Hogwarts: My name is the Unforgivable Curse...

Chapter 380 The Pureblood Family's Plan

"And... what about Grindelwald himself?"

After processing the information for a while, Avada was able to continue asking, "Since you're playing Grindelwald in Nurmengardry, where is the real Grindelwald? Did he escape from prison?"

"How is that possible?"

Dumbledore laughed: "Not to mention that he can't possibly show his face in public now, I can't let him out, and he himself doesn't want to leave Nurmengard—this was our last agreement back then, and it's his own realization now."

"No matter how much he has contributed today, there was an era in which people suffered the ravages of war because of him... This crime can never be forgiven."

When this topic came up, Dumbledore's smile seemed less pronounced than before: "Before Christmas, he had been personally negotiating with the emissaries of those pure-blood families. They repeatedly offered to send someone to help him escape secretly using Polyjuice Potion, but he refused for various reasons. And after I took on the role of him, he didn't leave Nurmengard, but instead hid in a secret underground dungeon for several months..."

"..."

Avada now knows why Grindelwald doesn't want to see him.

And it's best not to bother him for the next few weeks—let the poor fellow, who hasn't seen the sun for months, relax for a while.

"Thanks to this plan, I also had the opportunity to personally contact the unsuspecting pure-blood families and obtain a large amount of evidence against them—they went to great lengths to set up this plan, almost exhausting their financial resources, connections, and influence. If that evidence were released without reservation, it would probably cause quite a stir throughout Europe. And the families involved in the plan themselves... hehe."

"No wonder Norwich University chose this time to make its public debut."

Avada nodded thoughtfully: "This trip should have wiped out almost all the die-hards among the purebloods, right?"

"It's not accurate to say that we've caught them all."

Dumbledore's lips curled up again: "But at least eight or nine out of ten times—and this time it's not like the reckoning of the Chamber of Secrets, where you can just hold the head of the family accountable. Their assets, resources, connections, and the dark wizards they've been secretly keeping are all likely doomed... After all, they're planning to release Grindelwald again."

"If resurrecting Voldemort only offended Britain, then releasing Grindelwald would undoubtedly offend the whole of Europe, and even most of the world—although in terms of individual strength, Grindelwald might be slightly inferior to Tom Riddle, in terms of influence and the impact on the world order..."

"So, Professor,"

Seeing Dumbledore's wandering gaze and the sign that he was about to launch into a long talk about his glorious past, Avada quickly pressed on with more questions to bring Dumbledore back to reality: "So how did they dare to contact Grindelwald in the first place?"

"Ah, this is the little bit of understanding that remains between me and Gellert—forgive me for calling him that, but it's one of the few things we still have."

Dumbledore chuckled smugly: "Actually, the choice to contact Grindelwald was something we offered them ourselves—and to explain all this, we probably have to start with last year's werewolf attack."

"A werewolf attack?"

Avada paused for a moment before remembering that such an incident had indeed occurred last year, and it was one of the direct reasons why he joined Nobiridge University. However, when the matter was settled, his consciousness was still trapped in the timeline, so his impression of it was not very deep.

"That's right—I haven't told you yet, have I? The backers behind that werewolf attack were actually a die-hard pure-blood family."

Dumbledore nodded: "They contacted their former colleague Fenrir Greyback, providing him with resources, manpower, and technology to help him expand the werewolf population and attack wizards at will, with the aim of... creating chaos to cover up what they were really doing."

"What are you actually doing? What is it?"

Avada frowned—something he hadn't even heard about from the intelligence network at Norwich University.

"Following the locked-room crisis two years ago,"

Dumbledore didn't directly answer Avada's question, but instead moved the topic back a bit: "The diehards had already suffered a major blow, and they knew I really intended to undermine their foundations, not just talk about it... Moreover, at that time, Voldemort himself was arrested, the pure-blood families were severely weakened, and there was strong anti-pure-blood sentiment in society. Almost everything was going against them... There were very few ways for them to turn the tide, and they had to find another way."

"But coincidentally, it was that locked-room crisis that made them aware of Voldemort's Horcruxes. After exchanging information, they also realized that Voldemort had left behind more than one Horcrux. As long as I don't let all the Horcruxes fall into my hands, Voldemort won't truly die, and they will still have a chance to turn the tables... The initial purpose of launching the werewolf attack was to cover up their private investigation of the Horcruxes."

"They already knew about Horcruxes back then?"

Avada was initially a little surprised, but after thinking about it, she felt relieved. In the original story, sending the diary to Hogwarts was just Lucius's personal act, but this time the diary had the full support of the die-hard pure-blood faction. And once more people knew about it, it would be easy for someone to guess that it was actually a Horcrux.

Then, Voldemort's old henchmen would inquire among themselves and work together to reconstruct the details of Voldemort's words and actions back then. If they were even more proactive, they might even be able to drag Slughorn out and ask him directly... After this process, it would be easy to deduce the fact that Voldemort had more than one Horcrux.

"Moreover, in some ways they are even one step ahead of us."

Dumbledore suddenly looked shaken: "If I hadn't received some unexpected help later, they might have actually turned the tables—they figured out that Harry Potter was Voldemort's Horcrux."

"ha?!"

Avada was completely stunned—even Voldemort himself, after being resurrected in the original story, hadn't realized this!

"Actually, if you were to make the connection, the signs at that time were already quite obvious."

Dumbledore sighed softly, "Don't forget, Harry voluntarily revealed his Parseltongue talent. And it's already intriguing that a half-blood wizard from the Potter family would possess the talent of a Slytherin heir. Add to that his past experience of surviving Voldemort's clutches, even killing Voldemort at one point, and the fact that his multiple soul splits would cause instability in his main soul... These are enough to deduce the truth of the matter."

(End of this chapter)