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Chapter 239 No Longer a Terminal Illness

Although Snape was shocked, he was not one who liked to show his emotions too much.

Therefore, after his initial expression got out of control, he regrouped himself, no matter how turbulent his heart was, at least on the surface he regained his usual cold and hard demeanor.

Snape didn't say much, but his eyes subconsciously looked at Du Mu in front of Dumbledore, but he quickly turned his gaze away without any change in his expression.

Du Mu couldn't help but smile.

Snape is a smart man... This doesn't mean that Snape guessed something in an instant, but that he knew how to remain silent and not express any immature opinions or views when there was a lack of information.

Rejuvenation is a big deal in the wizarding world. After all, Voldemort struggled for decades just to achieve immortality.

But it’s not a big deal... After all, before Dumbledore, there was a powerful alchemist like Nicolas Flamel who lived for more than 600 years with the help of the Philosopher’s Stone.

Even... in fact, Dumbledore does have a Philosopher's Stone in his hand.

Because Du Mu had quickly killed Voldemort even before Harry entered school, which made Dumbledore's original plan to destroy the Philosopher's Stone canceled. After all, his purpose in destroying the Philosopher's Stone was to prevent it from falling into the hands of evil people.

Now, if Dumbledore announced to the public that he had used the Philosopher's Stone to extend his life, it probably wouldn't cause too much of a stir. At most, the newspapers would just spread the news for a few days.

But Snape knew the effects of the Philosopher's Stone... Although it could prolong a person's lifespan, it was not a simple and crude rejuvenation that could directly reshape a person's body functions to the most energetic state.

The Philosopher's Stone can only extend lifespan; the person is still alive, but the body will continue to age.

Otherwise, Nicolas Flamel would not have chosen to stop extending his life last year and end his long life of nearly six hundred years.

He has aged to the point where the wind can blow his skin off. It is difficult to say at this stage whether he is immortal or has transformed himself into an undead creature similar to the undead.

This is completely different from what Dumbledore showed.

But Snape did not choose to ask more questions. He just nodded at Dumbledore, walked past the two of them and returned to his office.

Du Mu smiled at Dumbledore and said, "I didn't expect Snape to be so surprised. I thought wizards were not like Muggles who make a fuss about all supernatural things."

Dumbledore shrugged. "You are talking about the young wizards in the senior year. They are indeed very confident in magic and believe that magic can achieve everything. Therefore, they become somewhat indifferent to any magical phenomena."

"But we old professors are no different from the young wizards who have just entered school. The young wizards have not yet officially come into contact with magic, while the professors have touched the boundaries of magic. It is normal for normal people to be shocked by things they have never seen before."

After Dumbledore finished speaking, he touched his beard out of habit. However, the skin on his face, which had become sensitive again, actually felt a little itchy, which he had never felt before. He suddenly felt that his beard was a bit of a hindrance.

But he still shook his head. His face had become too young. If it weren't for the big beard, Snape probably wouldn't have dared to recognize him, let alone others.

Until all wizards have seen their new looks, they will have to keep their beards.

Besides, it has been there for decades, and Dumbledore would be reluctant to shave it off.

The two walked through the campus, and along the way, both students and professors widened their eyes in surprise at Dumbledore's change.

However, Dumbledore had been the focus of the crowd before, so he was not stressed by this level of attention.

"Fortunately, Nicolas Flamel is gone. I can use the last Philosopher's Stone he left behind as an excuse. Otherwise, it would be hard to explain."

Du Mu shook his head slightly: "Why explain? Letting them appreciate the magic of magic again will help inspire new vitality in the stale wizarding world."

The two chatted as they came to the door of Harry's classroom. Lupin, who was in charge of teaching the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, had just finished class and was talking and laughing with Harry.

During the holiday at Hogwarts, Harry played a little too much in the other world and forgot for a moment that there was someone waiting for him at Hogwarts... naturally, it was Sirius Black. He was very disappointed that Harry didn't come to find him during the holiday.

Lupin told Harry about Sirius's behavior as if it was a funny thing, and Harry felt a little embarrassed.

After all, he is only a teenager. After seeing the bigger world, his vision and attitude towards the world are different from those of ordinary people.

To Harry, the world of Hogwarts is really just a boarding school. It has not become the focus of Harry's life like in the original book, so that most of his attention is still on what world he can go to play in the future.

Just then, both of them noticed two people at the classroom door.

Suddenly, Harry showed a look of surprise, while Lupin looked stunned.

"Uncle Du Mu!" Harry shouted and ran towards Du Mu.

Lupin stared at Dumbledore with his wolf eyes wide open.

"Principal Dumbledore, you seem to have become... a little younger?"

a little?

Dumbledore couldn't help laughing. "It's not just that I feel a little younger. I feel like I'm almost back to my youth. I feel full of energy."

Only then did Harry notice the change in Dumbledore, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

However, to a ten-year-old child, rejuvenation is not as interesting as an ordinary magical flying sword, so he did not take it too seriously and just regarded it as another routine thing that magic could do.

This mentality is a bit like what Dumbledore said about the mentality of the senior wizards. After seeing the wonders of magic, they did not see the limits of magic, so they mistakenly regarded magic as something omnipotent.

Due to the spiritual nature of magic, this attitude is actually a hindrance to learning new magic.

Du Mu looked at Lupin, thought for a moment, and then raised his finger slightly.

Suddenly, Lupin felt dizzy, as if his soul was being sucked out of his body.

When he came to his senses, he was horrified to find that... it seemed that his soul had really been sucked out!

Because at this moment, Lupin could actually see the back of his head.

Dumbledore looked at Du Mu with some surprise.

After the initial doubt, a hint of surprise appeared in his expression.

Dumbledore was so moved that he asked, "Professor Du Mu, are you sure? It's not that no wizard has tried to treat wolfsbane, but... but wolfsbane fundamentally changes a person's body and soul, just like cooking an egg."

"Some wizards even believe that the individual who turns into a werewolf is a brand new life, and the person who was initially poisoned is just a seedbed for hatching the werewolf. They are two completely different people."

"Although I don't agree with the latter's philosophy, but... I also know that this view is not without reason."

At this moment in the classroom, the little wizards had been noisy because of the end of get out of class, but suddenly they all became silent.

They all looked at Professor Lupin in surprise, and... the translucent wolf shadow floating behind him.

One of the girls, whose hair was a little messy, immediately buried her head and began writing furiously. Du Mu nodded slightly, "Half and half... not as exaggerated as two people, but the depth of change is indeed deep into the soul. After all, wolf poison contains abundant magic power, and the power contained in the magic power also completely changes the soul and will of the poisoned person."

At this time, Lupin seemed to have lost consciousness, with his head slightly drooping, but he remained standing without moving.

Lupin's soul almost completely took on the appearance of a werewolf...but he remained calm in this image, and his eyes were full of confusion.

"But fortunately, the effect of wolfsbane on the body is usually invisible. It only becomes visible on a full moon night. This transformation leaves me enough room to preserve Lupin's true self."

Du Mu's words suddenly made Dumbledore's eyes light up with hope.

Perhaps because he has grown younger, Dumbledore's emotions are more obvious than before.

This old man really cares about every one of his students. A child like Lupin, who was deeply tortured by wolfsbane, has always been a thorn in Dumbledore's heart.

"I suddenly have the same feeling as when I was a child and saw a wizard perform magic for the first time, thinking that the wizard was omnipotent." Dumbledore shook his head slightly and smiled helplessly.

Harry looked at Dumbledore with some surprise, then at Uncle Du Mu.

Then, he immediately felt very proud.

Even Headmaster Dumbledore, the most powerful person in the wizarding world, would have this feeling when facing Uncle Du Mu. It turned out that Uncle Du Mu was the strongest in the world... no, in all the worlds!

Naturally, the other little wizards also heard these words in the quiet environment, and they immediately started whispering to each other, even ignoring Professor Lupin's strange state, and stared at Du Mu with curious eyes.

Especially the little girl who was writing furiously just now, her eyes were shining.

Hermione had already inquired about it... that students were only allowed to study magic courses when they were about to graduate from the sixth grade.

It would be fine if only sixth graders could study...but Harry, who sleeps all day, doesn't take the stairs to class every day in order not to be late. He just rides on his flying sword and flies over other students' heads. How enviable!
It would be nice if I could master the knowledge points in advance and prepare for the exam...

What the little wizards were thinking was not important. Du Mu used his Kryptonian insight to carefully and rigorously reveal the effects of wolfsbane on Lupin's body from the perspective of an onlooker.

This 'slowly' refers to the speed of Kryptonians.

From an observer's perspective, all this happened in just a few seconds.

Du Mu raised his hand, moved his fingers slightly, and Professor Lupin's soul was pushed out. Then a sticky green-red blood gradually seeped out from Professor Lupin's body and condensed in the palm of Professor Du Mu's hand.

Then, the werewolf soul floating behind Professor Lupin returned to Professor Lupin's body again.

Professor Lupin woke up instantly, opened his eyes wide and took two steps forward, as if to relieve the impact on his soul.

He looked at his hands in disbelief, then raised his head to look at Du Mu, and then looked at his own hands which were beginning to tremble constantly.

The trembling gradually spread from the hands to the whole body.

A middle-aged man couldn't help himself for a moment, his eyes filled with tears.

"I……"

Lupin raised his head hoarsely and in disbelief, and couldn't help but look at Dumbledore, the person he trusted the most.

"I... I'm free?"

Dumbledore couldn't suppress his excitement. He took a deep breath but didn't dare to guarantee anything to Lupin.

Although he had confidence in Du Mu, his sense of responsibility towards his students still drove him to look at Du Mu, expecting Du Mu to give a positive answer.

Du Mu looked at the wolf poison condensed in his hand and nodded slightly.

Wolfsbane is indeed overbearing, and to be honest, it is almost more tiring than rejuvenating Dumbledore.

After all, Du Mu did not touch Dumbledore's most complicated brain, so it wouldn't take much effort to just reshape his body.

But wolfsbane penetrates deep into the bone marrow and causes particularly great changes to the brain.

It is much more difficult to neither turn Lupin into a fool nor directly create a new Lupin than to restore a fried egg into a hatchable egg, after all, it involves the brain.

Fortunately, Du Mu's magical attainments have improved a lot. The soul, which is most severely affected by wolfsbane, is no problem for Du Mu.

The soul is extremely plastic.

All he had to do was temporarily block the connection between Lupin's soul and body, and then completely remove the wolfsbane from Lupin's body. Then he wouldn't have to worry about Lupin's soul and could just put it back.

As time goes by, after ten or eight years, Lupin's soul will become more and more like his own body, and he will no longer look like a werewolf.

Of course, since the soul of Du Mu has not changed much, Lupin will occasionally still have some wolf impulses based on the depths of his soul.

"Don't worry, you will never turn into a werewolf again... Well, but you may still prefer to eat medium-rare steaks, and you may feel like howling at the sky when you see the moon. It's harmless, and these impulses will slowly disappear after a dozen years."

Du Mu spoke casually while looking in other directions.

After one operation, Du Mu had completely mastered and mastered the technique of removing wolfsbane.

When Lupin got a positive answer, he could no longer suppress his excitement and was so excited that he wanted to shout and jump.

Of course, he still took his identity as a professor into consideration, but no matter what, everyone present could feel the sense of relief and ecstasy that was beyond words, and they couldn't help but feel happy for Professor Lupin.

And because they had never come into contact with werewolves, they didn't know how big news it would be for the wizarding world that Lupin would not turn into a werewolf again.

Even... letting Lupin, a werewolf, be the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts is a big news.

The only one who understood this was Hermione.

So when she heard Du Mu say that Lupin would never turn into a werewolf again, she subconsciously retorted: "That's impossible. Werewolf is a terminal disease and there is no cure!"

"After today, not anymore."

Dumbledore smiled.

Lupin finally realized from the huge and sudden surprise that his identity was exposed.

He wanted to resign directly, but when he looked at Harry, he paused.

If I can really cure werewolf disease...then it seems that I don't have to resign, right?
(End of this chapter)