Evan and Harry turned their heads at the same time, and Nick, who was almost headless, floated towards them, his head still wobbling on his crumpled collar.

"Dumbledore is at Hogwarts, I heard Barrot the Bloody say, he just saw it. Barrow said that Dumbledore seemed to be in a good mood, but he was a little tired, and of course he was so busy, Barrow ......"

"Where is he?"

"Oh, humming and chirping on the Astronomy Tower, Ding Ling is long, this is his favorite pastime......"

"It's not Barrow the Bloody, I'm asking Dumbledore!" Harry said.

"Oh, in his office. "According to Barrow, he has a few things to do before he goes to bed." ”

After confirming Dumbledore's whereabouts, Harry immediately turned to look at Evan and said, "Aven, let's go find Dumbledore." ”

The thought of telling Dumbledore that he had a memory made him excited.

"Well, I should have gone to Dumbledore to talk to him, I said he must have known we had the memories!" replied Evan "He may have come back because of this." ”

He has no objection to going to Dumbledore's office, but what about Elaine with him in his arms?

It's definitely a nuisance for this guy to wake up in a while, and who knows what Elaine will do in a drunken state besides biting?

Besides, although Elaine weighs very little, it is difficult for Evan to hold her all the time.

No, Elaine has been hanging on him, and he's struggling too!

She hung like a sloth from a tree, no, on Aven's body......

Before they could make any move, the fat lady screamed hurriedly.

"Don't go to the headmaster, I'm lying to you! I'm angry that you woke me up! The password is still 'scum'!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the portrait door swirled upwards to reveal the entrance to the common room at the back.

"Wait for me, Harry, I'll go and hand Elaine over to Hermione. Evan walked in with the trouble.

It was a little late, but Hermione hadn't returned to her bedroom yet.

She curled up on the couch near the fireplace and fell asleep, a thick magic book falling beside her.

Evan woke her up and handed Elaine to her, briefly explaining her current condition: drunkenness and biting.

Anyway, the nature is extremely vicious, and the methods are extremely cruel, so Hermione should be careful for a while.

Looking at Hermione's appearance, she knew that she didn't take Elaine's affairs to heart, but instead focused all her energy on how Evan and how they got Slughorn's memory, what was in that memory, and what they were going to see Dumbledore.

Evan explained briefly, and then arrived at Dumbledore's office with Harry, who was a little impatient.

"The headmaster will definitely be happy to see this memory, he has urged us many times, and he must be very anxious. Harry said.

"Yes, he should be impatient, after all, if we want to defeat Voldemort, the first hurdle in front of us is the Horcrux, and it is also a link that cannot be bypassed, Dumbledore needs to know all the information about the Horcrux. Evan whispered.

He knew a rough idea, but there was no way to say it, and a lot of things had changed.

Dumbledore's knowledge of the information, and the judgments he made, were far more reliable than what Evan knew about the so-called future.

A few minutes later, Evan and Harry arrived at the monster door of the headmaster's office and gave the order to ascend the spiral staircase.

They knocked on the door, and Dumbledore's tired voice rang out from behind the door, "Come in." ”

The two pushed the door open, and Dumbledore's office was still the same, but outside the window was replaced by a star-studded black night sky.

"Ah, Aven, Harry!" Dumbledore said in surprise, "Is there anything wrong with coming so late?"

"Professor, we've got it, Slughorn's memory. Harry said immediately, pulling out a small glass bottle and showing it to Dumbledore.

"I've just got my hands on it, and I'm sure I'm going to have key information about Voldemort's Horcruxes. Evan said that he was actually more concerned about Dumbledore's next actions after confirming the contents of this crucial memory, and maybe he could move on to the next step!

After all, for Dumbledore, all the missing pieces of the puzzle should be all together.

Sure enough, the headmaster was stunned for a moment when he saw the small glass bottle Harry had taken out, and then a smile broke down on his face.

"That's exciting news! It's great! I know you can do it!"

Apparently completely oblivious that it was late at night, he hurried out from behind his desk, took Slughorn's memories, strode over to the cabinet with the meditation basin and picked up the stone basin, which Dumbledore placed on the table and poured the contents of the bottle into it.

"Now, we're finally going to see, quick, Aven, Harry, it's a big part. As he spoke, he motioned for Evan and Harry to enter the meditation basin.

Evan followed Harry into the meditation basin and lifted his feet off the ground, and he fell in the darkness into Slughorn's office years ago.

Still much younger Slughorn, with thick, shiny grass-yellow hair and a ginger mustache, sat in a comfortable winged armchair with his feet resting on large velvet cushions, a small glass of wine in one hand and a box of candied pineapple in the other. Six or seven teenage boys sat around Slughorn, including Tom Riddle, and Marvolo's black gemstone gold ring glittered on Riddle's hand.

"Sir, is Professor Meles retiring?" he asked.

"Tom, Tom, I know and can't tell you!" Slughorn reproachfully shook a frosted finger at him, but blinked again, a smile on his face, "I have to say, I want to know where you got your news, kid, you know more than half of the teachers." ”

Riddle smiled slightly, and the other boys laughed too, casting admiring glances at him.

"You're a ghost, you know things you shouldn't know, and you're careful to please important people. By the way, thank you for the pineapple, you guessed it, it's my favorite ......"

Several boys snickered at his words.

"Tom, I'm sure you'll be the Minister of Magic in twenty years, maybe fifteen, and if you give me candied pineapple regularly, there's absolutely no problem. You know, I have a very hard relationship in the ministry. ”

The other boys laughed again, but Tom Riddle only smiled slightly.

When he was about to speak, the other boys all shut up.

Obviously, he was by no means the oldest of the boys, but they all seemed to see him as a leader.

Among these students, Tom Riddle has absolute control, even far more than Slughorn and the other professors.

As you can imagine, during his time at the school, he was definitely the leading figure among the Hogwarts students, second only to the Headmaster and Dumbledore.