Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 601 Go with the flow
"To what extent do I need to teach Harry Occlumency?" Snape asked after a long silence.

“Report to Voldemort that you are going to teach Harry Occlumency,” Dumbledore said. “Teach Harry to the extent he wants you to.”

"Oh?" For the first time, a slightly mocking expression appeared on Snape's ashen face. "So, Voldemort is leading us now?"

"After Tyrell became a god, it was hard for me to guess what he was thinking." Dumbledore said, then seemed to laugh self-deprecatingly. "To be precise, it was hard for me to guess what he was thinking before he became a god."

“Although he awakened his prophetic talent in his first Divination class in his third year, I have always suspected that he had already awakened it long before he entered school,” Dumbledore said. “I recently reviewed all my memories of Tyrell.”

“I’ve discovered that he knows far too much, to the point that it has created an extremely terrifying information gap,” Dumbledore said. “It’s not just about the future, not just some secret knowledge, some powerful magic, but that kind of intelligence and emotional intelligence that is far beyond his age, and that is far too rich in experience and common sense.”

“It is these things that make him seem like a fog,” Dumbledore said. “So from the beginning, I treated him as Grindelwald’s artificial life form, or even Grindelwald himself.”

"You've seen the final result," Dumbledore shrugged. "In the end, I suffered a crushing defeat."

"So who exactly is he?" Snape asked.

"Who knows? Anyway, it's definitely not Grindelwald's artificial life form. If you have to say, it's like someone who popped up out of nowhere, a suspected successor to Grindelwald," Dumbledore said. "Anyway, he's already a god. We can't even crush him with force, so what can we do? Let him do it. It doesn't matter if he rules the world. The wizarding world will never be peaceful, especially after he rules the entire wizarding world with such force. We are a race with great power, and the differences between individuals are huge. In the future, there will always be wizards like Voldemort, Grindelwald, or even Tierra. Tierra can live for a very long time. Let Tierra fight, let them scheme against Tierra."

"Is this what you mean by retirement?" Snape asked.

“Yes, that’s what I mean by retirement,” Dumbledore said.

"Are you going to hand Harry over to Voldemort just for your own peace of mind?" Snape asked, frowning.

“It’s not for Voldemort,” Dumbledore said calmly. “Although Tyella is a complete scoundrel, some of the things he says make a lot of sense and are worth learning from.”

"For example?" Snape asked, raising an eyebrow.

“When I asked Tyrell why he didn’t just deal with Voldemort directly, since with his current power he could easily kill Voldemort and destroy all his Horcruxes at the same time,” Dumbledore said, “Tyrell asked me in return, ‘Do I know his purpose?’”

“I said I didn’t know,” Dumbledore said.

“Tierra smiled and said, ‘That’s right.’” Dumbledore stated, “The most important thing in designing a plan or plotting a conspiracy is to conceal one’s purpose.” “As for how to conceal one’s purpose,” Dumbledore paused, then recited a sentence in Chinese, “non-action is not inaction, but following the natural order, learning from nature, and adhering to the Tao. This is non-action. Those who practice non-action are blessed with the Tao, and when the general trend is in harmony, they are invincible.”

“What do you mean?” Snape asked.

“I haven’t figured out the specific and true meaning either, but Tyella used this phrase to explain his actions…” Dumbledore said, “Tyella meant to go with the flow, to follow the right timing and circumstances, to hide his actions and purposes under the influence of others, and to achieve his goals by going with the flow.”

"Just like when I put his name into the Goblet of Fire, he followed our attempts to probe his secrets, directly embarking on the ritual of becoming a god, and using our curiosity and thirst for knowledge about that divine dimension to manipulate us and help him complete the ritual," Dumbledore said.

"Then, taking advantage of Voldemort's resurrection and using Voldemort's Killing Curse, we can pry open the door to the ritual of becoming a god, and in accordance with death, use our own funeral to anchor the rope of returning from the divine dimension," Dumbledore said.

"You mean, Tierra is also trying to take advantage of this situation?" Snape asked, frowning.

“Yes,” Dumbledore said. “That’s my guess.”

"Borrowing what power?" Snape asked. "Voldemort's death? Or Voldemort's ascension to godhood?"

"I don't know," Dumbledore shrugged.

"So, you agreed to let Tyella drag Harry into this without even understanding the situation?" Snape asked, displeased. "Aren't you worried at all? Aren't you worried about the potential harm Harry Potter might suffer in this?"

“Oh, Severus… don’t think of our Harry as so fragile,” Dumbledore sighed. “You must know that Voldemort’s soul is so incomplete from his excessive use of the Killing Curse to create Horcruxes. He can’t bear to be near a soul like Harry’s, so complete, so full of love, courage, and hope. It’s like tongue stuck to frozen steel in winter, or flesh touching scorching flames.”

“Voldemort can’t hurt Harry,” Dumbledore said firmly. “Unless he also undergoes the rites of godhood, his excessively broken soul will never be able to harm Harry.”

"Because you need to know. The night Voldemort went to kill Harry, when Lily Potter sacrificed her life to stand between them, the Killing Curse rebounded onto Voldemort, blasting away a fragment of his soul that attached itself to the only surviving soul in the collapsed house."

"A part of Voldemort lives within Harry, which is why Harry has the ability to talk to snakes, and why he was able to connect with Voldemort's mind so easily—something that has always puzzled him. As long as that undiscovered fragment of the soul remains attached to Harry, it is protected by Harry, and Voldemort cannot die."

"Unless we kill Harry too."

(End of this chapter)