Chapter 201: Defeated twice (Edited)

It was just an ordinary greeting, and the voice was not too loud, even faint, but it surprised Fish.

The kitten's whole body bounced and even the fur on his tail bristled.

For before this voice appeared, Fish hadn't heard any movement or smelled anything.

Bad old Dumbledore had stopped following him secretly for a long time, the last time he had encountered this situation had been when Stinky Guy had set the Forbidden Forest on fire.

Startled, Fish spun in midair and, before he could return to the ground, he tensed and looked behind him at the figure that had suddenly appeared.

However, after clearly seeing the other party's face, Fish immediately relaxed and the bristly hair on his tail retracted.

Because the person behind him was someone Fish knew....

Ginny Weasley, Ron's sister from the same dormitory as him, a member of the redheaded Weasley family, or Redhead Five, if that was her nickname.

Of course, after a visit to her house this summer, Fish had learned that there were actually a few other redheads in the family before him.

But, when did Ginny become so elusive? Fish remembered that when he'd found her sleepwalking the other day, she still didn't know how to hide her scent and her voice.

Fish shrugged his nose to make sure he still couldn't smell anything on her, then immediately set his mind to the task of figuring out why.

As expected of George and Fred's younger sister, she quickly learned the sound insulation and deodorization spells that are very effective when sneaking around at night.

"Nya~ (Good night~)"

(=ΦωΦ=)

Fish raised his paw to greet Ginny.

"Where are you going, Fish? why don't I take you to an interesting room?"

Ginny continued to speak in a monotone voice, while a stiff smile appeared on her face, as if an invisible person had forced the corners of her mouth upwards.

But Fish didn't mind, especially since, even though he'd been at the Weasley's for a few days, he didn't know Ginny very well, since she rarely spoke and always kept her head down.

So he didn't notice that Ginny's eyes were a little unnaturally lively, not as animated as usual, but a little dull.

"What an interesting room?"

(●ω●)

Fish immediately changed to his cat-person form, flapped his ears on his head and asked.

Ginny's opaque eyes swept the cat ears on the top of Fish's head, and then continued that smile, saying in a monotone, "Come with me."

With that, he turned his head in the direction of the stairs.

It was not Ginny herself who controlled her body, but the fragment of Voldemort's soul lurking in the daily Horcrux.

Before Voldemort was defeated by Harry Potter, or Lily Potter to be exact, he had given his Horcrux diary to Lucius Malfoy for safekeeping.

Although he had not explained to Lucius what the diary was, the Malfoys, being a long-standing pureblood family, could not be unaware of Horcruxes, so Lucius had guessed.

Knowing it was a Horcrux, and knowing that Voldemort was probably still alive, Lucius had kept the diary safe....

It was last year when Lucius, the school administrator, received word that Voldemort had possessed Quirrell and infiltrated Hogwarts to steal the Philosopher's Stone, but had been repelled by the natural animagus adopted by Professor McGonagall, resulting in his whereabouts being unknown.

Along with a sudden massive search for dark magic items by the Ministry of Magic....

So Lucius found an opportunity to sneak the diary, which was probably a Horcrux, into the hands of the Weasley children.

It was a way to get rid of Voldemort's diary and escape the Ministry of Magic's search, and a way to assassinate the Weasleys, who were known as "pureblood traitors."

The main purpose, of course, was to use Dumbledore's hand to destroy the Horcrux, so that if the plan failed and Voldemort used the Horcrux to resurrect, he could make it look like he didn't know about it.

He had always been well liked among Death Eaters and even purebloods, and even if Voldemort returned, there would be many who would intercede on his behalf.

Besides, Voldemort will need a lot of money and manpower, so he may be punished, but he won't be killed....

The Malfoys have a lot of experience in this field.

Then, the diary fell into Ginny's hands.

After extracting some power from Ginny through the diary, Voldemort seized it and entered the Slytherin Chamber, awakening the sleeping basilisk in the chamber again.

The sounds Fish and Harry heard on Saturday night were those of the awakened basilisk pacing the pipes.

It's just that Voldemort, who had just regained a bit of strength at that point, couldn't make good use of Ginny to control the basilisk to kill.

Also, with the presence of his natural enemy, the rooster, and Fish's sudden arrival, he let the basilisk wander around the pipes and move before telling it to go back to the chamber and stay there.

At the time, Voldemort did not pay much attention to the cat's meow mentioned by the basilisk, but when he was checking on Ginny to return, he encountered Fish again, and then Voldemort learned that the previous cat's meow was actually a young boy who had already learned Animagus at a young age.

Then, after Ginny returned, he started talking about Fish in his diary.

Ginny had been talking to Voldemort about her crush on Harry Potter, without mentioning Fish's existence.

Voldemort was so confused by his own defeat by a baby that he focused on Harry and did not ask for information about other things.

Only when he asked did he learn that Fish was a supposed "natural animagus" and had failed again at the hands of this natural animagus last term....

What happened when I grew up?

Tom Riddle was baffled that he had somehow lost to a baby like Harry Potter, but a baby could never defeat the Great Dark Lord, so there had to be something else.

Voldemort was depressed by this affair, he could accept that, because he could more or less guess at some possibilities, he just had to check it out with Harry Potter when he had the chance.

But being defeated by a first year student in a head to head battle is too shocking, isn't it?

Even if his current state wasn't good, he shouldn't lose to an eleven year old, even if he was a natural animagus that had never been seen in the magical world.

And according to Ginny, he had even used the Fiendfyre Curse, but he still lost?

Voldemort refused to believe this fact, but Ginny didn't know much about it, Ron had told her, and Ron only talked about what Dumbledore told him.

So Voldemort was also going to ask Fish himself how he had failed last term...

He didn't think he could lose to a boy who had only been learning magic for a short time.

So he took control of Ginny, found Fish wandering around the school, and began to extract information from him.

To keep the others from finding out, Voldemort decided to take Fish to the Room of Requirement....

As expected from the soul of the same person, even the thoughts are exactly the same.

"You're going to the Room of Requirement, nya? Fish already knew about it."

?ω?

Looking around the increasingly familiar corridors, the expectant Fish said with some disappointment.

But he soon became excited as he told Ginny about the time he and Quirrell, disguised in an eccentric black dress, had fought over him territory in the Room of Requirement.

So I've failed once before this?

Voldemort was about to explode with rage, didn't he feel a little miserable after being inexplicably defeated by Harry Potter?

Voldemort, who at this point wanted to kill Fish, suppressed his anger and continued to ask, "I heard from Ron that you defeated him again later, can you tell me?"

"That Quirrell was a bad nya," Fish grumbled, "He snuck into the Forbidden Forest and attacked Lochlin..."

Voldemort: "Lochlin?"

"Well, he's a unicorn nya!

So he even drank unicorn blood... and still lost?

Voldemort's mind shifted a bit again, as Fish continued to talk about his great accomplishments of the past term.

"... After Fish saved Lochlin, he went up and fought Quirrell, then realized he couldn't beat Fish, so he set a huge fire in the Forbidden Forest, then ran away while he had the chance nya. So it was Fish who won."

(●ΦωΦ●)

The little cat raised his head proudly, the tip of his tail tilted up and down, which made him proud.

"So, how did you defeat him in the first place?"

Voldemort wanted to know more details.

"Nya?" Fish cocked his head, confused, and replied, "Just scratched it with my claws, it couldn't hit Fish with its spell and if it wasn't for the protego charm, it would have been torn to pieces by Fish!"

"...And Ron said you put out the fire as well?"

Voldemort was silent for a moment and changed the question.

"I heard Albus say that Fish summoned a heavy rain to put out the fire, and it took me to see the memories of that night, it was beautiful.... But Fish doesn't remember it at all nya!"

Voldemort: "..."