The mastermind behind Hogwarts

Chapter 541 A Thousand Paper Cranes Deliver a Message

A petite body topped with a small white head.

These distinctive features allowed Moriarty to recognize Astoria Greengrass at a glance.

In the Greengrass family, where everyone has black hair, Astoria's white hair is quite famous.

The wizards who have seen it all say that it is a reversion of Astoria's bloodline, while others say it is a blood curse of Greengrass.

In short, when Moriarty saw this white-haired elementary school girl, who was about to enroll, peeking out from outside the magic item shop...

They had absolutely no idea what she was going to do.

The Greengrass family is part of Gamp's circle of interests.

Even if Gamp is ruthless, he wouldn't send Astoria, that little sprout, to do anything to Moriarty, would he?

Moriarty dismissed Astoria's idea of ​​harming him.

Instead, I became even more curious.

Moriarty led Hermione and Luna to the entrance of the magical item shop and stopped beside Astoria.

Astoria, engrossed in looking into the shop, was completely unaware that someone had walked up to her.

Moriarty was even more puzzled; what was it about that made her so fascinated?

Moriarty winked at Hermione, who understood and said to Astoria, "Friend, may we come in?"

Upon hearing the sound, Astoria turned around in a panic, as if she had been caught cheating.

"Ah!" Upon seeing Moriarty and the other two, Astoria cried out like a startled rabbit, her mouth forming an "o" shape, and jumped up and down on the spot.

Before Moriarty and the other two could react, they dashed away in a flash.

Moriarty and Hermione exchanged bewildered glances; their reaction almost made them think they were ghosts.

"That girl," Luna tilted her head, staring at Astoria's retreating figure, and said softly, "she was glowing white."

"Fair skin?" Moriarty smiled noncommittally. "The lady I'm about to introduce you to is the woman with the fairest skin, dazzlingly fair."

The sister Moriarty was referring to was naturally Narcissa, the owner of the magic item shop.

Luna usually listened to Moriarty, but this time she said without hesitation, "No, Moriarty, I have an innate sense that that girl has a glow inside her. It's like I can see it."

Moriarty believed it to a large extent; Luna had a terrifying intuition.

Perhaps that little girl really is hiding some incredible power.

Moriarty glanced at Astoria one last time, then pulled the two female students into the store.

"Honey, you've finally arrived."

As soon as they entered the store, Narcissa clung to Moriarty and eagerly kissed him.

Luna was immediately drawn to the dazzling array of magical items upon entering and ran off to play.

This scene was witnessed only by Hermione.

"What...what is their relationship?"

Hermione stared blankly as her senior and a beautiful, alluring older woman did what she had always wanted to do.

It took Moriarty a while to loosen his grip on Narcissa and introduce Hermione: "This is Hermione, I've come to get her some self-defense tools."

Narcissa instantly understood what Hermione meant and affectionately pulled Hermione over.

"Um...senior..." Hermione glanced nervously at Moriarty, then at Narcissa, "Did I come at the wrong time?"

Seeing Hermione's flushed face, Moriarty and Narcissa exchanged a smile.

Just as Moriarty was about to say something, a light green origami crane flew into the store, its wings fluttering, and flew right up to Moriarty.

A flicker of surprise crossed Narcissa's eyes: "Slytherin's origami cranes?"

As a witch who graduated from Slytherin, Narcissa naturally recognized that those were magical origami cranes that only Slytherin students would make.

The little snake usually uses origami cranes to deliver messages, but it is more often used to send love letters, which is very popular at Hogwarts.

As the former most beautiful girl in Slytherin, Narcissa also knew the meaning behind Slytherin's origami cranes.

"Slytherin's origami cranes only fly to the one they love."

Narcissa smiled and said to Moriarty, "In my opinion, this is just another love letter from a little witch to Moriarty."

One glimpse of Moriarty and your life is ruined.

Who is not?

Narcissa fondly remembers her youthful romance, but she has already passed that naive age.

Now, her love is entirely intertwined with Moriarty, every single moment.

Moriarty initially thought it was just an ordinary love letter, something he received almost every day.

But he noticed a white hair stuck in the wing of the origami crane.

Moriarty thought of Astoria. Could it be her?

Moriarty suddenly became interested and decided to see what she could write.

Unfold the origami crane, and it will revert to a single sheet of paper.

Moriarty nodded; it was a letter.

"It seems that little girl has something to tell me."

Moriarty began to read the letter.

"Herbert was a dark wizard from ancient Greece. He was one of the earliest known dark wizards, and to this day, many of his studies still influence dark magic."

"Helpo was quite young. He had white hair, but his temples were a bright green. His eyes were yellow, and his skin was not pale like that of a Greek."

"He is known as the first wizard to create a basilisk. In addition, he invented many evil curses and became the first wizard to successfully create a Horcrux."

"From this, we can infer that he must have committed murder in order to split his soul. He was one of the early Parseltongue singers."

Moriarty read the letter over and over again.

The letter ends here.

The text was written with a magical automatic quill pen, so the writing was illegible.

Aside from introducing Haierbo, there was nothing else.

Moriarty frowned slightly.

He knew about the dark wizard, Helbo.

Not only do they know it, they have a deep understanding of it.

After all, Parseltongue is a skill of the Slytherin family, and the Basilisk is also a pet of the Slytherin family.

It can be said that Helbo and the Slytherin family share certain similarities on their magical paths.

And Herpo's Horcrux... right! Horcrux!

Moriarty's eyes showed a serious expression.

He understood what the letter meant by describing Helbo's appearance.

"Helpo was resurrected through the Horcrux."

"Where did Gamp find this guy?!"

Moriarty smiled and carefully put the letter away.

He had a premonition that, regardless of whether the letter was from Astoria or not, he would receive another one later.

"Hairbo has been resurrected, and Gamp has gained another high-end combatant."

Moriarty paced back and forth, deep in thought.

Narcissa, with her keen eye, pulled Hermione up, closed the shop, and went to the back to make tea for Moriarty.

"Hairbo has been famous for a long time; he must be at the level of a legendary archmage."

"So, including Aberforth, there are three great mages on Gamp's side."

"And me, Dumbledore, and Grindelwald—oh right, Helbo was there to deal with Grindelwald; none of them are the kind of guys who play by the rules."

Moriarty had already figured out most of Gamp's ideas.

"But you still overlooked one thing."

Moriarty said with a smile, as if he were looking at Gamp across the distance.

"Diana is back!"

"Her strength is now unfathomable."

Moriarty wasn't worried about combat strength; he began to ponder Helbo's Horcruxes.

Voldemort is so powerful because people don't know what his Horcruxes are.

Helbo was the same, even more powerful than Voldemort.

Given Voldemort's precedent, Helbo must have hidden the Horcruxes in a place no one would expect.

And what are Horcruxes? How many Horcruxes are there?

Where is even Herbo himself?

These are all extremely difficult to find.

Moriarty frowned again; Herpo's immortality meant he must be a member of the Immortal Organization.

After all this time, we've been fighting with Gamp for so long.

In the end, we returned to the battlefield of the battle against the Immortal Organization!

That very night, Moriarty brought the three girls back to Slytherin Castle.

Helbo is a complete and utter dark wizard; he's capable of doing something like harming Moriarty's women.

Tonks from the Ministry of Magic and Gemma Farley from the Ministry of Justice and Law were also taken back to the castle by Moriarty.

The next day, July 1th.

Moriarty and the women arrived at Platform 9¾.

Jericho, Marcus, Soldaya, the Weasley twins, and several seventh-grade snakes gathered together.

When they saw Moriarty arrive, they all rushed to greet him.

"Sir," Jericho said quickly, his face grim, "we all know. You're not the prefect. What is Dumbledore trying to do? Making that brat Ralph our Slytherin prefect! What is he? A lapdog?!"

Several indignant echoes immediately followed.

Moriarty held out his hand to quiet them down, then stared intently at Jericho.

"Who did you just say was the prefect?"

"Larpo?"

(Another foreshadowing has appeared: members of the Immortal Organization reappear, and the pace picks up from here on out.)

(End of this chapter)