Hogwarts: My name is the Unforgivable Curse...

Chapter 314 I'm looking for myself?

"The principal wants to see me?"

Avada glanced at his watch in confusion—it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.

Why are you suddenly calling me here at this time? Could it be that some emergency has occurred?

"Thank you, I'll be right there."

He nodded to the student, and without even having a chance to promote his cookies as usual, he hurried out, running all the way to the principal's office door. He knocked, and when the door opened and he saw Principal Miranda Goshak's not-so-serious expression, he relaxed a little: "Principal, you wanted to see me?"

"Um."

Miranda Goshak nodded: "Grindelwald asked me to deliver a message to you."

"Grindelwald's message?"

Avada slammed the door shut, repeated the question with some confusion, and then asked, "Why didn't he just call me or leave a letter...? He still won't let me go to him?"

He doesn't allow anyone to go to him.

Goshak waved his hand and moved a cup of hot tea to Avada's side: "He's probably dealing with someone or something that requires careful handling. Even this message he asked me to deliver was sent back through an extremely secretive channel—if it weren't for the fact that several professors and board members knew what he was doing, and that Grindelwald's personal abilities were indeed not a concern... I would have suspected that he was in some kind of trouble."

"...How many professors and board members know what he's doing?"

Avada immediately thought of old Shafik and Professor Baker—among the high-ranking officials at Norwich University whom he knew, these two might not have the highest authority, but their connections with Grindelwald were definitely among the closest…

"You'd better not ask; they won't tell you even if you do."

Goshak saw right through Avada's thoughts and said with a hint of helplessness, "They are all trying their best to hide the specifics of what Grindelwald is doing right now, and they can't even tell me, the principal. According to them, if it weren't for reassuring the university, Grindelwald wouldn't have told a single person... You should listen to the message first."

"Please speak."

While pondering what Grindelwald could possibly be busy with during this time, to the point that he was even keeping it from Nobiridge University, Avada listened to Goshak's words...

"I heard you know Mr. Ken, who performed exceptionally well in this Triwizard Tournament?"

"..."

Goshak's first words made Awada catch his breath.

"...We can be considered acquaintances."

After repeatedly verifying Goshak's mental strength to confirm that her words contained no doubt, probing, or anything else, he calmly nodded in reply, "The children of the Shafik family introduced him to me..."

"That's good."

Gorshak, without suspecting anything, nodded and continued, "Grindelwald wants you to invite him to join Noblyridge University."

"……what?"

Avada was dumbfounded.

Didn't Grindelwald know that "Kru Imprey" and "Ken" were the same person? What's going on here? Am I inviting myself?

He didn't react for a moment: "Invite whom? Ken from Hogwarts?"

"Isn't he only in fifth grade? Isn't it a bit... a bit much for someone his age to be a professor?"

"...Why did you think of the professor?"

Goshak looked at Avada with a strange expression: "I mean, I'm inviting him to Nobiridge University! This is admissions! Not recruitment!"

"……oh."

Avada was still a little shaken, and tried her best to suppress her surprise and embarrassment as she asked, "But...why?"

"Even if he's a promising talent, he still has two years until graduation... Why invite him now?"

"It's not about having him come to Norwich University right now."

Goshak shook his head: "I didn't make myself clear earlier—what you need to do is invite him to attend Northridge University after he graduates from Hogwarts, which is what's called early admission... or as they say at Muggle universities, 'guaranteed admission'? And if he agrees—given Grindelwald's assessment, he'll definitely agree—if he agrees, then have him sign the enrollment contract directly..."

"A guaranteed admission to Norwich University, and a contract has to be signed on the spot?"

After pondering for a while, Avada vaguely realized Grindelwald's plan: "Grindelwald once told me that the opportunity for Noblyridge University to open up to the public is this year... Could he be planning to use Ken?!"

"I don't know about that."

Goshak rubbed her temples, looking somewhat troubled—although it had been agreed from the beginning that she, as the principal, would only be responsible for educational matters, the feeling of being kept in the dark while her professors were all causing trouble was indeed not pleasant: "But given Grindelwald's personality, it is indeed possible..."

"What about Dumbledore?"

Avada frowned, making no attempt to hide it. "If he had already graduated, that would be one thing—but he's still Dumbledore's student. Isn't this just poaching him? And I remember Dumbledore doesn't seem to know we exist, does he? What if we arouse his suspicion..."

"Grindelwald said that all you need to do is keep it a secret from Dumbledore when you send out the invitation, and he'll take care of the rest."

"..."

Avada probably guessed what Grindelwald had been busy with in the tower all this time.

Did he specify when he would invite Mr. Ken?

"Before the third event of the Triwizard Tournament begins, which is around April or May next year..."

"During the Triwizard Tournament? Then I'd have to sneak into Durmstrang again without alerting anyone? Can Grindelwald do that himself?"

He said you have a way.

"..."

Avada was about to grit his teeth and condemn Grindelwald's deadbeat behavior when he paused for a moment and realized that he actually had a way—wasn't his original body planning to go back to Hogwarts during Christmas to remove the soul fragments from Harry?

Infiltrating Durmstrang silently and handing over a magical contract to yourself right under Karkaroff and Dumbledore's noses is indeed a very difficult task... but infiltrating Hogwarts?

Isn't that just like strolling through your own backyard?

No, he didn't even need to have Kru Impry infiltrate the past. He could simply put the enrollment contract in an envelope and send it directly to Hogwarts by owl, and the problem would be solved!

"……All right."

In the end, Avada nodded with some distress and accepted the task. His distress was not that delivering the contract was difficult, but that his main body would have to study for another four years, and in the same place as his clone... What was this if not a waste?

Forget it, we'll think of another way later.

"Is there anything else, Principal?"

"No... I know Grindelwald's abrupt request might sound unreasonable, but that's just his style. And past experience has shown that his unpredictable tactics often yield unexpectedly good results..."

"There's no need to comfort me like that, Headmaster. I didn't mean to blame Grindelwald..."

"Hmm? No, I wanted to talk to you about the extra reward for this mission... How about fifty Galleons?"

"..."

(End of this chapter)