C229 Speech

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Apparating onto the stage, Lord Black appeared in front of the crowd, triggering them to clap and cheer his name.

As the crowd settled down, Sirius gave yet another one of Toms pre-written speeches, enrapturing the crowd with his ideals and kindness towards the average witch and wizard.

As the speech ended, Lord Black faced the crowd with a smile on his face.

"Now, this is usually where I would end off and wish you all a good evening, but an acquaintance of mine reached out recently and offered to support our campaign. I won't stand here and draw this out more than I have to. Please welcome the Order of Merlin, First Class and Hero of our world, Lord Tom Riddle." Sirius exclaims and the audience goes silent for a brief moment before exploding into cheer.

The reason he called Tom 'Lord' is because of the recent front-page articles about Tom wearing his Pendragon Lord ring as he exited Gringotts bank.

With the ability to show people your memories, the news was easily able to prove that it was in fact a Lord ring Tom was wearing.

It should be confirmed by the Ministry within the week as well, as Tom gave the Goblins the go-ahead to inform them.

The articles also talked about the sword at his hip, but no one had any definitive proof so it was just speculated that it could be Excalibur and nothing more.

As Lord Black called Tom's name, the man himself apparated and appeared on stage, riling up the crowd even further.

There aren't many people in the wizarding world that haven't heard of Tom Riddle and love him for all that he's done. If you don't know who he is, then you're living under a rock, and if you don't like him, that's more of a personal issue than those people would allow themselves to believe.

As Tom appeared, Lord Black retreated to the back of the stage, giving his Lord room to address the crowd.

"Thank you! Thank you!" Tom's voice boomed over the rampaging crowd. "Settle down! Settle down!"

Hearing their idol and savior's words, the crowd slowly started simmering down as everyone couldn't wait to listen to whatever the Tom Riddle has to say.

"Hello, everyone. I usually like to keep to myself, as being in public tends to insight a stampede of fans marching my way, but I thought I would use my influence to support the candidate for Minister of Magic that I myself will be voting for. Some of you may not know this, but I called out Lord Black a few years ago about his sudden switch from a muggle and 'creature' hating scumbag to the respectable man we see before us today. At the time, I didn't buy that he just had a sudden change of heart, but since that day, I've been proved wrong time and time again." Tom says getting a small cheer from the crowd.

Tom then went on to explain how Lord Sirius Black was the first to come up with policies like free universal health care, so on and so forth.

Going into detail about how his opponents merely copied Lord Blacks ideas because they saw how much of a following he drew from them.

"...Ask yourselves this. Do they really believe in those policies? We know Lord Black does as he's the first one to bring them up. Will they implement them upon becoming Minister, or would they use that to catapult themselves up into a seat of power without fulfilling their promises?" Tom asked the crowd as they grew silent in contemplation.

All of them weren't used to politicians promising them such amazing things, so they never thought about the possibility of them lying.

"I think I've left you all with much to think on, so I'll end this rally here. Know that I'll be appearing in a few more rallies for Lord Black's campaign. Have a good evening and I'm sure I'll see some of you again at the next rally." Tom says with a wave and apparates off the stage.

Seeing Tom disappear, Lord Black says a quick goodbye and apparates away as well.

Meeting across the field where they stood earlier, Lord Black and his family bow towards Tom, thanking him for all he has done and will do for their family.

"No problem. If you want to pay me back, simply work hard and follow orders." Tom says with a shrug.

"I will, My Lord!" Lord Black says enthusiastically.

He knew that he would never be where he is now without Tom, and respected his Lord exponentially for everything.

After chatting for a bit and getting the time and place of the next rally, Tom bid them farewell and returned to Kamar-Taj.

He needs to speak with his mother about his trip to Asgard. Although, he won't be leaving until he's promoted Sirius a few more times.

There's also the Dormammu and Dark Dimension problem that he needs to worry about, but he could return at any moment with a portal or the Bifrost, so that shouldn't be a problem.

They would just need some sort of way to communicate so he knows when to come back and help.

Thinking this, Tom makes his way through Kamar-Taj, looking for his bald-headed mother.