Luke's expression was somewhat strange. He really felt that his life was pretty good now, and he wasn't quite sure why another letter came.
Obviously I have left those matters to them to resolve on their own. Why would a letter still find its way to my head?
Now is the peak time for little wizards to receive letters from home. Every day at breakfast time, the little wizards would receive letters from their families very intensively.
After all, even the specially tame owls in the wizarding world are not normal owls. But it is just an owl after all. They are also more accustomed to staying out during the day and out at night.
Therefore, most of their activities are at night.
The owl flying towards them was not Luke's hairy-legged fishing owl, but another snowy owl.
It is the same species as Hathaway, but overall it looks smaller than Hathaway, and its flying movements look more elegant.
They all knew who the owner of this owl was. This is Gemma Farley’s Owl.
Luke's external communication is basically handled by Gemma. Although Gemma often says she is too busy. But in fact, she was very satisfied with Luke's trust. At least from what she observed, Luke really didn't seem to have any defense against her, but truly believed in herself unconditionally.
Luke certainly wasn't that big-hearted. But his trust in Gemma is still sufficient.
He is not very worried that others will betray him. After all, people's emotions and thoughts cannot be concealed from the eyes of him and Taylor. As long as the other party is trustworthy, you can naturally believe it unconditionally.
The snowy owl landed in Luke's direction. Luke looked at the bag on Snow Owl's chest, which contained two letters.
Taylor and Hermione looked at each other and saw the sender's address.
"Is there another letter coming from the United States?"
The same group of people were sitting around Luke. They knew more or less about Luke's affairs in the United States. He only knew a little bit about it, but he smiled meaningfully at Luke. Those who knew more about the matter couldn't help but frown.
The former is like Malfoy, and the representative of the latter is Taylor.
But no one spoke. Luke touched the snowy owl's head, and then let it fly back.
He turned around and put the two letters into his arms. No words were spoken.
Everyone around me also understood. This is not a topic that can be discussed in public. So everyone had a tacit understanding to continue the topic before the letter was sent. Had a great time chatting.
After drinking and eating, Luke parted ways with everyone.
They had classes, and in the morning it was Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class.
In the past nearly a year, each of them has greatly improved their transformation skills. Obviously Professor McGonagall's new teaching method has achieved considerable results. Of course, this also means that Professor McGonagall's research has made great progress.
Luke doesn't need to go to class. After becoming the acting Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, the professors no longer cared much about whether he came to class or not.
Because of Luke's teaching ability and his own strength, he was also recognized by the professors. Although still a student. But being a colleague is more than enough.
Luke naturally goes to class when he has time. If there is no time, or there are other things, he will not be too pedantic to not take advantage of his privileges.
After all, he earned this privilege himself.
Not using it would be disrespectful to your own efforts. Of course, it's one thing to get privileges without hard work.
Luke returned to his dormitory and silently opened a barrier to prevent prying eyes and eavesdropping. Then, he unfolded both letters in front of him.
The source of the two letters was naturally Alice and Saphire. The same letter came a few days ago.
That time they came to seek Luke's opinion because a batch of goods had an accident. In Luke's opinion, it was of course unnecessary. However, he still gave his opinion.
And now, the letter was delivered to him at the same time again, which made him have to suspect that there was some small accident in the previous matter.
Luke frowned. These two parties are their important chess pieces. Once something goes wrong, you have to find another solution. But to be honest, he didn't want to waste his energy.
So with a bit of confusion and a bit of trouble, he opened Alice's letter first.
"Your Highness Luke, I'm sorry to send you another letter. I know you definitely don't like incompetent subordinates. But I have no choice. Faced with this unbelievable thing, we can only choose to ask you after all. Views."
"While our people were tracing the whereabouts of those magical animal bones, they met a very strange man. He was wearing tattered wizard robes, and his body was not very clean. He seemed to have some mental problems."
"Of course, he is very powerful, and more importantly, he calls himself Salazar. The only person I can think of... is Salazar Slytherin."
"But... I can't believe such a thing. Please give us a suggestion so that we can make better decisions."
The wording of the letter was ordinary without any special modifications, which was very different from Alice's style in the past. Obviously, she still lost some control when writing this letter.
Luke didn't know whether the other person was really panicked or pretending to be panicked. But these are not important.
His eyes were fixed on ' Salazar, as he called himself. 'On this sentence.
After a while, he opened Saphiel's letter again. After a quick glance, Saifei's words and sentences were still the same as before, with a little bit of joy, but there was something wrong between the lines.
Apparently he was also a little bit shocked.
The content of the letter is very different from the content of Alice's letter.
Excluding the situation where both parties want to harm themselves and work together to deceive themselves, then the probability of this matter being true is very high.
Luke pinched his chin. He knew why Alice and Saphiel both looked in disbelief. After all, if this is really Salazar Slytherin, it means that Salazar Slytherin has lived from that legendary era to the present.
Thousand-year-old monster?
Damn it.
How is this possible? Living for a thousand years is not much different from eternal life. More importantly, the opponent's physical condition does not look like that of an old guy.
On the contrary, in their perception, that person's vitality is still too strong!
The two of them couldn't believe it, but they seemed to know the truth.
Just as Luke thought before, how many people can remain normal in the face of the temptation of eternal life?
Even he only relaxed his thoughts on this method of immortality after mastering the method of making the magic stone. But he is also very aware of the appeal of the word 'eternal life' to other people. Except for a very small number of people who can correctly face the cycle of life and death, the vast majority of people are unwilling to give up their lives.
Even in order to survive, they can do anything.
As for Alice and Saphiel, he didn't know what the other party was thinking, but whether they wanted to own it for themselves or wanted this method as a bargaining chip in their hands, it was understandable.
Luke is not arrogant, but he believes that he cannot be completely indifferent when facing eternal life, so naturally these two women cannot do it either.
After thinking for a long time, Luke made up his mind.
He snapped his fingers and the two letters were burned to ashes. Luke's expression was calm, and he was obviously mentally prepared.
Not long after, Luke showed up in Dumbledore's office.
But after a moment, he walked out of it with a helpless expression and walked towards the Black Lake.
Under the trees on the shore of the Black Lake, Luke found Dumbledore, who was looking at the Black Lake in a daze.
He looked at Dumbledore's slightly forlorn figure from a distance.
Dumbledore is very old. He has entered the final stage of his life and is about to come to an end.
Does he want to continue living?
Of course Luke couldn't guess it either.
Logically speaking, Dumbledore did not have no chance of survival. If nothing else, if he wanted to live wholeheartedly, then Nico Flamel would naturally give him the Philosopher's Stone.
Survival is not a problem.
And he didn't want it.
Now, as he stands by the Black Lake, does he want to pursue possible eternal life? Or do you simply want to meet the legendary four giants?
Luke stayed there for a moment, then walked in the direction of Dumbledore.
If you think about it so much, why not ask.
Dumbledore sensed Luke's movements from a distance, and he ignored Luke's thoughts. After all, as a principal, you still have to maintain your elder and strong demeanor.
"Professor, there is news from the United States. I may have to go to the United States. Do you have any ideas?"
Luke stepped forward and was not polite.
Dumbledore glanced at Luke and said: "What's the big deal? You have to know that now you are the acting professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts. Teaching is your main job. If other things are not very If it’s important, you can push it back.”
He really didn't want Luke to leave temporarily. Judging from the current situation, Luke's effect as a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts is pretty good.
At least it's better than Quirrell and Lockhart. At least it’s the normal way of teaching.
As an educator, Dumbledore still hopes that his professors can teach according to common sense and be more responsible to the students.
"There is news over there that they have found someone who is suspected to be the ancestor of Slytherin. I have to go and have a look."
Luke said it easily, but Dumbledore raised his eyebrows, looked at Luke, and couldn't help but ask: "Are you kidding me?"
"Unfortunately, there is really no joke this time. Do you want to come with me?"
For this kind of thing, if Dumbledore was willing, he would definitely want to take Dumbledore with him. After all, this is currently the strongest bodyguard in the wizarding world.
If you can't bring it, you can't bring it. If you can, you must bring it.
Dumbledore looked suspicious of life. If Luke hadn't had a pretty good reputation here, he wouldn't have believed it when Luke said the giant squid was Gryffindor.
And now, it is said that a person suspected of being Slytherin has appeared in the United States.
Dumbledore pondered for a long time...
"Are you sure?"
"I'm not sure, how can I be sure about this kind of thing, but it's about my ancestors, and I have to check it out no matter what. After all... the fact that the other party is still alive is most likely not false."
Luke put it bluntly. He just saw the news in the letter. The person who wrote the letter was a little confused and couldn't figure out what was going on.
But no matter what, he had to go and see.
Because Slytherin appears somewhere. His ancestors.
Dumbledore didn't hesitate for a long time: "I can follow you this time, but I'd better not show up directly."
Luke nodded, understanding what Dumbledore meant. After all, if the other party wants to harm him, then it is best to let Dumbledore hide and give the other party a chance to take action.
The two people looked at each other, and neither of them forgot that when they were in the United States, in addition to the nobility, schools, and the Magic Congress, the people they dealt with also had a strange organization of men in white and saints.
That kind of complicated relationship is much more messy than the situation in Britain.
It’s really hard to tell whether the people who appear this time are enemies or friends. Luke's strength has become much stronger, so it's a good choice to use him as bait this time.
Luke thinks it is acceptable to use one's body as bait if the benefits are large enough. In his eyes, testing the attitudes of Alice and Saphiel was obviously worth it.
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"How about... let Professor McGonagall follow? This way, it will be more credible, and it can also lead to big fish."
Luke thought for a moment, then spoke.
Dumbledore shook his head ruthlessly and said: "No, the two of us left. It's just that we are missing part of the Defense Against the Dark Arts course. This part can be done by Severus. And the administrative affairs I left behind can be handed over to To Minerva. But if you take Minerva with you, there's going to be a problem."
Again, he and Luke can leave. But the overall teaching progress of Hogwarts cannot be delayed.
Luke had nothing to say, and Dumbledore's reasons were valid.
So Luke thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll take Taylor with me..."
"Without Hermione?"
Dumbledore looked at Luke strangely.
Luke shook his head in confusion: "Bringing Taylor out will allow her to help me see what the other person is thinking and check for any gaps. But taking Hermione with me doesn't seem to be of much help, right?"
After all, it was more important for Hermione to continue studying magic formulas.
Dumbledore looked at Luke and shook his head silently.
