"So your father asked you to assassinate Professor Dumbledore with this necklace?"

Dudley looked at him tremblingly and looked at him standing side by side, and the two little fat men asked, the opal necklace that Voldemort had given to Old Crabbe was now in Dadley's hands.

"Yes, Brother D."

Crabbe replied, and Goyle nodded his head repeatedly, 'That's right.' ’

"I'll admit there's a strong curse on it, but any wizard with a modicum of common sense can recognize it."

Dudley held the necklace, the curse on it shining like a searchlight in the night.

"No one would be stupid enough to actually wear this, right?"

If you want to say that you can kill people after wearing it for a long time, Dudley can make a bunch of them here, from small to touching a lot of lead that doesn't grow long, to cesium chloride that can kill people, to ensure that no wizard can see through it, and there is no need to wear it at all, just put this thing in the place where the other party often stays, the real killing is invisible, very secretive, but much stronger than any curse wearable, anyway, this group of wizards who don't understand science don't know what radiation is.

So Voldemort is stupid to do this.

Dudley counted the shortcomings of the so-called cursed wearable, and concluded that it was not as effective as high-intensity radiation.

"No, Dudley."

"Tom doesn't think this thing can kill me."

Dumbledore's voice came from behind him, and he first motioned for Crabbe and Goyle to leave, only to have the two chubby duns look directly at Dudley. After receiving Dudley's nod, they all breathed a sigh of relief and trotted out of the place as if they had been granted amnesty.

Dumbledore shook his head helplessly, Dudley's prestige among the young wizards at Hogwarts had far surpassed him.

"Professor, go on."

Dudley yelled at Dumbledore, hating half-spoken Riddlers the most.

"His purpose was to send this necklace to me."

Dumbledore took the necklace from Dudley's hand, frowning slightly, his gaze fixed on it the whole time, he buried his head very low, his nose almost touching the necklace.

But soon he relaxed, and his tone became cheerful: "So that I can find the place he wants me to go through the clues above." ”

"A place where he once lived."

"Senior Tom is the person who knows you best, Professor."

"Of course. He spent at least sixty years studying me. ”

"You're also the one who knows him best."

Dumbledore said, "Yes, I've spent the same sixty years studying him. ”

"Hopefully Professor Grindelwald won't mind."

Dudley looked at Dumbledore in a good mood and said, "It seems that he knows you know, but in fact you know that he knows you know." ”

Decades ago it was Newt, now Tom, and they all put in more time anyway than the poor substitute teacher of the dark arts.

Dumbledore shook his head and didn't answer the subject, but the opal necklace in his hand had changed: "Behold, Tom's patience is running out. ”

"Senior Tom is really an anxious kid, I thought he would at least wait until the end of this semester, and it hasn't been long since school started."

"It's been a long time, actually." Dumbledore stretched out his right hand, looked at the black shiny fingers on it, and said a little helplessly: "What you did was too exaggerated, everyone thought that I was too deeply poisoned and could hang up at any time, no wonder Tom would be so anxious, he must have thought that I had found a way to suppress this curse." ”

Dudley asked rhetorically, "If it's not an exaggeration, how did he make him smile so happily when he left that day?" ”

Voldemort's hey-hey-hey-hey, hey-hey, laugh still rings in Dudley's ears.

"Tom delivered the message that we have received. So what do you think we're going to do next? ”

Dumbledore had already made up his mind, but he still had to ask Dudley.

"One word, wait."

Dudley said decisively.

"Wait?"

"Senior Tom is in a hurry, but he is not in such a hurry."

Dudley said as he took out a ring, one identical to the Resurrection Stone, and handed it to Dumbledore, motioning for him to put it on.

Dumbledore looked at the ring and couldn't help it: "Every time you see me, you have to marvel, even the breath is exactly the same, I just don't know if there is one"

"Nope." Dudley said decisively: "My alchemy skills have not reached such an exaggerated level to make a real resurrection stone. ”

Theoretically, using the principle of equivalent exchange, he could make resurrection stones, but he didn't need to make resurrection stones.

Dumbledore immediately looked regretful.

"Crabbe and Goyle are just smoke bombs thrown out, and the other talent he really arranges is the point."

Dudley then continued with what he hadn't finished, and he wasn't the Riddler.

"Another person?"

Dumbledore asked curiously, but he quickly smiled with relief, "Looks like you know what Tom is going to do?" ”

"Apparitions are not allowed at Hogwarts, so what else can Death Eaters do if they want to enter Hogwarts while it's not open to the public?"

"Through the secret passage," Dumbledore replied.

How many secret passages are there at Hogwarts? I'm afraid that even the designers of the castle don't know, but many secret passages have evolved slowly over the course of a thousand years.

It's just that most of the secret passages can only be entered and exited, and only a few can be connected to each other occasionally.

"Yes, but you can think of it, and Voldemort guessed that you can."

Dudley continued: "If I were him, I would choose a method that has never been implemented. ”

"So what's it?"

Dumbledore's attention had been drawn to Dudley, and he was right, choosing another method that had never been implemented before would definitely catch them off guard.

"You should know about the Room of Requirement, right?"

"Of course." Dumbledore nodded.

"It's full of belongings from the students who have discovered the secrets of this room since the founding of Hogwarts, and many of them are professors."

For thousands of years, many young wizards have used it as a place to hide secrets, so it is full of all kinds of objects.

"There's a very attractive Disappearing Cabinet of Magical Items."

The Vanishing Cabinet is a very magical item that can be shuttled through any door as long as it has two doors, and is not affected by the forbidden apparition magic.

"I know, but the cabinet is broken."

"What if it's fixed?"

Dudley said slowly, his tone becoming serious, "Then the Death Eaters can enter Hogwarts through another cabinet. ”

(End of chapter)