Hermione and Ron were having a hard time too. It was not as unbearable for them as it was for Harry, because they were not as famous as Harry, but no one was willing to speak to them either, except Ron's brothers—mainly George Weasley and Fred Weasley. The troublemaking twins celebrated the fact that Ron had finally dared to break school rules.
But Ron's other brother—Percy Weasley—sternly criticized the three troublesome brothers and threatened to write to Mrs. Weasley.
Ron's head immediately drooped.
Hermione no longer stood out in class, and sometimes she was even a little distracted while studying.
Tierra seemed to be the only one unaffected by the incident.
Tierra remained as busy as ever, traveling in a straight line between the dormitory, classroom, and study room.
The notion of collective honor had been tossed into the sewer by Tierra back in high school, after he encountered a homeroom teacher who, for the sake of his own bonus, forced the entire class to stay after school practicing calisthenics on the eve of monthly exams.
Even when he overheard Gryffindor students badmouthing him, or encountered Malfoy mocking him to his face, he turned a blind eye...
No, to be precise, he did not completely turn a blind eye.
At such times, he firmly remembered every instance of mockery, discrimination, and isolation, then embellished them to a certain degree and relayed them to Tom Riddle in the diary at the appropriate moment.
He kept Tom Riddle convinced that Tierra was living in dire straits.
Thus, whenever Tierra consulted Tom Riddle about certain Dark Magic problems, Tom Riddle readily answered them one by one—for example, the black Death curse from "Plague," the Decay Curse, spells from the Necronomicon for summoning the Desert Reaper or a fire wraith, as well as Flesh