Summer Hogwarts was not at all as interesting as Brandy imagined, the castle was dead silent without noise and laughter, only the whispers of portraits and his own slow footsteps could be heard in the corridors, and the common room was empty. If you want to play the next game of wizard chess, you have to play it yourself. Even more embarrassing was the lunch after sending everyone away - Brandi was desperate to find that he had to sit with Snape, looking at Snape who had to eat with an iron face, Brandi always felt that he was fighting with poisonous snakes for food, he didn't even dare to touch the chicken legs and sausages in front of Snape, knowing that they were his favorite food.

Thankfully, he doesn't have to spend an afternoon alone in his dorm like he did in the morning. After lunch, Brandi was about to slip away when Dumbledore stopped him.

"Mr. Barton, come to my office, don't worry, it's about your Transfiguration."

Brandi gave Professor McGonagall a curious look, who gave him a wink, and he immediately understood that Dumbledore was referring to his wand. There was nothing he didn't want to do, and he immediately followed Dumbledore excitedly, and walked upstairs in unison.

"This staircase is really unfriendly to the elderly," Dumbledore complained to Brandi as he scrambled upwards, "I wanted to change the way I went up and down the stairs a long time ago, but old Phineas didn't agree with me doing this, and the Muggles had something called an elevator, so it was convenient, wasn't it?" ”

Brandi looked at him with confusion, "Professor? Don't you usually take the stairs to go up and down the stairs? ”

"Of course not...... Unless I'm full and holding on. Dumbledore laughed, "Walking after dinner will help with digestion, otherwise my stomach will sometimes be awkward." Normally, when I want to go back to the office, I usually use Phantom Shifting, which is a kind of teleportation magic that you won't learn until sixth grade, of course. ”

They pushed open a door with a curtain.

"It's nice to be young, full of energy and vitality, and dare to face new things. To be honest, I didn't expect you to have the courage to provoke a female dragon who had lost a baby - I didn't think it was going to happen, I thought you could tell it wouldn't bother you. ”

"Professor... Although I don't doubt your intentions... But I still don't understand it. Brandi couldn't help but open his mouth, "You seem to mean that you've always known everything about Quirrell?" And Voldemort with the back of his head? But why don't you just expose him......"

"Well, Brandy, that's how he should be called, people are always afraid of what they don't know, and we need to break that." Dumbledore nodded appreciatively. "As for what you said, yes, I was suspicious of what was under Quirrell's turban from the beginning, and after the Halloween troll attack, it was almost certain that Voldemort was playing tricks - but Voldemort can't be eliminated now, I can easily defeat Quirrell in a second, but for Voldemort, it's just a matter of finding a servant again. In that case, why don't I use this as a test to hone our talented students? ”

Brandi blushed. "But aren't you afraid that the Philosopher's Stone will really be taken away by Voldemort? Then he really managed to resurrect himself! ”

"Oh, that......" Dumbledore's tone was unusually relaxed. After all, you have succeeded in stopping him, haven't you~ Moreover, if you take 10,000 steps back, it will be a blessing if he really uses the Philosopher's Stone to resurrect himself. There is no pie-in-the-sky good thing in this world...... If you want to survive in secret, you may have to pay a more painful price than your life. ”

With that, they had unconsciously arrived at the door of the principal's office, where two stone beasts were waiting for the lantern to watch them.

"The password is Blowgun, Lloyd, Riseska. Speaking of which, it's summer vacation, you really don't need to relax? I can put you in touch with the Italian Golem Society...... I heard that a couple of your old friends are on vacation there. ”

"The duty! Professor Dumbledore! The statues on the right said righteously, and they opened the hole. It looked particularly admirable, but Brandi swore that when Dumbledore passed by it, he overheard the stone statue haggling with Dumbledore to polish and wax its body...... What little reverence there was was vanished in an instant.

When he entered the principal's office, he saw at a glance what he had been thinking about on the desk.

Ever since he woke up from his coma, he had been thinking about his wand, and although it did give him a feeling that someone could stop me, it was like home, and the gold and silver nests were not as comfortable as his own kennels.

His wand was lying there quietly, I don't know what Dumbledore used, it looked like new, and there was no trace of the original fracture.

"Professor? Can I take it away? Brandi looked at him with delight.

"I'm afraid not yet...... I told you, I didn't fix it completely. Dumbledore spread his hands, "I can only barely reattach it with my means, but the core of its staff doesn't seem to be that easy...... Well, I suggest you pick it up and feel it. ”

Brandi nervously picked up his wand, and he was keenly aware of the wand change. The magic that had been easily imported was now being shut out by the wand.

"Professor...... What to do! ”

"Don't worry...... I can't fix it, but I just know that I might be able to fix it. ”

"Who is he?" Brandi said eagerly. "Do I have to give anything?"

"Hmm...... I can't say for sure. In fact, I haven't used it either... And probably for the first time in hundreds of years to repair wands..."Dumbledore frowned as he rummaged through his drawer. "It's weird, where did I go?"

"No...... Used? Brandi blinked in confusion, that thing wasn't human?

At this moment, Dumbledore suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, he fumbled for something, and then threw a shiny thing to him, Brandi subconsciously caught it, he saw the appearance of the thing clearly.

"Professor? What are you going to do with this for me! Brandi shuddered and lifted the Philosopher's Stone. Didn't you say you'd give it to another person to dispose of? ”

"That's right......," Dumbledore shrugged, "Aren't you just another person to Nicol and me." ”

“…… But it's, no, I can't, professor. ”

"I understand you don't know why I'm doing this, Brandy." Dumbledore looked at Brandi in a daze, and he was satisfied to find that Brandi's eyes were not greedy and fanatical, but puzzled and flustered.

"But it can theoretically solve the problems that plague you, and the vast magic power contained in the Philosopher's Stone may be able to help you. Of course, to find out why, you need to find a mentor to understand the role of chalcedony. It's a bit complicated to say, and I'm not willing to waste my saliva: that's why I recommend it to you—" He came back to his senses, picked up the broken hat that Brandy had a headache from the sight, and chuckled at him inscrutablely. "Hogwarts Soul Cutting Hand, Mr. Sorting Hat."

…………

Brandi tensed his nerves until he hurried back to his dorm, his hands clutching the Sorting Hat tightly and the Philosopher's Stone in his pants pocket.

"Stand there, Yale, don't keep jumping on my bed."

Grabbed Yale by the neck and lowered it to the ground, watching it disappear dissatisfiedly outside the dorm door. Brandi was covered in a cold sweat as he pulled out the Philosopher's Stone. In the sunlight, the crystal clear Philosopher's Stone shines with a mesmerizing light.

But only he knew how terrible this thing was...... He even suspected that even Dumbledore didn't know.

Yes, he didn't want to accept the Philosopher's Stone because it was too valuable, not to mention the price that the Headmaster said about immortality, and the fact that the Philosopher's Stone could turn stones into gold could also make him feel tempted - but all this was based on the fact that he had never seen the true face of the Philosopher's Stone.

He rubbed the cold stone. I remembered what I had seen in the Mirror of Eris that day—

There was only himself in the mirror, which he had expected, he had long known that everything that tried to peek into his mind would be resisted by his own special soul structure, and the mental magic of the magic mirror did not work for him at all.

But seconds later, he was surprised to see something else appear in the mirror.

The room in the mirror is covered with layers of corpses! All the corpses were featureless, their bodies were in tatters, their arms and flesh were littered everywhere, and the walls and ceilings were stained with a thick red and white liquid, which was clearly blood and brains!

Brandi was dumbfounded, his brain went blank and his internal organs were convulsing......

Why did he see these terrible things! Is this the sight that the dark wizard he defeated most wants to see?

And at this moment, something even more unexpected happened to him-

The flesh, the blood, the brains, the blank heads...... All of a sudden, as if attracted by something, began to rush in the direction of the mirror, as if there was a whirlpool in the room, constantly tearing them in the center. His body stiffened suddenly, and he could clearly see the torn bodies snaking upwards around his feet, and then little by little into his trouser pockets...... He subconsciously lowered his head, it was still empty in reality, but the sight was so terrifying that he could feel the slippery thing slipping over his legs.

Brandi didn't dare to move as if he had been spelled by a spell. I watched as all the horrible things in the room slowly entered my pocket, and the room became empty again.

Inside the mirror, a bright red stone floated out of his pocket, and it trembled with excitement.

Brandi suddenly remembered Quirrena's vanished corpse, and remembered what Dumbledore had told him and Harry that the Mirror of Eris could reveal his deepest desires...... But if a magical object has its consciousness, will it see it......

What does it want most?