In the Headmaster's office at Hogwarts, the sky outside the window was getting dark.

Rare alchemy research materials are to an alchemist what cherishing ingredients is to a chef's appeal.

As the conversation shifted from the distant future of the wizarding world to Voldemort's Horcruxes, the conversation between Nicol Lemay and Elena became more and more speculative, with the two wizards, one old and one young, smiling at each other and showing the same meaningful smiles of excitement.

Obviously, in the eyes of these two men, the "most dangerous dark wizard" of all time has no deterrent power.

Dumbledore looked worried and was about to say something, but Grindelwald spoke first and said lightly.

"Don't be in a hurry to question it, Albus. You've worried many times before, but if she's really that untrustworthy, there's no 'old and new wizards' gathering like this. If you think about it, what do you think you have to worry about? Even if Tom is so weird, it's all too easy to destroy a remnant. ”

“...... That's just as well. ”

Dumbledore looked around at the "Tarot Society" in the room and nodded, agreeing with the statement.

Even if Elena's experiment fails tonight, the worst-case scenario would be to destroy one of Voldemort's Horcruxes.

In fact, Dumbledore actually looked forward to seeing Elena's expectations come true, with the perfect alchemy material, the loss of magical civilization in research and development innovation can be greatly reduced, and many dangerous attempts that may violate the bottom line can be avoided.

While there are still risks, those things are not even "people" in the strict sense of the word.

Horcruxes, this is indeed an extremely evil and tricky form of black magic.

As Elena said before, slowly searching like a needle in a haystack, hoping that one day she can find all the Horcruxes and destroy them one by one, which can be said to be the most intuitive, simple, and low-level solution.

And if the Horcrux is an evil prop, it can play a little positive role before it is destroyed.

In Dumbledore's opinion, this is a relatively good result.

As for Elena's so-called packaging of the "SCP-17" series as a Dark Lord treasure called "Another Piece", it attracted wizards to flock to find this thing, thus ushering in the era of magicians in the entire wizarding world...... These bizarre, incomprehensible fantasy words of the little girl, Dumbledore had long since learned to ignore them automatically.

Since there was a better way to deal with Voldemort's Horcruxes, that alone was worth trying.

Thinking of this, Dumbledore looked relieved.

"If Lemay and Lemay come to the same conclusion and find a better solution to the Horcruxes, then we can leave all the Hogwarts items to you - I can't make decisions for the Ministry of Magic, but I think that if the reasons are right, maybe the obsidian ring that is in public custody in Russia can be retrieved and disposed of. ”

"Don't worry, we won't have to deal with the Ministry of Magic just yet. ”

Elena shrugged her shoulders and said nonchalantly.

"And with regard to these results, I suggest that it is better to limit it to small exchanges, because human greed is terrible. Until most of the content is fully grasped and studied, it is likely that political involvement will not lead to good results. ”

Dumbledore was stunned for a moment, not knowing what he remembered, and nodded thoughtfully.

"That's what I said......"

"Then again, Professor Dumbledore, the testing ground you promised to provide—"

"Well, you don't have to worry about this, as the Headmaster of Hogwarts, I still know of several wonderful secret places, one of which is not far away, and when the evening study is over, we can leave when the rush hour for students to return to the dormitory. ”

Dumbledore replied softly with a warm smile on his face.

Although he believed in the strength of everyone present, this was the first Horcrux processing test after all, and it was not too cautious, and if it was in that magical room, at least in terms of preparation and emergency handling, he was more handy.

"Marvelous...... Secret place? well-"

Elena's eyes flickered and she raised her eyebrows slightly.

From what she knew about Hogwarts Castle, there weren't many secret rooms near the seventh floor of the castle, and given the secrecy and functionality, Dumbledore's secret answer was obvious—the Room of Requirement.

However, since Dumbledore chose to keep it a secret for the time being, there was no need for her to show off her knowledge here.

As Dumbledore had considered, the crowd could not be fully trusted, and it was better to keep a little mystery as a hole card than to generously tell each other about the secrets of Hogwarts Castle.

'Looks like you need to warn the house-elves not to reveal the secrets of the castle. ’

Elena thought to herself, but the same curious look on her face as the other wizards.

In addition to being a multi-kinetic venue, the Room of Requirement is also of considerable scientific value, which is one of the most valuable secrets in Hogwarts Castle, and Elena has a lot of ideas in her mind waiting to be verified.

"Sorry for the slight interruption......"

Nicol Lemay tapped his fingers lightly on the table, and turned his head to look at Dumbledore.

"Since there's still some time, Albus, let's finalize the teaching job you talked about earlier. Alchemy is a very dangerous and complicated subject, and I don't have the energy to deal with the nearly a thousand apprentices of wizards with no foundation. ”

In Dumbledore's previous letter from the owl, the invitation to the Foundation was only a dark line.

On the bright side, the official rhetoric for the Ministry of Magic is actually to invite Nicol Lemay to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to restart the alchemy lesson that has been sealed for decades - in today's wizarding world, there are not many wizards who can teach this course, and it would be a pity to let this knowledge disappear like this.

"Oh, of course—"

Dumbledore turned his head quickly, moving his fingers slightly.

Immediately after, a small piece of parchment floated from his desk not far away and landed in Lemay's hand.

"This is the official professor appointment agreement at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and Connelly and the members of the Board of Trustees have all shown a high level of enthusiasm after learning that you may be able to recruit students at the school, and as for the course arrangement, ......"

As he spoke, the old wizard turned his head sideways to look at the white-haired dumplings standing by the bird's stand and began to play with the phoenix again.

"Miss Caslana has a plan, she thinks you can write a part of the lesson plan and teaching content, and then have a Muggle scholar plus some wizards help complete the most basic teaching selection - as for you, it is not so much to participate in the teaching directly, but to assign you a certain number of assistants to assist you in your subsequent alchemical research work at Hogwarts. ”

"Muggle scholars?"

Nicol Lemay frowned and repeated with some surprise.

"More precisely, mainly researchers in the field of chemistry, who represent the research results of the non-magical world in 'alchemy' over the past five hundred years, and I think it would be very useful to exchange knowledge with each other. ”

Elena explained softly with a smile, her index finger twitching the air, outlining a silver halo of magic.

Under the form of the esoteric six-pointed star magic array, various chemical equations are densely written, and the chemical bonds and reaction formulas are like magic paths, connecting the various elements tightly together in an orderly manner, which looks quite fantastic.

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"Now you're looking at the reaction cycle of a certain metal, and as you can see, Muggle chemistry is not much different from alchemy in magic, they are both ways of human exploration of truth - if we wizards are more concerned about the 'what', then they are more concerned about the 'why', how aptly complementary. ”

"That's right......" Nicol Lemay nodded noncommittally as he glanced at Elena's magic circle.

"When the experiment is over tonight, I'll take half a day to check it out during the day tomorrow, and if the fit between the two is really that high, then of course I have no reason to refuse this offer to lighten my burden. ”

"You will be amazed, Mr. Nicol Lemay...... Oh no, I should call you Professor Lemay by now, right?"

Elena smiled contentedly as she watched the great alchemist sign his name on the "Teaching Contract".

Including Newt Scamander, who had completed the handover of the Magical Beasts class earlier this evening and returned to the Hogwarts teaching sequence, and Sirius Black, who was still in Transfiguration class and had the last teaching assistant internship with Professor McGonagall before the official substitute teaching, the list of Hogwarts professors this year has finally been completely decided.

Not to mention, Lupin, who is now responsible for Defence Against the Dark Arts, was originally the best professor of this subject in the original book.

'If Hogwarts is an open-ended gacha game, then I'm pretty much starting with Krypton......

Elena squinted her eyes happily as she watched Dumbledore answer and arrange the future teaching plans of the wizards in the room as she grabbed Phoenix Fawkes's small fish and rice to eat with peace of mind.

Although a certain former Slytherin headmaster with some greed for life and vanity has not yet returned, after the successful experience of "recruiting" Gilderoy Lockhart, it is not difficult for Elena to convince Horace Slughorn.

When the research on the cracking and reuse of Horcruxes has progressed to a certain stage, the wizards of the Manifest Destiny Group should start contacting Professor Slughorn - judging from the current situation, the future expansion of Hogwarts is an inevitable trend.

With the number of faculty and staff in the school today, it is far from being able to support the Hogwarts House City project.

And the next main job is to be an ordinary little wizard, from the perspective of a bystander, to savor and feel the changes in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, as for the starting point, it is better to start with writing a diary.

There was still a short time before the end of the evening class, and she took the opportunity to rest and prepare.

Maybe Tom in this period is a little weak in strength, but he is definitely not cannon fodder that can be kneaded at will.

In any case, the other party is also a dangerous wizard who is dubbed the "Dark Lord" in the future.

Compared to the other Horcruxes, the soul in this diary may be the real Voldemort.

At the same time, this may also be the version of Tom Riddle that Dumbledore fears the most.

After all, theoretically, Tom Riddle was even more dangerous in terms of intelligence and human cunning when he was a student than he might be in the future - he made Hogwarts go through the school abolition turmoil without any plug-ins, and single-handedly debuted as a campus idol to solve this unexpected disaster.

In a way......

Elena touched the phoenix's hot wings, and glanced thoughtfully at the Slytherin Family Title Deed, which was now flattened, framed, and neatly hung on the wall behind the Headmaster's desk at Hogwarts, and her eyes flickered.

She seems to have just experienced something like this not long ago.

Hogwarts, as expected, is a magical castle favored by the demon kings.

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