The days of hanging out at Hogwarts

No one can comment on what Dumbledore did.

Albusford runs the Pig's Head Bar, and the two brothers are strangers. Grindelwald was imprisoned in Nurmengard, and the two may never see each other again in this life.

Destiny never favored Dumbledore, whether it was family or love.

Even if life is in the endless darkness, he still emits the light of fire.

Dumbledore was silent on the sofa. He looked at Loren, and seemed to look through Loren to somewhere unknown.

Loren said nothing. He quietly returned to the bedroom, closed the door, and left Dumbledore alone with his memories.

The next day, Dumbledore had dinner and talked with Loren as usual. Unlike usual, Dumbledore no longer blinked mischievously. He acted crisply and cast spells neatly. Not like an old principal at all.

Loren didn't like such a mature and steady Dumbledore.

The two stayed in Albania for a few days. During the day, Dumbledore took Loren through the mountains and fields looking for clues about the prophecy. At night, they stood in front of the window and watched the magical light flickering in the forest from time to time.

Loren already knew that this small country was bordered by Serbia and Yugoslavia to the north, adjacent to Greece, and Italy on the other side of the strait. Compared to these two countries, Albania is more like a backward village with no trace of modernization in sight.

December 31st.

The wind blowing down from Jezerca, the highest peak in Albania, is still cold, and wizards with various purposes are still lingering here in the coming New Year.

Dumbledore took Loren to the shore of Lake Ohrid early in the morning to wait. Within a few days, they left footprints in every corner of the forest, but found nothing.

As the prophecy said, we need to wait for an opportunity, at the turn of the old and the new.

Looking at the calm lake, Loren cast his eyes on Dumbledore from time to time.

He still trusted Dumbledore, and he knew that this century-old wizard with a rough fate would always be the backing of Hogwarts.

Loren could feel that Dumbledore still cared about him.

It was as if the conversation that day had never happened, but there was a sad barrier between them.

The sun rises and sets from the bottom of the lake.

Just as the sun sank to the bottom of the lake, Loren turned his head and looked behind him.

In Loren's field of vision, in the forest, a mighty blue beam of light was like a flowing galaxy, connecting the starry sky and the earth.

He had seen this color of blue light before when he first entered the Room of Requirement, coming from Ravenclaw's diadem.

"What did you see?" Dumbledore noticed Loren's movements.

Loren pointed to the source of the blue light, "There."

Dumbledore pulled Loren and disappeared. After several moves, the two landed in front of a tree.

The thick old tree still has lush branches and leaves in winter, and the ice and snow cannot hide its body, and a dark hole is exposed on the trunk.

After getting closer, the blue river of light was even brighter in Loren's eyes, but not dazzling at all. "There is something shining inside the hole."

Dumbledore tapped the tree trunk gently, and there was a hollow echo inside.

This is a hollow tree. The inside has become hollow for unknown reasons, but it is still alive and well.

He waved his hand, and the deformation spell was applied to the tree. The hole expanded downwards, revealing the scene inside.

A python is hibernating inside. It is a twelve-foot-long red and yellow python with a mesh pattern on its back and a blue gemstone under its head.

The moment Loren's eyes touched the sapphire, the river of light connecting the starry sky and the earth gradually converged.

"Principal Dumbledore." Loren's legs were a little weak. Anyone who is so close to a python for the first time will have weak legs. This is written in the genes.

"You are Gryffindor."

Dumbledore's voice was soothing and not nervous at all. His hand was on Loren's shoulder, which made Loren feel more at ease.

"This snake has a scarlet light on its body." Loren guessed that it might also be an Animagus.

Dumbledore obviously understood Loren's thoughts and waved the elder wand.

"[Original form appears]"

The curse was shot at the sleeping python, but was bounced off by the thick scales.

Animagus animals do not possess any magical abilities, let alone deflect spells.

Besides, this is Dumbledore's curse, this is the curse of the elder wand.

Dumbledore looked at this scene, his expression darkened, and his voice became hoarse, "It cannot be restored. This is not an Animagus, but a blood-cursed orc."

He told Loren about the blood-cursed orcs, a group of cursed people who could control themselves to transform between humans and animals at first, but over time, they would lose control and be trapped in animal bodies forever. Inside, forget all memories of being a human and become a real animal.

Loren suddenly understood the meaning of a desperate soul, a despair that transcended the distance between life and death.

Death row prisoners will gradually go crazy as their sentence approaches, and blood curses are another vicious form of death penalty. Part of them as humans gradually dissipated. Before completely dissipating, every remaining human part was filled with despair, reason, memory, and emotion.

The sleeping python was awakened by the spell and the sound of voices. The eyelid membranes on the thick and ferocious snake's head blinked, revealing pure black eyes instead of the vertical pupils of a python.

This scene was a bit weird, Loren actually felt that it was a bit like a girl waking up from a deep sleep.

Nagini opened her eyes and saw the appearance of young Dumbledore, and the python suddenly shed tears.

She had been wandering in the forest for who knows how long. She didn't dare to face anyone like this. She abandoned all her friends and came here to find an undisturbed cemetery for herself.

This forest was rarely visited by people. It was deserted and perfect for hiding. No one she knew would come.

A woman named Nagini will die alone here, losing her human existence and becoming a snake named Nagini forever.

No memory, no emotion, no reason. Some will only have bloodthirsty instincts.

Until she touched the blue gem in the tree hole, she woke up from the darkness, but after waking up, she was in endless pain, living as a snake forever, living in pain like this.

A python in the forest doesn't know its age. It only knows that the sun rises and sets. It's countless suns. The snow fell and melted, and she had slept for dozens of times.

She had been to Hogwarts and watched Dumbledore from a distance.

Dumbledore also noticed the tears, and he felt a strange feeling in his heart. The man and the snake looked at each other like this.

"do we know each other?"

The python couldn't speak, and another teardrop slipped down its scales.

"It seems to be sane, can we save her?"

Loren's words were not out of desire to refine the magic stone, but simply out of pity. He remembered the python next to Voldemort, Nagini.

Loren, who had only watched the series of movies, did not know that there was such a story about a python. At this time, the python did not have black energy on her body, and she had not yet been made into a Horcrux.

What kind of villain could a weeping python be? What would it think now if it knew that it would become a bloodthirsty beast that loved to eat human corpses, and was eventually beheaded by Neville's sword?

Dumbledore recalled Nicolas Flamel's words and Trelawney's prophecy in his mind.

Nicolas Flamel: "The redemption of a desperate soul."

Trelawny: "...the blue and black man...the wave..."

"You are the one who can save her, Loren." He stared at the little wizard's blue eyes, which were so young and full of life.

He has been looking down on the magical world for more than a hundred years, how could he not know the sins of wizards, and the conflict comes from this abnormal social form. The ambition of pure blood, the greed of goblins, the humbleness of elves, other races doing their own thing, and the rise of Muggles.

He and Gellert once had the same idea, but they couldn't see the problem.

It's just that he is old, and the shackles can be put on himself, but they should not be put on them, whether it is Loren or Harry.

Dumbledore asked himself, how could he say those words to such a child?

I have to drink less butterbeer from now on. As I get older, I can’t be the same as before. He answered in his mind.

Loren was still thinking about what he just said. He stared at Dumbledore, "Do you want to listen to what you are saying? You can't help but let me, a first-year wizard, do it?"

You really look up to me.

He didn't mention much about the prophecy, and didn't pay attention to Loren's rich expression. Dumbledore looked at the sapphire on Nagini's pillow, "Do you know what that is?"

Loren came back to his senses and said that he had seen Ravenclaw's diadem in the Room of Requirement, "There was a layer of black air on it. It didn't look normal. I didn't touch the diadem."

"The light in this gem is the same as that in the diadem, and more brilliant than the diadem."

Dumbledore thought about the day Voldemort returned to Hogwarts to apply for a job, and he thought he finally understood why Tom had returned - to hide the Horcruxes made from Ravenclaw's diadem.

With the answer to the riddle, Dumbledore said with a smile, "Do you know Ms. Ravenclaw's most famous saying?"

"Extraordinary wisdom is mankind's most valuable asset."

"I think Voldemort found Ravenclaw's diadem here, but left his wisdom here."

Dumbledore looked at Nagini, "And you have guarded the most precious treasure."

Miss Helena stole Ravenclaw's diadem and hid it in a hollow tree in Albania. She was eventually killed by the Bloody Baron and returned to Hogwarts to become Ravenclaw's ghost Lady Gray.

The silver-tongued Tom deceived the location of the crown from Ms. Grey, made the crown into a Horcrux, and hid the crown in the Room of Requirement on the night he returned to Hogwarts to apply for a job.

In fact, long before Voldemort, Nagini had obtained this gem, the sapphire, which symbolizes human wisdom. The sapphire preserved Nagini's remaining sanity, but could not turn her back into a human.

Nagini wandered in the forests of Albania for decades with human consciousness and the body of a snake.

Perhaps due to the blessing of fate, Voldemort has not discovered Nagini or the sapphire so far.

Dumbledore took off his hat and pointed the hat towards Nagini, gesturing for her to come in.

Loren looked at this scene with confusion.

Nagini's tail curled around the sapphire, and the huge python's head gradually became smaller as it approached the hat, and finally retracted into the hat, and the python became a pet snake.

Dumbledore put his hat back on his head, making Loren's eyes twitch.

"Honestly, I have a friend who can carry many more animals than I do." Dumbledore seemed to have thought of something and winked at Loren mischievously again.

The two decided to take Nagini back to Hogwarts first and discuss with Nico whether there was a solution.

Walking in the forest under the moonlight, the moonlight and snow complement each other, and the silvery white light entangles the shadows of trees and people.

"Harry is a Parseltongue, and when he comes back we can chat with the big snake."

There was joy in Loren's voice. His prophecy contained no dangers and found desperate souls. Grandpa Bates' werewolf disease could be cured.

Dumbledore froze when he heard this, "Harry is a Parseltongue?"

Loren tilted her head and looked at him, "Didn't I tell you?"

"should not."

"You remember it wrong."

"Well, it's possible. You have to understand that I'm an old man over a hundred years old."

"Then I will say this kind of thing more times next time."

…

Dumbledore's silver-gray velvet trench coat gradually became looser and turned into a white robe, and his beard and hair also grew back.

Loren held his hand and jumped up and down in the snow.

People far away are celebrating the new year, and fireworks are blooming. This is the transition between the old and the new.

[Words written at the end: I was really hesitant about this plot and checked a lot of information.

When Voldemort first rebelled, Nagini was not around, which means that he did not meet Nagini during his journey to obtain the crown in Albania.

Later, when it was time to possess Quirrell to obtain the Philosopher's Stone, if Voldemort, who was in the wandering state before 1991, met Nagini and subdued him, it would be impossible not to bring such a powerful help. Quirrell could even conquer the trolls. Put it in the castle, let alone an obedient snake.

In 1994, Voldemort killed Bertha Jorkins and made Nagini into a Horcrux. It can be inferred that Nagini only met Voldemort after 1991.

The problem with the blood curse was that after 1927, for decades, I had to find a reason to save Nagini's sanity, and finally it fell to Ravenclaw.

This really fits perfectly. The crown has been in the Albanian forest for thousands of years. The crown represents human wisdom, which is what Nagini lacks.

Ms. Gray's attitude towards the crown is also very strange. Logically speaking, she should be very angry after the crown was defiled and should seek help from Dumbledore, but she did not.

When school started in 1991, Ms. Gray appeared at the dinner table. In the hallway where Harry became Seeker, Lady Gray drifted by like gossip. When Iron Triangle found Professor McGonagall and told him that Quirrell was going to steal the Philosopher's Stone, Ms. Gray was also leisurely taking notes in the Transfiguration classroom. These are all signs that Ms. Gray doesn't seem to care, or that she doesn't care too much.

I made the assumption that what Tom had tarnished was only the physical crown, and the sapphire that truly represented wisdom was still in the hollow tree, to support Ms. Gray's attitude.

In the end, she was afraid of being stabbed in the back by Rowling. According to Rowling's usual style, she might just leave Nagini alone and save it for later. But when I checked the information, I also saw that Dumbledore separated Nagini's human body and snake body.

The next few installments of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" haven't been released yet, so maybe it's possible. Help, Rowling is going to kill me.

I don’t care, I’m going to write this anyway. All glory to Rowling, OOC belongs to me! 】