Chinese students at Hogwarts

I don’t know since when, the way those seniors and experts spoke became like this.

Dumbledore's note was just a sentence without beginning or end, with a phoenix feather added to it.

As the saying goes, there is no master without mystery.

Back then, if Patriarch Bodhi had directly told Sun Houhou to come to my room tonight, it would have been weird to read the instructions.

But instead of hitting it three times, putting your hands behind your back, and closing the middle door, it immediately seemed full of mystery.

It not only reflects the caution of Bodhi Patriarch's teachings, but also reflects the monkey's innate intelligence. Others cannot see it, but he can see it at a glance.

Although Dumbledore's note only contained one sentence, the meaning was still very clear.

Zhang Xiao sighed, then climbed out of the bed, quickly put on his clothes, and picked up his feathers.

He shouted softly:

"Fox!"

I saw that the feather instantly turned into a ball of fire and burned up the arm.

In the blink of an eye, this ball of fire burned all over his body, but the fire seemed to have no warmth, just licking his skin gently.

The flame suddenly exploded and instantly shone into a dazzling fire. When the curtain fell into darkness again, Zhang Xiao's figure had disappeared.

Zhang Xiao shook his head vigorously, trying to wake up his dazed mind.

This is the first time Phoenix's flame teleportation has been used.

If compared with Apparition, it is probably the difference between being stuffed into a tube and squeezed out, and being stuffed into a gun barrel and fired.

Caught off guard, Zhang Xiao even felt that his body had passed away, but his soul was still in the warm dormitory.

"Ah sneeze!"

Zhang Xiao sneezed loudly. It was already mid-December, and the temperature difference from the bed to the outside made his body start to protest.

I squinted my eyes and looked around. The place was desolate. The trees that had long lost their leaves had only bare branches left, stretching towards the sky.

The moonlight was dim, and there seemed to be nothing but cold wind and stones.

"Zhang, I'm glad to see you understand what I mean."

Zhang Xiao turned around and saw Dumbledore standing aside with a smile on his face, wearing a winter wizard robe.

"Professor -" Zhang Xiao sighed: "I think Fox's feather has said it more clearly than anything else."

"I thought it would be fun."

Dumbledore smiled and seemed to be in a very good mood. He walked to Zhang Xiao and said slowly:

"Actually, I originally wanted to handle it alone, but after several incidents, I felt that since there are all kinds of magical magic in the East that I have never seen before.

Then Tom must not know that there is such a magical existence as you.

This may not be our advantage.

I'm afraid it would be arrogance to ignore one's own advantages and not use them."

Zhang Xiao secretly thought it was a big risk, if he guessed correctly.

What might have been discovered by Dumbledore in the end was the Resurrection Stone?

The Resurrection Stone was one of the main reasons for Dumbledore's death.

It was the irreversible curse that made Dumbledore, whose time was running out, decide to use his own life as part of his plan.

According to the progress in the original book, Dumbledore would not find the ring until two years later. Who would have thought that he would find it so soon.

Fortunately, I brought myself with me.

"Professor Dumbledore, how did you find out?"

"Thanks to you, Zhang. It was you who discovered so many Horcruxes one after another, and I was able to find some patterns among them.

Then--"

Dumbledore looked at him with his blue eyes, and suddenly blinked at him: "Added with my knowledge of Tom, I have indeed found a place with great possibilities."

Uh, so it’s still because of me?

Dumbledore shook his head in one direction:

"In view of the last encounter in the cave, I think it might be a good choice to approach the destination as much as possible as a Muggle.

So I'm afraid we're in for a bit of a journey. "

Zhang Xiao had no problem, so the old man and the young man abandoned any magic help in the deep dark night wilderness, and walked towards the unknown destination.

The cold moonlight shines on the surrounding wilderness. It is extremely quiet here, with no sound at all.

It seems that even birds don't want to fly over here.

This journey didn't seem too short, because Dumbledore happily answered Zhang Xiao's questions.

"Oh, here?

This is actually not a regular route to your destination. "

Dumbledore's voice sounded pleasant, and it must have been pleasant. It seemed that more than half of the Horcruxes that had once restrained him had been gathered in the blink of an eye.

“I walked ahead of time, wanting to explore the road first, but when I stood on a country road next to a tall, messy hedgerow.

While enjoying the beautiful scenery of the entire valley and the blue sky and white clouds, I regretfully discovered that Tom had already started in advance.

He put a lot of thought into the normal path to his destination.

I had reason to believe that we might be in big trouble when we finally arrived at our destination. "

Zhang Xiao nodded in agreement. After experiencing the defensive measures in the cave, he had already discovered that Voldemort was not an idiot.

At least not when splitting a Horcrux.

If it weren't for Dumbledore's reminder in the cave, Zhang Xiao would never have imagined that Voldemort had actually weaved a meticulous and powerful defense network link by link.

When I read the original work in my previous life, I was complacent and thought that my brain was a hundred times better than Voldemort's, and I came up with many ways to crack it.

But in fact, how could Voldemort not think of the most obvious loopholes.

From beginning to end, Voldemort actually suffered from one thing, and that was being too conceited.

Whether it was an elf or a little wizard, he never cared about it, never.

He stubbornly believed that he was so powerful that he didn't have to look down at anyone.

So sometimes Voldemort's carefully designed defenses were destroyed by weak elves.

This is why Dumbledore finally decided to bring Zhang Xiao over.

Don't be too conceited.

"So I decided to find another way - fortunately, this valley is quite big, and the area that needs to be blocked is too large. There are always some places that Voldemort can't think of.

For example, the direction we are heading now - the deserted wilderness. "

"A deserted wilderness?" Zhang Xiao was stunned for a moment and asked in confusion:

"Professor, why is the uninhabited wilderness safe? Just set up an alarm here and trigger the alarm whenever someone breaks in, right?"

Dumbledore shook his head and said regretfully:

"Zhang, I'm afraid you have some misunderstanding about large-scale magic - pure large-scale magic is difficult to last, and it is very difficult to solidify it.

I'm afraid your previous encounter in the cave has made you have such doubts, but if you think about it carefully, what is the main defense core there?"

"Inferi and potions?"

"That's very true. If I were still in class, I would give you 20 points!

Mr. Zhang. There is no trace of excess, just these two things. "

Dumbledore nodded approvingly at him.

"If you go deeper, you will find that the Inferi and the magic potion can be stored separately for a long time.

I don’t know if you can understand what I say. "

Zhang Xiao nodded slowly. What the professor meant was that the larger the range, the shorter the spell can last.

The defense system in the cave seems complicated and tight, with a huge scope, but the actual core is the Inferi and magic potions.

The scope of the spells is very small, and most of them are auxiliary spells.

Even Voldemort could not independently maintain a large-scale curse for a long time in this vast wilderness.

It would be okay if he sent his men to replenish it every once in a while, but this is where Voldemort's Horcruxes are hidden.

He would never allow this secret to be known.

So it is impossible for anyone to supplement it.

If you arrange it in order of Tom becoming more and more rubbish.

The first Horcrux made was the diary, and the second Horcrux made was Marvolo's ring, which is the Resurrection Stone.

Ravenclaw's diadem, Hufflepuff's gold cup, and Slytherin's locket were made at an unknown time, but generally they were made after Voldemort was 20 years old.

Looking at it this way, Voldemort was probably at the peak of his mental state when he was making the ring and crown.

Because it gets trashier as time goes by, the pendant may have been well preserved because it was a relic of Slytherin.

I didn’t pay much attention to crowns, diaries, gold cups and the like.

"Ah, Zhang, now I realize that you are right."

Dumbledore's words brought Zhang Xiao back from his thoughts. Under his curious eyes, Dumbledore said happily:

“The more Horcruxes split, the less Tom became like his old self.

Even from my current perspective.

The magic arranged by 16-year-old Tom on the outside is also very exciting, and people can't help but give high-fives in admiration. "

Dumbledore shook his head with some emotion in his voice:

"The destination we need to go to is Tom's mother's home, called Gaunt House, which is part of Great Hangleton and is only a few miles away from Little Hangleton."

Zhang Xiao listened to Dumbledore introducing information that he had roughly known in his previous life, but he did not desert him, but listened attentively.

"16-year-old Tom may not be as good as you now, Zhang, in terms of strength, but his knowledge is very profound.

Tom spent almost all his spare time in the library.

Limited by his strength, Tom's arrangement here is very difficult.

First of all, he presupposed that there would be wizards looking for the secret of why the Dark Lord is so powerful."

There is such a narcissistic person in the world. God, what is the secret of the Dark Lord's power?

Dumbledore did not laugh, but said seriously:

"This is not a joke or a joke, because many wizards have actually done this.

It's just that they don't have the ability to investigate here and Tom's true identity. "

Dumbledore pointed his finger in the distance with a hint of regret.

"Okay, let's continue talking, Zhang, I hope you can experience Voldemort's cunning and meticulousness.

Rather than looking down on Tom, he is really a genius. Only caution can help you gain the upper hand! "

Dumbledore strode ahead, his voice flowing in the empty wilderness. Zhang Xiao walked beside him, crossing the boulders and fragmented walls, and followed Dumbledore.

“His magic power exceeds that of his peers, but it cannot support the defensive thinking of the demon.

So Tom cleverly made a change - he placed some heavy obstacles on a very critical section of the road and performed a clever illusion.

This makes Muggles think that these obstacles are part of the mountain, such as a detour.

And this illusion has no effect on the wizard——

So the wizard will clearly see that there is an additional obstacle on the road in front of him. "

Dumbledore closed his mouth and suddenly asked:

"Zhang, what do you think the wizard will do?"

"Wave the magic wand to remove the obstacle?" Zhang Xiao spread his hands.

Dumbledore chuckled:

“You see, that’s why Tom was so different then than he is now.

He accurately took advantage of the wizard's laziness and inertia."

Zhang Xiao sniffed, the Dark Lord's strategy was simple, but very practical.

If there is a tree trunk blocking the way, a lonely Muggle who wants to get there will usually take a detour.

But if he were a wizard, he would not hesitate to take out his wand and move the tree to one side.

This is the wizard, a trait that is of no use, but was seized upon by Voldemort.

Zhang Xiao had to admit that compared to Voldemort, who did a terrible job later.

The 16-year-old Voldemort was 'barely' comparable to him in terms of resourcefulness.

"This is just the first interesting story, and I don't know how much defense Voldemort has put in the village.

But at this critical moment, I didn't want to take any chances. "

Dumbledore ended what he wanted to tell Zhang Xiao in a short sentence.

After walking for a while, Zhang Xiao felt that his body had begun to slowly move, and his hands and feet that were originally stiff due to the cold began to gradually recover.

Noticing that Zhang Xiao's footsteps gradually became brisk, Dumbledore also speeded up his pace quietly.

"By the way, professor, can you tell me how you discovered this Horcrux?"

Dumbledore stood still and looked into the distance. Zhang Xiao suddenly remembered that there might not be any monitoring magic here, so why couldn't he use magic to quickly reach his destination?

But almost immediately he knew what Dumbledore meant - no one could tell whether it was true or false.

Dumbledore's blue eyes narrowed and he looked away for a while again.

"It looks like it's almost there."

"It's not difficult, actually it's not difficult, Zhang. The Horcruxes we have discovered include the diary, Slytherin's locket, and Ravenclaw's diadem.

And the places where they are launched are also very interesting. As I said, Tom seems to have a very deep obsession with certain things.

It can be an item or a location.

I've been investigating all this time, and luckily, I've learned everything.

And got a very key location. "

Dumbledore stopped, stepped on the boulder, and pointed to a vague and dark place below in the moonlight.

"That's the home of Tom's biological mother, the old Gaunt house."

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