Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

Chapter 41 Frankness
Wade liked the Weasley twins very much. They were the kind of people who would try to bring joy to others even in the most desperate situations. He originally just wanted to stop them from continuing to commit suicide, but looking at their bright expressions, he couldn't help but think -

Why should I hide the truth for Voldemort?
Voldemort tried every means to hide his true identity because he was afraid of Dumbledore; what benefit would it bring to Vader if he helped him hide it?
On the contrary, if Wade is the only one who knows a secret, then once it is discovered by the other party, his situation will be very dangerous. But if the secret is spread, Voldemort will be in trouble.

Thinking of this, the tangled mood caused by hiding the secret suddenly cleared up.

But Wade didn't want to spread the news completely and leave Voldemort with no way out. After all, Dumbledore couldn't kill him completely now. Voldemort was hiding his identity in school just to seize the Philosopher's Stone. If he found out that it was hopeless, he would kill people in anger. The students in the school were no match for him. It was unknown how many people would die before Dumbledore arrived.

He considered and said, "Actually..."

The Weasley twins' eyes lit up.

"——Let's find a quiet place to talk."

For Wade, the safest place besides his own dormitory was the Umbrella House.

He remembered that there was a hidden Room of Requirement in this school, but when Wade watched the movie, he only paid attention to the plot and special effects and didn't pay attention to the specific location of the Room of Requirement. As a result, he has been looking for it intermittently for three months, but still hasn't found it.

In order to avoid the same plot as in the movie - when the protagonist is talking about a crucial secret, there is a pair of eavesdropping ears behind him, which leaks the secret to the villain, causing a series of tragedies - they came to the umbrella house.

The holiday was about to start, and everyone's enthusiasm for studying decreased. At this time, there were only two people in the umbrella house - Hermione was almost blocked by the tall pile of books, and she looked exhausted from reading; and Ryan brought a pile of wood and was making a new target.

"Wow, is this your secret base?" Fred was the first to stick his head in and look around.

Soon, a red-haired head came in beside him, took a look and greeted him, "Hello, Miss Know-It-All."

"Oh, my bad." Hermione said gloomily, "Does anyone know who Nick Flamel is? He's not in the Great Wizards of the 20th Century, nor in the Directory of Famous Contemporary Magicians. I can't find his name in the Major Discoveries of Modern Magic and the Study of the Development of Modern Witchcraft. I've read almost a hundred books! Is he not written into the book at all?"

Several people inside and outside the room were stunned at the same time, and then said in unison: "What are you talking about, Hermione! That's Nick Flamel, of course he is in the book!"

Hermione slowly raised her head and blinked, a rare look of distressing confusion appearing on her face.

"You all... know Nick Flamel?"

"Of course!" Ryan said, lifting up a target. "He celebrated his 665th birthday last year. It was even published in the Daily Prophet! My dad said he might be the oldest person in the world."

"Six hundred and sixty-five?" Hermione repeated incredulously.

Fred said: "Nic Flamel is the greatest alchemist. He made the only Philosopher's Stone in the world."

"Sorcerer's Stone?" Hermione felt that she must have seen this term in that book.

George said: "The Philosopher's Stone can turn any metal into pure gold, and it can also make the Elixir of Life. My biggest dream when I was a child was to have a Philosopher's Stone."

"Turning stone into gold? Immortality?" Hermione repeated.

Wade turned around and closed the door and couldn't help but complain: "Hermione, have you become a repeater?" Although Fred and the others didn't know what a repeater was, the meaning was simple and easy to understand, and they all laughed out loud.

Hermione looked at Vader eagerly, "So Vader... you don't know Nick Flamel too, do you?"

Vader explained simply and easily: "I've been studying alchemy recently, and the first thing I read was his work."

"Alchemy?" Ryan was surprised: "That's a sixth grade course!"

"Yes, but I can start laying the foundation from now on." Wade asked, "Theo is not with you today?"

"He went to help Professor Sprout tidy up the greenhouse. I remembered that the target that was broken last time could not be repaired, so I just made a few new ones." Ryan explained, patted his clothes, rolled up his sleeves, walked over, picked up the cup and drank water.

Wade gave him a [Clean Up] and removed the tiny wood chips.

Fred sat astride the chair and poked Hermione: "Hello! Are you okay? Are you still alive? Do you know what day it is?"

Hermione, who was sprawled on the table, reached out and slapped away Fred's hand that was waving in front of her eyes. She sat up and said in annoyance, "If I had known, I would have asked directly - I've been checking for more than a month!"

Wade flipped through the books on her desk, all of which were about the history of modern magic. Of course, he couldn't find Nicolas Flamel - he was born in France in the 14th century and was written about in earlier books.

"Hermione, why do you want to investigate Nick Flamel?" Ryan asked with concern. When Wade was not around, Hermione always generously answered everyone's questions, and everyone had long regarded her as a true friend.

"I, I just..." Hermione wanted to say it was nothing, because explaining the reason would reveal that they had violated the rules and entered the restricted area in the middle of the night. But when she looked up, she saw that everyone around her was looking at her with concern, with open eyes and sincere expressions.

This made her feel extremely ashamed of her concealment.

"Well - " Hermione hesitated, and finally told them their adventure, and how after the Quidditch game she, Harry and Ron went to visit the gamekeeper Hagrid, who accidentally let them know that the thing guarded by the three-headed dog was related to Dumbledore and Nico Flamel.

"So, the big dog must be guarding Flamel's Philosopher's Stone." Hermione concluded, "I bet Flamel asked Dumbledore to keep it for him! He knew someone was eyeing the Philosopher's Stone, and he and Dumbledore were friends, so he placed the Philosopher's Stone in Hogwarts."

Hermione glanced at Wade and didn't tell him about his last guess - although she now felt more and more that Wade was right, and the whole thing might be a test given to Harry by Dumbledore, but letting other students know that the headmaster treated a certain student specially was not a good thing for Harry.

To understand what it's like to be the center of attention, just look at how Harry was surrounded and chased by his classmates when he first entered school. Hermione knew that her friend had been deeply distressed by this.

"Who is planning to take the Philosopher's Stone?" Ryan asked.

Hermione said: "Harry and Ron both thought it was Snape because his leg seemed to be bitten by the three-headed dog. But I think--"

Before she finished her words, George suddenly asked, "——Qiluo?"

Hermione paused for two seconds before saying, "What does it have to do with Professor Quirrell? Although I also think he is not very competent--"

(End of this chapter)