Once again shocked by the shamelessness of the two brothers George and Fred, Link and Emily resolutely chose to retreat.

Before leaving, however, looking at the "Nick who almost headless" shrank behind the brothers, Link frowned and reminded:

"George, I think your security captain may need to change his personal choice."

"Huh? Why?" George puzzled. "I think Sir Nicholas is very dedicated."

"It's because he is so conscientious." Link shook his head, "Don't forget what your task is now. I think Pepi Ghost is the best choice in this task."

Link pointed to the students who were still being intensively cleaned next to him and said, "You should handle their affairs yourself."

After that, Link and Emily turned their heads and left.

There are provisions in their agreement with the Weasley brothers.

George and Fred must create one or two small mass incidents in the black workshop within a week, and then Link will receive them for public opinion hype and drainage.

This means that Link’s student work platform must at least build a framework within this week, so that it can be launched as soon as possible after the event and quickly absorb students.

And the construction of such a platform will involve many resources including sales, raw materials, management systems, etc. If you want to quickly gather these resources, there is not much time left for Link.

So after sending away the three of Hermione who were still waiting at the top of the stairs, Link and Emily went straight to the Owl Tower, and delivered the three letters to the Owl. Mrs. Leigh, Old Kled, and Beckman.

Watching the three owls flying out of the tower and slowly moving away under the cover of night, Link finally showed a smile on his face.

What Link didn't know was that in the Hogwarts Headmaster's office at the same time, Dumbledore was staring at the three owls independently of the French windows.

It was not until the three owls disappeared into the night that the closed door of Dumbledore's office was pushed open.

It's Snape.

He walked into the dark office expressionlessly, ignoring the portraits of the principals who were awakened by his opening the door, and lighted the oil lamp in the office with a snap of his fingers.

The warm light illuminates the entire office in an instant, and it was only at this moment that Dumbledore seemed to have finally recovered and turned to look at Snape:

"Severus, is there any new information from Tom?"

Hearing that the muscles on Snape's cheek twitched a few times, he almost instinctively covered the dark mark on his arm, and said in a deep voice:

"Do you think I will know? Barty Crowe Jr. is now his most trusted subordinate. As for me, he is probably regarded as a traitor like Karkaroff. At the same time, you don’t trust me. Now I am blind and deaf. What information do you expect me to get in this situation?"

Dumbledore looked at Snape deeply and said:

"You know I trust you."

"Then tell me," Snape took a step closer with a cold face, "what the **** happened!?"

Dumbledore nodded and said:

"It's very simple. Tom and his party members have been very active recently. This is not surprising in itself. After all, Tom has now recovered his full body strength, and a group of loyal like Barty Crouch Jr. has gathered around him. The Death Eater of, there is still a mysterious force hidden behind him that can help him.

But what is strange is that with so much power, they did not directly attack the Ministry of Magic as they did more than ten years ago, or concentrated their efforts to assassinate Harry, but instead led the Death Eaters everywhere. Raging. Continue to go deep into ancient ruins and slaughter in many Muggle villages. These actions by them did not seem to be preparing for the overthrow of the Ministry of Magic and the **** of the magical world. It's more like... looking for something. "

"Horcrux!" Snape said decisively, "What else can be other than Horcrux? Don't forget, you were attacked by Death Eaters and that mysterious force before when you were searching for Horcrux. This represents. Voldemort must have known your idea of ​​hitting his Horcrux.

In addition, you just reminded me of Harry. Harry Potter's attack by Voldemort during the holidays is likely to be part of Voldemort's plan. Perhaps he did not want to kill Harry Potter directly because of the prophecy, but just wanted to use the attack on Harry Potter to drag us all. "

Dumbledore took a deep breath, narrowed his eyes, and said with a complicated expression:

"What you said makes sense, but what they are looking for may not be a Horcrux, but a more dangerous existence."

"It doesn't really matter what they are looking for," Snape said coldly. "The important thing is that we must stop them."

"About this, I'm already doing it. All the members of the Order of the Phoenix set out to organize the Death Eaters when Harry Potter set foot on the Hogwarts Express, even Hagrid was no exception. "

As Dumbledore spoke, he turned his head and looked out the dark window.

The warm light of the oil lamp flashed in his eyes, like a violent burning flame, more like the light from the tip of the stick when Hagrid, Sirius and others were fighting the Death Eaters at this moment.

An uncontrollable sneer appeared on Snape's face when he heard the words.

In his opinion, nearly 90% of the fighting power of the Order of the Phoenix is ​​in Dumbledore's body. As for the remaining people, except for Mad-Eye Moody, they are all stinky fish and shrimps.

Now that Dumbledore wanted to use those guys to stop the Death Eaters, it was just wishful thinking.

But looking at Dumbledore's gloomy back at the moment, Snape finally resisted the desire to sneer.

The office is silent.

It was not until a long time later that Dumbledore finally woke up from the illusion of war.

He sighed deeply, sat back on his eagle horn chair and said:

"Where is Link? What is he doing?"

"What else? Go to class, study, and do what he should do as a student." Snape looked a little excited. "Dumbledore, are you crazy? To doubt Link? Obviously that came from The Umri Wizard of the Ministry of Magic is what you should care most about right now!"

"You are too sensitive, Severus, I just want to change the topic to change the serious atmosphere here, and I don't doubt Link's meaning. He is a good boy, and I always knew that. As for Umri Professor Qi, she is not a troublesome trouble, even if she has Fudge's help, it is not a trouble."

Dumbledore said with a chuckle.

While talking, he also took out a pile of Zizi Honey Candies from the drawer, threw one into his mouth, and then closed his eyes intoxicated.

"I hope so."

Snape said blankly, before slamming the door.

Dumbledore was not irritated by this. Snape's behavior seemed to him to be both twisted and interesting. This kind of clumsy love of Link was really... wonderful.

Dumbledore smiled and shook his head.

Link's change in character was not hidden from Dumbledore.

Because to a large extent, he contributed to it.

And the changing character, coupled with the strong power, will naturally give birth to something called ambition.

Dumbledore had already guessed some of Link's ideas and plans.

Even, he felt that he might be on Link's list, and he was the target of Link's attack.

It's just that Dumbledore doesn't seem to care about it, or rather, he is somewhat happy to see it happen.

"Huh!~"

With a long sigh of breath, Dumbledore took out a pitch-black polygonal gem from his pocket and put it in his hand, playing with it carefully.

Since this gem appeared, the light in the entire office has suddenly dimmed.

This is not because the light of the gem concealed the warm light from the oil lamp in the corner of the office. It was more like the light of the entire office, which was constantly being absorbed and swallowed by this gem.

And Dumbledore's gaze was also swallowed.

Almost all of Dumbledore's attention was on this gem.

His eyes were straight, his expression was dull, and his whole body seemed to take a sharp turn, becoming weak and sad.

If Link saw this scene, he would be shocked.

Because that polygonal black jewel is exactly the deathly sacred artifact-the resurrection stone buckled from Gunter's ring.

As soon as it was taken out of the cemetery of Gunter’s old house, Dumbledore directly took it as his own, and severely warned Link not to use or even approach the resurrection stone.

The reason given is that although the resurrection stone can summon dead souls, people can meet with their dead relatives.

But this is not a real resurrection, but a desecration of the dead.

The souls summoned by him are suffering tremendously all the time.

At the same time, the souls summoned by it will confuse the user under the effect of pain, causing the user to fall into a situation of self-denial and self-destruction.

Link generally believed this statement.

Because the death of Dumbledore in the original works of the previous life largely proves this point.

If you think about it, you will know that even if Dumbledore was weakened by Voldemort's curse, he lost his strength, and even died soon.

But why did he choose to beg Snape to kill him in the form of suicide at that point in time?

Indeed, judging from the result, Dumbledore had arranged everything afterwards before he died.

His death is more like a means to induce Voldemort to step into his trap, act according to his vision, and eventually die.

But based on the understanding that Link has been with Dumbledore for so many years, this is not the case.

You must know the situation at that time, although from the perspective of the magical world of the country alone, things have reached an almost irreparable situation.

Can look at all of Europe, and even the world.

It is not completely impossible to kill Voldemort.

You know, behind Dumbledore, there is an International Federation of Wizards.

With Dumbledore's unscrupulous character for justice.

How could he choose to use self-sacrifice when there are other ways?

Didn't he know that as the spiritual totem of the country and even the European magic world, if he died, he would cause countless wizards to panic?

So Link speculated that Dumbledore might no longer want to live.

He did not die by Snape, nor did he die by Voldemort's curse, but by the curse of the Resurrection Stone.

And now.

Although Dumbledore successfully escaped Voldemort's curse with Link's help, he is now obsessed with the environment made by the resurrection stone.

So, this time, will his result be self-destruction?

There is no answer to this question.

Because even Dumbledore knew nothing about it, or that Dumbledore was aware of it, but he was willing.

In the office, the light of the oil lamp was slowly dying out, and under the darkness, only the pair of hot eyes of the Resurrection Stone and Dumbledore were still shining with dim light.

…

Jingle Bell-

In the early morning, in a dormitory room of Hufflepuff College, the shrill bell suddenly pierced the silence.

John suddenly bounced from the bed under the stimulus of the bell, clutching his chest and panting. After a while, he reached out and turned off the panda alarm clock on the bedside table.

But this seems a bit redundant.

Because including Link, the other roommates in his dormitory did not respond at all.

This is normal, because the harsh alarm can only be heard by John when it is arranged.

John smiled happily when he saw it.

As long as it doesn't affect Link and the rest, then this second-hand magic alarm that he spent a full Jin Jialong bought from other people is very worthwhile.

At this time, the hour hand on the alarm bell had just passed 5 o'clock, and the sky outside the small round window was even darker, and there was no light at all.

But John didn't stay on the bed for long.

He tiptoedly made the bed, dressed and washed, and then under the dim sky, he passed through the silent lounge hall and corridor, and directly reached Professor Sprout's greenhouse.

Although only five days have passed since the start of school, Hogwarts had a bit of chill in September.

John let out a big breath of heat into his hands, then put on the dragon leather gloves, picked up the guys that had been prepared in the warm shed, and started to clean up, water and feed various plants.

These tasks are not difficult, but they are very cumbersome and the workload is huge.

When the daylight was bright, John, who was covered in sweat, put the tools back in place, and the cleaning work was completed.

And by this time it was already past breakfast time.

Hogwarts students in long robes were walking out of the castle in twos and threes and going to their classrooms.

Many of them came directly to the warm shed—this is obviously the student who is going to take the herbal medicine class next.

If usual, John would choose not to eat breakfast at this time and go straight to class non-stop.

Then secretly went to the kitchen during the break of get out of class, looking for the kind house elves to ask for some leftovers and meal.

But today is different. The first class this morning is their... herbal medicine class.

He believed that his brother would not bear the heart to let himself go to class hungry.

Sure enough, after waiting for a while, John saw that, accompanied by two or three Hufflepuff students, the sleepy Link was slowly walking here with a greased paper bag.