Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

Chapter 105 Investigation, Rumors
As soon as the words fell, the strange voice disappeared immediately. Michael's horrified expression froze for a moment, and then quickly turned into speechlessness.

After a moment, two red-haired heads popped out from behind the mirror, one on the left and one on the right.

"Hey, how do you know it's us?" Fred asked curiously.

"It must be your feet that are not hidden," said George, who came out.

"Aren't we the same?" Fred complained.

Just now they thought it was the professor who came, and in a panic they hid behind the mirror, with one foot hidden behind the claw-shaped support foot and the other foot lifted up, clinging to the mirror in an octopus posture.

When they heard that the people coming in were Wade and Michael, the twins immediately became playful and pretended to be ghosts speaking, wanting to see Wade and Michael panic, but they didn't expect to be called out in one breath.

"Why are you here?" Wade asked.

"Just like you guys - come to see why our little Ronnie got knocked out."

Fred also walked to the front of the dust ball, squatted down and poked it curiously with his finger.

Michael said, "Then you should go to the school clinic!"

"Percy has gone," George said, blinking. "Besides, it's more fun to investigate in the restricted area!"

"So this is Quirrell?" Fred asked in confusion. "What kind of magic can burn a person like this?"

"Fire?" Michael guessed. He had only heard of the name of this black magic, and guessed that it should be much more powerful than the ordinary [Burning Flame].

"Impossible," said George. "The Fiendfyre would burn anything that can burn, and it wouldn't leave the clothes alone - it seems like some... other dark magic."

"Why don't we just ask Harry when he wakes up?" Wade asked a question that concerned him more: "Have you studied Fiendfyre?"

Fred smiled proudly and said, "We secretly went to the library during our night tour... and read a few books that the professor didn't allow us to read, such as "The Complete Spellbook" and "The Secrets of Advanced Black Magic"... "

"The fierce fire is too dangerous and difficult to control. But 'Fighting Poison with Poison' is good. You can learn some very useful little evil spells." George generously shared his experience.

Everyone gathered around the pile of dirt to study it for a while, but to no avail. The twins, however, collected some of the dust and took it back, saying they wanted to make it as a souvenir for their brother Ron.

Michael walked around the stone house, but found nothing. He walked past the mirror twice and suddenly felt as if he saw something strange.

He stepped back again, slowly turning back to look in the mirror.

Michael opened his eyes wide in surprise and suddenly blushed.

He was in the mirror, but without Wade and the Weasley twins...he saw Padma.

The girl's wheat-colored skin looked healthy and full of vitality, and her oval face had a sweet smile that made people intoxicated. She was wearing a dark blue sari, revealing her smooth and slender arms like lotus roots.

The girl hugged Michael's arm in the mirror with love on her face, and the two of them were leaning against each other, inseparable.

For a moment, Michael even began to envy himself in the mirror.

"What did you see?" Fred suddenly looked at him from the side, his upper body tilted, and said in surprise and jokingly, "Your face is as red as boiling water!"

"No, no, no, nothing!" Michael hurriedly covered the mirror.

Wade also came over. He looked up at the words on the mirror and read them out: "What I reflected was not your face...but the desire in your heart..."

He looked at Michael meaningfully. Michael, with a flushed face, coughed dryly, took a deep breath secretly to cool his face, and then stepped away from the mirror.

After calming down, he found that when he looked from the side, the mirror was empty, with nothing in it.

"This is a magic mirror that allows people to see their inner desires." Fred stood in front of the mirror and laughed, "I saw that our prank product was a great success. The two of us are lying on the gold galleons."

George also laughed and said, "I even saw the Quidditch Cup!"

Michael saw that Wade was standing aside and had no intention of coming over, so he asked curiously: "Wade, don't you want to go and take a look?"

"……Um."

Wade was silent for a moment, then smiled and said, "What's in the mirror is just an illusion, right? So there's no need to look at it—"

Michael nodded.

What he understood was that Vader knew what he wanted, so he didn't need to get satisfaction from a mirror.

But he still wanted to take another look at Padma in the mirror.

Several people lingered in front of the mirror for a while, finally breaking free from the illusory happiness and preparing to go back.

Before leaving, Wade looked back again - the magic mirror stood in the middle of the empty room, as if issuing a silent call.

Vader lowered his eyes and hurried to catch up with the other three, as if escaping from a whirlpool.

……

Harry slept in the school hospital for three days before waking up. In the past few days, rumors have spread throughout the school. Dumbledore did not announce the truth, nor did he stop students from discussing it.

The few people who entered the trapdoor were surrounded by people all day long, who kept begging them to tell their adventure stories again.

Neville was out of the game right at the beginning, so he quickly got rid of this problem; but Theo, who had the best temper, was talking until his mouth was dry. Sometimes he accidentally said something wrong, and someone would loudly refute him: "No, that's not what you said last time!"

Soon, except for the part that Harry experienced alone, the whole school knew all the details of the story. They all knew that Professor Quirrell wanted to steal the Philosopher's Stone but suffered the consequences and was defeated by Harry Potter and his companions.

Ron, who made the brave sacrifice, became a hero of Gryffindor. On the day he woke up, several Gryffindor boys carried him on their shoulders from the infirmary to the auditorium. His unscrupulous brothers cheered on the side, making Ron's face as red as his hair.

And privately, there is an even more "absurd" rumor quietly spreading - Quirrell is not actually Quirrell, but a puppet controlled by a mysterious person... So Harry Potter once again defeated the man who must not even be named...

Of course, this rumor was too outrageous, and not many people really believed it. But precisely because they didn't believe it, they were more excited to tell everyone: "You know what? The truth is not what you heard..."

Rumors took on wings and spread rapidly in all directions.

Dumbledore's attitude towards this was ambiguous. When someone asked him directly, he said vaguely: "Well... the Philosopher's Stone... it would indeed be coveted by many people, especially those who want to escape death..."

The person who asked the question immediately understood what he meant - the name "Voldemort" means "flying away from death".

"Yes, some of our students bravely fought against evil, showing great courage and responsibility. They protected the Philosopher's Stone..."

Dumbledore changed the subject and smiled, "But Nico and Perenelle have destroyed the stone. They decided to take care of some chores before embarking on an unknown road... For old people who have lived long enough, death actually has a different kind of charm, doesn't it?"

(End of this chapter)