Hogwarts: This Dark Lord is so evil

The next day, very early in the morning.

Leif already had his luggage packed.

Of course, all of this luggage in front of Toby amounted to only a small suitcase.

Leif hadn't been practicing the Undetectable Extension Charm for nothing these past few days.

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Although he wasn't particularly skilled yet, expanding the space of a suitcase to about a cubic meter wasn't a problem.

Therefore, even after Leif put all of his books inside, there was still a lot of space in the suitcase.

"Alright, Toby, after we go to school, you'll stay here. Continue to take care of the plants in the yard for me. I've already taught you all the methods..."

"Yes, sir! Master Leif! Toby will definitely complete the tasks you've assigned!" Toby, wearing a large gold ring, immediately responded loudly.

Leif nodded in satisfaction, then looked again at his small suitcase. At least now he wouldn't have to drag a frighteningly large suitcase to school.

Tom stroked his chin as he looked at Leif's small suitcase, then at his own large one.

"I seem to have heard... the Undetectable Extension Charm is strictly controlled by the Ministry of Magic... Private individuals don't seem to be allowed to use it casually."

Leif glanced at him, "What? Do you want to report me?"

"That's hard to say..." Tom said meaningfully.

"Tom... you just want to provoke me into using the Undetectable Extension Charm on your suitcase, right?" Leif smiled. "Because you think that as long as you say that, then, in order to prevent you from reporting me, I'll have your suitcase enchanted with the Undetectable Extension Charm, right?"

The smug smile on Tom's face immediately disappeared.

"Actually... there's no need for so much trouble. You just need to come to me and say 'please,' and I'll naturally consider helping you," Leif said with a smile.

"Hmph... boring..." His little scheme completely seen through by Leif, Tom was a little embarrassed. He simply put on a straight face, pushed his suitcase, and walked towards the fireplace without looking sideways.

"Tom, actually saying 'please' isn't anything difficult, why don't you try it?"

"I'd rather be burned to death by this fireplace, fall to my death from Floo Powder travel, or be crushed to death by my suitcase than say 'please' to you!" Tom said angrily.

"This kid is really stubborn..." Leif shook his head and sighed as he sat back down at the dining table. "However, no matter how stubborn you are, you still have to finish breakfast. It's not time to leave yet."

Tom, who had wanted to leave immediately, slowly stopped, because he did feel hungry...

"I'm just pushing my luggage to the fireplace first, so it's convenient to leave later. Who said I'm leaving now?" Tom said without changing his expression as he sat back at the dining table and began to eat the breakfast in front of him.

"Meow~" Tom Cat suddenly came to Leif's side, put his "hands" on Leif's thigh, and drooled as he looked at the sausage in front of Leif.

Leif put down his fork and rubbed its head with his hand, "You're already a mature cat, if you're hungry, you need to learn to cook for yourself."

"Meow?"

...

On the Hogwarts Express.

Leif was sitting by a window, reading a book.

Next to him was a thermos, and Nagini was hibernating inside...

And Tom Cat was lying in a temporary nest on the side, fast asleep.

It's just... Tom Cat is becoming more and more like a person...

Before, it would curl up in its nest when it slept, but now... it was lying sprawled out in the nest...

Tom had been noticing this cat's behavior for a long time.

"So... what exactly did you do to it?" Tom broke the silence.

"A small experiment... However, this small experiment had a little accident."

"A little accident?" Tom sneered, "Compared to humans, all it needs now is to be able to speak!"

Leif put down his book and said helplessly, "This is an unreproducible coincidence. Otherwise, I would have given it a few more partners long ago."

He looked at Tom, then continued, "After all, most of the time, animals are more trustworthy than people..."

Hearing this, Tom put down the quill in his hand and said unhappily, "When can you talk without being so barbed?"

"Is that my fault? You wrote a letter of accusation to report me, and you even wrote it right in front of me... I'm just reading a book, I'm not blind," Leif said calmly.

"That's slander." Tom silently crumpled a piece of letter paper on the table into a small ball, then lit it with his wand.

"No, I'm really not blind..."

Before Leif could finish speaking, the carriage door was pulled open.

Annie walked in quickly, "I have something to tell you."

"What?" Leif asked.

Annie hurriedly sat down next to him, "Aren't you worried at all?"

Leif and Tom exchanged a look, then asked, "Worried about what?"

"Didn't you write to me before, telling me that you received a gift from... that man? That gift is what we've been desperately searching for!"

"It is..." Leif nodded, "Although I don't know where he got it from..."

"I suspect he got it from the Forbidden Forest!" Annie said urgently, "We searched several locations before, but we only found that 'thing' in one location, didn't we? Is it possible... that man took everything before us, leaving only a very few locations with anything left?"

"Well... that's very possible, but... compared to whether he took everything, I'm more curious about how he knew we were looking for this kind of thing," Leif said calmly.

Hearing this, the eagerness on Annie's face suddenly stiffened...

"Could it be... that he doesn't know we're looking for this kind of thing, but because he knows you crave power, and then... then he intends to give it to you?" Annie said guiltily.

"Well, that's possible," Leed nodded. "If that's the case, it's a pity. It seems that kind of thing is not meant for us."

"Huh? This..." Annie was a little stunned. "You're just... giving up like that?"

"Otherwise? Directly storm Nurmengard, kill Grindelwald, and snatch this thing?" Tom sneered from the side. "I'd like to do that... but do you think we have the ability? Are we worthy?"

"This..."

"Tom is right about that. Since he took that power, we've lost our chance," Leed said.

Annie quickly said, "Then... we can actually..."

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Leed interrupted her, "We can't just go to Nurmengard and join him, can we? What if he doesn't accept us and just kills us? Even if he accepts us, what if he never gives us that power again? Wouldn't we have gone for nothing? Forget it... we have a stable life now, and we can slowly become stronger. Why go to Nurmengard to take risks? What's missed is missed. Life is always full of regrets."

Annie was directly choked by Leed and couldn't speak.

According to Grindelwald's instructions, she needed to use that magical power to lure these two boys who craved power to gradually join Grindelwald's command...

However, before she could even start to persuade them, she was blocked by Leed and Tom together...

And then Annie never had any other chance to persuade them... She couldn't just reveal her identity.

If she exposed her identity, what if these two guys directly sent her to Dumbledore?

Annie didn't want to be thrown into Azkaban...

...

Hogwarts Castle.

Dumbledore's office had a visitor.

"My name is Achilles Tolliver, and I'm an Auror from the Magical Congress of the United States of America."

The man said while staring at a strange drink in front of him.

"Mr. Tolliver, hello," Dumbledore said with a smile. "This is a drink I made according to a recipe given to me by one of my students. He calls this drink milk tea... Well, I think you can try it. It tastes really good."

"Uh... thank you..."

Mr. Tolliver politely picked up the drink and took a sip, and then felt like his mouth had been punched hard by excessive sugar... Even though he was a sweet-toothed American, he almost couldn't handle it...

"Cough cough..." He quickly put the drink back on the table and said, "I'm here on urgent business."

Dumbledore also put down his drink, and his expression became serious.

"Is it... has he made a move again?"

In fact, it was probably not a simple matter for an Auror to travel all the way from the United States to England to find him...

And now, the only thing that could make a country's Ministry of Magic feel棘手 was that man.

"That's what we currently believe..." Mr. Tolliver took a deep breath. "Starting on the eve of Christmas, we've had many missing persons cases..."

"Missing persons cases? Who is missing?" Dumbledore asked.

"The missing people include high-ranking officials of the MACUSA, ordinary Aurors, and ordinary clerks... but without exception, they are all people from the MACUSA... President Picquery is sure that Grindelwald did it! Now... all of our MACUSA personnel are gathered in the Congress and dare not go home... for fear that the next missing person will be themselves!"

Mr. Tolliver paused, and then continued, "Currently, I am the only one from the entire MACUSA who is still outside... So, President Picquery asked me to come to you, hoping that you can come to America... If it really is that man..."

He looked at Dumbledore with hopeful eyes, "I hope you can provide us with assistance. After all, everyone knows that you are the only person he still fears."

Mr. Tolliver lowered his head and pleaded, not noticing that Dumbledore's lips trembled slightly.

After a long while, he sighed deeply, "Okay, I will go. But... I need to take care of my work here first."

"Of course, Professor Dumbledore! But please hurry... According to the latest news, the staff hiding in the MACUSA... have had another disappearance!" Mr. Tolliver said excitedly.

Dumbledore frowned, "In other words... his people are still hidden in the MACUSA!"

"That should be the case! You know, the Director Graves affair back then..."

Dumbledore nodded. Back then, Grindelwald killed Graves and then impersonated his identity, brazenly infiltrating the MACUSA...

And this time, it was very likely that he was repeating the same trick!

But what was his purpose in doing this again?

Dumbledore frowned tightly, pondering.

"Professor, I need to rush back to the Congress now. You must come quickly."

Dumbledore quickly said, "For safety's sake, you should stay in England. The British Ministry of Magic will arrange temporary accommodation for you."

"No, President Picquery is still waiting for my news... Now, the MACUSA has been sealed off, and messages transmitted by owls are no longer reliable."