Chapter 307 Hufflepuff: Voldemort doesn’t sound like anything special.
But what surprised Helga was that within five minutes of sending her letter, Dumbledore opened the door to her office.
"Professor White, I heard that our Professor Trelawney made a wonderful prophecy?" Although the expression on Dumbledore's face was no different from usual, he was already here in such a short period of time. Explain the problem.
"Yes." Helga described to Dumbledore what she had just witnessed in the west tower.
"Are you free now? I want to go to the principal's office with you to talk about this. How about it?" After hearing what Helga said, Dumbledore decided to take her to the principal's office and memorize her through the pensieve. Reproduce the scene. But if White doesn't want to, Dumbledore can just ask for her memory of that moment.
The Pensieve is a rare magical prop that allows wizards to extract memories from their minds and put them into the basin to view what happened in the past immersively.
Generally speaking, extremely private magical items like the Pensieve are buried as close to the body as a wizard's wand, but the Pensieve at Hogwarts is an exception.
Since it was dug out of the ground by the founders of Hogwarts, it has been passed down from generation to generation along with the Sorting Hat as a school heirloom - yes, the pensieve in the Hogwarts principal's office is made of Salsa. Racha dug it out of the ground when they built Hogwarts.
Hufflepuff wanted to hand her memory directly to Dumbledore after her speech, but she changed her mind when she heard Dumbledore's invitation: Which founder can refuse to go to the principal's office a thousand years later? What about the temptation to take a tour?
In their day, the principal's office was more like a utility closet. Founders will pile up magical props, such as pensieves, that they get by chance but have no use for, and that take up space in offices or storage props. Usually they huddled in their own offices to work - Godric once spent a night in the principal's office because he was drunk, and then the next day he was "respected" by three other old friends headed by Slytherin. He is called the principal.
From then on, Godric would not spend the night in the principal's office, even if he asked students to carry him back to the office.
With Godric as an example, others naturally stayed away from this office. No one wanted to let Gryffindor's experience happen to them. This made Godric worry about it for a long time: working in the principal's office was too much. It's a beautiful thing, why don't you live in it? !
‘I wonder what the principal’s office looks like now. ’
As soon as this idea came to mind, it immediately spread like wildfire in Hufflepuff's heart, so she agreed to Dumbledore's invitation without hesitation. But she was also a little strange at the same time: Why would Dumbledore care so much about an ordinary leader of dark wizards?
"Professor Dumbledore, you seem to be very concerned about that Voldemort?" On the way to the principal's office, she couldn't help but ask this question to Dumbledore.
After hearing Hufflepuff's words, Dumbledore glanced at her first, and then slowly told her the story of Voldemort.
"Professor White, you haven't experienced that era, and you don't know how terrifying it is.
About twenty years ago, he gathered a group of wizards and wizards and named them 'Death Eaters'. Among the Death Eaters, some supported Voldemort's rise as master of Muggles and Muggle-borns, some hoped to gain power from him, and some simply feared him. In Voldemort's eyes, Death Eaters were not friends or family, but just his servants. They use the Unforgivable Curse at will, kill innocent people indiscriminately, and take pleasure in torturing people. The entire magical world is cast in his shadow. "
Hufflepuff nodded: Judging from his style, he is a standard dark wizard leader, but is there anything special? Are his methods extremely cruel?
"During the Wizarding War, he recruited a large number of werewolves and giants to work for him. Some people suspected that goblins were also involved, but there is no evidence. This is quite scary." Dumbledore continued to tell Professor White about the horror of Voldemort.
Hufflepuff:?
Doesn't it sound like anything special?
"Hundreds of wizards died because of him, and the entire British wizarding world was in panic." Dumbledore ended his introduction to Voldemort. He hoped that through this introduction, Professor White would clearly understand the terror of Voldemort and begin to face this enemy.
"So his scope of activities is limited to the UK?"
Dumbledore nodded again. Voldemort's influence overseas is relatively weak, and most of his Death Eaters are wizards from the British Isles.
Hufflepuff: This...
She couldn't say anything.
"Okay, then... well, killing hundreds of people with his accomplices is indeed very excessive. Is this the total number of murders in his lifetime, or the total number of people killed within a certain period of time?"
Dumbledore:? ? ?
What do you mean?
Naturally, Hufflepuff didn't mean anything else. She simply felt that Voldemort was nothing special. He was a dark wizard with little influence and an extremely abstract method of downfall. She didn't know why Principal Dumbledore valued him so much.
The two of them came to the eighth floor of the castle together and stopped in front of a huge and ugly stone monster.
"Iced grape juice!" Dumbledore read out the command, and the monster suddenly came to life and jumped to the side. The wall behind him split in two, revealing a spiral staircase that was slowly moving upwards.
After the two stepped on it, the stairs automatically led them to a shining oak door.
"It's great not to have to climb the stairs." Hufflepuff sighed from the bottom of her heart. The stairs in other places in the castle were not so convenient. She had the urge to change all the stairs in the school to escalators when she was standing on the stairs just now.
"This is a little benefit for us old people." Dumbledore blinked his eyes. Although there was an urgent matter at hand, he did not forget to make a joke.
He walked down the spiral staircase and pulled the brass door knocker in the shape of a griffon on the door. The door opened silently, revealing the spacious and beautiful principal's office behind the door.
There were many strange silverware on the table in the office. They kept rotating and spewed out small streams of smoke from time to time. The wall opposite the door was covered with portraits of former headmasters and headmistresses, who were now dozing in their frames.
What attracted Hufflepuff's attention the most was the tattered and wrinkled sorting hat placed on a partition.
She raised her eyebrows at the dirty hat. She had wanted to ask during the sorting ceremony, is this hat never washed?
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Sorry for being so late
These two days were like serving Umbridge in Azkaban...
Fortunately, I made it through, and I'm back to updating as normal! I'll put the updates for these two days in my account, and I'll find a way to make up for it.
The next update will be in the evening
