Hogwarts: Harry's Path to Witches

Chapter 244: Voldemort with Worrying Taste (End)

Professor Dumbledore looked at Harry with a kind smile on his face:

"Harry, it seems that you had a very fulfilling Easter holiday."

"Yes, Professor." Harley nodded, "This is a very unforgettable holiday."

Professor Dumbledore chuckled lightly and placed the Horcrux on the side in front of the two of them:

"Judging from Sirius's description, this holiday is indeed unforgettable. Harley, I think you are familiar with this Horcrux."

"Of course. This, like the diary, is Voldemort's Horcrux, isn't it?"

"Yes, they are all the Horcruxes of Tom's kid." Professor Dumbledore leaned back in his chair and sighed with a look on his face.

"No wonder Tom's behavior became so weird and his personality became more and more extreme in the later stages of the Wizarding War."

"Remember that conversation we had last Easter, around this time?"

"I think Tom split his soul many times, and now we have stronger evidence to support it..."

Harry sat there quietly, listening to Professor Dumbledore speak alone.

"...The two most important questions now are that we don't know how many times he split his soul and where he hid the Horcruxes."

"But I have a hunch that he split his soul at least five times."

Having said that, Professor Dumbledore took a sip of the black tea with an excessive amount of honey on the side, with an extremely serious expression on his face.

The old principals on the wall were discussing. Although they already knew the result, they were still filled with righteous indignation.

"So? Do you need my help?" Harry looked at Professor Dumbledore quietly.

"Of course," Dumbledore waved his hand, and a stone basin flew out of the cabinet behind him.

Harry carefully identified this magical creation that was very similar in appearance to the stone basin used by Voldemort to carry potions.

After thinking for two minutes, Harry found the noun corresponding to this stone basin from a thick magic book from the forbidden area deep in his brain.

"Pensieve?" Harley asked softly.

"Yes, it's the Pensieve." Professor Dumbledore stood up.

"Phineas should have mentioned to you that I went to Azkaban with Nico during this Easter holiday to repair the defensive magic there."

"Of course, I also sorted through the clues that I had accumulated for nearly three years and obtained some memories from several people."

Professor Dumbledore pointed to the pensieve: "I think there is still enough time, so let's take a wonderful trip with a few special characters."

After finishing speaking, Professor Dumbledore plunged into the pensieve and disappeared.

Harley did not hesitate and stepped into the silver memory lightly.

……

After a long time, the two came out of the Pensieve.

Professor Dumbledore still had the same indifferent expression, but Harry's expression was a little strange.

Professor Dumbledore showed her four memories:

A Ministry of Magic employee deals with the memory of a run-down pureblood family that violated Ministry of Magic law.

And this pure-blood family is also the descendant of the Slytherin family and the Peverell family;

A house elf's memory of the story between Senior Riddle and her mistress that appeared in the diary,

and the story of her mistakenly putting poison in the coffee, resulting in the death of the hostess;

A memory of when Professor Dumbledore and Tom Riddle Jr. met for the first time when they were young,

The memory mentions Riddle's bad deeds as a child, including terrorizing two innocent Muggle children in a cave;

The memory of Riddle's uncle meeting the 16-year-old Riddle alone in Gaunt's old house after he came out of Azkaban.

After this incident, Gunter quickly killed three nearby Muggles named Riddle.

It is worth mentioning that inexplicable white mist appears in the memories of house elves and members of the Gaunt family.

Harley had read about this situation from books, and the appearance of white mist indicated that the memory had been tampered with.

After reading these memories, she probably knew where Senior Riddle's Slytherin locket came from.

Harry originally thought that he was involved in some tomb robbing related industries, or that he was engaged in some gray industries on the black market.

Unexpectedly, the young senior Riddle was more decisive and directly killed people to seize the treasure.

And if he guessed correctly, this senior Riddle should also have two Horcruxes, the carriers of which are Hufflepuff's golden cup and the Gaunt family's ancestral ring.

Of course, none of this was enough to shock Harley. Harley has done such immoral things often.

What shocked her the most was that dear senior Riddle actually had a long-lasting love affair with that elderly woman after graduation.

If that old woman is an ageless witch, a beauty whose appearance remains unchanged after thousands of years, then forget it.

But that Hufflepuff descendant really looks like an old lady!

Although I know that this is Senior Riddle who is cruel and perseverant enough to sacrifice everything for his own goals...

But Harley, who is a face control, still has deep doubts about Senior Riddle's taste.

Of course, considering that Senior Riddle personally used black magic to turn his handsome face into Voldemort's noseless face, Harley could understand Senior Riddle's choice.

Professor Dumbledore sat back on the chair in front of the desk, waved his hand, and the pensieve automatically returned to the cabinet.

Afterwards, Professor Dumbledore looked at Harry: "Harry, after reading these memories, I think you should have gained a lot, right?"

"I have some guesses." Harry nodded, "For example, Voldemort, he has two Horcruxes with a high probability."

Professor Dumbledore sighed softly: "Yes, two Horcruxes..."

"Hufflepuff's golden cup and the Gaunt family's ring, plus the diary, the locket and you, there are five Horcruxes..."

Harley raised her eyebrows but didn't say anything more.

Professor Dumbledore briefly told the origin of memories and what happened before and after the timeline where the memories are located.

For example, Tom Riddle's mother eloped with a certain Riddle, and many other things.

Professor Dumbledore didn't explain much, but Harry completely followed Professor Dumbledore's thinking and arranged the general truth of the matter in his mind.

"Harry, do you have time during the summer vacation?" Professor Dumbledore asked simply after talking about all this.

"In fact, I already have some vague clues that can probably locate the range of a Horcrux."

"Would you like to explore Tom's secrets with me during this holiday?"

"It's a great honor. Thank you for the invitation, Professor." Harley bowed slightly.

……

After Harry left, an old principal with blond and red hair asked in confusion:

"Albus, this is not your style. I thought your conversation was going to last two hours."

"Oh, Sokes, why do you think so?" Professor Dumbledore looked up at the portrait.

"None of us know your style clearly?" Sokes rolled his eyes, "You like teaching and educating students so much, and teaching students logical thinking."

"Ignoring everything else, you can analyze it for two hours just as to why you thought of searching for these memories and what you were thinking at the time."

"It's really very rare that you end up just saying something that happened and you end the conversation."

Professor Dumbledore shook his head: "That's what I need to do for other students, such as introverted children like Newt.

"And Harley doesn't lack these thinking skills."

"In fact, I can feel that except for the accumulation of knowledge and current strength, which is temporarily inferior to mine, Harley has surpassed me in every other aspect."

"And the latter is just an advantage I have accumulated due to my age. Harley will soon catch up."

Listening to Professor Dumbledore's words, several exclamations echoed from the wall.

"It seems that Gryffindor has another genius! This is really a good thing!"

An old headmaster who graduated from Gryffindor waved his wand excitedly, and almost hit Phineas on the head.

Professor Dumbledore said nothing, but there was some worry in his eyes.

In Harry's body, Dumbledore saw the shadow of his old friend, and also found the image of his useless student.

"Hopefully it won't be the worst case scenario I envisioned."

"Of course not, you are worrying too much." Phineas said loudly while staying as far away from Gryffindor as possible, waving his wand.

"That boy from the Gaunt family is the product of a love potion. He is born without understanding love. He can only use emotions, but he does not understand emotions himself."

"But Harley is different. Just by seeing how she gets along with my unlucky junior, I know that she still values ​​relationships."

Professor Dumbledore didn't respond. He pulled out his wand and pointed at the Horcrux.

The dark blue Fiercefire, the same color as the first Dark Lord, ignited and wrapped Slytherin's locket.

The old principals who were still noisy on the wall suddenly fell silent and gathered around to watch this scene. They were a little heartbroken, but no one said anything to stop them.

Several shrill screams suddenly sounded from the locket, which frightened Fox enough to raise his head and scream several times in dissatisfaction.

Soon, the screams stopped and the fierce fire was easily extinguished by Professor Dumbledore.

All that remained of the flames was the remains of a locket, and the emerald S representing Slytherin barely survived.

Professor Dumbledore waved his wand, and the debris flew up and into a certain compartment of the cabinet.

Next to it, there was a burnt black diary lying.

……

After leaving the principal's office, it was almost noon, and Harry walked leisurely towards the auditorium.

Now when facing Professor Dumbledore, that spiritual warning no longer appears, but is slightly suppressed.

This proves that he is not much weaker than Professor Dumbledore.

If you have to say where there are shortcomings, it is probably that Professor Dumbledore is more comprehensive, and the magic methods he has mastered need to be further improved.

And Professor Dumbledore is among the most capable in the magical world... so Harry can be sure that in this magical world, she can come and go freely.

"Next, it's time to stabilize Anchor's perception of me and standardize the direction of Rita's reporting." Harley thought carefully.

"And I want to increase my reputation again and spread my name to more people's hearts."

"Well, someone seems to have mentioned that there is an international wizard duel competition. The competition even allows dark wizards to participate, and accidental death is allowed."

"That's a very good competition, and the attention should be high. Professor Flitwick seems to have been the champion of this competition, so I can ask Professor Flitwick for advice."

"By the way, we need to speed up the progress of learning alchemy. The production of these extraordinary items is too rough, and I need to re-optimize them."

Harry unconsciously reached into his pocket and touched the trophies captured from Voldemort's cave.

Since Professor Dumbledore didn't mention these items, Harry naturally wouldn't take the trouble and took the initiative to remind the professor.

……

The Easter holidays are quickly over.

When Professor Dumbledore announced that Professor Lupine had resigned due to an accidental injury, students including many Slytherins were very reluctant.

After all, Professor Lu Ping is much better than the previous professors, and he can also take him to practical classes.

Professor Snape also took over the remaining work of Professor Lupine as a substitute professor, which made him very satisfied.

The only thing that made Professor Snape a little unhappy was that most of the students didn't like doing Defense Against the Dark Arts that much by themselves.

Of course, soon the students no longer had time to dislike Professor Snape.

Because the final exam is coming soon, the homework assignments for each course have once again increased significantly.

What's even more devastating is that because Harley performed well enough in class and completed the magic taught in the teacher's course ahead of schedule, she didn't have to complete her homework.

This is undoubtedly a fatal blow to third grade students.

Although Harley didn't have to do homework, she was not idle either.

After Professor Lupine was transformed back into human form by Sirius' prototype restoration spell on the full moon night, Harley finally collected all the data.

So she spent a lot of time writing the paper, preparing to send it out before the end of her third year.

Professor Flitwick greatly appreciated Harley's paper and gave many guiding opinions.

Although Professor Flitwick didn't know how to use this spell, he still had a high level of knowledge in spells, and he pointed out some areas that could be optimized based on his experience.

Professor Flitwick also asserted that as long as this paper is published in "Charms and Runes", Harley will basically win this year's "Most Promising Newcomer Award" in the field of spells.

After all, this spell has great influence, and it is of great significance both in terms of politics and magic and transfiguration.

Although Harley also highlighted it in the paper, she only restored the spell based on Lockhart's handwritten notes and her own understanding, and she was not the original author.

But this does not hinder the importance of the spell itself.

When Lockhart wrote about this spell in a book, many charm masters thought Lockhart was trying to impress people.

After all, Damocles invented the expensive wolfsbane potion that werewolves could not afford to drink, and it all brought him a second-level medal of the Order of Merlin.

If Lockhart really knows this spell, he can directly obtain a first-class medal of the Order of Merlin!

He didn't need to dig around to get a third-level medal.

And when the truth about Lockhart's theft of memory was exposed, although there was no detailed report in the newspaper, the masters of the spell knew that the spell was true through their own channels.

This made them hate Lockhart to death, after all he had caused the loss of an important spell!

Now that Harry has restored this spell, not to mention the "Most Promising Newcomer Award" in the field of magic, Professor Flitwick estimates that Harry can definitely win a first-class medal of the Order of Merlin.

After all, the werewolf problem has always been a very important issue. Although it has not exploded, it has always existed and caused a headache for the Ministry of Magic.

After Harry sealed the thesis in Professor Flitwick's office and sent it together with Professor Flitwick's letter of introduction, Professor Flitwick looked at Harry:

"Congratulations, Harley. The 'Most Promising Newcomer Award' in the field of magic has not been awarded for seventeen years."

"Based on the quality of your article, this award is definitely yours."

"I also want to thank the professor for his guidance." Harry responded politely.

"You're welcome. Being able to point out a good student is the best reward for a professor."

Professor Flitwick said happily, and planned to show off to some old friends as soon as Harley's paper came out.

"By the way, I said in the Charms Club that I would teach the winning students weather spells."

"Do you want to learn this spell? Or switch to another spell?"

Harley didn't hesitate: "Just this spell will do."

"Okay, let's go to the Forbidden Forest." Professor Flitwick jumped down from the specially made elevated chair.

……

In the Forbidden Forest, by that vast lake.

Professor Flitwick stood on a tree stump, saving himself from having to look up at Harry.

"The weather spell is actually not a spell, but a series of spells." Professor Flitwick taught carefully,

"The key point of casting this spell is..."

Professor Flitwick quickly passed through the basic theoretical knowledge and quickly entered the key parts.

After finishing all the purely theoretical knowledge, Professor Flitwick pulled out his wand: "To deepen the impression, let me demonstrate it to you."

"The wind roars!"

Suddenly there was a strong wind in the sky, and the calm water surface instantly stirred up waves.

And the wind is not a gust of wind coming out of the wand, but a naturally occurring wind roaring in the sky.

"Thunder and lightning!"

Clouds suddenly gathered in the cloudless sky, and two bolts of lightning struck the water.

A Crimean turtle that poked its head out to find out what was going on was struck by lightning and lost its life.

Professor Flitwick was a little embarrassed and stopped using the spell:

"What I just demonstrated to you was the most basic weather spell, and the power was reduced as much as possible."

"In fact, taking the first spell to create strong winds, if I choose to chant a more complicated spell..."

The two chatted until nine o'clock in the evening. They felt hungry in their bellies and ended today's class.

Harry gained a lot. In addition to the most basic weather spells, Professor Flitwick also talked about how to make the weather spells as powerful as possible through longer spells.

Professor Flitwick proudly stated that if he was given five minutes, he could cast an extremely powerful wind spell around Hogwarts Castle.

Any wizard who dares to approach Hogwarts Castle on a broomstick will be blown away by the strong wind.

Professor Flitwick was also very satisfied. After all, Harry learned it very quickly, and could release the basic weather spell in just one afternoon.

He was already planning to teach Harry how to use weather spells flexibly after the next Charms Club, and use one spell to release different weather spells at the same time.

……

After just a few lessons, Harley learned all the weather spells, and the rest was to practice them repeatedly.

Professor Flitwick was shocked by Harley's progress. Only Harley knew that this was because the Witch Path had certain authority over the weather.

Seeing Harry's talent, Professor Flitwick recalled his previous plan - to train a champion of the International Wizarding Duel Competition!

When he mentioned it to Harley, Harley was also pleasantly surprised.

Before he took the initiative to mention it, Professor Flitwick came to him first.

The two hit it off immediately, and Professor Flitwick's one-on-one teaching to Harley continued, except that the content of the lesson changed from weather spells to using magic to fight.

However, before Professor Flitwick could teach Harry a few lessons, the final exam came.

He could only make an appointment with Harry to have an expedited training in the week after the final exam, and continue this course next semester.

The final exam is simply not difficult for Harley now.

In the Transfiguration exam and the Charms exam, the two professors gave Harry an O directly without letting Harry do any practical exercises.

During the exam, Hagrid was extremely excited.

After all, Buckbeak's injury incident was jointly determined by several magic masters from the Wizarding Examination Authority as a teaching accident, and only Hagrid himself needed to be punished.

However, the punishment was only a fine of some wages. Hagrid did not expect to live on those wages at all, so the punishment could be said to be insignificant.

After the final exam, Harley's thesis came along with the "Most Promising Newcomer Award".

So there is no doubt that Gryffindor once again gained a lot of points——

The points in the Quidditch Cup were enough to put Gryffindor well ahead, and the award made other houses lose their desire to compete.

The day after the end of the year dinner, the little wizards boarded the train and returned to the Muggle world.

Sirius and Professor Lupine came to pick up Harry together, but they only came to pick up Harry, and Harry had to live with the Dursleys in the end.

Sirius was quite critical of Professor Dumbledore's decision, but he was unable to change it.

After all, according to Professor Dumbledore, it involves the magic that Lily left behind.

Of course, Professor Dumbledore said that Harry only needed to stay for a week.

This made Sirius a lot happier, and he decided to invite Harry to watch the Quidditch World Cup during the summer vacation.

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(Thanks to the two big guys "Nine-tailed Yanhu" and "Avatar King Tuofu" for their rewards!)