A sharp Hogwarts

"The mess that I... caused directly or indirectly?"

Dumbledore repeated softly, suddenly remembering something and fell silent.

At the same time, Dalia noticed a strange clicking sound coming from the surrounding walls, which sounded like...

Click, click, click——

Dalia turned her head, and the characters in the picture frames on the wall woke up at some point and were gathering together to watch the two people talking curiously.

Unlike the venerable "successive principals" she had imagined as witnesses, the wizards and witches found nuts, melon seeds, snacks, and drinks from nowhere. They quickly cracked the nuts and melon seeds in the picture frame while watching with interest. Looking at Dumbledore and Dalia, they seemed to be middle-aged and elderly neighbors watching an early morning family farce.

"It's not a good idea to pretend to be a prophet. Most of the prophets of my time ended up not very good-"

At this moment, a mean-looking wizard suddenly said.

He has sparse eyebrows, a goatee, and wears silver and green Slytherin wizard robes.

"Dumbledore, this is why I hate being a teacher - students always think they have nothing to do but study. They are like noisy owls leaving a lot of letters, droppings, feathers, and minding their own business on the dining table. Pick your favorite food, then flap your wings and fly away, leaving you with a lot of trouble..."

"Phineas Nigellus Black?"

Dalia glanced at the name drawn with silver powder at the bottom of the frame and whispered curiously.

Phineas frowned dissatisfied and turned his head to glare at Dahlia who was standing in front of the desk.

"It's Principal Black—you rude little girl."

"Well, I heard that the Black family is now the last one left - Sirius Black who is imprisoned in the Wizarding Prison of Azkaban."

Dalia shrugged, took a piece of crepe from the dessert table, and said with a heartless smile while chewing.

"And as you heard, the prophecy I 'saw' had a chance of exonerating Sirius..."

"Of course, if Dumbledore had done nothing, he would have escaped and died fighting."

"...Dumbledore, your students are threatening the principal? Did you hear that? She seems to want to order us to do things."

Phineas' voice suddenly choked, he turned his head, and quickly turned his spear to target Dumbledore, who was meditating on a high-backed chair not far away.

He coughed lightly, scratched his goatee, and said softly, pretending to be calm.

"However, I believe you should have your own basic judgment, right? For example, priorities and so on——"

"Of course I will rescue Sirius as soon as possible, Apnis - but now it sounds like he is not the only one waiting to clear his grievances."

Dumbledore interrupted him, tilting his head slightly to look at Dalia, a trace of hesitation and curiosity flashing in his blue eyes.

"So...Miss Dursley, what exactly happened in the future you saw?"

"I see seven years, seven years from now - it's a very long story."

Before Dumbledore could continue to ask, Dalia sat cross-legged on a chair, cleared her throat, and started talking enthusiastically.

"The main point of the story revolves around my cousin, Harry."

"In his first year, Harry learned about the Philosopher's Stone after some probing and realized that Voldemort might want to steal it."

"At the end of the semester, Harry and several of his classmates passed the many tests set by you and the professors, and finally successfully faced Voldemort and Quirrell, and stopped Voldemort's conspiracy, and you 'just happened' to show up to clean up the mess. , and by the way, extra points were given for various reasons, allowing Harry to lead Gryffindor to complete a shocking reversal in the Academy Cup."

"The next year, Malfoy Sr. managed to get Tom Riddle's student diary into the school, leading to the opening of the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets."

"There have been multiple monster attacks in the school. Hogwarts is facing closure, and you have been temporarily asked to leave Hogwarts. And through a series of coincidences, Harry and his companions found the entrance to the secret room. At the same time, they guessed that the monster was a basilisk. With Fox Fox, the Sword of Gryffindor given by the Sorting Hat, and Harry's almost life-for-one battle, Voldemort's Horcrux - the diary - finally Completely destroyed, the Basilisk was killed by Harry's sword, and you returned to school."

Dalia glanced at Dumbledore. She had previously had doubts about whether Dumbledore wanted to cash in on his son:

If Harry had died under the basilisk's fangs, the fragments of Voldemort's soul attached to Harry would most likely have been destroyed.

After all, the basilisk's fangs are one of the few things in the original novel that can destroy Horcruxes.

"In the third grade, Sirius unexpectedly learned that Pettigrew was still alive and transformed into the mouse Scabbers to stay with Harry. He decided to escape from Azkaban and hunt down Peter. The Ministry of Magic sent dementors to garrison the school. And you were there in the same year. Appoint Mr. Remus Lupin as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and continue to observe."

"With the help of Professor Lupine, Harry drove away the Dementors, successfully found Sirius Black, and figured out who he was and what happened back then - the Potters quietly changed the Secret Keeper, and after Peter became the Secret Keeper He immediately betrayed them - and rescued Sirius from the clutches of the Ministry of Magic. During the rescue process, Peter Pettigrew escaped, and Sirius hid as a fugitive. Soon after, Peter Pettigrew found Voldemort and began planning Its resurrection plan.”

A series of exclamations echoed from the picture frames on the surrounding walls, and all the past principals were as excited as worms crawling into the melon fields of Hogwarts.

Aphenis Black cursed and walked away, as if someone thought his great-great-grandson was too stupid or had poor judgment.

Dumbledore summoned his quill and automatically wrote and recorded quickly on the parchment.

"Fourth grade, with the negotiation between you, the Ministry of Magic, and various schools, the Triwizard Tournament has been held again at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry after several centuries."

"This year you have another Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. You originally planned to invite Mad-Eye Moody, but Moody was attacked by Barty Crouch, Voldemort, and Peter Pettigrew before he took office— -Barty Crouch Jr., whose father took him out of prison and kept him under the Imperius Curse. After Voldemort knew the news, he released Crouch Jr., and in turn controlled Crouch Sr. and made the young Crouch Sr. Crouch disguised himself as Moody and sneaked into Hogwarts, waiting for an opportunity to complete the steps of Voldemort's resurrection ritual."

"The fake Moody used the confusion spell to make Harry the No. 4 warrior to compete, and sent Harry to the ceremony venue at the last moment to resurrect Voldemort."

"Cedric, the Hogwarts warrior, died. Harry escaped from death and returned to school, and passed the news to you."

Dalia raised her head and glanced at Dumbledore again, with a hint of dissatisfaction in her tone.

"The Ministry of Magic decided to part ways with you, and you chose to reconvene the Order of the Phoenix."

"In the fifth year, officials from the Ministry of Magic began to intervene in Hogwarts, and Voldemort also began to realize the soul connection between him and Harry."

"At the end of that school year, Voldemort used 'Legilimency' - 'What about cats and what about wine' - to create illusions in Harry's mind, and finally deceived him into the Prophecy Hall of the Ministry of Magic, intending to obtain from him The second half of the prophecy that he had not listened to back then. Members of the Order of the Phoenix arrived later and fought with the Death Eaters at the Ministry of Magic. Sirius Black died at the hands of his cousin Bellatrix. And Shan You, who arrived belatedly, engaged in a magical confrontation with Voldemort. As officials from the Ministry of Magic arrived at the scene one after another, Voldemort fled in a hurry, and the Ministry of Magic finally had to admit that Voldemort had returned and began to work with you to fight against the dark forces... "

"Uh - sorry, just to interrupt, why is Dumbledore late again this year?"

Just then, a witch's voice sounded from the picture frame on the wall.

Dalia turned her head and glanced, it was Principal Delise de Winter who asked the question.

Her dress is different from other principals. She wears a white coat and looks a bit like a doctor in a hospital.

"Oh, because the officials of the Ministry of Magic announced some terms, which ultimately led to Harry being expelled. Then Professor Dumbledore's solution was to directly help Harry take all the blame, and under the guidance of the Minister of Magic and the Auror Knocking down everyone when they planned to arrest him, he escaped from the school with Fox's help."

"Knocked out...everyone? He knocked out the Minister of Magic and ran away with the Phoenix?!"

Phineas Black snorted from his nose and stared at Dahlia with his eyes narrowed, his voice full of mockery and questioning.

"The previous story is quite decent, but isn't it a bit too outrageous here? Why don't you rethink your thoughts and make up a more decent story..."

"Yes, it's outrageous - I think so too - but this is the future I 'see'."

Dalia shrugged. She ignored Phineas and rested for a few seconds before speaking.

"In the sixth year, Professor Dumbledore, you began to destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes. Oh, you finally confirmed Voldemort's method of avoiding death."

"During this year, you traveled around and finally found the place where two Horcruxes were located - unfortunately, one of them was gone, and the other was in Gaunt's old house. You found the Horcrux made by Voldemort - The ring of the Gaunt family, but when you destroyed the Horcrux, you discovered that the gem on the ring was the resurrection stone. In order to resurrect someone... you accidentally triggered the trap, causing yourself to almost die on the spot. Of course, you were not far away from death. , according to your and Professor Snape’s judgment, you can live for up to a year and a half.”

"Perhaps because you don't have long to live and you are short of time, you asked Professor Snape to kill you personally as a pledge to win Voldemort's trust."

"Hogwarts was on the verge of losing its asylum, and Voldemort's forces infiltrated the school and the Ministry of Magic over the next year."

"In the seventh year, Harry managed to find most of the remaining Horcruxes while being hunted by the forces of Darkness: Slytherin's locket, Hufflepuff's golden cup, Ravenclaw's diadem... and Nagini, the big snake next to Voldemort, and then your last words told him that the last Horcrux was Harry himself - the way to completely destroy Voldemort is to lure Voldemort and Harry to death together after destroying all the Horcruxes. This is That perfect, great battle plan you made before you died."

Dalia raised her eyebrows high and couldn't help but roll her eyes at Dumbledore.

This old man has been unreliable from beginning to end. If he didn't have some strength, he would have almost relied on luck to get through.

"Well, fortunately, all the unlikely events happened, and a battle broke out between the teachers and students of Hogwarts and the dark forces in the school."

"All of Voldemort's Horcruxes were destroyed, and Voldemort and Harry finally had a showdown..."

"Due to the Elder Wand's trap, Voldemort was struck by the spell and self-destructed."

"Harry survived, and peace returned to the wizarding world. Well, the story is over——"

Dalia glanced at Dumbledore, feeling as if her throat was burning, and quickly concluded.

"No, this is the simulation of life in the next seven years, sacrificing a lot of innocent people, and finally winning by luck..."

"So... these messes... you can now claim them one by one and deal with them again, right?"