Hogwarts: When the live Q&A goes live

Chapter 53 Some of Dumbledore's "Past"

When Dumbledore disappeared, the professors present were terrified.

But at the moment a familiar panel appeared in mid-air in front of them.

This panic quickly calmed down.

"Is this another Q&A?"

Professor McGonagall hesitated for a moment, then continued.

"It depends."

Snape's cold voice sounded, and he came back, with a smell of not getting close to strangers all over his body.

"Severus, do you have any good ideas?"

"Block here, while the students are sleeping, all the news is blocked, and it is strictly forbidden for anyone to say anything about this place."

"Severus, that's not what I'm worried about. What I'm worried about is that this image is not just for us to see."

Snape was silent for a moment, and then his eyes turned to Myrtle, who was frozen in place and terrified.

"Then pray!"

"What do you mean?"

"Pray that something like that doesn't happen, otherwise there is nothing we can do."

The cold tone combined with his paralyzed face that has never changed for thousands of years, gave people a feeling as if they were in the dark and felt the cold of the glacier.

Even Cedric subconsciously took a step back.

Although the movement was slight, Snape quickly turned his head and stared at Cedric.

The paralyzed face that suddenly appeared in sight almost frightened him.

Fortunately, some content began to appear on that white picture.

For example, Dumbledore walking on a field of whiteness.

This successfully attracted several professors, including Snape, and diverted their attention. It also made Cedric, who was facing Snape's iceberg face, secretly heave a sigh of relief.

The death stare from the head of the Snake Academy is still very terrifying.

Those who have not experienced it personally will not understand that feeling at all.

And Cedric, who had endured the death stare, suddenly admired Harry who was knocked unconscious by Levi's.

I admire the Harry who has endured Snape's death stare many times and is still alive and well.

Everyone present, except for Cedric whose thoughts were drifting away, all eyes were on the picture in front of them.

Gradually, when Dumbledore stopped, the scene changed, and they also saw the young man standing in front of Dumbledore.

Wearing a Slytherin robe with a Slytherin coat of arms on it.

This young man who was handsome enough to fascinate thousands of young girls smiled when he saw Dumbledore.

The moment he spoke, Snape narrowed his eyes.

He was a student of Slytherin House many years ago, and then for some reason he became the Head of Slytherin House.

But whether it was the memory of his student days or the memory after he became the head of Slytherin House, there was no memory of this handsome young man in it.

And with such a handsome man showing up at Hogwarts, he couldn't believe he had no memory, and neither did the rest of Slytherin.

unless……

Unless a very long time has passed, coupled with the tone of the young man's speech to Dumbledore, and various subsequent attitudes.

There was an extremely bold guess in Snape's mind.

This young man is Dumbledore's son...

String words!
This young man may be Voldemort in his youth.

Snape thought boldly.

In fact, his bold guess was the correct answer.

In the picture, Tom and Dumbledore are sitting opposite each other, and the atmosphere between the two of them can't be seen from this picture alone that they are fighting each other.

Looking at the questions given by the question and answer space, Tom's bright smile froze on his face, while Dumbledore remained silent.

Time is like a knife, which cuts the past into pieces.

However, this suddenly appeared again and brought them back to the days decades ago.

Dumbledore vaguely remembered that day, he went to an orphanage to pick up a child to go to Hogwarts school.

Subconsciously, he used Legilimency on the child, and then saw something deep in the child's memory.

At the beginning, he was very strict with Tom, trying to use his own methods to lead him to the right path, no matter how bad he was, he could use his deterrent power to make the boy dare not make mistakes easily.

Maybe it was because he was afraid of another Grindelwald appearing again, or maybe it was because of some other reasons, he always kept a kind of vigilance against this child.

Many years later, Dumbledore thought about it when he recalled the incident.

If he hadn't been strict and vigilant to Tom back then, and hadn't threatened him from time to time and warned him with words, would the final outcome be different?

Dumbledore had been thinking about it all these years.

It was also when his students went farther and farther, began to go astray, and finally got deeper and deeper, he seemed to have a clear understanding.

He became the kindest headmaster of Hogwarts, and with his amiability and gentleness, he became the person most of the students liked and trusted.

However, what happened in the past cannot be changed, and certain resentments will only gradually deepen over time, and will not decrease by half.

When will you see Tom again?
It seems that when I saw him again, it was Tom who returned to Hogwarts, hoping to be a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts in Hogwarts.

But he refused.

The pride of the gentle, sharp and handsome Slytherin had changed.

His eyes were bloodthirsty, there was a cold smile on the corner of his mouth, and his whole body exuded coldness and madness.

Will that be the last time he retains this student?

Dumbledore's mind wandered so far that he didn't react until Tom pressed the button first, wrote down his answer, and was notified by the Q&A space.

Tom, expressionless, looked at Dumbledore, who was full of sorrow.

Just like the expressionless Dumbledore looked at Tom pretending to be smiling.

[Tom Riddle chose option A, answered incorrectly, and asked Albus Dumbledore to answer]

"It seems that something is not what I thought, Professor."

"Always, Tom, your ideas are too extreme."

(End of this chapter)