The Strongest Badger at Hogwarts

After being once again shocked by the shamelessness of George and Fred, Link and Emily chose to retreat decisively.

But before leaving, looking at the "Almost Headless Nick" huddled behind the two brothers, Link still frowned and reminded:

"George, I think your security captain may need to be replaced."

"Huh? Why?" George was puzzled. "I think Sir Nicholas is very conscientious."

"It's because he is too conscientious." Link shook his head and said, "Don't forget what your mission is now. I think Peeves is the best choice for this mission."

Link pointed to the students who were still being cleaned in a centralized manner and said, "You can deal with their affairs yourself."

After saying that, Link and Emily turned their heads and left.

It was stipulated in their agreement with the Weasley brothers.

George and Fred must create one or two mass incidents in the black workshop within a week, and then Link will take over them for public opinion hype and drainage.

This means that Link's student worker platform must at least build a framework within this week, so that it can be launched immediately afterwards and quickly absorb students.

The establishment of such a platform will involve various resources including sales, raw materials, management systems, etc. If you want to gather these resources quickly, there is not much time left for Link.

So after sending away the three Hermiones who were still waiting at the stairs, Link and Emily went directly to the Owl Tower without even having dinner, handed the three letters to the owl, and sent them to Vernon. Mrs. Leigh, Old Clay and Beckman.

Watching the three owls flying out of the tower and heading away slowly under the cover of night, a smile finally appeared on Link's face.

What Link didn't know was that at the same time in the Hogwarts principal's office, Dumbledore was also standing alone in front of the French windows, staring at the three owls.

It wasn't until the three owls disappeared into the night that the closed door of Dumbledore's office was pushed open.

It was Snape.

He walked into the dark office expressionlessly, ignoring the portraits of previous principals who were awakened by his opening the door, and snapped his fingers to light up the oil lamp in the office.

The warm light instantly illuminated the entire office,

It wasn't until this moment that Dumbledore seemed to finally regain his senses, turned to look at Snape and said:

"Severus, is there any new information from Tom?"

Hearing that the muscles on Snape's cheeks twitched a few times, he almost instinctively covered the Dark Mark on his arm, and said in a deep voice:

"Do you think I will know? Now Barty Crouch Jr. is his most trusted subordinate. As for me, he probably already regards him as a traitor like Karkaroff. At the same time, you don't trust me. Now I am blind and deaf. What kind of information do you expect me to get in this situation?"

Dumbledore took a deep look at Snape and said:

"You know I trust you."

"Then tell me," Snape approached with a cold face, "what happened!?"

Dumbledore nodded and said:

"The thing is very simple. Tom and his henchmen have been quite active recently. This in itself is not surprising, after all, now that Tom has regained the strength of his full body period, and there is a group of loyal people like Barty Crouch Jr. There is a mysterious force hidden behind the Death Eaters who can help them.

But the strange thing is that with so much power, they didn't directly attack the Ministry of Magic like they did ten years ago, or concentrate their efforts to assassinate Harry. Instead, they led the Death Eaters all over the country. raging. Keep going deep into the ancient ruins and massacre in many Muggle villages. These actions of theirs do not seem to be preparing for the overthrow of the Ministry of Magic and the rule of the magic world. It's more like... looking for something. "

"Horcruxes!" Snape said decisively, "What else is it but Horcruxes? Don't forget that you were attacked by Death Eaters and that mysterious force when you searched for Horcruxes. This means that Voldemort must have known you guys were after his Horcruxes.

Also you just reminded me of Harry when you mentioned it. Harry Potter's attack by Voldemort during the holidays is likely to be part of Voldemort's plan. Maybe he didn't want to kill Harry Potter directly because of the prophecy, but just wanted to use Harry Potter's attack to hold us all back. "

Dumbledore took a deep breath, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with a complicated expression:

"What you said makes sense, but what they are looking for may not be a Horcrux, but a more dangerous existence."

"It doesn't really matter what they're looking for," Snape said coldly. "What matters is that we must stop them."

"About that, I've already been working on it. Everyone in the Order of the Phoenix had already set off to organize the Death Eaters when Harry Potter boarded the Hogwarts Express, even Hagrid was no exception. "

Dumbledore turned his head and looked out of the dark window while speaking.

The warm light of the oil lamp flickered in his eyes, like clusters of violently burning flames, more like the light from the tip of the wand when Hagrid, Sirius and others were fighting the Death Eaters at this moment.

A sneer could not be suppressed on Snape's face when he heard this.

In his opinion, nearly 90% of the combat power of the Order of the Phoenix was on Dumbledore alone. As for the rest of them, except for Mad-Eye Moody, they were all rotten fish and rotten shrimp.

Now that Dumbledore wants to use those guys to stop the Death Eaters, that is simply wishful thinking.

But looking at Dumbledore's gloomy back at the moment, Snape finally resisted the desire to retort.

The office was silent.

It was not until a long time later that Dumbledore finally woke up from the illusion of the war.

He sighed deeply, sat back on his eagle horn chair and said:

"Where's Link? What's he doing?"

"What else can I do? Take classes, study, and do what he should do most as a student." Snape looked a little excited, "Dumbledore, are you crazy? Suspect Link? Obviously the one from Umbridge at the Ministry of Magic is your main concern right now!"

"You're too sensitive, Severus. I just wanted to change the subject to change the serious atmosphere here. I didn't suspect Link. He's a good boy, I've always known that. As for Umri Professor Qi, she is not a troublesome trouble, even if she has Fudge's help, she is not troublesome."

Dumbledore said with a chuckle.

While speaking, he also took out a bunch of Zizi honey candies from the drawer, threw one into his mouth, and then closed his eyes intoxicated.

"I hope so."

Snape said with a blank face, and then slammed the door and left.

Dumbledore wasn't annoyed by this, Snape's behavior seemed twisted and funny to him, this kind of clumsy love for Link was really... so beautiful.

Dumbledore shook his head with a smile.

The change in Link's personality cannot be hidden from Dumbledore.

Because to a large extent, he contributed to it all by himself.

And the changing personality coupled with powerful strength will naturally give birth to something called ambition.

Dumbledore had already guessed some of Link's thoughts and plans.

He even felt that he might be on Link's list, the target that Link needed to hit.

It's just that Dumbledore doesn't seem to care about it, or rather, he's a little happy about it.

"Huh!~"

Letting out a long breath, Dumbledore took out a pitch-black polygonal gemstone from his pocket, and played with it carefully and lovingly in his hand.

Since the appearance of this gemstone, the light in the entire office suddenly became dim.

This is not because the radiance of the gemstone covers up the warm light from the oil lamp in the corner of the office, it is more like the light of the entire office is constantly being absorbed and devoured by this gemstone.

And what was also swallowed was Dumbledore's gaze.

Dumbledore focused almost all of his attention on this gem.

His eyes were straight, his expression was dull, and his aura seemed to plummet, becoming weak and sad.

If Link saw this scene, he would be shocked.

Because that polygonal pitch-black gem is the Deathly Hallows, the Resurrection Stone, that was snapped from Gaunt's ring.

When Dumbledore took it out of the cemetery of Gaunt's old house, he directly took it as his own, and severely warned Link not to use or even get close to the resurrection stone.

The reason given is that although the resurrection stone can summon the souls of the dead, people can meet their dead relatives.

But this is not a resurrection in the true sense, but a profanation of the dead.

The dead souls it summons suffer great pain every moment.

At the same time, the dead souls summoned by it will also confuse the user under the effect of pain, making the user fall into a situation of self-denial and self-destruction.

Link generally believed this statement.

Because the death of Dumbledore in the original work of the previous life proves this to a large extent.

If you think about it carefully, you will know that even if Dumbledore became weak, lost his strength, and even died soon because of Voldemort's curse.

But why did he choose to beg Snape to kill him at that point in time, in a form that was almost suicidal?

It is true that from the results point of view, Dumbledore had arranged everything after that before his death.

His death is more like a means to induce Voldemort to step into his trap, act according to his ideas, and finally die.

But based on Link's understanding of getting along with Dumbledore for so many years, this is not the case.

You must know that the situation at that time was almost irreparable from the point of view of the country's magic world.

Can look at the whole of Europe, and even the world.

It is not entirely impossible to kill Voldemort.

You must know that behind Dumbledore, there is still an International Federation of Wizards standing.

With Dumbledore's unscrupulous character for justice.

How could he choose to use self-sacrifice when there were other ways?

Doesn't he know that as the spiritual totem of the country and even the European magic world, once he dies, countless wizards will panic?

So Link speculates that Dumbledore may not want to live long ago.

He didn't die at the hands of Snape, nor did he die under Voldemort's curse, but under the curse of the Resurrection Stone.

And now.

Although Dumbledore successfully escaped Voldemort's curse with Link's help, he is now addicted to the environment made by the resurrection stone.

So, this time, will his result be self-destruction?

There is no answer to this question.

Because even Dumbledore himself knew nothing about it, or in other words, although Dumbledore was aware of it, he was also willing.

In the office, the light of the oil lamp was slowly fading, and under the darkness, only the hot eyes of the Resurrection Stone and Dumbledore were still shining dimly.

...

Jingle Bell--

In the early morning, in a dormitory of Hufflepuff College, the piercing ringing of the bell suddenly pierced the silence.

Stimulated by the sudden ringing of the bell, John jumped up from the bed, clutched his chest and panted heavily, and after a while, reached out to turn off the panda alarm clock on the bedside table.

However, this seems to be a bit redundant.

Because including Link, the other roommates in his dormitory didn't respond at all.

This is normal, because the harsh alarm sound can only be heard by John who arranged it.

Seeing this, John smiled happily.

As long as it doesn't affect Link's rest, then this second-hand magic alarm clock that he bought from someone else after spending a full Gallon is worth it.

At this time, the hour hand on the alarm clock had just passed 5 o'clock, and the sky outside the small round window was even darker, with no light at all.

But John didn't stay on the bed for long.

He tiptoedly made the bed, dressed and washed, and then walked through the silent lounge hall and corridor under the gloomy sky, and directly arrived at Professor Sprout's greenhouse.

Although only 5 days had passed since the start of school, Hogwarts was already a bit chilly in September.

John took a big breath of steam into his hands, then put on the dragon leather gloves, picked up the things that had been prepared in the greenhouse, and started cleaning up, watering and feeding various plants.

These jobs are not difficult, but they are very tedious and the workload is huge.

Until it was daylight, John, who was covered in sweat, put the tools back in place and finished the cleaning work.

And it was already past breakfast time.

Hogwarts students in robes were walking out of the castle in twos and threes, heading to their respective classrooms.

Many of them came directly to the greenhouse—these were obviously the students who were going to take the herbal medicine class next.

Normally, John at this time would choose to skip breakfast and go straight to class without stopping.

Then, during the breaks between classes, he sneaked into the kitchen and asked the kind house elf for some leftovers for a toothbrush.

But today is different, the first class this morning is their... herbal medicine class.

He believed that his brother would not have the heart to let him go to class hungry.

Sure enough, after waiting for a while, John saw the sleepy-eyed Link, accompanied by two or three Hufflepuff students, walking slowly towards this side with an oiled paper bag.