Head of Teaching at Hogwarts

Staring at the black diary on the table, Russell speculated on the adventures Voldemort might have encountered back then.

With Voldemort's wisdom and ambition, I am afraid that he would immediately discover the possible blood connection between them when he found out that Slytherin himself was a Parseltongue. This may have been discovered soon after Voldemort entered school.

This is definitely something that makes Voldemort extremely excited. After all, he is a pure blood believer, and Slytherin's blood is definitely the noblest kind in the eyes of a wizard like him.

What happened next was very logical. Voldemort showed his amazing talent and at the same time began to claim himself as a descendant of Slytherin early. After all, he could speak Parselang, which would definitely have an influence on his success in Slytherin College. Power helps a lot.

And he must have been looking for the rumored Slytherin's secret room in the past few years. Obviously he succeeded. As a descendant of Slytherin, he not only became the master of the basilisk, but more likely he took it. All the research successes and information left by Slytherin are here.

Then he destroyed these materials after reading, which is undoubtedly in line with Voldemort's style, and also explains why Russell found nothing in the Chamber of Secrets.

But Russell still didn't understand why Slytherin's research could lead to Voldemort's rise so quickly, and why an old wizard's research results more than 1000 years ago could be so powerful.

Although according to records, Slytherin itself is extremely good at various black magic related to blood and soul, and many of these black magic are forbidden to be studied, Russell also feels that this is a bit unconvincing.

You must know that more than 20 years ago, Dumbledore was already 90 years old. He had been in charge of Hogwarts, the academic center of the wizarding world, for many years. He was definitely the most knowledgeable person in the wizarding world.

Voldemort was only in his 40s at the time. Compared to Dumbledore, who could be described as "too young and too simple", he could actually compete with Dumbledore. There must be something unusual about this.

No matter how talented Voldemort is, he is at most about the same as Dumbledore. In this magical world where knowledge is often power, as long as Dumbledore is not extremely weak, he should have the upper hand in the face of Voldemort. It is impossible to do anything. Voldemort dominated the wizarding world for ten years.

So these studies are definitely worth paying attention to!

Russell has made up his mind to explore this notebook that may contain huge secrets.

He stared at the diary for a while and already had a plan in mind.

"It's probably not possible to have a friendly exchange directly. This unlucky kid actually lied down and pretended to be dead. Then we can only take some extreme measures."

Russell activated the Occlumency Spell. The high-level Occlumency Spell can not only seal the wizard's mind from being detected by others using magic like Legilimency, but it can also forge one's own memories. This is what Snape has always said. The reason why he can be trusted more than Voldemort.

Because Snape did not use the Occlumency Spell to seal his memory roughly, but forged other memories, he was able to gain the trust of the suspicious and cunning Voldemort.

The memory Russell constructed for himself was slightly adapted based on his own real situation. In the new memory, he is still an outstanding genius wizard, known as a born Slytherin, and extremely conceited. After graduation, he was invited by Dumbledore to serve as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts.

The best lie always contains a lot of truth. As long as Voldemort believed in his made-up character, Russell believed that he would be able to make good use of this diary.

With this thought in his mind, Russell had already opened the diary, picked up the quill and wrote a coldly descriptive line.

"The venom of the basilisk is very corrosive and is very suitable for destroying useless things, such as this strange diary. After all, waste should not exist!"

After thinking about it for a while, Russell continued writing——

"I, Carl Russell, born Slytherin, Headmaster of Hogwarts, Dumbledore's destroyer and successor, uncrowned king of the wizarding world!

Just enough basilisk venom on hand. "

When Russell wrote this, he stopped and began to wait patiently. In his opinion, these keywords were enough to stimulate Voldemort.

Sure enough, about five seconds later, Russell felt a vague magic wave - the magic wave of Legilimency. This magic wave greedily searched for all the footprints in Russell's memory, but did not find these so-called The memory is just some false information constructed on the surface.

Under Russell's attention, the ink on the diary was absorbed, and soon a line of text that Russell had been waiting for appeared.

"Hello, Carl Russell."

This line of text didn't stay for long before it quickly disappeared, and then a new line of text appeared.

"Don't call me a hurtful word like trash. I know a lot of extremely strange magical knowledge, some of which don't even appear in textbooks."