Hearing Dumbledore's congratulations, the auditorium burst into applause.

All the faculty and staff applauded willingly and convincingly.

After all, being able to hold such a wicked position as a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor for the second year is something that has never happened in decades!

"Professor Dracula's luck seems to be good, he hasn't encountered any mess since taking office." Professor Flitwick sighed, "Those Defence Against the Dark Arts professors used to encounter all sorts of strange things, and it was heart-wrenching to watch!"

"Philius, you don't know about this." Dumbledore looked at Professor Flitwick with a smile, "Actually, Professor Dracula has encountered many strange things, but he has skillfully resolved them."

And that's exactly what happened.

Voldemort's curse on the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts professor also seems to have a limit, not being able to kill the incumbent professor directly.

This curse is like a subtle one, guiding and changing a person's fortune, magnifying their bad luck, so that they can stuff their teeth when they drink cold water, fall with their left foot and their right foot, and laugh themselves to death when they hear a joke......

The closer this fortune-changing effect is to the one-year period, the more obvious and damaging it becomes.

However, Dracula doesn't care about these little things that can make people unlucky, and there are no difficulties that can really affect him.

For example, encountering Fred and George, twins who want to make big news, being attacked by trolls behind on Halloween, staring at a basilisk in a forbidden area, and fighting the notorious Dark Lord in the wizarding world......

Dracula has encountered enough strange things, but they have not affected him in the slightest, at most they have added some fun to his boring life.

In a lively atmosphere, this luncheon that belonged to the faculty and staff ended unconsciously.

After the plate disappeared from the table, Dumbledore called Dracula, and the two of them left the Great Hall together and walked towards the Hogwarts Headmaster's office.

"Professor Dracula, before you leave, I have to trouble you to adjust the brightness of the ceiling of the auditorium to the way it was before." Dumbledore laughed, "Besides, in such bright sunlight, you wouldn't want to fly straight up to the eighth floor from the entrance courtyard, would you?"

"You're right." Dracula nodded noncommittally and walked out of the auditorium door, then casually restored the ceiling to its original state, "But that doesn't mean I'll have the leisure to climb the stairs with you."

Before he could finish speaking, Dracula disappeared in place, and Dumbledore was apparitioned into the Headmaster's office.

Dumbledore shook his head helplessly, and also called Phoenix Fawkes over, leading him into his office in an instant.

"Professor Dracula, actually, I don't think you have to be thrill-seeking and fast-paced. You can try to feel the special fun in the ordinary little things." As soon as Dumbledore appeared in the Headmaster's office, he persuaded Dracula, who was lying on the couch and playing with the Sorting Hat,

"As an old man in his 100s, I have probably lost the impatience of my youth, and sometimes I think it is a good thing to walk quietly on the stairs. Happiness is not an expression of emotion, but a state of life, the pleasure of feeling every little thing in the castle with peace of mind." ….

Dracula tossed aside the screaming Sorting Hat and glanced at Dumbledore.

"That's right, as a hundred-year-old, you can really take pleasure in the little things around you." He said casually, "But as an older man of more than a thousand years old, I have long been tired of watching those little things that are not interesting, so why should I accompany you up the stairs?"

Dumbledore's expression froze with emotion.

In the face of such a young face and out-of-the-box character, he always subconsciously ignores the fact that Dracula is already thousands of years old, and today he actually uses age as an example in front of this old immortal who has lived for more than a thousand years......

"Ah, Professor Dracula,

I wonder if you've heard some secret rumors lately?" Dumbledore decisively switched the subject.

"Secret rumors? How secretive?" Dracula became a little interested and sat up straight.

Dumbledore's face also became solemn, and he looked deeply into Dracula's eyes.

"Voldemort is back." He said in a deep voice.

Dracula, however, pouted and lay back on the couch, "How do I feel...... Someone has always wanted to tell me about Voldemort's return?"

"Do you already know the news, Professor Dracula?" Dumbledore was a little surprised.

"yes, what's weird? I've met a lot of people who know about it lately, and I almost thought I knew about it." Dracula said nonchalantly, "Your news came from Snape, right?"

"Do you know that?" Dumbledore felt a little numb. He looked at Dracula in front of him helplessly, and he rarely felt powerless.

"yes, it's obvious." Dracula said, "When Snape was fighting me in the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom last year, I stumbled upon the Dark Mark mark on his arm and casually checked his deeds."

"Now that a grossly tainted former Death Eater like Snape can be trusted by you, it's clear that he must have defected to your side before the end of the last wizarding war, not the kind of wall grass that changes doors after Voldemort's fall."

"It's a pity that Voldemort is a fool, otherwise he should have known with his nose that Snape could gain the trust of a smart man like you, there must be something wrong with this!"

Dumbledore couldn't help but laugh and said, "Don't say that, Tom was actually very smart when he was younger. Even now, his strength and mind should not be underestimated, and we cannot take it lightly."

"Tsk, use black magic to transform your body indiscriminately, and tear your soul apart for something as boring as eternal life." Dracula said with relish, "I don't agree with your use of the word 'smart,' to describe Voldemort."

"Let's get back to business, Professor Dracula." Dumbledore smiled and shook his head, "After being beaten and fled by you, Voldemort didn't seem to have suffered any serious damage, and it only took a few months to return to the wizarding world, and even had a body......

"His experience is tantamount to a slap in the face, Lord Earl." ….

Dumbledore looked into Dracula's eyes, deliberately using an honorific title, and said to him with a smirk.

The corners of Dracula's eyes jumped.

When he heard the news of Voldemort's return, he hadn't thought of this layer before. But after being picked out by Dumbledore straightforwardly, Dracula did feel a little shameless.

Voldemort was able to recover so quickly after his soul was annihilated, this is completely provoking his face!

"No, the more I think about it, the more angry I get!" Dracula sat up from the couch in hatred, "I'm going to grab Voldemort and clean him up again!"

"Wait a minute, Professor Dracula."

Dumbledore seemed to have anticipated Dracula's mood, and unhurriedly took out a piece of parchment from a drawer, on which was written the words "plan".

"Rather than trying in vain to destroy Voldemort's broken soul again and again, and bring him back to life under the protection of the Horcruxes, we should think about how to destroy him completely!"

He shoved the plan in front of Dracula.

Dracula looked down at the parchment and saw that it had three things written on it—

"First, investigate the reason why Voldemort quickly regained his strength and gained a body; Second, determine the actual number of Voldemort's Horcruxes and destroy them one by one; Third, use undercover agents to grasp Voldemort's movements and stop his dangerous actions that threaten the wizarding world in time."

……

At the same time, Voldemort himself, who was being hotly discussed by Dracula and Dumbledore, was walking along the path of the Albanian forest with a happy face.

Retired

For more than a decade, Voldemort was very satisfied that there were still so many of his men who were able to answer the call of the Dark Mark and follow his orders. What's more, among these people are many powerful and powerful people in the wizarding world, and even Dumbledore's henchmen like Snape.

Voldemort had an evil smile on his face, and silently mocked Dumbledore in his heart:

Dumbledore prides himself on seeing through people's hearts, but he doesn't know that the dean Slytherin, whom he trusts immensely, has been under the command of the great Dark Lord, and has been lurking at Hogwarts for more than ten years, trying his best to find all kinds of information for the Dark Lord!

Thinking of Hogwarts, Voldemort couldn't help but think of the vampire Earl who had nothing to do and went to school to be a teacher, and his expression couldn't help but become hideous.

Why was Dracula born with the power of eternal life, and even looked down on his tireless efforts for eternal life because of this?

And Dracula is not a good vampire earl, why would he go to Hogwarts to be a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor when he has nothing to do, and he also easily sabotaged his plan!

Voldemort hated so much that he immediately cast countless Diamond Curses on Dracula, and finally ended his effortless immortality with a Death Curse.

But he also knows that he is no match for Dracula right now.

He had to wait until his Horcrux diary got Harry Potter blood, and his body was built to its fullest, so that his strength could reach its peak.

By that time, Voldemort was confident that he would be able to fight Dracula!

In order to gain stronger power against Dracula, Voldemort decided to advance an important matter——....

He had always believed that the number "seven" was a very magical number in the wizarding world, so he wanted to divide his soul into seven parts, believing that he would be able to gain more power through it.

Unbeknownst to Voldemort, he had inadvertently left the seventh soul fragment on the body of Harry Potter's nemesis in Godric's Hollow twelve years earlier.

Therefore, he came to the forests of Albania this time to make what he thought was the last Horcrux!

He had already chosen the target of the sixth Horcrux.

That was the great serpent who was always by his side during the time when he was inferior to the humblest of geists, Nagini.

Of course, this is risky. Even a master of soul splitting and horcrux making like Voldemort had never had the experience of splitting a soul on a living creature with his own hands.

But he liked Nagini too much.

Unlike those stupid snakes who only do what they are told, this viper named Nagini is extremely intelligent, she can converse with him fluently, understand his troubles, and share his anger.

Not only that, but even the name Nagini was learned by Voldemort from the mouth of the Viper.

Therefore, he must make this magical viper into his own Horcrux, so that she can always be by his side, and become the only partner who can communicate when he feels cold in the heights!

Walking in the forests of Albania, Voldemort was smiling and searching for Nagini's traces.

As the hours passed, Voldemort kept calling out in the forest in his serpentine voice, trying to get Nagini to respond.

However, walking through the entire forest, Voldemort's voice became hoarse with the continuous use of snake voices, and all that responded to him was all the stupid little snakes that lived in the forest, and Nagini seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.

Voldemort's face became extremely gloomy.

……

In a hidden cave, two snakes, one large and one small, are quietly hiding in the dim shadows.

said that it is one big and one small, but in fact, it is just a description after comparison.

In fact, both snakes were extremely large, and the appearance of either one in front of Muggles' eyes would cause an uproar in the biological world.

One of them was a large snake covered in dazzling green, about fifty feet long, with a bright red feather on its head; The other large snake is the spotted pit viper, which is twelve feet long

However, it is much smaller than the big snake around him, but it is still a behemoth.

At this time, the two big snakes were hiding in the shadows, trembling and hiding, and from time to time there was a "hissing" snake from outside the cave, and they should not have heard it.

Suddenly, Voldemort outside the cave changed his previous tone and shouted in a commanding tone:

"Nagini, come out to me!"

Hearing the old snake's voice with a commanding tone, the smaller viper instantly lost its mind, swung its body, and was about to crawl out of the cave.

However, the giant basilisk took advantage of its size and imprisoned Nagini's body at this time, preventing her from going out and throwing herself into Voldemort's net.

It wasn't until Voldemort was gone that Nagini finally regained his senses, looking a little dazed.

"I'm right, Nagini." The basilisk hissed, "But if you don't see him for a while, he'll yell at you in such a ferocious tone." Let me tell you, this Voldemort is not a good man!"

Nagini's snake head tapped lightly twice, and he looked at the basilisk beside him with a sigh of interest.

"Thank you this time, old man." She hissed in response, "If it weren't for you, I might not have been able to see through this man for another twelve years!"

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