Chapter 145

After dinner, Harry walked into Dumbledore’s office.

It looked like Dumbledore was waiting for him.

Harry was not surprised and pulled out a chair and sat down.

“All problems are solved.” Harry asked

“Thanks to you for dealing with the basilisk and Tom, Rufus returned to the Ministry of Magic and explained everything to everyone. Dumbledore smiled and nodded.

“Why did you come back so late? Harry asked in confusion.

Logically, Dumbledore should have been back by noon.

“Scrimgeour took the initiative to bring up the idea of revoking Hagrid’s punishment. After all, it would take some time to persuade the Ministry of Magic to revoke an old case from decades ago. You know, if the Ministry of Magic follows the procedures, it will be a bit slow.”Dumbledore smiled.

“Hagrid’s matter?” Harry also smiled,”The Ministry of Magic has already rescinded his punishment?”

“Yes, I personally supervised them and I have taken back the order to revoke the punishment.” Dumbledore waved his hand, and a piece of parchment on the desk floated into Harry’s hand.

“I hope you can hand it over to Rubeus personally. He must have been waiting for this day for a long time, and all this is thanks to your help.” Dumbledore kept a gentle smile.

“”Hmm.” Harry looked at the order in his hand.

It was the Ministry of Magic admitting its previous misjudgment, apologizing to Hagrid, and restoring Hagrid’s qualification to use the wand normally.

“I think Hagrid will like this gift very much. Harry carefully put the order into the bag.

“Lucius has been stripped of his position as a school governor.” Dumbledore winked at Harry.

“After all, the testimony of the house elves is more useful than any other evidence. Arthur also came forward to testify about Lucius’s actions. Using dark magic items to harm a young wizard is not a small crime.”

“Just deprive him of his status as a school director?” Harry raised his eyebrows. If that was the case, Harry would be very disappointed with the Ministry of Magic.

“Lucius knew many officials in the Ministry of Magic, and they wanted to send him to Azkaban, but they lacked substantial evidence. He also donated a sum of money to the Ministry of Magic. Dumbledore shook his head.

“The Malfoy family probably forgot about this winter. Scrimgeour said he would personally lead a team to check the Malfoy family for dark magic items.”

“He still owes me a huge sum of money for 12 years.”Harry said calmly.

He has not forgotten the profits from the Potter family’s hair smoothener.

“If you need it, I can help you ask for it.”Dumbledore said

“No, just leave it with him for now, I’ll find time to go and ask him for it in person.” Harry shook his head.

“As long as you like it.” Dumbledore said so much, maybe he was a little thirsty, so he waved his hand and two cups flew over and landed in front of him and Harry.

His cup still had sugar water, and Harry’s cup was filled with milk.

“Hey, if I tell those students that I opened the Chamber of Secrets and hurt them, what will happen to the Malfoy family?”Harry smiled evilly.

Dumbledore was stunned.

“I didn’t hear anything, but I think he will be even more upset!” Dumbledore said mischievously

“When Scrimgeour arrived at the Ministry of Magic, he looked very angry. He said that all his Aurors were seriously injured because of Lucius’s conspiracy and because the Ministry of Magic did not have good intelligence. Dumbledore remembered the scene at that time and couldn’t help laughing.

“I clearly used healing to heal all the Aurors’ injuries?” Harry said in surprise.

“Haha, but no one knows. After all, it is a thousand-year-old basilisk, and no one in the Ministry of Magic knows this news.”

“For this, Lucius had to compensate each Auror with 100 gold Galleons, and the Ministry of Magic let them take a paid leave for one month.”Dumbledore narrowed his eyes, his tone full of joy, like an old man who got a bargain.

Although he bound himself to the rules and was subject to the orders of the Ministry of Magic, it did not mean that he had no emotions. He was also very happy to see Fudge’s face full of frustration.

“Scrimgeour is a good person who fights for the interests of his subordinates. Harry nodded.

“He has always been a smart man. Dumbledore nodded and said

“Let’s not talk about this anymore, let’s talk business.” Harry said after taking a sip of milk.

“What?” Dumbledore adjusted his glasses, his pale blue eyes shining with wisdom behind them.

“This, Tom’s notebook, what on earth is this!”Harry took out a notebook with a big hole in it from the bag and threw it on the desk.

Dumbledore’s face became serious, and he picked up his wand and circled and marked the notebook……….

After a long moment, he sighed and said,”It’s this evil thing, Harry. I really didn’t expect that he would dare to make this thing……….”

“I have been looking for what kind of dark magic Voldemort used to bring himself back to life, but I really didn’t think it was this kind.”Dumbledore paused, stared at Harry and said,”This is a Horcrux! An extremely evil dark magic, both for yourself and others! First, to create a Horcrux, you need to murder someone else’s life, and second, to create a Horcrux, you need to split your own soul.”

“You can choose any object and hide your separated soul in it. If the main body dies, the separated soul can be reborn by absorbing magic and vitality.”

Harry’s face darkened, and he couldn’t help touching his scar.

Before, he thought it was just an ordinary soul fragment, but now it seems:”I became Voldemort’s Horcrux?”

Harry said in disbelief.

Dumbledore nodded heavily:”I’m sorry, but I think so.”

Harry’s face was gloomy. This was really terrible news.

“Why can’t the Horcrux be detected, even by you?” Harry asked.

Neither the test by McGonagall and Snape at the beginning of the term, nor the subsequent personal examination of Lockhart by Dumbledore, could detect the existence of the Horcrux.

“The reason why Horcruxes are considered extremely evil dark magic items is actually because of their rituals, production process and methods. Once formed, as long as they are not exposed, they are just pure soul fragments and are not dark magic items.”Dumbledore explained

“Even if I hadn’t revealed some abilities similar to Voldemort’s and obtained some of his memories, you wouldn’t have known that there was a piece of his soul hidden in my body?” Harry sighed and said.

Dumbledore nodded.

Harry suddenly realized that it was no wonder that he didn’t realize that there was another soul hidden in his body before entering school.

“But fortunately, judging from the previous situation, the fragment of Voldemort’s soul in your body has no independent consciousness!” Dumbledore said solemnly.

“I think Voldemort himself didn’t realize that you would become his Horcrux.”

Harry frowned:”What do you mean?”