It's just a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Chapter 360 Hitting Worker Riddle
In fact, before noon, Dumbledore returned to 12 Grimmauld Place around ten o'clock in the morning.

From his expression, he couldn't tell whether the negotiation with Scrimgeour in the morning was going well, but after he saw that Sherlock was here, he immediately found a room with him to have a conversation alone.

"I warned Rufus enough, but it looks like he's taking Fudge, who's now his advisor."

Dumbledore said calmly, his tone was only a little regretful, and he didn't seem very depressed.

Sherlock also said flatly.

"After Fudge left office, not only was he not kicked out of the Ministry of Magic, but if he was allowed to stay, we could see what Scrimgeour was thinking. At the beginning, I thought he might just want to stabilize Fudge if he kept Fudge. He has completed the transfer of power in the ministry, and now it seems that he still thinks what that idiot said makes sense."

"What did Scrimgeour say about this Azkaban matter?"

Dumbledore shook his head.

"He promised that he would thoroughly investigate those dementors, but then he vaguely reminded me not to interfere too much with the Ministry of Magic, and suggested to me that I bring Harry to the Ministry of Magic. They want to do some research into last night's dementor attack."

"He still doesn't give up on Harry?"

"Scrimgeour wants to lead the rhythm of the fight against Voldemort by himself, he wants to control everything in his hands." Dumbledore and Sherlock looked at each other and said, "If he really has this ability, then all the power It is indeed a good thing to be integrated together, and I don't mind following his orders to do things. But judging from what he has done in the position of the director of the Auror office before, his ability in this area is not even as good as Barbara's. Tee."

"The desire to control is strong, but the ability is not enough." Sherlock smacked his lips. Although he didn't say anything later, the meaning he wanted to express was self-evident.

Dumbledore took his glasses off his face, tapped them with his wand, cleaned them, and said.

"Leave the matter of Scrimgeour aside for the time being. Even if he doesn't pay attention to my reminder, Kingsley and the others have already paid more attention to Azkaban, and we have other more important things to do."

His face became serious.

"When you noticed Voldemort's horcrux in the Room of Requirement in Hogwarts, I also searched for it afterwards. I haven't found anything yet, but this horcrux in Hogwarts can't run away. In the future We can slowly investigate. During this period of time, I also reorganized his past. If that diary is the first Horcrux he made, our next search target will not be so search for a needle in a haystack."

As he spoke, he stood up from his chair.

"If you have nothing else to do this afternoon, you can go out with me. Let's investigate where Voldemort may have hidden important things."

Sherlock nodded, looking for Voldemort's Horcrux is not only to prepare for killing him completely in the future, but also to strengthen Sherlock's capital.

For lunch Mrs Weasley cooked a hearty meal.

In front of Harry and the others, Dumbledore didn't show the slightest bit of sadness, and happily told Ginny, who was in a bad mood, about Mr. Weasley's mischievous incidents when he was a student at Hogwarts while eating.

In terms of personal charm, Dumbledore is at least hundreds of blocks away from Voldemort, even his former opponent Grindelwald is slightly behind.

After lunch, Sherlock and Dumbledore walked out of the foyer of 12 Grimmauld Place together and stood in front of the gate.

"Should you have been there?" Dumbledore asked, blinking.

Sherlock laughed.

"Not only have I been there, you may not think that I also have a house there."

"Ah, then our next thing will be easier."

They waved their wands together as they spoke, and disappeared in place.

At the same time, in a dirty alley, there was a sonic boom like a whip whipping the air, and the figures of Sherlock and Dumbledore appeared here at the same time.

Knockturn Alley.

Also as a wizarding street in the British wizarding world, it is not as famous as Diagon Alley.

But in the eyes of many wizards, it is an indispensable shopping place.

After all, if you want to buy materials and magic items that are listed as contraband by the Ministry of Magic, such as the Love Potion, you will not be able to find them in the normal potions shop in Diagon Alley.

But in Knockturn Alley, maybe you haven't expressed the intention of needing at all, and there will be an old hag full of rotten teeth on the side of the road to sell you her masterpiece of obsession.

"Riddle worked on this street for a while after graduating from Hogwarts."

Dumbledore and Sherlock did not walk out of this deserted alley immediately. Dumbledore waved the strangely shaped old wand, completed the transformation of himself and Sherlock, and said .

"In the first year of his graduation, he applied to the then headmaster of Hogwarts, Armando Dippet, and wanted to stay and teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, but Armando refused because he was still young. We have hired him, but would be more than welcome to wait a few years later when he has more experience to apply."

"After he didn't stay in Hogwarts as he wished, he disappeared for a while, and I haven't figured out where he went for the time being, but during this period, he most likely made a Horcrux, because it didn't take long for him to disappear again. back to England."

"At that time, he was really talented. The Ministry of Magic offered him a lot of positions, as long as he was willing to go in, but in the end, beyond everyone's expectations, he chose to come to Knockturn Alley and apply for a job in the Borgin Burke antique shop at No. 13B. , the shopkeeper at that time, Caractacus Bork, accepted him."

"He was very honest when he was working here, and he didn't have any bad reputation. But suddenly one day, he resigned from this job and chose to go out again, traveling around, until he went again when he was about 30 years old. Hogwarts for a job."

Speaking of this, Dumbledore and Sherlock, who had turned into two middle-aged wizards, were less than twenty steps away from Borgin Burke's shop.

"So, you suspect that he may have hidden a Horcrux in this shop?"

"It's possible. If this is the case, you should be able to feel it after entering the door. Even if he didn't choose this place as a hiding place, he must have experienced some unusual things during the years when he was an employee here. things."

(End of this chapter)