Chapter 41 Honesty

Vade likes the Weasley twins very much. They are the kind of people who will try to bring joy to others even in the most desperate situation. He originally just wanted to stop them from continuing to commit suicide, but looking at their bright expressions, he couldn't help but think--

Why should I hide the truth for Voldemort?

Voldemort tried every means to hide his true identity because he was afraid of Dumbledore; what good would it be for Vader to help him hide it?

On the contrary, if Vader is the only one who knows a secret, then once the other party finds out, his situation will be very dangerous. But if the secret is spread, it will be Voldemort who will be in trouble.

Thinking of this, the entangled mood of hiding the secret suddenly became clear.

But Vader didn't want to really spread the news completely, leaving Voldemort with no way out. After all, Dumbledore couldn't kill him completely now. Voldemort only hid his identity in school to seize the Philosopher's Stone. What if he found that he had no hope of seizing it, and he went on a killing spree in anger? The students in the school were no match for him at all. I don't know how many people would die before Dumbledore arrived.

He said carefully: "Actually..."

The Weasley twins' eyes lit up.

"--Let's find a quiet place to talk."

For Wade, the safest place besides his dormitory is the Umbrella House.

He remembered that there was a hidden Room of Requirement in this school, but when Wade watched the movie, he only paid attention to the plot and special effects and didn't pay attention to the specific location of the Room of Requirement. So now he has been looking for it for three months, but he still hasn't found it.

In order to avoid the same situation as the movie plot-when the protagonist is talking about a crucial secret, there is a pair of eavesdropping ears behind him, which leaks the secret to the villain, causing a series of tragedies-they came to the Umbrella House.

The holiday is about to start, and everyone's enthusiasm for learning has also decreased. At this time, there are only two people in the Umbrella House-Hermione is almost blocked by the high pile of books, and she looks exhausted from reading; and Ryan brought a pile of wood and is making a new target.

"Wow, is this your secret base?" Fred was the first to stick his head in and look around.

Soon, a red-haired head came in beside him, took a look and greeted him, saying, "Hello, Miss Know-it-all."

"Oh, I'm not good." Hermione said depressedly, "Does anyone know who Nick Flamel is? He is not in "The Great Wizards of the 20th Century" or "The Directory of Contemporary Famous Magicians". His name cannot be found in "Major Discoveries in Modern Magic" and "Research on the Development of Modern Witchcraft". I have almost flipped through a hundred books! Is he not written into the book at all?"

Several people inside and outside the room were stunned at the same time, and then said in unison: "What are you talking about, Hermione! That's Nick Flamel, of course he is in the book!"

Hermione slowly raised her head and blinked, with a rare look of distressing confusion on her face.

"You all... know Nick Flamel?"

"Of course!" Ryan lifted up a target and said, "He celebrated his 665th birthday last year, and it was published in the Daily Prophet! My father said he might be the oldest person in the world."

"665 years old?" Hermione repeated in disbelief.

Fred said, "Nick Flamel is the greatest alchemist, and the only Philosopher's Stone in the world was made by him."

"Philosopher's Stone?" Hermione thought she must have seen this term in that book.

George said, "The Philosopher's Stone can turn any metal into pure gold, and it can also make the elixir of life. My biggest dream when I was a child was to own a Philosopher's Stone."

"Turning stone into gold? Immortality?" Hermione repeated.

Wade, who turned around and closed the door, couldn't help but complain, "Hermione, have you become a repeater?"

Although Fred and others didn't know about repeaters, the meaning was simple and easy to understand, and they all laughed out loud.

Hermione looked at Wade eagerly: "So Wade... you don't know Nick Flamel, do you?"

Wade explained simply: "I've been learning alchemy recently, and the first thing I read was his work."

"Alchemy?" Ryan was surprised: "That's a sixth-grade course!"

"Yes, but I can start to lay the foundation from now on." Wade asked: "Isn't Theo with you today?"

"He went to help Professor Sprout clean up the greenhouse. I remembered that the target that was broken last time could not be repaired, so I just made a few new ones." Ryan explained, patted his clothes, put down his sleeves and walked over, picked up the water cup and drank water.

Wade gave him a [Clean Up] to get rid of the tiny wood chips.

Fred sat astride the chair and poked Hermione: "Hello! Are you okay? Are you still alive? Do you know what day it is?"

Hermione, who was lying on the table, stretched out her hand and slapped Fred's hand that was waving in front of her eyes. She sat up and said angrily: "If I had known, I would have asked directly - I have been looking for more than a month!"

Wade flipped through the books on her table, all of which were about modern and contemporary magic history. Of course, Nicolas Flamel could not be found in this way - he was born in France in the 14th century and was written in an earlier book.

"Hermione, why do you want to check Nicolas Flamel?" Ryan asked with concern. When Wade was not around, Hermione always generously answered everyone's questions, and everyone had long regarded her as a true friend.

"I, I just..." Hermione originally wanted to say it was nothing, because explaining the reason revealed that they violated the rules and broke into the restricted area in the middle of the night, but when she raised her head, she saw that everyone around her was looking at her with concern. She has magnanimous eyes and a sincere expression.

This made her feel extremely ashamed for her concealment.

"It's like this -" Hermione hesitated, and finally told them about their adventure, and how she, Harry and Ron went to visit the gamekeeper Hagrid after the Quidditch match. Zhong let them know that the thing guarded by the three-headed dog was related to Dumbledore and Nick Flamel.

"It seems that the big dog must be guarding Flamel's Philosopher's Stone." Hermione finally concluded: "I dare say Flamel asked Dumbledore to keep it for him! He knew that someone was paying attention to the Philosopher's Stone. , and he was friends with Dumbledore, so the Sorcerer’s Stone was placed in Hogwarts.”

Hermione glanced at Vader and did not say what Vader had guessed last time - although she now felt more and more that Vader was right. The whole thing might have been a test given by Dumbledore to Harry, but let other people know that Vader was right. Students knew that the headmaster was giving special treatment to a particular student, which was not a good thing for Harry.

What it means to be in the limelight, just look at how Harry, who had just entered school, was chased and intercepted by his classmates. Hermione knew that her friend had been deeply troubled by this.

"Then who's thinking about the Philosopher's Stone?" Ryan asked.

Hermione said: "Harry and Ron both thought it was Snape because his leg seemed to have been bitten by a three-headed dog. But I think-"

Before she finished speaking, George suddenly said: "——Qui Luo?"

Hermione was stuck for two seconds before saying: "What does it have to do with Professor Quirrell? Although I don't think he is very qualified -"