The Alchemist of Harry Potter

"Come with me, Mr. Anderson."

Professor McGonagall took Albert to the headmaster's office so that when Dumbledore returned to school, someone could tell him the matter as soon as possible.

This is the "important" task that Albert was handed over by Professor McGonagall.

In order to prevent Albert from getting bored waiting in the principal's office, Professor McGonagall handed him the latest issue of Transfiguration Today and asked him to read to pass the boring waiting time.

Before leaving, Professor McGonagall "considerately" conjured a large glass of pumpkin juice for Albert out of thin air.

Looking at the "creaky" closed oak door, Albert squinted the "Transfiguration Today" magazine in his hand, threw the magazine directly on the desk, picked up the glass of pumpkin juice, and drank most of it "tontonton". Afterwards, he drew his wand from his pocket and gave the cup a refill spell.

Looking at the refilled glass of pumpkin juice, Albert nodded with satisfaction, put away his wand, walked behind the desk, and picked up the tattered, wrinkled Sorting Hat on the bookshelf.

Albert intends to take this opportunity to get in touch with the Sorting Hat. He always feels that there are a lot of secrets hidden in the broken hat, and he wants to find out how the Sorting Hat was made.

This thing may develop in the direction of artificial intelligence in the wizarding world.

Well, it might be inappropriate to call it artificial intelligence.

Anyway, probably something similar.

Albert pondered on the Sorting Hat for a while, but couldn't let the broken hat speak. In the end, in desperation, he had to put the Sorting Hat on his head so that the two sides could communicate smoothly.

Albert kept talking to the Sorting Hat, testing its intelligence, trying to find out if there was any secret hidden in the hat, but for a while he was obsessed with the memory presented by the Sorting Hat, forgetting the time until someone put his hand on it. On his shoulder, Albert suddenly regained his senses, took off the sorting hat on his head, looked up at the figure in the principal's office, and almost jumped up from the chair.

"Professor Dumbledore." Albert called the other party's name.

"Minerva asked you to wait for me here?" Dumbledore was a little surprised that Albert would be in his office.

"Yes, Professor McGonagall hopes that after the professor comes back, someone will be able to tell you what happened in the school as soon as possible." Albert put the sorting hat lightly on the desk, earnestly fulfilling his responsibility to stay here. responsibility.

"The murder of Miss Weasley?"

"Do not,

I thought Ginny wasn't dead, she was just taken into the back room. "Albert silently closed his brain, preventing Dumbledore from reading information from his own eyes.

"Oh, Miss Weasley isn't dead?" Dumbledore couldn't help loosening his frown. "This is the best news I've heard today, tell me what's going on!"

Albert used the simplest and most straightforward words to tell Dumbledore the most important things.

For example: Ginny controls the basilisk to attack other Muggle wizards, the entrance to the secret room is in the girls' bathroom on the second floor of the castle, the entrance to the secret room requires Parseltongue, and finally the monster in the secret room is a basilisk, which is the same as the real Slytherin heir. A wizard named Tom Riddle.

"You think Tom Riddle was responsible for the attack?"

Dumbledore was very upset when he heard Albert mention the name, although he had cleverly used a very interested expression to cover up his emotional changes.

"According to my investigation, Tom Riddle who caught Hagrid 50 years ago should be the Man of You-Knowing." Albert was not shy about Voldemort, but he didn't use that name directly, instead he used "Mystery" person" refers to.

"The main reason I suspect that Tom Riddle is behind the scenes is that "Tom Riddle's Diary" appeared in the school. According to Harry's description, it should be a diary that could think independently, and then the diary disappeared. , I suspect it was the bewitching thing that got Ginny under control."

"A diary that can think alone?" Dumbledore murmured softly, apparently already guessing what might be going on.

Who asked Albert to help Dumbledore know about Voldemort's creation of Horcruxes in advance, it's hard not to let him not think about this.

"I think it's best to save Ginny now. I'm afraid she's in a bad situation." Albert is not a villain, and naturally he doesn't want Fred and George's sister to have an accident. "The basilisk in the secret room, as long as its eyes are blinded, there is not much danger. I think Fox should be able to deal with it."

"It seems that you have found a way to deal with the basilisk very early." Dumbledore stepped out of the office, "Go and call Harry, I need his help to open the entrance to the secret room."

"I'll take Harry to meet you in the abandoned girls' bathroom on the second floor." After speaking, Albert hurried to Gryffindor's common room.

On the way, Albert slowed down and checked the Marauder's map in his pocket at the cue of Flux (intuition), Harry Potter was indeed no longer in the Gryffindor common room.

That's right, with Harry Potter's character, 80% of them couldn't help but enter the secret room alone to save people.

In the case of tampering with the plot, I don't know if Harry will die in the secret room.

Albert thought maliciously.

What would the world be like if the savior was lost?

A new savior?

Can you save the world yourself?

Well, it is impossible to save the world to save the world. Albert does not have such a noble consciousness, and he has never thought about fighting Tom.

If it is said that he hides behind his back and secretly stabs Tom twice to earn some quest rewards, he still doesn't mind at all, and it's better to face Tom directly.

Best, be a tumbler.

In this life, I finally put in a good baby, and a good life has just begun, why rush to die?

Moreover, I am not the life of the savior!

When Albert quietly came to the second floor of the castle, he did not forget to rub his cheeks with both hands, he took a deep breath, knowing that it was time to perform real acting skills.

He trotted down the stairs, turned panting into the girls' bathroom, and said loudly, "Professor Dumbledore, Harry's gone, I think he might run by himself..."

The entrance to the secret room has been opened, and Professor McGonagall, the Weasleys, Fred, George, Ron, and Percy are all here. They heard Albert's shout and turned to look at him. Albert entering the girls' bathroom.

"Where's Dumbledore?" Albert's eyes moved to the entrance of the open chamber, and he said slowly, "Harry is gone, he may have secretly tried to open... the chamber."

At this moment, Albert really felt that the Oscars in this world should award him a statuette.

"Professor Dumbledore has gone down." Percy said, looking nervously at the entrance of the Chamber of Secrets.

"Albert, you bastard just now..."

Fred and George approached Albert, looking a little annoyed that Albert used a stun spell to bring them down.

However, the attention of the two was quickly attracted by the phoenix who flew out first from the entrance of the secret room.

Then, Harry, Ginny, and Dumbledore slowly ascended from the passage like an elevator.

"Harry, Ginny!"

There was an exclamation from the girls' bathroom.

Harry looked a little miserable, and seemed to be seriously injured, but now it seems to be out of the way, and it is estimated that he was treated with the tears of the phoenix.

"Damn, if only I had a phoenix." Albert envied Dumbledore for having a phoenix pet.

At this moment, Harry was holding a silver sword in his hand.

Professor Dumbledore didn't know when to send the Sorting Hat to Harry, or if he didn't need the Sorting Hat to summon the Gryffindor Sword.

Will this magical sword appear when Gryffindor students need it?

"everything is over?"

Albert looked at Ginny and Harry, who were embraced by the Weasleys, and moved his gaze to Dumbledore, who was standing beside him smiling.

"It's over, the basilisk was killed by Harry, and Riddle's memory was erased from the diary." Dumbledore took out Riddle's diary and showed Albert that it was pierced by the basilisk's fangs. Out of the hole.

History revision is horrible!

Albert couldn't help but sighed emotionally.

"By the way, Albus, there is one more thing." Professor McGonagall looked at the crowd with relief, and thinking of Lockhart again, he told Dumbledore about the misfortune of the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor: "Guidero's Something didn't seem right, and Snape told me that someone had used a powerful forgetting charm on him, making him forget everything, and now he's like a child of a few years old."

Speaking of this incident, Professor McGonagall's face shook twice, and he didn't know if it was happiness or other reasons.

"I probably know why he was attacked."

Flux (intuition) tells Albert that it's time to get everyone else's attention to reveal Lockhart's secret.

"you know?"

At this moment, everyone in the girls' bathroom turned to look at Albert, as if curious about how many secrets he knew.

"Yeah, just a while ago, when I was talking to Hermione about the attack, Lockhart passed by. Although I shut up immediately, I think Lockhart may have overheard us." Te casually fabricated a reason, and they couldn't find it anyway.

"That's when I started to suspect Ginny, because Ginny was there at the time, and then Hermione was attacked, obviously not because of her Muggle status, but for other reasons."

"You mean Ginny attacked Lockhart?" said Ron, dumbfounded.

"No, you got Ron wrong, it should be the mysterious man who attacked Lockhart." Albert looked at Ron, who was a little absent-minded, speechless, and couldn't help but slandered in his mind: You just want to be cheated your own sister?

"Mr. Anderson, please tell me everything you know." Dumbledore turned to Professor McGonagall and said, "Minerva, do you mind if we borrow your office?"

"Oh, of course I don't mind." Professor McGonagall was also curious as to what was going on.

Everyone crowded into Professor McGonagall's office.

Sitting on the comfortable sofa, Albert picked up the hot tea that Professor McGonagall had just concocted out of thin air, took a sip, and slowly told the story he had specially prepared for this time.

"This has to be talked about at the end of the third year, when Professor Trelawney invited me to discuss crystal ball divination." Albert glanced at Professor McGonagall, who was dismissive of divination, and then looked around Quietly and listened. The crowd continued: "At that time, I predicted that Hogwarts might not be too quiet next semester."

"What did you predict?"

Dumbledore is also curious about whether Albert really has the ability to predict, and there are too few masters of prophecy who really understand prophecy.

"I saw on the crystal ball the words originally written on the wall: The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Those who are enemies of the heir, beware."

After finishing speaking, Albert put down the teacup and looked around the dead office, very satisfied with the current atmosphere, "There is another picture of a copper faucet engraved with a snake mark, which is what I later determined that the entrance to the secret room is in the girls' bathroom. one of the reasons.”

"You started investigating this matter since then?" Professor McGonagall's eyes widened, she couldn't believe her ears.

"Forget it!" Albert said with a smile: "My predictions are usually very accurate, and I also believe in what the predictions see."

"Don't say prophecies, your words are accurate." Fred couldn't help whispering. George immediately nodded in agreement.

"I didn't find much information, but I still found something." Albert ignored Fred and George, and continued: "At that time, I probably guessed what might happen."

"So that's the case, so you asked Nico to help you make the pair of protective glasses. At that time, did you already determine that the monster in the secret room was a basilisk?" Dumbledore was also amazed at Albert's sharp thinking. The result is based on that little bit of information alone.

"What glasses?" Fred and George stared at Albert together, looked at the eyes on his face curiously, and said suddenly: "I just said why you suddenly wear glasses, so these glasses Is it to prevent basilisks?"

"Well, Nico said that these glasses should be able to prevent me from dying when I accidentally look directly into the eyes of the basilisk." Albert took off the flat-rimmed glasses and handed them to Fred, "But, I haven't tried it, so I also I don't know if the glasses actually work."

"Nico?" Percy raised his eyebrows slightly and asked tentatively, "Which Nico? That can't be that one!"

"Yes, that is Mr. Nicole Lemay." Albert said naturally: "Mr. Lemay is half of my teacher. I can know him thanks to the introduction of Professor Dumbledore."

"He's not dead yet?" Harry couldn't help but blurt out, the Philosopher's Stone was destroyed by Professor Dumbledore last year.

"Of course not dead, Harry." Albert glared at Harry slightly dissatisfiedly and said, "Even if the Philosopher's Stone is destroyed, they can still live for a few more years."

Everyone looked at Harry and then at Albert. They opened their mouths in surprise and looked at Albert with disbelief. They never thought that Albert actually knew the legendary alchemist. Mr. Nicole Lemay, and he is still half a student of Mr. Nicole Lemay.

And, the most shocking news for them: Nicole LeMay is dying.

"You knew it last semester?" Professor McGonagall's words brought everyone's attention back to the secret room.

"Actually, it's very easy to guess that the monster in the secret room is a basilisk, because it is related to Slytherin, and the one that can live for a thousand years is a basilisk, and Slytherin is still a Parseltongue, wanting to control the basilisk and It's not difficult." Albert took another sip of tea, moistened his throat and continued: "Later, the attack really happened, and the words in the prophecy appeared on the wall."

"Why didn't you tell everyone!" Percy's eyes widened and he couldn't help asking, "If you could..."

"No, I can't." Albert glared at Percy and told him to shut up before continuing: "Who would believe my nonsense at that time, let alone the professor, even you wouldn't believe it, On the contrary, it will make everyone suspect that I am the murderer, and you can think for yourself whether what I said makes sense."

Albert knew that the Headmaster was suspicious of Voldemort by then.

However, he did not intend to expose the other party's thoughts, and continued: "Because I am also a Muggle wizard and I am also on the attack list, so I began to investigate this matter. After all, there is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days. Once the murderer is found, you will be safe."

Everyone couldn't help being stunned by Albert's sturdy approach.

"If the murderer knew why he was found out, I don't know what to think." George muttered softly.

"Later, Hagrid didn't look right when he heard about it, so I asked him his age."

"age?"

Everyone looked puzzled.

"Hagrid was sixty-four years old, and he should be sixty-five now. It's not difficult to figure out that he was studying at Hogwarts at the time." Albert explained briefly, "Hagrid told me under my inquiry. Something similar happened fifty years ago."

At this moment, Ron felt that his IQ was suppressed, and he was relieved to see that Harry, Fred and George were still able to look like this.

It turns out that there is more than one idiot!

In fact, no one else was able to understand Albert's thinking mode. Could this be the difference between geniuses?

"Although Hagrid didn't say who the murderer was, if you've noticed, Hagrid never used a wand, and he was most likely expelled from the school. If you link these two things, you can't speculate about Hagrid. It may be the murderer who was caught back then."

"So, I asked directly, and Hagrid admitted that he was fired because of what happened fifty years ago." Albert spread his hands and said, "Of course, I believe that Hagrid is not the real murderer."

"why?"

Percy simply couldn't understand Albert's brain circuits.

"Don't you think Hagrid doesn't look like Slytherin's heir at all?" Harry said quietly, "and he doesn't speak Parseltongue, can't control basilisks, and is a student of Gryffindor House."

This is the answer that Albert gave him at the beginning.

Fred and George grinned and patted Percy on the shoulder and said, "Even if you think about it with your knees, you know," Slytherin's heir can't be a student at Gryffindor House. "

"Shut up." Mrs Weasley glared at the twins.

"Later, Hagrid revealed two pieces of information to me. The guy who caught him was a guy named Tom Riddle, who seemed to be a student of Slytherin." Albert put up the second hand and continued: " He said that Aragog was not the murderer. Well, Aragog was the eight-eyed giant spider that Hagrid raised fifty years ago. Now the eight-eyed giant spiders in the Forbidden Forest are all descendants of that guy. According to the eight-eyed giant spider Aragog According to the information disclosed by Ke, the monster in the secret room is the natural enemy of the eight-eyed spider."

"The eyes of spiders allow them to see a 360-degree field of vision, and the special eye structure prevents them from closing their eyes completely." Albert noticed the confusion on everyone's faces and explained: "When encountering a basilisk When the time comes, the spider that cannot close its eyes will be killed by its eyes, so the basilisk becomes the natural enemy of the spider."

"The last thing that made me really sure that the monster was the Basilisk was Harry's Parseltongue, and Hermione told me later that Harry heard a voice no one else could hear on Halloween night."

Percy opened his mouth, but ultimately remained silent.

"Could it be that Hermione was attacked because she knew too much?" Ron couldn't help but interject. He had always thought it was unusual for Hermione to be attacked.

"Yes, Hermione is also secretly investigating this matter." Albert directly admitted that Hermione's attack was related to this matter, "Later, Hermione told me that Harry picked up a book belonging to "Tom Lee" Del's diary", the diary will reply to the writer, and it also takes Harry to see the scene of Hagrid being arrested fifty years ago, making Harry think that Hagrid may be the murderer who opened the secret room."

Harry bowed his head in embarrassment.

"That's when you started to doubt Tom Riddle?" Dumbledore guessed why, and someone as proficient in alchemy as Albert clearly knew what that diary might mean.

"Yeah, Riddle's journal does look suspicious. Then I went to Harry and found that his journal was stolen by some Gryffindor student, I think Ginny stole it Riddle's diary." Albert glanced at Ginny who was sitting next to Mrs Weasley, and said his guess, "She probably wrote something in it and was afraid of being known by Harry, so she took advantage of it. Harry wasn't stealing the diary."

"I've been—writing on it," Ginny sobbed softly. "For a year, he—he kept writing me back—"

Mr. Weasley was stunned by Ginny's words.

"That diary should come from Mr. Malfoy." Albert's startling words interrupted what Mr. Weasley was about to say.

"There is evidence?"

"Before the school year, you had a fight in the Lichen Bookstore, and this incident was also published in the Daily Prophet. I think Malfoy should have put the diary into Ginny at that time, probably in a random copy. Book."

"I found it in a book my mother gave me."

Albert's words were quickly confirmed by Ginny.

"Why did he do this, why did he kill Ginny!" Mr. Weasley gritted his teeth, his eyes were full of anger, and he began to think about how to get revenge.

"I think one of his reasons for targeting you is the Muggle Protection Act."

This sentence instantly stunned the others. I didn't expect Albert to even know this.

"Don't look at me like that, it's not hard to guess." Albert briefly explained what was reported in the Daily Prophet, and that Ron and Harry drank the compound potion and sneaked into Slytherin College to inquire about news.

"That bastard!"

"Actually, you don't have to be angry, I think Mr. Malfoy is going to be unlucky soon!" Albert said suddenly: "After all, he threatened other school directors, and the conspiracy failed in the end. Hate things, other school managers will definitely retaliate, I think his position as school manager will come to an end."

"Yes, old Malfoy must be out of luck." Fred and George both looked very happy, they obviously believed in what Albert said.

"Later, I talked to Harry about the secret room, and I deliberately let Ginny overhear." Albert raised his hand and pressed it, motioning everyone to keep quiet, and continued, "If Ginny was the murderer, he certainly wouldn't. She will let me go easily. In fact, she let the basilisk attack me today, unfortunately, I was already prepared and escaped from the pursuit of the basilisk. "

"I'm more curious, how on earth did you know that Tom Riddle is You-Know-Who," Harry couldn't help asking, although he had learned the truth from Tom Riddle, he couldn't help it. I want to test Albert to see if this guy really knows everything.

"Tom Riddle became suspicious after Riddle's diary appeared. If he is the heir of Slytherin, it means he can speak Parseltongue." Albert said to Harry with a sigh of relief. , "Parseltongue is one of the symbols of the Slytherin heir."

"You think me too?"

"No, you are in Gryffindor House, and you can still use Gryffindor's sword. You are undoubtedly a brave Gryffindor student." Albert stopped Fred and George who wanted to speak, and continued: "Tom Riddle was fifty years ago, and now there is no famous wizard named Tom Riddle in the wizarding world. I even wrote to many old friends and they didn't know there was such a wizard, but the wizarding world has There's a dangerous dark wizard who can speak Parseltongue, yes, that's the You-Know-Who."

Albert used his wand to write Voldemort's name in mid-air, and then Tom Riddle's name.

"If you look carefully, you will find that they have a lot of the same letters in their names. I think there should be a middle name, which is why I think Tom Riddle is the mysterious man and controls Ginny."

From the beginning, everyone kept their mouths open. They were all shocked by Albert's analysis and were a little numb. They quietly listened to Albert's narration and analysis.

"After all, he did something similar last year." Albert waved gently, and the golden text floating in the void disappeared.

"His name is Tom Marvolo Riddle, as Voldemort himself told me."

When Harry uttered the three words Voldemort, everyone in the office, except Harry, Dumbledore and Albert, shuddered when they heard the name.

"So, you didn't want to tell us then?"

"Would you believe that Ginny was the real murderer?" Albert asked rhetorically.

Fred, George, Ron, and Harry all shook their heads in unison, and they now understood what Albert had said at the beginning: Even if I told you, it wouldn't make sense, because you wouldn't believe it.

Yes, before there is no evidence, how can they doubt their relatives?

"Of course I know you won't believe it. Most people won't believe it without evidence, so don't blame me for not telling the truth, it doesn't make sense at all, just like most wizards don't want to. Believe in the fact that the mysterious man is still alive." Albert made a simple analogy, "That's why I need to lure him out and show evidence to make you believe the truth."

"I was lucky, Tom Riddle took the bait very easily, probably out of no-brainer, and he ordered the basilisk to attack me. He failed, though, and probably never dreamed of it, and I prepared him a bunch of cocks , the basilisk made a lot of noise when the rooster ran away in a hurry, so Tom had no choice but to take Ginny and hide in the back room, because he knew that I would tell others about it later ."

Everyone admires Albert's bravery, and not everyone has the guts to use themselves as bait. If he hadn't uncovered the truth of the matter, everyone would continue to be buried in the dark, and it is unknown how many people would have been attacked.

"How do you know Ginny is okay for now?" Ron demanded. He obviously hasn't forgotten what he was put in by Albert, and tried to find something that Albert didn't know.

"If he wants to kill Ginny, Ginny is already dead, and there must be other meanings in keeping it. I think Harry may know what's going on." Albert looked at Harry, who was in Shaking his head.

This time, Riddle apparently didn't get a chance to get out of the diary.

"I think Tom may think that Ginny is a nourishment." Albert said his guess, "Ginny was very pale for a while, a bit like Professor Quirrell last year."

Everyone was looking at Ginny, and they were relieved to find that her cheeks were still rosy.

"I think that when the board of directors finds out that there is no way to solve the problem, they will bring Professor Dumbledore back, and the headmaster will definitely be able to solve the problem, so Harry, you don't have to take the risk at all, I reminded you. "Albert said to Harry, "Of course you are brave, at least braver than I am."

"You are also brave." Mrs. Weasley gave Albert a hug, "Thank you Albert, if it wasn't for you to uncover the truth, Ginny didn't know what would have happened."

"What happened to Lockhart?" Professor McGonagall didn't forget about Lockhart.

"Tom Riddle obviously doesn't know that Professor Lockhart is a wizard who likes to brag. He probably thinks that Lockhart knows the location of the secret room and the general situation of the whole thing after overhearing me and Hermione." Albert He shrugged helplessly and said, "As you all know, Professor Lockhart said he knew where the secret room was, and I also heard him say that he planned to write a book about his role in Hogwarts based on the secret room attack. Books from the days of the Dark Arts professor."

"So, in order to keep the secret room of the secret room, Tom Riddle controlled Ginny to attack Professor Lockhart and told him to shut up completely." Albert secretly changed the attack and went well, "I want to use a flashback spell to check Ginny. 's wand, it shouldn't be hard to spot the spell he used on Lockhart."

Everyone's expressions were extremely complicated. I didn't expect Lockhart to end up like that.

"Actually, it may not be the first time that Professor Lockhart has done this kind of thing. I mean stealing the results of others." Looking at the complicated crowd, Albert threw a bombshell again, "I think Professor Lockhart is most likely a liar!"

"What secret did you discover?" Fred and George asked in cooperation.

"Of course, I don't have enough evidence, but it's not difficult to see this in some aspects." Albert pointed out mercilessly: "In fact, Lockhart's level of black magic is very bad, I doubt it. There are certain spells in the book that Professor Lockhart does not know at all, so I asked him a lot of questions. Of course, the one that made me suspicious of him was a spell called the Restoration Mantra, which Professor Lockhart gave I have a bunch of information, although I haven't learned this spell yet, but I can see that it is not a random fabrication."

"Of course, the most direct evidence is the document Lockhart gave me. He probably didn't read it carefully. There are still a few clippings in Armenian. Well, at the beginning, I actually didn't know what the text was. Later I I found out that it was Armenian after I asked someone to inquire." Albert continued to the puzzled crowd: "Then I asked someone to help me find out. It is said that sometime before the 1980s, a very brave and quite An accomplished old Armenian wizard in Wagga Wagga, Australia, successfully helped local residents subdue a fearsome and ferocious werewolf."

"You mean Lockhart stole the wizard's deeds?"

"I heard that the old wizard seems to be very forgetful now, and I think he may have been erased by Professor Lockhart." Albert said maliciously, "So, what he gave me It's probably something that was taken from the old wizard's house. Of course, these are all my speculations, and there is no evidence of deeds!"

This time, everyone was blown up by the blockbuster thrown by Albert. They never thought that the famous Lockhart was a liar.

"Okay, everything has been straightened out. This time it's obviously not Miss Weasley's fault, the school won't punish her, she should go to the school hospital immediately and have Madam Pomfrey examine her. Just a moment." Dumbledore looked at Albert with a smile again, "Excellent reasoning, if there is no Mr. Albert, I am afraid that many of us would be in the dark. Of course, there is also Harry, you bravely save With Miss Weasley, both of you have received awards for exceptional contribution to the school, well, let me see... two percent each for Gryffindor."

"I think Hagrid should be released, Azkaban Prison is not a good place." Albert reminded Dumbledore "kindly" again.

"You're right, I'll write a letter to Azkaban right away... We should get our hunting ground guard back." Dumbledore said softly, "I still need to draft a job advertisement and put it on the The Daily Prophet. We need a new teacher for Defence Against the Dark Arts again. Holy shit, the teachers in this class are draining fast, aren't they?"

"Maybe, Lockhart should resign early, and maybe he can escape the catastrophe." Albert said without thinking, "The curse of the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts is really terrible."

"I think what you need now is something to eat, then get a good night's sleep, and I'll have the house-elves prepare food for you." Dumbledore changed the subject.

Albert shrugged and left Professor McGonagall's office with everyone.