Chapter 186 Meeting at the Pig's Head Bar (Part 2)

Hogsmeade Village, Hog's Head Pub.

Li Chuan and Newt walked out of the fireplace and patted the dust on their bodies vigorously.

"Today is Saturday, and Dumbledore is usually here."

Newt turned his head to look for something in the bar while talking, and soon a smile appeared on his face.

"Look, there he is!"

Looking where Newt pointed, Li Chuan saw a middle-aged bearded male wizard wearing a knitted sweater with a shirt on his upper body and suit pants on his lower body.

It was Albus Dumbledore who was at the peak of his magical abilities in his middle age.

Albus obviously also noticed the existence of the two, put down the honey beer in his hand, and waved towards them with some surprise.

"Dumbledore!"

"Professor Dumbledore!"

Newt and Li Chuan hurried forward to greet Dumbledore.

At this time, the relationship between the two and Dumbledore can be seen just from the title.

Although Tom Foley, the predecessor of the body of Newt and Li Chuan, both studied at Hogwarts and were taught Defense Against the Dark Arts by Dumbledore.

But obviously the relationship between Newt and Dumbledore is more like a friend than a teacher-student, so he always calls Dumbledore by his first name when he sees him.

Newt is Hufflepuff, and Dumbledore is Gryffindor. Originally, apart from the normal teacher-student relationship, the two should not have any additional friendship. After all, they are not a college, but just teach a single class.

And when Newt was still in the middle of school, he was expelled from school for taking the blame for his crush's sister-in-law.

It's just that Dumbledore especially admires Newt's character, so he likes this student extra.

He also tried his best to help Newt when he was expelled. Although he still failed to prevent Newt from being expelled in the end, he also helped Newt retain the right to continue using the wand to cast spells.

According to Tom's memory, Li Chuan knew that the original Tom, a Slytherin student, was just a very inconspicuous one in Dumbledore's more than 20 years of teaching career.

So when he saw Dumbledore, he still called him in a more polite way.

"Newt, you will take the initiative to come to see me? This is a rare thing."

Dumbledore first greeted Newt happily, then looked at Li Chuan next to him, looked him up and down, and said with a smile:

"You are Tom, I have an impression of you. I still remember that in the class of learning how to fight against Boggarts, what you were most afraid of was the three-headed rune snake, because you were scared by it when you strayed into Knockturn Alley when you were a child." been."

"Professor, your memory is really good. It has been so many years and you can still remember it so clearly."

Li Chuan smiled, looking very surprised.

Dumbledore is right, it basically matches the memory of the original Tom, but that doesn't mean that Dumbledore really cares about his original body.

It's just that Dumbledore has an almost photographic memory.

Dumbledore can become the world's top master, proficient in all kinds of magic, alchemy, and almost all languages ​​​​of humans and magical creatures in the world. It is impossible without a good memory.

Now it's so close, it's nothing more than valuing the strength he showed in New York, so he deliberately said this.

Although he is the White Devil, Dumbledore is different from the simple Newt. In addition to his wisdom beyond ordinary people, he also has a very high emotional intelligence. Dumbledore actually knows when to say what.

"Your talent in herbal medicine has always been good. I didn't expect that your magic power has improved a lot after graduation. Albusford, bring us three glasses of butterbeer and some toffee finger cakes."

Dumbledore patted Li Chuan on the shoulder to show his closeness, and then shouted to his brother at the bar.

He is now in a rather awkward position. He wants to stop Grindelwald, and he is not trusted by the Ministry of Magic because the Blood Alliance cannot take action in person. He can only find a way to unite all the forces around him that can be united.

He secretly arranged for Newt to go to New York to send Thunderbird home, and the purpose was also to prevent Grindelwald from finding Momo, who might be his nephew.

It's just that Grindelwald was sent to prison by Newt, an Auror from the New York Ministry of Magic, and Tom Foley, a wizard who had never been in his eyes.

The key may be that his nephew, Credence, who has the blood of the Dumbledore family, was adopted by Tom Foley in the end.

That's why he mentioned in his letters to Newt a few times that he wanted to meet Tom Foley. If Tom Foley could try to get into his camp, then he would have another chance of winning against Grindelwald.

By the way, it can be further verified whether Credence is the son of his brother Albusford.

Just like that, the three of them chatted enthusiastically while drinking beer and eating toffee finger cakes while sitting in the Pig's Head Bar.

It was mainly Li Chuan and Dumbledore who were chatting, while Newt mostly listened, and he was not good at chatting.

"Professor, I know that you are the only wizard in the entire magic world who can compete with Grindelwald. Why are you unwilling to do it yourself?"

After chatting and feeling that the relationship has become much closer, Li Chuan asked pretending to be puzzled.

Newt, who usually listened to the two chatting, couldn't help pricking up his ears.

Dumbledore looked at Li Chuan and knew that if he wanted to win over this very capable student to help him, it would be impossible not to confess something.

So I also started to talk about the love and hatred between myself and Grindelwald, as well as some of my life experiences.

In fact, the story started with his younger sister Ariana, who was attacked by three Muggle boys when she was six years old, leaving a shadow in her heart and unwilling to learn magic anymore, so she became silent.

In order to help his sister vent his anger, his father taught three Muggle boys for violating the secrecy law, so he was imprisoned in Azkaban, and finally died of illness there.

So he didn't have a good impression of Muggles at first, and he was even a supporter of anti-Muggle wizards.

After graduation, he originally planned to make a big splash in the magic world, but because his mother was accidentally killed by his sister's outbreak of silence, he had to return to Godric's Hollow to take care of his sister.

At that time, he met Grindelwald who came to the valley to find the Deathly Hallows. The two hit it off and made a blood alliance that could not hurt each other, and determined to leave the valley together to carry out great magic reforms.

At this time, the younger brother Albusford, who came back from school, discovered all this. He objected to his elder brother's practice of neglecting to take care of his younger sister and going to carry out magical reforms with Grindelwald.

Grindelwald casts the Cruciatus Curse directly on Albusford, and Dumbledore tries to stop it, so it becomes a three-man melee.

The younger sister Ariana wanted to help and was hit by a spell to death in the chaos. This made Dumbledore regret his whole life and began to review everything about himself.

After traveling in the wizarding and Muggle society for several years, he completely gave up those extreme ideas at the beginning, and returned to Hogwarts to become an ordinary teacher.