Hogwarts: My name is the Unforgivable Curse...

Chapter 131 The Strange Professors

The hastily convened party had no delicious food or desserts, only a series of bad news, which naturally made it impossible for anyone to linger. After Snape announced that the party could end, apart from a few people who sat blankly in place, trying to process the information, almost everyone returned to their respective common rooms as quickly as possible, unwilling to stay in Snape's sight for even a second longer.

Among those who remained seated, heads bowed in thought, was Avada. Cedric had patted him on the shoulder earlier, but he had simply waved him off, indicating he would send him away after a moment's thought.

That admission book is fake, without a doubt.

The thing Snape pulled out was just an ordinary parchment book, without any extra magical abilities. Even the faded marks on it were artificially aged, but the technique was so good that no one could detect any flaws...

However, this did not diminish the immense success of the die-hard pure-blood faction's scheme—blaming the vanished Dumbledore and the ethereal will of the castle, using the authority of the Book of Admission to make the decision, and even inviting the Minister of Magic to oversee the operation… This series of moves immediately stunned the vast majority of students, making them believe that the entity that wanted to expel Muggle-borns was an absolutely invincible force, thus establishing an incredibly powerful backer for themselves.

How did they come up with such an outrageous idea?

Compared to the original story, which only used isolated attacks and secret chamber dialogues to scare away Muggle-born students, their current plan is on a completely different level—not only has it successfully tarnished Dumbledore's reputation, but it can also openly expel all Muggle-borns and establish an absolute, supreme authority that can be used when necessary…

Avada could already imagine the next steps in those guys' plan: first, drag it out for five or six years, letting those Muggle-born individuals who couldn't attend school pass graduation age, entering the magical world without any education and becoming the lowest rung of society; then, open the school for Muggle-borns, providing a much lower-quality education to those freshmen who knew nothing about Hogwarts, while subtly instilling the idea of ​​pure-blood supremacy...

Gradually, this disparity will change the perception of the entire British magical society, and more and more people will genuinely believe that Muggle-born wizards are inherently inferior. Then, when the time is right, a series of laws restricting the rights of Muggle-born wizards can be enacted—thus, those Muggles, already without any background, will be transformed into born inferiors. Whether they will ultimately become slaves will depend on the benevolence of the pure-blood lords…

However, there is still one significant obstacle to the entire plan – Albus Dumbledore.

Even a fool would know that Dumbledore would never allow such a future to happen, and he possesses overwhelming personal strength as well as a whole host of key technologies... In other words, like Voldemort, Dumbledore could single-handedly create a force capable of confronting the entire British magical society.

"How do they plan to deal with Dumbledore? They can't expect him to be a pushover who won't overstep the rules, can they?"

"Even Voldemort has fallen, what do they have to fight Dumbledore with? Do they really expect to snatch Voldemort's soul back from Dumbledore?"

"Hmm, it doesn't seem like a bad idea. Grindelwald's blood oath was stolen, wasn't it..."

"They do have a Horcrux diary that they can use for resurrection, but based on experience, simply resurrecting a Horcrux fragment would lead to a significant drop in combat power. At most, it would add one more Headmaster-level fighter, which wouldn't be very useful against Dumbledore..."

Besides these, there was another point that particularly puzzled Avada.

That was the reaction of the other professors.

When Snape used various tricks to intimidate the students during his speech, the younger professors or those on the fringes—such as those teaching astronomy, Muggle studies, or arithmetic—clearly showed expressions of astonishment and unease.

However, the most important people—Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, Professor Sprout, and Professor Kettleburn—although they tried their best to make expressions like "gloomy face," "ashen face," and "biting their lower lip" to make them look like they were angry but dared not speak out, in reality their mental activity was all very calm and undisturbed!

Why is that?

Could it be that everything happening now is all part of Dumbledore's plan?

But now that even the core base is almost destroyed, what kind of plan can there be?

Even if they knew Snape was one of their own, he had already made an unbreakable vow that he would only turn against them if he paid with his life—could the old professors really just sit by and watch Snape die without any emotional reaction?

However, this unusual situation actually reassured Avada quite a bit—he believed that these veteran professors would neither betray Dumbledore nor simply give up. And their understanding of Dumbledore's current situation certainly surpassed his own. The fact that this group could remain calm suggested that Dumbledore was probably still hiding some trump card that could turn the tide...

"Take a few days off to recharge, then continue solving the escape rooms!"

"As long as we can break open the entrance to the secret chamber and let Professor McGonagall and her team defeat the Basilisk, all those rumors about the castle's will, along with all the conspiracies, will fall apart!"

"Although I don't yet know how the guy who changed the password and deleted Myrtle's memories found out, as long as I'm hidden inside the Close-Up Charm, nothing in the school can threaten me. Even if Slytherin were to resurrect, they couldn't stop me from cracking the Chamber of Secrets!"

"Even if it can keep changing the password, once I've done a preliminary analysis of the soul and grasped the patterns of the soul magic at the entrance to the secret chamber, cracking the new password will be a piece of cake for me. Plus, we have Dumbledore on our side..."

"Victory will surely belong to us."

He pounded his chest, stood up, and ignoring Snape, the board members, and Fudge who were huddled together discussing something, hurried back to Hufflepuff's common room. As he expected, the entire common room was shrouded in an unprecedented deathly silence, which even the warm fire couldn't dispel. Many people were staring blankly at something—the fire, the tables and chairs, the round window, the greenery on the walls, even the wands in their hands… They were all Muggle-born students.

They thought they would be expelled from school.

(End of this chapter)