While the Death Eaters were still secretly meeting at Malfoy Manor, there was a different atmosphere in the Headmaster's office at Hogwarts.

"Dumbledore, hasn't the person you're waiting for come yet?" Dracula leaned back on the couch boredly and yawned lazily,

"You've added a few handfuls of Floo powder to the fireplace, do you really need money to be Floo powder?" He glanced at the fireplace, which had kept its green flame all the time, and his expression was a little strange.

Although the price of Floo powder has remained the same for a hundred years, and it has been sold for a long time at a spoonful of two sicos, it is really nothing to a great wizard like Dumbledore who is not short of money...... But Dumbledore's act of adding Floo powder every once in a while does seem a little unintelligent......

"Ahem...... Something could be wrong. Dumbledore's hand was about to reach for the jar containing Floo Powder, when he froze in mid-air at the sound of Dracula's question.

Without the addition of Floo Powder, the flame in the fireplace finally could no longer maintain its green form, and turned back to its original red.

"Professor Dracula, isn't that Horcrux from Tom Riddle back?" Dumbledore turned to Dracula and asked,

"It doesn't make sense...... Isn't the Death Eater meeting over yet? ”

"So you're waiting for Snape, right?" Dracula pursed his lips and looked at Dumbledore with disdain,

Riddle left the Death Eater assembly early to prevent his identity from being revealed, and the others should have to wait a while. After all, he is Voldemort's Horcrux, and it is normal to have a little special treatment. Dracula thought that Dumbledore was waiting for some important wizard, and his tone was mysterious.

Unexpectedly, Dumbledore only felt Riddle's return, thinking that the undercover agent he had placed in the Death Eater camp was also about to return, so he used a special Floo powder to open the direct access to the Hogwarts Headmaster's office.

"Ah, I see!" Dumbledore smiled awkwardly and withdrew the hand that was reaching for the Floo Powder Canister,

"It looks like we're going to have to wait a little longer. Well...... I wonder if Professor Dracula is interested in wizarding chess? He casually pulled out a wizard's chessboard and began to polish his time without words.

"You want to play wizard chess with me?" Dracula showed an extremely strange expression,

"Are you sure?"

"Any questions, Professor Dracula?" Dumbledore gave Dracula a strange look, sensing that his expression was inexplicably strange.

"It's okay, come on." Dracula slowly curled the corners of his mouth and stood up from the couch. He sat straight at Dumbledore's desk, looking at the wizard's chessboard on the table, and his heart quietly became interested.

Five minutes later—Dumbledore looks at the game in front of him and sinks into deep self-doubt.

He thinks that with his high intelligence and judgment, as well as the experience of participating in wizarding chess tournaments in his youth, he can be regarded as a fairly good chess player.

Although the global wizarding war set off by Grindelwald has become increasingly busy, there is no chance to play gadgets like wizarding chess, but it is not too much to be played without a defense......

"Professor Dracula, I didn't know you were a professional chess player." Dumbledore looked at the silver-haired man in front of him with a playful expression, and said helplessly,

"No wonder you look so confident, but I'm asking for it."

"I'm not interested in being a professional chess player." Dracula shook his head happily,

"But I still have some experience with something like wizarding chess that kills time." For more than a thousand years that Dracula has experienced, he has been bored for a long time, trying to find all kinds of things that can polish time.

Wizard chess, a game that had been born in India for a long time, was one of the things he had studied.

In fact, in his thousand-year-long life, Dracula has long been tired of playing wizard chess, studied all kinds of ideas and plays, and has long been too lazy to play chess with others.

But Dumbledore's sudden invitation made Dracula suddenly interested. Being able to thwart a great wizard in a unique way with wizard chess sounds like a lot of fun!

Seeing that Dumbledore had not moved for a long time, the magic pieces on the chessboard had already begun to make noise - the Queen: "Why don't you hurry up and point out the next step?" I've been waiting for a long time. King: "Why don't you vote, it's boring!" Knight: "We are about to fight to the death, why did Your Majesty surrender first?" Soldier: "......" Dumbledore looked at the chirping chess pieces on the chessboard with a black line on his face, his hand raised and released, not knowing what chance there was to turn the table.

Just then, the flame in the fireplace in the principal's office suddenly shook rhythmically.

"Ah, it looks like Severus is coming back." Dumbledore immediately noticed the movement of the flames and stood up as if he had been pardoned.

He put away the wizard's chess with great speed, and with lightning speed he covered up the game that had no chance of winning.

"Ahem, Professor Dracula, it seems that we don't have time to decide the winner today, so we might as well fight another day!" Dumbledore coughed lightly and said to Dracula, who had not yet reacted.

Dracula: "? He was still admiring the old principal's embarrassed expression with great interest just now, why didn't he pay attention to the chess?

However, Dumbledore didn't give Dracula a chance to protest at all, and reached out and grabbed a handful of special Floo powder and threw it into the fireplace, and the flames in the fireplace immediately burned green.

A greasy wizard stepped out of the flames with a grim expression, long black hair draped over the sides like a curtain, and in the middle was a grayish-yellow face, a hooked nose, and dark eyes.

"Welcome back, Severus!" Dumbledore asked enthusiastically,

"Is there anything to be gained from today's Death Eater rally?" Snape's dark eyes looked at Dumbledore, his eyebrows slightly raised, as if he wondered why the old headmaster was suddenly so enthusiastic today.

What Snape didn't know, of course, was that Dumbledore was a little embarrassed by the game of wizarding chess just now, and now he was just using him as a reasonable tool to change the subject......

"Dracula, why are you here?" Snape didn't answer Dumbledore's question, but turned his head to look at Dracula, who was sitting at his desk.

"What, I'm not welcome?" Dracula got up from his chair, chuckled and came to Snape, looking him deeply into the eyes,

"Looks like your undercover operation was a success, Professor Snape!"

"I'm curious how you managed to fool Voldemort almost perfectly, and even Voldemort's doppelganger told me that you were definitely on the side of the Death Eaters." Dracula showed a meaningful expression, slightly hooking the corners of his mouth,

"Also, how did you manage to be so deeply involved in the Death Eater camp and still have such a deep trust from Headmaster Dumbledore?" Snape looked at the burgundy glint in Dracula's eyes, pursed his lips tightly, and fell silent, not showing any emotion on his face.

Now the situation has become a little more complicated, not only does Snape distrust Dracula, believing that he is just an outsider who has only been at Hogwarts for a year; Similarly, Dracula didn't trust Snape at the same time, because Riddle personally confirmed his identity as a Death Eater!

"Severus, Professor Dracula, you two don't have to question each other like that." Just as the air fell silent, Dumbledore suddenly spoke.

"Severus, Professor Dracula is absolutely trustworthy, and you can rest assured that you can tell him about today's Death Eater rally." Dumbledore looked at Snape and nodded lightly at him.

After choosing to replace his plan with Dracula's plan to destroy Voldemort, Dumbledore knew that all kinds of information in the future could no longer be hidden from the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.

Otherwise, there will only be more information gaps between the two, and even some suspicions. So Dumbledore didn't hesitate to tell Snape that he could tell Dracula what he had learned at the Death Eater rally.

Then, Dumbledore turned his head back to look at Dracula.

"Professor Dracula, in the same way, I have full trust in Severus." He whispered,

"Severus's recognition by Voldemort is not a reason for us to doubt him, but should be used as our capital to fight Voldemort!"

"I would venture to ask, what is the reason why Mr. Chancellor has full confidence in Professor Snape?" Dracula didn't care whether Dumbledore was willing to answer or not, so he asked directly with interest,

"I've been curious about this for a long time." After asking this, Dracula noticed that Snape's face changed imperceptibly.

"As far as I know, Professor Snape was a hardcore Death Eater ......back then," Dracula curled the corners of his mouth, staring into Snape's eyes as deep as a pitch-black tunnel,

"Why did you betray Voldemort so abruptly, and so abruptly gain the trust of Headmaster Dumbledore?"

"There must be something in this that I don't know!" Dracula looked Snape deeply in the eye, then sighed with some regret.

Snape's Occlumency was indeed well learned, and nothing useful could be found in his eyes.

No wonder he was able to be a good undercover agent who penetrated into the Death Eater camp.

"These things have nothing to do with you, Dracula!" Snape finally couldn't help it, clenched his teeth, and said word by word,

"If I were you, I would definitely take care of my own affairs first!"

"What a pity, Professor Snape...... But you're not me. Dracula didn't feel sorry at all, but said with a smile,

"If you were me, you would appreciate how boring I am. It's rare to find something interesting, but of course it's time to get to the bottom of it! Snape's face became even darker, and the wand in his hand was clenched tightly, as if he wanted a blade to hit Dracula in the face at any moment.

But then he remembered the scene of being defeated by Dracula a few times, so he turned his head stiffly, choosing not to look at Dracula's angry face, out of sight and out of mind.

"Albus, I think we're going to get ready." Snape looked at Dumbledore and said in a deep voice.

"Is Voldemort sure of his next move?" Dumbledore's face darkened.

"Yes, the Dark Lord let us do it on Halloween." Snape said solemnly,

"Nearly all elite Death Eaters will be on their way to break through Azkaban's defenses and rescue the Dark Lord's most loyal servants!" Afterwards, Snape told Dumbledore about Voldemort's plan in detail—Snape himself dragged the two Hogwarts professors, Yaxley bought off the officials of the Ministry of Magic, and Lucius used his connections and money to get along......

"Actually, after learning the detailed plan, this Death Eater operation could be easily sabotaged." Snape said,

"As long as you two can get there in time, the Dark Lord simply won't have enough strength to break through Azkaban's defenses."

"No way!" Dumbledore categorically rejected Snape's claims.

"Voldemort's plan was easy to break, but it was worth the cost." He looked at Snape deeply and said in a very serious tone,

"If Voldemort's plans were sabotaged so easily by us, he could easily have discovered the presence of undercover agents in the Death Eaters' camp!"

"Severus, the premise of all our actions is to protect your own identity first!"

"I know." Snape whispered,

"The other actions of the Death Eaters can't be stopped for the time being, but I can pretend that I didn't hold you back, and the news of ruling the Dark Lord a little later leaked."

"Even the Dark Lord knows that there are very few things that can be hidden from Dumbledore. He couldn't be me about it. ”

"But even that would reduce his trust in you." Dumbledore frowned and shook his head slightly.

He looked at Dracula, who was bored next to him,

"Maybe we can find a better way. What do you say, Professor Dracula? Dracula folded his hands on his chest and sat back in the chair in front of his desk nonchalantly, looking indifferent.

"Isn't it the exposure of undercover agents that you're worried about?" He cocked Erlang's legs and happily hooked the corners of his mouth,

"Actually...... We're not just an undercover agent! ”

"You mean......" Dumbledore tugged at his glasses.

"Do what you have to do!" Dracula waved his hand and said categorically,

"For example, the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Magic, and the director of the Auror Office, you should notify them all...... And the same goes for the Aurors and Observers stationed in Azkaban, replacing those who took bribes! ”

"Anyway, according to the original plan, Riddle's participation in our camp will definitely be exposed soon, so it is better to let him be exposed more thoroughly!"

"And Voldemort learned of an exact undercover agent, and he would probably be more relaxed about the investigation of other undercover agents, which can be regarded as making the best use of Riddle."

"This is the advantage of having more undercover agents!" …………