The Admiral of Hogwarts

Dumbledore was willing to expose those things from his youth because he felt that the Ministry of Magic's current no-holds-barred approach might dig up his past and make it public.

After all, Dumbledore wasn't Voldemort; he hadn't deliberately tried to erase his past, so his past wasn't a secret if anyone wanted to investigate it.

Therefore, rather than having the Ministry of Magic suddenly expose it one day, causing internal chaos among his own people, Dumbledore felt it was better to selectively reveal some of it now as a precaution.

Moreover, for Dumbledore, who had lived for over a hundred years and entered his twilight years, he was now able to face everything in the past with great equanimity and didn't mind showing his old scars to others.

Dumbledore even believed that the detours he had taken were terrible, and if he could use his past mistakes to point out the way forward for future generations, it would naturally be a very good thing.

Especially when facing promising younger generations like Harry and Hugo, Headmaster Dumbledore naturally hoped to see his two proud students have a smoother journey in life.

So, in the next few minutes, Professor Dumbledore roughly recounted the history of his youthful missteps. Finally, looking into Hugo and Harry's eyes, he said seriously:

"You are doing much better now than I was at your age, but I still hope you will remember to pay attention to the people around you, no matter what. Don't wait until you lose them to regret it."

Hugo and Harry both nodded. They knew this was a valuable experience and lesson from an old man. Moreover, compared to hearsay, directly and openly discussing these dark histories would not cause any problems.

At least, neither Hugo nor Harry felt that Dumbledore's greatness was diminished after learning that Dumbledore had abandoned his family and associated with Grindelwald in his youth.

After all, everyone is young once, and it is difficult to avoid making mistakes in life. And Dumbledore's actions in the subsequent hundred years proved that he had indeed recognized his previous mistakes and spent his life making amends.

"Alright, I think we've been here a little too long. Let's quickly call Sirius and the others up, or they'll definitely worry."

After saying everything he wanted to say, Dumbledore asked Hugo to go downstairs and call the others up.

Hugo nodded and walked downstairs. As soon as he reached the bottom of the stairs, he saw Mrs. Weasley and the others looking at him nervously, clearly worried about them.

"How is it?" Mrs. Weasley asked first. "How are you all? Is anyone injured or are there any other problems?"

"No, everyone is fine. We have successfully destroyed that Horcrux, and Professor Dumbledore asked me to tell you that you can come up now."

Hugo said with a smile. The biggest unexpected gain in this operation was realizing his own power, especially in terms of spellcasting, which had surpassed the level of ordinary adult wizards.

At least, during the confrontation with Voldemort's Horcrux, Hugo could fully sense that his power, both in terms of intensity and precision, was far beyond that of his peers.

This was also normal. After being strengthened multiple times, mastering runic magic, and being immersed in the Admiral Network after his soul was embedded, Hugo's life had undergone more than one transformation, and even his life level had been elevated.

In this case, it would be strange if his level was lower than ordinary wizards. On the contrary, it was normal for him to surpass ordinary people like this.

After learning that the locket had been dealt with, everyone hurried upstairs. Kreacher was the first to rush up. He Apparated directly to the living room with a crack, while the others could only trudge up the stairs.

When Hugo and the others finally climbed the stairs, they found Kreacher sitting on the living room floor, holding the destroyed locket and wailing. Sirius was also sitting on a sofa next to him, covering his face and sobbing.

"Regulus was very brave, even one of the bravest people I've ever met," Dumbledore said at this time, bending down and speaking to the house-elf in a very solemn tone.

"It's a pity he didn't join the Order of the Phoenix and didn't know anyone on our side. Otherwise, he wouldn't have had to fight alone, and he wouldn't have had to sacrifice himself to deal with this thing."

After saying that, Dumbledore sighed: "You need to know that Regulus was killed by Voldemort."

Kreacher shuddered at the name.

"What I want to tell you is that everything we are doing here is to do our best to kill Voldemort and end this war. So I hope you can join us in completely destroying this demon," Dumbledore said very seriously.

"Is it to destroy the Dark Lord? Can you really kill the murderer who killed my master Regulus and avenge my master?" Kreacher sobbed.

"I'm sorry, I can't give you that guarantee," Dumbledore sighed. "You know, that person is the most evil dark wizard in history, mastering some powerful magic that we may never master in our lifetime."

"So even we can't guarantee defeating that demon, but I can guarantee you that we will fight Voldemort to the end until he completely disappears from this world, or we all sacrifice ourselves."

"Yes, I will fight on," Sirius also raised his head after hearing this. "I swear that until the Dark Lord is completely defeated, I will fight him with all my strength to avenge my foolish brother."

"Yes, I will too."

"Me too."

Everyone present was infected by this emotion, and everyone expressed that they would fight Voldemort and the Death Eaters to the last moment.

"Thank you, thank you so much," Kreacher stood up and bowed deeply, even touching his head to the carpet.

"Although Kreacher still thinks Sirius is a spendthrift and a disgrace to the family, he is now willing to serve him and believes that he has inherited the most valuable part of the Black family."

"I want to bring him back," Sirius said suddenly. "I can't let my brother stay alone at the bottom of the cold lake." Saying that, Sirius stood up and walked towards the door. "I want to take him home."

"I'm sorry, maybe not now," Dumbledore gave a wry smile. "You just heard how much magic Voldemort set up in that cave. It can't be easily solved by one or two wizards."

"But now the Order of the Phoenix has too few people, and everyone has things to do, so it's really impossible to spare many people to deal with the cave in the short term."

"I think... my teachers may have a way to solve these problems," Venetto suddenly said from the side after quickly communicating with Hugo using the Admiral Network.

"Is that true?" Hearing Venetto say this, Sirius immediately turned his head and asked him excitedly.

"I'm just saying it's possible. After all, Britain is not the focus of my teachers' attention," Venetto looked at Sirius calmly. "But I think they don't have any major actions recently, so they should be able to spare enough manpower."