In summary, the goals he had set for his second year revolved around Side Quest ⑤: promoting academic exchanges in potion-making among universities worldwide. More specifically, they included independently completing further iterations of the Wolfsbane Potion; collaboratively exploring the properties of potion ingredients, including refining the Magic Extraction Method; and developing new potions through those exchange activities.
Beyond that, there was another plan that could not be made public—
To guide the entanglement of Harry's fate with the diary, then obtain the diary once fate had been "satisfied" and complete the main quest!
[Main Quest ③: Return to England, enroll at Hogwarts, and obtain Tom Riddle's diary] [Reward: 1 Talent Point, 50 Magic Units]
As he thought this, he looked at the floor—or, more precisely, he "looked" at Harry, who was asleep in Ron's bedroom below.
He could not see fate.
He did not know what state Harry and the diary, currently sharing the same room within fate's Web of Fate, were in. But he knew it could not be good.
Otherwise, Dumbledore would never have tolerated his "scheme"!
Yes, the main reason he had orchestrated François's murder of Alexander and Taylor without worrying about Dumbledore was the existence of Harry and the diary!
He had never forgotten what Dumbledore had said: that the disturbances he and WAC had caused in the Web of Fate had clearly interfered with the two children of destiny.
Harry was Dumbledore's weakness!
Old Dumbledore was already old.
If he were still young, with plenty of time ahead of him, he would never have let an ambitious man like Vaughn go.
Seventy years ago, when he discovered that Grindelwald was trying to use the clouds of war hanging over Muggle society to overturn the world order, he had sent Newt and the others