HP through the autumn

In Dumbledore's office, Qiu and Mr. Headmaster sat face to face again.She felt that besides Harry, she must be the student who visited the principal's office the most in the whole school.

"I'm glad to see you are still so healthy." She said sincerely, the grizzled old man in front of her had already lost enough to eliminate the hidden dangers brought by the two generations of Dark Lords.Without his command and layout, the wizarding world would have been dominated by Voldemort long ago.

"Thank you for your concern," Dumbledore said with a smile, "I am still in good health, maybe when you and your classmates' children receive the admission letter from Hogwarts, it will still have my name on it Woolen cloth."

"It would be great if this is really the case," Qiu imagined his life at that time. "The mysterious man must have disappeared by then."

"It's not far from the day when he disappears." Dumbledore is very confident about this. "This holiday, Professor Snape and I had an interesting adventure. It was very interesting. One of You-Know-Who's Horcruxes has been found. This is good news, it reassures me that I'm on the right path and one step closer to victory."

Speaking of which, he showed Qiu the extremely ugly black gemstone ring, the gemstones on it had become dull: "The aesthetics of the Gunter family needs to be improved, isn't it?"

She nodded in agreement, this was the ugliest ring she had ever seen, the kind of ugliness that would never be sold in a display case, even if the gemstones on it were huge.

"I need to thank you for your help." Dumbledore put away the ring. "Without your reminder, I would probably have embarked on this adventurous journey alone, which would lead to a very serious consequence, so severe that I needed to Changed all my previous plans. But after you reminded me, I changed my mind and invited Professor Snape to join me on this summer adventure, he is a very trustworthy person, and he did help in the end My big favor stopped me before I made a mistake. Logically I should at least treat him to a dinner at the best French restaurant in Diagon Alley to thank him, but unfortunately, the timing is not right now .”

"You can give him something special for Christmas, like—" She felt an inappropriate thought jump into her mind and pop out of her mouth again, "like shampoo!"

After so many years in this world, the surviving memories of fan fiction came to mind again, giving Professor Snape the best gift: shampoo, conditioner and hair mask.

"Very good proposal," Dumbledore stroked his beard, "I will consider it."

"You must have something important to see me today, right?" Dumbledore finished the chat and asked her why she came today.

"It's still about the horcrux," she began to say some reasons that both of them knew to be untrue. "I've been thinking about where You-Know-Who's horcruxes will be hidden all summer."

Dumbledore folded his hands on the table, his eyes behind his glasses were still gentle, and he seemed not at all curious why she was sure that Voldemort had more Horcruxes than the three they found.

"I guess you've made a big discovery."

She shook her head: "It's just that when I'm free, I think about where I would put the Horcrux if I were a mysterious person. He is a Parseltongue, maybe he would be willing to let a Horcrux have a certain connection with a snake."

"It's quite possible that, although You-Know-Who has a group of Death Eaters, he doesn't fully trust them. I was his professor, and I've devoted myself to understanding his history and character over the years. He doesn't believe in anyone but himself. Man. I think you've heard Harry say, about You-Know-Who's teenage years—"

She nodded.

"He is extremely confident and willing to do everything by himself. He didn't change later, he just learned to disguise and cover up, and used the so-called friendship and trust in exchange for the followers to follow. But snakes are different for him , the mysterious man was the only Parseltongue at that time, and snakes were his most trusted friends, because they could not communicate with other humans, and would obey the command of the Parseltongue. This obedience had nothing to do with his feelings, the snake It is an instinct for human beings to obey the command of the Parseltongue, and it is the power of magic, which is a power that the mysterious man can completely control and believe in."

"But he gave the diary to Lucius Malfoy, didn't he?"

"You-Know-Who has made many Horcruxes. In this case, the importance of one Horcrux to him is greatly reduced. Before he lost power, the Malfoy family showed loyalty to him, and You-Know-Who could not have predicted their The family came to our side as soon as he disappeared, so he gave Malfoy the diary as a reward for his loyalty."

"Perhaps he will hand over the Horcrux to other subordinates?" She looked at Professor Dumbledore and raised her conjecture, although both of them knew that it was not an unfounded guess, "after all, only Giving it to one person is not insurance."

"This is a direction worth investigating," Dumbledore tapped on the table, and she guessed that he might be thinking about the list of Death Eaters in his mind, "All the Horcruxes of the Mysterious Man were completed before he lost power for the first time , if he really gave the Horcrux to a Death Eater he trusted, then the Horcrux may have been kept in a safe place by this Death Eater for more than ten years."

"Like Gringotts?" She picked up a vanilla-flavored biscuit from the Headmaster's biscuit tray, "Gringotts is probably the safest place except for Hogwarts, and I heard there's a real dragon in it." Guarding those vaults."

"Yes, a real dragon, and of course Gringotts' security isn't just about having dragons guarding the vaults. Goblins' love of money makes them very good at guarding their riches. But the rest is up to us grown-ups. Mission," Dumbledore paused, blinking his bright blue eyes, "I've forgotten the fact that you're an adult, but I still hope that every Hogwarts student should enjoy their time." Campus time, other things are left to those of us who have already graduated to think about it."

"If you don't mind, I think we can start discussing some lighter topics." This discussion about Horcruxes is no longer worth continuing. Dumbledore poured two cups of tea and put one of them in the autumn. in front of. "Although this question is very old-fashioned, I still want to ask, how have you been recently?"

"Everything is fine." She took a sip of tea, and the dark red tea swirled in the cup, reminding her of Marietta's reddish golden curly hair, "Recently I suddenly wondered about the definition of friendship, sir, what is it?" What kind of person can be called a friend?"

"This is a difficult question to answer," Dumbledore said with a smile on the corner of his mouth, he was very interested in this topic, "We have been making friends since we learned to speak, but it may be until adulthood, or even middle age, The meaning of friendship is still a vague concept in our minds. What is friendship? What kind of people should we be friends with? At this time, we might as well recall the first friend we made when we were young. Do you remember his name?"

"It's a little boy next door to ours. His name seems to be Simon."

"Do you remember why you became friends at the time?"

Qiu thought for a while, and found a few pictures in his vague memory: "We both like children's toy brooms very much. Once when I was riding a broom in the garden, he saw me. So the two of us became friends." .”

Dumbledore nodded: "In the beginning, when we choose a person to be friends, it is often because we have common hobbies with this person, it may be that we like the same toys, or we may like the same games. Common ground attracts each other, in short, one of the most basic reasons for becoming friends is common ground. Without common ground, it is difficult for two people to get along well.”

"But……"

"Are you trying to say that sometimes you can be friends without having anything in common?" Dumbledore smiled knowingly, "That's just a superficial difference. People are very complicated and multifaceted, no matter how big the difference is between two people. , In their hobbies, habits or ideas, we can always find a few things in common. It is no exaggeration to say that any two people in the world will have something in common, but they may never find it.”

"So any two people in the world can be friends?"

"Of course not. When we were young, liking the same game made two children good friends. As we grow up, we demand more and more from our friends. We not only expect our friends to have the same hobbies as us, I hope that they can have the same concept and have the same views as us. At the same time, the difference between friends and friends is gradually emerging. Some friends are friends who can eat together, while some friends can entrust secrets and even life. friends. These differences come from how much we have in common and our assessment of each other’s character and trustworthiness. If two people have similar perceptions of the world, whether they like onions will not affect their relationship. Individuals become close friends, on the contrary, if two people have the same thing in that they both like to eat foie gras, and one of them values ​​family background and class, while the other thinks that all people are created equal, it is difficult for such two people to become friends.”

"Then what determines whether two people can be friends?"

"Enough common ground, trustworthy character, plus a little bit of wonderful fate." Dumbledore took a sip of black tea, "Of course, this does not mean that we have to take out a form every time we make friends. , to list all the things two people have in common, to judge whether two people should be friends. Here I am going to say a very old saying, an elderly person like me can only think of these people Tired of hearing the sentence—follow your heart."

"Go by feeling?"

Dumbledore nodded: "If you feel that getting along is very pleasant, then you can be friends. If you feel burdened when getting along, then end this friendship. Cherish every friend you have, and don't hesitate when a friendship is destined to end .”

Mr. Principal looked at the clock on the wall, it was time for dinner.

"Now we should go to the auditorium to enjoy dinner," he stood up, "let's go."

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