Master Druid at Hogwarts

Chapter 718 Poor Merope



Chapter 718 Poor Merope

Time soon came to October, and with the help of the good man Slughorn, Fish held a birthday party for Hermione and Professor McGonagall.

On Professor McGonagall's birthday, he also called several other professors, including Dumbledore.

"Bring Harry to me this Friday night." At the banquet, Dumbledore whispered to Fish: "There is a new story for you to read."

"Great!"

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Although the recent Slughorn banquet, the gathering of the Cat Club, and the meeting of two little chimeras made Fisch's campus life colorful, Cats are still full of interest in new things.

"Yes, Albus."

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After cheering, Fish reached out and tugged at the corner of Dumbledore's clothes, tilted his head and asked, "Can you bring Ron meow this time?"

"Mr. Weasley..." Dumbledore raised his eyebrows, "Of course it is possible, but can I ask why?" He asked curiously.

"Ron doesn't look very happy recently. Hermione said it's because Harry and I didn't take him to play... Obviously Neville and the others didn't react..."

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Mao Mao replied with a half-knowledge.

In fact, it is mainly because Ron has been a bit unlucky recently...

The Slug Club didn't have his share, and Dumbledore didn't take him here. What's worse, in the Quidditch trials, Ron's goalkeeper position was snatched away by Cormac McLaggen in the seventh grade.

Although he won the position of batsman again later, in any case, Ron has been training with the team for so long and played as a first-choice player for a year, but he was replaced by others in the position he is most familiar with. Now, this is really a bit embarrassing, and Ron himself is a guy who wants to save face.

This has caused Ron to be in a bad mood for the past month, and Fish has heard his self-pity muttering more than once.But when Fish and Harry wanted to bring Ron to the banquet at the Slug Club, he resolutely refused.

So after asking Hermione, Mao Mao came to ask Dumbledore at her suggestion... Although Mao Mao still couldn't understand why Ron was unhappy.

Compared to Fish who was still ignorant, Dumbledore understood what was going on the moment Maomao answered, he smiled and said, "Then bring him here, but remember to let him He kept it a secret."

"Okay meow!"

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Mao Mao nodded, and then ran away to continue eating.

The day after celebrating Professor McGonagall's birthday, Fish told Ron the news, and he seemed very touched.

"This, this... Thank you so much, Fish!" Ron thanked at a loss.

At the same time, his face was flushed red, ashamed of his previous situation like a resentful woman.

Harry on the side also scratched his hair embarrassingly. Originally, this kind of thing should be asked by him, Ron's best friend.

As a result, during this period of time, he was only interested in asking about Slughorn's own mother, and coupled with the impact of Snape's incident, he ignored his friend's feelings.

Fast forward to Friday in Ron's Thanksgiving.

Harry used the invisibility cloak to cover himself and Ron, but Fish and Hermione naturally didn't need this. Even if they didn't use the cat form, they could still pass through Hogwarts after the curfew...

It's just that in order to save some face for Professor McGonagall, Fish basically travels at night in the form of a cat.

With Fish here, going from the Gryffindor dormitory to the headmaster's office was naturally as smooth as ever. When the four pushed open the gleaming oak door, Dumbledore was already sitting behind the desk waiting for them.

"Ha! Here comes another one!" Phineas taunted dissatisfiedly in the portrait: "You might as well post the password of the principal's office directly on the bulletin board!"

"Do you have any opinion on Fish bringing friends to play?!"

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Before Dumbledore could speak, Mao Mao ran to Phineas' portrait and shouted.

Then Phineas stopped talking, so he wouldn't be foolish enough to argue with the cat.

"Don't worry, Mr. Weasley, you were allowed to be brought here by Fish with my consent." Dumbledore said to the embarrassed Ron with a smile.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Dumbledore took out his Pensieve and a vial of new memories again.

Ron looked curiously at the stone basin containing the silver substance... Although Harry had mentioned it many times, it was the first time he had actually seen it.

But Hermione and Fish noticed that the broken disappearing cabinet was gone at this time, and it seemed that it was put away by Dumbledore.

"The last time we saw Voldemort's mother—the poor witch Merope, she fled the Gaunt family shortly after her father and brother were captured by the Ministry of Magic, and she was still with the handsome Muggle Elope with Tom Riddle..."

Dumbledore did not immediately pour the memory into the Pensieve, but talked about what happened after the last memory.

"Riddle had no reason to elope with her, so... she used the Love Potion? Or the Imperius Curse?" Hermione asked sharply.

"I personally prefer the former." Dumbledore nodded and sighed: "However, a few months after they eloped and got married, Tom Riddle returned to the mansion in Little Hangleton, but he did not bring any His wife. Neighbors have heard rumors that he insisted that he was 'deceived' and 'blinded'..."

"What happened?" Harry asked. "Did the love potion work?"

"That can only be guesswork," said Dumbledore. "I think Merope loved her husband deeply, and she couldn't bear to continue to keep him in her hands by magical means. Perhaps, she was because She was so obsessed with her love that she believed that her husband would fall in love with her in turn. She thought that her husband would stay for the sake of the children... But obviously, Riddle didn't do that. He fled Merope decisively and will She and the baby she was carrying remained in London."

"How do you know she's in London, Professor?" Harry asked again.

"Because of the evidence provided by Karaktakus Burke." Dumbledore said: "He and Mr. Bolkin opened a magic shop called Boggin-Bock in Knockdown Alley."

Harry let out a soft "ah", he remembered the shop where he met Malfoy and his son in Knockturn Alley, and the owner was called Mr. Bokin.

Dumbledore glanced at Harry, who suddenly realized, and didn't ask any more questions, because he knew about Harry's stray into Knockturn Alley long ago.

He withdrew his gaze, opened the glass bottle containing Mr. Bork's memory in his hand, poured the silver substance inside into the Pensieve, and at the same time stopped a certain little fur cat who was eager to try.

"Don't worry, Fish, this memory is very short, so there is no need to directly enter it."

Mao Mao pouted and sat back down again.

He has experienced it before without entering the memory mode of watching live, a bit like watching TV.

I saw Dumbledore shaking the contents of the Pensieve, just like a gold digger sifting gold, a figure of a little old man emerged from the constantly rotating silver-white objects, he was slowly spinning in the Pensieve, pale as hell Like a ghost, but with more texture than a ghost.

The content of the memory is very simple, that is, the little old man told about the impoverished and pregnant Merope who came to him to sell Slytherin's locket.

"He only gave her ten Galleons?" Harry said bitterly.

"Ten Galleons is a lot..." Ron muttered softly... Even he knew that this amount of money was nothing compared to Slytherin's locket.

Only Hermione caught the point, "You found it?! Slytherin's locket?!"

She still remembered Dumbledore's speculation last time that Voldemort was likely to make it into a Horcrux.

"Unfortunately, not." Dumbledore shook his head and said, "I only got a few useless clues... It ended up in Voldemort's hands, but this also confirmed our previous guess... It is most likely a Horcrux."

He raised his wand, tapped the edge of the Pensieve lightly, and after the silver substance in the basin rolled a few times, he said: "This time, we are going to enter my memory. I think you will find that it is not only the details Vivid and accurate. You go first, Fish..."

Mao Mao, who couldn't wait for a long time, immediately supported the table and plunged into the Pensieve.

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