The Mightiest Badger at Hogwarts

Chapter 423 The Curse of the Resurrection Stone

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

But before leaving, Link looked at the 'Nearly Headless Nick' huddled behind the two brothers, Link still frowned and reminded:

"George, I think your security captain may need to be replaced."

"Huh? Why?" George asked puzzledly, "I think Sir Nicholas is very conscientious and conscientious."

"It's because he is so conscientious." Link shook his head and said, "Don't forget what your current mission is. I think Peeves is the best choice for this mission."

Link pointed to the students who were still being cleaned together and said, "You should handle their matters yourself."

After saying that, Link and Emily turned around and left.

It was stipulated in their agreement with the Weasley brothers.

George and Fred must cause one or two moderate group incidents in the black workshop within a week, and Link will take over the follow-up to promote public opinion and attract attention.

This means that Link’s student worker platform needs to have a framework built at least within this week, so that it can be launched as soon as possible and quickly absorb students.

The establishment of such a platform will involve many resources including sales, raw materials, management systems, etc. If he wants to quickly gather these resources, Link will not have much time left.

So after sending away the three Hermiones who were still waiting at the stairs, Link and Emily didn't even have time to eat dinner. They went directly to the Owl Tower, handed over the three letters to the owls, and sent them to Fernandes respectively. Mrs. Leigh, Old Cradle, and Beckman.

Watching the three owls fly out of the tower and slowly fly away under the cover of night, a smile finally appeared on Link's face.

What Link didn't know was that at the same time in the Hogwarts principal's office, Dumbledore was standing alone in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, staring at the three owls.

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

It was Snape.

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

Warm light instantly illuminated the entire office. It was only at this moment that Dumbledore seemed to finally come to his senses, turned to look at Snape and said:

"Severus, do you have any new information from Tom?"

Hearing this, the muscles on Snape's cheeks 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? Now Barty Crouch Jr. is his most trusted subordinate. As for me, I am probably regarded by him as a traitor like Karkaroff. At the same time, you don't trust me either. Now I am blind and deaf. In this case, what other information do you expect me to get? "

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 happened!?"

Dumbledore nodded and said:

"The thing is simple. Tom and his henchmen have been quite active recently. This is not surprising in itself. After all, Tom has now regained the strength of his whole body and has gathered around him a group of loyal people like Barty Crouch Jr. The Death Eater, there is a mysterious force hidden behind him that can help him.

But the strange thing is that with so much power, they did not directly attack the Ministry of Magic like they did more than ten years ago, or concentrate their efforts to assassinate Harry. Instead, they led Death Eaters all over the country. Raging.Continuously delve into ancient ruins and carry out massacres in many Muggle villages.Their actions do not look like they are preparing to overthrow the Ministry of Magic and rule the magical world.It's more like... looking for something. "

"Horcruxes!" Snape said decisively, "What else could it be besides Horcruxes? Don't forget that when you were searching for Horcruxes before, you were attacked by Death Eaters and that mysterious force. This means Voldemort must already know that you are plotting his Horcruxes.

Besides, what you just mentioned about Harry just reminded me.It is possible that Harry Potter was attacked by Voldemort during the holidays as part of Voldemort's plan.Maybe he didn't want to kill Harry Potter directly because of the prophecy, but just wanted to use the attack on Harry Potter to hold us all back. "

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

"What you said makes sense, but what they are looking for may not be Horcruxes, but something more dangerous."

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

"I'm already doing this. When Harry Potter set foot on the Hogwarts Express, all the members of the Order of the Phoenix had already set off to organize the Death Eaters, even Hagrid. "

As Dumbledore spoke, he turned to look out the dark window.

The warm light of the oil lamp flashed in his eyes, like balls of fiercely burning flames, more like the light bursting out from the tip of the staff when Hagrid, Sirius and others were fighting the Death Eaters.

When Snape heard this, a sneer appeared on his face uncontrollably.

In his opinion, nearly [-]% of the Order of the Phoenix's combat power lies in Dumbledore alone. As for the rest of the people, except for Mad-Eye Moody, they are all rotten fish.

Now Dumbledore wants to rely on those guys to stop the Death Eaters, which is simply wishful thinking.

However, looking at Dumbledore's gloomy back at this moment, Snape finally resisted the desire to retort.

The office was 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 chair and said:

"Where's Link? What is he doing?"

"What else can he do? Take classes, study, and do what he should do most as a student." Snape looked a little excited, "Dumbledore, are you crazy? You actually doubted Link? Obviously the guy from Umbridge at the Ministry of Magic is what you should be most concerned about right now!"

"You are too sensitive, Severus. I just wanted to change the topic to change the serious atmosphere here. I did not doubt Link's intentions. He is a good boy, I have always known this. As for Umri Professor Qi, she is not a thorny problem, even if she has Fudge’s help, she can’t be called a problem.”

Dumbledore said with a chuckle.

While he was talking, he also took out a bunch of sizzling honey candies from the drawer, popped one into his mouth, and then closed his eyes in intoxication.

"I hope so."

Snape said expressionlessly, then slammed the door and left.

Dumbledore was not annoyed by this. Snape's behavior seemed to him both twisted and interesting. This clumsy love for Link was really... wonderful.

Dumbledore shook his head with a smile.

The change in Link's personality cannot be hidden from Dumbledore.

Because a lot of this was caused by him.

The changing personality coupled with strong power will naturally give birth to something called ambition.

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

He even felt that he might be on Link's list and be the target that Link needed to attack.

But Dumbledore didn't seem to care about it, or rather, he was somewhat happy to see it happen.

"Hoo!~"

After letting out a long breath, Dumbledore took out a dark polygonal gem from his pocket, put it in his hand and played with it carefully.

Ever since this gem appeared, the light in the entire office suddenly became dim.

This is not because the light of the gem covers up the warm light emitted by the oil lamp in the corner of the office, but more like the light of the entire office is being continuously absorbed and swallowed by this gem.

And what was also devoured was Dumbledore's gaze.

Dumbledore focused almost all of his attention on this gem.

His eyes were straight, his expression was dull, and his whole person seemed to lose momentum, becoming weak and sad.

If Link saw this scene, he would be shocked.

Because that polygonal jet-black gem was the Deathly Hallows—the Resurrection Stone—that was buckled from Gunter’s ring.

Dumbledore immediately took it as his own when he took it out of the cemetery at Gaunt's old house, and sternly warned Link not to use or even get close to the Resurrection Stone.

The reason given is that the Resurrection Stone can summon the souls of the dead and allow people to meet their deceased relatives.

But this is not a resurrection in the true sense, but a desecration of the dead.

The dead souls summoned by it are suffering tremendous pain every moment.

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

Link generally believed this statement.

Because Dumbledore's death in the original work of the previous life confirmed this to a large extent.

If you think about it carefully, you will know that even if Dumbledore became weak and lost his strength due to Voldemort's curse, he would even die soon.

But why did he choose that time to beg Snape to kill him in a way that was close to suicide?

It is true that judging from the results, Dumbledore had already arranged everything that would happen before he died.

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

But based on Link's understanding from spending so many years with Dumbledore, this is not the case.

You must know that the situation at that time, even from the perspective of the magic world of the country, had reached an almost irreversible situation.

It can look at all of Europe and even the world.

It is not completely impossible to kill Voldemort.

You must know that behind Dumbledore, there is also the International Federation of Wizards.

With Dumbledore's character, he would do anything for justice.

How could he choose self-sacrifice when there were other options?

Doesn't he know that as the spiritual totem of the magic world in China and even Europe, his death will send countless wizards into panic?

So Link speculated that Dumbledore might have no longer wanted to live.

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

And now.

Although Dumbledore successfully escaped Voldemort's curse with Link's help, he is now addicted to the environment created by the Resurrection Stone.

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

There is no answer to this question.

Because even Dumbledore himself knew nothing about it, or in other words, although Dumbledore was aware of it, he was willing to do so.

In the office, the light of the oil lamp was slowly extinguishing. Under the darkness, only the Resurrection Stone and Dumbledore's hot eyes were still shining with dim light.

……

Jingle Bell--

Early in the morning, in a dormitory of Hufflepuff House, the harsh ringing of the bell suddenly pierced the silence.

Stimulated by the sudden ringtone, John jumped up from the bed, clutching his chest and gasping for air. After a while, he reached out and turned off the panda alarm clock placed on the bedside table.

But this seems a bit unnecessary.

Because including Link, the other roommates in the same dormitory with him had no reaction at all.

This is normal, because the piercing alarm sound can only be heard by John where it is placed.

John smiled happily when he saw this.

As long as it didn't affect Link's rest, the second-hand magic alarm clock he bought from someone else for a full gold galleon was worth it.

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

But John didn't stay on the bed long.

He quietly made his bed, dressed and washed, and then walked through the silent lounge hall and corridor under the dim light of the sky, and directly arrived at Professor Sprout's greenhouse.

Although it has only been five days since the start of school, Hogwarts is already a little chilly in September.

John exhaled a big breath of hot air into his hands, then put on his dragon leather gloves, picked up the things that had been prepared in the greenhouse, and began to clean up, water and feed various plants.

These tasks are not difficult, but they are very tedious and require a huge amount of work.

When it was daylight, the sweaty John put the tools back to their original positions and completed the cleaning work.

It was already past breakfast time.

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

Many of them came directly to the greenhouse - these were obviously the students who were going to take the herbal medicine class next.

Normally, John would have chosen to skip breakfast at this time and go straight to class without stopping.

Then, during the break between classes, he secretly went to the kitchen and asked the kind house elf for some leftovers for a toothpaste.

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

He believed that his brother would not bear to let him go to class hungry.

Sure enough, after waiting for a while, John saw a sleepy Link, accompanied by two or three Hufflepuff students, slowly walking towards this side carrying an oil paper bag.