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 could think so..." Dumbledore said after thinking for a moment.
Harry looked a little excited. If Dumbledore could come back, I believe everyone would be excited.
Kyle watched them from the side without saying anything.
In fact, ever since he met Dumbledore, he had more doubts in his heart. In the final analysis, it was all because of Dumbledore's lame excuse just now.
To be honest, Dumbledore is not a perfect wizard, or to say that at times, he is a little cruel...
For example, in order to keep Harry away from the hype and glory of the wizarding world, he was allowed to live alone in the home of his aunt and uncle who hated magic for ten years.
But if you were to tell him that Dumbledore just stood by and watched his students and professors being slaughtered by Death Eaters in order to retire smoothly, not only Kyle, but even Ron would not believe it.
This excuse is terrible.
If Fawkes hadn't reacted, Kyle would have released the basilisk to kill Dumbledore.
But Fawkes did not react, which meant that the person in front of him was indeed Dumbledore. Besides, if he was an impostor, he would not have known that Harry was a Horcrux.
But this is also what Kyle doesn't understand the most.
But before he could ask, he was interrupted by Harry and the others.
"Harry, he is not Headmaster Dumbledore." Hermione suddenly said after coming to her senses, attracting everyone's attention.
"How is that possible, Hermione? He is obviously Professor Dumbledore." Harry asked in confusion, "I remember you said that only hair taken from a living person can be used to make Polyjuice Potion, so he can't be a fake, right?"
"No, I mean, he's a ghost!" Hermione pointed, "Look if you don't believe me, 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 lights, five long shadows were clearly cast on the floor and walls.
It looks like there is nothing wrong with it, but if you look closely, you will find that there is a shadow that is not a human figure, but a long-legged stool... the stool that Dumbledore is sitting on.
As for Dumbledore himself, he has no shadow.
It was 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's words, "I'm still alive for the time being, but I thought I could get away with it this time, but I didn't expect to be discovered by Miss Granger."
As he spoke, he stood up and walked under the light.
This time it can be clearly seen that he really has no shadow, and this situation only occurs on ghosts.
"I know what you want to ask." Dumbledore looked at Kyle, "I can only say that my current state is very special. I am not a ghost in the true sense."
"But that's not really living, right?" Kyle asked.
Dumbledore said nothing, which was considered as his consent.
It was not until a long time later that he said in a joking tone: "This is not something difficult to understand, Kyle. Don't forget that time conversion can only allow people to go back to the past, but cannot increase time out of thin air... I think you know what I am talking about."
This time it was Kyle's turn to be silent.
Of course he knew that Dumbledore had been stuck in time in 1899, and there was no telling how many times the same thing had been repeated, or how many years had passed.
The time involved did 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 never mentioned it after he came back, and Kyle didn't want to think about it too much.
The silence between the two made Harry, who was standing next to them, anxious. He looked at Dumbledore and then at Kyle, feeling dizzy and unable to understand what they meant at all.
"I will explain it later. No matter what you want to know, I will not hide it." Dumbledore spoke again: "But the most critical question now is how can we kill Tom completely."
Hearing this, Harry finally came to his senses, not caring whether Dumbledore was a ghost or not, and 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, child, I haven't told you the truth."
"I...I..." Harry looked a little confused, opening his mouth, not knowing what to say.
"Wait a moment." Kyle stepped forward, "Professor, if we can solve the soul fragment in Harry's body, we can continue the previous topic."
"You could say that." Dumbledore nodded. "But it's not easy. Harry is different from the other Horcruxes. We can't kill Tom's soul by destroying the carrier.
"The only way I can think of is for Tom to do it himself and kill his other self through the special connection between the two souls."
"But Voldemort has escaped," said Hermione.
"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 by himself, could he 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, head bowed.
It was obvious that he was not completely without resentment towards Dumbledore, but the way of this meeting was so unique that he didn't know how to express it for a moment.
"It's just a soul fragment. There's no need to make such a big fuss." Kyle suddenly spoke, breaking the awkwardness around them.
"Do you have a solution?" Dumbledore was stunned for a moment. "I have asked, and Nico's method of purifying Horcruxes is not suitable for use on Harry."
"That's not what I want to talk about." Kyle shook his head. "In fact, when I first sent the Horcrux Crown over, I discussed with Nico how to deal with the Horcruxes."
Kyle moved his fingers lightly, opened the lock of the box, and put half of his body inside.
"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 muffled.
"All of these, without exception, can affect the soul... If that's the case, then I thought of another thing that is also related to the soul, and you have all seen it."
"Oh, found it!" Kyle stood up.
At the same time, the temperature in the house dropped sharply, and the air seemed to be frozen...
Harry saw something float out of the trunk, its face hidden by a hood, and it made a rattling sound.
"Dementors..." Harry clutched his chest, and some bad memories came flooding back.
"Call the Gods to Protect..."
"Except your weapons!"
Hermione's wand spun and landed in Kyle's hand.
"Don't get excited, it's the key to solving the problem." Kyle returned the wand to Hermione and commanded the Dementor to float towards Harry.
Dumbledore seemed to understand Kyle's intention, and his blue eyes suddenly brightened.
But Kyle didn't notice this, he was still explaining to Harry.
"Remember? What happened with the Dementor's Kiss?"
Harry felt frozen all over, but he still said tremblingly: "Dementors...eat the soul...leaving only...a living body."
"That's right," Kyle said, "and Horcruxes are just soul fragments."
Now, everyone in the room, including Ron, understood what Kyle meant.
It is to use the Dementors' ability to suck out souls to get rid of Voldemort's soul fragments.
"What a brilliant idea!" Dumbledore said sincerely. He had never thought of this before.
"Actually, I've always wanted to try this method, but I'm worried that the Dementors might have a negative impact on the crown that carries the soul fragments, so I haven't made up my mind yet."
Kyle stopped in front of Harry and said, "This is a good opportunity to verify my idea."
Harry blinked, feeling like something was wrong.
You're worried that the Dementors will affect the crown, but aren't you worried that it will affect him?
Is he not even 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 kind, Hermione!" Harry was about to cry. This was what he wanted to say...
"So you're saying that there's no risk in letting Voldemort kill Harry?" Kyle asked.
"I, I didn't mean that, I just..." Hermione was anxious to explain something.
"Fall unconscious!" Kyle waved his wand lightly, and without any warning, Hermione fell unconscious and lay motionless on the ground.
"Kyle, you..."
"Collapse!"
Ron didn't move either.
"Good, now no one is bothering us," Kyle said, looking Harry straight in the eye. "Relax, it won't hurt at all."
Harry's throat moved. He wanted to reject Kyle righteously, but he couldn't say anything.
Because the Dementor was leaning over him, Harry felt his throat was frozen and couldn't say anything. In a trance, he saw what was under the Dementor's hood.
It was a hole that seemed to suck away all the joy.
Harry once thought that he had overcome the fear of Dementors, but now he felt that he was wrong. He heard the scream again, exactly the same as when he first encountered Dementors on the train.
This time the scream was even clearer, as if it was right next to my 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 increasingly blurred, his face turned as pale as a faded portrait, and he felt something squeezed out of his throat.
From the perspective of others, it was a ball of light whose color was hard to describe. It could be white, or light yellow, or blue, or red...
Its color seems to be constantly changing, yet it also seems to have never changed.
After the ball of light appeared, the Dementor became 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, and it immediately gave up the idea of a good meal and began to suck harder.
Finally, another ball of light appeared, which looked much smaller than the first one and the color was darker.
"That's it..." Dumbledore shouted excitedly, "Yes, Tom's soul fragment!"
