From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 131 Through the Trapdoor

Sitting in the large armchair, Ivy closed his eyes in pain.

He should have thought of it earlier!

Because of the prophecy made by Trelawney twelve years ago, Dumbledore always believed that Harry was qualified and had the right to face Voldemort. Although he did not know that Voldemort had sneaked into the school in Quirrell's body, he still prepared a level to make Quirrell recall his happy time at Hogwarts and take this opportunity to test Harry.

But now, Voldemort and Quirrell died at the hands of Ivy by accident, rendering the levels set by Dumbledore and the professors useless. That's why he announced after the final exam that the room behind the trapdoor would become an extra bonus item for the College Cup.

The fact that Dumbledore could come here to stop Ivy's actions at this time shows that he knew Harry's plan from the very beginning. Those little brats must not have thought that they should avoid the portraits on the wall when discussing the plan.

Maybe Dumbledore had been waiting outside the Gryffindor common room for Harry and the others to pass through the Fat Lady's portrait, otherwise how could he have arrived so timely.

Logically speaking, Ivy had no interest in participating in the savior training program. He also didn't think that a few little wizards could play any pretty tricks. Under normal circumstances, he would definitely ignore Dumbledore.

But who made him swallow the Philosopher's Stone that Nicolas Flamel gave to Dumbledore for safekeeping? As the saying goes, if you eat someone's food, you will be soft-hearted, and if you take someone's money, you will be short-handed. Isn't Ivy also taking and eating at the same time? It's only right for him to be polite to Dumbledore, the old man with a white beard.

"I'm going to push the door..." Harry put his hand on the door at the end of the corridor and said after swallowing.

"Have you really thought it through? There's a three-headed dog in there!" Malfoy tried hard to hide the trembling in his voice, but others could obviously hear it.

Especially Ron: "Come on, Malfoy! If you don't dare to go in, just go back to sleep. I promise no one will know about it."

"Who would believe Weasley's big mouth? Besides, I'm just giving you a friendly reminder!" Malfoy's pale cheeks were stained with a little blood, and he looked very angry.

"How much more time are you going to waste?" Cassandra shook her head impatiently and pushed open the closed door amid the exclamations of several little wizards.

"Don't--" Malfoy blurted out to stop him, but only said half of it, because everyone was surprised to find that the three-headed dog that had almost filled the entire room was gone.

"Where is the three-headed dog you are talking about?" Cassandra drew out her wand and walked into the room first.

"Maybe Professor Dumbledore took it away..." Harry checked the floor. Apart from a few dog hairs stuck in the cracks of the floor, the only thing left in the room was the trap door on the ground.

"It seems that our real goal is to pass through the trapdoor." Hermione reached out and knocked on the trapdoor, calling a few boys, "Come over and give me a hand."

"Wingardium Leviosa!" A standard levitation spell, the knocker on the trapdoor stood up vertically as if an invisible hand was pulling it, and the door suddenly opened.

"I thought you were the best witch in the first year! Why do you have to do even such a small thing yourself?" Malfoy flicked his wand, and the trapdoor immediately fell to the ground with a bang. It seemed that the three-headed dog took away his timidity, and his arrogance and conceit returned.

"Hermione is of course the best witch in the first grade! Her final exam results are definitely better than yours!" Ron always supported his friends unconditionally, so of course he retorted. Seeing that the little wizards were about to quarrel again, Cassandra looked at the dark cave for a while, then read: "Lumos!"

A little light suddenly appeared on the tip of the wand. Cassandra put the wand with a soft glow into the cave, but the light emitted by the spell was still not enough to illuminate all the darkness, and she still could not see anything.

"...Hey!" Harry stopped Ron and Malfoy who were about to start fighting, "The way we fight is to pass Dumbledore's levels, not to fight with fists!" If Malfoy didn't have the fire-breathing dragon on his shoulder, Harry wouldn't mind beating him up here, anyway, there was no professor watching.

"Well, all right." Malfoy snorted, "I've already opened the door, so let's see how Weasley deals with this bottomless black hole, shall we?"

"Then you'd better watch out!" Ron pushed Malfoy away with his shoulder and jumped down first.

The young wizard who stayed above watched him being swallowed by the darkness and couldn't help but get nervous. After a long while, Ron's shout came from the cave: "It's a soft landing! Jump!"

Harry jumped without hesitation.

"Really?" Malfoy looked disappointed. "I thought Dumbledore would have some spears down there, but this is it?"

"Stop making sarcastic remarks, Malfoy!" Hermione glared at him and jumped down after Harry.

Then came Cassandra, who said nothing, still holding the glowing wand.

Malfoy was the last.

Watching the little wizards disappear into the trapdoor, Ivy removed the Disillusionment Charm from his body and stared speechlessly at Dumbledore beside him.

"What an interesting wizard adventure, isn't it, Professor Victor? As far as I can remember, I have never seen Slytherin and Gryffindor act together." Dumbledore said with a smile.

"That's because you haven't lived long enough." Ivy complained, "So, why don't you let me stop them? Do you regard this as a test or a training?"

"I think it might be both." Dumbledore walked into the room where the three-headed dog Fluffy had stayed with his hands behind his back, and looked inside the trapdoor. "Or maybe it's just that I, an old man, am curious. I'm very curious about how they will spend this time."

Ivy rolled his eyes. He was tired of this kind of charades, but he didn't want to be frank with Dumbledore. Most of Voldemort's Horcruxes were treasures, and he was hoping to turn them into ancient heirlooms like the Ravenclaw Diadem. Or he could do it like the diary before, consuming the fragments of Voldemort's soul in the Horcruxes to enhance Ivy's own spellcasting ability.

Therefore, Ivy must get Voldemort's Horcruxes, and Ivy knows the locations of those things very well.

But the way Ivy dealt with Voldemort's soul fragments might be regarded as cruel and vicious in Dumbledore's eyes, so after Ivy used the 6-ring spell Soul Cage to deal with Voldemort's soul fragments for the first time, he never tried to reveal the information of the Horcrux to Dumbledore again.

(End of this chapter)