Chapter 156: Chapter 156: Your invisibility cloak is a good hiding place (Edited)
Dumbledore took two deep breaths as he quickly rethought the pros and cons of the matter and made up his mind. There was also a subtle change in his arrangements for Professor Lockhart.
"I'm going to go to the Ministry of Magic, check their recent files, see if there are any anomalies. Professor Lockhart, would you please look into the Muggle world? The noise made earlier by the dead man Evans fought with is still very large and will probably attract the attention of the police."
Dumbledore blinked, with a mischievous look behind his half-moon spectacles, "Even if something goes wrong, a Dismemorizing Charm could sort it out, couldn't it?"
Tom: Greetings, Headmaster.
"By the way, how did you get to London?" Tom remembered a crucial question.
"The Flú network in my office is connected to the outside world. You can go to London through the Flú network in my office."
The Flú network is a very popular way to travel in the wizarding world, without the cold wind on a broom, or feeling compressed and decompressed in a tube, or experiencing a hook in your belly button. All you need is a handful of Flú powder to get from place to place through a connected chimney.
As a result, almost every wizarding home has a fireplace connected to a Flú network, just as a Muggle home has an Internet or telephone line. There are thousands of fireplaces throughout Britain that are connected to the Flú network. The exception is the Hogwarts fireplace. They are not normally connected to the network, but it is not too difficult to sneak them in.
Dumbledore's fireplace is the one he has modified to communicate with the outside world. Hogwarts' fireplaces are isolated from the Flú network, mainly to prevent students from sneaking out of the school without the Headmaster's knowledge, or enemies from outside the school from invading it through the Flú network.
Having a fireplace with access to the outside world in Dumbledore's office would easily solve both problems.
Tom was back in Dumbledore's office.
Dumbledore did not choose the Floo net as a means of transportation, he left Hogwarts directly on Fawkes. He was only gone for a short time, and if anything happened, he would return as soon as possible.
At that moment, Harry, who was lying in the office, slowly woke up.
Harry rubbed his forehead, which was swollen with a large bump. After recovering from his awakening stupor, his body shook immediately: he remembered, he is still in the office Dumbledore!
She startled and almost jumped: this was not the place to stay! A slippery touch on his head made him realize that he was still covered by his invisibility cloak.
The scene before the coma gradually emerged in his mind.
Harry remembered that, before he passed out, something red had hit him and Ron, knocking them unconscious.Who would do something like that? And after he and Ron had been knocked unconscious, he had done nothing, he hadn't even taken the invisibility cloak with him.
As Harry's puzzled gaze roamed the empty branches of the sycamore tree, it dawned on him which creature had knocked him unconscious: the legendary phoenix that followed Dumbledore.
Harry shuddered at the thought that he had been found by Dumbledore's phoenix.
He tried hard to keep his mind from thinking about where Fawkes had flown to, and he didn't even dare to think about what he would face if he was caught. He only knew one thing: he couldn't get caught in the office, Fred had said that the only way to break the school rules was to get caught, and Fawkes was just a phoenix that had nothing to do with him, so he wouldn't know him, would he?
Harry looked over at his partner, Ron, who by now had a lump on his forehead and was lying quietly on the floor, a stream of saliva already trickling from the corner of his lips. Harry struggled to shake Ron, fighting to get him to wake up.
Ron wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth, the pain in his forehead a quick reminder of his situation.
"No time, get up!" Harry didn't want to waste any more time, he grabbed Ron by the arm and pulled him to his feet, Harry decided to grab Ron and get out as fast as possible. But things went against his wishes, they had barely reached the door when they heard footsteps outside.
Harry showed a look of despair, now he could only pray that his invisibility cloak was strong enough, this cloak has never let him down, he dragged Ron, shivering into a corner, not daring to utter a word.
The door creaked open and, contrary to Harry's expectations, it was not Professor Dumbledore but Lockhart who entered.
Tom always felt that something was wrong when he entered Dumbledore's office, he also had this uneasy feeling when he had entered with Dumbledore before, and he always felt that someone was watching him from the darkness.
He looked around and found nothing, but the feeling of being watched grew stronger.
Tom silently took the title: Hound of the Baskervilles. It was rare for Tom to do so, but today he felt the need to test it.
With the title on, a variety of smells hit Tom's nose, causing him to feel dizzy, which was the downside of the title, as it took a bit of time to get used to the suddenly enhanced sense of smell. But upon analyzing the various smells, Tom immediately noticed something unusual: there is a very fresh human smell in this room! And there is more than one person...
Tom realized that there was someone else in the room besides him. The fact that the "human smell" in the room had not faded over time could only mean that the source of the odor was still in the room.
The first thing Tom did was to clutch his wand tightly under his robe.
However, when he again identified the source of the odor, he realized that the two smells were familiar, as if they were familiar. After a moment's analysis, a thought occurred to Tom: no way, could it be?
He walked to the corner with the stronger smell, it seemed empty and there was nothing there.
Harry's heart was beating wildly and he couldn't help but swallow, he couldn't understand, how had Professor Lockhart found them?
Tom walked around the corner and stopped, if anyone could see through the cloak, they could see a rather amusing scene, Harry and Ron balled up, blocked by Tom, not daring to move.
"The invisibility cloak is very good quality." said Tom, really envious of Harry's Deathly Hallows at the moment. This invisibility cloak will leave no trace after wearing it.
"Come out, Potter, and Mr. Ron Weasley, if I'm not mistaken."
Chapter 157: Chapter 157: The trio is actually myself (Edited)
As soon as the words were spoken, Harry's psychological defenses shattered. He obediently removed his cloak and stood in front of Professor Lockhart, awaiting his fate.
Looking at the two with drooping heads, Tom didn't give them too much thought, but took the cloak from their hands and examined it carefully.
[Cloak of Invisibility (Star: ???): One of the Three Deathly Hallows, which allows the wearer to be perfectly invisible, and whoever collects all three Hallows will become the master of Death].
This is the first time Tom sees a "???" star item, which shows that he is likely to have surpassed the five stars. The invisibility cloak appeared after holding it in his hand. It is a silver-gray cloak, which shines like some kind of liquid It feels weird to the touch, as if it is woven with water.
"Professor..." Harry wanted to defend himself, but Tom cut him off with one hand.
"That's a great cloak," he said as he handed the cloak back to Harry, then headed for the fireplace to think. Harry's mind wandered, suddenly realizing that his situation wasn't as bad as he'd thought....
He exchanged a quick glance with Ron, sensing that there was a way out, if Dumbledore didn't appear out of nowhere.
"Professor Dumbledore isn't coming," Tom spoke suddenly, as if he could see what was going through their minds, startling Ron.
"He has something to do today and he's already rushed off to the Ministry of Magic."
This statement made Harry and Ron ponder: Something? What was it? Probably something to do with the gold coin.
"How much did they hear of our conversation? You were here when we entered the Pensive, weren't you?"
At Professor Lockhart's questions, Harry and Ron lowered their heads, not daring to answer.
Tom wondered how it was possible that he, a mediocre little wizard with a bit of prophetic talent and sophisticated little skills, could have detected Harry's presence, and how it was possible that this Dumbledore hadn't noticed Harry hiding in his office with his invisibility cloak.
This was Dumbledore's office, I'm afraid, and even a hair on the floor would have been known to Dumbledore, and it would have been unreasonable for Tom to believe that Dumbledore was unaware of the presence of two living people in his office.
Now Tom remembered the division of labor made by Dumbledore, and Tom felt that this was all intentional on Dumbledore's part, and made a clear arrangement for him and Harry.
As for the purpose of doing this, it was, of course, someone's fetish. Anyone with a modicum of common sense could see that the first year's guardianship of the Philosopher's Stone, with all its levels, could not have been designed to protect against Voldemort.... Every single guard has a way to escape that even a first year wizard could break, let alone a second generation dark lord. Then there's Snape's potions level, and who knows if those poison bottles are filled with elixir of bliss.
If you really want to protect the philosopher's stone, you can put a magical animal that can't be hypnotized on the first level. There's no need to play chess on Professor McGonagall's level, so you could have gotten "high" and blown your head off in one game.
Of all the levels, the most serious are the first and last, and all have a very strong sense of "design": the three-headed dog Fluffy falls asleep when he hears music, Oesed's mirror puts the Philosopher's Stone directly into Harry's pocket, and the mighty Dumbledore is thrown off by a fake email....
If Dumbledore were that easy to fool, would Grindelwald lose to him?
So much evidence finally points to the fact that everything in the first degree was arranged by Dumbledore. There may be some discrepancies in the details, but the main plot is definitely Dumbledore's. He took this opportunity to exercise him and test him Harry, if he meets the requirements, Harry will continue to take over the important task and let him be his successor. If Harry fails, Dumbledore would have enough to save him.
But there was a slight deviation in the implementation of the plan, and it was Tom who finally broke through, which caused Dumbledore's plan to train Harry to fail.
But no matter, there were plenty of opportunities to train, and this was a good one to take advantage of.
With that in mind, Tom understood what Dumbledore was thinking. At the same time, Tom thought to himself, am I joining the golden trio? Because of my influence, Hermione didn't join, so do I have to replace her? Tom had thought that the new golden trio would be Neville Longbottom, but he hadn't thought that Harry and Ron would go on this adventure without Neville.
What Tom didn't know was that Neville had been punished by Snape. He had to spend the whole day in the dungeon, even though Snape had left in the middle of the day.
Just as Harry and Ron were getting nervous about Lockhart's long silence, Professor Lockhart turned to them once more.
"Well, boys, are you clear on what happened then?"
"Professor, we didn't mean to..." Harry tried desperately to explain himself, but found that there was no explanation for their actions: they were stalking, eavesdropping in the dark and trespassing, nothing different from spying.
They were both true Gryffindors, that's all.
"Do you know how to use a Floo net?" Tom suddenly interrupted Harry's feeble argument.
Harry and Ron: Σ(⊙▽⊙"a.
"I can use it." Ron nodded weakly and Harry said, a little embarrassed, that he knew how to use the Flú net, although his first experience of using it wasn't so good.
"That's great, you can use the Flú net to go to Diagon Alley with me" Tom smiled brightly at the two of them.
Harry and Ron: ??!!!
This was a surprising ending. They had thought that an "acquittal" would be the best possible outcome, but they hadn't expected a world where the professor would offer to take them on an adventure.
"As well as a professor, I'm also an adventurer," Tom said with a grin that showed off his eight white teeth, he now had plenty of experience in squeezing Lockhart's smile, "And by your actions, I think they can be called new adventurers. If a newcomer wishes to adventure with a professor, the professor will not refuse."
"As for school rules, as long as you don't get caught, it's not a violation of school rules."
"Professor, are you really a Ravenclaw?" Ron gasped, finally only managing to stifle the words, "You're the most Gryffindor at Hogwarts!"
Tom burst out laughing, "There used to be people who thought I was a pure Slytherin!".
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