Chapter 19: Rumors and Confrontations

The next day, the news of Colin's attack spread, and the young wizards suddenly woke up from their previous state of mind, and the people in Hogwarts became panicked, but the school also took some measures, first, the number of teachers in the future night parades will increase, and the number of parades will increase, and second, a dueling club will be organized in the school auditorium tonight to train the students in dueling skills.

Of course, there is also a small notice in the notification bar, which has also attracted the attention of many students, Bernard Rochefort, the alchemy teacher of our school, will sell the amulet, which is guaranteed to be effective, which has attracted the attention of many students.

And now, the protagonist that everyone is concerned about is sitting in his classroom, where he is buried in thought, yes! Bernard was thinking, thinking about why Ginny would release a basilisk to attack the students with the diary already in his possession, was there anything he didn't know about it? Isn't this the secret of the Horcrux?

Speaking of which, Bernard really didn't know anything about Horcruxes, but now that he thinks about it, the magic of Horcruxes is really amazing, and living creatures can make Horcruxes, like Nagini and Harry; Magic items can be used as Horcruxes, Hufflepuff Gold Cups, Ravenclaw Tiaras, Slytherin Lockets, and Resurrection Stones of the Peverell Family; Ordinary items can also be used as Horcruxes, like this diary in front of you.

Among these Horcruxes, if you want to say that the most special is this diary, it is the only Horcrux that can think for itself, will take the initiative, and will absorb energy to resurrect, just like the Slytherin locket, Harry has been wearing it for so long, it is just out of control, and there is no other special performance at all.

But the diary is different, it can communicate with Ginny and Harry, it can lure them into believing it, it can absorb Ginny's life force, and even now it can control Ginny in a way that Bernard doesn't understand, which is puzzling to Bernard.

Bernard's eyes were a little glazed, he opened the diary, picked up a quill, and wrote "Bernard Rochefort" on the first page of the diary, and then he was about to turn the page, and then, the scene that Bernard was expecting appeared, and his name disappeared.

As if in disbelief, Bernard wrote his name again, this time the handwriting disappeared again, but then a new line emerged.

"Hello, Rochefort, I'm Tom Riddle."

"Tom Riddle? Who is it? ”

"An ordinary student at Hogwarts, this is his diary, I am a memory of him. Who are you? ”

"Me! I am an alchemy teacher at Hogwarts. I don't know if Ginny revealed her identity to him, but Bernard decided to tell the truth.

"Alchemy?! I remember there was no alchemy at Hogwarts! ”

"Yes, not before, but then I graduated from Beauxbatons and came to Hogwarts to teach alchemy."

"Beauxbatons? You're French! I heard that it was beautiful, but unfortunately I didn't go there. Tom Riddle's tone was a little sad.

"It's beautiful, but Hogwarts isn't bad." Bernard naturally comforted.

"Do you know about the recent attack?" The conversation is starting to change direction.

"You know, yesterday a student was petrified, and Dumbledore had a meeting to talk about it, saying that a student was killed fifty years ago, and asked the teachers to increase the number of night patrols." Bernard naturally told him about it.

"Do you know who opened the Chamber of Secrets fifty years ago?"

"Isn't it Rubeus Hagrid?" Bernard still asked rhetorically.

This time the diary was not so quick to reply, and Bernard felt amused in his heart, but did not indicate it, and naturally continued to write.

"Do you know how to lift the petrification curse?" Maybe it was blinded by Bernard's unreasonable cards, the diary never replied, and sighed in disappointment, Bernard decided to end here today, who knew that a large paragraph appeared on the diary.

This was not expected by Bernard at all, but it was undoubtedly the best result so far, and after taking a closer look at the solution given by Voldemort in his youth, Bernard had to admire his genius, and some of the ideas were completely ingenious.

Pointing out some of these flaws, Bernard went on to write down the curse and solution of the snake god Edjo, and suggested improvements that he thought were feasible. After pausing his pen and waiting for a while, the words of the diary came to mind, although the young Voldemort was considered to be knowledgeable, but obviously did not understand the development of modern magic, many ideas came from some ancient magical theories, but the combination ideas were really interesting.

In this way, Bernard and the young Voldemort went back and forth, from petrifying curses to the necessary skills of spell solvers, from essential skills to alchemy, from alchemy to magic literature, and from magic literature to ritual magic, in the process Bernard introduced a lot of new knowledge to Tom Riddle, and similarly, Tom Riddle also introduced a lot of knowledge to Bernard, and the topic they are talking about now makes Bernard so shocked that he even forgets to maintain the Occlumency.

A stealthy fluctuation spread to Bernard, who had always been on guard, although Bernard was distracted for a while, but the alertness retained by the perennial battle played a role, and the first time he ran the brain occlusion, after a period of fruitless testing, this fluctuation slowly disappeared.

Bernard understood that the fluctuation just now was the diary's means of controlling Ginny, and if Bernard hadn't been running Occlumency, he would have been controlled by it in the course of conversation.

I have to say that Voldemort is worthy of being a master of playing with people's hearts, and gradually discovered the weak point of Bernard's knowledge in the conversation, and some long-standing magical knowledge was slowly thrown out by him, which also led the two to talk deeper and deeper, until the knowledge thrown by Voldemort just now finally made Bernard unable to bear the excitement in his heart and let go of his defense, if it wasn't for Bernard's quick reaction, our book would be finished.

Carefully putting the journal away, Bernard, who had seen its power, also treated the journal like a companion - it was carefully sealed in a box and placed away. After doing all this, Bernard took up his pen again, this time to his mentor Nick Lemay, and if Voldemort was telling the truth, the only way he could know about it was his mentor.

After all, he has been in the wizarding world for so long, but he didn't hear about this kind of magic from Voldemort until today, so it is very likely that the relevant magic books have been destroyed a long time ago, and only his mentor and Hogwarts can still see it, but unfortunately, Hogwarts itself can already be sure that there is none, and even if there is, it can only be in Dumbledore's hands.

Sending the owl away, Bernard sat there with Leia in his arms, not knowing what he was thinking......