The Mightiest Badger at Hogwarts

"Business? What business?"

Slughorn was still in a state of excitement, "Link, you are one of the committee members of Hogwarts, you should take more care of Snape!"

Link looked at Slughorn coldly and said:

"You can just mention those things appropriately. You shouldn't talk about them in such depth, especially in front of Harry. You are opening Professor Snape's wounds. Professor Snape is a strong person. He will not follow It’s strange that you turned your back on me.”

"So what? You know how bad his reputation among students is! I'm helping him!"

Slughorn danced and said, "And no matter what, I am also his professor. If it weren't for me, he could have achieved such great achievements in Potions? Can he come back to Hogwarts and become a professor? Okay! Now that he is successful, he can no longer take me as a teacher seriously. I guess he doesn't even know how to write the four words "respecting teachers and being respectful" now, right?

I'm very angry about what happened today!

Snape treated me with that attitude and made it difficult for me to stand up in public.

Let me tell you clearly!He must apologize, otherwise I may not be qualified for this job as Potions Professor! "

Link looked at Slughorn quietly until the other party finished speaking in one breath, and then said coldly:

"So...you are threatening me?"

There was no expression on Link's face, and there was no emotion in his words, as cold as a piece of ice.

But it was this attitude that made Slughorn feel something bad.

He waved his hands in embarrassment and said:

"No, that's not what I meant. Link, what I want to say is that since you invited me back to Hogwarts, you should give me some dignity protection, like today..."

"Know yourself!"

Link interrupted Slughorn rudely, "This is one of the three mottos engraved in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. For a long time in the past, I have recited it to myself several times a day. This sentence. And today, I also want to give this sentence to you."

Link paused, then reached out and patted Slughorn's face, which had turned from angry red to pale white. "You don't really think that you are a person and have the right to make your own choices, do you? We We were polite to you, so we called you professor and went to your safe house to invite you. But if we weren't so polite, how could you still not come?"

Slughorn's face turned pale, and his legs trembled.

At this moment, Link has completely shed his student skin. What is now revealed in front of him is like a ferocious yet calm super beast. A simple swallow can eat him down to the bones. .

It was until this time that Slughorn thought everything too naively.

In the past, he was blinded by interests.

I only saw the aura around Link and the prestige that various titles could bring to him.

But they ignored that Link, who could sit in that position, would be particularly easy to get along with?

In terms of the power he controls alone, Link is even stronger than Voldemort in the past!

Facing such a strong man, he actually lost his awe!

This is his biggest mistake!

"So...do you recognize yourself now?"

Link's voice sounded again.

Compared to before, there was a little more smile in his words this time.

Slughorn shivered violently when he heard this, and quickly lowered his head and said:

"Of course! Of course!"

"That would be great." Link said with a smile, "In that case, tell me about Tom Riddle, how much do you know about him? You were once his professor, he You also joined the Slug Club, didn’t you?”

"Tom... Tom Riddle?"

Slughorn's expression changed drastically.

This is Voldemort's original name!

Does Link want to use him to obtain information against Voldemort?

Slughorn looked at Link blankly, his expression extremely ugly.

He really didn't want to get involved in this kind of thing.

Neither Link nor Voldemort were beings he could offend. No matter who among them moved a finger, they could easily crush him to death!

"Link, to be honest, I am too old, which makes my memory of him very blurry. I can't even remember such a person." Slughorn forced a smile. He said, "So I'm sorry Link, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do to help you."

As if he was afraid that Link wouldn't believe it, Slughorn added:

"I can guarantee that everything I say is the truth. If you don't believe it, you can use Legilimency spell or Veritaserum to check me!"

"Don't be like this, Professor Slughorn. I know very well that you also have a certain degree of attainment in Occlumency. You may have even sealed away all the memories related to Voldemort a long time ago. So generally Neither Legilimency nor Veritaserum has much effect on you."

Link shook his head and said, "But you must be clear about one thing. That is that your coming to teach at Hogwarts is not the result of our request, and we do not need to pay any other compensation for this matter.

While you enjoy the glory of being my professor and having me join the Slug Club, you also have to pay a certain price.

This is the most basic exchange of interests, and you are an expert in this area.

So, tell me, this is the only value you can create for me. "

Hearing what Link said, a wry smile appeared on Slughorn's lips.

It can be said that Link's understanding of him exceeded all his previous expectations.

At this moment, he felt as if he was a transparent person, and everything he concealed was invisible to Link's sight.

He shook his head and finally said helplessly:

"You have to tell me what you want to know, right? This way I can have a better direction."

"Just talk about your views on him, and then expand on this topic. I think as long as you make a start, there will be a lot of things you want to talk about later. After all, although Voldemort is bad, he can still be considered good. He’s a legend, isn’t he?”

As Link said this, he helped Slughorn sit on the sofa nearby and got him a glass of red wine.

As if to suppress the fear in his heart, Slughorn drank all the wine in the glass in one gulp, and then said in a trembling voice:

"That was a nightmare, a nightmare that has tortured me for decades. Link, can you understand how I feel? I taught a demon, who used the various methods I taught him to continue to do evil in the world, and became this The greatest evil in the world!"

"what you mean?"

"Horcruxes! There is knowledge about Horcruxes!" Slughorn said uneasily, "Since you have expelled him from the country, you should also be aware of the fact that he possesses Horcruxes, right? As long as you have As long as the Horcrux is there, he cannot be killed!"

Link nodded and said:

"We have known this for a long time. Not only that, so far, we have destroyed four Horcruxes belonging to Voldemort. However, judging from the fact that he has not yet been eliminated, there should be more. Horcrux."

Slughorn gasped.

The gaze he looked at Link brightened at first, but then quickly dimmed.

"I really didn't expect that you guys have progressed to this point. What's even more surprising is that Voldemort was so crazy that he made so many Horcruxes for himself!" Slughorn grabbed his few hairs. Pain said, "This is all my fault. If it weren't for me, he would never be able to become big!"

Hearing this, Link curled his lips helplessly.

In his opinion, Slughorn's arrogance may have recurred.

It is said that Voldemort was so powerful and unscrupulous because of his teachings.

is it possible?

How could an earthworm teach a venomous snake to hunt?

Voldemort's power was clearly something he had mastered through other channels.

Wasn't even the so-called Horcrux manufacturing knowledge what he read in "Advanced Black Magic Revealed"?

According to Link's memory of the original work, Voldemort did ask Slughorn questions about Horcruxes when he was a student.

But that was just a tentative inquiry made by Voldemort to confirm his conjecture.

Why did it come to Slughorn's mouth and become what he taught Voldemort?

Slughorn really puts a blame on himself.

Just when Link was thinking wildly, Slughorn seemed to have recovered from his self-blame. He grabbed Link's arm as hard as if he were grasping hope, and said slowly:

"But you have done a very good job! No matter how powerful Voldemort is, he is only one person, and his number of Horcruxes will definitely not reach double digits! Now that you have eliminated four Horcruxes, what will happen next? As long as you make up your mind to do the Horcrux, you will definitely succeed! By then, you will be the savior of the entire magical world!"

Link calmly pulled away his arm:

"Of course we will do it, it's our duty."

Slughorn didn't care whether Link's actions were impolite or not. He licked his lips and said:

"Another point is that you are really lucky. The current Voldemort is actually far from his most terrifying form! The process of constantly splitting souls to create Horcruxes has actually destroyed his spirit and sanity. Now he has no He was so strong before!"

"We already know this. Voldemort has now become a madman, relying solely on violent suppression to rule his subordinates..."

"No! You don't know anything at all!"

Slughorn interrupted, "Voldemort's most terrifying form was what he looked like when he was at Hogwarts! Although the power he had at that time was not as terrifying as it is now, he still had love in his heart. Desire! You may not understand how powerful the power of love is, but as a current member of the Ministry of Magic, you should also know that there is a room in the Department of Mysteries that is always locked, and the power of 'love' is housed in it. ?”

"Indeed, that room does exist. However, that room is the highest level of closed room. The Ministry of Magic does not have a key to open it. The closed system it has is also very powerful. It can be said that unless the entire Department of Mysteries is destroyed, , otherwise there would be no way to break in."

"That's right! This is the most correct decision made by the sages of the Ministry of Magic! Because the power of love is really terrifying! It may not have much destructive power in the direct sense, but it can control And gather people's hearts and desires, and use them to transform into terrifying energy that we can't understand at the moment!

This energy can be used to save, but it can also destroy the entire world!

Voldemort possessed such a power when he was a student. Although he, like most ordinary people, did not realize the horror of this power at the time, he did possess it.

The most critical point is that the love he grasps and pursues is pure and deformed. It can be said to be love used to destroy and destroy in the true sense!

In the face of this power of love, any magic in the world is just rubbish! "

Slughorn became inexplicably excited, and he said to Link excitedly, "This is why I was so scared when I heard that Tom Riddle had turned into Voldemort and returned. I know it all too well. With Voldemort's talent, sooner or later he will be able to discover the power of love and use that abnormal love to destroy the world! But as more and more news about Voldemort comes out, I unexpectedly discovered a surprise!

This returned Tom, or Voldemort.

Although he is still as powerful, as good at disguise and deceiving people, he looks so perfect.

But he lost the most important thing, that is - love!

Can you imagine how I felt at that time?

Voldemort, he lost the ability to love!

Although I don't understand how this happens, it is undoubtedly great news for us!

Listen, Link!

Voldemort without love is not terrible, all he has is dry magic power, which means that you only need to stack combat power.

Voldemort will never become as terrifying a figure as Grindelwald, even if the biggest difference between the two is love! "

Slughorn talked endlessly, even getting excited to the point of talking to himself.

As he spoke, Link's brows furrowed deeply.

Because the 'love' described by Slughorn reminded Link of the 'Professor Leelo' he met at Beauxbatons.

When the other party uses his strange power, he seems to call it - wish!

The expression of that power almost perfectly fits Slughorn's description.

Horrible, weird, great, deformed, almost unbreakable...

This seems to be the power of 'love'.

Does that mean that the Voldemort they are facing now is the Voldemort who has found his 'love'?

Gu Ji</span>A devil in the most powerful state in a true sense!

……

The next day, Link walked out of the classroom alone.

Perhaps these things had been buried in Slughorn's mind for too long.

In short, as Link said at the beginning, after starting the car, Slughorn could no longer stop the car.

For a whole night, Slughorn kept drinking and talking about his fear of Voldemort.

In the later stage, Link didn't even want to hear it, but Slughorn forced Link to say it.

Link was left speechless.

But speaking for such a long time was not without success.

At least in this conversation throughout the night, Slughorn told almost all the details of Voldemort in his memory.

This also gave Link a clearer and more specific impression of Voldemort.

To sum up, this is actually another cliché story in which an unfortunate childhood leads to a child who should be innocent, lively and even talented to grow into a perverted murderer.

Even in Link's view, the reason why Voldemort was so crazy that he lost the power of love was completely natural.

Because his misfortune is quite pure.

As an orphan, Harry at least still has the love for him from Sirius, Hagrid and Lupin.

Even his aunt's family, whom he had always criticized, actually didn't treat Harry that harshly.

Link had heard Harry complain more than once that his aunt's family hated magic and even feared it.

During the time when he had just received the admission notice to Hogwarts, his aunt's family even moved to a deserted and remote island to avoid the strange owl letters in the wizarding world.

This is not the reaction a normal person should have at all.

A normal person would have kicked Harry out of the house as soon as he encountered those strange events.

After all, those letters were all directed at Harry. As long as he stayed away from Harry, he would naturally get rid of the weird magic.

But during the entire escape process, no one in Harry's aunt's family said anything about leaving Harry behind.

Even when Hagrid, a giant man, broke into their safe house on the island, Harry's uncle was still trying to stop Hagrid from taking Harry away.

This is enough to show that Harry's aunt's family loves Harry.

Although this love is so small compared to Dudley, isn't it natural?

After all, Dudley was their biological son, and Harry was just a poor relative who had lived in their family for more than ten years.

So it can be said that Harry has lived under the wrap of love since he was a child.

What about Voldemort?

This guy is the ultimate hapless guy.

His father doesn't love him.

Because his father was seduced by his mother using love potions.

His mother doesn't love him either.

This can be seen from the fact that she died in childbirth after being abandoned.

Although her magic power was so fragile that it was unbearable to mention, she was a witch after all. It was simply ridiculous that a witch could die in childbirth.

So it can be guessed that Voldemort's mother completely gave up the hope of living.

He also gave up his children.

As a mother, she only loves her husband, not her children.

Not to mention the orphanage.

Although Link has never been there, he has a certain understanding of it.

Orphans are nothing more than a burden to the orphanage, or they are livestock that can make money.

London's orphanages have been run into an appallingly chaotic state over the past few decades.

Finding some orphans and putting them in an orphanage to defraud subsidies or letting the orphans go out to sell sex are the most basic operations.

What's more, they even trade people and organs!

Living in such an extreme environment, it was natural for Voldemort to go crazy.

Rather, it was strange that he still had love in his heart after entering Hogwarts.

According to Link's estimation, this love is probably his nostalgia for his mother.

At that time, he still had beautiful fantasies about his mother.

So after gaining power, he couldn't wait to kill the Gaunt family who expelled his mother.

This is his revenge for his mother!

In the later period, the reason why he lost the ability to love was as Slughorn said.

Probably because he fully realized that his mother might not love him at all.

This made him completely despair.

"Ugh--"

Link sighed deeply.

The yolk-shaped sun was slowly rising from the edge of the earth. The soft sunlight penetrated the early morning mist and hit him, but he could not feel the slightest warmth.

Some are just cold.

Winter is coming.

"Slughorn told you everything?"

Dumbledore's voice suddenly sounded from the shadows.

"Ah, yes."

Link responded calmly, turned around and saw that the expression on Dumbledore's face was extremely complicated, like guilt and regret.

"This was a mistake in my education." Dumbledore came out of the shadows, stood next to Link and watched the sunrise together and said, "If I could have observed more carefully, if I could have devoted myself to Tom again, With more love, maybe he wouldn't have turned into Voldemort."

Link glanced at Dumbledore expressionlessly.

Of course he knew what Dumbledore was trying to say.

Voldemort was once Dumbledore's student, and he was the most outstanding one.

If anything, Dumbledore was the teacher who taught Voldemort how to use power.

Of course, what really made Dumbledore feel so guilty was probably the way he educated Voldemort.

Dumbledore was not the principal at that time, and the old principal's teaching ideas were biased towards the Black model.

Naturally, Dumbledore was also affected. The current situation where Dumbledore would whisper and joke with you when a student made a mistake, or even help excuse him, was absolutely non-existent for Dumbledore at that time.

If you make a mistake, you have to be beaten!

Especially to Voldemort.

Dumbledore was truly unfilial when his father saw his son, so he drew out the seven wolves!

That is to say, the subsequent rise of Voldemort left a huge psychological shadow on Dumbledore. Otherwise, Dumbledore would have changed his educational ideas to make the students live so comfortably?

Go dream!

Was Dumbledore really wrong?

"Heh, it seems like it's not your fault."

Link chuckled and expressed his opinion.

This answer seemed to be beyond Dumbledore's expectations.

He turned his head in surprise, but saw that Link had looked at Chu Yang again and continued:

"You think that the reason why Voldemort is like this is because you included too much violence in his previous education. This kind of education method of using violence to force him to submit made him feel that when he has enough After the violence, can you also force others to submit?"

Dumbledore nodded silently.

Link's words did speak to his heart, and that's how he felt.

"But I don't think it's your fault."

Link shook his head and continued, "Some naughty children just lack tough education. You didn't give them special, targeted corporal punishment. The responsibility for this cannot be placed on you anyway."

Link really didn't look down on Voldemort at all.

Although he has a pitiful background, he has shown a kind of evil since he was a child.

In Slughorn's description, Voldemort was already using his gift of Parseltongue to steal and avenge all kinds of bad behavior that hurt others when he was in the orphanage.

After arriving at Hogwarts, there was a lot of frame-up and frame-up within the rules.

In Link's opinion, this kind of naughty kid deserves a beating.

Even Dumbledore and the old headmaster of Hogwarts at the time were extremely merciful in not expelling him.

"What you said makes sense. There was a time when I did think so." Dumbledore sighed, "But no matter what, I have to admit it. If I could have discovered Tom's special place in time, then If we provide him with more targeted guidance and education, we might be able to change him.”

Hearing this, Link smiled.

If, if, if...

All these words represent are meaningless complaints.

Because there is no regret medicine in this world, naturally all what-ifs are impossible to achieve.

What's more, Link doesn't think that Voldemort can be brought back by Dumbledore's gentle guidance and education like that given to Harry.

You must know that Voldemort, who has lived in such an extreme environment since childhood, has a distorted outlook on life.

If Dumbledore wanted to correct it by himself, he would be overestimating his capabilities.

"Slughorn told me that Voldemort's most terrifying state is when he still has 'love'. But now, Voldemort has obviously mastered this power." Link restrained his smile and said, "What do you think we should do now?"

"What should I do? Why do you ask such a strange question?"

Dumbledore didn't pay attention to Link's abrupt change of topic, and asked with a smile, "He, Tom Riddle, has the power of love and desire, don't we?"

Link narrowed his eyes slightly and said:

"what do you mean……"

"What I want to say is that there is love and power in each of us, and there are very few who don't." Dumbledore stretched out his hand against Link's heart, "So don't worry, at best he has mastered the use of 'love and power' A method of wish's power, and the most deformed one at that."

"However, aren't we inferior to him? At least he knows how to use it, but we can't even sense that power."

"Don't worry, child, you will feel it. You just lack an opportunity. When the time is right, the power of love and desire will naturally be used by you in your own way. This is inevitable, and it won't take long. This Opportunities will arise.”

A bright smile suddenly broke out on Dumbledore's face, "As for now, the thing you should be most worried about should be the mediation meeting held by the International Federation of Wizards between us and the French Ministry of Magic. Just last night, they had News has arrived, and I invite you, the actual controller of the Ministry of Magic of the Republic of China, by name to attend the meeting!"