Chapter 102: For the Potion (Asking for a Subscription and Asking for a Monthly Pass)
Walking out of Lady Paddeff's teahouse, Arthur looked up at the medieval-style wizard-gathering.
Once he had found the location of the pig's head bar, Arthur walked down the muddy path in the direction where he was.
Standing under the tattered wooden sign of the Pig's Head Bar, Arthur saw through the foggy glass window that Hagrid was happily chatting with the thin old man in front of him, and he didn't choose to go in immediately, but stood in the doorway and waited for a while.
Looks like I'm going to have to think of something else. ’
Remembering Jim Baggins' words, Arthur didn't expect Gringotts to help him get good anytime soon.
The potion that could improve his physical condition and make his soul and body fit was so important to him. He didn't want to bet his hopes on the elves.
If Arthur was not mistaken, the black lake where Kreacher saw the Croissant must have been the cave where Voldemort hid the Horcrux Slytherin locket.
Now that the elves have no way of knowing about Kreacher, Arthur wants to find him and make him willing to take him in search of the Blackfish, and the only way is to enlist the help of the members of the Blake.
But this method was too difficult for Arthur, who had grown up in the Muggle world and had no contact with the pure-blood families of the wizarding world.
Straight to the door looking for help from a member of the Blake family?
However, the surviving members of the Blake family, Sirius and Bellatrix, are in Azkaban, and Andomeda was removed from the family tree by her mother Walburga for marrying a Muggle-born wizard.
The only Narcissa she could contact was Lucius Malfoy's wife. The headache was that Lucius was a Death Eater back then.
It is not certain whether Lucius has contacted Voldemort and returned to his command.
Arthur didn't dare venture to contact Narcissa and get her to order Kreacher to re-enter the cave.
It would be a very bad thing if Narcissa told Lucius about this, and Lucius revealed Arthur's search for the black fish to Voldemort.
"Let me think about how Dumbledore found the cave where Voldemort hid his Horcruxes..."
It seems that after Dumbledore learned that Voldemort's real name was Tom Riddle, he kept inquiring about Tom's past, and found that when Tom was still in the orphanage, he once took his two children to a cave by the sea and left, and finally Tom was the only one who returned to the orphanage. So Dumbledore decided that the cave by the sea was of great importance to Voldemort..."
"Hmm... I remember adopting Tom's orphanage in London... But London doesn't have the sea at all... It's outrageous!
! ”
Arthur rubbed his temples with his hands in annoyance, he didn't know if it was because his memories were not fully awakened, or if Voldemort had gone to other orphanages besides living in orphanages in London.
If Tom had been in an orphanage in London, how the hell did he get to a cave by the sea with his two children?
This is very unreasonable!
"Forget it, let's ask Headmaster Dumbledore. Instead of rescuing Sirius from Azkaban, he ordered Kreacher to find the Croisshorn. Inform Headmaster Dumbledore that Voldemort's name is Tom Riddle and that it is easier to get the Blackfish. ”
Asking Lucius's wife, Narcissa, is tantamount to informing Voldemort. It's something that Arthur couldn't have risked doing.
Rescuing Sirius from Azkaban, this one is too difficult. Arthur thought of a man, but soon he gave up.
Asking Grindelwald to help him rescue Sirius from Azkaban was a price Arthur couldn't afford.
Using his writing skills to get Sirius out of Azkaban early? You can give this one a try.
There was too much money to pay for his writing skills to be able to afford, and most importantly he didn't want to be a slave to money!
If you only use the free writing ability, you will definitely not succeed in launching it once. At the very least, it takes a lot of strips, step by step to give Sirius the idea of escaping, and then arrange for him to escape from prison smoothly.
This was too long, and it was possible that the elves had put a bounty on the blackfish from elsewhere, and Arthur had not completed his plan to get Sirius out of prison.
So... In front of Arthur, the quickest way to get the croissant is to reveal to Dumbledore that Voldemort is Tom Riddle.
But... If you inform Dumbledore of this important information in advance, the big events that will happen in the future may be changed, and Arthur, as a traverser, will have no innate advantage......
"What are you afraid of! I wrote "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", and the plot of the first grade collapsed directly, and Quirrell and Gildelow died. Voldemort was imprisoned to the bottom of the ocean. I'm worried about the big things in the future, isn't this messing with myself in the lake..."
"Now that it's broken, why should I care about those... As long as you keep a few key secrets, you can trap Voldemort at a critical time, and the rest doesn't matter! ”
"As long as I can make money, I can make more and more money. The people I care about are in the Muggle world, in London, in St. Mary's Orphanage. ”
After his realization, Arthur suddenly became enlightened.
Headmaster Dumbledore had not been informed of Voldemort's information.
One is because Dumbledore asked him not to write a follow-up to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on the day he found him;
The second is that Arthur at that time had not awakened too many memory fragments, and he just regarded Hogwarts as a quiet shelter where no one disturbed his writing;
The third is that he has no sense of identity with the wizarding world.
Now he needed the Sheep's Horn Blackfish, and the quickest way was for Dumbledore to find the cave where Voldemort had been.
Arthur, then, must inform Headmaster Dumbledore that Voldemort is Tom Riddle.
"Arthur... Sorry, I saw too many people at the Three Broomsticks Bar, so I came here. Have you been waiting for me for a long time. ”
Hagrid walked out of the pig's head bar and found Arthur standing in the doorway, touching the back of his head and explaining apologetically.
"I've just arrived, too. Hagrid, do you know when Headmaster Dumbledore is back at school today? ”
Arthur smiled nonchalantly, satisfied that Hagrid wasn't drunk.
"Hmm... If I think about it, he seems to be attending a regular meeting of the Ministry of Magic Wizengamot, and there is a banquet in the evening... I won't be back until about nine o'clock. ”
"Well, let's go back." Arthur heard this and nodded.
"Aren't you going shopping? Hogsmeade is only available if you're in third grade, and it's a rare opportunity. ”
"No..."
Arthur, who was preoccupied with croissants and black fish, was in no mood to visit these boring shops.
Hagrid looked at Arthur's back and touched his reddened ears in some confusion. Seeing that Arthur had already walked ten meters away, he hurriedly followed.
At night, Dumbledore looked at Arthur, who was sitting across from him, with a very solemn face. After a long time, he opened his mouth, and the slow, muffled voice represented the shock and doubt in his heart.
"Are you sure he's Voldemort?"