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Chapter 589: Conversation with Dumbledore, Learning Parseltongue
Dumbledore quickly identified the true identity of the other Horcrux. Of course, he himself was not sure about this yet, but he thought this was the most likely possibility.

"So, Mr. Zhou Ming, which college's students do you think are most likely to possess this Horcrux? Slytherin?"

Dumbledore asked.

Sure enough, he still hated Slytherin the most. (bushi)

In fact, when Dumbledore asked this question, there was no favoritism or selfishness in his heart. He was just speaking the truth.

Because the bloody words on the wall said it very clearly, "The secret room has been opened. Those who are enemies of the heirs, be careful!"

This means that the person who opened the Chamber of Secrets was the heir of Slytherin. Since he was the heir, he could only be in Slytherin House. Considering that Tom was also a student of Slytherin back then, it seemed reasonable to give the Horcrux to his junior.

"Why does it have to be Slytherin? Why not Gryffindor?"

Zhou Ming asked back. He changed his posture slightly to make himself more comfortable. "Professor Dumbledore, you seem to have fallen into a misunderstanding. The line of blood on the wall mentioned the heir, but can't this heir be Senior Tom himself?"

"You mean..."

Two bright lights flashed in Old Deng's eyes behind his glasses.

"First of all, who wrote the scarlet letter? Slytherin himself? Impossible. There is only one possibility, that is, Senior Tom, or the student controlled by Senior Tom. So the first problem with this heir is, whose legacy will he inherit? Slytherin? Or Senior Tom?

It's impossible for Senior Tom. He has created a Horcrux himself, so he obviously doesn't intend to die so easily. Since he has many chances to be resurrected, if I were him, I would not create an heir for myself.

So he is the heir of Slytherin? Professor Dumbledore, let me ask you a question. Given Tom's personality, will he give up the position of heir to someone else? "

"No way, Tom is not that kind of person."

Dumbledore shook his head.

"Yes, I think so too. So I think there is only one possibility here, that is, the Chamber of Secrets was created by Slytherin, and the heir also refers to the heir of Slytherin, but this person has already been chosen, that is, Senior Tom himself. The meaning of that sentence is that he has returned, or is about to return, so all those who oppose him had better be careful.

So you ask me which college the student controlled by the Horcrux might be from? If I were to answer, professor, I would say that students from every college could be from that college.

Even Ravenclaw, which is known for its rationality, has students who cannot resist temptation and fall into Voldemort's trap. "

Zhou Ming would not let old man Dumbledore locate the true location of the Horcrux so easily. He had to find something for Professor Dumbledore to do.

As for Ginny, doing this might indeed be a bit unfair to her, but first of all, Zhou Ming had no friendship with Ginny, nor with the Weasley family.

Secondly, it was Ginny herself who believed Voldemort's sweet words, and it had nothing to do with Zhou Ming.

Finally, in the original book, Ginny was not rescued until a long time later. Before that, Harry and his three companions, as well as Dumbledore, were unable to quickly find the location of the Horcrux. For a long time, they did not even know that the mastermind behind the scenes was actually the Horcrux, wasting a lot of time thinking and verification.

Now Zhou Ming has greatly shortened this time, so how things develop next depends on the joint efforts of all parties.

By delaying the end of this matter, it was also like teaching Ginny a small lesson. A child from a wizard family didn't even understand the principle that "talking magic props are not to be trusted", or did she understand but didn't listen? Regardless of the reason, whether it was Ginny's own problem or the Weasley family's education problem, Zhou Ming was able to speed up the whole thing a little, which was considered to be a very kind thing.

"That makes sense. If Tom simply wanted to revive himself, he could have found anyone. That's all my questions, Zhou Ming. I have one last favor to ask of you."

"You said."

"Next, I will search for traces of Horcruxes in the school. I hope you can also help to see if there are any other Ravenclaws who are behaving abnormally besides you. Don't worry, this is not to monitor classmates, but a kind concern."

Dumbledore pushed up his glasses and spoke softly.

"Let me correct you. It's others who are abnormal, I'm not abnormal."

Zhou Ming indirectly agreed to this request.

"Haha, I'm actually very curious, Zhou Ming, who are you? The information I know about you only dates back to nine years ago, when your parents brought you, a three-year-old, to England. It looks like your family is just ordinary people, and it's not surprising that you can become a wizard, but your behavior doesn't seem like a child from a Muggle family.

You are better than most children from wizarding families, and much better. Can you explain this secret to me?"

The lenses obscured Dumbledore's eyes, but Zhou Ming knew very well that Dumbledore was staring at him intently, eager to see some clues and indications from him.

"As for me, I am who I am. I am a different firework...Okay, just a little joke, who am I? Professor Dumbledore, I can say that I am Zhou Ming. I am not anyone you imagine, but at the same time I do have some little secrets of my own. But what exactly are they...I will tell you if I have the chance in the future.

Then I will take my leave now."

After Zhou Ming finished speaking, he stood up, bowed gently, turned around and left the principal's office.

It feels so good to be a riddler!

Especially being a riddler in front of Dumbledore, the old riddler, it feels even better!

Zhou Ming's happiness had not completely dissipated until he returned to the lounge.

After he left, Dumbledore fell into deep thought in the headmaster's office.

"I have to say it, I hate this little guy!"

The portrait of Phineas stared at the direction Zhou Ming left, pouting continuously.

"Why? He's so talented, isn't he exactly your type?"

A white-haired old man next to him spoke, looking at Phineas expressionlessly.

"First of all, he is not a Slytherin. No matter how talented he is, it has nothing to do with me. Moreover, he deliberately did not make his words clear. I hate people who only speak half of their sentences. Finally, he is not a Slytherin!"

Phineas said with a glare that in fact, the most important reason was "he is not a Slytherin". If Zhou Ming was really a Slytherin, then Phineas would have countless ways to defend him, and this is what he has been doing all along.

As for the old man who was talking to him, if Zhou Ming was still in the office, he would definitely be able to recognize the other person's identity.

Armando Dippet was the headmaster from 1926 to 1943. It was during his tenure that Tom opened the Chamber of Secrets for the first time, releasing the basilisk and causing the death of Myrtle. This included the subsequent slander of Hagrid, which happened during his tenure. He was very fond of Voldemort when he was young, and when Voldemort was 18 years old, he rejected his application to become a professor at Hogwarts and suggested that he come back two years later.

After his death, the person who took over was Dumbledore, the professor of Transfiguration at that time. In other words, Armando Dippet was actually the previous headmaster of Dumbledore. Because of the communication between the two headmasters, other headmasters also opened up and joined in, and began to discuss what kind of young man Zhou Ming was.

Dumbledore did not participate. He was still thinking about what Zhou Ming had said to him. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Zhou Ming did it on purpose.

Every sentence seems ordinary, but it gradually guides his thinking to the students. Of course, this is not wrong. Even if he doesn't say it, Dumbledore will give priority to the students in the school.

But being able to guide him to focus on students' personal books and notebooks, and at the same time guiding himself not to limit his focus to Slytherin House, is quite impressive.

Dumbledore was very good at guiding other people's thinking, but this time he was actually guided by others.

"It's good that you don't limit your focus to a single college, but are you guiding me this way because you already know where the Horcrux is? Mr. Zhou Ming, how much do you still have that I don't know?"

Unconsciously, Dumbledore became more and more interested in Zhou Ming. Unfortunately, the most important thing for him now was to find the Horcrux first, while also paying attention to Harry's movements. In other words, when he realized that Harry might also be a Horcrux, the subsequent plan of drinking too much had to be readjusted.

Dumbledore hasn't figured out exactly what to do yet, and he still needs some extra preparation.

On the other side, after Zhou Ming returned to the dormitory, he did not go to bed immediately. Instead, he directly picked up the box, left the lounge under the puzzled eyes of other roommates, and came to Youqiubiyingwu.

Don't ask him why he can walk around the school freely. The answer is that Filch can't catch him, and as long as he can't catch him, it doesn't count as a violation.

After arriving at the Room of Requirement, Zhou Ming first set up a spell to prevent others from entering. Of course, this spell could only block students, not professors. But it didn't matter, he had no intention of blocking professors, especially Professor Dumbledore.

Then he opened the box directly and awakened the soul fragment inside the crown.

This time, he didn't use those candles for the arrangement because there was no need.

"Why did you call me out this time?"

Tom looked at Zhou Ming with a gloomy face, completely different from before.

In fact, it cannot be blamed on him, because the fire spell left by Zhou Ming is still clinging to his body, like a huge tattoo. In other words, as long as Zhou Ming is willing, he can let Voldemort experience the previous pleasure again at any time.

If that's a thrill.

"I want to know, what is the relationship between your Horcruxes?"

"Why do you ask?"

Tom did not answer immediately, but asked a question in return.

Zhou Ming did not hide it from him and told him that there was another Horcrux in Hogwarts, and that the Horcrux had been activated and started attacking students.

Tom sneered when he heard this.

"You lowly Mudblood, are you scared now? It's too late. Once the Horcrux is activated, there is no possibility of reversal. Sooner or later, the other me will kill all of you. By then..."

Senior Tom's expression was a little scary.

Zhou Ming was so frightened that his wrist shook, and a faint white light immediately appeared at the tip of the wand.

The next second, Tom screamed heartbreakingly, the tattoo on his body began to glow red, and the power of the flame was burning his soul.

"Just answer whatever I ask you, and don't say useless nonsense."

After punishing Tom for a while, Zhou Ming stopped the spell.

Tom lay on the ground, gasping for breath, his face covered in cold sweat.

It’s strange to say, although it is a soul body, it can still sweat, making it look like a real person.

"Okay, I'll say ..."

Tom rested for a while, got up from the ground, and looked at Zhou Ming fiercely, "All Horcruxes are in competition with each other. As long as one is resurrected, the others will fall into a deep sleep. Everyone hopes that they will be the one to be resurrected. Moreover, if my original body is not dead, the resurrected soul will fight with the original body first. The winner gets everything, and the loser loses everything."

Zhou Ming nodded. This was consistent with his understanding of Horcruxes and Voldemort.

"May I know which Horcrux was activated this time?"

Tom suddenly asked.

"Diary, do you have any impression?"

"Haha, of course I did. That was the first Horcrux I made. After I learned about the Horcruxes from Slughorn, I prepared for it for several years, and finally succeeded in making it before graduation. You are very lucky, because I was still a student at that time, and my grasp of the dark arts was still superficial, and my strength was relatively weak."

"But he almost killed someone at school, and told me about the Chamber of Secrets, and how am I supposed to learn Parseltongue?"

Zhou Ming continued.

"The Chamber of Secrets is in the school's underground sewers. You can enter it through the bathroom passage, but you can only reach the door of the Chamber of Secrets. You can't go inside because you don't have Parseltongue. You want to learn? Sorry, you can't learn it because you don't have Slytherin blood."

Voldemort did exist. His mother was from the Gaunt family, and the Gaunt family was the pure-blood descendants of Slytherin, so he was able to learn Parseltongue.

Harry learned Parseltongue because of Voldemort's Horcrux.

Other people can actually learn it, but it is extremely difficult.

"That's what I should think about. You just need to teach me the contents of Parseltongue, or do you want to try it again?"

Zhou Ming raised his wand.

Tom gritted his teeth and reluctantly began to teach Zhou Ming how to speak Parseltongue.

(End of this chapter)