Chapter 933 Dumbledore is a ghost?

"Are you...really?"

After a brief moment of panic, Harry looked at Dumbledore in front of him and asked hopefully.

"You can think so..." Dumbledore said after thinking for a moment.

Harry looked a little excited. If Dumbledore could come back, I believe everyone would be very excited.

Kyle looked at them from the side and said nothing.

In fact, after meeting Dumbledore, he had more doubts in his heart. In the final analysis, it was still because of Dumbledore's lame reason just now.

To be honest, Dumbledore was not a perfect wizard, or at some points, he was a little cruel...

For example, in order to keep Harry away from the adulation and glory of the wizarding world, he was allowed to live alone in the house of his aunt and uncle who hated magic for ten years.

I am afraid that even Ron, not to mention Kyle, would not believe it if Dumbledore just watched students and professors being massacred by Death Eaters in order to retire smoothly.

This is such a lame excuse.

If Fawkes hadn't responded, Kyle would have released the basilisk and killed Dumbledore.

But Fox didn't react, indicating that the person in front of him was indeed Dumbledore. In addition, if he was an impostor, he would not know that Harry was a Horcrux.

But this is what Kyle doesn't understand the most.

But before he could ask, he was interrupted by Harry and the others.

"Harry, he is not Principal Dumbledore." Hermione suddenly said after coming back to her senses, attracting everyone's attention.

"How is that possible, Hermione? He is obviously Professor Dumbledore." Harry wondered: "I remember you said that only hair taken from living people can be used to make Polyjuice Potion, so it must be impossible for him It’s fake, right?”

"No, I mean, he is a ghost!" Hermione pointed her finger, "If you don't believe me, look, he has no shadow."

shadow……

Everyone's eyes turned to Dumbledore.

Then Kyle's pupils shrank.

The lights in the room were very bright, and under the illumination of the lamp, five long shadows were clearly reflected on the floor and walls.

There seems to be nothing wrong with it, but if you look closely, you will find that there is a shadow that is not a person, but a long-legged stool... the stool where Dumbledore is sitting.

As for Dumbledore himself, he has no shadow.

It's just that the position of the stool seemed to have been deliberately adjusted, and the shadow was stretched very long. If Hermione hadn't reminded him, Kyle really wouldn't have noticed anything wrong.

"Professor, you..."

"Ah, don't be nervous." Dumbledore waved his hand and interrupted Kyle, "I am still alive for the time being, but I thought I could get away with it this time, but I didn't expect that Miss Granger discovered me. "

As he spoke, he stood up and walked under the light.

This time it can be clearly seen that he does not have a shadow, and this situation only occurs with ghosts.

"I know what you want to ask." Dumbledore looked at Kyle, "I can only say that my current state is very special, and I am not a ghost in the true sense."

"But it's not really alive, right?" Kyle asked.

Dumbledore said nothing, acquiescing.

It wasn't until a long time later that he said in a joking tone: "This is not a difficult thing to understand, Kyle, don't forget, time transfer can only make people go back to the past, and cannot increase it out of thin air. Time... I think you know what I'm talking about."

This time it was Kyle's turn to be silent.

Of course he knew that Dumbledore had been excluded from time in 1899. He didn't know how many times he had experienced the same thing, and he didn't know how many years had passed.

The time here does not appear out of thin air, and of course it cannot disappear out of thin air.

In other words, Dumbledore's actual age is much older than he is now... but he has never mentioned it since he came back, and Kyle doesn't want to think about it too much.

The silence between the two made Harry next to him anxious. He looked at Dumbledore and then at Kyle, but his head felt dizzy and he couldn't understand what they meant.

"I will explain it later. No matter what you want to know, I will not hide it." Dumbledore said again: "But the most critical question now is how can we kill Tom completely."

After hearing this, Harry finally came back to his senses and no longer cared about whether Dumbledore was a ghost. He immediately asked loudly: "Professor, I really am... am..."

"Horcrux." Dumbledore said for him: "Yes, in a sense, you are indeed a Horcrux of Voldemort... I'm sorry, kid, I never told you the truth."

"I...I..." Harry looked a little dazed, his mouth open, but he didn't know what to say.

"Wait a moment." Kyle stepped forward, "Professor, have you solved the soul fragment in Harry's body? Then we can continue the topic."

"You could say that." Dumbledore nodded. "But this is not easy. Harry is different from other Horcruxes. We cannot kill Tom's soul by destroying the carrier.

"The only way I can think of is for Tom to do it himself and kill the other self through the special connection between the two souls."

"But Voldemort has escaped," Hermione said.

"Yes, he ran away." Dumbledore's expression was solemn. "It's my fault. I stubbornly believed that only when Harry could face all this calmly, he could have the prerequisite to defeat Tom."

"It's just that I didn't expect Tom to lose..." Dumbledore looked at Harry, "Forgive me, I should have told you this earlier."

Harry stood there with his head down.

It can be seen that he was not completely without resentment towards Dumbledore, but the way of meeting this time was too unique, and he didn't know how to express it for a while.

"It's just a soul fragment, how can it be so troublesome." Kyle suddenly spoke, breaking the embarrassment around.

"Do you have a way?" Dumbledore was stunned for a moment, "I asked, and Nico's way of purifying the Horcrux is not suitable for Harry."

"That's not what I want to say." Kyle shook his head, "In fact, when I first sent the Horcrux crown over, I discussed with Nico how to solve the Horcrux."

Kyle's fingers moved lightly, opened the lock of the box, and half of his body was inserted in.

"To be honest, this thing seems tricky, but there are many solutions... Fiendfyre, Basilisk Fangs, and the Killing Curse are all options."

Kyle's voice came from the box, sounding somewhat dull.

"All of these can work on the soul without exception... In this case, I thought of another thing that is also related to the soul, and you have all seen it."

"Oh, I found it!" Kyle stood up.

At the same time, the temperature in the room dropped sharply, and the air seemed to freeze...

Harry saw something floating out of the box, its face covered by a hood, and it made a crackling sound.

"Dementor..." Harry clutched his chest, and some bad memories came like a tide.

"Expecto Patronus..."

"Expelliarmus!"

Hermione's wand spun and fell into Kyle's hand.

"Don't get excited, it is the key to solving the problem." Kyle returned the wand to Hermione, and at the same time directed the Dementor to float towards Harry.

Dumbledore seemed to understand Kyle's intention, and his blue eyes suddenly became bright.

But Kyle didn't notice this, he was still explaining to Harry.

"Remember? What is the Dementor's kiss?"

Harry felt frozen all over, but he still said tremblingly: "Dementors... devour the soul... only... a living body is left."

"That's right." Kyle said, "and the Horcrux is just the soul fragment."

Now, everyone in the room, including Ron, understood what Kyle meant.

It is to use the Dementor's ability to suck out the soul to get rid of Voldemort's soul fragment.

"Great idea!" Dumbledore said sincerely, he had never thought of this.

"In fact, I have always wanted to try this method, but I am worried that the Dementor may have a bad effect on the crown that carries the soul fragment, so I have never made up my mind."

Kyle stopped in front of Harry and said, "It just happens that this time I can verify my idea."

Harry blinked, always feeling that something was wrong.

Worried about the Dementors affecting the crown, but not worried about affecting him?

Is he still not better than a crown?

"Wait..." Hermione hurriedly stopped Kyle, "Your method has not been tested yet, no, what if the Dementors devour Harry's soul? This is too risky, I don't agree!"

"You are so nice, Hermione!" Harry's tears were about to flow out, this is what he wanted to say...

"So you mean, letting Voldemort kill Harry is not risky?" Kyle asked back.

"I, I don't mean that, I just..." Hermione was anxious to explain something.

"Fainted!" Kyle waved his wand lightly, without any warning, Hermione fainted and lay on the ground motionless.

"Kyle, you..."

"Fainted!"

Ron also stopped moving.

"Good, no one disturbs us now." Kyle said, staring straight at Harry, "Relax, it doesn't hurt at all."

Harry's throat moved. He wanted to reject Kyle righteously, but he couldn't say anything when the words came to his mouth.

Because the Dementors were already leaning over him, Harry felt that his throat was frozen and he couldn't say anything. In a trance, he saw what was underneath the Dementor's hood.

It was a hole that seemed to suck away all the happiness.

Harry once thought that he had overcome the fear brought by the Dementors, but now he felt that he was wrong. He heard the scream again, exactly the same as when he first encountered the Dementors on the train.

This time the scream was even clearer, as if it was right next to his ear.

Harry subconsciously wanted to use the Patronus Charm, but his fingers seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and he couldn't lift the wand.

Harry's eyes became more and more blurred, his face was as gray as a faded portrait, and he felt something squeezed out of his throat.

From the perspective of others, it was a ball of light that could not be described in what color, maybe white, or light yellow, or blue, red...

Its color seemed to be changing all the time, and it seemed to have never changed.

After this ball of light appeared, the Dementor was obviously excited and wanted to swallow it in one gulp, but at this time, a long silver thread appeared behind it.

It was a tentacle of a jellyfish, wrapped around the dementor's neck. It immediately gave up the idea of ​​a good meal and started sucking harder.

Finally, another ball of light appeared, looking much smaller and darker than the first one.

"That's it..." Dumbledore shouted excitedly: "Yes, Tom's soul fragment!"

"Eat it!" The jellyfish let go of the Dementor, and its tentacles wrapped around Harry's soul, forming a protective layer.

But the Dementor did not move. Its eye sockets, which had only a thin layer of gray scab, actually showed a clear surprise at a certain moment.

It wasn't until Kyle repeated it again that it suddenly leaned down and pointed the large shapeless hole under the hood at the unprotected, slightly smaller ball of light.

"Woo!"

A dark wind seemed to blow in the room, the ball of light was surrounded by black mist, and various creepy howls came from the depths.

But soon these sounds, together with the black mist, were sucked into the Dementor's mouth. The light ball wanted to resist, but it only flashed twice and was completely extinguished.

The Dementor was floating there, showing an indescribable sense of satisfaction.

"This..." Kyle looked at Dumbledore in confusion, "Is this settled?"

"Probably, right." Dumbledore was also a little unsure.

Mainly because it's too simple. After all, it's just a fragment of Voldemort's soul, eaten by dementors like jelly beans?

He could feel that when the dementor sucked it into his mouth, the soul breath on the ball of light completely dissipated.

Who can find out that the most evil creatures like Dementors are naturally capable of restraining the most evil Horcrux black magic?

"I just said this trick will definitely work." Kyle put the Dementor back into the box and came to Harry to check it again.

Fortunately, after the dementors disappeared, the ball of light representing his soul sank again and returned to his body.

Harry's body shook violently, and his face turned red for a moment. Although he was still in a coma, it wouldn't take long for him to wake up.

After knowing that he was fine, Kyle looked at Dumbledore.

"Okay, what do you want to know?" Dumbledore didn't seem to have recovered from the shock of the Dementor swallowing the Horcrux, but he had no intention of breaking his promise.

"When did it happen?"

"After I took Draco Malfoy to Severus' office," Dumbledore said.

"It happened to be the day of your funeral?"

"Well, it will take a few more days," Dumbledore said.

"So you rescued Malfoy?" Kyle asked, "You also knocked out Professor Flitwick."

"That was what Aberforth did." Dumbledore corrected: "He sneak-attacked Filius, it has nothing to do with me."

"No wonder." Kyle squinted his eyes, "You haven't appeared since that time, it's like you disappeared."

"No way, I thought I could wait until this decisive battle." Dumbledore smiled and said helplessly.

"Then you are..." Kyle looked at Dumbledore carefully.

He is said to be a ghost, but his current appearance is almost indistinguishable from a real person, which is why Kyle didn't notice any clues at first.

"It's a price," Dumbledore said. "That day I met Ms. Rowena Ravenclaw. I begged her to help me, at least to allow me to complete one last thing for Hogwarts. She agreed. ”

Kyle's eyes flickered. He didn't expect Rowena Ravenclaw to be involved.

"What did she do?"

"I'm sorry, but that's the only thing I can't tell you," Dumbledore said.

"Okay, then what are you going to do?" Kyle did not continue to ask, and took the initiative to change the subject: "Is it to help my mother?"

"That was just incidental and not part of my plans," Dumbledore said.

"Help deal with Voldemort?"

"This was my initial thought," Dumbledore said. "I wanted to leave some strength to help you at a critical moment, but later I discovered that you can still defeat Tom even without my help."

"Then...tell me that Harry is a Horcrux?"

"No." Dumbledore shook his head again.

Kyle couldn't guess it now.

"It's your business." Dumbledore reminded: "Remember what we said before Harry came?"

"Of course." Kyle nodded, "You said you wanted to retire and deliberately watched the Death Eaters causing trouble in Hogwarts."

"That's right," Dumbledore said. "Tomorrow, I will appear in front of everyone and say those words again."

"That way you will be inundated with howling letters." Kyle raised his head suddenly, "Coupled with the fake funeral that fooled everyone before, Professor Dumbledore, you will probably become a shame to the British wizarding community overnight."

"Ah, this is what I want to do." Dumbledore said with a smile: "If you can draw everyone's attention and hatred to me, no one will pay attention to what you have done."

"Ah?" Kyle pointed at himself, "What did I do?"

"Those Death Eaters who died from the fire." Dumbledore said, "Many people have heard what Tom and you said, and when they gradually calm down, they will always be suspicious of you.

"Oh, by the way, there's also the big piece of biting cabbage behind the castle. You did it too... Have you ever thought about how many wizards you killed in this war?"

Kyle pursed his lips. He really didn't know. Apart from those one or two, Dumbledore said that the most were the two times.

The Fiendfyre explosion only killed about a hundred Death Eaters, and more were injured.

And the biting kale... after all, it was a plant, and those Death Eaters were not fools who didn't know how to run away, so there must not be many...

"Two hundred and sixty..." Dumbledore helped Kyle say a number. "This is just an approximation."

"So there must be a target that is big enough to attract all the attention and hatred, so that people subconsciously forget other things."

"I think I'm just right."

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