Hogwarts Reading Days

In the early morning, bright sunlight shines through the windows and reflects on the marble floor of the principal's office.

Dumbledore, who stayed up late last night, has already woken up. He is sitting behind his desk, enjoying the morning tea prepared by the house-elf while reading the latest issue of "Transfiguration Today".

Ever since Albert stopped contributing to the magazine, "Transfiguration Today" has seldom produced eye-catching articles.

In the September issue of "Transfiguration Today", there were even a few improvised articles, which really disappointed Dumbledore.

Putting down his teacup, Dumbledore picked up the latest issue of the newspaper that had been left by the house-elf in the corner of his desk.

It was a pity that there was nothing worthy of his attention in the newspaper, and the content of the headlines made his good mood early in the morning disappear.

Yesterday, two more "dark wizards" were sentenced to death by the Wizengamot court.

To be honest, Dumbledore didn't like the new minister's behavior style of killing people at every turn. Even though Scrimgeour was willing to adopt his suggestions on some matters, he always had his own strength when it came to the death penalty for the "heinous" dark wizard. Persevere and never give up.

"The Ministry of Magic has been using Veritaserum to interrogate prisoners. We try not to wrong any good person, but we will never let any vicious criminal go."

Dumbledore put down the newspaper, recalling the unpleasant memory of the last time he had talked to Scrimgeour about executions.

Scrimgeour's tough attitude towards this matter is really surprising, and Scrimgeour never shy away from the specific reasons.

In fact, even the staff of the Wizengamot Court and even the higher-ups of the Ministry of Magic knew the reason.

"Even if the Ministry of Magic continues to strengthen the defense of Azkaban Prison, we will never be able to prevent the mysterious man."

Dumbledore still remembers Scrimgeour's helpless expression when he told the Wizengamot court about it.

"Unless, let Dumbledore go to Azkaban to serve as the warden, but I think the group of Hogwarts children are more important than these bastards."

"Instead of giving these vicious bastards a chance to do bad things again, it is better to let them never have the chance to hurt other innocent people. This is the real responsibility to the entire wizarding world."

"We are at war, don't show mercy to the enemy, unless you want to kill those who are fighting bravely on the front line."

From that day on, the Wizengamot courts did not hesitate to sentence those who should have been sentenced to life to death.

Even Dumbledore couldn't refute Scrimgeour, because he was also aware of the cruel fact that Voldemort would definitely rob Azkaban Prison.

If the Aurors spent a lot of sacrifices to capture them and put them in prison, but these guys were not punished for this, but were released by Voldemort instead, it would undoubtedly be a shame to those warriors who died heroically in the capture.

Perfect speech!

Decisive and bold.

Scrimgeour is simply a hero in the eyes of countless people, the best candidate to lead the magic world through the current difficulties.

However, Dumbledore's intuition told him that this was only the surface.

Something must have happened to make Scrimgeour put down all worries and fight against the dark forces.

Dumbledore suspected that this matter had something to do with Albert, and he was curious about what Albert had said to Scrimgeour.

It wasn't until last night that Dumbledore got the answer.

"Mr. Anderson told me that I would die in office and be murdered by a mysterious person. He advised me to give up confrontation or prepare to fight to the death."

Scrimgeour spoke the cruel answer very calmly

At that time, Dumbledore knew everything.

He dared to say that Albert had definitely told Scrimgeour on purpose.

As for lying, it is obviously unlikely.

The reason is actually not hard to guess:

The fact that the Death Eaters brought people to try to kill Albert at his wedding really annoyed Albert completely.

Although Albert didn't kill anyone that day, he executed the captured dark wizards one by one with the help of the Ministry of Magic.

This trial lasted for more than a full month, no doubt it was intentional for people to watch, as if to tell them: This is what will happen to you.

Prevent?

Obviously impossible.

Because there is no evidence at all.

Scrimgeour would not tolerate it either. He slaughtered dark wizards so frantically in order to weaken Voldemort's power as much as possible.

Dumbledore couldn't be sure that Scrimgeour knew he was going to die, but he knew that Scrimgeour was trying to save himself a chance.

With as little help as possible from Voldemort, the Dark Lord alone is not as scary as imagined.

"Divination?"

Dumbledore took out his pocket watch and checked the time, it was almost nine o'clock.

That person should be here soon.

Not long after, there was a knock on the door outside the principal's office.

"Please come in!"

The door was pushed open, and Albert walked in from the outside.

"Sit here." Dumbledore asked with a smile, "What do you want to drink?"

"milk tea."

A cup of steaming milk tea appeared in front of Albert out of thin air.

"Let's talk about it if you have something to say." Albert took a sip of milk tea, "I have an appointment with someone else later."

"It seems that you have been very busy recently."

Dumbledore added a large spoonful of honey to his cup of milk tea, stirred it slowly with a spoon, and took a sip, seemingly enjoying it.

"No, I just have something to do today." Albert also added some honey to the glass, "I've been writing memoirs for the LeMays recently."

"Memoirs?" Dumbledore raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Yes, if you need, I can also write a book for you." Albert took another sip of milk tea.

"I don't think I need that kind of thing." Dumbledore shrugged. "I hope you can help me divination the exact location of the Slytherin locket."

"You haven't found it yet?"

"It was not found, the Slytherin locket disappeared after Sirius killed the house-elves, and I suspect it is no longer in Sirius' house."

After speaking, Dumbledore took Albert to the cabinet where the Pensieve was placed, took out a vial from the cabinet, and poured the swirling memory into the Pensieve.

An image soon appeared in the Pensieve, which was a deep red velvet cushion, on which lay a heavy gold locket.

"This is Slytherin's locket." Dumbledore introduced to Albert.

"The mysterious man was really handsome when he was young." Albert looked at the handsome young man next to him, and suddenly asked, "Is it because of making Horcruxes that he looks like this now?"

"Your focus is really surprising." Dumbledore raised his eyebrows slightly, but he didn't expect Albert to suddenly talk about Tom's appearance.

"After all, the current appearance of the mysterious man is really impressive."

"This should be the reason why Voldemort has made many crazy attempts on himself in pursuit of his eternal power."

"I thought it was because of the division of the soul."

"That was indeed a crazy act." Dumbledore said softly, "I have always suspected that he became what he is now, which has something to do with his splitting of the soul, and the sequelae of abusing black magic have been affecting Voldemort."

"You don't have to worry about me being tempted by the darkness." Albert's tone was full of disgust, "I'm not interested in that thing."

"I know, but... maybe, you can try to divine the location of the Slytherin locket." Dumbledore added.

"I'm not sure I can find it, but I can try it." Albert returned to his desk and began to use Dumbledore's prepared crystal ball to divine the location of Slytherin's locket.

After Albert's hand touched the crystal ball, the white mist inside swirled rapidly, and a suitcase came into view.

"So, I probably know what's going on!" Dumbledore said, narrowing his eyes slightly, looking at the suitcase in the crystal ball.

"That's really good news."

Albert naturally guessed who had taken Slytherin's locket.

"In that case, I'll leave first." Albert got up and was about to leave, "Just give me those notes after you finish sorting them out."

"Wait, Albert."

"Is there anything else?" Albert stopped and turned his head to ask.

"Malfoy Manor was burned down a while ago."

"I just gave the Malfoy family an impressive warning." Albert did not intend to deny that he had burned the Malfoy Manor, and said softly, "I am not you, and I am not that tolerant to those who want to kill me. "

"Mr. Malfoy plays a very important role in my plan." Dumbledore said suddenly.

"Oh, you're going to let him kill you?"

"It seems that you have already guessed part of the plan." Dumbledore shrugged indifferently.

"After you die, I will remember to help you write a memoir."