A day at Hogwarts

Chapter 438 Could his father be...

There is something that looks like a slice of watermelon, smells like a slice of watermelon, and when you pick it up with a fork, it looks like a slice of watermelon, but when you put it in your mouth, you find that it is actually a cake.

Charles didn't expect Dumbledore to get such a fun snack. When the headmaster first took out the fruit bowl, he thought he had brought it back from a KTV room.

Dumbledore asked Charles with a smile: "Charles, do you want to participate in the Triwizard Tournament?"

Charles picked up another piece of apple cake and said while eating: "No, the prize money is too little."

He has no interest in this competition.

If Fleur hadn't been chosen, he would have wanted to throw Snape's name into the Goblet of Fire.

Dumbledore didn't believe it at first, but the reason he gave was irrefutable.

"You can actually participate." Dumbledore continued, "As you guessed, Diggory and the others took special remedial classes during the summer vacation to participate in this competition."

"After the rules for selecting assistants were determined, they were all discussing whether they could ask you to be an assistant."

Charles felt something was wrong and asked, "Principal, I feel you have other intentions."

Dumbledore nodded and said, "If you participate in the competition, you are prohibited from bringing Ruby."

Charles thought to himself that this was the case. It was indeed too foul to bring the phoenix to the competition. Anyway, he would not participate, so he naturally agreed.

He was wondering if the other two schools needed such a guarantee, so the principal came to him to talk about this.

In recent years, Ruby often went to Beauxbatons and Durmstrang to eat and drink, so it was normal for them to worry.

Dumbledore took out a book and placed it in front of Charles, asking, "Have you read this book?"

Charles took the book, and the black leather cover was printed with a golden title - "The Road to Power: Grindelwald's Fifty Years of Reflection", and the author was Bakalova who interviewed Grindelwald.

"It's published so soon?" Charles was a little surprised, "I haven't read it yet."

Dumbledore said, "He gave you this book."

Charles raised his eyebrows, took the book, opened the cover, and wrote on the title page "Gift to Charles Smith, thank him for opening a new door for me", and Grindelwald's signature below.

Dumbledore looked at Charles with a complicated expression, and finally sighed.

I thought that a dragon in prison could educate Charles and establish correct concepts, but I didn't expect Charles to let the dragon out and replace the dragon with new claws.

Dumbledore's eyes suddenly became sharp. Perhaps Charles is a more powerful dragon.

He quickly threw this idea aside. So far, the only bad thing Charles has done seems to be that he beat Malfoy too hard after Malfoy destroyed the plants in the greenhouse with insects.

Charles began to read with great interest. Dumbledore said to him earnestly, "Charles, I hope you don't get too close to Gettler. He killed too many people."

"I hope you can learn more from your grandfather. He is a kind man."

Charles smiled and said, "I will, Headmaster."

Dumbledore also smiled.

Charles smiled because he knew what happened before, and Dumbledore smiled because he forgot what happened before.

Lunch time was coming. Charles went downstairs to eat lunch while reading a book.

Slytherin's fourth-year students just finished their divination class and met Charles on the stairs.

"Charles!" Daphne walked to his side with a smile, "What class did you just come back from?"

Pansy Parkinson and several others saw it and covered their mouths and laughed secretly behind them.

Charles heard Seamus tell her about what happened on the train last night. It seems that what Eleanor said in Africa was true. He knew what she wanted to do and said, "I was called by Professor Dumbledore just now. I was warned because I was too close to a dark wizard who killed many people."

What he said was not wrong. Dumbledore said that he was too close to Grindelwald, which was definitely a warning to others.

But Daphne and others didn't know anything about Grindelwald. In the context of British wizard society, the dark wizard who killed many people generally refers to Voldemort, especially since the Dark Mark appeared again not long ago.

Many families of students in Slytherin College knew that the Death Eaters in Azkaban escaped last year, and there were rumors that Voldemort was back.

Although many people were arrested at the Quidditch World Cup final not long ago, including many former Death Eaters, these families easily found that none of the newly arrested and escaped Death Eaters overlapped.

Now more and more of them believe that Voldemort has returned secretly.

But there is a problem. Young people today have never seen Voldemort. They know Voldemort, but Voldemort cannot know them. How could Charles be close to him?

A possibility suddenly popped up in Daphne's mind. Charles was abandoned back then. Could he be Voldemort's child? Voldemort came to find him?

If Charles is Voldemort's son, this can explain why he is so outstanding.

Now from Dumbledore's warning, this is very likely.

Charles didn't know what she was thinking. He turned around and said to Pansy seriously: "Pansy, tell Malfoy to wait for me in the library at 8 o'clock tonight. If he doesn't come, you will bear the consequences."

After he finished speaking, he left quickly. Daphne was brainstorming and didn't come back to her senses.

Pansy went over and patted Daphne and said, "Hey, everyone is gone."

Daphne asked her mysteriously: "Do you think Charles is the son of a mysterious man?"

Pansy trembled and said hurriedly: "Are you crazy?!"

Dumbledore left the principal's office later than Charles, walking behind the Slytherin students. He had just seen Daphne go up to chat with Charles, and instantly entered gossip mode, and walked over to watch the show invisibly.

So he also heard Daphne's guess.

Dumbledore smiled at first, then stopped laughing.

It suddenly occurred to him that when Voldemort was still an old man, he often sent him to Quirrell's office in a solitary manner.

At that time, he thought about many possibilities, such as Voldemort taking a fancy to Charles' talent, but none of them were conclusive.

Now that Daphne had raised a new possibility, Dumbledore thought about it for a long time, as if this could best explain why Voldemort valued Charles so much.

After lunch, Dumbledore came to the Potions classroom, where Snape was preparing for the afternoon class.

When Snape saw him coming, he thought he was asking about Death Eaters again and said, "There is no new news."

Dumbledore said: "That's not what I asked."

"Severus, please recall, fourteen years ago, did Voldemort have a son?"

Snape's brain was down for five minutes. He almost raised his left sleeve and used the Dark Mark to send a group message: "Family members, who knows? Dumbledore is asking me if the Dark Lord has a son! How should I answer? Waiting online. , quite urgent!”

He trembled and asked, "You...what do you mean?"

"Could it be...Potter..."

He thought Dumbledore was asking Harry if Voldemort drank Polyjuice Potion and disguised himself as James Potter when he went to the Order of the Phoenix to inquire about information and got Lily pregnant and then gave birth to Harry.

This would explain why Harry, like Voldemort, is a Parseltongue.

This can also explain why Voldemort promised not to kill Lily.

Dumbledore shook his head and said, "Not Potter."

Snape breathed a sigh of relief, thought about school-age children, and asked doubtfully: "Is it Draco Malfoy?"

There was a time when Voldemort did often visit Malfoy's house.

Dumbledore shook his head again.

Snape thought for a moment and asked, "You mean Charles Smith?"

"His life experience is indeed suspicious. When he was in first grade..."

He also thought about how Voldemort often called Charles to the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office during that time.

Dumbledore nodded.

Snape recalled what happened back then, but what Voldemort did at that time was not reported to the Death Eaters, so it could not be falsified.

Now it seems Dumbledore may have some evidence.

He finally said, "Maybe."