Hogwarts: This Dark Lord is so evil.

Chapter 136 I admit that I have a gambling element

"The strong never make their own choices... they want them all..." Tom was thoughtful after listening to Li Weide's analysis.

Suddenly, the door to the Room of Requirement opened.

Anne came in.

She glanced at the two people in the room and was about to say something, but her eyes fell on Tom Cat who was brewing potion for herself...

Anne blinked, then rubbed her eyes.

She frowned and shook her head, then stepped out and closed the door again.

After a while, the door was opened again...

Annie looked again at Tom, who was stirring the cauldron.

Then, she retreated again...

After repeating this three times, Tom asked, "Are you doing some strange ritual?"

"No... I don't know... I seem to be hallucinating. I just saw a cat brewing potion..." Anne looked at Tom the cat who was concentrating on stirring the crucible again, "Well, I guess I'm sick. Now this hallucination is still there..."

"This is not an illusion, Annie..." Li Weide said helplessly.

In fact, if Annie hadn't spent almost all of her free time in the past three months looking for the specific location of the magical power, she would have discovered Tom Cat's change long ago.

It wouldn't have taken until today to see Tom Cat brewing potion.

However, the fact that she came to the Room of Requirement today was proof enough that she had found it...

Otherwise her expression wouldn't be so relaxed.

After a moment, Annie finally confirmed that what she saw was not an illusion, but a real scene.

Then she started watching Tom Cat work, and even forgot the purpose of coming here...

After Tom Cat poured the boiled potion into the bottle, he stood up and ran to Levid holding the bottle.

Levid was brewing another pot of potion at the moment. Seeing this, he took out his wand and tapped the bottle.

Then the potion in Tom Cat's hand cooled down completely.

Seeing this, Tom Cat tilted his neck happily and gulped down the food. Then he ran back to his nest, lay on his back and fell into a deep sleep.

After Anne witnessed the whole thing...she looked at Tom who was reading a book calmly beside her.

"Tom... this... does this seem right to you?"

Tom shrugged. "A lot of outrageous things, as long as you put them on Wade, you will find that... they don't seem so outrageous..."

Anyway, he was completely used to the strange things around Li Weide...

Moreover, since he grew up in an orphanage and had only been in contact with the magic world for a short time, when he saw these strange things that did not even conform to the common sense of the magic world, his reaction was far less than that of Anne, who grew up in a wizard family...

"Okay... As long as you feel happy..." Anne now fully understands why Grindelwald is so interested in these two guys...

"So, why did you come here suddenly? Or do you want to practice magic with us?" Tom asked.

"Ah! Yes! I almost forgot something!" Annie just remembered why she came here to find these two people. "I really have something important to do with you two!"

Li Weide and Tom looked at each other, then looked at Anne quietly, waiting for her next words.

"About that magical power! Grindelwald didn't take away all the magical power! There is still a lot of magical power hidden in places that Grindelwald hasn't discovered!" Anne said excitedly.

Li Weide and Tom showed great interest and excitement in perfect sync.

"You mean... there is still a lot of magical power that Grindelwald hasn't discovered? But how is this possible? There is obviously very little in the Forbidden Forest!" Levid asked "anxiously".

"I've been investigating this matter recently!" Annie said, "You think there's no hope, but... I just can't give up. Then it suddenly occurred to me that since this magical power is hidden in the remains of the Forbidden Forest, then why isn't there any in the largest building near the Forbidden Forest... Hogwarts Castle? Maybe Professor Morgana also left a part of it in the castle?"

"So, you started your investigation in Hogwarts Castle?" Livid asked, "Since you had this idea, why didn't you tell us before?"

"I... I'm afraid you'll laugh at me." Anne said, "What if there's nothing in the castle? Wouldn't that be a waste of effort?"

"That's right... ahem, I didn't mean to laugh at you," said Tom.

"Since you come to us, it proves that it is indeed in the castle and you have found it?" Li Weide asked.

"Yes!" Annie said excitedly, "I looked in many places but couldn't find it. When I was about to give up, I saw Peeves throw a dung bomb at the crowd and then run through the wall... Then, it suddenly occurred to me... These ghosts that travel around the castle all day must know a lot of places that we don't know!"

"Oh! Yes! We can ask the ghost! Why didn't I think of it? Annie, you are so amazing! You can even think of this!" Li Weide said with admiration.

"This is indeed a good idea, Annie! You are so smart!" Tom also began to feed Annie with sweet talk tacitly.

Anne was a little flattered by the compliment. In fact, she had racked her brains to find the location, and she felt a great sense of accomplishment.

After being praised by these two boys that Grindelwald both valued, she almost floated into space...

"Then I communicated with many ghosts. I didn't dare to ask directly where the magical power was, so I asked them if there were any hidden secret rooms or secret passages in the castle..." Anne said, taking out a large piece of parchment from her pocket and spreading it out.

Levitra and Tom gathered together and discovered that the drawing on the parchment was actually the floor plan of Hogwarts Castle.

Moreover, the words "secret passage" are marked on the walls of many corridors.

Even the location of the Room of Requirement is marked.

This shows that Anne has indeed gained a lot in the past few months.

Even though she didn't find the location of that magical power, she found many useful secret passages and secret rooms in the castle.

Levitra looked at the map with joy. Most of his knowledge of the locations of Hogwarts' secret passages came from his memories before he traveled through time.

He had wanted to have such a map for a long time, but unfortunately, the Marauder's Map had not appeared yet...

And now...Annie directly placed a map with various secret passages in front of him!

This is what we call "unintentional planting leads to success"...

Thinking of this, Li Weide's eyes glanced at the girls' bathroom on the third floor on the map, intentionally or unintentionally.

However, there was no secret passage marked there.

Li Weide didn't find it strange.

Although that is the entrance to Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets, you have to go through a long pipe first.

Generally, male ghosts avoid places like the women's restroom.

Most of the female ghosts that occasionally passed by thought that it was just a dirty sewer pipe.

No one will look closely, so it is reasonable that they don’t know the secrets hidden underneath.

Come to think of it…how did fifth-grader Tom find out?

Could it be that... this guy actually has a habit of sneaking into the women's restroom?
Thinking of this, Li Weide couldn't help but glance at Tom.

Tom was puzzled by Li Weide's strange look.

"It's here!" Annie pointed to a hollow place under the castle. "The Bloody Baron said that this was a large secret room. Someone once stored a powerful force inside, and a battle broke out there... I think that's very similar to what was written in the manuscript, the place where Professor Morgana first collected this kind of power!"

"Then how do you know that this kind of power is still hidden there? What if the power inside is gone? What if it was taken away by the people fighting? This is not surprising at all!" Li Wei De asked.

Anne said, "I don't know, but now that you know there is such a place, are you willing not to go and see it?"

Anne actually saw all of this in the manuscript that she brought back from Grindelwald, so she naturally couldn't tell the truth directly to Levi.

Of course, this part of the manuscript was modified by Levitra, making Grindelwald mistakenly believe that after Morgana was killed, that power was re-sealed by the headmaster and professors at the time...

Of course, Anne didn't know this, she thought it was inside.

"Okay... let's find a time to go inside and take a look." Li Weide smiled and said, "Annie, when are you going to take action?"

"I'm going to investigate further! You guys should get ready too! I'll come find you once I figure it out completely." Annie said as she packed up the map and left the Room of Requirement.

Looking at the closed door of the Room of Requirement, Tom couldn't help but ask, "What does she mean? Why did she tell us about this place? Isn't it totally out of your plan for him to do this?"

"Plans don't always remain unchanged, Tom..." Li Weide smiled and said, "Rather, the current development of events is in our favor."

"Beneficial?" Tom asked. "Didn't your plan assume that after Anne found out the location, she would tell Grindelwald the location and lure him here? Why is she telling us now?"

Tom suddenly widened his eyes and said, "Could it be that...she still wants to covet the magical power inside? She plans to join forces with us and swallow up the magical power inside without telling Grindelwald?"

Li Wei De shook his head and said, "If she found the location and kept it to herself without telling Grindelwald, Grindelwald would easily be able to find out what she had done through her increased strength. So, she doesn't have the courage to do so. Therefore... the most likely possibility is that the decision to tell us the location was made by Grindelwald."

"Why is Grindelwald telling us this?" Tom asked confused.

"I don't know... But one thing that can be confirmed is that he hopes that we can be there when the action is launched." Li Weide smiled and said, "And having a suitable reason to be there at that time happens to be very important to me. So, I would say that the development of the situation is in our favor."

"Are you really not afraid that Grindelwald will kill you?" Tom was already starting to panic. "Where do you get your confidence from?"

"I admit that there is a gambling element in my mind, Tom...but, fortune and wealth are achieved through risk..." Li Weide said with a smile.

Seeing him like this, Tom sighed.

How could Li Weide risk his life? He must have made all the necessary preparations...

However, what worries people is that among all the thorough preparations he has made... does it include himself?
(End of this chapter)