"Hufflepuff?"

Dracula let out a soft "huh" and looked at the Sorting Hat curiously.

How did he remember that the hat just said that Rove was not suitable for Hufflepuff House, and how could he slap himself in the face when he turned his head?

However, Rove and Newt were not at all unhappy with this.

Rov had jumped up and hugged Newt heavily.

"Grandpa, I've really been sorted into Hufflepuff!" Rove shouted excitedly, "I just thought I wouldn't be able to enter the academy that cultivated you."

"I'm so proud of you, Rove." Newt smiled and patted Rove on the back.

Both grandparents looked happy, and Newt spoke encouraging words to Rove, who asked Newt to tell the story of what happened in Hufflepuff when he was in school.

"What's that...... Can you two wait a little longer before you speak?" The Sorting Hat said weakly above Rove's head, "Can you put me off my head first?"

The two of them were interrupted suddenly, and their expressions immediately became a little embarrassed.

Dracula chuckled and beckoned, sending the Sorting Hat flying over Rove's head and holding it in his hand.

"Didn't you just say that Mr. Scamander Jr. wasn't suitable for Hufflepuff?" He asked with interest, "It's only been a few minutes, why did you change your mind again?"

"Don't blame me this time, Professor Dracula." The Sorting Hat looked innocent, "This little wizard wants to go to Hufflepuff too much. No way, even though I'm in charge of the Sorting House, I'm usually very sensible enough to take into account the opinions of the young wizards themselves."

"Is that so?" Dracula smiled noncommittally, "But he still has some Hufflepuff qualities in him, right?" I don't think you'd assign a young wizard who doesn't belong to a particular house to a different house."

"As a Count, I saw through the truth of the matter at once." The Sorting Hat followed Dracula's words and patted him on the back, "Although Rove Scamander is more suitable for Gryffindor in personality, his animal-loving personality and kind heart are still compatible with Hufflepuff."

Dracula nodded and looked at Newt and Rove.

"Then congratulations to you two on what you wanted, Mr. Scamander." He laughed.

"Thank you for your help, Professor Dracula." Newt put his arm around Rove's shoulders and said to Dracula and Dumbledore, "Albus, Professor Dracula, since Rove has already done the sorting ceremony, this is the fulfillment of his wish."

"Thanks to Hogwarts for taking care of Rove during this time, I will take him back to Illmorny tomorrow, so I don't have to trouble the professors at Hogwarts anymore."

Rove seems to have finally been persuaded by his grandfather at this time. He took two steps forward and bowed to Dumbledore.

"Thank you for letting me into the school, Mr. Headmaster." He said, "When I graduate from Illmorny, I'll be sure to come back to Hogwarts to visit you from time to time!"

Under Newt's reminder, Rove already knew that the reason why he was able to enter Hogwarts Castle and even the Hufflepuff common room was not only his own wit and luck, but also the acquiescence of the old headmaster. ….

Without the old headmaster's nod, he wouldn't have been able to fool so many smart, powerful, and intelligent Hogwarts professors for more than a month! Just Snape could debunk him!

Dumbledore smiled and shook his head.

"There's no need to wait until graduation to visit me." He whispered, "I'm too old to make it past you to graduate."

"Don't say that! It will certainly not be a problem for a great wizard like you to live for two hundred years." Rove was taken aback by Dumbledore's words, "Otherwise, I could have come to visit you every year on vacation?"

"That's not what I meant." Dumbledore smiled, "I mean...... Ralve, you can stay at Hogwarts and go to school."

Rove looked up suddenly, his eyes instantly filled with surprise.

"You're telling the truth

Yes?!"

"Albus, but ......" Newt was stunned for a moment when he heard Dumbledore's words.

"Don't rush to retort yet, Newt." Dumbledore raised his hand to interrupt Newt's words, "Tell me, what is the most fundamental reason why Tina won't allow Rove to come to Hogwarts?"

"As far as I know, a witch as good and wise as Tina wouldn't force Rove to attend Ofmorny just because his alma mater is Offmorny, right?" There was a glint of wisdom in his eyes.

"Indeed, Tina's main concern is Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts." Newt said, while not helping but glance at Dracula, "Tina feels that an important lesson like Defence Against the Dark Arts is not good for Rove's development when studying at Hogwarts."

"But that's not the case anymore, is it?" Dumbledore smiled and said, "Professor Dracula is a very good Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, with his ability not to be affected by Voldemort's curse, he can teach until Rove graduates!"

"Wait, Dumbledore, I remember I never said how long I was going to teach, right?" Dracula interrupted Dumbledore, "Maybe I'll be tired of teaching next year and I'll be tired of it?"

The corners of Dumbledore's mouth twitched.

Don't say it's next year, you're already bored this year, so you asked the teaching assistant to teach for you and go out on your own......

"Uh...... Professor Dracula, I don't mean to be offended." Newt said, "I remember the Defence Against the Dark Arts class at Hogwarts, and I didn't do well in the wizarding exams last year. When Tina saw this result, she still wouldn't agree to Rove's transfer."

"Newt, that's not Professor Dracula's reason." Dumbledore hurriedly remedied, "In the past few years, the professors of Defence Against the Dark Arts have changed too frequently, and the students at Hogwarts are not very strong, so the grades are a little weak."

He didn't mention the poor grade at all, in fact, there was a reason why Dracula rarely gave homework.

"Newt, you should already know a little bit about Professor Dracula, his magic skills are definitely beyond doubt!" Dumbledore continued, "Trust me, this school year's Wizarding Rank exam, Hogwarts' Defence Against the Dark Arts will definitely be among the best in the wizarding world!" ….

Dumbledore was very confident.

This is because Dracula has been training demons for a long time in the Duel Club and even in the Defence Against the Dark Arts class, and the students' defensive skills have improved quite rapidly through practice.

How many schools can there be that have great wizards personally helping students practice magic? I'm afraid there isn't any! This is the greatest strength of Hogwarts.

Seeing that Newt seemed to be a little hesitant, Dumbledore added one last point-

"Otherwise, let Rove spend the school year at Hogwarts, and in the final exam week, he can return to Illmorny for his exams." He said, "If Rove's grades are better than last year's, it means that Hogwarts teaching is more suitable for his development!"

"It's just that I've been an exchange student at Hogwarts for half a year, so Tina shouldn't say no, right?" Dumbledore looked at Newt with a smile.

Newt frowned and thought for a moment, then finally nodded.

"If it's only been half a year, I think I'll still have a chance to convince Tina and Rove's mother." He said.

After hearing Newt's words, Rove jumped to his feet.

"Grandpa, I heard you right, right? Can I really go to Hogwarts?" He asked with a whimsical expression as he shook Newt's arm.

"It's only been half a year," Newt gave him a helpless look, "and I haven't completely convinced your mother and your grandmother!"

However, Rove smiled extremely happily regardless of it, "I don't care, anyway, if you say this, it means that the matter has been done!"

"Yay! You can stay at Hogwarts!"

Rove circled and cheered around Fawkes, who was grooming his feathers, and unsurprisingly received a look of disdain from the Phoenix.

……

Newt

and Rove's grandson soon left the principal's office.

One of them was going to contact his wife and convince her to let Rove stay at Hogwarts for half a year; The other made an appointment with Luna to analyze the existence of harassing flies and bubble slug in the evening.

Both have things to do.

When the two were gone, only Dumbledore and Dracula were left in the Headmaster's office.

"Grab the students with Yin Famoroni?" Dracula looked at Dumbledore and teased.

"Principals and principals, how can this be called robbing students?" Dumbledore said righteously, "I'm just for the sake of my old friend's children to be better developed in the future!"

"Come on, I think you just want to poach Mr. Scamander Jr.'s potential as much as Newt's back then." Dracula instantly punctured Dumbledore's thoughts, "It was very comfortable to use Mr. Scamander as a tool in the past, and now he is hitting his grandson with the idea?"

"Hehehe...... It's a nice day." Dumbledore smirked, changing the subject stiffly.

Dracula looked back at the foggy weather outside the window and pouted speechlessly.

"You're for Potter again, aren't you?" He clasped his hands on his chest, leaned against the bookcase behind him, and glanced at Dumbledore, "The Savior Trio has the courage, wisdom, and funny, is there anything missing?" ….

"Ahem...... Professor Dracula, you probably wouldn't be too happy to say that Mr. Wesley." Dumbledore coughed dryly, "I didn't mean to make up a combination. Well, but Harry does lack a friend who is good at dealing with magical beasts."

Dracula was silent for a moment, then sighed softly.

"So...... Haven't you completely abandoned your own plan?" He asked softly, "What you said to Newt's grandson wasn't actually a joke, was it?" Why bother using yourself as a pawn just to destroy a Voldemort?"

"There's always to be a backup plan." Instead, Dumbledore chuckled mildly, "I trust you, Professor Dracula, but I want to make this a little more secure."

He smiled softly and looked at Dracula's burgundy eyes.

There is one more sentence that he did not say:

I trust your skills, Professor Dracula, but I can't fully trust your temperament. ，

What if Dracula left on his own because he was bored, just like he was in the middle of the plan? What if something unexpected happens to the plan, but Dracula is attracted by other interesting things and is reluctant to return to the scene?

Dracula could not care about anything Voldemort did, but Dumbledore could not.

He has been pushed to the position of the pillar of the wizarding world for a long time, and he is responsible for this wizarding world no matter what!

……

The semester, which had only a few days left, was soon over, and the long-awaited Christmas break was next.

Most of the students chose to go home for Christmas, and the castle seemed to be as quiet as snow on the ground.

Dracula reclined by the window, watching the little wizards laughing and playing in the snow below.

During the Christmas holidays when there were few people in the castle, the young wizards who stayed at the school seemed to have let themselves go, playing snowball fights, playing fireworks, and practicing duels in private......

Dracula easily spotted a group of red-haired wizards on a white ground, the Wesley's children, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger among them.

Fred and George, the twins, had visited the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor's office the other day, and they told Dracula that their parents had gone to Romania last year to visit their second brother, Charlie, and this year they would be visiting their eldest brother, Bill, in Egypt.

The large number of siblings is this trouble, and if you want to visit several children, you have to go in batches......

The reason the Wesley twins told Dracula about this was to ask him if there was anything he needed to bring to Egypt with the help of the Weslets.

During the last Christmas holiday, Dracula Zentowes came to help bring a crystal ball that sent messages to Brown Castle with a message to the vampire community.

It was also because of this favor that Dracula replaced the modified old Ford with a brand new luxury car.

It was clear that Fred and George had already been impressed by Dracula's wealth, and that the question of whether they needed to piggyback on anything was also in the mood for wool.

However, Dracula really didn't have anything to piggyback on this year, and he didn't have anything particularly familiar with that area of Egypt, so he just blasted the twins who fell into the eyes of money out of the office..........

"Winter, winter, winter."

There was a sudden knock on the office door.

Dracula snapped his fingers lightly, and the door opened automatically, and a handsome young man with black hair walked in with a bandage around his arm.

"Almost better?" Dracula glanced back at him and asked casually.

"Yes, it's working fine." Riddle nodded, his face still a little embarrassed, "I betrayed your trust, Professor Dracula, I was careless some time ago and was attacked by a little wizard."

"Are you sure you really just got injured by the little wizard's sneak attack, and not for anything else?" Dracula chuckled.

Riddle was silent for a moment.

"Indeed, I must still be affected by my main soul's curse on the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts professor." He sighed, "When that little wizard of Scamander sneaked up on me, it was as if all luck had gone away from me......

"Search the bushes where Scamander is hiding, until the last is his hideout; The stun spell cast on him hit the winged demon he was carrying; The spell you use at your finger hits the unicorn horn with unmistakable precision......

"Everything that happened at that time was too evil!" Riddle gritted his teeth.

"So this curse actually killed the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor's luck?" Dracula said with interest, "Isn't it true that giving people a debuff that doesn't go their way increases the likelihood of something going wrong?"

"That's how it should be." Riddle bowed his head slightly.

"What a creative curse." Dracula exclaimed, then regretted, "Is this the best Hogwarts student of the century?" Why did you make yourself as styleless as you are now......

Riddle stood next to him and didn't speak, his expression slightly embarrassed.

He and Voldemort share the same memories before the age of sixteen, and of course can roughly understand that Voldemort abandoned the integrity of his image and soul and chose the choice of strength and immortality.

But Dracula, an immortal, is extremely disdainful of this choice!

"Tell me why you went to the Forbidden Forest?"

Dracula was not in the mood to hear about Voldemort, and left the window and sat back in the chair behind his desk.

He rested his long, straight legs on his desk and looked back at Riddle.

"I remember telling Headmaster Dumbledore about this, I needed some magical beasts to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts lessons." Riddle came back to his senses and spoke, "Didn't you teach with captured magical beasts at the beginning of the semester?"

"There's no need to make up nonsense in front of me, right?" Dracula raised an eyebrow and stared straight into Riddle's eyes, "When do you need dozens of so many magical beasts for teaching materials?"

"Little Mr. Scamander said he remembered very well that some types of magical beasts were knocked out several at once. That's not what you need to do when capturing teaching material! Isn't it enough for a magical beast to collect one or two?"

"Or is there any other secret in the Forbidden Forest?"

Dracula curled the corners of his mouth and smirked at Riddle's slightly changing face.

……

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