Dumbledore had moved Secrets of the Dark Arts Uncovered, a magical book detailing Horcruxes written by the famous dark wizard Ole Bullock, from the library's forbidden section, much to Ranko's disappointment.

"Poor Tom, he's going to live under the manipulation of the old man with the white beard all his life."

The thought that his younger brother will be transformed into the protagonist's ruthless scoring machine for the next seven years makes Ranko feel a deep sense of sympathy.

Don't blame me, Tom, it's good that I didn't throw your notebook into a bottle filled with poison.

Besides, his good nephew, Lucius Malfoy, didn't tell him about the notebook.

After returning the book to its place, Ranko walked around the forbidden book area again. He found a strange black-brown book with no name written on it in the dusty fourth bookcase in the corner of the forbidden area, which looked like it hadn't been cleaned in a long time.

Ranko reached out strangely, he hadn't seen the book when he had walked through here before.

And when his hand was already halfway extended, Ranko's expression suddenly changed, and he instantly withdrew his hand.

"Imperius?"

He wasn't sure what he had just felt.

After reading that book, he subconsciously felt curious, and then did not make any protective contact...... That's not his character.

"Interesting ......"

The wand was aimed at the black-brown cover book in the corner of the bookcase, and Ranko whispered a spell, and a black ominous glow came out of the tip of the wand, and then flew towards the black-brown book, blending into it.

The black-brown book didn't react at first, but the next moment, the whole book suddenly trembled violently.

Only then did Ranko see that there were several thin lines tied to the book in a similar color to the cover of the book, and it was those thin lines that tied the book in place, preventing the shaky book from opening or breaking free from the bookcase.

"Looks like a branch of a gentian tree......"

Gentian trees often grow near dragons' nests and are a valuable magical material. Its sap can be used as a buff for certain healing potions, the rhizome is one of the options for the wand body, and the twigs are also good carriers of magic.

Tied up with something like this......

A spell almost made the book pole dance, but before the tremor could end, the next one had already been added.

The book shook even crazier.

"That's interesting." Mr. Malfoy was inquiring.

Both kinds of dark magic are used by Ranko to deal with "garbage", which can be carried ...... Ranko raised an eyebrow and pulled out a glove made of dragon skin from his pocket, and then pulled the book that he still twitched from time to time out of the broken corner.

There is no danger.

Ranko tapped the book cover with his wand, and nothing strange changed.

It's as if what just induced him wasn't it.

Using his wand to pick open the branches of the gentian tree, the pages inside looked a little mottled and yellowish, and it looked like it was quite old.

But Ranko discovers that there are no words in the book.

It can't be a Horcrux of some senior, right?

With the experience of the Horcrux in the Junior Diary, Ranko couldn't help but think of this.

Holding his wand, but before he could give him another shot of black magic, blood-red handwriting appeared on the first side of the book.

That's a few strings of words written in English:

"Cutting-edge Black Arts Revealed"

The blood-red words were thick as if they were about to bleed, and Ranko vaguely smelled the smell of blood emanating from the book.

He frowned, his head away from the book, and the wand in his hand was aimed at the page, and the black light of the tip of the wand fell into the page, and then the book was closed by him.

The book spasmed wildly again, as if the pages inside could no longer withstand the erosion of the dark magic, and this time the shaking was even more violent than before.

Let you scare me.

Mr. Malfoy, who was slow and methodical, re-tied the branches of the gentian tree, and walked straight out, regardless of the wishes of the twisted book.

Mrs. Pince, the librarian, glanced at the book in Ranko's hand, said nothing, and let him leave the library.

The house-elf teacup outside the library had been waiting for a long time, and after informing Professor Ranko Dumbledore about waiting for him in the headmaster's office, the teacup was served with some small pastries for his owner, who hadn't eaten much all day.

After hastily solving his stomach problems on the way, Mr. Malfoy walked into the castle and went to the headmaster's office, where he met Albus Dumbledore alone.

"Mr. Malfoy seems to have had a good afternoon."

Blue eyes hidden under half-moon-shaped glasses, Dumbledore glanced at the nameless book in Ranko's hand, and sighed:

"There seems to be some strange secret in that book. Hehe, maybe it's because I'm getting older, but I don't have the same enthusiasm for these strange things as I used to be. ”

The corners of Ranko's mouth twitched, thinking to himself that Dumbledore, who relied on the old and sold the old, was really cunning.

"I'll write to tell you what I find."

Dumbledore nodded, but that wasn't his real purpose.

"Perhaps it would be presumptuous to say so, Mr. Malfoy."

Dumbledore walked slowly, and Phoenix Fawkes opened his eyes at this time.

The portraits around them didn't pretend to be dead, and they all watched everything that happened in the principal's office with some interest.

The former Headmaster of Hogwarts, Armando Duppet, nodded with some satisfaction.

"Are you interested in returning to Hogwarts? I don't think the rest of the year will live up to your expectations. ”

This is the result of a long discussion between Headmaster Dumbledore and Deputy Headmaster Minerva McGonagall, as well as a group of portraits.

As a pure-blood, and an honorable graduate of Hogwarts Slytherin House, Ranko Malfoy has no way to say anything to even the most unpopular and vitriolic Headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black.

As for Mr. Malfoy......

Back to Hogwarts?

Ranko was stunned for a moment, then remembered that Durmstrang's headmaster had always stayed away from England.

Dumbledore was powerful, but he wasn't a god.

The message was out of sync, and Ranko himself didn't say anything about it.

…… Wait, what's he doing when he comes back? Be a free babysitter for the protagonist of the upcoming day and night?

Ranco, who reacted, almost gave Dumbledore a cry.

Dumbledore, you're so bad, I've been killed by your object once, and you're still thinking about asking me to kill you.

"I think, I'm sorry, Professor Dumbledore."

Ranko looked a little embarrassed and said, "I have received an offer from Durmstrang not long ago, and I will be going to Durmstrang soon to take up the position of professor of teaching dark arts. ”

Well...... Well?

Durmstrang?

Dumbledore obviously didn't expect this, he was stunned at first, and then immediately reacted:

"That's a good school indeed, Mr. Malfoy."