Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 1185 The conspiracy approaching Voldemort

   "Good afternoon, Professor."

  Albert knocked on the door of the principal's office, and greeted the old man behind the desk with a smile. He was actually a little surprised that Dumbledore knew he was coming to Hogwarts.

  However, it is not surprising if you think about it carefully. After all, this is the lair that the other party has been operating for many years. There was an invasion incident by Sirius before, so it is normal to arrange any defensive measures.

  If it was him himself, he would definitely have similar defensive measures to prevent someone from secretly invading Hogwarts without his knowledge.

   "Good afternoon, Mr. Anderson. How is Mr. Diggory?"

  Dumbledore put down the "Daily Prophet" in his hand, looked up at Albert who knocked on the door and entered the office, and showed him a gentle smile when he saw an old friend.

"Already awake, Madam Pomfrey said that Cedric will be fine after a few days of rest." Albert went to the chair by the desk and sat down, "I hope you can allow him to rest here for a few days, now St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Wounds and Wounds isn't exactly safe."

   "Of course no problem." Dumbledore glanced at the newspaper headlines next to him, and asked with a smile, "What do you want?"

"milk tea."

   "I just heard about that incident from Scrimgeour. You did the right thing. Now is not the time to meet the mysterious man."

  A cup of steaming milk tea appeared in front of Albert out of thin air with a wave of the wand, and the headmaster handed Albert the newspaper he had just read. The latest headlines in the newspaper:

  The author of "Putting Through the Fog to See the Future", the master of prophecy Cassandra Vabraski disappeared in St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Sickness.

   "I suspect that Ms. Wabraski was captured by Voldemort." Dumbledore put a large spoonful of honey into his cup of milk tea, stirred it gently with a spoon, took a sip and said softly.

"There is no need to doubt that Ms. Wabraski was captured by the mysterious man." Albert also took a sip of milk tea, and after meeting Dumbledore's searching eyes, he explained calmly: "He tried to pass through Kassan. De La Vabras divination my location, and I have to say that You-Know-Who has become smarter than before, which is not good news."

"This is indeed bad news." Dumbledore stared at the man in front of him, not worried about him, he knew that Voldemort had nothing to do with Albert, but he still did not forget to tell him, "You'd better be careful recently. "

"As long as I don't leave the protection scope of the Fidelity Curse, he can do nothing against me." Albert thanked Dumbledore for his reminder, and then directly brought the topic back to the topic: "Okay, professor, I want to find I shouldn't be doing it for this!"

  Dumbledore seemed very happy to finally get to the point. He raised his scorched palm and said softly, "I have a very important plan here."

   Albert had already guessed what Dumbledore's plan was, but he didn't answer the other party's words and let Dumbledore continue talking.

   "Snape is our man."

  He suddenly came up with such a sentence without beginning or end.

  Albert still didn't speak, as if I was listening and you continued.

"I think you may have predicted that I will be killed by Snape in the near future." Dumbledore's eyes flickered strangely, looked at the expressionless Albert, and continued, "That is As part of the plan, I deliberately let him kill me, and I am dying anyway, so I might as well make use of the last remaining heat."

   "It's surprising." Albert asked pretending to be puzzled, "But why did you tell me these things?"

   "Because this plan is very important and will revolve around my death."

  Dumbledore casually mentioned his own death, and those who didn't know thought he was talking about what he was going to eat later!

   "This plan is important, I know you don't trust Severus, but he is, at least..."

"To be honest, I don't think Snape is very credible, but I think you are looking for me because you don't want me to disrupt your plan." Albert said he could understand, "If you can, just talk about it." Your plan."

   "I don't have a long time to live, and Voldemort just sent someone to assassinate me?" When Dumbledore talked about this, his expression was quite funny.

   "Mr. Malfoy?" Albert said suddenly.

   "It seems that you know something."

"No, you don't need to know at all. It's actually not difficult to speculate. Lucius Malfoy caused so many Death Eaters to die. The mysterious man must want to kill him, and he chose to kill his son to punish Lucius. Of course, I never doubt that the mysterious man will kill Malfoy in the near future." After drinking the milk tea in his cup, Albert looked at Dumbledore and asked, "So, you want to save that Malfoy, by the way, use the opponent's assassination to complete your important plan?"

   "Yes." Dumbledore smiled and said, "Mr. Malfoy's assassination plan is completely under my control, and Severus will be responsible for guiding him."

   "Most people will want to try to prove themselves." Albert reminded, "This is especially true for children, they will not give up easily."

"To be honest, I'm not optimistic that Snape can convince Mr. Malfoy, maybe Mr. Malfoy will be more willing to try his new idea, and this may cause a Hogwarts student to be hurt or even lost. life."

"Thank you for the reminder, I will tell Severus to pay attention to this." Dumbledore couldn't help but narrowed his eyes, thinking of the possibility Albert said, and felt that it was necessary to talk to Severus about this again thing.

   "According to the original plan, Mr. Malfoy will find a group of people to come to Hogwarts to kill me."

"This plan is quite stupid. If it didn't come from your mouth, I would have suspected that his brain was blocked by the door." Albert sarcastically said, "Run to other people's base camp to assassinate the leader of the other party , It’s almost the same as sending them to death, let alone a place like Hogwarts, where they can’t even apparate, so they should organize a group to send them to death.”

   "Isn't that great?" said Dumbledore calmly, "just enough to beat the Death Eaters."

   "Are you sure they will be deceived?" Albert asked suspiciously.

   "They will." Dumbledore said firmly.

   "It seems that you have also discovered the weakness of the Death Eaters." Albert said suddenly.

   "Weakness?" Dumbledore seemed very interested in this.

"Stupid and arrogant, many of the disadvantages of inbreeding marriages appear on them." Albert unreservedly showed his disgust and malice towards Death Eaters, "How do you plan to die? Siege was killed by a group of Death Eaters? Or was Snape going to stage a stabbing for you so that he could sneak up on you from behind while you were dueling Death Eaters?"

"To be honest, I don't believe that the mysterious person will believe this kind of nonsense. The person who knows you best is always your enemy. This sentence makes sense. I believe that the mysterious person will not foolishly think that you only have this level. Not to believe you're going to be killed by a bunch of low-class Death Eaters."

"No, you think too highly of Voldemort. He doesn't really care about these things. All he wants is to kill me. No matter what method he uses, I think nothing is worth mentioning compared to killing me, because it means His hindrance is gone, and he is far less vigilant against you than I am."

   "He didn't dare to face you, but he dared to come and kill me." Albert didn't deny this, and he didn't think he had anything to alert Voldemort.

  He believed that Voldemort would definitely think the same way, this incident is good news for Albert, it means contempt, nothing is more deadly than despising the enemy.

   "I found a cave, um, it is probably the cave where Voldemort hides the Horcrux." Dumbledore talked about the script he arranged for himself.

   "Did you find the last Horcrux?" Albert asked, narrowing his eyes slightly.

"I don't know. Anyway, I will take Harry there. I will encounter some troubles when cracking the cave and become very weak. Then Snape can kill me who is weak, so as to gain Voldemort's trust." .”

   "Are you sure that it wasn't Mr. Malfoy who killed you?" Albert asked back, "That guy really wanted to kill you to get forgiveness from the mysterious man."

   "I believe he's not that depraved." Dumbledore said calmly.

"I'm really curious what your criteria for evaluating depravity is? Taking a person's life?" Albert asked curiously. "To be honest, I don't think death is terrible. The most terrible thing is that life is worse than death. For example, once Azkaban Prison."

   Dumbledore was silent, and did not intend to discuss this issue too much.

   "I think you should know my secret about this wand!" He changed the subject.

   "The elder wand of the eldest of the three brothers?"

"Yes, that's it. This wand has extraordinary power, and it is precisely because of it that I, who have weakened magic power, have the power to contend with Voldemort." Dumbledore said firmly: "Voldemort, who pursues immortality and strength, must definitely Will start looking for the wand."

"Actually, you can destroy this magic wand directly, so that the mysterious person will never be able to obtain it, and there will be no risk." Albert reminded with a smile, "You don't need to spend so much thought Go plan this wand, or do you plan to give it to Harry and let him take this wand to defeat the mysterious man."

"I intend to let the mysterious man get this wand." Dumbledore said amazingly, "but it will never be able to exert the effect of this wand. I think you should know that wands also have owners. Defeated, its ownership is transferred, and the Elder Wand is very distinctive in this respect."

"So, you plan to let Malfoy defeat you, and then let Snape kill you." Albert looked at Dumbledore with a strange expression: "Even if the mysterious man got this wand and killed him after finding out that the wand was wrong." Snape, also can't get the wand ownership, because he doesn't know that the wand ownership is with Malfoy?"

  Dumbledore didn't answer, but apparently acquiesced to the matter.

   "Snape would be very sad if he knew!"

   "Some things are worth paying for, even life." Dumbledore said calmly.

   "You have lived for a century, even if you die now, it will not be a loss, but don't expect me to pay." Albert shrugged, "I am still young, and I want to live for a few more years."

"I know, you don't actually trust anyone, whether it's Harry or me, you never trust anyone else." Dumbledore raised his hand and motioned Albert to listen to him, "I know you have your own backup plan, and if Harry fails unfortunately, I want you to kill Voldemort."

   "You have no confidence in your heir?" Albert raised his eyebrows slightly, obviously a little surprised.

   "I'm just leaving behind to prevent accidents, lest Voldemort completely turn the entire wizarding world upside down." Dumbledore said softly, "Isn't this something you like to do?"

   "Aren't you afraid that I will become another mysterious person?" Albert asked back, "You know, many dark wizards lost their lives because of me."

"They got a fair trial. Although I also think your approach is a bit radical, even I can't do everything. Some things always need to make some trade-offs. If it weren't for you, the Ministry of Magic would probably become a mess." Let's be chaotic." Dumbledore was actually not worried that Albert would become the next Dark Lord, because Albert was not cruel, as can be seen from his behavior.

  Albert looked at Dumbledore in surprise, but didn't say much, just nodded and said, "I also think it's better for the mysterious man to disappear completely, and it's best to clean up the Death Eaters along the way."

   "Clean up?" Dumbledore repeated in his mouth.

"What's the problem?" Albert said to himself, "I think that as long as the veritaserum is used for interrogation, most Death Eaters' crimes will not escape the fate of repeated death sentences. After all, when the time comes, Azkaban Prison There will certainly be no dementors, and with the absence of this living hell, the real **** is obviously more suitable for Death Eaters."

  Dumbledore no longer took this matter to heart. After he died, most things had nothing to do with him.

   "I think I should go, lest Isobel worry." Albert got up and prepared to leave.

   "Mr. Anderson, I think you must know how to sneak into Hogwarts quietly." Dumbledore suddenly stopped Albert and asked about it.

  He actually knows several ways, but maybe Albert can know more ways.

   "You mean helping Death Eaters enter Hogwarts?" Albert raised his eyebrows slightly.

"right."

"You can pass through secret passages. Hogwarts has several secret passages that can enter the school." Albert looked sideways at the fireplace and continued, "Just use Floo powder to get out of Snape's fireplace, house elf You can also ignore the Hogwarts rules prohibiting apparition. The door key is actually fine, but the movement is a bit loud, but it seems not surprising if it is a Death Eater. If you are not satisfied with these, you can try the disappearing cabinet. I remember that Hogwarts used to have a disappearing cabinet, which could be connected to the disappearing cabinet in Borgin Burke's shop. However, that thing seems to be broken, as long as it is repaired, it should still be able to continue to be used."

  (end of this chapter)