"Now, you need to appease the Ravenclaw students, Filius."

Dumbledore reminded Professor Flitwick.

"Oh!"

Professor Flitwick almost jumped.

"Yes, I have to go......" he turned his head to look at Scott, "Scott, are you going back with me?" ”

Scott was about to say hello, but Dumbledore said again, "Maybe Scott can come to my office and enjoy a cup of sweet hot cocoa." ”

"It's fine."

Professor Flitwick glanced at Dumbledore and turned to walk towards his office.

"Come on."

Dumbledore greets Scott.

"Go to my office and sit down, of course, from the eighth floor."

Scott followed Dumbledore to turn left and right, and finally pushed open an inconspicuous oak door hidden in the corner.

The moment the door opened, Scott keenly heard the lively conversation in the office come to an abrupt end.

"Oh, it's portraits of the former headmasters." Dumbledore laughed and said, "They always quarrel with each other while I'm not around. ”

Scott glanced at the wall, where the figures in the row of portraits were all pretending to doze off.

Dumbledore walked over to his desk and sat down, gesturing to the chair on the other side.

"Come on, sit down."

He tapped the table with his Elder Wand, and two steaming cups of hot cocoa appeared on the table.

He took a sip from his cup and looked like he was enjoying it.

Scott also took a few sips from his cup and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Can you show me?"

Dumbledore gestured to the parchment in Scott's hand.

"That's the parchment you used to record this arithmetic divination, isn't it?"

"Oh, of course."

Scott handed him the parchment in his hand.

Dumbledore reached out and unfolded the rolled parchment, looking at it carefully for a moment.

"Very talented, Scott, you are very talented in this subject."

He babbled on and on.

"Speaking of which, I also know some arithmetic divination, but I can't do that, and I can calculate the position of the crown just by relying on the conditions you have written."

He blinked.

"Usually...... I used arithmetic divination to calculate what the Duke of Honey's discounted candy was each quarter. ”

Scott couldn't help but laugh.

Although Dumbledore seemed to be joking, Scott always felt that he couldn't do such a thing.

Dumbledore took a few more sips of hot cocoa, his expression becoming a little serious.

"I'm going to need you to try to figure it out, Scott." He said, "About Tom's Horcruxes. ”

He paused, looked at Scott and asked, "Would you like to?" ”

"Of course I do."

Scott nodded.

"But......," he said hesitantly, "there are too few known conditions to be able to produce satisfactory results." ”

"Of course, of course I understand that."

Dumbledore put down his glass.

"What I want to know most is how many Horcruxes does Tom have, and I want to ask you to try it, and it doesn't matter if it doesn't work."

Scott asked him curiously, "Why don't you ask Professor Victor to calculate it?" I mean, he's supposed to be more capable than I am. ”

"Of course Professor Victor has already calculated."

Dumbledore said.

"It's a pity." He looked a little helpless, "He didn't get the results he wanted." ”

"Is that so?" Scott nodded again, "Then I'll try, but to be honest, I'm not confident in that." ”

Dumbledore pulled out a new piece of parchment and placed the inkwell with a quill in Scott's hand.

"It doesn't matter." He smiled and said, "It's just an attempt." ”

Scott set aside the cup of hot cocoa and picked up the quill.

He first writes down the divination target, [Voldemort/Tom?] Riddle's Horcrux].

He then wrote down [Notebook] and [Ravenclaw Tiara].

Then he stopped writing.

"I'm sorry, but that's all I know of." "And they're not logically related to each other," he said, hesitantly. ”

"Yes." Dumbledore whispered, "Of course you can't do that, you need to know more about Tom." ”

He began to ramble on and on about Voldemort he knew.

It all started when he was a professor of Transfiguration when he visited the orphanage where Riddle grew up......

One summer day in 1938, Dumbledore went to the orphanage and invited Riddle to study at Hogwarts......

Scott listened quietly to Dumbledore's words about Voldemort's past, corroborating the information he still remembered.

According to Dumbledore, Riddle was born after his mother used an aphrodisiac on his father, so he was born without love.

But Scott felt that he might just be sick, some mental illness and mental illness.

Antisocial personality disorder, for example?

However, Scott only thinks about it this way, he doesn't understand this.

Maybe the aphrodisiac does have that effect?

Dumbledore spoke for a long time, and Scott, with a quill in his hand, extracted some key words from his words and wrote them on parchment.

By the time Dumbledore stopped, Scott had filled most of the parchment, summarizing most of Voldemort's life in a few concise words and phrases.

"How?" Dumbledore took a sip of hot cocoa from his glass and moistened his throat, "Do you have any ideas, Scott?" ”

"Hmmm......"

Scott pondered for a moment, looking down at the parchment.

"Riddle is a very proud and conceited fellow, and judging by his personality, he doesn't seem to make Horcruxes out of ordinary things...... But he used a regular notebook again......"

"He was 16 years old." Dumbledore said, "I think it was his first attempt. ”

"That is, in his Horcruxes...... It's likely that only notebooks are normal items, and the rest of the Horcruxes are more meaningful. ”

Scott said in a speculative tone.

"Like the Ravenclaw crown."

"You mean......" Dumbledore nodded, "Possibly, Slytherin's locket, Hufflepuff's gold cup?" It's all possible, they're all gone. ”

Scott wrote several more words on the parchment.

Dumbledore then went on to tell some rumors about the two relics.

Scott listened and wrote, supplementing the conditions.

In the end, he wrote almost the entire parchment.

"That's all." Dumbledore looked over, "Now, you can try it." ”

Scott nodded and began the work of converting words into numbers.

Since the parchment was so full, he had to write the numbers smaller and in the gaps.

This time, it took him more than ten minutes to complete the step.

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