Professor, you looked at me...

If anyone knows everything that happened in Hogwarts like the back of their hands, then Dumbledore is probably the only candidate for this candidate.

——After all, an old man with a white beard sitting in the principal's office has the entire Hogwarts sculptures and murals as his eyeliner.

So, Benny, who had just finished talking with Drangst, had just stepped out of the empty classroom before being invited to Dumbledore's principal's office for tea and cookies.

……

"Your news is really well-informed." Benny took a sip from his teacup, turning a blind eye to the plate of exquisitely shaped cookies, "I was hindered while monitoring me, and your principal authority was given by his founder. Blocked, you want to know what I talked about with him, oh Merlin, I miss the time with Drangst now - at least those times I was not watched by those goddamn portraits of you, it is rare free."

"Don't say that, dear Benny," said Dumbledore with a good-natured smile, "I'm more worried for your safety than what he said, Benny."

Dumbledore was no longer obsessed with whether the person in front of him was called "Tom" or "Benny". In short, as long as he didn't intend to call himself Voldemort, it didn't matter.

"Put away your disgusting." Benny put the teacup back on the saucer without saying a word, "Ask what you want to ask, or let me go."

"Look at what you said," Dumbledore continued, unaffected by Benny's words, "Benny, I really care about you, you..."

"If you don't say what you need to say," Benny interrupted Dumbledore expressionlessly, and said coldly, "I'll go to Drangst when I leave the house."

"..."

Dumbledore reluctantly put away his grandpa-like appearance, and the case muttered that the children are so uncute now, then returned to normal, and asked:

"Do you know his purpose?" Dumbledore looked into Benny's eyes, "What exactly does he want to do?"

"I don't know." Benny looked straight at Dumbledore without fear.He knew Dumbledore was using Insanity and Occlumency on him, but he wasn't lying, he had nothing to fear.

"If you want to know," Benny said with a hint of sneer, "I can make an appointment for you in Drangst, so that you two can have a good chat--of course, the premise is that you can break into his set-up." Forbidden room."

"... Benny, are you putting yourself in the position of Drangster's secretary?" Dumbledore took off his glasses, reached out and rubbed his eyes, "Listen, Benny, I don't want you……"

"Don't want me for anything?" Benny interrupted Dumbledore again without hesitation, "You don't want me to do more things! From the first second you saw me, you were 'don't want ' for anything I do!"

"Yes." Dumbledore put his glasses back on, "because what you did was wrong."

"That's your right or wrong, Dumbledore." Benny retorted, "You can use your right and wrong to demand others, why not allow others to use their own right and wrong to demand you?!"

"You think stealing is right?" Dumbledore asked calmly.

"I'm not stealing!" Benny emphasized the "stealing" sound, "the people in that orphanage hate me! If I was weak, I would be bullied by them! All I did was let them bully I knew before that I'm not to be messed with! And those things—" Benny paused, as if looking for a suitable adjective, "it's trophies."

"..."

This time Dumbledore didn't speak in time. He agreed with Benny's idea, but he couldn't agree with Benny's approach.Because in his opinion, some of Benny's actions have greatly exceeded the "warning" standard—of course, it is his standard.

"You're always being self-righteous, you know, Dumbledore?" Benny continued, venting his years of anger at Dumbledore, "You're controlling! You want everything that happens to you to be your own way." The development will happen! Believe it or not? Even if you die, you have to leave a complete plan to ensure that what you want happens."

A moment of silence.

"Yes," Dumbledore nodded, "I am, I will."

Benny snorted coldly and stopped talking.

"But Benny," Dumbledore crossed his fingers, put them on his chin, and looked at Benny seriously, "please believe me, I only hope to bring everyone a good result."

"Like destroying me?" Benny smiled sarcastically. "You know what, Dumbledore? What I hate the most is your self-righteousness. Everything you think is right is right. You think I'm a Hidden dangers, so you have to monitor me closely to prevent me from doing things you don't want to happen, and then when you force me to do those things, you can tell yourself and others that you did not miscalculate — Dumbledore, it was you — you created Voldemort yourself.”

……

There was another eerie silence.

Dumbledore felt like he was meeting the boy in front of him for the first time. At this moment, he even wondered if this person was really the one he knew decades ago?

Something has changed.

Those words flashed through Dumbledore's mind.

"...I'm sorry." Dumbledore noticed a trace of disdain on Benny's face, "Benny, I'm sorry for what I did to you before."

"Really?" Benny sneered, "I'd be honored—to have your apology."

"I admit, I'm old." Dumbledore ignored Benny's sarcasm, "It's easy for an old man to make this kind of self-righteous mistake. After all, I thought I had experienced enough, so I started giving I put my labels on everything, use my concept of right and wrong to judge which things are good and which things should be eliminated. I forget that this world is not my world alone. Even if I disagree with some practices, I don’t agree with them. That means that's wrong... So, I apologize to you, Benny."

"It's a miracle, Professor Dumbledore." Benny's tone was still sarcasm, "Should I open a bottle of whiskey to celebrate? The great white wizard finally realized that he was wrong!"

"No, Benny, you can't do that," Dumbledore's mouth ticked upwards, "You're underage, my boy. I won't allow my students to drink whiskey when they're underage .”

"..." Benny was choked up by Dumbledore, as if he couldn't understand why Dumbledore's topic changed so quickly.

"Okay, Benny, the reminiscence is over." Dumbledore smiled and looked at Benny. "Let's discuss the matter of Drangst. What exactly does he want?"

……

Some traces can never be erased.

The bad impression Dumbledore left on 11-year-old Tom Riddle will probably stay with Tom—and Benny for the rest of his life, so Dumbledore doesn't intend to correct this bad impression.

To know that Benny was not the Voldemort he had imagined him to be... and never would be - that was enough.

……

Waiter Drangst did not appear again.

And Rex also succeeded in recovering his body only one week after leaving school.

The moment he jumped out of the topaz, seven green tentacles wrapped around Snape's waist, throwing Snape to the ground.

"Sev~" Rex rested his head on Snape's neck, took a deep breath, and kept rubbing back and forth, as if trying to make up for the part he hadn't rubbed in the past two months. Rubbing back, "I miss you so much!~"

Snape's heart softened suddenly.

It's not that he hasn't heard this sentence before, and Rex, who is still staying in Topaz Lee, said it several times a day, but for some reason, at this moment, Snape, who heard this sentence, subconsciously He hugged Rex tightly in his arms.Feeling the real touch in his arms, Snape felt a steady stream of warmth in his heart, and he couldn't help being emotional, and said in a low voice:

"Well, I also... miss you very much."

After finishing speaking, Snape shrank his arm holding Rex suddenly, preventing Rex from jumping up excitedly, and asked himself to repeat it again.

As it turned out, Snape's approach was prescient, because Rex really wanted to do it.

"Sev! Say it again!" Because he was about to be clamped, Rex could only raise his head, look at Snape with bright eyes, and complained coquettishly, "Can you say it again? What you said just now It was so fast, I didn't hear clearly..."

"Shut up." Snape really didn't want someone to spoil the atmosphere at such a warm moment, so he reached out and pressed Rex's head back, and said, "Don't talk, let me..." hug you.

Snape didn't say all the rest, but Rex clearly understood.

So he really didn't do too many movements, he hugged Snape's neck tightly with both hands, and nestled in Snape's arms obediently, allowing Snape to hug him as much as he wanted.

but……

"== Get those tentacles of yours off," Snape said deadpan.

"What?" Rex buried his face in Snape's neck, playing dumb, "Sev, what are you talking about?"

Snape: "... ==" How did he meet such a shameless bastard? !

……

damn it!Those tentacles have already reached into my robe!

"Sev," Rex raised his head again, pressing on Snape's body, and said brightly, "Let's use the rear entry this time!"

Snape: "..."

The weather is slowly getting hotter.

After entering August, everyone started to get busy.Some professors who went on vacation also returned to Hogwarts early to start preparing for the new semester.

And the busiest of these teachers is Dumbledore who is contacting Durmstrang.

The author has something to say: in order not to cause misunderstanding, a little explanation...

This chapter mentioned about Dumbledore's mistakes... I didn't mean to black him.In the original book, he was indeed right about Voldemort.But I think it's because Aunt Rowling set Voldemort as a natural bad guy from the beginning (such as Sauron, the Lord of the Rings), but I changed Benny in my article to give some humanity Therefore, if such a person really becomes Voldemort, even if Dumbledore, who paid special attention to him in his childhood... or in his adolescence, is not decisive, he must be inseparable... So there is this The dialogue in the chapter..._(:з」∠)_

In the last chapter, what Benny wanted most will be mentioned later, and it is also evidence that Benny is different from Voldemort in the original book. I won’t say much about it in order not to spoil it~

I wish you all a happy reading~~~

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