The days at Hogwarts

The woman named Nagini will die alone here, losing the part of her human existence and forever becoming a snake named Nagini.

No memory, no emotion, no reason. All he has is bloodthirsty instinct.

Until she touched the blue gem in the tree hole, she woke up from the darkness, but after waking up, she was filled with endless pain, and she would forever live in pain as a snake.

A python in the forest does not know how old it is, it only knows that the sun rises and sets, and it has lost count of how many suns it has had. The snow has fallen and melted, and it has slept for dozens of times.

She had been to Hogwarts and watched Dumbledore from afar.

Dumbledore also noticed the tear, and a strange feeling arose in his heart. The man and the snake looked at each other.

"do we know each other?"

The python couldn't speak as another teardrop slid down its scales.

"It seems to still have some sense. Can we save her?"

Loren's words were not out of a desire to refine the Philosopher's Stone, but simply out of pity. He thought of the python Nagini beside Voldemort.

Loren, who had only watched the movie series, didn't know that there was such a story about a python. At that time, the python didn't have the black energy on its body, and it hadn't been made into a Horcrux.

How could a python that could shed tears be a bad guy? If it knew that it would become a bloodthirsty beast that loved to eat human corpses, and would eventually be beheaded by Neville with a sword, what would it think now?

Dumbledore recalled Nicolas Flamel's words and Trelawney's prophecy in his mind.

Nicolas Flamel: "To redeem a desperate soul."

Trelawney: "...the blue-black men...the wave..."

"It is you who can save her, Loren." He stared into the little wizard's blue eyes, which were so tender and full of vitality.

He had been looking down upon the wizarding world for more than a hundred years, so how could he not know the evils of wizards? The conflicts came from this deformed social form: the ambitions of pure-bloods, the greed of goblins, the humbleness of elves, the various ways of other races, and the rise of Muggles.

He and Gellert once had the same ideas, so why couldn't they see the problem?

It's just that he is old now, and the shackles can be put on himself, but not on them, whether it's Loren or Harry.

How could he, Dumbledore asked himself, say those words to such a child?

I should drink less butterbeer in the future. I am old and can’t be the same as before. He answered in his heart.

Loren was still thinking about what he had just said. He stared at Dumbledore with his dead fish eyes and said, "Do you want to listen to what you are saying? You can't do anything about it, and you want me, a first-grade wizard, to come here?"

You really think highly of me.

Without mentioning the prophecy too much, or paying attention to Loren's colorful expression, Dumbledore looked at the sapphire Nagini was resting on, "Do you know what that is?"

Loren came back to his senses and talked about the Ravenclaw's crown he had seen in the Room of Requirement. "...There was a layer of black gas on it. It looked a little abnormal. I didn't touch the crown."

"The light from this gem is the same as that from the crown, and even brighter than that from the crown."

Dumbledore thought back to the day when Voldemort returned to Hogwarts seeking a job, and he thought he finally understood why Tom had come back - to hide a Horcrux made from Ravenclaw's diadem.

The mystery was solved. Dumbledore smiled and said, "Do you know the most famous saying of Ms. Ravenclaw?"

“Extraordinary wisdom is the most precious wealth of mankind.”

"I think Voldemort found the diadem of Ravenclaw here, but left his wisdom here."

Dumbledore looked at Nagini, "And you, have guarded the most precious treasure."

Lady Helena stole the diadem of Ravenclaw and hid it in a hollow tree in Albania. She was eventually killed by the Bloody Baron and returned to Hogwarts to become Lady Grey, the ghost of Ravenclaw.

The eloquent Tom tricked Ms. Grey into revealing the location of the tiara, made the tiara into a Horcrux, and hid the tiara in the Room of Requirement on the night he returned to Hogwarts to look for a job.

In fact, Nagini had obtained this gem long before Voldemort. The sapphire, a symbol of human wisdom, preserved Nagini's remaining sanity, but could not turn her back into a human.

Nagini roamed the forests of Albania for decades with a human consciousness and a snake body.

Perhaps it was fate's blessing that Voldemort has not yet found Nagini or the sapphire.

Dumbledore took off his hat and pointed it towards Nagini, motioning her to come in.

Loren looked at the scene in confusion.

Nagini's tail rolled up the sapphire, and the huge python's head gradually became smaller as it approached the hat, and finally retracted into the hat, and the python became a pet snake.

Dumbledore put his hat back on, and Lauren's eyes twitched.

"To be honest, I have a friend who can carry a much wider variety of animals than I do." Dumbledore seemed to have come to his senses and winked at Loren mischievously again.

The two decided to take Nagini back to Hogwarts first and discuss with Nico if there was any solution.

Walking in the forest under the moonlight, the moonlight and the snow complement each other, and the silvery-white light entangles the shadows of trees and people.

"Harry is a Parseltongue speaker, and when he comes back we can talk to the giant snake."

Loren's voice was filled with joy. There was nothing dangerous in his prediction, and he had found a desperate soul. Grandpa Bates's werewolf disease could be cured.

Dumbledore froze when he heard this. "Harry is a Parseltongue?"

Loren tilted his head to look at him, "Didn't I tell you?"

"should not."

"You remember it wrong."

"Well, it's possible. You have to understand that I'm over a hundred years old."

"Then I'll say this more times next time."

……

Dumbledore's silver-gray fur windbreaker gradually loosened and turned into a white robe, and his beard and hair grew back.

Loren held his hand and jumped in the snow.

People far away are celebrating the new year and fireworks are blooming, marking the transition from the old to the new.

[Postscript: I was really hesitant about this plot and looked up a lot of information.

Nagini was not with Voldemort when he first committed rebellion, which means that he did not meet Nagini during his journey to Albania to obtain the crown.

Later, when Voldemort possessed Quirrell to obtain the Philosopher's Stone, if Voldemort, who was in the wandering state before 1991, had encountered Nagini and subdued her, he would not have been able to leave out such a powerful helper. Quirrell could even put a troll into the castle, let alone an obedient snake.

In 1994, Voldemort killed Bertha Jorkins and made Nagini into a Horcrux. Based on this, it can be inferred that Nagini met Voldemort after 1991.

The problem with the blood curse is that after 1927, over the decades, I had to find a reason to preserve Nagini's sanity, and in the end it fell to Ravenclaw.

This is really a perfect fit. The crown has been in the Albanian forest for thousands of years. The crown represents human wisdom, which is exactly what Nagini lacks.

Ms. Grey's attitude towards the tiara is also very strange. Logically, she should be very angry after the tiara was tarnished and should seek Dumbledore's help, but she didn't.

At the beginning of the school year in 91, Ms. Grey appeared at the dining table. In the corridor where Harry became a seeker, Ms. Grey also passed by like she was listening to gossip. When the trio found Professor McGonagall and told her that Quirrell was going to steal the Philosopher's Stone, Ms. Grey was also taking notes leisurely in the Transfiguration classroom. These signs all indicate that Ms. Grey doesn't seem to care too much, or doesn't care too much.

I just made an assumption that Tom only defiled the crown in form, and the sapphire that truly represents wisdom is still in the hollow tree, to support Ms. Grey's attitude.

Finally, she was afraid of being backstabbed by Rowling. According to Rowling's usual style, she might just ignore Nagini and keep her for later. But when I looked up information, I also saw that Dumbledore separated Nagini's human body and snake body.

The later parts of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" have not been released yet, so maybe this is really possible. Help me, I'm afraid Rowling's move is going to happen to me.

I don't care, I'm going to write it this way anyway. All glory to Rowling, OOC is mine! 】

Chapter 82 Return to Hogwarts

In the late night of the Hogwarts headmaster's office, the portraits of past headmasters hanging on the wall had fallen asleep. Two figures, one old and one young, appeared out of nowhere, and the warm yellow light in the office gradually lit up.

"You go back first. I will take care of it." Dumbledore took off his hat, which no longer fit him well, and placed it on the table with the mouth facing up.

"Goodbye, Principal!" Loren couldn't wait to take a good bath. He had been feeling very uncomfortable after spending the past few days in Albania.

Nagini was sleeping in the hat with the gem as her pillow. Fawkes leaned over to take a look and suddenly became alert. He yelled at Dumbledore, "Squeak!"

It seems to be saying that you are a guy who gets bored easily.

Dumbledore dodged Fawkes's pecking while combing its feathers, and comforted it with a smile: "Okay, okay..."

After paying for some snacks and spending some time to calm Fawkes down, Dumbledore slowly took out an old-looking white-covered book from the bookshelf and opened it. There was a portrait of a character on each page.

After flipping through countless pages, he stopped at a portrait of a man with silver hair and a thin body.

Dumbledore waited for a moment, and the portrait gradually came to life, colors began to appear, and slowly, the portrait began to move.

"Albus?"

"Nico."

The two talked for a while, and Dumbledore told Nico about his experience in Albania and asked if he had any way to save the blood-cursed orc.

"I can't do anything, but maybe the Philosopher's Stone can..."

According to Nico, the effect of the Philosopher's Stone varies from person to person.

"In my hands, I can turn stone into gold and make the elixir of immortality, but Loren may have other options."

"From what he's asking for, maybe it will be biotransformation, turning the snake back into a human, and fixing the werewolf in human form."

Nico's voice came out of the book through magic, like an old man telling a vague legend, "Uncovering the mystery of life, this is not an easy road..."

It seemed that there was no reproductive isolation for magical creatures. Before this, a large number of wizards bred strange creatures for various purposes, causing many disasters.

The most famous is the dastardly Herpo, who created a basilisk by hatching rooster eggs from toads.

Some do it out of curiosity, some do it for profit, and some even have bad intentions. The contents of many Defense Against the Dark Arts textbooks are artificially created by wizards.

It wasn't until 1965, when the Keeping of Magical Creatures for Experimental Purposes Act, proposed by Newt Scamander, was passed, that the creation of new, untamable creatures in Britain was effectively stopped.

The Ministry of Magic Aurors spent a lot of energy investigating and prosecuting many wizards who illegally bred dangerous creatures. In the following years, the Ministry of Magic of other countries also issued similar bans.

This is just the process of refining on magical animals. What Loren will be involved in will be the human body. Anyone who hears about such behavior will think that Loren is a dark wizard.

If Loren were to take the path of biotransformation, even if the outside world didn't know about the Philosopher's Stone, biotransformation itself would be enough to attract the attention of all kinds of people, whether they were the Ministry of Magic or dark wizards.

"When he found the snake in the forest of Albania, he had already pulled it out of the abyss of despair." Nico talked about the prerequisites for using the Philosopher's Stone.

"Cough cough cough."

His voice sounded weak. "Maybe we don't need to rush to destroy the Philosopher's Stone. Once you're done with what you're going to do, you can let Loren try using my Philosopher's Stone."

Dumbledore sat in a chair and looked at the portrait in the book. "Are you ready to die?"

Nico heard this question and a smile appeared on his old face, "Albus, you already know that death is not the end, but a greater adventure."

"I still have some medicine in stock. Once I have taken care of some things, I will return to Paris with Perenelle."

"In the summer, there will be another performance of Faust in Paris. I will wait until this one is over before I leave."

"I won't say goodbye to you then."

"Ahem, bye."

Hearing the word goodbye, Dumbledore's wrinkles relaxed and he smiled, "Goodbye, and have a nice trip."

With that, Nico's portrait faded and remained motionless.

Loren carried his small suitcase and ran to the Gryffindor common room.

Back at Hogwarts, whether it was the gray stone pillars, the polished armor, or the moving stairs, they all gave Loren a sense of familiarity and security as if he were home.

At least there won't be any dark wizards robbing here, except Voldemort.

In the Gryffindor common room.

The four young wizards of the Weasley family were sitting around the table playing chess, the twins and Percy playing against Ron.

The twins were still able to withstand Ron's attack, but after they believed Percy's words for a few moves, they were defeated.

On the chessboard, the knight on horseback walked and cursed: "Are you two trolls? Why do you listen to others?"

Percy blushed a little and looked away, pretending not to hear.

He saw Loren who just came in from outside, his eyes lit up, "Look, Loren is back."

George and Fred also looked up, and when Ron wasn't paying attention they overturned the chessboard, each shouting in surprise:

"Our savior, Loren is back!"

"We don't have to play chess with Ron anymore!"

Finally, the two raised their hands and shouted together: "Long live Loren!"

It can be seen that during the days when Loren was away, several people were really tortured by Ron.

The twins ran around the table to Loren, Fred took his small suitcase, and George pulled Loren in front of Ron and pressed him into his seat, "It's all up to you!"

Loren tried to struggle, "I haven't showered yet."