He hurried through the rows of torches to Snape's office unhurriedly. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info He didn't expect Phoenix to come so early, so he quickly closed the book he was reading and got up to greet him.

"Master," Snape bowed, "and I have the latest news. ”

"Tell me about it. Phoenix sat behind Snape's desk without a dove, pulling out a stool and sitting by the fire.

Winter goes to spring, but the stove is still necessary, because the underground classroom is always dark and damp. Phoenix stared blankly at the wand flipping back and forth in his hand, his whole body limply sunk into the soft chair, waiting for Snape to speak.

"The Dark Lord has given me a new mission," Snape said in a low voice as he stood beside Phoenix, "and he wants me to pay attention to the situation on the eighth floor, especially the corridor with the tapestry of the Strange Rods beating the Silly Barnabas. Very few students will go anywhere unless they have to find a principal. I don't know what he meant by that. ”

Phoenix was stunned for a moment, then smiled happily and turned his head to speak.

"Very well, it seems that he got it. ”

"I'm sorry, understand what?" he said, looking at Phoenix with a confused expression.

"He overcame an insurmountable obstacle," Phoenix couldn't sit still, so he got up and paced back. "I had planned to let him know in advance, and I or Dumbledore had discovered his best secret. Now it seems that I was right, Hogwarts is indeed a secret location. And he didn't choose what I already knew. ”

"So he didn't let you take anything?"

"Nope. Just focusing on who's been there, and of course I didn't say, you and Potter have been in and out of there with a bunch of students. I guess there's a secret room there, right?"

"Not bad. Phoenix said briefly.

The curse runes he had Seist place in the halls of the Ministry of Magic were a very vicious form of magic. Voldemort had also used it on the Resurrection Stone Ring, and there was only one way to break it, to split his own soul, and then use magic to transfer the curse to the split soul. In order to avoid the curse devouring his entire soul, resulting in becoming a walking dead forever.

Generally speaking, a person who touches a curse will die instantly. Wizards with high mana can temporarily slow its spread. But it will eventually spread all over the body, and eventually become a mindless monster.

Originally, when Phoenix restored Voldemort's body, he took this move into consideration, and he specially used Lins's unique spell to give Voldemort an extremely powerful body. Hopefully, when it comes to deciding whether to let the main soul perish, be reborn through a Horcrux, or sacrifice a Horcrux. Add a weight and make a decision in Phoenix's favor.

Voldemort's Horcruxes were most likely placed in places unknown to anyone. Without anyone to take them away, Voldemort will never be able to rely on the power of the Horcrux to rise from the ground up, but he will become a bomb that will explode at a time that never knows when.

Having him self-destruct one is definitely a very difficult decision. Because the soul cannot be divided indefinitely, one less will be one step closer to the death he fears. Voldemort was so afraid of death that he probably didn't have no other way to use this trick.

Phoenix stopped.

"Are you sure he's okay?"

"For sure. Injuries are certain, but not dangerous. Judging by the way he showed up after the battle at the Ministry of Magic, I don't even think there will be any significant difference between him and his previous state in the next few months. Still powerful, no doubt. Snape kept an eye on him, answering questions as soon as he heard them.

He began to spin in circles again, his wand spinning so fast that it almost turned into a windmill.

That is, Voldemort himself didn't think about which method to deal with. Phoenix thought that Voldemort was probably the first to escape, and even if he inevitably touched the curse, he could hold on for a while. It could have been up to a year, and Dumbledore wasn't so lucky, repeating the curse several times, and it was difficult for him to survive the summer.

He chose to retrieve the Horcruxes hidden at Hogwarts when necessary. This means that of Voldemort's unknown number of Horcruxes, this one is probably the least safe. Think about it, no matter how secret a place in Hogwarts is, it is possible that students will accidentally discover it. It would be too careless to have this Horcrux also destroyed like the diary of the second grade.

Voldemort should have known that the diary had been lost by Lucius. I'm afraid that putting Lucius in prison and being tortured is a combination of crimes.

So how many Horcruxes does he have - Voldemort is already in the trap anyway, and no matter what he chooses, Phoenix has a way to deal with it. He turned to think about the question that had been bothering him for a long time.

Phoenix has traveled to many places and seen all kinds of magic, even non-magical civilizations. But when it comes to the soul, he has always stayed away. If you don't do magic involving the soul well, you will put yourself in an embarrassing situation between life and death, which is far more terrible than becoming a ghost.

How many times a soul can split, he can't figure it out. It is certain that he can't split indefinitely, but if he can split ten or twenty times, then he can only calmly face Voldemort's endless harassment. The devil knows where he would hide so many Horcruxes.

If this was the case, there was no way, he had already tried his best to save the British.

"Master, it's time for us to go. Snape reminded Phoenix as he was lost in thought.

He shouldn't have been too close to Phoenix, lest he arouse the suspicion of some interested Slytherin students whose parents or relatives were Death Eaters. Voldemort's attitude towards Phoenix is very clear, almost no one assigned to the task is thinking about how to kill him. Just because they don't show it doesn't mean they don't know.

"Oh," Phoenix came back to his senses, "it's time for class?"

"Yes, Defence Against the Dark Arts. Snape blinked.

"Anyway, if you're a substitute teacher, I won't go. "I'll go to the library and think about it." ”

Snape nodded, and as soon as he was out the door, a few Hufflepuffs hurried out of the common room and ran outside.

As he reached the door of the hall, Phoenix saw Professor McGonagall and a strange bearded wizard talking on the doorstep.

"Who is he?" Phoenix asked, "the new teacher?"

"No," Snape looked at the wizard carefully, "it should be the Aurors. Probably sent by Scrimgeour and heard that he had a Hogwarts conservation plan. Considering how much the Dark Lord wanted to kill Potter. ”

I don't know if he noticed it, but Voldemort was also interested in his position. They didn't stop there, they turned and left. Phoenix said as he walked, "Aren't you infiltrating?

"There's not much progress at the moment, the protections for important people have been strengthened, and several attempts to cast the Imperius Curse have not been found. If it hadn't been for Selwyn's reckless killing of Blarod, perhaps Yaxley would have been able to get close to Sinkenis. Snape sneered.

Phoenix smiled strangely. I said goodbye to him and continued my way upstairs. (To be continued.) )