Chapter 191 Principal's Conversation
The magic sharp-mouthed gargoyle at the door of the principal's office obviously recognizes people. When the principal comes, he doesn't need a password at all, just give way. Just like the guards of those agencies and units, they have eyesight~
Standing on the spiral elevator, Ted followed Dumbledore to the principal's office.
The office is at the top of the main tower, so the space is round.
There is also an upward staircase on the right, and the next floor is the principal's bedroom.
The walls around the circular office are covered with portraits of the old principals who have passed away.
It was getting late at this time, so they were all snoring and blowing their noses in the photo frame.
However, Ted noticed that there were also a few people who raised their eyelids and peeked at it, probably because they were alert people before their death.
But think about it, do portraits still need to sleep? Or is it just imitating the habits injected during life/painting?
Although these portraits can only move their mouths, they are all hung on the wall after all, but it would be a mistake to really underestimate them.
They are now part of the castle, serving the school and the current headmaster.
Although they cannot jump out of the portraits to cast magic, they can move freely among all their portraits.
That is to say, two paintings of the same person can actually be regarded as a whole.
These principals were decent people with high social status. They still have their own portraits in every corner of the magic world, and those picture frames are their eyes and ears.
Like some St. Mungo's hospital, some Ministry of Magic, some old pure-blood family... like Sirius' great-great-grandfather Phineas Nigellus, the headmaster over a hundred years ago, he had a painting in Black In the old house of the family.
The heavily guarded old house of Black, even if Voldemort wanted to invade, it would not be able to break through it in a short while. But Phineas Nigellus on the wall was free to come and go, watch, and send word.
And on this wall, there are dozens of portraits of the principal!
The wall on the left-hand side was filled with curved bookshelves, and Ted couldn't help but take a few extra glances. After all, the magic book that can be placed in the principal's office is absolutely extraordinary.
Suddenly, he found a familiar book—"Secrets of Cutting-Edge Black Magic", which was the one that recorded the Horcrux information. It has been brought here by Dumbledore, so efficient? !
As a psionist, Ted perfectly controlled his expression and eyes, as if he had never seen the forbidden book, and sat at the desk.
The large desk with a curved desktop has six slender legs, and the bottom part is actually carved into the shape of a beast's claws. Worried about it suddenly running away.
The table is full of all kinds of strange silverware, which can feel different magic powers, and these should have different functions.
And on the cabinet on the right, there is the sorting hat.
"Hey, Ted, good evening~" The Sorting Hat saw an acquaintance and couldn't wait to say hello.
"Good evening, Mr. Hat." Ted's head was empty, but he also made a gesture of taking off his hat, which caused the Sorting Hat to laugh, and several principals were woken up by the laughter.
"Sit down, Ted, don't be nervous, I just want to know what happened to you in the Chamber of Secrets." Dumbledore sat on the chair.
Ted thanked, sat down, and looked at Fox the Phoenix, dozing with closed eyes on a bronze stand on the table.
In the magic world, bloodlines also exist. For example, Dumbledore's family is born with a physique that attracts phoenixes. Do you think it's irritating or not?
"Would you like some dessert?" Dumbledore rolled out a large plate of dark, crawling things.
"Heap of Cockroaches, Honeydukes' new product, very interesting!" Dumbledore highly recommended.
Ted grabbed two of them and put them into his mouth with a smile, chewing them. The candy cockroaches were still struggling in their mouths as if they were alive, and then they were bitten and ooze syrup—syrup. The taste is really good, but the taste is weird.
"Hmm~ It's really interesting, but I don't like sweets very much, and it's easy to damage my teeth." Ted laughed.
Actually, it is Dumbledore's habit to treat guests to desserts, but he usually doesn't treat them to cockroach piles, after all, normal people would think this thing is abnormal.
The reason why he took out the pile of cockroaches was due to Dumbledore's bad taste on the one hand, and on the other hand, he wanted to use this to see the other party's reaction. If he could make the guest's mentality fluctuate, it would be a great deal for him, a master of Legilimency. , the next communication is simple.
This is why Snape never eats or drinks anything when he comes to the headmaster's office, and is always on guard.
To be honest, Dumbledore trusted Snape quite a bit, but Snape didn't trust Dumbledore very much.
The results of it?
The Longbottoms are dead!
Well, death is death, I am not familiar with it.
But what about Lily after that? Dumbledore would have had a chance to do something!
For this centenarian who defeated the first Dark Lord and the greatest White Wizard of this century, Snape had a grudge in his heart.
If a person can sacrifice himself for something in his heart, there is a high probability that he will not refuse to sacrifice others.
You can think of it as kindness not controlling soldiers, righteousness not managing money, and those in power have their own considerations.
But Snape didn't care about that, all he knew was that Lily was dead.
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Ted's performance was perfect, without the slightest flaw. Dumbledore even felt that his attitude was impeccable, and to some extent he was more difficult to deal with than Snape.
Because Snape would still be angry because of Harry, and laugh at the stupidity of little wizards. But Ted at this time is very flat, so flat that people can't feel emotions.
"Principal, you can ask." He said.
Dumbledore nodded slowly: "If you don't mind, let's start from the beginning..."
Ted nodded and began to talk about Arthur Weasley and Lucius Malfoy in the bookstore, the first Diagon Alley Iron Fist Competition...
Ted talked for a long time, and it can be said that he knew everything about everything.
"And just like that, I pierced Tom's diary with the Gryffindor sword."
Ted took out the diary with a hole in the middle from his sleeve, and put it on the table.
Dumbledore's expression became slightly serious, and he took out a thing that looked like a magnifying glass from the drawer, and moved closer to carefully inspecting the discarded diary one by one.
It was originally just an ordinary material, but due to the long-term attachment of powerful black magic, it has become a dangerous and cutting-edge magic item, but it is now destroyed.
But even if it is destroyed, it is still filled with a lot of dark and chaotic magic power.
If you are a sensitive wizard, you will feel strong anxiety in front of the diary.
Not when the diary is intact, because it is reserved at that time.
Now that it is destroyed, the remaining magic power is not covered up.
When Dumbledore opened the diary and saw the name on it: Tom Marvolo Riddle, his expression became slightly dazed.
"It's dangerous! It's dangerous!" Dumbledore leaned back in his chair and said two things in succession, "Ted, you've done a very good job. Even many adult wizards can't do better than you gone."
Dumbledore looked at Ted—it was so good, it was better than expected.
Fifty years ago, Tom in the second grade couldn't do this, right?
Ted nodded calmly: "You've won the prize. We just did our best. Thanks to Gryffindor's sword, we were able to win. At that time, we only thought about saving Malfoy and didn't think too much about it. If it wasn't for Fox, Ron, he... we are still too careless!"
Before, Ted had been worried that his performance would be too much, and the principal would think of his classmate Tom.
At that time, say to yourself: Ted, you are too dangerous, I must seal you! (Looking at Nine-Tails Face from Senjujuzama)
That would be bad luck!
In fact, the incident of defending the Sorcerer's Stone last year had already attracted Dumbledore's attention to him.
Dumbledore began to pay attention to Ted and his friends at the beginning of the second year.
If it wasn't for the Chamber of Secrets incident, Dumbledore might have to write a script to arrange for Ted and the others.
It’s that kind of trial, what sees your nature clearly, what guides you on the right path.
It's a pity that the Chamber of Secrets incident directly disgraced Old Deng, and Lucius also hit the snake seven inches, directly temporarily pressing down Old Deng's post as principal...
(end of this chapter)