Mysterious Walker at Hogwarts

Dean stood in front of the Mirror of Erised, and sure enough he saw Knightley smiling happily at him, showing no sign of being troubled by the Obscurus; Dean thought repeatedly in his mind, "How to solve the Obscurus."

With his unremitting efforts, the picture in the mirror finally changed. Two other people appeared behind Knightley. One was Severus Snape, and the other had a head full of light blond short hair. , a spirited old man with a beautiful mustache.

As the two of them appeared, a cloud of black smoke emerged from Knightley's body, and then the black smoke melted in front of Snape and the spirited old man like white snow encountering the warm sun.

Who is this spiritual old man?Dean couldn't help but have questions on his head.

"It seems that the answer you got is not satisfactory." Dumbledore said playfully.

He was very satisfied that Dean had lived up to his trust and indeed had no intention of attacking the Philosopher's Stone.

"The Mirror of Erised gave me a hint. It seems that Professor Snape and another person can solve the Obscurus on my sister by joining forces, but I don't know who the other person is." Dean replied.

"Can you describe what he looks like? Maybe I can help." Dumbledore believed that Dean's performance deserved some rewards.

"That's a spirited old man with short light blond hair..." Dean suddenly closed his mouth when he said this, because he saw another detail from the Mirror of Erised. The old man inadvertently revealed the figure hanging around his neck. The thing on it was the blood oath pendant that Dean obtained from the ruins.

Dean almost immediately guessed the identity of the spiritual old man - the first generation Dark Lord Gellert Grindelwald.

Sure enough, Dumbledore's face became unnatural after hearing Dean's brief description: "Does he have any other characteristics?"

"Professor, I think I already know who he is." Dean said apologetically, as if he was adding salt to the wounds in Dumbledore's heart.

"It's Gellert Grindelwald, right?" Dumbledore asked softly. "He is indeed the person who has studied the Obscurus the most in the world."

"Sorry, Professor..." Dean didn't know what to say at this moment. He found that Dumbledore seemed to have aged hundreds of years the moment he mentioned Grindelwald's name.

"No need to apologize, Dean. This is not your fault." Dumbledore quickly returned to normal, even making Dean think that he had just hallucinated, "The Mirror of Erised has given a hint, now The question is are you ready to meet him?"

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"Dumbledore, it turns out you are already here, so I'm relieved." Professor McGonagall hurried to the room of the Mirror of Erised and found Dumbledore standing in front of the tall and gorgeous floor-to-ceiling mirror, meditating.

"Ah~ Minerva, I have just conducted a test of a series of tests we have set up." Dumbledore explained.

"No wonder I felt that the wizard chess test I set was touched by someone, so I rushed over to take a look. I didn't expect it was you." Professor McGonagall showed an expression of sudden realization.

"Sorry, I didn't expect to alarm you." Dumbledore said apologetically.

"It's nothing. At least I saw the 'stone pier comes out' spell once - I must say, that 'stone pier comes out' spell is very, very beautiful." Professor McGonagall said.

Dumbledore's eyes flashed before he said with a mysterious smile: "It's not easy to get your praise."

Professor McGonagall was stunned for a moment, then pursed her lips and asked, "Hasn't that person taken action yet?"

"It seems that the other party's patience is beyond our imagination." Dumbledore winked mischievously.

"Dumbledore, I respect your opinion, but I still have to say that it is too dangerous to set this test within the school." Professor McGonagall said.

"Thank you for your reminder, Minerva. Just like the explanation I gave you at the beginning, I insist that our students need a little pressure to grow better. In fact, I am very pleased to see that some people have achieved very good results. Obvious improvement," Dumbledore replied.

"Are you talking about Mr. Potter? Indeed, he is very good, but... there is still a little gap from my expectations, and he is not even as good as his father." Professor McGonagall said matter-of-factly.

"Yes, James is very good, but Potter should not be measured by his standards. We should be patient and give him enough time to grow - Minerva, please inform Severus to come, he Among the levels set, some potions need to be replenished." Dumbledore obviously didn't want to continue Harry's topic.

Professor McGonagall pursed her lips and said, "Okay, I'll inform Severus right away."

"Thank you, Minerva." Dumbledore said to Professor McGonagall's back.

Professor McGonagall paused: "Dumbledore, I am the head of Gryffindor now, so some things are best solved by me."

"Of course, but for some special students, I hope you can take special care of them." Dumbledore said softly.

Professor McGonagall stopped at the door and said: "Dumbledore, from now on, I will treat all students equally."

After saying that, he walked out without looking back and almost bumped into Snape who was about to come in.

"Severus, you came just in time. I was just going to ask Minerva to invite you." Dumbledore greeted.

"What's wrong with Minerva?" Snape said, looking at Professor McGonagall's angry back.

"She and I had a little disagreement. She thought I gave too many privileges to certain students." Dumbledore laughed.

"With all due respect, you did give Potter..."

"Sorry, Severus, Minerva was talking about Mr. Thomas." Dumbledore interrupted Snape.

Snape looked at Dumbledore in disbelief: "What kind of privileges has Dean obtained? I thought Minerva didn't even know..."

"She is just pretending not to know. Don't forget that she is the head of Gryffindor." Dumbledore explained. "She has just made it clear that she will not give any more privileges to any students in the future."

"I sincerely hope she can keep her word." Snape smiled sarcastically, "But if she suddenly said this, someone must have touched her bottom line - could this person be Dean?"

"Severus, you are always so sharp." Dumbledore said with a "you guessed it" expression.

"What did he do again?" Snape asked angrily, "I just warned him this morning."

"Calm down, Severus." Dumbledore waved his hand, "I remember telling you that I hope you can have the calmness that a good Occlumency Master should have when facing anyone or anything - —You have been doing a good job, but until Mr. Thomas showed up, you became erratic more and more often, which is not conducive to your work in any way."