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

Chapter 97
Dumbledore clasped his hands and placed them on the desk.

He didn't look surprised when he heard Sherlock's words, but was thinking, as if hesitating.

Sherlock didn't bother him, he knew that there were many secrets in the old man's mind.

Every time he was thinking, it meant that what he said next would involve an extremely secret matter.

After a moment, Dumbledore's gaze returned to Sherlock.

"I didn't expect that, just going through this, you will find so much, Sherlock."

he said seriously.

"About Riddle, this matter can be said to be something he has pursued all his life. If I tell you, then you will have no way to go back. He will do everything possible to kill everyone who knows."

Sherlock naturally knew that the real Tom Riddle, Voldemort, was not dead yet.

He asked about Dumbledore's diary for a very simple reason.

The diary contains Voldemort's remnant soul, and Sherlock needs this fragmented soul for soul stitching.

When he woke up in the school hospital, he found that the split in his soul seemed a bit too big, and the line formed by the remnant soul in the diary only sutured about one-fifth to one-sixth of it. degree.

But with such a little soul combined, Sherlock can already clearly feel that the strength of all the spells and transformation spells he uses has been significantly improved.

It's like taking a big tonic pill.

The most important thing is that in the waiting room, he finally seemed to become stronger than ever before, and the feeling that he could kill the basilisk with a single thought seemed to remain.

He seems to have learned a kind of magic without a teacher.

A kind of magic that can directly interfere with reality without swinging a wand or chanting a spell, as long as you move your mind.

It's just that the strength of this kind of magic now is far from the invincible state when the soul stitching was just completed.

But still great.

During the process of soul stitching, Sherlock also found that his soul did not seem to be torn.

It is not the torn souls that are really stitched together, but two complete souls!
One of them is the soul of Charlotte who has traveled through time and has a dominant consciousness.

The other is the soul of the original owner who has completely lost his mind.

Originally, when Sherlock crossed over, the soul of the original owner was already dead, and was gradually disappearing.

But the magic of soul stitching is equivalent to forcibly fusing the original owner's soul with Sherlock, so that each time Sherlock's soul is fused, it will increase by one point, and when it is completely integrated, it will produce an effect of 1+1>2 !
The magic in the world of Harry Potter, the existence-inherited from the blood of the ancestors, the power-comes from the wizard's soul.

The stronger the soul, the stronger the spells used.

So Sherlock actually had a crooked mind about Voldemort's remnant soul.

He felt that Voldemort must have more than one thing like a diary, and it seems that only Voldemort has the things necessary for his soul stitching.

This also made Sherlock, who originally planned to resign from his job at Hogwarts after a year as a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, if he was lucky enough to survive without missing arms or legs, changed his plan. .

It was safe outside, but there must have been fewer contacts with Voldemort.

Staying in Hogwarts all the time, with Dumbledore and Harry Potter, the two leading activists in the fight against Voldemort, he can also follow behind for a sip of soup.

Therefore, facing Dumbledore's words, Sherlock had nothing to hesitate, he waved his hand and said.

"Professor, do you think he can let me go now that I have already destroyed one of his remnant souls?"

Dumbledore was also dumbfounded.

Sherlock was right, no matter whether he knew about the Horcrux or not, he had destroyed one now, and if Voldemort knew about it, he would definitely not let him go.

Informed threats seem less important.

"Riddle's greatest desire in life is to live forever." Dumbledore said softly.

"It feels low." Sherlock shrugged.

Dumbledore laughed.

"Compared with other great ideals, Tom's pursuit of immortality is a little less appreciated. But he finally has a goal to fight for."

"When he was a student at Hogwarts, he got a way to live forever - the Horcrux."

Sherlock was taken aback for a moment, and repeated it in his mouth.

"Horcrux."

He is obviously familiar with this term. He has seen such an extremely evil magic described in the "High-End Black Magic Analysis" in the restricted section of the library.

"Yes, Horcruxes." Dumbledore continued, "This is a kind of soul that can split a wizard's soul and lodge on different objects. As long as the Horcruxes are not destroyed, the Horcruxes can be created with their own souls." A wizard is a kind of magic that never dies."

"Voldemort, it is precisely this kind of magic that he has mastered."

Sherlock blinked and asked.

"Can there be many Horcruxes?"

"Theoretically, infinite splits are possible."

"How many Horcruxes did Voldemort create for himself?"

Dumbledore shook his head.

"This is what I also want to know. To kill Voldemort is not only to defeat him, but also to destroy all his Horcruxes. After I learned this, I have been searching for Horcruxes. Currently Looking at it, nothing has been discovered yet. The diary you destroyed is the only Horcrux known now."

He turned his head to look at the portraits of the previous headmasters on the wall, and the white light was reflected on the crescent-shaped glasses, Dumbledore said softly.

"But we still have time for Sherlock. By studying Riddle's past, there will always be discoveries about what he made into Horcruxes and how many Horcruxes he made."

After chatting with Dumbledore, Sherlock left Dumbledore's office.

Next, the headmaster will receive many guests, including Neville's grandmother, Harry, Ron, and Lucius Malfoy.

He didn't blame Neville. Riddle's rhetoric had deceived many adult wizards. It was already very brave for a child like Neville to struggle out of his control.

Harry also knew about the diary in the office, which Lucius deliberately planned to throw into Hogwarts.

His family's house elf Dobby knew all this, so he kept preventing Harry from returning to Hogwarts.

When Lucius left, Harry also set up a small trap, allowing Lucius to inadvertently give Dobby a sock, which was tantamount to returning the house-elf's freedom and liberating Dobby from the Malfoy house come out.

There was a celebratory dinner at Hogwarts tonight, and the students were delighted, as were the professors.

Flitwick and Professor McGonagall frequently came to toast with Sherlock, and even Snape, who had been keeping a cold face, found Sherlock by clinking glasses and asked him about the Transfiguration technique that killed the basilisk.

Who is the descendant of Slytherin? Dumbledore did not announce it to the public, nor did he say that Neville was controlled and opened the Chamber of Secrets to release the message of the basilisk.

But the chamber of secrets was opened, and the monster inside was a basilisk, and in the end it was the three of them, Sherlock and Harry, who worked together to kill him.

Even the reporter of the Daily Prophet specially took a photo of Sherlock, Harry, Ron and Neville, which was used as the headline of the next day's newspaper.

None of Sherlock will take the credit for defeating the basilisk. Harry and the three of them are unraveling the mystery of the Chamber of Secrets and helping him in the lounge.

The corpse of the basilisk was also bought by Snape himself, as well as the snake skin found in the chamber of secrets.

He offered five thousand gallons of gold, and the money was shared equally among the four of them, Sherlock and Harry.

After Ron got the money, he consciously handed over most of it to his family, and then used the rest of the money to buy himself a new wand and new clothes.

Harry didn't keep the money to himself, or in other words, with his wealth, more than 1000 Galleons was not a big sum of money to him. He divided the money he got with Hermione who woke up. half.

If it weren't for the message left by Hermione, he would not have been able to find the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets in the end.

Not only was Neville not punished this time, but he also got an unexpected fortune, which made him laugh all day long.

His grandma was also very proud of Neville after hearing that Neville had been recognized by Gryffindor and pulled the sword of Gryffindor from the sorting hat.

The reason why he was able to get five thousand Galleons was the result of bargaining between Sherlock and Snape.

The value of the basilisk, especially the one in the Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets, which has lived for thousands of years, is actually immeasurable.

That old stingy Snape actually only offered a thousand Galleons at the beginning.

He insisted that the snake skin of the basilisk was smashed by Sherlock, and most of the internal organs inside were damaged to varying degrees, and the medicinal value was not very high.
If Harry and the others were embarrassed to speak due to Snape's usual majesty and status as a professor, maybe the price would have been set just like that.

But Sherlock wouldn't suffer this kind of disadvantage. He and Snape had been arguing for a long time, making the old bat so energetic that he finally raised the price to five thousand Galleons.

Even if it was five thousand Galleons, Sherlock felt that he was short.

If it were really sold outside, the value of the Millennium Basilisk would probably be even higher.

But in the end, this basilisk is just a windfall, and it can be sold for five thousand Galleons, which is not bad for making a small fortune.

His biggest gain this time came from Voldemort's gift, his remnant soul.

After the Chamber of Secrets incident, Hagrid was also released by the Ministry of Magic.

Before he returned to Hogwarts, he got a very unfortunate news from the centaur.

On the night when he was taken away, a fire broke out in the deepest part of the Forbidden Forest. His spider friend Aragog and his group, all the acromantula were burned and wiped out by this fire!
(End of this chapter)