A day at Hogwarts

It was late at night, and Hedwig's "coo" sound could be heard outside the window as she flew back to the dormitory next door. Soon after, the house elves in the castle came to collect the dirty clothes in the basket at the end of the bed without making any noise.

Charles lay on the warm bed with his eyes closed, but he kept thinking about several seemingly unrelated pieces of information in his mind.

Before going to bed, he stopped by Fred and George's dormitory and asked a question.

"What about the two-way mirror?" Fred was a little nervous.

George immediately said: "Charles, please listen to my explanation."

After Mrs. Norris was petrified on Halloween, Charles asked the twins to discuss using a cheap two-way mirror to make a small tool for peering into the corners of the corridor. He invested some money in it, and then became a business owner. Soon after, he went to Australia and returned to Australia. Didn't ask.

Now that he came to the door, the twins thought he was here to get a share of the dividends.

George said: "We placed an order for two-way mirrors in November last year, but not long after that store was destroyed by a dark wizard."

"We bought the two-way mirror just before school started, and later sold it at cost."

He wanted to explain, but Charles nodded and said, "I understand, you don't want others to be like Percy. That's okay."

The twins were relieved and nodded immediately.

Charles asked them: "Who knew about this in the first place?"

The twins didn't know why he asked this. After thinking for a moment, Fred said, "We went to Longbottom's dormitory to look for him. He had a relative who made two-way mirrors and later borrowed Harry's owl to deliver letters."

George said: "There were only Longbottom, Ron, Harry and Thomas in the dormitory at that time."

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In bed, Charles regarded the news he received from the twins and the attack on the two-way mirror store as two points, and kept adding relevant information in between to see if he could connect the two points.

First, he assumed that the two things must be related, so the attacker's purpose was not to prevent the twins from getting the two-way mirror.

In this way, the attacker must have a motive to prevent the two-way mirror from entering Hogwarts, as well as access to information on purchasing the two-way mirror.

Starting from the motive, the acquisition of the two-way mirror was related to the basilisk. At that time, the only people who knew about the basilisk were Charles himself, the old man who had seen the memory, Ginny, Tom, and the missing Voldemort.

Charles first excluded himself and the old man, because if either of them took action, the victim would have no chance of going to St. Mungo's Hospital.

Ginny and Tom later ruled out that Ginny had not left Hogwarts Castle at the time of the incident.

Although the final result was bizarre, after thinking for a long time, Charles still felt that this was the most likely possibility - the attack was ordered by Voldemort.

Voldemort knew about the Chamber of Secrets and the basilisk, and had a precedent of releasing the basilisk.

It's just that he had no home except Hogwarts fifty years ago. After Myrtle was killed, the school had to be closed if there were more deaths. In order not to return to the orphanage, he had to stop using the basilisk to "clean" Hogwart. tz's actions.

Although Voldemort has no power now, considering the previous appearance of Lucius Malfoy in Gaunt's old house, many problems can be explained under the premise that the two parties merge.

For example, Lao Ma made a mistake and let the Horcrux notebook enter Hogwarts. After Voldemort learned about the "Slytherin attack", he took advantage of the situation to help "himself" "clean up" at Hogwarts.

Voldemort knew that the basilisk could really kill people, rather than being petrified that could be cured, so he needed to solve all the elements that could interfere with the basilisk's killing, so the two-way mirror was included in the target.

So Voldemort sent Lao Ma to kill the wizard who made the two-way mirror and destroy the inventory.

As for why the victim was still alive and not killed, I believe Lao Ma has a reasonable explanation, such as there happened to be an Auror nearby. After all, it was Diagon Alley and one could not act recklessly.

The more Charles thought about it, the more he felt that it was Voldemort who had done it, and that no one but him had a motive.

The premise for this is that Voldemort knew that there was a basilisk in Hogwarts, knew that the twins wanted to buy a two-way mirror, and knew that the two-way mirror was used to deal with the basilisk.

So how did he know?

If it was just a basilisk, Pony could tell Lao Ma and Lao Ma would tell Voldemort, but there was no way Pony would know about the twins buying double-way mirrors.

Charles sighed. Currently, Scabbers was the only one who could pass the news about Harry's dormitory to Voldemort.

It would be great fun if Scabbers was connected to Voldemort now.

Charles narrowed his eyes slightly. If this was the case, could he ask Peter to deliver some false news?

This idea was quickly given up. Fabricating fake news is a very laborious systematic project, otherwise several pieces of information obtained through different channels will be discovered when compared, and there is also the possibility of counter-exploitation. In the "plot" for several years Later, Harry was tricked into the Ministry of Magic, and then his godfather died.

And Charles quickly thought of an important question that he almost ignored. When did Peter get in touch with Voldemort? Was it in the first grade? There was still someone to help thread the needle. If it was the latter, he had to find this person to be safe.

This person needs some prerequisites, such as knowing that Peter is an Animagus and a mouse, and that he was once a Death Eater to gain the trust of Voldemort and Peter and be able to leave Hogwarts reasonably.

Charles thought for a while and realized that these conditions were directed at Snape.

What Snape knew, Dumbledore would also know, which made the fun even greater.

Charles didn't know if his guess was accurate. There might be something wrong. If Dumbledore knew about Peter, he would definitely go to him, but this didn't happen.

Of course, it's also possible that something happened that you don't know about.

Finally, Charles decided to go into theater mode and see what new tricks they could come up with.

However, he felt that he could go a little deeper and test whether Dumbledore knew about Peter.

After breakfast the next day, Charles approached Dumbledore as he was leaving the cafeteria and asked mysteriously: "Headmaster, are you also an Animagus?"

Dumbledore asked him strangely: "Why do you think I am an Animagus?"

Charles said: "I saw that Professor McGonagall was an Animagus, and I was thinking, if you are more powerful than her, what kind of Animagus will you become?"

The conversation between the two of them aroused the interest of some students nearby, and several people came over to listen to the excitement.

Dumbledore smiled and said: "The Animagus is indeed regarded as one of the symbols of the wizard's strength. If you are interested, you can ask McGonagall for advice."

Charles saw that he had ignored the question of whether he was an Animagus, but he didn't care, so he asked the question he was concerned about: "Principal, has anyone ever become an Animagus while still in school?"

Dumbledore patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him: "If you work hard, you might become such an excellent student."

At this time, they were about to separate halfway, and Charles could no longer ask. He was very depressed to find that Dumbledore had ignored the key point of his question and did not say whether anyone became an Animagus when he was a student.

Charles couldn't decide for a moment whether he didn't know, or whether the three unregistered Animagus were illegal so he didn't mention them.

Soon, this inquiry had a chain reaction.

After the Transfiguration lesson, Professor McGonagall left Charles behind and gave him a foot-thick sheet of extra Transfiguration homework.

The next morning, Jack carefully read a letter sent by an owl in the living room of No. 3 Privet Drive. There was a paragraph in it that read: "I heard from Albus that Charles is interested in Animagus. It seems that His desire to explore magic will never be satisfied. (Omitting a few hundred words of introduction to the Animagus) To become an Animagus requires a very advanced knowledge of transformation, otherwise accidents may occur. But I Thinking that Charles should be fine, I decided to give him more opportunities to learn. Maybe he will become the first student to become an Animagus in school in a few years."

Jack frowned after reading this paragraph, wondering if he had done something wrong and allowed Charles to become an Animagus when he did not have enough knowledge of transfiguration. As a result, he turned into a jellyfish.

Just then, the doorbell rang from the fireplace in the living room.