He was tall, sitting in a chair about Dumbledore's height, with pale blonde hair meticulously combed, holding a gilded serpent's head scepter in his hand, his white robes were embellished with intricate gold threads, and his face was haughty, and he turned his head to look at Joel as if he were looking at an annoying fly.

"This is the Meadows child?" The man snorted coldly, "It's a bit like that stupid couple." ”

"Lucius......" Dumbledore tapped his finger on Fudge's desk, Fudge raised his eyebrows uneasily as he sat across from them, "We don't need to catch up in Mr. Minister's office, do we?" ”

"Return the Meadows' estate, and that's the end of it." Dumbledore made his request.

"Dumbledore, is this kid worth wasting all day?" Lucius Malfoy asked softly, looking at Joel with disgust in his eyes.

It seems that the relationship between the parents of the original owner of the body and Lucius Malfoy is very stiff.

"Joel is my student," Dumbledore responded, "he deserves his share of the inheritance, and if you want to take it personally, of course I will stand up for justice." ”

"Ten years ago you started playing the game and devouring the legacies of other families who perished in battle," he continued, "and if those families don't have a clear heir, you're going through the legal loopholes, and the Meadows are employees of the Ministry of Magic, and they disappeared on a mission with the Ministry, and the Ministry of Magic should treat their heirs well." ”

"Am I right, Mr. Minister?" Dumbledore then threw the conversation to Fudge.

Fudge wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, "That's right, we at the Ministry of Magic have a responsibility. ”

Lucius's gaze shifted between Dumbledore and Fudge, and one last glance at Joel, who could read the intense hatred in the contemptuous gaze.

"Okay......" Lucius said in a mournful voice, "the Malfoys will remember this." ”

With that, he got up and left the office.

Joel couldn't understand why it was Malfoy who had usurped the inheritance of the original owner of the body, as if Joel had taken advantage of Malfoy.

Suddenly, a house-elf appears out of thin air in Fudge's office.

Its short, thin body was draped in an old pillowcase, with bat-like ears, a slender Pinocchio nose, and large green eyes that bulged outward.

A gray cloth bag larger than its body floated beside the elf, and the bag was bulging with stuff.

It put the gray cloth bag down, then bowed deeply to the three wizards present, snapped its fingers and disappeared.

"These are your parents' relics," Fudge beckoned Joel with a smile on his face, "Come and see." ”

He seemed to have forgotten the unpleasantness of this morning, and his attitude towards Joel was like that of a certain acquaintance, and the comparison of attitudes before and after could be called a Sichuan drama.

Joel didn't pay much attention to it, crouching down to untie the gray cloth bag.

A photo album, a diary, a few sets of robes, skirts, some cosmetics and toiletries, a wallet, and the rest were stacks of books, probably hundreds, of very impressive weight.

"There should be a Gringotts vault key in your wallet," Dumbledore began, "and the Gringotts goblins will ask you for your password and the vault owner when they receive the key. ”

"Don't worry, I'll be in touch with Gringotts right away," Fudge immediately picked up the topic, "Promise Joel to go straight to the vault tomorrow." ”

After receiving the inheritance, Dumbledore finally let Fudge go, and Fudge sent Joel and the others out of the minister's office, and only breathed a sigh of relief the moment the door was closed.

"Professor Dumbledore, thank you very much for ......," Joel said in the elevator.

"What a big deal," Dumbledore said with a smile, "I've spent a day." ”

"Gringotts, you should know how to go, I won't accompany you."

"No problem, Professor!" Joel hurriedly agreed.

Dumbledore took the bag and sent Joel back to his room on the second floor of the Leaky Cauldron before apparitioning away.

Joel can finally calm down and sort his inheritance into categories.

The wallet was opened, and there were some coins inside, as well as two pounds, and as Dumbledore said, there was a copper key in the wallet compartment.

He took the keys out and put them in his pocket, then put his wallet aside.

Dressed in two black plain robes, Joel measured the size, the size was slightly larger but not exaggerated, he remembered the group photo that Professor Flitwick gave him, and judged that it should belong to the original owner of the body.

The two floral dresses should be made by Muggle machines, and Joel even saw the Lancôme logo in some other cosmetics.

Books in the Legacy - It's more appropriate to call them scrolls, with their quaint appearance, yellowed pages, many of which are missing, and the entire text of the scrolls is written in Runi (Joel had seen this in a Charms textbook).

Runivin won't be able to take it until the third grade, and Joel plans to bring them all to school and study them carefully when the time comes.

There was a small diary left, with an unpretentious black cover, and a faded date of September 1942 underneath the cover.

Joel flipped to the first page, and there was a floral signature, too old and the ink was blurred, and Joel had to make it carefully.

Tom Riddle.

Joel recognized the handwriting for fear that he had read it wrong, so he read it carefully three or four times, and immediately closed the diary after confirming that it was correct.

His heart beat sharply, and Joel knew it was Lucius' trickster.

Originally, Riddle's diary was supposed to be put into Ginny's crucible by Lucius because of a conflict, but now he took the opportunity to take revenge and stuff it into the inheritance of the original parents of the body.

Lucius Malfoy didn't know that the journal was a Horcrux, but he did know that the diary was a dark magic item with a magic that could reopen the Chamber of Secrets, killing two birds with one stone, disrupting the order of Hogwarts, taking the opportunity to get rid of Headmaster Dumbledore, and laying the blame on Joel.

If Joel was a native of the wizarding world, he might have really fallen in love with Lucius, but he was familiar with the plot of the original book and knew the true face of the diary.

He simply sat cross-legged on the bed and thought.

There are two very important points in the Chamber of Secrets dungeon, one is Riddle's journal and the other is the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets.

The journal manipulates people's minds to the entrance of the secret room, opens the secret room with the Parseltongue cavity, and releases the basilisk, causing a certain amount of damage, Harry unveils the fog and uses the Parseltongue cavity to enter the secret room, killing the basilisk and destroying the diary.

In this dungeon, the basilisk is far less harmful than the diary, as long as the diary is destroyed and there is no parseltongue to open the secret room, the basilisk will not be able to come out at all.

Now the question is who will act as the destroyer of the Horcruxes.

Joel was the first to cut himself out.

He was in a very safe situation now, Voldemort didn't know the true identity of his parents, and the people of the Order of the Phoenix treated him quite well, even if Voldemort found a physical resurrection, he wouldn't have any trouble.

If he hastily destroyed the Horcruxes, it would naturally arouse Voldemort's hatred, and even if his parents were Death Eaters, they would not be able to save him.

Or...... Find a way to stuff the diary to Ginny? Follow the plot of the original work?

It's not impossible, as long as Joel survives until Voldemort dies, everything will end perfectly.

Does that count as pushing Ginny into the fire pit?

Joel couldn't make up his mind for a while, although Ginny was the first owner of Riddle's diary in the original book, the world he was in now was not exactly the same as the original, and many of the contents had quietly changed.

At least judging from the current direction of the world's plot, Ginny will not have anything to do with this diary.

This is obviously different from the copy of the History of Magic, Quirrell (Voldemort) had already set his sights on Harry at the time, Joel just had to keep the "inaction" approach, and Lucius had obviously changed his goal of blame now, if he stuffed the diary to Ginny, at best in order to follow the original plot and not collapse, wouldn't it be a blame at worst?

Joel sighed, he had slept very early today, and his dreams were full of Ginny's innocent smile.

Early the next morning, Joel walked through the Leaky Cauldron to Diagon Alley.

Passing through an alley, he came to Gringotts again.

Pulling out the key, the goblins at Gringotts had apparently been notified, and simply asked for the owner's name, and the goblin took Joel to the underground vault.

Ten minutes later, Joel finally saw the vault.

The moment the goblin opened the door for him, he was blinded by Jin Garon.

"Here...... How many coins are there? Joel's heart pounded.

"21,000," the goblin reported, "mostly from interest and the return of the Meadows' remuneration." ”

21,000 Galleons, which is about the same as his net worth.

"Interest?" Joel wondered, "If I keep my money in Gringotts, will I also have interest?" ”

"Of course not," the elf said with a blank look, "an entrustment agreement must be signed so that we at Gringotts will invest the gold you have deposited here before we pay you interest." ”

"Actually, this kind of investment is very safe," after realizing that Joel is a potential customer of Gringotts, the goblin tried to convince Joel to keep the golden galleons, "Gringotts has been in the world for hundreds of years, we provide investment and financial services to tens of thousands of wizards, and we goblins have always been very reputable. ”

“…… I'll think about it again. Joel didn't agree first, the deposit of tens of thousands of Galleons could not be used in the system recharge, but he could use it elsewhere, and the purchase of real estate and daily expenses could be misappropriated from the money.

The goblin didn't ask any more questions, and Joel took out the gold Galleons and deposited them in his account along with the 9,000 Galleons he had on his body, leaving only 1,000 Galleons for backup.

Joel got the key to his Gringotts around noon.

It just so happened that Haylis sent a letter asking how he was doing.

Joel explained truthfully, just ignoring the notebook that Lucius had stuffed into the estate, and in his reply he asked Haylis to help refer to the residence.

Later a day, in the evening, Haylis sent over a stack of documents for Joel to compare and make an appointment to meet him at the Leaky Cauldron at half past eight the next morning.

Joel received the letter, fed the tired and choking Bobby, and then lay down in bed and learned the runi phonetics by the light.

After two hours, the runi characters became crooked, like little black snakes drilling into his eyes, and Joel finally couldn't resist the tide of sleepiness and fell asleep in a daze.

When he woke up in the morning, Joel removed the runi phonetic meter covering his body, turned over and got out of bed, he first pointed to his heart and recited the Animagus mantra facing the morning sun outside, and then went to wash, he could feel another power gradually forming in his body at sunrise and sunset, and he estimated that the Animagus form would soon be completed.

Just one storm away.

He deliberately missed breakfast today, and Joel had recently had enough of Tom's cooking skills and was just in time to go to an outside restaurant with Haylis.

At 8:15, when Joel went downstairs, Haylis had already arrived, and was standing at the bar chatting with the owner, Tom.

She was dressed in a long white dress that exposed only a small ankle, and her black hair was spread out like seaweed and hung down to her shoulders.

Haylis watched Joel go downstairs with a smile on her face, "Good morning." ”

"Morning," Joel responded, "didn't you have breakfast?" ”

Haylis shook her head slightly.

It just so happened that Joel took her to that fast-food restaurant, a burger to eat, and a drink, Joel felt full of strength.

Helis felt that the breakfast was too greasy, and after eating only one portion, she looked at Joel with her chin in her hand.

After breakfast, Haylis took out the palm-sized bag she had brought with her and took out a map from it.

"You see, we're going to these places today," Haylis pulled out a pen and connected on the map, "Yesterday I circled a few more cost-effective homes, Godric's Hollow, Hogsmeade Village, ......"

"That's how our most recent route went, to take a break in Hogsmeade at noon, and to go to Three Broomsticks and drink two bottles of Butterbeer by the way...... "Helis had planned her route last night, and took the opportunity to come out and play all day, just without having to put up with Bernie at home.

The two of them stretched out their wands in the alley and got into the knight's bus.

Fifteen minutes later, they managed to reach Godric's Hollow in the southwest of England, the most famous half-wizarding colony in the United Kingdom, the birthplace of Godric Gryffindor, one of the founders of Hogwarts, and where the current Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, also grew up.

Engraved with the names of ancient wizarding families, it's no exaggeration to call it a legendary place in the British wizarding world.

Joel and Haylis stood in the small square in the center of the village, staring at the war memorial in the center of the square.

In the eyes of Muggles, it was an unpretentious war memorial, but in the eyes of the wizarding duo of Joel and Haylis, it was a statue of three people: a man with unkempt hair and glasses like a hedgehog, a beautiful woman with long flowing hair, and a baby boy sitting in his mother's arms.