602 The Lost Horcrux

‘What on earth is happening? Everyone at Hogwarts is so secretive, and even Dumbledore is fake?’
In the headmaster's office at Hogwarts, Susan felt a complete mess in her head.
She had just tried to divert the attention of the person opposite her with a small movement, but the fake Dumbledore saw through her little trick directly, without any politeness, and confiscated her wand.
‘Where has that missing professor gone? What is Dumbledore up to again? Damn, did those Hogwarts lot actually put Dumbledore under house arrest?’
Both professors present clearly deferred to Deputy Headmistress McGonagall, and the portraits in the headmaster's office didn't even question her impersonation of Dumbledore - most suspiciously, Professor McGonagall took it upon herself to tidy up the papers on the desk after the false Dumbledore had stolen her wand, and did so with a disturbing air of confidence!
A touch of panic flashed through her mind - if Efarmoni can trade birds, what about here...
Perhaps the idea of trading people seems too extreme to consider, but for Susan, it's not out of the realm of possibility. Even someone as powerful as Mr. Grindelwald has fallen from grace at the peak of his power, not to mention Dumbledore...
就在她考虑该用什么方法逃生的时候，那个先前消失的年轻教授又利用门钥匙回来了。
苏珊悄咪咪的竖起耳朵来窃听着那边的谈话。
‘刺杀’、‘遇袭’、‘逃跑’、‘隐瞒’…
这些词汇汇聚在一起，充满了杀伤力，她偷偷的尝试无杖施法，却被那边眼尖的假邓布利多盯得死死的。
After another unsuccessful attempt, she could only helplessly watch as the young professor waved his wand vigorously, shattering the distant window directly, and the McGonagall professor also took the opportunity to smash several ornaments with her wand.
Shortly after, Susan witnessed an incredibly fast beam of light disappear in the sky, and then Professor William and Professor McGonagall joined forces to blast open the gate again.
"At least you could have put on a show outside!"
Susan heard the false Dumbledore mutter.
"It's okay, they will investigate and find it's all our doing..."
The voice of the young professor rang out, and Susan suddenly fell into despair. She finally understood what was happening - these people were faking an assassination scene to cover up their imprisonment of Dumbledore and their evil acts of taking over the school, and the unlucky murderer was her!
而因为她之前得意洋洋告诉这些人的讯息，则是会被利用起来，身在美国的冤大头伏地魔会沾沾自喜的承认是他的人暗杀了邓布利多，使得这个该死的计划变得天衣无缝起来！
‘Stupid Dumbledore, actually being used by his own student!’
‘Fools, you have dealt with Dumbledore for the sake of a little power now - but when Voldemort comes, who will stand in his way?’
‘Oh… by the way, they may not know that if I persuade them to cooperate with Mr. Grindelwald…’
Susan's mind raced with countless thoughts for a moment, but before she could speak, she saw the young professor pull out his wand and point it at her.
“昏昏倒地。”
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“藏好了，”威廉把那位苏珊击昏了，然后使用幻身咒藏在了墙脚那边，“可以喊人来通知了，就说这位苏珊女士试图刺杀邓布利多，然后逃窜了。”
“Harry still likes to mess around…”
Professor McGonagall looked a bit helpless, “Pretending to be assassinated... I don’t think he wants to come back to work at school.”
It’s not a good idea to interrupt, so William had to turn to look at Moody, “Professor Moody, you have to lie over there, it’s best to pretend to be half dead... just leave a profile for people to see…”
"Next, we need to urgently purchase a batch of spices, then stop the meal delivery from the kitchen, stop the process of sending old clothes to be washed, and throw some of the candies sent into the trash..."
As William spoke, he felt a stabbing pain in his heart, and his face turned so pale that it impressed Moody. He began to understand why he couldn't become the head of the office of self-defense...
“In addition, notify the rest of the professors and students on campus, claiming that Dumbledore was not injured and has started actively searching for the next horcrux…”
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【Susan's Attempt to Assassinate Dumbledore Failed!】
When the new issue of the Prophet Daily was delivered to Bella, she was completely stunned.
This intelligence almost came at the same time as the previous one, without even giving her time to react.
"Barty, how dare he..."
Bella rubbed her eyes, with a look of confusion in her eyes.
She is still serving as the headmistress of Ilvermony, even though she made a serious mistake - the horcrux of the dark wizard in her family's vault was discovered. However, the dark wizard forgave her and graciously allowed her to continue in this position.
This accident made her extremely grateful, and she no longer complained about being stuck in Azkaban. There was even a sense of redemption in her heart.
But now, looking at Barty, her self-blame has deepened...
She watched the news with a strong sense of guilt and then handed it to the Dark Lord.
……
"Barty?"
Voldemort looked at the newspaper in his hand, but his expression filled Bellatrix with fear, "He went to assassinate Dumbledore, who gave him the order?"
In his plan, Dumbledore must die, but he has not given such an order. He is forcing another him to do it, but now Barty, who should have followed his orders, has gone to assassinate completely unpremeditatedly, and without even notifying him!
"Not me, master!"
Bella knelt down in fear, never expecting the Dark Lord's reaction to be like this.
"Another failure, and he's gone missing as well..."
Voldemort's voice was quiet, but Bella lay there, not daring to move.
"Try to contact him as much as possible, and...go ask those recently joined guys, what exactly happened..."
“Yes, master…”
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“Dumbledore is safe… and he's even searching for Horcruxes again?”
“He's holed up in his office and won't come out?”
“Another one?”
When a new piece of intelligence was sent over, Voldemort's face showed a hint of resignation.
His loyal Death Eater, Barty Crouch, was missing, while that Dumbledore fellow was hiding in his office, continuing to plot against his precious Horcrux.
While the other himself, equally swallowing his anger and not willing to make half... wait!
He unfolded the newspaper and read the latest news.
The new Horcrux was not found in the place where all his dreams began! Not in the cave he considered home and often visited, but in the belongings of the Death Eater, Regulus Black, whom he himself did not understand!
"I didn't do it, I didn't make that Horcrux!"
He looked at the completely unfamiliar object and began to doubt himself.
"Umbridge... Ministry of Magic... Horcrux..."
Voldemort paced the room, countless thoughts swirling in his mind.
Umbridge was a Death Eater, the kind who was condemned by the Ministry of Magic, not even allowing little Barty to save her...
She betrayed Bathilda Bagshot at the height of Bathilda's fame, then developed into a Death Eater, became deputy minister of magic, and almost climbed to the position of minister.
These are all undisputed matters, but now she still has the Horcrux in her hand...
"The development of Death Eaters must be personally trained by me... But the Horcruxes can also communicate, the reason why I do not have relevant memories is because those Death Eaters were not developed by me personally, but by the Horcrux controlling Umbridge's development... That's why I have absolutely no memory, and why I couldn't find any loopholes in my memory."
‘The inexplicable raid on the Department of Magic... The ones who attacked were indeed Death Eaters. They did not go there to protest or to show their existence, but to protect ‘me’!’
‘因为那个时候，魂器里的‘我’已经被带到了魔法部，时刻有被摧毁的可能！所以食死徒才会偷袭魔法部，试图把我救出来！’
And that soul vessel, that soul vessel... the only possible place it could appear is, before I became a wandering soul, because I couldn't control my soul, I attached a piece of it to some object!
'The reason why Umlich was able to obtain the Horcrux is because he is the deputy of Barty Crouch, who found it in the ruins of that house during the search! Only she has the authority to bring things out of the scene! She must have secretly concealed it because she was peeping at my power!'
Tom's eyes flashed with red light, everything could be explained...
The reason why he lost his memory was because that part of his memory did not exist at all, so it was possible for someone to tamper with the memories of the great Dark Lord!
That inadvertently created Horcrux never revived as a human until it was destroyed, which is why he couldn't wait for the other party to make a move in this patient battle!
Originally, it's not my memory that's the problem, it's just that there's an extra Horcrux...
He was planning to create a new Horcrux before killing Harry Potter, so it's not surprising that a new Horcrux was created at that time...
"Great...I'm still me..."
Tom breathed a sigh of relief, the heavy stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.
But moments later--
"I'm going to kill you, Dumbledore, I'm going to kill you!"
The vessel that is considered as a life was destroyed all at once, leaving only the last one, and judging by the darn Dumbledore's hunting speed like a hound, the last vessel is on the brink of destruction.
Even more ridiculous, he had watched the Horcrux being destroyed before, hoping that another Horcrux, which hadn't even resurrected, would save everything!
"I have to find the Horcrux quickly, and then change the place..."
This is his only remaining soul artifact! He must find it quickly! Cherish it as if cherishing life itself!