Chapter 97: From Riddle

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    "...the public is reminded that Blake is armed and extremely dangerous. A dedicated hotline has been set up and anyone who sees Blake is asked to report it immediately."

    The man''s thin and haggard face on the TV was surrounded by long, dirty, messy, tangled hair. Compared with that man, Harry felt that he was quite neat.

    Sirius Black''s Most Wanted TV show has been reporting for weeks. This story had been in the newspapers since the first day after returning to Privet Drive from Hogwarts this summer.

    His uncle, Vernon Dursley, always angrily wanted to know which prison the man had escaped from, so that he could make a phone call and complain to the warden of that prison.

    But today''s news seems to be different. After the TV reported on Sirius Black again, it surprisingly did not jump to a boring program like agriculture and fisheries, but instead talked about another prison escapee.

    "It is reported that another criminal, Riddle, is also currently missing from prison. According to relevant speculation, Black and Riddle are suspected accomplices, and both of them possess lethal weapons..."

    Harry, who was frying eggs, was immediately stunned.

    Hearing the name "Riddle" again made him feel as if he had suddenly returned to the magical world from this quagmire-like Muggle world, but the emotion pouring out of his heart at this moment was not happiness, but surprise.

    Tom Riddle, he once thought that the other party was a friend, and he had been acting with the other party for almost half of the semester, but in reality?

    This was the man who killed his parents that night twelve years ago, and even wanted to kill him too!

    In the last school year, he also controlled a giant basilisk, wreaking terror attacks in Hogwarts and petrifying several people!

    Fortunately, Dumbledore - who everyone said was the greatest wizard - caught him and sent him to Azkaban, a prison specially prepared for wizards.

    Hearing the name "Tom Riddle" again, and the news that he had escaped from prison, Harry felt very confused for some reason. He didn''t know how to face this.

    Logically speaking, he should be angry at the escape of the enemy who killed his parents, but in fact, he is not.

    On the contrary, he was a little happy for the other person. It was always difficult for him to overlap the shadows of Riddle, whom he had spent time with, and Voldemort, even though Dumbledore had repeatedly emphasized that what that man was best at was deceiving people.

    Harry was very lucky that he moved from the storage room on the stairs to this small room last year, otherwise, he would never have imagined that he would receive so many letters in one night.

    Just now- four owls, two of them from Ron and Hermione, who sent the other two?

    Soon he knew where the third owl came from - Hogwarts!

    This owl from the school brought two letters, one from his friend Rubeus Hagrid and the other from the school. And the fourth owl——

    Harry didn''t recognize who it was from. The letter looked very plain, with no signature on it, and a badge printed on the seal with the image of a handsome eagle.

    He originally wanted to read the letter from Ron first, but this unsigned letter attracted him like magic, and his hand couldn''t help but tear open the seal.

    If there was someone familiar with magic by his side, he might be immediately prevented from opening an unknown letter, lest he be cursed. But he never thought for a moment that such an accident would happen.

    He tore open the envelope and a greeting card fell out. The card showed a flying Quidditch star.

    It was the first card he''d ever received, and it was his favorite Quidditch!

    Harry couldn''t help but feel a lot of joy in his heart, and now he was eager to know who knew him so well.

    Dear Harry:

    Happy birthday!

    I''m sure you''re wondering who sent you this letter, Harry; and I''m guessing you''ve heard about Tom Riddle''s escape.

    Yes, I am "Riddle".

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