119 Doubt life

Early the next morning.

In the headmaster's office.

Dumbledore looked at the four kids in front of him calmly.

Things in the chamber already came to its end.

And since he sent his Phoenix, naturally he's aware of everything that happened there.

So the moment they came out of the chamber, they met him with the worried McGonagall.

When Harry saw Gray and Perona both are safe he smiled happily. He saw Gray being caught by the fire with Nagini and thought something bad will happen to them, that he even wanted to tell Dumbledore, but when he came out, he found Gray and Perona already came out safely. Which made him sigh with relief.

Well... But seeing Gray's hair he felt weird...

After that, things went normally, Ginny and Mr. perfect smile.. or not its Mr. fool now were sent to the hospital wing.

While the four of them stood in front of Dumbledore telling what happened down there.

Harry looked at Gray and wondered if he should say everything, but seeing Gray's smile he calmed down and told what happened, except the fact that Nagini and Gray were bathed with fire.

As for where is Nagini right now? He didn't ask, but since Gray acted normally she should be alright. Everyone knows how much he cares about his snake. So he wouldn't be smiling easily if she's hurt.

For this, Dumbledore didn't show any reaction and started scaring Ron and Harry about how many rules they broke.

But then he found what happened deserves to be rewarded so he smiled and reassured them not to worry.

Then he sent Ron to sent a message to Azkaban so Hagrid could come back.

Seeing Ron going away, Gray felt sad for Hagrid... With Ron's owl delivering the message, he will enjoy a few more days in the cold prison serves.

Then Dumbledore focused on Harry and started talking about a few things. Harry didn't try to hide his feeling because Gray and Perona are here. They saved him a few times already, for him Gray and Perona's image is as big as Dumbledore...

After all, whether in the spider's den or facing the Basilisk. Gray's entrance was so great, for a kid like him.

Hearing Harry's talking about his feeling and doubt of the similarity between him and Voldemort.

Gray wanted to make a joke here... You're one of the Horcruxes... So your simple a part of Voldemort...

Well... But after hearing the witty old man answer, Gray eyes turned again fishly...

If he doesn't know the real story he would have believed this stinky old liar.

Send part of his power to Harry? Please... He sent part of his soul!

Well... Actually... he didn't lie completely...

Since this part of the soul really gave Harry some of Voldemorts powers...(The Parseltongue for example)

When Harry talked about all his doubts... The door of the office was opened violently and a familiar man came in, seething with fury.

Lucius Malfoy... who came here to know why Professor Dumbledore has come back.

"It's the annoyed man from before!" Before anyone could speak, Perona saw Lucius and said with a loud voice.

"You two!!!!" As soon as Lucius saw Gray and Perona he almost lost his mind for a second.

He originally came here to make sure of something, but seeing Gray and especially Perona, a very bad memory came back to his mind. Which almost made him take the wand and attack them directly!

"Dobby!" As for Harry, he looked at the little house elf following Lucius, and said with surprise. He finally realized which bad family Dobby serves... It's really a bad one...

Lucius who calmed himself looked at Dobby as if telling him his death is near, then looked at Gray and Perona who's looking at him with annoying smiles.

Which made his face change again.

But Lucius is not a kid who can't even control his emotions, so he forced himself to focus on what is important right now and started talking with Dumbledore.

Their conversation was fast, and mostly this Lucius is here to make sure if there is any doubt about him doing all this. After all, it's him who threw the diary into Ginny's pocket.

But Dumbledore words for him was so clear... He knows what he did, but because he still doesn't have evidence he won't do anything this time but warned him not to do such a thing again.

Which made his already bad mood getting worse.

Now his plan failed and Dumbledore is still here, he can't do anything. Just hoping things won't backlash on him.

After ending his conversation with Dumbledore, he looked at Gray and Perona then said.

"It's a shame... I only wanted to clean the school and make it a better place..." Lucius said...

"Haaa? What do you mean by his?" Perona was triggered by Lucius's words and few ghosts started generating from her body.

"You... Hm!" Seeing the ghosts Lucius's panicked and wanted to draw his wand...

But thinking that he's still in front of Dumbledore, he won't do such a stupid thing...

Those ghosts made him say a few unforgettable things before that even his son and wife started looking at him weirdly after.

He really doesn't have the courage to touch or get closer to those ghosts again.

And that's the reason why he was extremely angry with Gray and Perona. When he met them at the Diagon Alley before, he didn't expect Perona actually made a few ghosts follow him.

If the Malfoy family doesn't have some power to hide things, he's pretty sure what he said in public that day would have been known by everyone in the wizarding world right now...

Seeing Lucius acting tough but actually running away, Gray smiled weirdly and said nothing... This guy is really a sad character.

What caught his eyes is Dobby the small elf that followed Lucius while being abused.

House-elf...

Since he came to this world he wanted to find one!

In fact, he already met many elves here in the school and outside.

When he entered the school at first, he wondered how Dumbledore summoned the food, but it turned out that the elves prepared it and he simply summoned it.

Which made him somehow disappointed...

There is no spell that could create things from nothing in this world...

In fact, Gray wanted to copy those elves' magic a few times already, but after understanding the magic of this world and the elves more, he finally didn't do this...

How to say it... Elves in this world are magical creatures. And the magic in this world works by blood...

This means, to use their magic he needs to copy the house-elf bloodline...

Well..... Being turned into a child is already enough for Gray, so he doesn't want to make new trouble for himself...

He doesn't know if copying the house-elf bloodline will change him or merge with his original high-elf bloodline.

But the chance that it will affect his body height is so big...

So better not... He's already good in magic, and his high elf blood is not worst than those guys at all, his magic is already many times stronger than others...

Let's not say he copied three wizard blood when he came to this world, which also much better than house elves...

All he had to do is to understand magic more and everything is good. There is nothing the elves can do that humans can't do anyway, it's just the power level is a little different...

Harry thought of something and took the already destroyed diary and followed Lucius out. While Gray and Perona wanted to leave along...

But...

"Gray... you stay..." Dumbledore still didn't talk with both of them till now... How can he let Gray leave so easily?

"....." Gray...

"First can you gave me the Basilisk body" This is Dumbledore's first words, after staying alone.....

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The day passed fast, and soon it was the evening.

The students are so lively today since the crisis in the school has been solved. The teachers already told everyone the threat has disappeared, and the students who were attacked have been treated.

Most of the attacked students already sit down with the others at the dining table.

A little girl walked excitedly as she entered the hall and looked at the Gryffindor table searching for a few figures.

"Hey look, it's Hermione" Neville who's sitting beside Gray who's in a bad mood looked at the entrance of the hall and said.

With his words, everyone looked there, to see Hermione smiling happily and running to their side.

Perona saw Hermione is safe and also smiled happily.

Only Gray still stared at the old man who is giving free smiles to the students on the teacher table not far away.

"Gray!" While thinking annoyedly, Gray heard Hermione's voice beside him and turned his head.

Seeing Hermione's face, Gray's eyes flashed a smile appeared and he stood up giving this little girl a welcome back hug.

"Nice to have you back, Hermione" Gray said this and stretched his hand patting her head.

But his actions were somehow weird for Hermione.

Such action will normally be done by the old to comforting or praising the young.

But Gray...

Gray also realized that Hermione actually got much taller this year... Or can be said... Taller than him...

Which made him doubt life for the second time today...

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