Hogwarts: Undercover Death Eater Replaces the Dark Lord

"Oh, Mr. Hayden, good evening." He waved to Lycos. "After the opening dinner, could you please come to the principal's office? I have some questions for you."

"As you wish, Professor." Lycos gave a standard smile.

However, although he smiled on the surface, he felt very conflicted deep down in his heart... After all, Lycos could not find any reason to refuse Dumbledore, but he had too many secrets that he did not want others to know.

"Are you going, Cassandra?" Lycos asked Cassandra after Dumbledore left. "I think I need someone who has a lot of secrets as well, to help me share some of the pressure."

"Not interested." Cassandra curled her lips. "But I believe in you. You can definitely hide your secret from Dumbledore!"

The corner of Lycos's eye twitched. He felt that she was gloating...

……

Compared to last year, this year's sorting ceremony seemed a little strange.

Many of the senior wizards missed the sorting ceremony because they had overdrawn their magic power.

Even those remaining students who did not go to the school infirmary, before they had time to sit down at the long table of their respective colleges, the first-year students were brought in from outside by Professor McGonagall...

Because those little guys had just witnessed a big battle, they were very relaxed. They looked very curious, completely unlike the shaky appearance of last year's freshmen.

After all, no matter how terrifying the Sorting Ceremony is, it can't be more terrifying than the overwhelming Fiery Flame, right?

Lycos and his companions walked into the auditorium and sat down under thousands of candles floating in the air. They skillfully picked up the glittering golden plates and high-footed wine glasses, waiting quietly for the meal that would be served after the sorting ceremony.

Professor McGonagall led the first-year students to the professor's chair, had them line up facing all the senior students, and then took out a roster from her pocket.

Lycos watched this scene with great interest.

During last year's sorting ceremony, he had just arrived in this magical world and was completely lost in thought. He was only trying to understand his own situation and had no time to appreciate the surrounding scenery...

At this moment, watching the sorting ceremony proceeding according to the procedure, Lycos suddenly felt as if he was in another world.

The candlelight flickered, and hundreds of faces looked at the young wizards in the front row.

Even ghosts were mixed in among the students, flashing hazy silver light.

Professor McGonagall gently placed a four-legged stool in front of the first-year students, just like she did last year, and placed a pointed wizard's hat on the stool.

The hat was patched, worn, dusty and dirty.

For a moment, the auditorium was silent.

But the next moment, the hat suddenly twisted -

A wide crack opened on the brim of the hat, like a mouth, and it began to sing:

"I have divided you into different colleges.

Because my duties cannot be changed.

But this year I want to say a few more words,

Please listen carefully to my new song:

Though I am destined to divide you,

But I'm afraid that's not the right thing to do.

Although I must fulfill my duties,

Divide the new students each year into four parts,

But I worry about such classification,

Would lead to the collapse I feared.

Oh, know the danger, read the signs,

The lessons of history give us warnings,

Our Hogwarts is in danger,

Enemies outside the school are watching closely.

We must be closely united internally.

Otherwise everything will fall apart from within.

I have told you plainly,

I have sounded the alarm for you...

Now let's start sorting. "

The Sorting Hat finished the song in its unpleasant voice and fell still again. Sparse applause and whispers echoed around.

"Lex, what do you mean by that?" Draco leaned over and asked, "Strong enemies outside the school? What strong enemies can we have?"

"I don't know." Lycos shook his head blankly.

If his impression was correct, this kind of warning song seemed to appear when Voldemort was about to be resurrected in the original book, right?

But Harry Potter is only in his second year, and Voldemort is hiding in the forests of Albania, with no signs of resurrection.

Is it possible that besides Voldemort, there are other powerful enemies lurking in Hogwarts?

Or perhaps the Sorting Hat refers to the enemy who released Fiendfyre before?

However, no matter how many doubts Lycos had in his mind, the sorting ceremony continued in an orderly manner.

Lycos watched the freshmen sit on the stools one by one, and the Sorting Hat read out the names of the houses one after another, and sighed softly.

After the Sorting ceremony, perhaps a conversation with Dumbledore would clear up some of his doubts...

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Chapter 121 Questions and Answers in the Principal's Office

After the sorting ceremony, Lycos walked to the side of the fourth floor of the main tower as planned.

There is a very ugly stone statue with a gargoyle, standing quietly in front of an entrance.

"Toffee fingers."

Lycos spoke to the gargoyles and uttered the command Dumbledore had given him.

This password did not surprise Lecos at all. The Hogwarts headmaster really had a special liking for sweets...

The gargoyle nodded its massive head and jumped aside from the corridor entrance, revealing a spiral staircase.

When Lecos walked up the stairs, they automatically rotated, just like an elevator in the Muggle world, taking him from the fourth floor to the eighth floor very safely and conveniently.

Lycos knocked on the door.

"Come in." Dumbledore's voice came from inside the door.

At the same time, before Lecos could push the door open, the door of the principal's office opened automatically.

Lycos walked into the principal's office.

This is a rather spacious and exquisitely laid out circular room. The wall facing the door is covered with densely packed portraits, which almost fill up the entire wall.

Lycos could see that those were portraits of former principals.

Actually, this was his first time entering the principal's office... Unlike what the description in the book had given people, when he saw this office in person, he could almost immediately feel its strangeness.

Those silver instruments that spew out smoke from time to time, various magical equipment, and tables with animal claws are almost all alchemical creations. I believe that many of them were made by Dumbledore himself in his spare time.

Fox the Phoenix was lazily sitting on a gilded branch, combing his golden-red feathers with his long beak.

Unlike the big bird seen on the Hogwarts Express before, Fawkes now has his wings folded up, and does not look that big, but rather a little cute.

Seeing Lycos walking in from the door, it raised its eyes slightly, and then lazily lowered its long neck.

"Good evening, Headmaster Dumbledore."

Lycos said hello and casually took a few steps forward.

However, just as he walked to the desk in the principal's office, the originally lazy Fox suddenly raised his head, and a golden light flashed in his eyes.

"Wow—"

It suddenly chirped loudly, then flew down from the gilded branch and flew straight to the table in front of Lycos, turning its head left and right to sniff something.

Lycos was stunned for a moment and shrank back to avoid Fox's sharp beak.

"Professor, what is it doing?" he asked in confusion.

Lecos didn't quite understand why the lazy Phoenix suddenly became curious about him... He was not a natural druid like Newt who had a strong affinity with magical animals.

"Fawkes may have smelled a familiar scent on you." Dumbledore stood up from behind his desk and smiled at Lycos.

He was wearing a purple nightgown and a fluffy nightcap with a white fur ball hanging limply from the top... Judging from his attire, this conversation was really just about casual conversation and was not formal at all.

But Lycos did not let his guard down at all.

The headmaster in front of him was no simple character. Even in his pajamas he could kill all the Death Eaters with his bare hands.

"A familiar smell?" Lycos adjusted the muscles on his face and made a puzzled expression.

He took another step to the side, avoiding Fox's head. "I haven't been out much lately. How could I have a familiar smell on me?"

As far as he knew, the familiar smell that Phoenix Fawkes could sense was probably from acquaintances like Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall. Perhaps Newt, who knew the most about magical creatures, could also be counted as one?

But he only wrote a letter to Newt before the summer vacation started and had no actual contact with the magical animal expert.

The closest they'd ever been to Newt was probably in the forests of Albania... and even that closest time was nowhere near a meeting.

Phoenix is ​​not a puppy, how can it smell the scent from such a long distance after more than a month?

"Hehehe..." Dumbledore laughed mysteriously, and carried Fawkes from Lecos back to the gilded branch where he was perched, as if he were holding a child.

"Nothing... maybe Fox smelled it wrong." He sat back down on the sofa behind his desk, folding his hands on the table. "Don't worry too much about it. We're just chatting tonight."

Lecos vaguely saw that Fawkes on the gilded branch glared at Dumbledore very smartly, as if blaming him for taking him away on his own initiative.

"Professor, there are actually some things I can't figure out..." Lycos spoke first.

He planned to be one step ahead and use his first questions to squeeze out the questions that Dumbledore wanted to ask. Finally, when he had asked most of his questions, he said that he was sleepy and wanted to go back to bed...

I don't know if it will work, but at least I can give it a try.

"You say." Dumbledore smiled and nodded.

"I'm a little curious. The song the Sorting Hat sang mentioned that there are enemies lurking outside Hogwarts," Lekos said. "Isn't this a peaceful time? What enemy is this referring to?"