Hogwarts: I, Tom, am really not Voldemort!

“R.A.B.?”

Dumbledore murmured as he looked at the name, then unconsciously turned his gaze towards Tom, who was engaged in a friendly magical exchange with Grindelwald.

Although someone was conning and swindling, spouting nonsense, and it was unknown if even one sentence out of ten was true, and recently he had been letting himself go, without any bottom line, Dumbledore somehow had a feeling that asking Tom would definitely get an answer.

Taking back the note and putting it in the locket, Dumbledore called out to Grindelwald and Tom, “Alright, that’s enough, stop.”

Hearing the call, the two who were having a friendly match gave Dumbledore the respect and slowly stopped fighting.

“Expelliarmus!”

But just as Grindelwald stopped, Tom directly cast a Disarming Charm.

However, this time, Grindelwald seemed to be prepared and directly deflected the Disarming Charm.

“Tom, do you think the same trick will work on me a second time? But, speaking of which, you really like using the Disarming Charm.”

Dumbledore then stepped forward and patted Tom on the shoulder, “Stop it, Tom, I want to ask you something.”

Seeing this, Tom consciously put away his wand: “What is it, Professor? As long as I know, I will definitely tell you everything.”

“Then, do you know who R.A.B. is?”

Dumbledore handed the fake locket to Tom and asked.

“R.A.B.? I know.”

Hearing Tom say this, a hint of joy appeared on Dumbledore's face, his intuition was indeed right.

However, Tom's next sentence made him frown involuntarily.

“Professor, didn’t you just see R.A.B. right here?”

R.A.B. is here?

Dumbledore couldn't help but look around. Everyone was here: Moody, Grindelwald, Tom, and even himself. None of them fit the criteria, it couldn't be a house-elf, could it?

Thinking of this, Dumbledore shook his head with amusement, feeling that he had become unreliable after being with Tom for too long.

“So, Professor, you still haven’t figured out who R.A.B. is? Do you want me to give you a hint? It’s not a living person.”

Dumbledore tried hard to recall the scenes after entering the cave and meeting Tom. He suddenly remembered the first sentence Tom said after he entered the cave, and a guess came to his mind. He tentatively asked, “Is it Regulus Black?”

“Bingo! You got it right! It’s Regulus Arcturus Black, but unfortunately there’s no reward.” Tom took out Regulus from his storage space and placed him in front of Dumbledore.

“You knew it all along?”

Dumbledore looked at Regulus on the ground, then looked at Tom, and wanted to know how much this guy knew, whether he knew from the beginning that the locket had been switched.

“How is that possible? It was only when you asked me about R.A.B. that I thought of this guy who looks a lot like Sirius and was dug out of the Inferi pile. As for what he did before, don’t ask me, I don’t know anything.”

Tom looked directly at Dumbledore, his eyes full of sincerity, with no trace of guilt.

Dumbledore couldn't help but sigh. It seemed that he couldn't get any more information from Tom. However, knowing who R.A.B. was made things much easier, at least the clues hadn't been cut off.

Seeing that things were almost done here, and there was no point in staying any longer, Tom bid farewell to Dumbledore: "Professor, since there's nothing else, I'll send Regulus's body to Sirius first."

Sirius Black's apartment.

"Sirius, what's wrong with you?"

Lupin handed a glass of water to the restless Sirius, and asked with concern.

“I don’t know, but today I feel empty inside for some reason, as if something bad has happened.”

“Could it be that you’re too tired? Recently, besides Professor Dumbledore’s incident, there doesn’t seem to be any other major events in the wizarding world. Harry is also doing well at Hogwarts. Don’t think too much, maybe you’ll be better after a sleep.”

Just as Lupin was comforting Sirius, the door was knocked “bang, bang”.

“Who is it so late?”

Sirius muttered, preparing to go open the door, but was grabbed by Lupin, who shook his head at him, and took out his wand, ready to defend.

“It might be a dark wizard, it’s best to be careful.”

Sirius nodded and also took out his wand.

Just then, the knocking stopped.

As Sirius and Lupin prepared to go see what was happening, suddenly the door was blasted open.

“Reducto!”

“Reducto!”

Sirius and Lupin instinctively shot out two Reducto curses.

The Reducto curses were casually blocked, and seeing the green light emanating from the other party's wand, Sirius and Lupin finally saw the person clearly, and quickly shouted, “Tom, don’t attack, it’s us.”

Hearing Sirius and Lupin's shouts, Tom withdrew the green light: “So you guys are home. There was no response to my knocking, I thought something had happened to you.”

Sirius, who had unintentionally escaped a disaster, apologized embarrassedly, thinking about their overreaction just now: “Sorry, Tom, we overreacted just now.”

“It’s okay, it’s okay.”

Seeing that Tom didn't care, Sirius breathed a sigh of relief. If Tom had been injured by them just now, their guilt would have been great.

But Lupin then became serious: “Tom, just now, you wanted to use the Killing Curse, didn’t you? Where did you learn it?”

"Ah?" Tom didn't expect Lupin to ask this, and quickly explained: "I learned it at Hogwarts, it's very practical."

After thinking for a while, he added: “Besides the Killing Curse, the Defense Against the Dark Arts class also taught the Cruciatus Curse, the Imperius Curse, Fiendfyre, and various other dark magic. By the way, Harry is an expert in them.”

“......”

This left Lupin and Sirius speechless.

Are you sure you're talking about Hogwarts and not Azkaban? Why is your Hogwarts different from theirs?

I wonder if it’s too late for Harry, who is about to become a dark wizard, to transfer schools now.

Just as Sirius and Lupin were in shock, Tom directly got to the point.

“Alright, let’s get down to business. I’m here today to deliver something for Sirius.”

As Tom's voice fell, a coffin appeared in Sirius's apartment.