Chapter 282

"I, I followed the Master's instructions, after Dumbledore left, I prepared to steal the Sorcerer's Stone."

"I first sneaked into Dumbledore's headmaster's office, wanting to find some clues. Those portraits were very annoying, but the Master taught me a spell, and I let them all fall asleep. I looked through Dumbledore's letters, but unfortunately, I didn't find clues about how he set up the traps, but I discovered that he was communicating with Nicolas Flamel, and I thus found Nicolas Flamel's current address."

"Later, I rushed to the fourth-floor corridor, and as a result, I saw two young wizards, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, tied up. I turned invisible and hid, waiting to see what was going on."

"After a while, Snape brought two other students out from the trap side. He was very angry, it seemed that several students broke into the trap and were caught by him. But I noticed that Tom was holding the Sorcerer's Stone, and Harry was also there. This was a good opportunity. Tom really did it as promised, so I knocked Snape unconscious and took them both away..."

"Wait," Rasim interrupted him. "What do you mean by saying Tom did it as promised?"

"Lukas Brightson, no, not an ordinary student..." Quirrell said. "He seems to have been controlled, controlled by the Master... I don't know clearly, the Master didn't explain to me, but he was also required to get the Sorcerer's Stone..."

"Are you saying that Lukas Brightson is also Voldemort's servant?"

"No! He is not!" Harry suddenly said. "He was forced. He would die if he didn't get the Sorcerer's Stone."

"Lukas Brightson wanted freedom. The Master promised him that he would give him freedom if he brought the Sorcerer's Stone and Harry. I don't know how he did it, but the opportunity was just right at the time, so I took them both away..." Quirrell continued.

"Why does Voldemort need Harry?" Rasim asked.

"Harry Potter once made the Master lose his power. The Master wanted to figure out why. He took Harry away and also wanted to use Harry's blood to make the Resurrection Potion, so that no matter what power Harry had, the Master would also have it, and he would become stronger than ever before..."

Everyone frowned. Voldemort was even more cunning and cautious than they had imagined!

He actually controlled two people to seize the Sorcerer's Stone at the same time, and also considered using Harry to enhance his power.

"Then what?"

"Then, we left the school, and then came to the church graveyard in Little Hangleton village. The Master's father was buried there, and we needed to use his bones..."

"Bones?" Rasim asked.

"Yes, the materials for the Resurrection Potion need the father's bone, the servant's flesh, and the enemy's blood. I offered my left hand for this..." Quirrell said.

Everyone looked at Quirrell's broken arm that was almost broken to the elbow.

You didn't offer your hand, you offered half an arm, right?

"We had already prepared the tools there," Quirrell said. "We got the Sorcerer's Stone and were ready to start brewing the Immortality Potion. At this time, Lukas Brightson wanted to go back on his word. He didn't want to kill Harry Potter. He seemed to treat him as a friend..."

"He took out the diary, wanted to attack me with his wand, but the Master stopped him, controlled him, and let himself in the diary be resurrected through Lukas Brightson..."

"Wait," suddenly, Dumbledore, who had been silent, interrupted Quirrell. "You said, diary?"

"Yes, diary." Quirrell said. "The Master used a diary to control Lukas Brightson. The Master called Lukas 'himself'. He seemed to use a method to occupy Lukas's body... but I don't understand very well, the Master's magic is mysterious and unpredictable..."

"Talk about this carefully, talk about that diary." Dumbledore ordered.

"That is a black notebook. The Master said there is a piece of soul in it, and some memories. Lukas Brightson also called himself Tom Riddle. I don't understand very well. The Master said he is a walking corpse. He once found me in the Forbidden Forest. At that time, I was drinking unicorn blood for the Master..."

"Ah! It's you! You bad guy! Murderer!" Hagrid was furious. "So it was you who killed them!"

"Quiet! Let him continue!" Barty Crouch roared.

"What happened later?"

"Later that boy, Lukas Brightson found us. He wanted to get rid of the diary's control, wanted to regain freedom..."

"Freedom..." Dumbledore was thoughtful. "So that's how it is."

Harry also understood. "No wonder he said he saw freedom in the Mirror of Erised... he had always been controlled! He was controlled by Voldemort with evil magic, he would die if he didn't get the Sorcerer's Stone..."

"Let him continue to talk about what happened tonight, he is about to die." Barty Crouch said.

Quirrell was indeed about to die. His skin dimmed, and his whole person was so weak that he was about to lie on the ground.

"Continue to talk about what you did tonight."

"Tonight... I, we got the Sorcerer's Stone... we went to Dumbledore's office..."

"You said this already, you said you arrived at the graveyard, and then you were making the potion." Rasim reminded.

"Yes, potion, we were making the potion, and then the Master controlled Lukas. He released a spell, wanting to let the soul in the diary wake up from Lukas's body..."

"But, he seemed to have failed. After that guy woke up, he pretended to ask the Master about the Resurrection Potion, and then he used Harry Potter's wand to blow up the cauldron, taking the opportunity to escape with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone..."

"So, he saved Harry Potter and stopped Voldemort's resurrection?" Rasim asked.

"Yes, the Master was furious. When he Apparated, I hit him with the Killing Curse... he should be dead..."

"Apparition?" Dumbledore discovered a detail. "Not Portkey?"

"He returned to the Forbidden Forest with Apparition, but the Master tracked his position through his own spell, we rushed over, but he disappeared again..."

"I'm afraid what happened after that is what I told everyone before." Murphy said. "They should have appeared at my place after that."

"Let's sort it out," Rasim said. "A long time ago, Voldemort controlled Quirrell, and then he also used another artifact, the diary, to control Lukas, but it seems Lukas was not very controlled by him. He finally resisted Voldemort and disrupted his plan. And died for this..."

"Tom was a brave child." Murphy said. "He also fought against the troll with Harry and the others."

"He saved me." Harry suddenly said.

"Again."

"I know, he had something to hide from us, I saw his notebook... he often looked at that notebook, it turned out he had always been controlled by Voldemort... but I didn't know..."

"He must have really wanted to resist, so, he said he wanted freedom."

"He never asked me for help..." Harry's voice choked up. "Finally behind the trapdoor, I know, he hesitated for a moment, he might have thought about handing me over to exchange for his own survival..."

"But he didn't."

"Because he is my friend."

"Because I am his friend."

A huge sorrow suddenly surged up at this moment. Harry tightly clenched the corner of his clothes, almost using all his strength to keep himself from howling and crying immediately.

But tears still flowed down, snot mixed with tears surged into his mouth, choking him into constant coughing and retching. He couldn't help but kneel on the ground, letting snot and tears cover his whole face.

He was unconscious in the middle, for him, the moment before, he had just confirmed the friendship between the two sides with Tom.

He decided to give all his trust, and he also saw Tom put down his guard.

But the next moment, when he woke up, he saw Tom's corpse.

He had been in shock almost the whole time just now, until this moment, he realized that he had lost this friend.

This friend he had just made, whom he felt from the bottom of his heart was most like himself—just like another himself.

(End of chapter)