Chapter 265: Voldemort's Nemesis (Edited)

"No! Anyway, Fish can't do it nya!"

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At Dumbledore's kind words, Fish folded his arms, pouted and cocked his head, but refused to agree.

If he had to write in the diary, why had he just been beaten?

The kitten was so full of aggravation he couldn't stand it.

At that moment, Professor McGonagall approached.

Fish unconsciously backed up two steps, covered his buttocks with his hands and shouted at his with great dignity, "Even if it's Minerva, and she hits me, I won't do it nya!"

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But Professor McGonagall was not angry, and instead the expression on her face softened.

Scolding was not a good way to teach a child, and she chose to reason with Fish on this point.

"I hit you before because you were disobedient and did some dangerous things without telling me, but the situation is different now," said Professor McGonagall as she knelt down and gently stroked Fish's little head, "don't you want to avenge Mrs. Norris? Now you have a good chance."

"...Hmph! If you destroy the diary, I might as well get revenge on Norris!"

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Fish hesitated, then leaned back to avoid Professor McGonagall's hand on his head, and grumbled.

Cats aren't that easy to fool!

"But this only removed some of Voldemort's power - don't you want to defeat him completely? Otherwise, next time he might possess someone or something and cause trouble at school."

"Well..."

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Thinking back to the Forbidden Forest fire in his first year, and what had happened to Mrs. Norris this school year, Fish finally hesitated....

At this point, Dumbledore arrived and helped persuade him, "Besides, Fish, aren't you planning to snatch the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets from Voldemort? It's not enough to simply destroy one of his Horcruxes, and Voldemort can still command it."

This reason made Fish unable to refuse, because he was also worried that Uroboros, under Voldemort's orders, would go out and hurt others in the future.

Uroboros' poison was something that even the giant Kanaloa had admitted she couldn't handle, and Fish hadn't been able to defeat the large squid so far, even Fluffy had been easily defeated by her, so her words carried extra weight on Fish's side.

"Okay... so what should Fish nya do?"

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The kitten stopped being angry at Professor McGonagall and asked seriously, but with a grumpy look.

"According to the information I have found, Horcruxes are able to strengthen themselves by absorbing the life of others, as well as negative emotions, increasing the ability of soul fragments to act independently in the material world."

Dumbledore pointed to the diary on his desk and explained, "That's why Voldemort showed you the memory of Hagrid being used as heir to the Chamber of Secrets: he wants you to have some negative emotions and constantly talk to him, and then he'll make you have more negative emotions."

"But..." Fish frowned, puzzled, "Fish doesn't believe him at all nya, those big spiders are so weak, how can they be monsters from the Chamber of Secrets? And Hagrid doesn't look like a Slytherin heir, what was Grandpa Armando thinking in the past?"

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"Cough cough cough..."

Headmaster Armando Dippet, on the wall, could no longer pretend to be asleep and let out a violent cough of embarrassment.

"Hehehe, I said it back then, it's absolutely impossible for that stupid big man to be the heir of Slytherin!"

Phineas Nigellus Black sneered, as Slytherin had never believed that the heir of Slytherin was a Gryffindor.

He was even a half-blood giant!

It's just that when Phineas raised objections, Dippet ignored them completely.

In fact, he knew that Dippet had done so only to try to hush up the scandal of a student's death as soon as possible, otherwise Hagrid would not only be expelled from the school.

But that didn't stop Phineas from settling old scores.

"You're not even as smart as a kid."

As the only Slytherin headmaster, Phineas had been targeted by the other portraits, and now that he had the honor of mocking the other headmasters, he had to return the favor.

So not only did he taunt Dippet, but he also began to speak out against the other headmasters.

"That's the same for you guys! Being cheated on by a fifth year student, but what can you do, when it's a Slytherin who cheats on you? One of the most talented Slytherins in a hundred years!"

Phineas sneered at the Headmasters with glee, not noticing that a few grumpy Headmasters had abandoned their frames and appeared behind him.

"Wait! What do you want? Ow!"

"Ahem... just ignore them, let's move on."

Dumbledore scratched his nose, getting Fish and Professor McGonagall's attention again, "It's okay if you haven't been tricked, as long as you don't have negative emotions induced by Voldemort, he won't be able to absorb the power from you, and then he'll get anxious, and when he gets anxious, he'll be vulnerable, and then we'll have a chance to get information out of him."

"It's so troubling... What should Fish write in the diary now?"

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Dumbledore said a lot, but Fish was still confused, so the little cat just stopped thinking about it and let Dumbledore decide, and would just write what he said.

"I thought you told him you went to Hagrid, so tell him Hagrid doesn't admit he's the heir to Slytherin, and see what Voldemort says" Dumbledore told Fish, "Don't get negatively excited about his words, it will strengthen his power, and if he realizes something is wrong when he gets stronger, it will be a lost cause."

"Alright nya," Fish nodded before turning his head and asking, "Albus, what do you mean by negative emotions?"

"Er... it's emotions like sadness, fear, distress."

After Dumbledore finished speaking, he smacked his lips and suddenly felt that his reminder was a bit redundant, with the little cat's shamelessness and guts, it might be hard to make him feel negative emotions.

And Fish obviously thought the same way, shook his head and said, "Fish has a lot of courage, I'm not afraid of anyone but Minerva! And as long as Minerva doesn't cry and doesn't hit Fish, I won't be sad either nya."

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Then he added, "It doesn't matter if Voldemort's power gets stronger, just let Lochlin hit him again nya!"

"Huh? What do you mean by that?" asked Dumbledore curiously.

"When I picked up this diary earlier, Fish realized he couldn't break it no matter how much he attacked it, so he took it to the Forbidden Forest and asked Fish's friends to help him try to break it, but neither Fluffy nor Shadow could do anything, but when Lochlin hit it with his horn, Fish thought he heard a scream."

Fish folded his arms and spoke of his discovery.

"And while looking at Voldemort's memories, he told Fish that he had experienced a loss of power a while back, and yes Fish guessed correctly, it was due to Lochlin nya!"

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Dumbledore: "..."

Professor McGonagall: "..."

Looking at the smug little kitten in front of him, Dumbledore suddenly felt a little sorry for Voldemort's Horcrux, counting the Voldemort that was stuck to the back of Quirrell's neck last year....

It seems that as long as the Dark Lord meets this little cat, he's in for some bad luck.