Alex was stunned and looked at Murphy.
Lucius Malfoy?
Murphy: "Just write it like this."
Okay, Alex had to do it.
Immediately, the line of ink was absorbed, and then a line of words appeared, "Hello, Lucius, I am Tom Riddle."
Alex looked at the notebook in front of him in shock.
Sure enough, this thing is a dark magic item!
Murphy was a little surprised.
This diary seems to be easy to deceive.
Murphy suddenly became curious about the existence of the diary, "Can this guy sense the situation outside?"
However, let's get down to business first. He told Alex: "You continue to write: 'Tom, I am a student at Hogwarts. My grades are not good. Can you answer a few questions for me?'"
The diary replied: "Of course, Lucius, I will do my best to help you."
This reply was completely within Murphy's expectations.
The young Tom Riddle was not as simple and crude as Voldemort later. He was very good at using deception to achieve his goals.
In the original book, he pretended to be a friendly and caring friend, luring little Ginny to talk to him about her little things, so as to extract Ginny's vitality, making the latter almost become the nourishment for his resurrection.
"Excuse me, what is the formula for the water of life and death?"
"Sleepy beans, distilled water, African sea salt, wormwood infusion, valerian root, narcissus root powder. If you need, I can list the detailed steps."
"What is the formula for the Felixir?"
"Fire ash snake eggs, mantis shrimp bulbs, Morat rat tentacles, thyme, bird snake eggshells..."
"What was the year of the goblin rebellion?"
"1612."
It seems that Voldemort was indeed an excellent student when he was in school. He answered these academic questions without hesitation.
This quick and accurate answer made Murphy even feel like he was chatting with those big language models in his previous life.
After the foreshadowing, it's time to get down to business. "Tom, my spell teacher wants us to write a paper on the spell of secrecy. Do you have any ideas?"
"I know a lot of spells of secrecy. The Unbreakable Vow can be used to keep secrets, and the Fidelius Charm can also be used. If you mean to stop people from speaking, then the throat lock, the silence, etc. can all make a person unable to make a sound. What type of secrecy spell do you want to know specifically?"
"Is there a spell that can make a person unable to move when he is about to reveal a secret, or feel intense pain and lose consciousness, so that he cannot reveal a secret? Or, can it make a person feel strongly about the secret from the bottom of his heart? Disclosing secrets creates rejection? "
Tom Riddle is a master of dark magic, and he quickly gave an answer: "For the first type of spell, I know a lot here. There are two that I recommend the most."
"The first is Natasha's tongue-tie technique, which can make people's tongues tied and unable to speak when they are about to tell your secrets. Its advantage is that it can prevent others from saying anything about you, but its disadvantage is that it can only prevent the other party from speaking. If you use writing and other means, it will be useless."
"This doesn't work."
In his future magic research institute, once the Muggle scientists have made research results, they will definitely want to publish papers. It is definitely not enough to just restrict them from speaking.
"The second is the Witch Queen's 'Oath of Thorns'. A long time ago, in Brittany, there was a small country ruled by a witch. She used a terrible black magic to control the Muggle citizens. That spell is the Oath of Thorns."
"First, the Muggle subjects made an oath to the Witch Queen. At any time, when he wants to break his oath, his body will feel the pain of thorns. The more he wants to betray, the stronger the pain will be, until he is killed."
"But this spell is difficult to use on wizards with magical powers. It is essentially a curse, and wizards have many ways to remove the curse."
Murphy's eyes lit up. This is exactly what he needs!
He wanted this spell to be used on Muggles!
"What is this spell?"
"This is a black magic. Are you sure you want to learn it?" The diary asked.
Although this is a question, it is obviously instigating, but Murphy is also happy to cooperate.
"Just write: 'I don't think there's anything scary about black magic. If we don't dare to learn it because of a dangerous spell, then we'd better not even ride on flying brooms. It's safest to live like Muggles.'"
"But the professor said that black magic will distort a person's mind." Alex didn't write directly according to Murphy's words this time, but retorted, "I think learning black magic is not good. Moreover, this spell looks very evil. It's too dangerous to force a person to remain loyal."
Murphy rolled his eyes at him, "Have you learned black magic?"
"...No."
"Then you know nothing! Stop talking and write quickly."
"...I think this diary is affecting your mind." Alex persuaded again.
"Heh, Garlon doesn't want it anymore?"
"..."
Alex wrote it.
So the diary replied: "You said it very well, we think the same thing. The spell is 'Spinas votum'."
After the note finished speaking, it actually showed a hand-drawn picture, describing the pronunciation and gestures of the spell.
The words marked on the hand-drawn picture were completely different from Tom Riddle's handwriting.
Murphy immediately realized that the diary showed him the original text of a book that Tom Riddle had seen.
He was a little surprised.
It can actually be done like this!
Doesn't this mean that he can actually read all the books that Tom Riddle has read through the diary?
Murphy has a clearer understanding of his own magic level. With the logical advantage and perseverance of a time traveler, he is much stronger than ordinary Hogwarts students, but it is about the level of Hermione in the original book.
In terms of combat and spell skills, he has some talent, but at most he is at the level of an ordinary Auror.
In terms of magic power and magic talent, he can't catch up with Voldemort, who is considered a genius by Dumbledore.
After all, he is a big shot who created a diary, a top black magic item in the wizarding world, at the age of 16.
Even since the founding of Hogwarts, there are not many students who are more talented than Voldemort.
Based on his basic understanding of himself, Murphy has always been relatively honest in school. He didn't dare to touch those black magic things. Because he knew that without a teacher's guidance, he would end up miserably if he studied those black magics on his own.
But at this moment, there is a master of black magic in front of him. If he doesn't use it, wouldn't it be a waste?
While thinking about this in his mind, Murphy copied down the spell and practiced it several times according to the key points indicated by the hand-drawn instructions until he felt a surge of magic power, which made Murphy confirm the authenticity of the spell.
"Thank you very much, Diary, this spell should be enough to complete the paper."
"You're welcome, it's a very special spell, but it has many flaws. The fact that it only works on Muggles makes it less useful."
"You mean, you have a better spell?"
(End of this chapter)