The magic sharp-mouthed gargoyle at the door of the principal's office obviously recognized someone. When the principal came, he didn't need a password at all and just gave way. They are as discerning as the guards in those government agencies~
Standing on the spiral elevator, Ted followed Dumbledore to the principal's office.
The offices are on top of the main tower, so the space is round.
There is also an upward staircase on the right, and the next floor above is the principal's bedroom.
The walls around the circular office are covered with portraits of the deceased old principals.
It was already getting late, so everyone was snoring and blowing snot bubbles in the photo frame.
However, Ted noticed that there were also a few people who looked up secretly. They might have been alert people during their lifetime.
But think about it, does the portrait still need to sleep? Or are you just imitating the habits that were instilled during your lifetime/painting?
Although these portraits can only move their mouths and are hung on the wall after all, it would be a mistake to really underestimate them.
They are now part of the Castle, serving the school and its current principal.
Although they cannot jump out of the portraits to cast magic, they can freely move between all their portraits.
In other words, two paintings of the same person can actually be regarded as a whole.
These principals were decent people with high social status during their lifetime. They still had their own portraits in every corner of the magical world, and those picture frames were their eyes and ears.
Like St. Mungo's Hospital, the Ministry of Magic, some ancient pure-blood family... Like Sirius's great-great-grandfather Phineas Nigellus, the headmaster more than a hundred years ago. He has a painting on In the old house of the Black family.
Even if Voldemort wanted to invade the heavily guarded Black Mansion, it would not be possible to break through it in a short while. But Phineas Nigellus on the wall could come and go freely, watch, and send messages.
And there are dozens of portraits of the principal on this wall!
The wall on the left was filled with curved bookshelves, and Ted couldn't help but take a few more glances. After all, a magic book that can be placed in the principal's office is definitely extraordinary.
Suddenly, he found a book with a familiar spine - "Advanced Black Magic Revealed", which was the book that recorded information about Horcruxes. It was actually brought here by Dumbledore. What a high efficiency? !
As a psychic, Ted perfectly controlled his expression and eyes, and sat at his desk as if he had never seen the forbidden book.
The large desk with a curved desktop has six slender legs, and the bottom is actually carved to look like a beast's claws. Worried that it will suddenly run away.
The table is filled with all kinds of strange silverware, and you can feel different magic powers. These should have different functions.
On the cabinet on the right is the Sorting Hat.
"Hey, Ted, good evening~" The Sorting Hat saw an acquaintance and couldn't wait to say hello.
"Good evening, Mr. Hat." Ted's head was empty, but he also made a gesture of taking off his hat, causing the Sorting Hat to laugh, and several principals woke up with laughter.
"Sit down, Ted, don't be nervous, I just want to know what happened to you in the Chamber of Secrets." Dumbledore sat on the chair.
Ted thanked him, sat down, and looked at Phoenix Fox, who was sleeping with his eyes closed on the bronze shelf on the table.
In the magical world, there is also such a thing as blood. For example, Dumbledore's family was born with a physique that attracts phoenixes. Do you think it is annoying or not?
"Would you like some dessert?" Dumbledore pushed out a large plate of black and crawling things.
"Cockroach Pile, Honeydukes' new product, is so interesting!" Dumbledore highly recommended it.
Ted smiled and grabbed two and put them into his mouth, chewing them. The candy cockroaches were still struggling in his mouth as if they were alive, and then they were bitten and made syrup. It tastes really good, but has a weird texture.
"Hmm~ It's really interesting, but I don't like sweets very much and it can easily damage my teeth." Ted said with a smile.
In fact, it was Dumbledore's habit to treat guests to desserts, but he generally would not treat guests to piles of cockroaches. After all, normal people would think this thing was abnormal.
The reason why he brought out the pile of cockroaches was partly due to Dumbledore's bad taste, and partly because he wanted to see the other party's reaction. If it could make the guests' mentality fluctuate, then for him, a master of Legilimency, , the next communication is simple.
This is why Snape never eats or drinks anything every time he comes to the principal's office, and is always alert.
To be honest, Dumbledore quite trusts Snape, but Snape doesn't trust Dumbledore very much.
In his opinion, after he betrayed Voldemort to deliver the message to Dumbledore, he should do something.
The results of it?
The Longbottoms are dead!
Well, just die, I'm not familiar with it.
But what about Lily after that? Dumbledore had a chance to do something!
Snape had a deep grudge against the centenarian who defeated the first Dark Lord and the greatest white wizard of this century.
If a person can sacrifice himself for something in his heart, then there is a high probability that he will not refuse to sacrifice others.
You can think of it as kindness but not military control, justice but not financial management. The superiors have their own considerations.
But Snape didn't care about that, he only knew that Lily was dead.
…
Ted's performance was perfect, without any flaws. Dumbledore even felt that his attitude was impeccable and to some extent even more difficult to deal with than Snape.
Because Snape would still be angry because of Harry and laugh at the little wizards for being stupid. But at this time, Ted was very bland, so bland that one couldn't feel emotions.
"Principal, you ask." he said.
Dumbledore nodded slowly: "If you don't mind, let's start from the beginning..."
Ted nodded and started talking about Arthur Weasley and Lucius Malfoy in the bookstore, the first Diagon Alley Iron Fist Tournament...
Ted talked for a long time, telling everything he knew in detail.
"And just like that, I pierced Tom's diary with the Sword of Gryffindor."
Ted took out the diary with a hole in the middle from his sleeve and put it on the table.
Dumbledore's expression became slightly serious. He took out something like a magnifying glass from the drawer and moved closer to examine the abandoned diary carefully.
It was originally just an ordinary material, but due to the long-term attachment of powerful black magic, it has turned into a dangerous and sophisticated magic item, but it is now destroyed.
But even if it was destroyed, it was still filled with a lot of dark and chaotic magic.
If you are a sensitive wizard, you will feel strong uneasiness in front of the diary.
Not when the diary is intact, because at that time it is restrained.
Now that it is destroyed, the remaining magic power is not covered up.
When Dumbledore opened the diary and saw the name on it: Tom Marvolo Riddle, his expression became a little dazed.
"It's dangerous! It's dangerous!" Dumbledore leaned back in his chair and said two dangerous words in succession, "Ted, you did a very good job. Even many adult wizards can't do better than you. ”
Dumbledore looked at Ted - he did so well, beyond expectations.
Fifty years ago, second grade Tom wouldn't have been able to do this, right?
Ted nodded calmly: "Thank you very much. We just tried our best. Thanks to Gryffindor's sword, we were able to win. At that time, we only thought about saving Malfoy and didn't think too much about it. If it hadn't been for Fox, Ron...we are still too careless!"
In the past, Ted had been worried that if he acted too much, he would remind the principal of classmate Tom.
When the time comes, tell yourself: Ted, you are too dangerous, I must seal you! (Senju Hashirama looks at Kyuubi’s face)
That would be bad luck!
In fact, the incident of defending the Sorcerer's Stone last year had already made Dumbledore notice him.
At the beginning of his second year, Dumbledore began to pay careful attention to Ted and his friends.
If the Chamber of Secrets incident hadn't suddenly appeared, Dumbledore might have written a script to arrange for Ted and the others.
It's the kind of trial that requires you to see your true nature clearly and be guided on the right path.
It's a pity that the secret room incident directly turned Lao Deng into disgrace. Lucius also slapped Lao Deng in the face and temporarily suspended Lao Deng from his position as principal...
(End of chapter)
