A Professor of Magic at Hogwarts Chapter 564: Truth and illusion

In the club room, Harry, Ron and Hermione were arguing non-stop.

"Harry, we'd better not get crazy, remember, in first year you thought Professor Snape was planning to steal the Philosopher's Stone, but he was actually the one spying on Quirrell. He was still trying to get you Provides protection when falling off a broomstick."

Hermione magically locked the door and cast a few distraction spells so they could talk about dangerous topics without fear.

"I know." Harry said sullenly.

"There is still a second grade——"

"Thank you for mentioning the second grade, he tried to expel me and Ron as soon as school started, don't say he wanted to protect me, Hermione, his brain circuit should not be magically connected to Dobby, let alone his I don't know when the secret room will be opened."

"Oh, uh..." Hermione was at a loss for words, "Third year, he's on our side..."

"Need a medal for him? For not agreeing with the Dementors?" Harry said irritably, "Hermione, why do you keep speaking up for him? He was once a **** Death Eater! "

Hermione was silent for a few seconds, "But Principal Dumbledore defended him. You told us yourself, Harry, remember? You saw it in the Pensieve..."

"He - also - can't be - trusted," said Harry through gritted teeth.

"Who?"

Harry said nothing.

Ron and Hermione looked at him uneasily, "You mean Headmaster Dumbledore—how do you think—"

Harry was silent.

There was a huge secret hidden in his heart, which weighed him down, and he didn't know whether he should tell Ron and Hermione. The secret had nothing to do with Snape, but with Headmaster Dumbledore. In the stack of letters given to him by Sirius, he learned a fact that shocked him extremely.

"Have you had any nightmares lately, Harry?" Hermione asked softly, and she looked at Ron, who shook his head, indicating that he didn't know anything.

"No," said Harry deadpan, but Ron and Hermione looked more worried. Harry hesitated again and again, he took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Hermione.

Hermione immediately read:

"Dear Padfoot—" she stopped, "Who wrote this letter?"

"My mother," Harry said, "read on."

"Oh, well.

Dear Padfoot:

Thank you, thank you for Harry's birthday present! This is his favorite toy. He looks so happy to be able to fly around on a toy broom at only one year old. I have attached a photo for you to see.

Sorry you can't come...

James is a bit depressed being locked up here, and he tries not to show it, but I can tell—the Invisibility Cloak is still with Dumbledore, so there is no chance to go out. How glad he would be if you could come.

Bug was here last weekend, I think he was down, but maybe it was because of the news from the McKinnons. I also cried all night when I heard it.

Bathilda comes over often, she's a funny old lady, and she tells a lot of Dumbledore's stories, it's really unimaginable. I wonder if he himself will be happy to hear that! To be honest, I don't know how much to believe. It's hard to believe that Dumbledore once met Gellert Grindelwald, the dark lord who ravaged Europe, and they became friends because of their similar ideas!

But Bathilda said that she is Grindelwald's aunt. If this matter is true, then it is difficult to lie about other things. After all, there is really no need for her to lie. She also revealed a detail, the slogan that Grindelwald later used to justify all his atrocities and made him famous-'for the greater good', is said to have first appeared in Dumbledore's letter to In the letter of close friend Grindelwald, it is incredible.

There are even more unbelievable things, I am sorry that I can't reveal them in the letter, maybe we shouldn't criticize a seventeen-year-old young man. Come to think of it, how foolish we were when James still thinks the whole world should know about Quidditch!

Let’s finish writing here, I heard Harry crying, I hope it’s not because James is too boring, otherwise I will hit him on the head hard...

Lily. "

Harry saw the shock written on the faces of Ron and Hermione, almost exactly the same as when he saw the letter for the first time. A second ago, he was still feeling through his mother's handwriting that never appeared. The gentle gaze in his memory was brought back to reality by the cold facts in the next second. His heart seemed to be torn in two, half happy, half sad, he knew they had a cat once, Sirius bought him his first broomstick, his mother was like everyone told him Gentle and kind, maybe a little sentimental...

But the other half, Harry didn't know how to describe his mood, he came into contact with a more real Dumbledore, that was seventeen-year-old Dumbledore, only two years younger than him now. But at that time, Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald, the dark lord who was destined to show his talents in the future, became good friends who talked about everything, "the harmony of ideas"... how ironic it sounds!

And the Invisibility Cloak, Harry thought. Why did Dumbledore take the Invisibility Cloak? Archmages like Dumbledore can become invisible without an invisibility cloak. He also remembered an unreliable conjecture made by him, Ron, and Hermione, Deathly Hallows...the invisibility cloak held by the third of the three brothers...

If Dumbledore had a good conversation with a person who was determined to establish a new order dominated by wizards when he was young, would they be interested in the legendary Deathly Hallows that can become the master of Death? To establish eternal dominion together, like Voldemort did? Harry was ashamed of his thoughts, how could he put Dumbledore and Voldemort side by side? But it was difficult for him to find an excuse, and it was also difficult for him not to have an afterthought: If Dumbledore hadn't taken the Invisibility Cloak, wouldn't his family not have died?

Harry stubbornly ignored the fact that Dumbledore, Professor Happe, and Professor Moody had all seen through the invisibility cloak, clinging to the possibility that could never be verified, and repeatedly switched between hope and hatred. He buried all of this in his heart and locked it up firmly with Occlumency until he couldn't help but burst out when he was talking to Hermione.

He felt resentment running through his veins, and he looked eagerly at Ron and Hermione, look, Headmaster Dumbledore is not as good as we imagined... He read from Ron and Hermione's expressions on the verge of collapse I felt bursts of pleasure.

"Harry," Hermione hesitated to speak, "I know this is really incredible, but it's understandable——"

"Understandable?" Harry cried, "Of-understand--you know he--"

"Yeah, I know." Hermione stroked her hair distractedly, walking up and down the activity room, "I know... brilliant people always have a lot of ideas, let alone a lot of ideas in their creations." The most powerful age, some people are much more outrageous than this..."

"Who are you talking about?" Harry asked suddenly.

"What—"

"You said that some people are much more outrageous than Dumbledore, I can't think of--"

"That's not important!" said Hermione angrily, "We all know that Headmaster Dumbledore is sitting in the headmaster's office now, and he didn't take part in any of Grindelwald's speeches and atrocities, on the contrary, he stopped him. "

"He took the Invisibility Cloak." Harry gritted his teeth and said stubbornly.

"Oh, I... I'm sorry, I know you're hurting, Harry, but we all know the Invisibility Cloak can't stop Voldemort, Voldemort, their fate was sealed from the moment of Wormtail's betrayal— "

"I! No! Believe it! Destiny!" Harry shouted, his breathless voice distorted with rage.

Hermione gave him a wary look, beckoning Ron to help with her eyes, and Ron didn't seem to have recovered from the shock. He racked his brains and said, "Yeah, Harry, I think Hermione's words make sense..."

"Which sentence makes sense?" Harry said through gritted teeth.

"That's, that's... Geniuses always think differently, they're all precocious, like Professor Hemp, and of course you—" Ron said slowly.

"Me?" Harry looked at Ron incredulously, and the anger in his heart dropped a little strangely, not because Ron called him a genius, it was ridiculous.

"That's right, it's you." Ron's tone was much smoother, but his speaking speed was still very slow, and it sounded like it was newly made up. "No child of the same age has experienced more than you. To put it bluntly, even Dumbledore..." He pursed his lips, but still didn't say any rude words, "You put the world's strongest wizard One of them was the target of catching up, and you foiled his plot again and again, and you also set up an Auror reserve—"

"My grades—" Harry opened his mouth.

"To be honest, it's kind of outrageous. I collect chocolate frog cards, you know 'Andros the Invincible'? Arrived—"

"I used the rune——"

"At least now, except for Professor Haipu, no one else has publicly demonstrated it, right? And the actual combat ability, you are now beyond the level of ordinary Aurors, you defeated Sirius in training, so he took the class I'm too embarrassed to call your name..."

"That's a competition." Harry blushed a little.

Ron patted him on the shoulder, "Harry, do you know what other graduates say about you? A well-deserved student leader. No one dares to admit that except you."

"I'm sorry," Hermione interjected coldly, "I've never heard of that."

"Because you are not a graduate." Ron said without hesitation, "Collins told me, and there are videotapes of the last two games of the Tournament, you don't know how popular they are...Harry, your reputation It's not small at all, not just because of the scar on my forehead. Well, speaking of it, I'm quite famous, and some fans wrote to me..."

Harry and Hermione glared at him.

Ron said awkwardly: "Of course not as many fans as you, but what else can I criticize?"

Harry felt very strange in his heart. He didn't know how the topic turned to the question of whether he was a genius, but undoubtedly he felt much less resentment towards Dumbledore in his heart. The haze that has been suppressing in his heart these days Dissipated quite a bit.

"Even if what you say makes sense, at least it shows that Headmaster Dumbledore also made mistakes." He said bluntly.

"I've got a great idea," said Hermione.

Looking at her, Harry asked, "What?" but didn't expect much.

"Write a letter." The corners of Hermione's mouth curled up slightly. She took out a blank parchment and a quill from her schoolbag. With a flick of the wand, the quill automatically wrote on the parchment. The handwriting is completely different.

Harry and Ron moved closer to her from left to right, and when they saw the first sentence - 'Dear Felix', they opened their mouths wide in surprise.

"Dear Felix," Felix read the letter in front of him with a strange expression. He thought he would never hear from "Ms. Jane" in his life, so he continued to read——

"Forgive me for taking the liberty to write. I was a little pessimistic in the last letter, but the situation is gradually getting better.

Although the difficult situation is not over, I firmly believe that the future will be better. Lately I've been having a lot of weird ideas running through my head like a thousand billywigs arguing, maybe a book adaptation of the stories in my head would be a hit?

I don't think I'd be a writer, but the characters in this story seemed to come to life, and the problems that happened to them both haunted me, as if they were real in reality. I urgently need valuable opinions, if you are willing...

The story takes place in a remote and closed town. The mayor of the town is a respectable elder. He participated in the war and captured the fearsome Jiangyang Bandit with his own hands. The protector, the townspeople respect him very much.

But there are also a few once very powerful guys who think that the old mayor has touched their interests, and they gather around a cruel and evil leader, wanting to overthrow the old mayor and regain their previous noble status.

There lived a boy in a medicine store in the town, and there was a warm and cheerful girl in his neighbor, they were the same age, and they became good friends later.

After school, although boys and girls were not assigned to the same class, their friendship has been maintained. Two big things happened to the boy during this time, he joined a school group that liked the idea of ​​the evil gangs that were running around the town, and the girl kept telling the boy to leave, but the boy, wanting to gain fame, kept Did not agree. Another thing, in the two years before graduation, he broke up with that girl.

After graduation, the boy secretly joined a criminal gang, while the girl became a policeman and married the suitor. The girl and the suitor thwarted the conspiracy of the evil gang several times, which angered the gang leader, who killed them himself, leaving only a baby.

After that day, the evil leader also disappeared, and the townspeople rejoiced. During the trial, the mayor came forward to protect the boy. Said he was indeed a member of the gang, but at some point he realized his mistake and went undercover.

The boy became the only school teacher in the town, and after more than ten years, the girl's orphan also reached the age of schooling. Because of the death of both parents, this child was secretly fostered by the mayor at the girl's relative's house. He had a miserable childhood. He always thought that he would shovel cow dung all his life, but he did not expect to receive a notice from the school.

This kid went into school with great joy, only to be met with hostility from the boy who had the same unfortunate childhood as him - now a teacher - I don't know why, maybe this kid always makes boys Think of his father?

This kid has shown great athleticism and could make a good sheriff later in life. At this time, the criminal gang that had disappeared for more than ten years made a comeback. The girl's orphan wanted to avenge her parents, so she kept doing everything possible to collect information about the leader. He knew that the boss who made a comeback had found a new weapon, and he also learned that the reason why the boss survived last time was because he used precious materials to forge solid armor, and there are six such armors...

Recently, the child discovered that the whereabouts of the teacher who had been targeting him was mysterious, and he might also be investigating the secret of the armor. This is very abnormal - because the mayor not only knew the reason why the boss was not dead, but also destroyed several pieces of armor with his own hands - so this teacher is definitely investigating behind the mayor's back.

This child has too many doubts in his heart. He doesn't know whether the teacher who treats him badly is good or bad. If he is a good person, why did he disobey the mayor's order? Especially recently, this child has discovered that the mayor made mistakes when he was young, and the image of wisdom and virtue in his mind is crumbling..."

Felix put down the letter and smiled quite happily. Varun looked at him strangely.

"Oh, I can't hide someone's secret anymore." He looked at Xue Xiao who was waiting for a reply, and asked, "Your name is Zhu Weiqiong?"

Hedwig reluctantly responded in a low voice, and buried her head in her wings.

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In the original book, Harry found only half of the letter, and I added the remaining half. I try to reduce the number of words in this part of the text, the original text is as follows:

Dear Padfoot:

Thank you~IndoMTL.com~Thank you for Harry's birthday present! This is his favorite toy. He looks so happy to be able to fly around on a toy broom at only one year old. I have attached a photo for you to see. You know little broomsticks only get two feet off the ground, but Harry nearly killed the kitten and almost broke an ugly vase that Petunia gave me for Christmas (not complaining). Of course, James had great fun saying the kid was going to be the next Quidditch star, but we had to put all the decorations away and keep watching him as he flew.

We had a very quiet birthday tea party, just old Bathilda, who had always been very kind to us, and especially doted on Harry. It's a pity you can't come, but the Order of the Phoenix comes first, and Harry is too young to know birthdays! James is a bit depressed being locked up here, and he tries not to show it, but I can see that - the Invisibility Cloak is still with Dumbledore, so there is no chance to go out. How glad he would be if you could come. Worm was here last weekend and I think he was down, but maybe it was because of the news from the McKinnons. I also cried all night when I heard it.

Bathilda comes over often, she's a funny old lady, and she tells a lot of Dumbledore's stories, it's really unimaginable. I wonder if he himself will be happy to hear that! To be honest, I don't know how much to believe, it's hard to believe Dumbledore——

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