Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

At the long table in the restaurant, everyone in the Order of the Phoenix who had finished their lunch looked at Zhang Xu who was standing up, waiting for him to start his performance.

"I have bad news and worse news. Which one do you want to hear first?" Zhang Xu said to everyone in the Order of the Phoenix.

"Ahem..." Professor McGonagall, who rarely attended Order of the Phoenix meetings, reminded Zhang not to seek death.

With Professor McGonagall's reminder, Zhang Xu stopped committing suicide.

"These two pieces of news are causally related. The bad news is that an extremely critical plan of Dumbledore's was messed up. Although this plan brought many apparent benefits, it was due to Dumbledore's concern for a certain The lack of understanding of magic has resulted in even worse news," Zhang Xu said.

The mention of Dumbledore's plan going awry caused a bit of a commotion among the Order of the Phoenix. But everyone soon became quiet, waiting for the arrival of worse news.

"Let me start from the beginning." Zhang Xu glanced at the Double Yolk Egg Man and said, "Dumbledore spent a lot of effort to complete this matter in the past few years. Some of us also know This matter is about destroying the mysterious man’s Horcrux.”

"Since four or five years ago, after Dumbledore determined that the mysterious man was making Horcruxes, Dumbledore has been searching for and destroying the mysterious man's Horcruxes to prevent the mysterious man from resurrecting after his failure. Over the past few years, this project The work has made great progress, I won’t go into details, and I will talk about the key parts next.”

After giving a brief explanation to people who didn't know what a Horcrux was, Zhang Xu took out a stack of magazines and placed them on the table. Someone recognized from the spine that this was the "Magic" magazine that was supposed to be released tomorrow. Then he continued: "Making and preserving multiple Horcruxes at one time is something unprecedented in the history of magic. Since there is no precedent to check, neither Dumbledore nor the mysterious man himself knew that when one person makes and preserves multiple Horcruxes at the same time, What kind of impact will it have on the parties involved?”

"So, after careful consideration and weighing the pros and cons, Dumbledore gave some people, including me, the task of finding and destroying Horcruxes, and he himself devoted himself to this work."

"However, what no one expected was that just because several Horcruxes were destroyed, the mysterious man had some very bad changes for us."

Then Zhang Xu waved his hand, and the magazine in front of him flew in front of everyone.

"I went to the editorial office in the morning and bought a few magazines in advance. You can read the first article of this magazine, which is the mysterious man's mockery of Dumbledore."

Professor McGonagall and other top academics were the first to pick up the magazine. Others may have never read the magazine before.

Turning over the magazine, everyone saw that the title of the first paper was "Research on the Impact of Soul Splitting on the Self", and the author was none other than Voldemort.

Seeing that everyone who was reading the paper had no objection to what he just said, Zhang breathed a sigh of relief.

It was Zhang who made Dumbledore realize the location of the Horcruxes in advance and start destroying them. And the one who destroyed the most Horcruxes was the guy who delivered food to the Dementors.

However, who could have imagined that the resonance between multiple divided souls would have an impact similar to the "halo of mental retardation" on the main soul. The principle is similar to that there are several voices whispering in your ears non-stop. This is not who is saying in your ears, "Love me will never change", but it seems that there are a bunch of flies surrounding you all day long, buzzing. ...buzz...buzz...fly into your ears, it will be strange if you don't have any mental problems if things go on like this.

Moreover, when soul fragments are violently destroyed, they will cause a huge impact on other souls at the moment of destruction, which will take a long time to recover.

However, if these souls are digested slowly, not only will there not be a sudden impact, but the "aura of mental retardation" generated by the soul resonance will gradually weaken until it is eliminated.

The problem now is that the Horcruxes except Harry have been disposed of long ago.

And most of them were slowly digested by the dementors, which prevented Voldemort's own soul from being affected, and also helped him lift his "aura of mental retardation." And the mastermind behind all this is Zhang.

Recalling that in the "plot", Horcruxes such as rings, lockets, cups, crowns, and double-yolked eggs were all violently destroyed in a short period of time. The impact on Voldemort was probably that he slapped his head and asked Narcissa Malfoy to see if Harry was dead, instead of directly cremating Harry's "corpse" with fire. And later he relaxed his protection of the snake girl, causing the snake head given by Nagini to become Neville's experience pack. If Voldemort had been more cautious at that time, cremated Harry in front of the teachers and students at Hogwarts, and then continued to hide Nagini, then it is estimated that the author could have written two more books.

At the same time, this can also explain why Voldemort's IQ is now online. Not only is he recruiting troops from all over the world, developing from regional terrorists to Grindelwald's transnational organization, but he has also performed a lot of tricks.

As for helping Voldemort remove the "aura of mental retardation" and reduce the soul impact, so that his IQ can come back online, objectively speaking, Zhang cannot escape. After all, he has been secretly involved in the elimination of Horcruxes from the very beginning. Promoted.

Fortunately, although Voldemort's IQ was online, he still couldn't be sure of Zhang's role in this matter. After all, he couldn't realize that Zhang was one of the first people to know the secret of Horcruxes, and there were others ahead of him. Dumbledore was standing in front of him, so he believed that Zhang's actions were all directed by Dumbledore.

In order to combat Dumbledore's remaining power and build confidence in his own side, Voldemort made the matter semi-public.

"Magic" magazine is a highly academic publication that ordinary wizards will not read. Voldemort used a little Spring and Autumn writing style when writing his thesis, and then told those knowledgeable and capable wizards in this way: You see, being as wise as Dumbledore will objectively help me relieve my worries, and my destiny is clear. I am the one who belongs to you, please follow me quickly. At the same time, he told the dark wizards who had taken refuge in him: Your Dark Lord will always be your Dark Lord, so you are right to follow me. And those people who eat melon, after hearing the news several times, will only realize that Dumbledore is stupid and Voldemort is awesome.

Fortunately, there was no mention of Zhang in the paper, so he took this opportunity to let Dumbledore bear all the blame for the pot and the ashes at the bottom.

As for revealing that he had a Horcrux, would Voldemort be afraid of him? You secretly dug a deep hole and buried the Horcrux. Where can you find it?

Professor McGonagall was the first to read and understand the paper and the deep meaning behind it. After she closed the magazine, she looked at Zhang Xu with a complicated expression. Zhang Xu could only respond with a wry smile.

Although he, Zhang, had already realized that Voldemort's IQ was online, he did not expect that Voldemort himself had discovered this very early and had previously made concessions to him on many issues in order to paralyze him.

He originally planned to use the locket in the seaside cave as an opportunity to let Voldemort know that his Horcrux had been stolen when the time was right, and induce Voldemort to attack Hogwarts, which had set up an ambush, and then attack him. Launch the final blow.

When he lent the Elder Wand to Voldemort, he set two conditions with the Unbreakable Oath. In addition to promising not to destroy Dumbledore's tomb, the second condition was to let Voldemort know that Slytherin's locket had been stolen. , and then asked Voldemort to sue Black as the owner, and then sold the ownership of the locket to himself. In this way, not only can Voldemort be introduced into the ambush circle, but also Slytherin's locket can be obtained.

However, after Voldemort suspected that there was something wrong with his Horcrux, he decisively sent people to the seaside cave and personally went to the ruins of the old house to confirm the condition of the locket and ring. As a result, after he confirmed that all the Horcruxes in these places were missing, not only did he not get angry on the spot, but he also guessed Zhang's intention.

So when the Wizengamot was rebuilt, he filed a lawsuit against Regulus Black for stealing his locket against the Wizengamot without waiting for Zhang to mention it. After all, only the house elves of the Black family knew about it back then, and Regulus Black disappeared under mysterious circumstances later, and was buried around the time when the soul fragment in the locket was suspected to have been destroyed. In addition, the locket has disappeared again and is not in the hands of Zhang, so it is basically correct that the blame will be placed on Regulus Black. As a direct relative of Regulus Black, Sirius Black was the defender of his late brother. He did not attend the trial, so the Wizengamot convicted the late Regulus Black of theft. The locket must be returned to Voldemort.

On Christmas Eve, the envelope that Voldemort gave to Zhang Xu as a Christmas gift contained the verdict of the case and the documents for the gift of the locket.

Now, legally speaking, Zhang Xu has become the legal holder of Slytherin's locket.

As for why the locket that belonged to a certain lady became Voldemort's possession, no one in the Wizengamot thought about this problem. After all, none of them would have trouble with their own lives.

This very important card that Zhang Xu had laid out many years ago was suddenly raised by Voldemort, causing him a big blow.

Fortunately, he still has other cards to play, so he won't lose all the cards.

At this time, everyone in the Order of the Phoenix, as long as they had good brains, understood Zhang Xu's intention of calling them here after reading Voldemort's paper. In the 1970s, Voldemort, who was mentally ill, was able to shock the entire British wizarding world. But now, the mainstay Dumbledore is gone, Voldemort has become smarter, and the situation has become serious.

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