บท 365: Chapter 364 "Amazing Discovery"

Sean finally confirmed his theory. Dumbledore didn't always want to maintain this, always being that mysterious and cryptic image. Although he really liked to do it, he had to do it.

Sean bets that Dumbledore must have made an Unbreakable Vow with one of The Returners to cover up something huge. It's not that he doesn't want to say it, but he can't.

Grindelwald, who knew Dumbledore so much, obviously discovered details that he hadn't discovered, so he reminded Sean. Of course, the attitudes of these two old men back and forth are beyond Sean's comprehension. Perhaps he can only learn more when he solves this mystery by himself.

The key now is to unlock the hint that Dumbledore gave himself.

"I wish I could go back to that time." These were Dumbledore's words.

That time probably refers to the time when Dumbledore and Grindelwald met. Sean had already heard about what happened then, but only Dumbledore, Grindelwald, Aberforth, and Ariana were present.

The details that Dumbledore wants to discover by himself are likely to be clearly understood only by them, and only these know about this memory.

But as Dumbledore reminded himself about that time. Sean once stepped into the memory of that time.

The Potter family invited Sean to attend Harry and Daisy's birthday party, and Grindelwald's aunt, Ms. Bathilda, lived in Godric's Hollow.

Bathilda's memory had been tampered with, and when he saw Sean, that memory was triggered. He handed Sean a letter that was originally intended to be given by Grindelwald to Dumbledore.

Sean was pulled into the memory by that letter, the memory of Grindelwald and Dumbledore in 1899. Dumbledore was reminding himself that there were details in that memory that he had never discovered before.

Dumbledore himself may have discovered something from the memory that Sean described. That may be the beginning of today's mystery.

The letter has an effect similar to a Pensieve, and it disappears after Sean reads the entire memory.

Sean called out to Dave; unexpectedly, after a while, the airwing bird came up panting and curling something with its tail. This guy is growing fast as time goes by.

Sean put him down after rubbing the head so that the fly couldn't stand up.

The shallow hollow stone basin was placed before him, and the unknown silver liquid in it rippled for a while. That letter is no longer there, but since Sean experienced that scene, he may be able to replay it again.

He put the tip of his wand lightly against his temple, and this knowledge learned from Slytherin's secret chamber, Memory Charm and Pensieve, could finally be used together. Extracting memories for the first time was much smoother than Sean imagined, and he found the memory he needed to extract without much effort.

Sean's wand pulled A silver stand from the temple, and he rolled up the wand, letting the silver strand fall into the Pensieve.

Sean sank into the Pensieve without any hesitation.

He was sinking rapidly and then landed firmly on the floor of Potter's bathroom. Standing before him was his shorter self, looking at the letter in his hand suspiciously.

It felt weird to see himself in his memory. However, he immediately leaned over.

Taking advantage of this short period, Sean observed the letter and suddenly discovered it strange. The letter had been stored in the dusty attic of Bathilda's house for nearly a hundred years. At the time, he didn't think there was anything worth paying attention to this worn-out envelope.

After careful observation, Sean found that the envelope was made with high-quality material. In his memory, he had just taken the letter out of his pocket, and even powder was twisted out of the dark yellow surface.

On the slightly weathered, worn-out, dark yellow surface, on the wax seal that had even been completely smoothed, a symbol was so dim that it was almost impossible to see at first glance.

Below is a line of Latin words you can barely read until you get close enough.

"For the greater good."

Sean realized this was an envelope similar to Nurmengard's admission letter.

Did Grindelwald have already founded Nurmengard?

However, before Sean could think too much, he fell into the memory along with himself.

In the summer of 1899, he stood again in front of Dumbledore's old house.

He had a deep impression of the letter's content, in which Grindelwald spent a lot of space explaining the principle of the Sorcerer's Stone he studied, and the letter kept mentioning words about 'immortality'.

Grindelwald expressed his apology to Ariana at the end and left that sentence.

"Come on, my friend, be the person that I want you to be. A new era will start with us."

"Best Regards, Gellert"

Judging from the content of this letter alone, it seems that a certain secret was not mentioned.

Sean turned his head to look at the other side, and sure enough, two young people came over with an intimate look. Even in the memory, Sean can clearly see Grindelwald and Dumbledore's spirits when they were young.

But he remembers the content very clearly, and now he needs to pay attention to the details.

The memory is still winding as usual, and Sean has been carefully observing the entire scene, trying to find details that he hadn't noticed. The two young geniuses were there exchanging magic spells and talking about their great ideals. Sean in the memory looked at the two quietly.

While the current, Sean was observing the entire room while listening to the conversation between the two, trying to find out something.

"Is there anything I didn't notice at the beginning?" Sean even walked in front of Grindelwald and Dumbledore in his memory, wanting to see if there was something weird about these two people.

However, until the end of memory, Sean still didn't notice Dumbledore's cryptic reminder.

Lifting his head from the Pensieve, Sean rested his chin in thought, recalling everything he saw.

He looked at it more carefully than before, but no matter how he thought about it, apart from discovering the strangeness of the envelope itself, there was nothing particularly noteworthy, let alone something that could explain the hidden message.

"It doesn't make any sense..." Sean circled back and forth on the spot.

Sean froze in place.

This memory is different from other memories. He needs to see it from a different angle.

Without any hesitation, Sean sank into the Pensieve again.

The floor of Potter's bathroom has not changed in any way, and the self in front of him is still the same.

But Sean finally saw something was wrong; it should be said that what he saw now was the normal situation because the first thing he saw was himself in memory. Sean's chest rose and fell slightly, and fell into the memory again and immediately looked to the side.

Grindelwald and Dumbledore were coming from afar in that direction.

The memory is drawn from the caster, and when the wizard uses the Pensieve to view the memory, he is actually in a third-person perspective, not a first-person perspective. It was as if he had just fallen into memory and saw himself in memory at hand.

Sean always thought that this memory came from one of these two people. However, if it came from one of them when Sean was dragged into the letter, he should immediately land at the closest point to the two and slowly unfold the scene following their steps.

But now, he landed at Dumbledore's house early and is "waiting" for the two to come from a distance.

This only proves that this letter's memory is not from Grindelwald, Dumbledore, or even Aberforth and Ariana. In the summer of 1899, besides the three children of the Dumbledore family and Grindelwald, a fifth person was here.

A person who has been waiting here for a long time and has been hiding himself.

Sean looked at young Grindelwald and Dumbledore, who didn't even notice the fifth person hiding there.

Although these two people are still young, their talents are already at a high level. Sean can say with certainty that the two are stronger than most of the famous wizards today.

But they did not realize there was a fifth person here.

Sean silently walked up, met Aberforth, and walked into the room. Here, he finally saw a scene he had never expected to notice.

The door was pulled open, bringing with it a very slight breeze. In the dim corridor, only Sean saw the scene, which would not be noticed by anyone at all.

A trace of dust was blown up, and instead of slowly floating down, it was hindered and fell directly to the ground.

But no one cared about it.

Sean fixed his eyes on that corner; the hidden fifth person was nearby.

As a master of the Disillusionment Charm, he was a bit numb. Even if the young Grindelwald and Dumbledore were not as strong as they are now, they were still proficient wizards.

In front of these two people, this fifth person has been using the spell to hide himself, even walking next to the two of them. Which means this person's magical talent is unimaginable.

However, this person is hiding here. What exactly is he going to do?

Sean paused. He suddenly thought of the time travel accident. Dumbledore went back to the past.

Sean stared at the place where the dust stagnated. The two young men had already entered the room and were about to close the door.

Sean didn't have any intention of following up. He was concentrating on looking at every corner here. At this moment, a speck of dust floated up, slightly shaking.

Pointing to the door's keyhole, a key was inserted in it. Sean wanted to take out the key to have a look and even forgot that he couldn't do that as it was only a memory.

He moved closer to observe the key carefully and found that there was a unique gap in the edge that was inserted into the keyhole. Moreover, he is somewhat impressed by the style of the key head.

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Looking up from the Pensieve again, Sean's chest was still rising and heaving slightly.

He took out a key from his bag. This time, the key was no longer an untouchable illusory memory but a metal object with a cold feel. There is also a unique notch on the key head.

Is this key the key to Dumbledore's room? Of course, Sean didn't know the origin of this key. Before that, as far as Sean was concerned, the key was given to him by Grindelwald, and it was a key to the basement.

Grindelwald gave most of Nurmengard's authority to Sean, and this key can also open a series of rooms, such as basements and storage rooms, that ordinary students are forbidden to enter and exit.

Of course, Sean walked back and forth in Nurmengard's basement many times, but most of the rooms there were empty, so Sean never cared about it.

His latest news about the situation related to it was when he dealt with the Aikens. Grindelwald invaded the British Department of Mysteries at that time, and Nurmengard was attacked.

Sean went to check the basement but only found a blasted prison in the deepest part of the basement and something held inside escaped. This was something that he found at that time.

Sean didn't hesitate, he walked directly into the Vanishing Cabinet to Nurmengard, and then found the place.

The basement has not been repaired, and a big hole has long replaced the iron gate. Sean walked in with his wand raised. It was pitch black, not even a small window.

Sean looked around, there was nothing here, and there seemed to be nothing strange.

A small wind field appeared on the tip of his staff and then blew to every corner. After that, the sound of fabric shaking can be heard, and Sean's pupils shrank.