The strange feeling in his eyes took a while to go away, but when Tom looked at Hermione, he heard in his ears, [What's wrong with Tom's eyes? I think I just saw a snake pupil], but Tom was sure Hermione had said nothing of the sort.
But the voice only sounded for a moment, and then it didn't sound again.
"Are your eyes better?" Hermione clutched Tom's shoulder with some concern.
"Much better, what just happened?"
"Uh, maybe I saw wrong, I just saw your right eye turn into the eye of a snake..." said Hermione with some uncertainty.
"Oh?" Tom used his newly learned powers, "What now?"
His right eye turned into a snake eye and Hermione's mind went blank and her body went rigid as she felt like she was about to have an uncontrollable flashback to the past.
She was horrified and tried to fight the feeling, but it was gone in an instant.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that." Tom had just used his mind altering powers, but the moment he had entered Hermione's mind he realized the recklessness of his actions and took a step back.
Hermione was a little nervous, "What did you see?"
"I didn't see anything, honest!" Tom swore to God he hadn't seen anything. Tom noticed the difference between his own mind altering powers and Dumbledore's, his seemed to be more powerful, the user was clearly aware that his memories were being read, and even had a stiffening effect.
"Is this the eye of the basilisk...?" Tom rubbed his eyes, feeling a sense of unease, an ability he was unwilling to use freely: it was too overpowering, a direct and brutal entry into someone's mind. If he used it, he could make a fool of someone.
Tom actually preferred Dumbledore's silent Legeremancy. But that kind of magic had its limitations. Firstly, Occlumency can effectively block Legeremancy's spying, and secondly, Legeremancy doesn't always show what one wants to see, as it is not infallible.
"Come on, I'm not going to look at you with this power again." Tom turned into a phoenix and flew Hermione out of the Chamber of Secrets. After locking the Chamber of Secrets in the bathroom, he carried Hermione up to the common room. It had to be said that it was much easier not to have to walk those stairs, and Tom made it back to the Common Room in less than a tenth of the time it took to walk.
Tom knocked on the door, which rang like a cannonball in the silence.
The doorbell asked, "Can a man step into the same river twice? why?"
"No, because the sun is new every day." Tom replied.
"That makes sense." The door opened, revealing the Common Room behind.
The river was constantly flowing, changing, and when you stepped into the same river a second time, the water of the past had vanished, and you were faced with a completely new water, a river that was no longer the river you had stepped into.
"Go back to rest first, I have something to do." Tom gestured for Hermione to come in, then closed the door before she could respond.
Hermione had no choice but to return to her bedroom. When she returned to her dormitory, her classmates were already asleep, waiting for the new week to begin tomorrow.
Tom had gone to Lockhart's office, where he had transformed into the Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
He still had a bit of work to do before he could complete his plans.
Multijuice potion, a potion that allows the drinker to take the form of another person, is extremely complex to brew and a challenge for adult wizards. The potion is so advanced that it is brewed in two stages and takes a month to make.
The good news is that the first half of the preparation is already done by Tom. Many of them were suspiciously expensive, such as the herb Descurainia sophia, which had to be harvested during the full moon.
This would have been a harsh condition, but there were those who sold it at a high price for the full moon. Chrysopos, which had to be boiled for twenty-one days, could also be prepared in advance, but could be obtained by paying money.
And Tom was not short of money, for Lockhart was a rich man.
The first stage of the potion was ready. Now, what he needed were several rare potion materials, such as bicorn horn and the dried shredded skin of an African tree snake, these unpopular materials, Tom only knew that in one safe place they could be found.
Professor Snape's storeroom!
Professor Snape of Hogwarts, a great benefactor. He had collected almost all the rare ingredients of the magical world, and what he could not find in Diagon Alley, he could find here.
At the same time, the security at Professor Snape's potions store was so obviously inadequate that Hermione, young Crouch and Dobby had snuck into it to get what they needed. Tom was sure that even Neville could steal from Professor Snape if necessary. And even if he was suspected, all he had to do was deny it.
In this case, Tom naturally hoped to get "help" from Professor Snape.
So he stood outside Professor Snape's office. Tom knew that the storeroom full of potions ingredients was located in Snape's office.
Tom turned into a phoenix and broke the lock.
It was now midnight and Snape was unlikely to be in his office, which gave Tom the opportunity to fly straight to his storeroom. To his surprise, the storeroom door was unlocked and the storeroom cupboards were carefully labeled with the names of various potions materials.
Tom quickly pulled out some bicorn horns and a few pieces of dried shredded skin from an African tree snake. He thought about it and then grabbed several other ingredients from other potions. Finally, Tom dropped a small bag full of gold galleons. After the small bag full of gold galleons dropped on Snape's desk, it flew off with a quick flap of his wings.
[Mission: Travel the World]
[Objective: explore the magical world]
[Snape's private potion materials storage unlocked]
[Stage 5]
[Progress: 2/16]
After Tom returned to his office, Snape arrived late. He looked at the violently broken lock on the door and grimaced. He quickly entered his Potions storage room.
As soon as he entered, he glanced around the room and saw that everything was just as he had left it when he left in the afternoon, except for a small leather bag. With a flick of Snape's wand, the bag tipped over and left a pile of gold galleons on the table.
Snape snorted coldly: The little thief used his storeroom as a store?
He stretched out his hands violently, and drawers all over the room flew open, and just a glance made Snape's blood pressure skyrocket.
"You bastard, the materials you stole are worth far more than the gold galleons you left behind!"