Hogwarts: My name is the Unforgivable Curse...

Chapter 133 The identity of the mastermind?

"You also speak French?"

In Hufflepuff's common room, Avada, along with Shabby and Stebbins, were looking at his roommate Henry Summers with surprise. They had no classes at the moment, and Avada, who was recuperating, didn't plan to go to the library or the entrance to the secret room, so he just chatted with his roommates.

"Yes, my grandmother was French, and she taught me French from a young age..."

"It's been three years, and I haven't seen you show off a single skill yet?"

"What's there to show? There aren't any French books in the library, and there aren't many French visitors to the school..."

"..."

"But there's a big difference between everyday language and magical terminology. Are you sure you can keep up with Beauxbatons?"

"That's uncertain. But I think there will be many Muggle-born students like me going to other schools, and they'll probably take care of them a little... right?"

"That's not necessarily true."

Avada Kedavra shook his head, his expression somber as he poured cold water on the idea: "Right now, the only Muggle-borns who can run away are the hundred or so still attending Hogwarts. Those who have already graduated and have families will have a hard time leaving, and as for those under eleven—they don't even know the existence of the magical world. When they receive their acceptance letters from that new school, they'll be too happy to know what they'll face."

"There are already few Muggle-born wizards, and without any foundation in the magical society, they are almost completely at the mercy of others without any help... Meanwhile, those pure-blood families have even brought out the Castle Will and the Book of Admission, which should deter many people who want to act in secret."

"..."

The lounge fell silent for a moment.

"By the way, Ken, you're a Muggle too, right?"

Perhaps to ease the tension, Shabi took the initiative to ask Avada, "What are your plans for the future?"

—Uh, kill the Basilisk, and then follow Dumbledore to work on the pure-blood faction?

"My situation is a bit complicated. I have to stay in the orphanage until I'm an adult, so it's probably difficult for me to go to America to find Evamoni... I guess I can only find a small potion or alchemy workshop to work and learn slowly at the same time."

Avada shrugged, shifted his posture, and casually said, "But if the situation really deteriorates to the point where Muggle-born people can't get by in society at all... then I'll go undercover in England and do my best to guide and help those new Muggle-born wizards. That's all I can do."

"Then after I graduate from Beauxbatons, I can ask you to collaborate, and together we can build a fast escape route from England to France!"

Summers joked, then laughed himself, "But it probably won't come to that. After all, Dumbledore is still around. He certainly won't stand by and watch things deteriorate like that. Maybe tomorrow he'll come back with a mountain of evidence, proving that the school board and the Ministry of Magic were lying, and then he'll be headmaster again?"

"yes……"

The mention of Dumbledore's name gave the Hufflepuffs, who had been filled with fear, a little more confidence—not everyone believed the Board of Governors and Snape's claims; Albus Dumbledore's image in their minds was not so easily erased.

Especially at Hufflepuff House, where the most Muggle-born wizards are, people are even more eager for the magical Dumbledore to return soon, expose the lies of the Board of Governors (or subdue the raging will of the castle), and stop targeting Muggle-born wizards.

"However, I still plan to stay at Hogwarts for a while, at least until I've actually been petrified before I consider leaving."

Avada smiled. "At least I'll have to stay at school this Christmas break and see how things change—what if, like Summers said, the situation suddenly reverses?"

"Yes, I won't leave easily either."

Summers nodded emphatically: "But I still need to go back and make some preparations for Christmas, at least I need to tell my parents about this..."

"Look!"

Suddenly, a shout interrupted Avada and the others' conversation and successfully drew everyone's attention in the lounge: "The notice board has changed!"

"Um?"

Avada followed the man's finger to the bulletin board in the lounge and saw that a huge new parchment notice had appeared, taking up almost a third of the entire board, and its title was exceptionally eye-catching—

List of Muggle-born students at Hufflepuff Academy

To prevent students from having special family circumstances from being unable to confirm their lineage, all Muggle-born students have been compiled and archived through the Admission Book and Hogwarts Student Records, and their information has been posted on the bulletin boards of each house according to their respective houses…

[Students on the list should decide for themselves whether to remain at school after the Christmas break, but if they choose to continue attending, the school cannot guarantee their personal safety...]

[Seventh Grade: ...]

[Sixth grade...]

……

The list contains about forty or fifty names, neatly arranged by grade and alphabetical order. They are all Muggle-born students who will face the difficult choice of leaving school or being petrified by the "Castle Will"...

"Third grade...wait, what about me?!"

Avada paused for a moment, then carefully read through the list of Muggle-born students in Hufflepuff's third year again—himself was not on it!

"So you're not Muggle-born after all?!"

Summers, standing beside Avada, looked at him in shock, then patted him hard on the shoulder: "Looks like this list was meant for you! How about that, all that worry for nothing!"

Congratulations!

Shabby and Stebbins chimed in, "It seems at least one of your parents is a wizard, and they left you in a Muggle orphanage for some reason... but that also means you don't have to leave Hogwarts!"

"How was it? How did the ups and downs feel?"

"..."

Avada, however, kept her brow furrowed and ignored her roommates who were making a fuss.

He was different from the others—he was absolutely certain that he was Muggle-born, and there was no other possibility!

There are two reasons why he is so certain about his origins: First, the information from the Department of Mysteries. The person in charge of the project at the time clearly stated that he was an abandoned Muggle baby, which is why he was chosen to participate in the experiment.

Secondly, in addition to his research on psychic powers, he also studied human life force—just as Professor Baker speculated in his book, there are indeed subtle differences in the life force of wizards with wizarding blood and those of Muggle origin. And each Muggle-born wizard is considered to have created a new wizarding bloodline; therefore, even if two Muggle-born wizards marry, their children will exhibit characteristics of wizarding offspring in their life force, and in society they will be classified as mixed-race…

Avada himself had already confirmed that there were no characteristics of a wizard's descendant in his life force!

Moreover, Dumbledore had never mentioned his bloodline to him—logically, if there were discrepancies between the Hogwarts records and the Department of Mysteries' account, Dumbledore should have told him.

So here's the question: why isn't my name on the list of Muggle-born wizards?!

Avada's eyes suddenly lit up—he realized a possibility.

"I'm going out for a bit!"

The moment the thought crossed his mind, he turned and rushed towards the door of the lounge, startling his roommates: "What are you doing?"

"Find Snape!"

He needed to confirm something with Snape—if it was truly confirmed, he would probably know who was behind the whole thing!

(End of this chapter)