The dripping stone beast spun and gave way to its place, and the stairs descended slowly.

Zhang Xiao walked in familiarly, like taking the elevator to work in his previous life.

Wait a minute, don't I just go to work, I'm still a third-grade student, and I worry about the principal's heart every day.

When did it become like this?

Was the car overturned in the first grade Slytherin? Or did you drink too much of that time? Or the time when the Philosopher's Stone watched the play?

The time in the secret room? Catch Peter Pettigrew? Horcruxes?

If this continues, it will be absolutely no problem to become a principal directly after graduation.

Could this be Dumbledore's calculations?

Zhang Xiao pondered, subconsciously pushed open the door, and the high-backed velvet gilt chair he was used to sliding silently slid over.

The silver kettle in the tray is raised high, and the tea leaves in the delicate cup dance together to dance the 'seaweed dance', so that the boiling water can fully contact with oneself.

Just for a moment, the fragrance of tea overflowed.

Thinking back on the events in which she has actively or passively participated in the past three years, Zhang Xiao finally came to a conclusion.

It's all Voldemort's fault!

He stretched out his hand, and the teacup slowly floated in his hand, and only after taking a gentle sip of the slightly hot tea did he realize where he was.

In the spacious, beautiful circular Headmaster's room, Dumbledore was sitting behind the huge desk, looking at him with a smirk.

It was a long, claw-shaped table with strange silverware on it, spinning and belching small puffs of smoke.

In addition to this, they also make all sorts of funny little sounds.

On a shelf behind the desk sat a tattered, crumpled wizard's hat, the Sorting Hat, with its eyes closed and muttering inexplicable whispers that were supposed to be composing a new warm-up song.

Fawkes stood on his pure gold shelf, holding a magical picture of Qingluan in his mouth, looking at himself with a blank eye.

There is no way around it, Zhang Xiao shrugged at it, Qingluan is in China, it has not been peaceful recently, many times the mobile phone is useless, and there will be no signal at all.

Only Qingluan can break through some restrictions and transmit information, so Sister Bird's task has always been very heavy and important.

The walls are covered with portraits of the old principals, both men and women, all of whom are staring at each other in their frames, happily watching the excitement.

Phineas Nigelles, the most unpopular headmaster in history, Black's grandfather, gestured to Zhang Xiao with a glass of wine that he didn't know where to go.

"Ah, Zhang, you just looked like a headmaster, and it seems that you are ready to enter this office at any time.

Dumbledore, I suggest you retire immediately.

Zhang is already a mature principal, able to handle all the affairs of the school, as for those outside the school, isn't there still a Ling?

Isn't it, Dumbledore—Your Excellency? ”

Very rarely, Phineas's opinion did not provoke unanimous opposition.

On the contrary, many of the portraits let out a good-natured laugh, because they also felt that Zhang Gang looked like a real principal.

In fact, the performance of this little wizard in three years has already conquered these portraits, and if they were to choose, there would be only one answer, and that would be Zhang.

"I can also retire early if you need to, although my idea is to continue working for a few more years."

Dumbledore stood up, winked at Zhang Xiao, and made a joke.

Zhang Xiao shook her head helplessly:

"Professor Dumbledore, but I don't plan to be limited here, the world is so big, I haven't taken a good look yet, maybe I'll go around the world and find what I really want in my heart, and then make plans."

Dumbledore walked over briskly, he also poured himself a cup of tea, and asked curiously:

"Oh? What your heart really wants is something very practical and important, so do you already have a clue? ”

"No, but I want to. At least not immortality, invincibility or anything like that. ”

The old and the young laughed together.

Dumbledore shook his robe slightly, and the silverware on the table was pushed away by a gentle force, revealing a large blank tabletop.

Then the table top suddenly rippled gently, as if the hard table top had turned into water.

Under Zhang Xiao's curious gaze, the rippling desktop slowly rose and bulged, and at first it was just a strange appearance of unevenness.

But soon, little details were being perfected, the low protrusions gradually became angular, there were windows, doors, and even the bricks and tiles on the eaves were clearly visible.

In the blink of an eye, a vivid market appeared in front of Zhang Xiao's eyes.

This is Diagon Alley!

Dumbledore even conjured up quite a few villains to wander around.

This is Transfiguration!

Zhang Xiao looked at the 'miniature diagonal alley' on the desktop in amazement, every shop on it can match the one in his memory, and the signboards on it are exactly the same.

To the uninitiated, there may not be an explosion, no fire, and no coolness, but in the eyes of the uninitiated, Dumbledore's hand is simply a bunker.

"Zhang, according to the news from your family in the East, this Horcrux should be in Diagon Alley, and it is the Gringotts piece?"

Zhang Xiao nodded, as he had thought before, what if the golden cup was not in Bella's vault.

And you can calculate the approximate location and understand, and you can directly calculate what is going on in which vault.

Even if Dumbledore didn't know about the Eastern Letter, then he would have to make up a reason next time he counted another Horcrux, so it would be better to tell him an approximate location directly.

Avoiding strategic miscalculations is both reasonable and hassle-free.

Dumbledore knocked lightly on the table, and the diorama on the table changed again, and the surroundings quickly swelled and fluctuated, and Zhang Xiao understood why Dumbledore had to go to great lengths to simulate the entire Diagon Alley.

Because as the table top was raised, Diagon Alley seemed to be lifted from the ground, rising in mid-air, and below was a huge cavity:

"Zhang, this is the underground space of Gringotts, the goblins have spent hundreds of years digging deep, but no one knows how deep it is."

Zhang Xiao suddenly remembered that in the original book, it was said that the goblins dug down hundreds of miles or even deeper, just

Hundreds of miles what a concept! That's already digging into the mantle! even dug through the asthenosphere, to say that the goblins have a way to deal with magma, Zhang Xiaoxin, after all, magic is unreasonable.

But if the elves can handle the asthenosphere up to 180 kilometers thick, then the entire book would have to be renamed the Elven Legends.

"Professor, what do you think Voldemort's Horcrux should be?"

"That's exactly what I'm going to tell you." Dumbledore smiled, condensing patterns of flames in the air.

"Ravenclaw's tiara, Slytherin's pendant box. And after a lot of memories, I remembered Tom's greed in this office looking at the Gryffindor Sword. ”

Dumbledore's hand waved rapidly, a crown of flames, and a locket of lockets flashed in the air:

"Combined with the location you provided, Gringotts, I have reason to believe that this Horcrux is most likely the Hufflepuff Gold Cup."

Zhang Xiao nodded secretly, I have to say that it is too comfortable to do things with someone like Dumbledore.

You'll never have to worry about him not being able to keep up with the pace, on the contrary he might even be faster and don't have to worry about him dropping the chain (occasionally), and many times he will give very useful advice.

Like now.

But Dumbledore's output did not stop, and he said happily:

"As soon as I realized that Tom was interested in the founder's relics to make Horcruxes, I immediately set out to investigate, and luckily, I found some clues."

The flames danced, gradually turning into letters, and finally forming a name.

'Hepziba Smith'

Dumbledore said slowly, "After graduating from Hogwarts, Tom unexpectedly turned down all job offers, including many very good positions from the Ministry of Magic.

Instead, he chose to go to Borgin Bock and become a clerk, a shop in Tumbledown Alley, where almost everything was related to black magic.

Tom is very good at disguise, and to outsiders, he is an extremely polite, personable handsome clerk, and this disguise makes him very popular, especially those older witches.

They have a lot of money, a lot of money, a lot of valuable things, and after gaining their trust, Tom is busy with business.

One of them, Hepzibah Smith, one of Hufflepuff's descendants, was Tom's favorite.

Although the process was difficult, I did find evidence that Tom took control of Ms. Smith's house-elf Haoqi, murdered his master, and disappeared with the Golden Cup. ”

Zhang Xiao listened to the things that were described in thousands of words in the original book, and nodded her head.

Dumbledore's mobility is simply off the charts, Voldemort's brain back then was not as bad as it is now, it must have been very carefully planned and swept up.

Even so, it was clearly investigated.

"Professor, I very much agree with you, so now the question is how to find the gold cup? And then how do you bring it out? ”

"You're right, Zhang, that's exactly what I'm here for tonight, and I'd like to know if you have any surprising thoughts on it.

After all, you always surprise people. ”

Dumbledore nodded approvingly.

Zhang Xiao always felt when he remembered the original book. The Gringotts robbery, since Dumbledore took the lead, why not pick up the weapon, go straight to Gringotts, kill him without leaving a piece of armor, and finally arrogantly smash open the door and leave?

Although she thought so in her heart, Zhang Xiao still tentatively said the method in the original plot.

"Professor, can we first control a goblin, and then use the Imperius Charm to have him take us to the high-authority Director, and finally the Director to control it together.

Let the supervisor take us directly to the vault to find it? ”

At the end, he added:

"Horcruxes are such an important thing, Voldemort wouldn't just give them to one of his subordinates, right? Must be the person he trusts the most.

And there are only a few pure-bloods who fanatically follow Voldemort, let's just find them one by one. ”

"Oh?" Dumbledore raised his long white eyebrows, "Bold idea, but—not realistic." ”

Yes? Unrealistic? Isn't that the method used in the original book? How is it unrealistic?

"Zhang, as a notorious spell, the Imperius Curse is powerful and effective, and it is indeed very useful, but it is not a panacea, at least I know a lot of tricks to resist the Imperius Curse."

Dumbledore waved his hand to zoom in on an area with a small waterfall and the elven railcars.

"Anti-Thief Falls"

Zhang Xiao muttered.

"That's right, Thief Falls, the pinnacle of the elves' skills, their proud magical creations, the elves' railcars will shuttle back and forth through the waterfalls, the waterfalls will wash away all the magic, and there are many other ways for the elves to prevent wizards from stealing the vault."

Dumbledore paused, and added:

"After all, what they have studied most for hundreds of years is how to protect Gringotts and protect their wealth."

Well, in fact, Zhang Xiao doesn't know what measures Gringotts will have, most of what he knows comes from the original books he read in his previous life.

This is also one of the places where he is puzzled, because according to the operation of Audio-Technica in the original book, he can steal the most heavily guarded vault like Bella Strange.

That means that wizards can use the Imperius Charm to find a Gringotts goblin to steal Galleons from the vault.

After all, many vaults are far less guarded than single-digit vaults, such as Harry's vault, the vault that once stored the Philosopher's Stone, and it doesn't even need a key, only a goblin can open it.

Sure enough, this road doesn't work.

Zhang Xiao opened his mouth, or he could break in directly and violently, wouldn't it be easy to follow Dumbledore to fight Gringotts?

The two of them quack and kill together, okay, he is in charge of quack, and Dumbledore is in charge of killing.

"Attack Gringotts directly" Before Zhang Xiao could say his suggestion, Dumbledore himself shook his head and rejected the proposal to himself:

"No, although this is indeed a simple solution, order still needs to be guarded, if I choose to break into Gringotts, this is impossible to hide, and it will ruin the order of the wizarding world."

So it's not good to be a good person, it's harder to do something than to ascend to the sky, look at Voldemort, if you want to fight Gringotts, you can fight Gringotts, and if you want to kill protected animals, you can kill protected animals.

The first year broke into Gringotts, the second year killed a rare magical beast unicorn, the third year was honest for a year, the fourth year began to disrupt major continental competitions, and the fifth year brazenly invaded the Ministry of Magic.

That's great in the sixth grade, send someone to assassinate the spiritual leader of the wizarding world, and the seventh grade is not pretending, I am the king of the wizarding world!

Zhang Xiao complained in her heart, but she still tried hard to think about whether there was a practical way.

For a while, many videos such as the Shocking Demon Thieves, the Twin Thieves, and the National Treasure came back and forth in my mind.

Speaking of which, the current situation is really the same as in the movie, first secretly plotting, then recruiting troops and forming a team.

Like a thunderbolt piercing the night sky, Zhang Xiao was stunned, he frowned and said slowly:

"Professor. I might have a good idea. ”

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(End of chapter)