Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 191: Conversation with the Principal
The magic pointed-mouthed gargoyle at the entrance of the principal's office obviously recognizes people. When the principal comes, he doesn't need a command at all and just makes way. Just like the door guards of government agencies, they are very discerning~
Standing on the spiral elevator, Ted followed Dumbledore to the headmaster's office.

The offices are on the top of the main tower, so the space is round.

There is also an upward staircase on the right, and the next floor up is the principal's bedroom.

The walls around the circular office are covered with portraits of former principals who have passed away.

It was already late, so everyone was snoring and blowing snot bubbles in the photo frame.

However, Ted noticed that there were a few people who raised their eyelids and took a peek, probably because they were alert people when they were alive.

But think about it, does the portrait need to sleep? Or is it just imitating the habits that were injected into it during life/painting?

Although these portraits can only move their mouths, after all, they are hung on the wall, but it would be wrong to underestimate them.

They are now part of the castle and serve the school and the current headmaster.

Although they cannot jump out of the portraits to cast magic, they can move freely among all their portraits.

In other words, two paintings of the same person can actually be seen as a whole.

These headmasters were all respectable people with high social status during their lifetime. They have their own portraits in every corner of the wizarding world, and those picture frames are their eyes and ears.

Like St. Mungo's Hospital, the Ministry of Magic, some ancient pure-blood family... like Sirius's great-great-grandfather Phineas Nigellus, the headmaster more than a hundred years ago, there is a painting of him in the Black family's old house.

The heavily guarded Black House was not something that Voldemort could break into in a short time, even if he wanted to. But Phineas Nigellus on the wall could come and go freely, monitor, and pass messages.

And there are dozens of portraits of the principal on this wall!
The wall on the left was filled with curved bookshelves, and Ted couldn't help but take a few more glances. After all, a magic book that could be placed in the principal's office must be extraordinary.

Suddenly, he found a book with a familiar spine - "Advanced Dark Magic Revealed", which was the book that recorded the information about Horcruxes. It was actually brought here by Dumbledore, what a high efficiency!
As a psychic, Ted perfectly controlled his expression and eyes, and sat at his desk as if he had never seen the banned book.

The large desk with a curved top had six thin legs, and the bottom was carved into the shape of a beast's claws. I was worried that it would suddenly run away.

The table is filled with all kinds of strange and bizarre silver items, and one can feel different magical powers from them. They should have different functions.

On the cabinet on the right is the Sorting Hat.

"Hey, little Ted, good evening~" The Sorting Hat saw an acquaintance and couldn't wait to say hello.

"Good evening, Mr. Hat." Ted's head was empty, but he still took off his hat and made a gesture, which made the Sorting Hat laugh so hard that several principals were woken up by the laughter.

"Come on, Ted, don't be nervous. I just want to know what happened to you in the Chamber of Secrets." Dumbledore sat down on the chair.

Ted thanked him, sat down, and looked at the Phoenix Fox who was sleeping with his eyes closed on the bronze stand on the table.

In the wizarding world, there is such a thing as bloodline. For example, the Dumbledore family is born with a physique that attracts phoenixes. Isn’t that infuriating?
"Would you like some dessert?" Dumbledore pushed out a large plate of black, crawling things.

"Cockroach Pile, a new product from Honeydukes, is so interesting!" Dumbledore highly recommended.

Ted smiled and grabbed two of them and put them in his mouth, chewing them with a crunch. The candy cockroaches were just like alive, struggling in his mouth, and then syrup came out of his mouth from being bitten. It tasted really good, but the texture was weird.

"Well, it's really interesting, but I don't really like sweets. They can easily hurt my teeth." Ted laughed.

In fact, it was Dumbledore's habit to treat guests to dessert, but he usually wouldn't treat them to a pile of cockroaches. After all, any normal person would think that was abnormal.

The reason why he brought out the pile of cockroaches was, on the one hand, because of Dumbledore's bad taste, and on the other hand, he wanted to see the other party's reaction. If he could make the guest's mentality fluctuate, then for him, the master of Legilimency, the subsequent communication would be easy.

This is also the reason why Snape never eats or drinks anything and always remains on guard every time he comes to the headmaster's office.

To be honest, Dumbledore trusted Snape quite a bit, but Snape didn't trust Dumbledore very much.

In his opinion, he should do something after he betrayed Voldemort and passed the message to Dumbledore.

The results of it?
The Longbottoms are dead!
Well, if you die, you die. I am not familiar with it.

But what about Lily afterwards? Dumbledore had a chance to do something! Snape had a lot of grudges against this centenarian who defeated the first generation of Dark Lord and the greatest white wizard of this century.

If a person is able to sacrifice himself for something in his heart, then he will most likely not refuse to sacrifice others.

You can see it as a case of kindness not being able to command an army, and righteousness not being able to manage finances, those in power have their own considerations.

But Snape didn't care about that, he just knew that Lily was dead.

……

Ted's performance was perfect, without a single flaw. Dumbledore even felt that his attitude was impeccable, and in some ways even more difficult to deal with than Snape.

Because Snape would still be angry with Harry, and would laugh at the little wizards for their stupidity. But Ted at this moment was very calm, so calm that one could not feel any emotion.

"Principal, please ask," he said.

Dumbledore nodded slowly: "If you don't mind, let's start from the beginning..."

Ted nodded and began to talk about Arthur Weasley and Lucius Malfoy in the bookstore and the first Iron Fist Tournament in Diagon Alley...

Ted talked for a long time, covering every detail and knowing everything.

"And so, I stabbed Tom's diary with the sword of Gryffindor."

Ted pulled out the diary with a hole in the middle from his sleeve and placed it on the table.

Dumbledore's expression became slightly serious. He took out something that looked like a magnifying glass from the drawer and moved closer to carefully examine the discarded diary, bit by bit.

It was originally just an ordinary material, but because of the long-term attachment of powerful black magic, it has become a dangerous and cutting-edge magical item, but now it is ruined.

But even though it was destroyed, it was still filled with a large amount of dark and chaotic magic.

If you are a sensitive wizard, you will feel extremely uneasy in front of the diary.

This is not the case when the diary is intact, because it is restrained at that time.

Now that it is destroyed, the remaining magic power cannot be concealed.

When Dumbledore opened the diary and saw the name on it: Tom Marvolo Riddle, his expression became a little dazed.

"Very dangerous! Very dangerous!" Dumbledore leaned back in his chair and said "very dangerous" twice in a row. "Ted, you did a great job. Even many adult wizards can't do better than you."

Dumbledore looked at Ted - he had done a great job, far better than he had expected.

Fifty years ago, even Tom in the second grade wouldn't have been able to achieve this level, right?

Ted nodded calmly: "You're too kind. We just tried our best. Thanks to the sword of Gryffindor, we were able to win. At that time, we only wanted to save Malfoy and didn't think too much. If it weren't for Fawkes and Ron... we were still too careless!"

Before, Ted was always worried that if he showed too much, the principal would be reminded of Tom.

When the time comes, I will say to myself: Ted, you are too dangerous, I must seal you! (Senju Hashirama looks at the Nine-Tails' face)
That would be bad luck!
In fact, Dumbledore had already noticed him during the incident of defending the Philosopher's Stone last year.

At the beginning of the second year, Dumbledore began to pay attention to Ted and his friends.

If the Chamber of Secrets incident had not suddenly occurred, Dumbledore would probably have written a script to arrange for Ted and the others.

It's that kind of trial, something about seeing your true nature and being guided onto the right path.

Unfortunately, the Chamber of Secrets incident made Dumbledore look bad, and Lucius hit the snake in the weakest part, and temporarily suspended Dumbledore's position as the principal...

(End of this chapter)