Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

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Well, Moon decided to put this issue aside quickly.

He patted Cedric on the shoulder, shook his head at Gal and Arlin, telling them not to worry, and then walked towards Professor Dumbledore.

"Well, good night, gentlemen." Professor Dumbledore smiled slightly, and then led Moon out of the castle gate.

There was no words all the way until he slowly walked to the edge of the black lake. The old man finally spoke again and said softly: "Well, I guess you must be wondering why I appeared at the door at this time, waiting for you there instead of going directly to the door. Go to the school hospital, or write you a letter and make an appointment."

"The reason is that I can probably only tell you the news tonight, and it is not convenient to tell anyone else at the moment."

Moon listened quietly, looked at the big tree next to him, and waited for the old man's next words without saying a word.

"The first news is that just tonight, I finally found the origin of Lockhart's weirdness that you told me about. Of course, this is also the origin of his headache symptoms." Professor Dumbledore took out a folded He handed the note to Munn, then gently waved his hand and smoothed his sleeves.

Moon unfolded the note and found the old man's handwriting on it: the real Dream Weaving Spell.

"Like all magic that was born in ancient times, after a long inheritance, many related contents of the Dream Weaver Curse have been scattered. Record a little here and a little there." The old man looked at the lake and said in his words Full of emotion, "I dare to say that from a certain point in time, it is possible that even some users who have learned the Dream Weaver Spell may not understand all the characteristics of the Dream Weaver Spell."

"We learned earlier that after the Dream Weaver Curse is cast, the person who has been cursed will fall into permanent sleep, but this is not accurate. Because there are two possibilities."

As he said that, Professor Dumbledore raised two fingers. "The first possibility is what you and I know. The person who is cursed may sleep forever, like a walking zombie that has lost its soul; and the second possibility, The person who is cursed will wake up and his temperament will change drastically until he becomes...another person."

Moon's eyelids narrowed and he looked at the old man next to him in surprise, "So this is another little trick of Voldemort's to revive the dead?"

"No, no, that's not the case. Lockhart doesn't become Voldemort - you see, that's actually the case. If the person trapped in the Dreamweaver Curse fails to escape the attack of the dream spider, then he will He will be completely infused with the magic power of the Dream Weaver Spell, and his personality will begin to be reversed. Until he is killed by the spiders in his dreams again and again, and finally, he will wake up naturally and become a brand new person - not himself, But not anyone else either.”

"Instead, he became... let me think about it, a slave of the Dream Weaver Spell. I think this is a more accurate term."

Hearing the old man's explanation, Moon breathed a sigh of relief at first, and then suddenly realized, "In other words, Lockhart had already begun to be affected by the spell after he was caught by the spider in the Dream Weaver Curse. But after he was fully affected, Before, you found a way to understand the spell and awakened him from the Dream Weaver Curse. So he didn't completely change as a person, but there were still some changes."

"And the headache, as well as the excessive hatred, irritability, and anger toward me and Hermione, which even affected his own personality, are all caused by this."

"Exactly." The old man nodded happily. "So, now you can safely use Legilimency Lockhart without worrying about anything abnormal. Although Miss Granger has completed half of her plan very well, I believe you can also Strong evidence has been found tonight, but I think with your character, you won’t refuse some prepared backup measures, right?”

Moon nodded slightly and then asked: "What about other than this?"

"Well... the second news is that the results I found are exactly the same as the information you got from Tom in the diary. I'm afraid, at least in October, Tom really sneaked into Huo Huo through some method. Gwartz. He kept silent and didn't attract anyone's attention." The old man sighed and said, "Fortunately, he didn't find the magic stone that I hid. Otherwise, if something happened suddenly, he would be If you show up in person, you might actually succeed."

This news obviously would not shock Moon. After all, theoretically, he knew about this matter earlier than Professor Dumbledore.But he didn't say anything, and continued to look at the old man.

Judging from the importance of these first two things, I'm afraid the old man has a third piece of news waiting for him.

"There is a third piece of news..." Professor Dumbledore gently rubbed his fingers and stopped talking midway through, as if he was hesitating about something.

After a while, he said: "I think I may have found the whereabouts of another Horcrux. Maybe you will be willing to go out with me again this summer vacation? Of course, the time of this trip may be a little longer. Chief, you have to be prepared first."

"Of course." Munn agreed quickly, and after receiving Munn's reply, the old man seemed relieved.

His burden is obviously not "expecting Munn to search for Horcruxes with him."

In fact, the old man just can't make up his mind very well yet.

Searching for Horcruxes is very different from catching a few Bloodsworn dark wizards - to catch dark wizards, Dumbledore can know their approximate number and layout in advance. After all, if you want to catch people, you have to first Figure out the situation.

But for Horcruxes, no one knows what kind of protection there is around the location where the Horcruxes are placed.Maybe there is nothing and was thrown away by Voldemort in a remote corner, or maybe there is everything: dark wizards, hideous monsters, desperate curses...

That's why he couldn't make up his mind - from the bottom of his heart, he was still a little reluctant to take Munn to find the Horcrux.

But the change in his heart was always urging him restlessly.

"Then, so be it."

The old man dusted off his robe and straightened his beard that was a little messy in the wind, but suddenly he heard Moon next to him say: "Professor, I would like to borrow the magic stone."

Chapter 80 "King vs. King"

When he heard Moon's words, Dumbledore almost felt that he had heard wrong.

Of course, he reacted quickly and looked at Moon curiously, "Philosopher's Stone? What do you want to borrow the Philosopher's Stone for? Academic research?"

"Nothing, I just want to use the magic stone to catch a fish." Moon said lightly. "After knocking Lockhart down in the Forbidden Forest today, I have been hoping that he will not be killed by any passing Acromantula." Take a bite, otherwise you won’t be able to continue to squeeze out his remaining value.”

"When I just returned to the castle, I suddenly thought that since Lockhart has residual value that can be exploited, it can be used to clear the names of the wizards he has harmed. So, why can't Voldemort's diary work?"

As Moon spoke, he looked into the old man's eyes. "So, I would like to borrow the magic stone for a while - you don't need to actually hand over the magic stone to me, you just need to tell me the general situation of the thing and its current defensive strength." . Of course, this is just my idea at the moment. If you think there is anything wrong, I can accept it."

"There's nothing wrong with it." The old man laughed dumbly. "In fact, it doesn't matter even if I give you the real magic stone."

Looking at his nonchalant look, it was as if what the old man was talking about was not the extremely precious Philosopher's Stone, but a can full of sardines.

"No, fishing doesn't necessarily require special precious bait. Besides, if Daniel gets the Philosopher's Stone so easily, it will only make Tom in the diary suspicious." Moon said softly: "Then tomorrow, the professor and I will It would be more convincing if we take a day off and do this during school hours - so far, it seems that Daniel has not skipped class to find Tom."

"You can make your own decision." The old man rubbed the slightly cold back of his hand. "Ha, the weather is really bad tonight. If I had known better, I should have taken you directly to the office."

Moon sighed helplessly and looked up to the side. "I thought you thought this place had a better feeling and artistic conception of talking about important matters."

"That's true, but in comparison, the cold weather is heavier." Professor Dumbledore took the lead and walked back. "Ah, I heard that Sirius and Remus were Lee has prepared a gift, and I hope you can help send it to the school newspaper?"

When mentioning this matter, Moon was immediately speechless. "It happened, but it was not recently, but a long time ago last Christmas - they originally planned to treat this gift as a Christmas gift." , however, until after Christmas, they failed to collect enough and satisfactory articles, so they could only postpone it again and again until now."

"Sounds like something Sirius could do. He's always been a little overthinking when it comes to James and Harry. In fact, Remus showed me a few of these articles. and letters, I think they are very good..."

The huge lake shore gradually became silent again, and the two figures walked further and further away. It was not until a long time later that a beautiful bird jumped onto the branch and looked in the direction where the old man and the young man left in shock.

Although she had been hiding behind the branches of the big tree next to her from the beginning to the end, she knew very well that she had been discovered by two people - from the moment Moon first looked at the big tree where she was.

Moreover, from that time on, after the old man threw away his hand, she could no longer hear the conversation between the two people.

She didn't understand why Rodriguez insisted on letting her stay in Hogwarts and wander around the Forbidden Forest during this period. It was clear that as soon as she was seen by Munn, she would be exposed immediately.

But she knew that her mission was finally completed. According to Rodriguez, as long as she was discovered by anyone except Moon, she would return immediately.

Finally, she no longer had to worry about being in Hogwarts.

Under the bright moonlight, the beautiful bird spread its wings and flew away quietly again as if it had arrived, slowly disappearing into the night.

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At ten o'clock the next morning, Tom Riddle in the diary remained silent as always - of course, in his heart, he was silently counting the time.

Calculating when Daniel would come to him, calculating how long it would take for him to regain his body and regain his life.

Of course, by the way, let’s also imagine the plans after the great Voldemort returns.

However, to his surprise, at this almost impossible time, someone suddenly wrote something on the diary.

It was Daniel, but it was not the Daniel who he judged had almost lost his mind and had completely become a puppet of black magic.

But a Daniel who still maintains some clarity.

When he saw that the handwriting in front of him did not become chaotic, but seemed to have regained some sanity, Tom Riddle's heart immediately burst into endless anger. His first reaction was - this is absolutely impossible.

But soon, he thought, could it be that someone discovered something strange about Daniel and found a way to control his decline?

In his heart, Tom thought this was absolutely impossible.But in the wizarding world, who can really guarantee everything?

So he didn't plan to answer Daniel's call, but wanted to take another look to see what else Daniel would write on the page.

The next moment, the anger in Tom's heart disappeared almost instantly, replaced by greed and ecstasy.

"Tom? Come on, I have good news to share with you! I found the Philosopher's Stone!"

Under the impact of greed and joy, Tom almost lost his reason and judgment. He didn't even think for a moment how could Daniel, a mere little wizard who had not yet graduated, get the Philosopher's Stone?At this moment, he could only think about what happened after he obtained the magic stone——

Body?No, no need, no need for Daniel, no need for Susan Bones.

As long as he has the magic stone, it means that he has infinite vitality. Even if it is only the size of a fingernail, it is enough for him to regain his body and even go one step further to obtain another kind of immortality besides the Horcrux.

This time, he finally couldn't restrain himself and replied: "Here I am, Daniel, the Philosopher's Stone? Are you sure? It's the real Philosopher's Stone that can make people immortal?"

"Yes, Tom, it's that kind of magic stone - there was a huge fire dragon fighting with another monster in the Forbidden Forest. The professors all went to stop them, and I followed them secretly, and found the fire dragon. There is a shiny red stone in his lair. I'm sure that's the Philosopher's Stone, Tom. I heard a professor say that it was left by Professor Dumbledore in the Forbidden Forest."

Daniel wrote a long list of words in one breath, finally allowing Tom Riddle to regain some sense.

He finally remembered that Daniel was just Daniel, a little wizard who had no strength at all and could only rely on the black magic he taught and dug pit after pit to barely regain some dignity in the school.

And logically speaking, this little wizard should be crazy now.

This basin of cold water poured on the fire of greed in Tom Riddle's heart, immediately suppressing all his thoughts.

"You are not Daniel." He replied: "Who are you?"

"Hello, Tom, let me introduce myself again. My name is Moon Fox. Of course, I am also Daniel. If you like, you can continue to call me Daniel."

Moon manipulated the quill and wrote in the diary a completely different and beautiful handwriting from before, "But if you would call me Mr. Fox, maybe I would be happier."

"How did you do it?" At this moment, after confirming that he had really been deceived from beginning to end, Tom Riddle in the diary calmed down a little, "I mean, all of this."

"Are you sure you don't want me to come in and talk to me face to face? Tom, or... Mr. Voldemort? You don't like the name you inherited from your Muggle father, do you. But to be honest, I prefer Tom This name suits you very well."

This is blatant sarcasm.

Therefore, Tom said nothing, and no writing appeared on the diary - until three seconds passed, Moon was finally accepted by the diary and came to Tom's familiar handsome face.

"Hello, Tom, we meet again." Moon chuckled, but there was contempt and indifference in his eyes. "I have been wondering when you will find out. The result is really disappointing to me. Do you deserve it at all?" To be called the Dark Lord."

Facts have proved that the previous three-second pause was probably Tom suppressing his anger and anger so that he could face Moon with a completely calm attitude.Therefore, even though the contempt in Moon's eyes was not concealed at all, and his words were even more sharp, Tom still maintained the same decency as when they first met, instead of coming up angrily and directly trying to stab Moon to death with his wand.

"So, how did you do all this?" Tom and Moon looked at each other and asked the previous question again.

"Guess?" Moon raised an eyebrow. "Are you just going to wait for others to reveal the answer to you and put something in your mouth?"

"Unless you are a top Occlumency genius, or a monster who pretends to be a teenager but has actually lived for who knows how many years, there is no way you can deceive me -" Tom said his words in a deep voice Judgment "—right."

"You're right, Tom." Moon sneered, "But you missed the most important point."

Under the gaze of Tom Riddle, Moon slowly said: "You don't seem to realize that the man standing in front of you is the real and only Dark Lord in the future."

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Moon knew very well that if he wanted to deal with someone like Tom Riddle and talk to him face to face as an equal after exposing his lies, then he couldn't be the Moon Fox outside.

In other words, he can't just be the Moon Fox outside.

He has to be ambitious, arrogant, have secrets buried deep in his heart, and play tricks on everyone else.

Only such a Moon Fox can reach a deal with Tom Riddle, regain the last chance to trade after breaking up, and hook the big fish of Tom Riddle.

If he was still the Moon Fox outside, Tom Riddle would only despise him. Even threatening the safety of the diary would only be in vain to make Tom laugh.

Therefore, the first thing he had to do was to provoke Tom and anger Tom - at least adopt such an attitude to tell Tom Riddle what kind of person he was standing in front of.

"Very wonderful."

Faced with Moon's bold words, Tom Riddle seemed to have no emotion at all, as if he just heard the random nonsense of a child, "Any more?"

As a Horcrux that has no entity and cannot even clearly perceive external conditions, Tom Riddle in the diary is obviously unable to distinguish the truth from Moon's words.

Therefore, he could only find a way to make Moon tell the truth.

And the best way to get a person to tell his true feelings is to make him angry - when people are angry, they can say anything.

In this way, two people with different purposes, different ideas, and even completely different concepts and identities, inexplicably reached a strange tacit understanding at this moment.

"It seems like you don't believe me?" Moon smiled. "Why? Because you are a loser? Do you think there is no one in this world who can do better than you? Come on, you can't even think of me. You can’t even see through it, how can you still have such arrogant thoughts?”

"Oh, what do you think the Dark Lord is?" Tom Riddle also sneered. "Like you, you have to be careful even when facing a diary, telling lies one after another to complete your little story. Thoughts? Do you know? People like you can never become the Dark Lord."

"Aren't you the same, even when facing a fourth-grade wizard who is bullied every day, you have to be careful and tell lies one after another, just for your own little thoughts?" Moon raised his eyebrows, his eyes sharp. It pierced Tom Riddle's eyes like a sword.

"I'm not complete. Could it be that you are the same, just a Horcrux? An incomplete part?" Tom looked at each other without any sign of weakness, his eyes still full of indifference.

"Of course I'm not complete." Moon sneered. "I didn't lie about the fourth grade, Tom. Or do you think that when you were in the fourth grade, you already had the power and power you would have as Voldemort in the future?" Or... you think it's an honor for the complete Voldemort to be stronger than a fourth-year wizard? Don't be stupid, I know you better than you think, Tom."

"Very well, the future Dark Lord." Tom finally could no longer restrain his expression, but had to show a trace of pity, "Then why are you still coming to me? Isn't it what you should do most now?" Didn’t this thing directly destroy me?”

"Or, at this point, you still want something from me?"

"The 'future' Mr. Dark Lord."

Moon adjusted his collar with his hands, and seemed to be using such small movements to hide his true feelings. "Can I ask for help from you? Let me think about it, how can I ask for help from a diary that can't even move?" What? Well...'Great Lord Voldemort, please continue to teach me your adulterated black magic, so that I can become your zombie-like puppet as soon as possible and be devoured by you. This is simply too glorious. '."

"Do you want to see me like this? Tom, is this what you expect?"

"It's just... pathetic."

In the exchange of words, neither of the two people was able to anger the other, and neither one was able to achieve their own ideas.

They realized this at the same time, so they fell into a brief silence at the same time.The only difference was that Tom Riddle still kept observing Moon, while Moon inserted his hands into the side pockets of his robe and stood there quietly.

It's true that he failed to anger Voldemort - but that was never his true intention, and his true intention was clearly achieved now.

Tom Riddle was already trying to judge his true purpose. Perhaps at this time, Tom might have thought of his intention to make a deal with him.