Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 436

Staring at Dumbledore's old face,

McGuffin nearly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.

This old madman is really—

Do normal people think this way?

In the mouth of this old thief, it seems that dealing with Voldemort is as relaxing and enjoyable as a spring outing, or a 'parent-child activity',

I really want to kill the old bee with a mouthful of salt soda.

"Albus Dumbledore, what do you mean? — 'we' mean?"

"Um... you... me, Trelawney... uh... and this little wizard!"

"What a joke!"

Snape sprayed Dumbledore and spit all over his face.

McGuffin was a little moved, he didn't expect Snape to speak for himself.

But then he realized that he was thinking too much,

The old bee and the bat monster are not good things.

"Don't you know what kind of spell Voldemort cast on this little wizard? Even though this little wizard's mana is indeed beyond that of ordinary students, his reliability is simply not as good as his idiot friend Harry? Besides, even if he can be reliable... think about how much we have suffered because of this little wizard in the past three years. Especially last night...Harry Potter almost died."

"Albus Dumbledore, do you have to let Hogwarts close in your hands to be in line with your wishes?"

Snape was going insane.

The roar was deafening and echoed throughout the corridor.

Dumbledore frowned.

"Silence!"

After casting the [Silencer Curse] on both sides of the corridor, he turned around and comforted Snape, "Professor, be quiet...you don't want everyone in the school to know about this, do you?"

Not only Snape, but Trelawney also stared at Dumbledore gloomily, "Albus, you promised me to keep me away from all this and protect me from those ignorant people, so I cooperated with you in this way, proved Sirius' innocence, and explained those things to Fudge..."

"But you should understand that I have never been a member of your Order of the Phoenix, let alone your partner who wants to deal with Voldemort... So don't get involved with me. If this continues, I will directly leave Hogwarts and move to the Yankees. Even if I live in a country full of Aurors and stupid Muggles... I don't want to kill myself."

"I understand! Sybil! Don't worry... I don't want you to fight Voldemort directly." Dumbledore said calmly.

"We have more important things to do."

"The current situation can no longer be delayed. Although people generally don't want to admit it, I still have to say that Voldemort is almost the most talented wizard in modern times... At least, in terms of black magic, he has gone much deeper than me. If the world is really as we expected... it is the recovery of magic power..."

"Then... I'm afraid he will break through our current magical boundaries and push his own mana to an unrivaled level."

Hearing Dumbledore's anxious tone, Snape was a little puzzled. In his memory, Dumbledore had always been unhurried...had his own mysterious plan, why now...?
Snape looked at a few people, then he looked at Trelawney and remembered something.

The prophecy about Voldemort not long ago...

—Could it be?
"Albus! Could it be that the prophecy made by this guy earlier, the humble servant who helped Voldemort to make a comeback and broke free from the shackles on the night of the full moon-referred to Peter Pettigrew?" Snape asked.

"Maybe! That's not the most important thing... I only know one thing... our world will undergo earth-shaking changes, and before all this comes, we have to prepare in advance!"

"What do you mean? What preparations?"

Dumbledore didn't answer, he took out a battered notebook from his pocket.

-MD!

I knew it!

McGuffin looked at this [Horcrux] and his eyes twitched.

"Albert and Harry found this... Snape, you should know what this thing is!"

"Horcruxes!" Snape replied through gritted teeth.

"A Horcrux is an object that holds part of a person's soul!" Dumbledore explained, looking at McGuffin.

MacGuffin, of course he knew, but he had to try his best to show that he was very puzzled.

After all, all the books about Horcruxes in the Hogwarts library were transferred or destroyed by Mrs. Dumbledore Pince, and he had no access to knowledge about Horcruxes at all.

"There is a reason why Voldemort is still alive in this form... He split his soul and hid it in some object. Even if his body was the most severely attacked and destroyed... But he can still be resurrected by virtue of the black magic he has studied."

"I firmly believe that Voldemort will not split his own soul all at once... This Horcrux is just one of them."

Professor Trelawney listened to these conversations with great uneasiness.

She has been twisting her body slightly back and forth on the spot, rolling her heels, eager to get out of here.

"You can tell Harry... Albert!" Dumbledore gestured with a 'kindly' smile.

"What else? I already knew that." Snape asked.

Dumbledore spread out the notebook in front of several people, and McGuffin was surprised to find that the notebook [Horcrux], which was originally a blank page, is now covered with scorched scars, many of which are even directly missing and broken...

"This is?"

"Not long ago, I noticed...in the absence of any victims, or the absence of wizards using their own souls or mana to support this horcrux, the fragments of Voldemort's soul in it actually revived little by little, and tried to transfer their own soul fragments from this [notebook container]..."

"After several unsuccessful attempts to weaken it, I had to destroy it."

After speaking, he handed the [Horcrux] to McGuffin.

Gan!
Doesn't this old guy have other meanings?

McGuffin quickly flipped through two pages, confirmed that the thing had really been destroyed, and immediately handed the [Horcrux] to Professor Trelawney beside him.

Trelawney shuddered and tossed it to Snape in a panic without looking at it.

"Dumbledore, you mean..." Snape looked it over, and then handed it back to Dumbledore.

"We must destroy these [Horcruxes] as soon as possible, otherwise, I'm afraid they will gradually recover with the changes in the world... By then we may not be facing just one Voldemort, but three or four or even seven or eight Dark Lords."

Shir!
——Is Voldemort going to form a 'boy band' to make his debut in the future?

Also play a fart!
McGuffin complained in his heart.

Dumbledore's words caused an uproar among several people, and everyone's expressions became uneasy.

Snape pointed at McGuffin with a disgusted expression.

"But in the face of this kind of thing, his little wizard... what use is he?"

Hearing Snape's question, Dumbledore's expression became serious. He took two steps closer to the McGuffin, but didn't answer Snape's question. Instead, he came over and questioned the McGuffin.
"Albert, tell me... After confirming Pettigrew's identity, what exactly do you want to do by taking him away privately?"

It was only then that Snape realized that there was something suspicious about this little wizard, and he actually ignored it... No, it was because this little wizard had been able to direct the topic and everyone's attention to Voldemort and the Death Eaters from the very beginning, trying to cover up his purpose of acting like this at that time.

'Yeah, why on earth is this guy doing this? '

Snape thought about it in his mind, but he couldn't figure it out - what was going on in this little lunatic's head.

Dumbledore didn't wait for McGuffin to come up with a suitable statement (or rather he knew the little wizard wouldn't tell the truth).

The old bee shook his head and continued, "I know that you and Harry have already entered that Ravenclaw's [Secret Library], and I also know that you found [Voldemort's Research Notes] in that [Endless Labyrinth]..."

"Professor Dumbledore?!" McGuffin was shocked.

— This old guy knows everything?

'How did he know.Could it be Hermione, or did Harry reveal...'
'Damn it, I forgot, this guy can use Remembrance, and he often spy on other people's minds from time to time, he must have seen something in Harry's brain! '

'But even so, it's nothing!What does the old bee want to do by bringing this up? '

McGuffin looked down in thought.

But Dumbledore didn't wait because of his silence, and the old bee continued, "McGuffin, you should also understand what the last antidote for [Blood Curse] is?"

"That should be another [Blood Curse] victim, a snake that has been purely transformed into a beast... It's the blood and venom of that snake... I think you should have guessed it?"

He said with a very sure tone.

This made McGuffin tremble with chills. He once thought that the old bee had seen all his secrets, so he hurriedly used [Occlumency] to block the memories in his head.

After doing all this, he raised his head carefully and looked at Dumbledore.

"Although I don't know what you want to do, I guess you must want to get the whereabouts of the 'snake' from Voldemort through Peter Pettigrew..."

"And if I'm not mistaken, you must have discovered a certain spell that can help you achieve this idea from Voldemort's research notes on black magic?"

"for example………"

Dumbledore paused, "The Curse of Theseus?"

Did this guy go to the [Ke Xue Continuing Class] next door for further study?
What logic and evidence did he rely on... No, even a guess is outrageous enough.

McGuffin looked shocked.

He couldn't figure out how the old bee constructed this proof logic that directly pointed to the result.

But even more surprised were Snape and Trelawney, who had naturally heard of this extremely famous magical accident.

——It just happened at the end of the age of ancient wizards... so it is also one of the very few real examples that can prove the harm of ancient spells.

And there are many terrifying fairy tales in the magic world about the curse of Theseus.

According to legend, this spell can turn everyone in contact into a puppet controlled by others, and turn everyone in contact, whether Muggles or wizards, into hysterical lunatics...

This ancient spell is alive and contagious...it is capable of boiling the brains of every person it touches in an instant...

Snape stared at McGuffin.

Now he couldn't tolerate the existence of this little wizard in this school even more.

The little wizard MacGuffin Albert is far more dangerous than he imagined. This kind of lost spell... can be restored.

"No, no!"

Seeing the drastic changes in other people's expressions, they stared at themselves warily.

McGuffin scolded the old fox in front of him, and quickly argued, "No, it's just a curse similar to [Imperius Curse]!"

"I was just inspired by this..."

If this situation is not explained clearly, McGuffin knows that it will be even more troublesome.

—Perhaps that was the purpose of the old bee.

McGuffin hurriedly explained to the three of them the casting method and effect of the [Soul-shifting Phantom] spell that he had created based on the parchment system... from beginning to end.

"So, are you trying to plant an idea in Peter Pettigrew to get the whereabouts of the snake from Voldemort and pass it on to you through some sort of involuntary messaging?"

Snape recapitulated what McGuffin had said.

"Arrogance, arrogance...It turns out that you...you messed up everything tonight."

"Dumbledore, I think we should seriously consider whether this little wizard will stay in the school." Then Snape said so immediately without waiting for McGuffin to answer.

After hearing what McGuffin said, Trelawney hid directly to the other side, as if she didn't want to have anything to do with him.

"Okay, Snape, McGuffin made some mistakes, but it was all about seeking to lift his own curse, not to mention it didn't cause any serious consequences... Don't be like this, I let McGuffin come here, in fact, to take advantage of the curse he invented."

"At first, I thought, McGuffin, that you just improved the [Imperius Curse] based on Voldemort's notes, but I didn't expect the result to be better... Maybe we can learn the whereabouts of the remaining Horcruxes from the Death Eaters."

"The Imperius Curse and Veritaserum in the general sense cannot work on these Death Eaters who have been trained by Voldemort."

"Of course, I also know that Voldemort will not trust their servants to tell them about Horcruxes. But there are certain things... There will always be some clues left."

Snape curled his lips, but seeing Dumbledore's insistence, he didn't say anything more.

However, McGuffin suspects that the old bat is playing tricks, this guy should be very happy to get the result of 'cohabiting with Sirius, or monitor Black'.

Seeing that Snape was not so agitated, Dumbledore turned his head and comforted McGuffin again,
"Albert, as for the [Blood Curse] on you...I will ask my wizard friends who have settled in Southeast Asia or Japan...They should be able to find some [Blood Curse] patients who are still circulating in the world. I heard that there are some local aborigine wizards who can suppress the [Blood Curse], and can use it as a weapon, or blood, to flow down in their own family."

"Perhaps this will free you from the [Blood Curse] without going to Voldemort."

"By the way, it's best not to say what happened tonight, even Harry and the others..."

After discussing the matter, Dumbledore finally let McGuffin return to the infirmary.

After lying back on the bed, McGuffin was still unable to sort out his chaotic thoughts from the mess, so he kept his eyes open until dawn, and stayed up all night.

(End of this chapter)