HP Cronos

Nora watched helplessly as the guardian spirit burst into the landlady's room. Not long after, the disheveled Fenwick rushed out of the room in a panic. La and Tom hurried to the door.

At this moment, Tom asked endlessly, "Are you a wizard?"

Fenwick froze and looked back at Tom.

Nora quickly covered Tom's mouth, and said to Fenwick with a stiff smile, "My brother has read too many fairy tales recently, don't take it for granted."

Fenwick opened his mouth as if to say something,

The proprietress, who was only wrapped in a blanket, came up from behind, holding his briefcase in her hand: "You left something here!"

Fenwick took the briefcase, wondering if he should just leave.The proprietress followed his gaze, turning suspicious eyes on Nora's and Tom's faces.

"Anything else?" asked the hostess.

Fenwick shook his head quickly: "No...it's nothing." After finishing speaking, he hurried out the door.

Nora breathed a sigh of relief when he left.Looking up, she saw the proprietress put up the closed sign, closed the glass door of the tavern, and turned to stare at Nora.She was wearing a blanket, her eyes were wide open, her red hair was like flames, and she was menacing.

"Is there something you are hiding from me?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.

Nora shrank back, not daring to shake her head, let alone nodding.She widened her eyes and pretended to be stupid.Tom Riddle held a glass of milk with an indifferent expression on his face.

"Nora." The proprietress took a deep breath and said seriously, "I don't like being kept in the dark."

"If you want to know, why don't you just ask him?" asked Tom, sipping his milk slowly.

The little devil is worthy of being a little devil, this sentence is like a needle, piercing the ball of the proprietress.Dejectedly, she slid to sit on the sofa, wrapped the blanket tightly, and crossed her feet.

"I know he has something to hide from me... I just hope he can take the initiative to tell me." She said quietly.

"Maybe...he was just protecting you." Nora said cautiously.

"Maybe." The proprietress rubbed her hair dejectedly, "Damn it, I shouldn't have come to question you, and I'm still in front of the child..."

Benji Fenwick looked around to make sure that no one was following him before he entered the house that was out of place with the surroundings.

No. 12, Grimade Place, was quite deserted today.No wonder.Today is the first day of school at Hogwarts.

Once the kids who had lived here for the summer left, the whole house was filled with grown wizards hurrying to and fro.

Fenwick walked softly across the porch, so as not to wake the portrait of the Blacks covered in black cloth.

"Aren't Sirius here?" He lowered his voice and asked.

"They're all going to see Harry off," King Reiser replied. "Moody and Tonks would have been enough. But Sirius insisted on going too."

"It's too dangerous," muttered Fenwick. "The Ministry of Magic is still looking for him."

"With me around, nothing serious will happen to him. As long as he doesn't meet Death Eaters, everything will be fine," Jin Reisha said.

"Where is Dumbledore?" Fenwick looked around. "Why did he call us here in such a hurry? I thought he had to stay at Hogwarts when school started today."

"I don't know, I just arrived too." Jin Reisha said.

Another person walked in the door.He took off his cloak when he walked into the hall. It was Snape.

"Dumbledore will be here soon," he said, "and we won't start until we're all there. Where's Moody?" He guessed the answer right away, and squeezed a sneer from his hooked nose: "To escort the great savior haha Leigh Potter?"

"The mysterious man has been resurrected. Harry is in a very dangerous situation now. We must ensure his safety." Jin Reisha explained.

Snape sneered, "If he's really the savior, why should we be afraid?"

Jin Reisha was still quite patient: "Harry is not afraid, it is us who are worried."

Benji Fenwick was a member of the Order of the Phoenix long before Harry was born, and he didn't like Snape.It is estimated that not many people in the entire Order of the Phoenix like him.He's a Death Eater and a Slytherin.But Dumbledore trusted him, and Dumbledore was always right.He did bring a lot of valuable information.Fenwick thought of him as a member of the Order of the Phoenix.

Despite this, there are still people who are not afraid to blatantly hostile to him.For example, Sirius who came back with Moody, Tonks and the others.

The two have been at odds since their school days, and no one expects them to live in peace.

Those who could come arrived one after another.Sirius, Moody, Tonks, Arthur Weasley, Lupine, Emmeline... It's usually rare to get so many people together, just to escort Harry back to school, everyone tried their best to spare time today.

"Where did Stoggy go?"

"I don't know. He was supposed to come to see Harry off. I think it was delayed by some unexpected incident. The Ministry of Magic people, you know."

The last one to come in was Dumbledore. He was wearing a bright purple cloak, and he didn't know if he was taken for a madman on the street.But he was the least of them all - what Death Eater would have the guts to follow Dumbledore?

"McGonagall and Hagrid can't come, they have to stay at school. School has started, and they have too many things to do." Dumbledore shrugged.The serious atmosphere in the room was eased.

"Now to get down to business," he said, turning his head to Snape. "Go ahead, Severus."

Snape looked around with dark eyes, and said succinctly: "A month ago, the mysterious man's big snake Nagini was killed in front of him."

Tonks gasped, "It's so cool." Moody frowned, his left eye rolled around, and he didn't know what to think about.Lupine asked: "But who can do this in front of You-Know-Who?"

"A woman," said Snape. "Just a month ago, a woman appeared in Diagon Alley. She found Lucius Malfoy and asked him to bring a message to the You-Know-Who. The You-Know-Who agreed to meet, and Tell Malfoy to bring the woman to him."

"What did the woman say?" Moody asked.

"If I knew everything, I wouldn't need to summon you to discuss." Snape replied coldly.

"Could it be related to the prophecy ball?" Jin Leisha asked suddenly.

"It's possible." Dumbledore nodded, "Go ahead, Severus."

Snape continued: "Lucius Malfoy brought her in front of You-Know-Who. She took out a gun, killed his pet snake Nagini in front of You-Know-Who, and then Disappeared out of thin air."

"□□? That thing can only kill Muggles, it can't hurt wizards with wands in their hands. Are you blocked by your long nose?" Sirius retorted.

Snape snorted coldly, and rarely confronted him without speaking.

Moody questioned, "Disappearing? Not apparating, or a Portkey, or something..."

"None." Snape interrupted him, "I saw the whole thing, she didn't have time to cast the spell at all. The Killing Curse almost went through her head, but the next moment, she disappeared."

Snape went on: "You-Know-Who was annoyed - never so angry - than to learn that Lucius Malfoy had ruined his diary. He asked us to drop everything else and just find That woman. The Death Eaters have dug nearly three feet into the ground for a month and haven't found a word about her. And..."

He looked at Dumbledore, and the old Headmaster nodded at him.

"...Moreover, the mysterious man seems to know that woman. He said——she was the first victim of the Chamber of Secrets, a mudblood. And her death allowed the mysterious man to find the secret of eternal life."

Sirius frowned uncomfortably at the word Mudblood.

Weasley couldn't help saying: "The first victim of the Chamber of Secrets? But that's already..."

"Fifty years ago." Dumbledore continued.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, even in the world of magic, this incident had a strange smell.

"Just yesterday, Draco Malfoy reported seeing the woman again in Diagon Alley. He swore it was indeed the woman. You-Know-Who agreed to give him a chance. The Death Eaters are now relentlessly looking for she."

Since the resurrection of the mysterious man, the most difficult thing is not the decent wizards, but the Malfoy family, who was once the mysterious man's confidant.The fact that the diary was destroyed in the hands of Lucius Malfoy alone was enough for Voldemort to gift the whole family with an Avada gift bag.But now the Death Eaters are not as powerful as before, and the mysterious person spared their lives.The Malfoys are now counting on one big function to offset the punishment.

"Speaking of—" Weasley said suddenly, "Yesterday Molly was shopping for the children in Diagon Alley and bumped into that Draco Malfoy. She said he saw him chasing someone."

"Speaking of clues, here's another one," said Dumbledore. "Old Tom in the Broken Axe said he saw a woman dressed as a Muggle, leading a little boy also dressed as a Muggle, passing by him." .Since wizards dressed like that are fairly rare, he was impressed."

"You think the two women are the same person?" asked Lupine.

"I do think so, Remus." Dumbledore nodded. "It's an intuition."

Dumbledore's intuition is usually more accurate than the centaurs' prophecies.

"We must find her before the Death Eaters. Lupine, Tonks, you are looking for it in the wizarding world. Benji, Emmeline, you are in charge of the Muggles. King Reiser, Arthur, use you as much as possible." In the Ministry of Magic. Severus will join the other Death Eaters. Unfortunately, Sirius, you have to stay here and wait." Dumbledore arranged in an orderly manner.

Sirius expressed considerable dissatisfaction with this arrangement.

"There's another clue," Snape added. "The woman calls herself 'Nora Gray.'"

Fenwick coughed violently, and Jin Resha patted him on the back: "What's wrong with you, man? Can you choke without drinking water?"

"You said her name was Nora Gray?" repeated Fenwick.

"What's wrong with the name?"

"I seem to have seen her, just now..." Fenwick said nervously, "a woman with a child, familiar with the Muggle world, named 'Nora Gray'..."

All eyes were on his face.