Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

Chapter 42 Let Dumbledore decide

The Weasleys looked at Wade.

Wade thought about it and did not mention the plot he knew. He just repeated word for word what he heard that day.

He had a good memory in his life, and even though more than a month had passed, there was almost no deviation in the conversation he retold.

Invisibly, it seemed as if a chill was rising from the soles of my feet. The umbrella house fell into a long silence, and no one spoke for a long time.

Finally, Fred broke the silence: "I have to say - this joke is not funny at all - do you understand, George?"

George nodded silently, his face unusually pale.

"So -" Ryan tried to understand, frowning, "Professor Quirrell is not Professor Quirrell, no - should I say, a dark wizard possessed him? He wants to kill Harry Potter? Our Defense Against the Dark Arts professor - is a Death Eater?"

He looked around at everyone, as if expecting someone to suddenly yell, "Did I scare you? Hahaha!"

But no one spoke.

Ryan sat down on the table, and after a while he said hopefully: "Should we go find Professor Dumbledore? All Death Eaters are afraid of him. As long as Professor Dumbledore takes action, he will definitely be able to -"

Hermione shook her head slightly and whispered, "No, you don't understand, Ryan - 'He stepped on my dead body and became a big star' - think about this sentence, Ryan - who else would say that?"

The blood disappeared from the boy's face bit by bit. Ryan clenched his fists, his body trembling slightly: "But - it's impossible - that man is dead, isn't he - everyone knows that he is dead - killed by Harry Potter..."

He seemed to have suddenly bitten his tongue and the sound stopped abruptly.

Hermione looked at him with pity. She could see that the boy actually believed it, but he just didn't dare to admit it.

——As if that person would not be resurrected if he didn’t admit it.

This was nothing to laugh at, as she too felt a shudder.

Hermione, who was born in the Muggle world, should have had no feelings towards Voldemort, but she had read a lot of books before entering the wizarding world, so she understood even better than most students born in wizarding families how many shocking tragedies the "He Who Must Not Be Named" had caused.

Before that man disappeared, his power had expanded to its peak, and a terrifying shadow shrouded the entire British Isles. Even Dumbledore... Everyone said that the person that man feared the most was Dumbledore, because the war never reached Hogwarts, but even Dumbledore could not stop the continuous deaths.

This subtly made Hermione develop a deep fear of that man, but when she wanted to say his name, she opened her mouth but couldn't say it directly.

As if it would awaken some terrible monster.

"Voldi... I mean, You-Know-Who -" Hermione looked at everyone and said, "If You-Know-Who is really possessed by Professor Quirrell - I think we should tell Dumbledore! Wade, why didn't you go to Professor Dumbledore immediately?"

Wade thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps it's because... I find it hard to believe that Dumbledore knew nothing about this?"

Fred nodded: "Dumbledore must have discovered Quirrell's abnormality, but for some reason, he has not taken any action."

George said seriously, "He knows everything."

"But what if?" Hermione asked back, "What if Dumbledore is just suspicious but is still looking for evidence? He may think that Professor Quirrell has only turned to the darkness and doesn't know that the mysterious man is on him! We should find Dumbledore, tell him the truth, and then let him decide what to do!"

"Of course, Hermione, you are right." Ryan said, "Of course we should do this."

"Then why don't we act now?" Fred stood up decisively: "I saw Dumbledore in the hall during dinner! He must be in school now." Hermione didn't expect him to be so decisive. She asked hesitantly: "Should we call Harry? I mean - the person the mysterious man wants to kill is him - Harry should know where the danger will come from -"

Vader thought for a moment. "As you said, Hermione - let Dumbledore decide."

Hermione thought of the "test" he mentioned and nodded silently, with worry in her eyes, as if she was worried that Harry would be killed by Voldemort on their way to find Dumbledore.

Standing in the corridor, Wade took out a bright silver whistle and blew it.

A loud whistle pierced the air sharply and quickly, and a moment later, an owl spread its wings and flew over from the west tower, flew through the window, and landed accurately on Vader's outstretched arm.

"Cool!" Fred whistled.

Owl Ava tilted her head to look at him and cooed twice.

Wade rolled up the written note and let Ava hold it in her mouth. He instructed: "Give it to Professor Dumbledore, and then bring his reply to me."

Ava nodded, spread her wings and flew away. Everyone watched it circle in the sky, then it flew into a window on a small spire.

Hermione bit her finger and said worriedly, "Isn't it possible that Professor Dumbledore doesn't take our letter seriously? Maybe I should write in more detail so that he knows we are not fooling around..."

Fortunately, Dumbledore didn't make them wait too long - maybe only a minute or two, and Ava flew out of the window again.

The owl handed the reply to Wade. On the parchment, written in thin, circle-within-circle handwriting was the following:

"Welcome to my office. The password is Colorful Sundae."

"Colorful sundae?" George muttered, "I don't think I've seen this dessert in the auditorium."

Fred said, "At the end-of-term dinner last year. What were you doing then? Oh, and you slipped a bottle of cockroaches on Montague—"

"Let him think he bought some cockroaches—" George laughed as he recalled the prank. "He never ate any cockroaches again after that! Wait—you took the opportunity to eat my sundae?"

"How can you say I stole it?" Fred said cunningly, "I took it openly, but you just didn't see it -"

The two of them were playing and joking as they arrived at the entrance of the principal's office together. On the way, they happened to meet Michael who was returning from the Quidditch field. He greeted them and naturally blended into the team. No one thought there was anything wrong.

There was an extremely ugly gargoyle sitting at the door of the principal's office. Fred dodged George's attack, jumped to the front and said, "Colorful Sundae!"

The stone beast jumped to the side, and the wall behind it split in two. Behind it was a slowly rising spiral staircase. Several people walked in one after another, and there was a loud bang behind them, and the wall closed again.

The stairs carried everyone higher and higher, and Wade was secretly amazed - in the Muggle world, escalators were of course very common, but this was the first time he saw such a thing in the wizarding world.

So why should we be like Muggles in this respect? - The elevator is always installed where the headmaster needs it.

When everyone was feeling a little dizzy from the twists and turns of the stairs, they finally saw a shiny oak door with a brass knocker in the shape of a griffin.

This is Dumbledore's office.

(End of this chapter)