From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 126 Compensation Options
"Regarding the Philosopher's Stone... the situation is a little complicated..." Ivy didn't think of denying that he had taken the Philosopher's Stone, but it was indeed not easy to explain its whereabouts, so he had to talk about some irrelevant things to delay the situation so that he would have time to think carefully about countermeasures. "It's a long story. Since I took the Philosopher's Stone from the Mirror of Erised, some accidents have occurred..."

"Don't be in a hurry, take your time. Nicolas Flamel has lived for more than 600 years, he still has a long time to live." Dumbledore said with a smile.

"Principal, if you really want me to explain it clearly, then I can only say..." Ivy paused and continued, "I ate it."

"..." It was the first time that Ivy saw a puzzled look on Dumbledore's wrinkled face. "Are we talking about some kind of candy? What did you eat?"

"The Philosopher's Stone. I ate the Philosopher's Stone." Ivy had to make his words clear.

"You ate the Philosopher's Stone?" Dumbledore's blue eyes, which were usually hidden behind half-moon glasses, widened and repeated Ivy's words, "How could it be? ... Although I don't deny that it looks beautiful, but ... it's a stone?"

"I couldn't help it," Ivy admitted.

"What... does it taste like?" Dumbledore asked again. "Like candy?"

"Hmm... like some kind of fruit candy... but each bite tastes different." Ivy recalled carefully, "I feel like I should taste strawberry, chocolate and hazelnut... If I have to describe it, every bite tastes happy."

Dumbledore smacked his lips behind his white beard, as if he was imagining what the "taste of happiness" described by Ivy was like: "Does the Philosopher's Stone... have any bad magical effects on your body? I think it is very dangerous to eat a ball of highly concentrated magic power directly into your stomach."

"It really changed my body." Ivy waved his sleeves and removed his disguise, transforming from the bearded middle-aged wizard Victor into the handsome young wizard Ivy Doom.

"You seem to have grown up overnight, Ivy!" Dumbledore looked up and down at the handsome young man in front of him. His tall and straight figure was almost as tall as the old wizard. No one would mistake him for a second-year student.

"Don't say that, Dumbledore." Ivy rolled his eyes. He didn't like people talking about his age. "I'm a few years older than you."

"If I had known that the Philosopher's Stone tasted like happiness, perhaps I would have eaten it long ago." Dumbledore sighed, "But... you have to understand, Ivy... the Philosopher's Stone does not belong to me... it does not even belong to Hogwarts. This place is just keeping it temporarily..."

"Then... I can pay a certain amount of compensation." Ivy thought for a moment, "Ten thousand gold galleons or magic items of equivalent value, or a chance to remove a curse, even if it's a werewolf curse, that should be possible. Or I can make someone thirty years younger, but it won't change his life span, it just makes his body thirty years younger, or I can help Nick Flamel resurrect a dead person."

When Dumbledore heard the compensation options proposed by Ivy, he was calm at first. When he heard about removing the werewolf curse, he raised his eyebrows slightly, but when he heard about rejuvenation and resurrection, he couldn't close his mouth.

"You can... revive someone? Are you kidding, Ivy?" Dumbledore was a little out of control, but he still tried to calm down and asked with a trembling voice. "Of course not a joke. This is the secret I learned from the Philosopher's Stone." Ivy nodded. He knew that Dumbledore had an obsession with reviving someone, otherwise when he saw the Resurrection Stone on the Gaunt family ring, which was Voldemort's Horcrux, he would not have worn it on his hand so out of control that he was cursed by Voldemort.

"That's really..." Dumbledore took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down. "I can write to Nick and tell him about your compensation options, but I don't know how he will respond."

It seems that Dumbledore is skeptical about Ivy's ability to resurrect the dead.

This was a matter of course. Having lived in the wizarding world for more than a hundred years, he had never heard of anything like this, except for the legendary Deathly Hallows. Including the Elder Wand and the Potter family's invisibility cloak, he had held two Deathly Hallows at the same time, but he did not find any special features in them, so Dumbledore only regarded the so-called Deathly Hallows that could fight against the god of death as a very powerful magic prop in the legend.

Therefore, he was skeptical about the legend of the Resurrection Stone, not to mention Ivy who suddenly claimed that he could resurrect the dead, even if he swallowed the only Philosopher's Stone in the world.

"Okay." Ivy breathed a sigh of relief. The matter was temporarily over. As for what to do with Nicolas Flamel, he would just take it one step at a time. Anyway, it was impossible for Ivy to spit out the Philosopher's Stone again. As for compensation, it was limited to letting him use the Philosopher's Stone once.

That was a tool that could revive the dead, and how many people dreamed of it. But if Nicolas Flamel wanted to use it a few more times, Ivy wouldn't refuse. After all, this was considered the end of someone's immortality, and Ivy felt a little guilty.

However, he vaguely remembered that Nicolas Flamel and his wife in the original book voluntarily gave up their immortality, which meant that the immortality gained by using the Philosopher's Stone must have some kind of flaws, and it was not the eternal youth and infinite lifespan that people imagined.

Anyway, Ivy would never believe that a young man who was energetic, enjoyed eating and was in good health would think about dying, not to mention that he had money that he could never spend.

"For an old man, everything today is too unexpected." Dumbledore shook his head and looked at the calm surface of the Black Lake. The giant squid on the shore had returned to the Black Lake at some point. "Whether it was the dragon kept in the castle or the Philosopher's Stone you ate."

Ivy didn't say anything. He used magic to transform himself into Professor Victor again, and the two of them basked in the sun quietly for a while.

"You can look forward to the dinner tonight, Ivy." Dumbledore said suddenly, "The house elves have prepared quite a rich dish, and there is also my favorite lemon ice cream."

"Their craftsmanship is always excellent." Ivy nodded. He already had a goal for the summer vacation. He wanted to go to the House-Elf Resettlement Office under the Abnormal Office of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures of the Ministry of Magic and find a house-elf willing to serve him.

Although ownerless house-elves like to go to Hogwarts to find work, what if they can find a job?
(End of this chapter)