Basil's "Frank" Confession
For the first time, Neville felt so fortunate to have chosen to be a student at Hogwarts.
In this way, since he needs to balance the course in this world, he doesn't need to be so exaggerated in the live-streamed course—like Ron.
Madison and her friends, who could log into the live streaming platform but couldn't speak, were extremely glad they chose Ron as the time traveler, as Rupert's (the actor who played Ron in the movie) face created a particularly comedic effect.
But right now, the most noteworthy thing is not Ron's appearance.
For Ariana and Phoebe, the most concerning thing among the Hogwarts club members was the sudden disappearance of Masaru Kobayashi.
Both of them were puzzled, especially Ariana.
'Masaru Kobayashi', also known as Voldemort, had inadvertently shown her his helpless expression after being bullied on several occasions.
Although the club members, especially Madison, a shrewd person who had been in the entertainment industry, reminded her that this person had ill intentions and was no different from those male exchange students who flirted with Dumbledore, using her as a breakthrough point, she still felt a little unaccustomed to suddenly not being able to see him.
Phoebe guessed that perhaps this 'Masaru Kobayashi' was about to do something outrageous because Ariana hadn't taken the bait, and was being deported.
Most students think the same way.
But Suzuki Junko, an exchange student also from the Japanese Mahoutokoro, felt something was amiss. They both carried location-tracking spells; if they had left Hogwarts, that is, this small world, they should have been discovered by the wizards of the Mahoutokoro long ago. As the one in charge, she should have received the news as well.
However, the location magic was still not activated, as if he was still in an environment isolated from external detection, and this small world was the safest and most secure environment in the world, completely isolated from any external detection.
While allowing owls to fly in and out, connecting to the Floo Network and having invisible train tracks, it is also incredibly enclosed.
Students have tried using Shrinking Potion to hide in owls, but they only ended up being sent back to Hogwarts; it was impossible to observe how they got in and out.
Just like those wizards who hung on the Hogwarts Express, preparing to use the Bubble-Head Charm dive, it was all in vain.
Therefore, Suzuki Junko suspects that Masaru Kobayashi is still in this small world, or even somewhere in Hogwarts.
Draco was quite certain Neville Suzuki Junko's thoughts, if they knew.
But right now.
"Didn't you say you'd already spoken to Dumbledore? How come he doesn't know anything about it?" Neville was pacing anxiously.
This morning, upon returning from the Burrow, he was met by Professor McGonagall, who had come to report the disappearance of 'Masaru Kobayashi,' and Dumbledore was quite shocked by it.
"Luckily Dumbledore knew it was Voldemort, otherwise we would have been sent to Azkaban if we had been discovered."
"But my mother..." Short Draco was lost in his memories, then he noticed the twitching corner of his mother's mouth at that moment, and the emphasis on 'can be considered as.'
He quickly relayed the details he had recalled.
"Could it be...? Could it be..." Tall Draco pondered, "Gellert Grindelwald!"
Neville nodded. "It must be him, because he and Dumbledore are a couple. If he knows, it's as if Dumbledore knows. He definitely didn't expect us to act so quickly, so he hasn't told his lover yet!"
Meanwhile, in Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets.
The red-haired youth, still wearing his Half-moon Spectacles, gave a bitter smile. "Tom just died like that?"
His long fingers bent as if a stone Diadem had fallen into his hands, his fingertips tracing the inscription. "Exceptional intelligence is mankind's greatest treasure. Filius would be thrilled, and mad, if he saw this."
Upon contact, the Archmage's magic had completely circulated around the Diadem. He was certain of one thing: the Diadem had lost all traces of Dark Magic, and it had also lost the legendary magical power to bring wisdom.
Right now, it's just an ordinary Diadem, at most made of special materials.
The only cause of this is the Killing Curse.
That's why it produces such a 'clean' effect.
Thinking of this, he began to smile bitterly again.
Because this is Unforgivable Curses, a spell that can only be cast if one has a genuine intention to kill.
The one who used it was a 12-year-old boy.
"Come on, Dumbledore Basil. "That's his father's killer. Even if the Ministry of Magic knew, they wouldn't let him into Azkaban. He might even get the Order of Merlin for it."
"The target of the killing is also important. The Ministry of Magic has once allowed Auror to use the Unforgivable Curses on dark wizards."
"Not to mention that this is Voldemort."
"Most importantly, he will not be affected by Dark Magic, so you don't have to worry about your most precious thing—your soul that hasn't been completely ruined—being torn to pieces. This can be achieved as long as you successfully construct the Heart of Dark Magic."
"You don't think the other Draco didn't teach him, do you?"
Basil worked very hard to fulfill his responsibilities as a stepfather and defended his stepson.
However, he was still somewhat speechless.
In the middle of the day, he was pulled away from Ariana and Phoebe's embrace and laps, and then questioned about the disappearance of 'Masaru Kobayashi'.
Yes, he created this little world, and nothing that happens at Hogwarts escapes his eyes.
But could his brother-in-law come to see him at another time and bring him here?
"How did Tom die?" Dumbledore still trusted Basil quite a bit, and avenging his father was, in a way, something no one could question, so he quickly asked another question.
"He is a student, but also a villain who should be expelled," Basil explained. "So the three of them can use any kind of Dark Magic against him, while he can only use binding spells that are not malicious and will not cause any harm."
As Basil spoke, Dumbledore was not idle. A faint white mist spread from his body, and when it thickened and gathered in mid-air like clouds, the scene of the three fighting against 'Masaru Kobayashi' began to appear.
He smiled when he saw that Neville didn't recite the Killing Curse, but blinked in surprise when he saw the short Draco transform into a dragon.
"Animagus? Magical Creatures? Is it because he lives in the basement?"
Dumbledore also sensed the darkness and chaos within the Dadi, but like the power of light and order in the dome, they were suppressed and linked by the World Tree, forming this world.
Previously, he had never doubted that such profound power could be wielded by anyone in the school other than Gellert and Basil.
These Devil's Snare are probably also because they are creations of Basil.
But now he has some doubts.
"That's because of SGE (The School of Good and Evil for Good and Evil). The world of dreams isn't as monotonous as most people think." Basil chose to be direct.
This was also to provide Madison and the others with an excuse to appear openly at Hogwarts.
"A school in a dream?" Dumbledore exclaimed in surprise. "And the holy sword Excalibur, from which all the magic that created this world originated?"
"It is located in the Fairy Tale Kingdom," Basil said. "The heroes and villains in fairy tales all come from this school, and the history of the outstanding graduates will be spread to the human world as fairy tales."
"Ariana, you were the one who resurrected?" As a wizard Dumbledore's first thought when he heard fairy tales was the Tales of Beedle the Bard and the legend of the three brothers in it. Combined with Ariana and Basil's familiarity, although they claimed to have met in a dream, Dumbledore has now come to a new conclusion.
The Deathly Hallows may have come from the Fairy Tale Kingdom.
There is also magic for resurrection there.
Basil also inherited Merlin's Nightmare bloodline.
Basil nodded in agreement.
"Thank goodness for you—I mean, without you—anyway—thank you so much!" Dumbledore began to stammer, completely lacking the calm and composure of the greatest White Wizard and Minister of British Ministry of Magic.
After calming down, he remembered to ask Basil about SGE, "Babbitty the rabbit, does the Fountain of Fair Fortune really exist? What about Asha, who has a terminal illness, Altheda, who was robbed of her home, gold, and wand, and Amata, who was abandoned by her lover?"
He was like a child who had suddenly discovered that Ultraman really existed, eagerly and innocently inquiring about the 'Ultraman' in his eyes.
Even when he was still on his mother's lap, he listened to the stories in "The Tales of Beedle the Bard".
His favorite book is "The Tale of the Three Brothers".
My brother Aberforth's favorite story is "Clumsy the Dirty Goat".
Ariana's favorite song is "The Fountain of Fair Fortune".
Thinking of this, Dumbledore's face darkened again.
In the story of "The Fountain of Fair Fortune," the knight who couldn't use magic or swords bathed in the Fountain of Fair Fortune, knelt before Amata, and won her love. However, he didn't live a happy single life; instead, he lived a life with Asha and Altheda, becoming a family of four.
Could it be that Ariana is now allowing Basil to contact Phoebe, and Hermione is also influenced by this story?
This was the first time he truly empathized with Lucius Malfoy.
Lucius Malfoy once submitted a written application requesting the removal of this story, "Any work of fiction or non-fiction depicting marriage between wizards and Muggle should be banned from the Hogwarts bookshelves. I do not want my son to be influenced by reading these stories that promote marriage between wizards and Muggle, thus tainting the purity of his bloodline."
He refused, saying that so-called Pure-blood families were simply denying the existence of Muggle or Muggle-born individuals in their families by denying or lying in order to maintain their self-deceptive claim of pure blood.
He may be right, but he now wants to delete the story for other reasons.
Just like when he made an excuse to delete Clumbu the Dirty Goat, Aberforth's favorite story, from the Tales of Beedle the Bard.
Love for someone you care about is often extreme and irrational.
However, the first thing he did when he returned to the Headmaster's Office was not to delete the story.
Instead, he had to deal with Grindelwald's tantrum because he had left him behind, and the fact that Masaru Kobayashi had been killed by a fragment of Voldemort's Soul Fragment within the Ravenclaw's Diadem.
In fact, he did not intend to make such an announcement. Initially, he believed that Masaru Kobayashi an innocent victim.
This announcement has somewhat tarnished Masaru Kobayashi's image.
But when Basil mentioned that Masaru Kobayashi himself had also set his sights on Ariana, intending to use force and having already begun plotting against her, Dumbledore became furious.
So Masaru Kobayashi's story was changed to: deliberately not resisting, finding an excuse to go to the girls' restroom on the third floor—the entrance to Chamber of Secrets of Secrets—in order to awaken the monsters left behind by Slytherin and create chaos, but in the end he found the Ravenclaw's Diadem that had been made into a Dark Magic item, and ultimately lost his life because of it.
As for why he wasn't protected or expelled by the World Tree, it's because the Chamber of Secrets is too deep underground and not within the scope of expulsion (this loophole has been fixed). He wasn't protected because he wanted to release monsters and create chaos.
Upon learning the news, the Mahoutokoro immediately had the key person in charge, Masaru Kobayashi, bow and apologize, and offered various resources as compensation.
Suzuki Junko and her family also quickly distanced themselves from Masaru Kobayashi.
This caused a huge stir among students.
"That guy is really bad!"
"International students should get out of the school!"
"Shouldn't we be dealing with Manstein first? He's living with Dumbledore!"
"Didn't you hear the vulnerability has been fixed? Anyone who can stay at school has no bad intentions."
Hearing the conversation in the corridor, Neville breathed a sigh of relief.
"It seems we were right. Mrs. Malfoy has made arrangements with Grindelwald."
The two Draco nodded.
"That's right, my mom is reliable!"
"No matter what, she's still 'my' mother."
Meanwhile, Ron finally arrived at Hogwarts.
However, the expression on his face, which had been as excited as a dog frolicking, instantly froze.
The hearth at Hogwarts is in the Gryffindor Headmaster's office—a warm little study.
As it happened, Professor McGonagall was grading papers there.
"You must be Lance Weasley. Dumbledore told me that you'll be coming to Hogwarts for a month to gather inspiration for a book about it." Professor McGonagall looked Weasley up and down, trying to find some literary qualities in him.
Unfortunately, her efforts failed.
However, out of trust in Dumbledore and the Weasley family, she maintained a proper demeanor.
Lance is clearly an abbreviation of Lancelot.
Standard Weasley style.
Most of the Weasley family names come from the story of King Arthur; Arthur is Arthur, Percy is an abbreviation of Percival, Knights of the Round Table. Ginny's full name, Ginny Flame, is the Italian form of Guinevere.
(Ginny: "Haha, Ron's writing a book, what's Dumbledore thinking!")
(Harry: "You can't say that. Ron's doing a pretty good job as a teacher, he's got a million fans because of it.")
"Yes." Ron nodded vigorously.
In fact, he himself could not find any literary talent in himself.
If it weren't for Hermione's encouragement, the library would have been a place he would never have set foot in his life except to do his homework.
He was simply recalling Lockhart's charm in his second year and trying his best to imitate it, always with his head slightly raised, revealing eight teeth, blinking, walking with small, quick steps, his right hand held to his abdomen, and his left hand behind his back.