Hogwarts: Undercover Death Eater Replaces the Dark Lord

"Open it at the most appropriate time, okay? Maybe... when you're faced with an extremely urgent situation and can't find a way out of the current predicament."

Lycos believes that today is an extremely urgent situation.

After all, preventing Voldemort from obtaining the Philosopher's Stone is not an easy task. Even the slightest mistake may lead to disastrous consequences.

So he opened the gift Cassandra gave him with the mentality of giving it a try.

Fortunately, this gift really worked.

While Quirrell and Harry were facing each other, Lycos kept deducing in his mind, trying to find a way to prevent Quirrell from getting the Philosopher's Stone without arousing Voldemort's suspicion.

But if he is alone, the possibility of achieving it is almost zero.

So Lycos told Cassandra in the two-way book, hoping that she could do him a favor and come to the deepest part of the restricted area to stop him from killing Harry Potter.

The two agreed that when Cassandra took her place at the door, she would make a note in the two-way notebook.

So when Lycos saw the word "good" on the last line, he immediately cast a killing curse on Harry!

Everything was going just right.

"Thanks to you this time, Cassandra." Lycos took back the two-way notebook in his hand and smiled gently at the little witch. "If I were alone, this matter would have been difficult to resolve."

"Really? Then how are you going to thank me?" Cassandra's lips curled up slightly.

However, before Lycos could reply, a fiery golden-red light suddenly appeared in the room out of nowhere.

An old man with long white hair and a white beard strode out of the firelight with a serious expression.

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Chapter 90 The incident is over

"I'm sorry to bother you, Mr. Hayden, Miss Worley..."

Dumbledore emerged from the golden-red flames, his face grim.

"But I think... we have more important things to deal with right now. Please let's talk again later."

Lycos and Cassandra fell silent subconsciously, watching the headmaster walk straight to the unconscious Harry and squat in front of him.

Dumbledore looked at the body of Quirrell next to Harry, which had been corroded by magic and no longer resembled a human. His eyes were particularly deep, and no one knew what he saw in him.

Lycos was actually a little panicked about Quirrell's death.

Because according to the original story, Quirrell's body was constantly burned by contact with Harry, and the dark power in his body was constantly eliminated, but he did not die immediately...

Instead, it was only after Voldemort left his parasitic state that Quirrell lost his last bit of strength and completely lost his life.

But in the current scene, Quirrell died under Lycos's killing curse... After Quirrell died, Voldemort turned into black smoke and rushed out of Quirrell's body.

Therefore, even though Quirrell had been burned beyond recognition and his skin had mostly turned to powder, Lycos still couldn't guarantee that Dumbledore wouldn't be able to tell from him that the Killing Curse had worked.

"Professor, we just..." Lycos started hesitantly, deciding to test the waters.

However, before Lycos could ask a question, Dumbledore stood up first.

"You guys did a great job."

Dumbledore gave Lycos and Cassandra a kind smile, as if he hadn't noticed anything.

"You are very courageous and wise. You dared to stand before the enemy when danger came and prevented tragedy from happening... I am proud of you!"

Lecos was a little confused by the principal's praise.

He was ready to face Dumbledore's questioning. He thought of no less than a dozen excuses and various ways to hide his identity...but Dumbledore didn't ask anything?

"But, Professor," Lycos thought for a moment and decided to test Dumbledore's knowledge. "How did you get here... by chance?"

"Oh, Mr. Hayden, did you still think I was hiding nearby?" Dumbledore said with a smile.

"Well... I find it hard to rule out this idea." Lycos said, "Your arrival is really too coincidental. Quirrell lost his ability to resist only two minutes ago..."

"I don't blame you for thinking so. In fact, I think it's quite a coincidence." Dumbledore chuckled. "As soon as I arrived in London to attend that meeting, I realized that I should return to where I just left..."

"How could this be such a coincidence? A meeting to discuss the future development of the wizarding world was held suddenly, and it lasted the entire night - enough time for Quirrell to get the Philosopher's Stone several times."

The old headmaster waved his hand gently, and the red stone floated out of Harry's pocket and fell into his hand.

"Now that I think about it, I should have brought the Philosopher's Stone with me," he whispered.

Lycos didn't believe a word Dumbledore said.

He knew very well that as a double undercover agent for both Voldemort and Dumbledore, Snape would definitely tell Dumbledore all of Voldemort's plan.

Therefore, Dumbledore should have known from the beginning that Quirrell would go to the restricted area to steal the Philosopher's Stone tonight.

Lecos even suspected that Dumbledore had been hiding in the dark, watching Harry and the other two step by step towards the depths of the restricted area, and was ready to escort them at any time.

This is not groundless speculation -

You know, Harry's invisibility cloak is left in the corridor of the restricted area on the fourth floor, near the three-headed dog Fluffy.

Dumbledore could have put on the Invisibility Cloak and become completely invisible...

The effect of the Deathly Hallows combined with Dumbledore's own powerful magical abilities meant that even Voldemort in his prime might not be able to detect his existence, let alone the incomplete version of Voldemort who was only attached to Quirrell.

If Lycos's guess was true, it meant that Dumbledore had seen Lycos following Quirrell and knew that he was Voldemort's undercover agent in Hogwarts...

However, Lycos's final action of calling Cassandra for help showed that he and Voldemort were not on the same page, but that he wanted to break free from Voldemort's control.

Therefore, Dumbledore's praise just now was most likely just a tacit understanding.

Thinking of this, Lycos looked up at Dumbledore's blue eyes.

He happened to meet a pair of deep and intelligent eyes.

"Mr. Hayden, your actions today are crucial. You are great..." Dumbledore said word by word. "If you have any difficulties in the future, remember to come to me, okay?"

Lycos was stunned for a moment, then nodded slowly.

……

After a few more brief conversations, Dumbledore held the unconscious Harry in his arms and came to the Mirror of Erised.

Only then did Lycos notice that a large golden-red bird was standing gracefully on the frame of the mirror, carefully combing its beautiful feathers.

"Mr. Hayden, Miss Worley, come this way," said Dumbledore.

He extended his left hand, which was supporting Harry's legs, and waved to Lykos and Cassandra.

Lycos and Cassandra walked up to Dumbledore and looked at him with a little confusion.

"Well... it's still a long way back to the castle, so why not try some simple methods?" Dumbledore winked at the two of them. "For example, catch Fawkes's tail..."

Fawkes is the name of this large golden-red bird, a phoenix that is extremely rare in the entire wizarding world.

At Dumbledore's signal, Lycos and Cassandra each grabbed a feather from Fawkes's tail, while Fawkes gently flapped his wings and stood on Dumbledore's shoulder.

"Excuse me, Fawkes," said Dumbledore.

With a beautiful cry, a golden-red flame burned with Fawkes as the center, and in an instant covered the bodies of Dumbledore, Harry, Lycos and Cassandra.

Lycos only felt a warm breath spreading from his right hand holding the phoenix's tail feathers to his whole body.

The brightness of the fire made him close his eyes.

When Lycos opened his eyes again, he found himself back outside the corridor of the restricted area on the fourth floor.

The door next to it, which was opened by the unlocking spell, was locked again at some point, and the snoring of the three-headed dog Fluffy could be heard from behind the door from time to time.

"We happen to be on the same floor. I need to take Harry to the school infirmary," Dumbledore waved to Lycos and the others, "I won't take you back to the common room."

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Chapter 91 I Don’t Belong Here

Lycos and Cassandra said goodbye to Dumbledore and walked towards the Slytherin common room.

The two people fell silent at the same time.

I didn't know how to start, and the air seemed to be silent.

Silver moonlight poured in from rows of windows, and a faint blue halo spread across the corridors of the castle, like a dream.

On the walls of the corridor hung many lifelike portraits and statues that had been polished to a shine... Most of the people in the portraits were asleep, and the sound of their even breathing filled all directions, as if a gentle breeze was blowing in the quiet castle.

When the two walked down the marble steps and arrived at the entrance courtyard in front of the auditorium, Lycos felt that remaining silent was not an option. After hesitating for a moment, he decided to speak:

"actually……"

"actually……"

However, Cassandra seemed to think the same thing.

The two voices overlapped and spread far away in the entrance courtyard.

Then, the two of them laughed at the same time, and the tense atmosphere was almost swept away in an instant.

"Ladies first." Lycos shrugged and leaned lightly against a pillar on one side of the courtyard. "There's no one else here. You can ask me anything you want."

Cassandra bit her lip lightly, tucked a strand of golden hair behind her ear, and looked at Lycos with her emerald green eyes, which were particularly crystal clear in the moonlight.

"Actually... I've felt there was something wrong with you since the beginning of the school year," she said softly. "I was wondering, how could an injured person not be able to bandage themselves?"

"So you help me not out of kindness, but out of suspicion?" Lycos was a little depressed.

"What do you think?" Cassandra pursed her lips, a smile playing at the corners of her lips. "Do you think I fell in love with you at first sight and was looking for an opportunity to talk to you?"

"That's not the case..." Lycos smiled, "I'm not that ordinary... well, I mean ordinary and confident."

"It's quite interesting," Cassandra said with a faint smile. "You may not have noticed, but when I was tying your bandages with the Binding Spell, I deliberately opened a section and saw a black tattoo."

"Did you see it?" Lycos frowned.

He had just crossed over a few minutes ago, and might have been a little careless due to his nervousness... But he still stared at the bandage on his left arm, not daring to relax at all.

Lykos didn't think Cassandra could see the Dark Mark so easily.

"No, I just know it's a tattoo." Cassandra shook her head. "Actually, having a tattoo isn't that strange. Using a bandage to hide it from view makes sense..."

"But your problem is that instead of being open about your tattoo, you're hiding it and telling others you have an injury."

Lycos was stunned.