Hogwarts, was gnawed at the beginning

"Mr. Ebo, please wait a moment." Harry hesitantly said weakly when Soul was about to step out of the threshold of the living room.

If Soul's ears weren't sensitive enough, Harry's voice would have been lost in the roaring fireplace in the living room.

By the way, the old tree of Kreacher sprouted new shoots. After resolving the serious illness that had been weighing on their hearts for more than ten years, the entire goblin came back to life. They quickly picked up their responsibilities as house elves and transformed Grimmauld Place into ten. No. 2 cleaned the place flawlessly.

It also made the fireplace in the living room, and it and Mrs. Weasley prepared the sumptuous dishes at the dinner.

Su Er paused and turned around.

"What's the matter, Potter?"

Harry shook his head subconsciously, paused, nodded again, gritted his teeth and looked into Sol's eyes.

"Do you know anything about black magic?"

Soul was stunned for a moment, neither nodding nor shaking his head, but looked at Harry with gentle and calm eyes, "You might as well talk about the problems you encountered, Potter. Maybe I can help you."

Harry began to hesitate again, but maybe it was Soul's gaze that gave him strength, or maybe it was Dumbledore's headquarters here. Out of trust in Dumbledore, he finally took a deep breath and calmed down. Xu said,

"I don't know if it's an illusion, Mr. Ebo, but you were also present when Mr. Weasley was attacked."

Soul nodded, probably guessing what Harry was going to say.

"I had a dream that I was the snake that attacked Mr. Weasley. You all know this, but the moment I touched the portkey and came here, I felt like I became that snake again. Snake, trying to attack Dumbledore..."

This is indeed what happened...

After hearing this, Soul pondered for a long time, and then spoke under Harry's anxious eyes,

"Did you tell Dumbledore or anyone else about this?"

Harry shook his head, "No, I haven't seen Dumbledore or Sirius since I came here. It was Kreacher who took care of us after we got here that day."

"I see."

Soul nodded, recalling the details of the original work he had read in his mind. According to the original work, Sirius took care of Harry and the others after they came here. Although Harry confided his troubles to Sirius, he did not get any help from Sirius. , but was considered by Sirius to be the residual influence of hallucinations.

"Dumbledore told me about you, Potter."

"In fact, I did see that day, you changed at that moment."

"Do you believe me?" Harry said with some surprise in his voice, "I don't dare to tell Mrs. Weasley and others because I'm worried that they will think that I am talking nonsense or that I have been affected by dreams."

"I have seen it with my own eyes, so I naturally believe it." Soul nodded and paused. Although he had not discussed this issue with Dumbledore, it did not prevent him from telling a lie here to reassure Harry.

"After you left, I told Dumbledore the changes in you. Your feeling was correct. This is the influence of dark magic."

Horcruxes are black magic in every aspect. No one has any objection to this, right?

"I also know what you are worried about. I can tell you for sure that this is not your problem, Potter. Mr. Weasley's injury has nothing to do with you."

"Then why--" Harry asked impatiently, his eyes shining.

"Don't worry." Suer said softly, "I probably understand, but before I explain it to you, I want to ask you about another thing. Do you know about Occlumency?"

Harry was stunned for a moment;

"I know, in fact, I studied Occlumency with...and...with Professor Snape."

"So that's it. Dumbledore was indeed prepared. Yes, this proves that my idea is correct." Suer nodded pretending to be enlightened.

"So, if I'm not wrong, you haven't made much progress in this magic, right?"

Harry remained silent and lowered his head in embarrassment.

"Since you know Occlumency, you should know that Occlumency is used to prevent others from invading your brain or even controlling your thoughts."

Soul knew the result just by looking at Harry's expression. He didn't expect that even if Harry was exposed to this spell a year in advance, it would not change Harry's learning of this spell.

In other words, Dumbledore did not expect Harry to be able to practice Occlumency deeply enough at all, but just hoped that Harry could resist when Voldemort invaded Harry's mind.

"I suspect that there is a spiritual connection between you and the mysterious man."

"What did you say?" Harry looked up, "Me, me and the mysterious man--"

"What happened to Mr. Weasley is proof of that, Potter." Thor said softly. "It is also proof that you wanted to attack Dumbledore."

"I don't understand." Harry was a little confused, "Can you elaborate, sir?"

"Okay, let's start with you wanting to attack Dumbledore." Soul sighed, "When you have these inappropriate thoughts, or see something happening elsewhere, what's wrong with you? shape?"

"Abnormal?" Harry muttered, subconsciously touched his forehead, lifted his hair, and revealed a lightning-shaped scar, "By the way, it will hurt here. When I wanted to attack Dumbledore, the scar was very painful for a moment. pain."

"Yes, this shows that there is a connection between you and the mysterious person, and the scar is the carrier of that connection."

Soul stared at the lightning-shaped scar, thinking that there was a bald and noseless monster inside, and said,

"I think Dumbledore asked you to learn Occlumency for this reason. If your brain is defenseless and Voldemort uses this connection to invade you in turn, this is a very dangerous thing."

"That's right." Harry suddenly realized, "Whether it's Snape or Dumbledore, no one has told me about this, and no one has said why I was asked to learn this extremely difficult magic."

Soon, new questions popped up.

"Then how did I have this connection with the mysterious man Fu? If he knew this earlier, why didn't he just..."

Soul knows the truth.

Because you are a Horcrux, silly boy.

But now, Sule must not tell Harry this fact. This must be told until the end, so Sule shook his head.

"I don't know the specific reason."

"But the most important question now is that the mysterious man may have discovered this secret connection between you. Going back to the original question, you should have the answer by now, Potter."

"At that moment you wanted to attack Dumbledore. This is the most direct proof that he was trying to invade you and control you."

The fire in the fireplace was burning brightly, emitting heat and light, making the large room warm.

But Harry only felt a chill to his bones.

He opened his mouth, but no words came out, or in other words, he didn't know what to do. He had no doubt at all about what Mr. Ebo said in front of him. He could tell whether a lie was true or not.

The living room suddenly fell into silence.