just an old liar most of the time, she actually has a gift for prophecy. If you still trust me and happen to hear a prophecy from her, tell me if you don't mind. Just write it in the diary and I'll know it (please keep it secret from Ginny. I can't handle the bombardment of her information. I finally had a few days of peace during this period)."

Seeing this, Harry suddenly laughed.

That night, after confirming that there was no danger, Dumbledore still left "Riddle's diary" to Ginny. Harry didn't expect that "Mr. Riddle" actually had a trick up his sleeve. Ginny had persisted in writing many words in the diary but had no response.

"Your friend, Cyrus."

"And I don't think you will tell Dumbledore what happened today?"

At this moment, the letter in Harry's hand suddenly caught fire, and he was so scared that he quickly threw it away. A small ball of flame burned the letter clean in the air before falling down, leaving only the birthday card. He immediately realized that the letter was cast a spell.

Harry picked up the card. In a corner of the card filled with blessings, there was a spell written: Patronus.

Note: You must think of happy things in your mind when casting the spell.

"Expediate Patronus?" Harry had never heard of this spell, but he thought that since "Mr. Riddle" thought he needed it, he could at least remember the name first.

Last year, Ginny excelled in many subjects because of Mr. Riddle's teaching, especially in Charms. Harry dared to say that at least many third and fourth grade wizards might not be Ginny's opponents.

Harry held the greeting card in his hand, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

Reason told Harry that he should tell all this to Dumbledore, no one was wiser than Dumbledore.

But for some reason, he felt that there was nothing wrong with this. "Mr. Riddle" No, it should be said that Mr. Sellers and Voldemort might not be the same thing at all. As he said in the letter, "Sometimes what seems to be a dangerous omen may be the opposite."

He put the envelope away, wondering what Mr. Cyrus was doing at the moment. Would he know that Ginny and Hermione missed him? After the truth of the attack was revealed, no matter what Mrs. Weasley and Mr. Weasley said, Ginny thought that Mr. Cyrus might not be a bad person. Even Hermione, who was petrified, said that he just wanted her to sleep for a while.

"He probably thought I was too smart and was a bit of a hindrance, and he even reminded me to use a spell to weaken the basilisk's magic," said Hermione.

Perhaps only Ron firmly believed that Mr. Sellers was a terrible enemy. Ginny thought that Ron was just scared by things related to "Voldemort", while Hermione thought that Ron was dissatisfied with Mr. Sellers' unwillingness to help him with homework and exams.

But in fact, Harry just felt that Ron was a little too worried about his sister, so he was still scared about this matter.

But even Ron did not oppose Mr. Cyrus on everything. At least he thought that Mr. Cyrus did a very good job in beating up the Slytherins and exterminating the entire Forbidden Forest's Acromantula.

It can be considered as getting rid of harm for the people.

(End of this chapter)