The Dark Lord's Guide to Employment at Hogwarts

"Okay, let's go find Dumbledore now," said Levid.

"Vade, have you forgotten something?"

"what?"

"We seem to be on a night tour now... How are we going to explain the whole process of encountering the entrance to the trial? Without a proper excuse, how many points do you think each of us will be deducted? You know, the Slytherin gem has only recently started to return to zero from negative points..."

"Tom, this is very simple! Aren't you a descendant of Slytherin? Just say that you felt the call from your ancestors while you were sleeping! And then..."

"Ah! This excuse is too old-fashioned! And it's disgusting! I would rather tell the truth directly to Dumbledore! With Dumbledore's character, maybe after deducting our points, he can add them back! You know, we discovered Slytherin's legacy, and pointed out the crisis in the school!" Tom decisively rejected the lame excuse that Levid came up with.

Tom was feeling a bit queasy about being summoned by an ancestor. Besides, that was Dumbledore! He hadn't fully mastered Occlumency yet. He could tell if he was lying just by looking at him, so he might as well be honest.

"Are you sure?" Li Weide said, "What if points are deducted..."

"For Dumbledore, sincerity is always the ultimate skill! Isn't that what you said?" said Tom.

Li Weide said with satisfaction: "That's right, Tom. It seems that you have indeed learned a lot of excellent qualities from me!"

Tom scoffed. "Like, learning to travel at night, secretly studying the dark arts, growing dangerous magical plants, and so on?"

"It's that other quality! Tom! I have many other excellent qualities! Like wisdom and so on!"

……

The flames in the fireplace crackled softly.

Dumbledore was wrapped in a purple nightgown and wearing a woman's nightcap, frowning at the two little kids in front of him who were not sleeping late at night.

He also listened to a rough account of what had happened. To be honest, Dumbledore had never seen such a restless Slytherin student before...

"So... you were awake so late at night because you accidentally discovered the trials left by Slytherin. After going through a trial that nearly cost you your life, you finally discovered Slytherin's study, which was filled with a huge amount of Dark Magic manuscripts?"

Li Weide and Tom nodded repeatedly.

"Furthermore, you brought out the remains of a Gaunt who died in the trial... in a bag?"

Li Weide and Tom continued to nod.

"At the same time, you also discovered that Slytherin seemed to have left a mysterious creature in the school. This creature may threaten the safety of students in the future?"

Li Weide and Tom felt tired of nodding at this moment...

"Do you... know how many school rules you have violated?" Dumbledore asked unhappily.

Tom's face turned pale and he kept his mouth tightly shut because he knew he shouldn't make a sound at this moment.

But... Li Weide next to him actually started counting with his fingers.

"Vade? What are you counting?" asked Dumbledore.

"We have violated ten school rules in total, Professor..." Li Weide put down his hands and said honestly.

Dumbledore almost laughed out of anger, "It seems that you are more familiar with the school rules than me, the deputy headmaster!"

Tom suddenly said, "Wade once told me that only after you fully understand the school rules can you better break them."

Li Weide stared at Tom with wide eyes: "Professor, he is slandering me! He is slandering me! I clearly said that only by fully understanding the school rules can we better abide by them!"

Dumbledore sighed deeply. "How about... you should be transferred to Gryffindor? You don't have enough points to lose from Slytherin anymore... How dare you rashly enter a place you don't understand at all?! Do you know that this might cost you your life?"

"Professor... there's nothing we can do. The door is locked right after we get in..." Tom said aggrievedly. "Besides, he's already gone in, so I can't just stay outside..."

"Fortunately, he followed in, otherwise I would never have been able to pass the last level. This dead Gunter is a lesson for me." Li Weide said.

"Tom could have come to me in time! You are different from her, you have the professor to help you! In this way, maybe you wouldn't have to go through that thrilling trial." Dumbledore said seriously.

Li Weide and Tom both wisely kept their mouths shut.

"Alright... I'll take you to see the headmaster first. Regardless, the Slytherin legacy is extremely valuable. We'll have to discuss your punishment before we can reach a conclusion... With any luck, maybe Headmaster Dippet will give you extra points. Once you get to the headmaster's office, tell us in detail about your experiences tonight."

Dumbledore passed his wand over himself, and his nightgown turned into an ordinary wizard robe.

"Let's go. It's best not to let Grindelwald know about this..." Dumbledore said, took off the women's nightcap on his head, and opened the office door.

Then they saw Grindelwald standing outside the office door with a smile on his face.

"Good evening, Albus... Oh? I didn't expect there were two other kids who couldn't sleep besides me?"

Dumbledore frowned. This was the situation he least wanted to see!

"when did you come?"

"When I heard you say it's best not to let me know," Grindelwald smiled and said, "What little secret is it that you can't let me know?"

Dumbledore's door was completely soundproofed by magic, but when he opened the door just now, the magic happened to fail, so Grindelwald happened to hear the second half of Dumbledore's sentence.

"Since I told you not to know, why are you asking?" said Dumbledore.

"If we are just friends, you can certainly keep secrets from me, but... I am a senior investigator sent by the Ministry of Magic. I have the right to know everything about Hogwarts, so..." Grindelwald looked at Dumbledore with a provocative look.

"We were caught by Professor Dumbledore while we were out at night." Before Dumbledore could answer, Tom said, "Now, he's planning to take us to see Headmaster Dippet."

"Oh? Really?" Grindelwald smiled at Tom. "If it was just a night out, Dumbledore would be enough to deal with you. Why bother going to the headmaster? Besides, if it's such a small matter, why emphasize it and hide it from me?"

Tom was speechless for a moment and looked away quickly to avoid looking directly at Grindelwald.

Li Weide suddenly said in a very helpless tone: "This is all because of you... Because you have been too close to us recently, so when the professor caught us strolling at night, he thought we were doing something for you."

Tom breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and Dumbledore quickly reacted.

He stood before the two children, looked directly into Grindelwald's eyes, and said in a cold voice, "Since you must know, then I'll tell you! Even though you have a legitimate name now, you and I both know what kind of person you are. Therefore, I don't want the best students at Hogwarts to be influenced by you! I'm planning to work with Headmaster Dippet to persuade these two children to stay away from you! And then check to see if they have any dark magic you secretly cast on them!"

"This is a very serious accusation, Dumbledore!" Grindelwald frowned.

"You asked me to say this, Grindelwald. If you hadn't insisted, we could have saved some face for each other, right?" Dumbledore stared at Grindelwald, refusing to give in.

Chapter 218 is for you to keep warm with the fierce fire!

The night is already dark.

There were no windows nearby, but there was a slight cold breeze in the corridor.

Levitra and Tom huddled together in their robes and followed Dumbledore towards the headmaster's office.

"Did he believe it?" asked Tom suddenly.

"Probably not, Tom," replied Dumbledore in front.

Dumbledore was very satisfied with Tom's attitude towards Grindelwald just now.

It is obvious that this child is dissatisfied with the old guy, so the possibility of him being bewitched by the old guy is not very high.

Moreover, he had used Legilimency to check and found that Tom was not lying and he really hated Grindelwald.

What makes Dumbledore most happy is Tom's current resistance to the dark arts and his understanding of the magic of love!

He actually chose to hand over Slytherin's legacy to the school instead of studying it himself!

This child...was saved after all! And all this was thanks to Li Weide, the man he trusted the most!

……

"What should we do then?" At this moment, Tom was worried because he didn't know what Dumbledore was thinking.

Grindelwald would surely be very interested in Slytherin's heritage.

As for Tom, even though he is somewhat resistant to this inheritance now, he does not want Grindelwald to find a way to take it away.

In Tom's heart, the ancestor of Slytherin is far less annoying than Grindelwald.

After all, his ancestors had never pointed a wand at his neck.

"Don't worry, Tom. As long as he plays the game of following the rules with us, he can't take your things." Dumbledore said calmly.

"My...things?" Tom pondered over this sentence and seemed to understand something.

"As long as those things don't belong to the school, then he has no reason to touch your things."

When Tom was suddenly aware of it, Levid took out his wand and rubbed out a small ball of red flame, and the cold corridor suddenly became warm.

Dumbledore looked back, his eyelids twitched suddenly, and with a wave of his hand, the flame in Levid's hand went out.

Levid looked up at Dumbledore eagerly, "I can control it."

"I know... but don't use this in school. I'll teach you Gulliver's Fire later, and that should be enough..." Dumbledore said helplessly.

Tom looked at the two men in confusion. "Wade, that fire you used to keep warm just now...why does it look so much like Fiendfyre?"

"You're mistaken, Tom. How could a good and law-abiding student like me use such evil magic?" Li Weide denied.

"Do you take me for a fool?" Tom jumped up.

Then I felt sad. I had always been very cautious when using black magic before, for fear of being discovered.

And this guy even lit a fierce fire in front of Dumbledore to keep himself warm, but Dumbledore didn't even react!

Instead, he was told not to use the Gubulai Fairy Fire in school in exchange for teaching him the same!

This isn't magic at all!

"You are certainly mistaken, Tom," said Dumbledore.

Tom nodded and clapped his hands, "Okay, okay... It doesn't matter. I don't really care anyway..."

"Don't be impatient, Tom! Can I not teach you when we get back?"

"Is it true?"

"You are a great contributor to Hogwarts tonight. How could the professor treat you unfairly?" Li Weide said happily.

"Okay... let's teach together, teach together... but can you promise me not to cause trouble again?" Dumbledore just felt a little tired.

For the first time, he doubted the old hat's judgment.

……

"Please come in."

The principal's old voice came from the principal's office.

Principal Dippet is still awake.

When Dumbledore pushed open the door and walked in, Headmaster Dippet was neatly dressed and writing furiously at his desk.

Dumbledore looked at Headmaster Dippet in surprise, "Armando, this is the first time I've seen you work so hard."

After seeing them, Principal Dippet calmly put away the things on the table.

"Maybe there's something wrong with your memory, Albus. Before you joined Hogwarts, I had always handled school affairs on my own. So...did these two little guys do something wrong?" Principal Dippet looked at Levid and Tom.

"You two go talk to the headmaster." Dumbledore said, and walked to a cabinet next to him and took out candy and drinks with ease.

"When did you hide these things in my office... Forget it, you two." Principal Dippet looked at the two second-year students in front of him. "What exactly happened?"

"We have done a great service for Hogwarts tonight!" Li Weide said first.

"That's right, it's a great achievement!" Tom also said.

"Oh?" Principal Dippet's interest was immediately piqued.

Normally, Dumbledore could solve the problem himself and would not come to him.

And now, Dumbledore brought these two little guys to him personally, which shows that this matter is not simple.

"Then tell me quickly. I want to see what kind of great merit it is that Albus brought you here personally."

"Well...if I tell you, you can't deduct points from us." Tom said cautiously.

"Ha! You two little guys are really interesting! Go ahead and tell me, I won't deduct any points from you. Of course, if your contribution is truly remarkable, what's the problem with giving you some extra points?"

At this moment, the snoring sounds that had been coming one after another from the portraits of past principals on the wall suddenly stopped.

The oil paintings of past principals were all pretending to be asleep and eavesdropping.

So the two of them told each other everything that happened tonight.

Of course, their original intention of going to the restricted book section was changed by the two of them to just wanting to get some fresh air...

Although it is a bit unreasonable, it doesn’t matter anymore.

Slytherin's trial and Slytherin's study were enough to completely divert Headmaster Dippet's attention.

Especially when Levander finally took out the Slytherin manuscript and told him that a mysterious creature was sleeping in Hogwarts, waiting to clear the campus one day.

"How could he do that!" Principal Dippet said in surprise.