Hogwarts: This Dark Lord is so evil

“Alright, alright…” Tom handed the experimental manuscript back to Leifeld, his face pale.

Tom was still young after all, and couldn't bear to look at such bloody things.

Leifeld, however, didn't feel anything; he even thought that the Slytherin in the illustrations could improve his knife skills.

After all, he used to study biological sciences, and things like anatomy were his basic skills.

“Let's go, we should leave.” Leifeld said after putting those books and manuscripts back in their original places.

“You're not taking anything?” Tom asked in surprise.

“I've memorized everything, so I don't need to take it… Oh, right, don't forget Nokoto Gaunt's bones. We must take them and find a good place to bury her.”

Tom: …

After all this hard work tonight, Leifeld seemed to say that he didn't need Slytherin's inheritance, but he actually gained the most…

As for Tom himself, he almost lost his life, but he gained almost nothing except for some insights.

Even some rewards that Nokoto Gaunt should have carried with her, he couldn't find.

Obviously, someone had come after Nokoto Gaunt, and the rewards on her body should have been taken away by that group of people.

However, there was no other way, because Leifeld didn't really intend to monopolize Slytherin's inheritance as he had imagined.

It's just that he didn't want to accept those things himself.

Otherwise, even if he took a few spell books now, Leifeld wouldn't stop him.

After observing the door in front of him, Leifeld reached out and pressed the snake-shaped pattern on it.

Then, the wall in front of him turned, revealing a small compartment behind it.

Tom didn't think much and followed Leifeld in.

As they walked into the small compartment together, the small compartment turned again, and the wall just now turned out again, while Leifeld and Tom were turned in.

As the small compartment stopped turning, Leifeld felt that the small compartment suddenly began to move upwards! Just like the elevator in the Muggle world.

“Whirr!”

After the small compartment stopped rising, the door in front of him opened.

Leifeld and Tom quickly walked out.

Then, they saw a familiar corridor and the familiar Slytherin common room door opposite!

Leifeld turned his head in surprise and saw a very small snake carving on the wall that closed again behind him.

When Leifeld moved it again, Leifeld felt as if something scanned his body, and the next second, the closed wall opened again!

“So that's how it is. It seems that only those who have passed the trial road can open the door to the study from here.” Leifeld turned to Tom and said, “If you want to find a good place to study dark magic in the future, you can go directly to Slytherin's study.”

Tom shook his head, “I don't want to get close to this place anymore… Moreover, after telling Dumbledore, we may not be able to come here quietly again.”

“Okay, let's go find Dumbledore now,” Leifeld said.

“Leifeld, have you forgotten something?”

“What?”

“We seem to be wandering around at night… How are we going to explain the whole process of encountering the entrance to the trial? Without a suitable excuse, guess how many points each of us will be deducted? You need to know that Slytherin's gems have only recently started to return to zero from negative numbers…”

“Tom, it's very simple! Aren't you a descendant of Slytherin? You can just say that you felt the call from your ancestors while you were asleep! Then…”

“Ah! This excuse is too old-fashioned! And it's very disgusting! I'd rather tell Dumbledore the truth directly! With Dumbledore's character, he might even add points back to us after deducting our points! You need to know that we discovered Slytherin's inheritance, and we also pointed out the crisis in the school!” Tom decisively rejected the lame excuse that Leifeld came up with.

Tom sneered: “Like learning to wander around at night, secretly learning dark magic, planting dangerous magical plants, and the like?”

“It's the other part of the qualities! Tom! I have many other excellent qualities! Such as wisdom and the like!”

…

The flames in the fireplace made a faint crackling sound.

Dumbledore was wrapped in a purple dressing gown, wearing a woman's nightcap, and was frowning as he looked at the two little brats who weren't sleeping in the middle of the night.

He had also listened to the course of events roughly. To be honest, Dumbledore had never seen such restless Slytherin students…

“So… you didn't sleep in the middle of the night because you accidentally discovered the trial left by Slytherin, and after experiencing a trial that almost cost you your lives, you finally discovered the Slytherin study piled with massive dark magic manuscripts?”

Leifeld and Tom nodded repeatedly.

“And you also put the bones of a Gaunt who died in the trial… in a bag and brought them out?”

Leifeld and Tom continued to nod.

"At the same time, you also discovered that Slytherin seemed to have left a mysterious creature in the school, and this creature may threaten the safety of the students in the future?"

Li Weide and Tom felt tired of nodding at this point…

"Do you… do you even know how many school rules you've broken?" Dumbledore asked, annoyed.

Tom's face was pale, and he kept his mouth tightly shut, because he knew he shouldn't speak at this moment.

However… Li Weide next to him actually started counting on his fingers.

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"Weide? What are you counting?" Dumbledore asked.

"We've broken a total of ten school rules, Professor…" Li Weide said honestly, putting his hand down.

Dumbledore almost laughed out of anger, "It seems you're even more familiar with the school rules than I am, the Deputy Headmaster!"

Tom suddenly said, "Weide once told me that only by fully understanding the school rules can one better break them."

Li Weide stared at Tom with wide eyes: "Professor, he's slandering me! He's slandering me! What I clearly said was that only by fully understanding the school rules can one better abide by them!"

Dumbledore sighed deeply, "Why don't… you transfer to Gryffindor? Slytherin's points aren't enough for you to deduct anymore… How dare you rashly enter a place you don't understand at all?! Do you know that this might cost you your lives?"

"Professor… we couldn't help it, the door locked as soon as we went in…" Tom said aggrievedly. "Besides, he had already gone in, I couldn't just stay outside and do nothing…"

"Fortunately, he followed me in, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to pass the final stage. This dead Gaunt is a lesson for us all," Li Weide said.

"Tom could have come to me in time! You are different from her, you have a professor to help! In that case, maybe you wouldn't have had to go through that thrilling trial," Dumbledore said seriously.

Li Weide and Tom wisely shut their mouths.

"Alright… I'll take you to see the Headmaster first. In any case, Slytherin's legacy is of extremely important value. The punishment for you will have to be discussed before a conclusion can be reached… If you're lucky, maybe Headmaster Dippet will even give you points. Once we're in the Headmaster's office, you can recount tonight's experience in detail."

Dumbledore waved his wand lightly over himself, and the sleeping gown on his body turned into an ordinary wizard's robe.

"Let's go, it's best not to let Grindelwald know about this…" Dumbledore said, taking off the woman's sleeping cap on his head and opening the door to the office.

Then they saw Grindelwald standing outside the office door with a smile on his face.

"Good evening, Albus… Oh? I didn't expect that besides me, there would be two other little friends who can't sleep?"

Dumbledore frowned, this was really the situation he least wanted to see!

"When did you arrive?"

"When I heard you say it's best not to let me know." Grindelwald smiled and said, "What little secret can't I know?"

Dumbledore's door was completely soundproofed with magic, but when he opened the door just now, the magic happened to fail, so Grindelwald just happened to hear the second half of Dumbledore's sentence.

"Since I said I don't want you to know, why bother asking?" Dumbledore said.

"If it's just as a friend, you can of course have secrets you don't tell me, but… I am a Senior Investigator sent by the Ministry of Magic, I have the right to know everything about Hogwarts, so…" Grindelwald looked at Dumbledore with a provocative gaze.

"We were caught by Professor Dumbledore for night wandering." Before Dumbledore could answer, Tom interjected, "Now, he's planning to take us to see Headmaster Dippet."

"Oh? Really?" Grindelwald looked at Tom with a smile, "If it's just night wandering, Dumbledore is enough to deal with you, why bother looking for the Headmaster? Moreover, since it's such a trivial matter, why emphasize that it should be kept from me?"

Tom was momentarily speechless, and his eyes quickly looked elsewhere, avoiding direct eye contact with Grindelwald.

Li Weide suddenly said in a very helpless tone: "It's all because of you… Because you've been getting too close to us recently, so when the professor caught us night wandering, he even thought we were doing things for you."

Tom breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, and Dumbledore quickly reacted as well.

He stood in front of the two children, looked directly into Grindelwald's eyes, and said coldly: "Since you insist on knowing, then I'll tell you! Even if you have a legitimate name now, you and I both know what kind of person you are. Therefore, I don't want Hogwarts' most outstanding students to be influenced by you! I am planning to persuade these two children with Headmaster Dippet to stay away from you! And then check if they have any dark magic secretly placed on them by you!"

"These are very serious accusations, Dumbledore!" Grindelwald said with a frown.

"You asked me to say this, Grindelwald. If you hadn't insisted on asking, we could have saved each other some face, wouldn't we?" Dumbledore stared straight at Grindelwald, not giving an inch.