[Comprehensive] Road to Trench

Dumbledore knocked on the glass, and the discussion in the auditorium became lighter.

Probably because he didn't want to lose face in front of the students and professors of the other two schools, but within a few seconds, the auditorium fell silent.

But soon, the silence was broken by Dumbledore's announcement.

"Nicole Flamel?" Justin didn't realize the weight of the news, but just subconsciously repeated the name Dumbledore mentioned just now, as well as another piece of news, "The reward for the Triwizard Tournament champion is in addition to the original one In addition to Thousand Galleons, there will be an additional mysterious reward. This reward will be provided by Nicole Flamel. It will not be announced yet, but it must be a surprise that will never disappoint... Who is Nicole Flamel? Famous people?" Seeing the surrounding senior students, especially the Ravenclaw senior students, blushing almost insanely, and being so excited that they couldn't restrain their expressions and movements, this is only from ordinary people's families. Little Badger guessed hesitantly.

Not only the Hogwarts students, but even those Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students who have always been reserved, showed almost fanaticism, as if they wanted to eat Professor Dumbledore on the teacher's bench look.

"Nicole Flamel! Even Muggles know his name!" Hannah blushed, her expression was not much better than that of the senior next to her, and she was even more excited, "The Great Ancient Alchemy Master! Even Muggle history has legends about him!"

"But so what?" Justin still didn't understand why the people around him were so excited, "Are there not enough legends about wizards in Muggles? Medieval witches, wizards in fairy tales... By the way, In the Daughter of the Sea and Cinderella that Alex talked about on Wangwang yesterday, aren’t there witches who are good at transfiguration and witches who are good at potion?”

Although he knew his identity as a wizard, he didn't connect the fairy tales he had heard with the Hogwarts courses...

"But he's the only one who can make the Sorcerer's Stone!" interjected the senior next to him, putting the accent on the word "Sorcerer's Stone."

"What stone?" Justin was stunned for a moment.

"Oh my gosh!" The senior student patted his forehead unbearably, "Okay, ok... Simply put, the Philosopher's Stone is a magical substance with amazing functions. It can turn any The metal turns into pure gold, and the elixir of life can be made so that the person who drinks it can never die! Now you understand why everyone is so excited when they hear that the mysterious reward is offered by Mr. Nicole Flamel. Are you excited?"

Even the people around him were like this, Harry, who had only confronted Voldemort head-on at the end of last semester just to protect the Philosopher's Stone, thought of this immediately.

Could it be that the mysterious reward is the Sorcerer's Stone! ?

Harry realized that he had forgotten to ask Professor Dumbledore what he had done with the Philosopher's Stone in the end.

It took Ron a while to put his chin back that was about to fall on the dining table. Harry next to him thought about it and felt wrong again: "No, Hermione, the Philosopher's Stone is so precious, how could Professor Dumbledore take it?" Come out as a reward?"

"I don't know about that! It might not be the Sorcerer's Stone, but even if it's not, what the great alchemist who has lived for more than 800 years has come up with is almost gone!" Hermione took a spoonful of mashed potatoes for herself, " Seriously, even if what Nicole Flamel took out was just a tool used by ordinary people 800 years ago, it is still an 800-year-old antique! The value will definitely not be lower than that one thousand Galleons!"

Not to mention, with Nicole Flamel's net worth and Professor Dumbledore's solemn statement, the things that will be presented at that time will definitely not be fooling people, and will only be more precious.

On Hufflepuff's long table, Alex looked at Professor Dumbledore on the teacher's seat, and then at the boy beside him.

"What's the matter, Alex?"

Mikhail seemed to ask a question quite normally, but Susan, who was sitting opposite, felt that when she heard Mikhail speak, she seemed to have eaten a big mouthful of honey.

——The sweet feeling of being so happy and satisfying is overflowing just by listening to him.

Alex felt a little dizzy.

She always felt that something was different when meeting Mikhail this time, but she couldn't say exactly what, it was just...

When I met Mihaier before, no matter how close I was when I was talking, I didn't feel dizzy like I do now...

No fever, is the temperature in the auditorium too high?

She touched her forehead, thinking a little dizzily.

Or is it because you didn't have a good rest last night?

The little girl didn't know that the roots of her ears covered by her long silver curly hair had turned red.

"It's nothing..." Alex struggled to shift his attention away from the little friend beside him, "I was just thinking, what is that mysterious reward?"

"Want to know?" Mikhail's eyes never strayed from the girl's body even for an instant, and he had a panoramic view of all Alex's actions that he knew and did not know.

It's different... He told himself in his heart that many things were different, so he couldn't look at Alex the way he used to.

He needs to know as soon as possible what Alex is afraid of, what he likes, what he avoids, what he is obsessed with... everything, he wants to know.

It's enough for the patron saint to happen once.

There can be no second time.

In this way, under the attention that almost treats it as everything, everything is exposed.

Empty eyes, small thinking movements, and...

The eyes that dodged slightly, but would move to him when they thought they were not paying attention.

Mikhail felt that the sound produced by the organ necessary for human survival in the chest cavity was suddenly loud enough to be heard by others.

When the dinner was over and the students were still discussing the matter, Mikhail had already quietly left the crowd with Alex.

"Where is this going?" Alex looked around the route, it seemed that he was walking towards the upper level of the castle...

The blond boy walking in front said briskly, "We'll be there soon. Look, we're here."

Alex looked at the quite iconic sculpture ahead: "...the principal's office?"

She looked puzzled at the boy who was still holding her hand: "Why are we here?"

"Look for Professor Dumbledore." Mikhail exerted a slight force on his hand, and Alex felt himself being pulled by a gentle force to keep up with the boy's pace.

"Good evening, Michael... Ah, Alex?" Professor Dumbledore was obviously waiting for Michael, but obviously, he didn't expect to see the second person either.

"Good evening, Professor Dumbledore!" Alex greeted the headmaster before finally being free to look at the person beside her who was still holding her hand with an inquiring gaze.

Facing the baptism of the eyes of the two, the young man who was once at ease under his uncle's terrifying coercion is still calm: "Good evening, professor. I think Alex should be involved in our next topic, so I put She came too."

Professor Dumbledore blinked, not knowing what he thought of, and nodded with a smile.

Alex couldn't be so calm. She tried to pull her hand out of Mihail's hand, but just as hard as it was, the owner of that hand seemed to have noticed it, and immediately held it firmly, without allowing her to flinch. , Hold her hand tightly - judging from the size and posture of the palms of the two, it is more accurate to describe it as "wrapped".

Even after arriving at the destination, he still did not let go of Alex's hand when he left the auditorium on the grounds of "preventing the crowd from dispersing".

For some reason, Alex felt a little dizzy again.

Mikhail looked at the girl beside him who didn't know whether it was because of shyness or because she wanted to hide half of her body behind him because she wanted to cover the hands they held. Topic: "Alex, didn't you just ask me what the mysterious reward Mr. Nicole Flamel offered?"

This immediately diverted the girl's attention.

"What is it?" she asked, and as soon as the words were out of her mouth, she looked at Professor Dumbledore over there, and at Mihail, the soul that could survive the intrigues and tricks of the illithid population, and was still alive He suddenly took a deep breath, "It's really the Sorcerer's Stone!?"

Michael nodded with a smile.

But how could an ordinary Triwizard Tournament use the Sorcerer's Stone...

and many more?

What he saw and heard during the summer vacation quickly flashed before his eyes, and Alex suddenly raised his head: "Is this a bait?"

Although it was a questioning sentence, her expression was affirmative: "The bait that attracted Voldemort to Hogwarts? No!" She quickly overturned her conclusion, "You have already confirmed that he has made this request. Infiltrated Hogwarts? And on a certain student? In order to lure him out, so the Sorcerer's Stone was used as bait? If Voldemort wants to be resurrected, given his current situation, the Sorcerer's Stone is a very convenient choice!"

Soon, Alex frowned: "But..." She looked at Professor Dumbledore in bewilderment, "I remember last semester, Professor, you used the Sorcerer's Stone to lure Voldemort... It's the Philosopher's Stone, isn't this an obvious trap?"

No matter how stupid a person is, he won't upload the same trap twice, right?

"You're right, Alex, but you probably don't know one thing." Dumbledore said softly, "In the first grade, it was the main soul that possessed Quirrell, and this time it was the main soul that mingled with Huo... Gwartz's, fragments."

Fragments...

Alex thought for a moment, and suddenly realized.

His wise blue eyes stared at the girl with a clear expression: "Yes, it's exactly what you think, possessing Mr. Marcus Flint at the end of last semester, leaving him during the summer vacation, and controlling the black dragon to attack the coast The fragment that intercepted Mr. Stark and Harry returned to Hogwarts."

And the battle of wits and courage between the main soul and Dumbledore about the Sorcerer's Stone is only known to them and Harry. For the students of Hogwarts, Harry's last extra points before the end of the first half of the semester is because Instead of fighting Voldemort, they passed various levels in the forbidden area!

So, the current situation is that the main soul knows that the Sorcerer's Stone is a bait and has experienced it, but the remnant soul that possessed Marcus at the end of last semester doesn't know about it.

Speaking, Dumbledore showed a rare tired look in his eyes. He took off the half-moon glasses and wiped them: "I'm sorry, Alex, we only know that he is possessed by someone. Hogwarts, but we don't know who he is on...so..."

So, to lure him out, they threw a bait that Voldemort couldn't refuse.

Regardless of whether Voldemort is possessed by a student or a professor, for the sake of the Sorcerer's Stone, he will always contact the student who won the championship in the end. When the time comes...

"So, Mikhail didn't come with Durmstrang's students because of this incident?" Alex asked after he understood.

Michael nodded.

Alex thought for a while, then asked again: "Will the Philosopher's Stone give the champion? I mean, after the Remnant Soul incident." She added.

Professor Dumbledore blinked, he sensed some possibility from this question.

"Of course," he said, "this is a reward, and we will not withhold the reward from the champion."

Alex suddenly let go of the big stone in his heart: "That's good."

"Uh...Alex?" Mikhail blinked slowly, "Could it be...?"

What Dumbledore could have noticed, Michael, who knew this girl better than the headmaster of Hogwarts, could not have been unaware.

The blue eyes met the blue-purple pupils as beautiful as cornflowers.

The latter blinked his eyelashes, full of innocence.

Michael was at a loss for words for a moment.

Help, I have a hunch that I will compete for the championship with the person I like next. I have not yet caught up with the person I like. What should I do to win the trophy and her at the same time?

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