Hogwarts: I, Tom, am really not Voldemort!

Just as the Hogwarts teachers and students were puzzled, a different scene unfolded in the Forbidden Forest.

Dumbledore pointed his wand at Tom, but couldn't bring himself to cast a spell.

Tom had taken advantage of a momentary break in the battle, disappearing for the blink of an eye, only to reappear with a large photo frame hanging on his chest.

"Professor, try attacking me. This is a test of the love between you and Professor Grindelwald."

Dumbledore looked at the photo of him and Grindelwald in their youth within the frame, then at Tom's puffed-out chest, clearly using it as a shield, confident that he couldn't attack.

After struggling for a moment, Dumbledore dejectedly lowered his wand. Fine, the little rascal had guessed right. He really couldn't bring himself to attack with a photo of him and Grindelwald in the way. He just didn't know where Tom had gotten this thing.

Grindelwald, who was standing by, was stunned. What was this? How could there be such a shameless person in the world? Although he was delighted by Dumbledore's choice, the honor of wizards had been completely ruined by you.

Seeing that Dumbledore had stopped, Tom quickly said, "Professor, calm down, calm down. Now that you've vented enough, go back to sleep early. It's not good for an old man's liver to be so fiery."

As he spoke, he raised the photo frame as a shield, approaching Dumbledore step by step.

Seeing Tom's posture, Dumbledore felt his fists clench again.

Just then, Tom lowered the photo frame and, with lightning speed, placed a box in Dumbledore's hand.

"What is this?"

Dumbledore asked, puzzled, looking at the box in his hand.

Tom chuckled, revealing a mischievous smile: "Inside is what you've been frequenting 'Gale' to collect recently, Professor. A limited edition."

Hearing Tom say this, Dumbledore instantly understood and felt a little excited for some reason.

At the same time, Tom handed an identical box to Grindelwald, ensuring equal treatment: "Professor, this is yours. It's a set with Professor Dumbledore's."

At this point, fighting was out of the question. Dumbledore and Grindelwald even wanted to go back and open the boxes as soon as possible.

Just then, the Hogwarts professors arrived late and were stunned to see Dumbledore and the others here.

"Albus, Gilderoy, and Tom, why are you three here?"

Professor McGonagall asked, voicing everyone's confusion.

"Ahem, Professor Lockhart and I are giving Tom special training, showing him the charm of magic."

"Oh?!"

Everyone cast a suspicious look at Dumbledore. Who would believe this reason? Was Dumbledore really plotting something in secret?

Upon hearing this, Tom became interested and immediately wrote a leave note and handed it to Snape.

Watching Tom and Dumbledore leave hand in hand, Snape couldn't help but clench the note in his hand.

[Due to accompanying Headmaster Dumbledore on a field trip to study Hogwarts' future development experience, I hereby request a one-day leave of absence—Tom Riddle]

Thinking about the content of the note, and considering the rumors circulating recently, Snape wondered if Tom was really referring to Hogwarts, or was he alluding to some organization?

Seeing Dumbledore and Tom getting along so well, Snape began to suspect that Dumbledore's manipulation of his love and regret for Lily to become a double agent was all to realize his personal ambitions.

Now that Dumbledore's ambitions seemed to have been realized, did that mean he was about to become a pawn to be discarded by Dumbledore?

Smart people always tend to overthink, and Snape was such a smart person. For a moment, Snape's heart began to waver, and he became paranoid.

While Snape was being paranoid, Tom and Dumbledore had already arrived at the entrance of Knockturn Alley. The renovation work was still ongoing, but it was already taking shape.

The once dirty, chaotic, and poor alley had become clean and tidy. The narrow roads had been widened considerably. The black wizards who used to be seen everywhere were gone, replaced by personnel patrolling the streets in new black uniforms.

"Professor, these are the original black wizards who have been screened and, after confirming that they don't have any serious cases on their hands, have been retrained and re-employed. They are now mainly responsible for the safety and sanitation of Knockturn Alley."

"With work and life, they can settle down. In the future, with wives and children, they will be even less likely to harm the wizarding world. After all, most black wizards choose this path out of desperation. Now we can give them a chance to choose again."

Hearing Tom's words, Dumbledore nodded in satisfaction, sighing in his heart that Tom had finally done something decent.

At this moment, two patrolling personnel noticed Tom and Dumbledore and immediately stopped, raising their right arms to 45°, saluting and saying:

"Hi, Dumbledore!"

"Hi, Dark Lord!"

"......"

"......"

Tom and Dumbledore both fell silent.

"Please don't salute me like that in public."

"Please don't call me the Dark Lord in public."

Hearing this, the two patrolmen shuddered and quickly changed their words, saluting again:

"Hi, White Lord!"

"Hi, Mysterious Man!"

"......"

"......"

This was even worse than the first one.

After the two left, Dumbledore said to Tom earnestly, "Tom, you still need to strengthen personnel training. They don't seem very smart."

How embarrassing, it was too embarrassing. Were those guys trained by Voldemort even reliable? Did he, Tom, have to personally 'lovingly' train them in such a small matter?

Lucius, let's have a good chat sometime.

Just as Tom was cursing his unreliable subordinates, Dumbledore had already stepped into the alley.

The New Knockturn Alley Tour officially began!