Chapter 269: The Dark Lord has locked himself in (Edited)

[When did you find it?!!]

Tom Riddle in the diary was furious, he had dared to subtly encourage Fish to search for the relics of the Four Founders because he knew that with the young cat's careless nature, he wouldn't make a big deal out of it if it was eventually revealed.

Riddle wasn't sure how many Horcruxes his own body had made, but with each Horcrux destroyed, he would have less hope of resurrection, and that was something he could never accept.

But, at this point, he could do nothing but get angry.

[Well, probably after you showed Fish the memories of the false accusations against Hagrid.]

Dumbledore scribbled happily in the diary, knowing, of course, that there was no point in doing so, but Dumbledore couldn't help but want to talk to Riddle some more.

Whenever he talked to Voldemort about love, and life in general, the boy had always been shallow or just plain mean, but now that Dumbledore had had the chance, he wanted to talk.

The thing was, now that he was preaching to Riddle, the other side couldn't resist.

So Dumbledore ignored the vicious words the other party was continually making appear in the paper. Holding the quill in a blank spot, he wrote about his teachings that he had told Voldemort countless times.

Then Voldemort locked himself in.

After being tricked by Fish, whom he had underestimated, and having his plan discovered by the most annoying of all, Dumbledore, and now having to endure his humiliation, Riddle had the courage to die.

After cursing Dumbledore for a while, a despondent Riddle hid in his diary and gave no more answers.

Now that the Horcrux had fallen into Dumbledore's hands, it was certain to be destroyed, and there was no point in getting angry, it would only make the old man more aggressive.

Seeing no response from the diary, Dumbledore stopped writing after a few more moments.

"Too bad, Tom has calmed down."

Dumbledore sighed regretfully as he put down the quill and shook his head.

Fish, who had been standing at his desk and witnessing all this, looked at Dumbledore, the mean old man, and said in all seriousness, "Albus, you're even scarier than Minerva when you scold."

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"Ahem... "

Dumbledore stroked his beard in embarrassment, aware that he had just lost his temper.

After all, Tom Riddle was one of the few regrets he had in his life, so when he came across this rare opportunity, he had been a bit more liberal, forgetting that Fish was there.

"Well, when you get older, you get naggy."

Dumbledore explained as he reached out to pat Fish's head, and then....

"Ka!"

(●`dish′●)

The sound of teeth clacking together was heard, and if Dumbledore hadn't pulled his hand away so quickly, he would have been bitten by the cat again.

Fish hadn't forgotten that the mean old man had betrayed him before!

As for the fact that he had screwed up himself... Fish hadn't done it intentionally!

Seeing that the kitten's big green eyes were still glowing dangerously after he'd missed, and were directed at his hands, Dumbledore hastily brought his hands behind his back.

"That, Fish, go find Harry, and the Weasley boys, it's time to talk to them about this." Dumbledore, who was worried about his hands, dismissed him, then added, "Don't tell them what it is yet, get them here first."

"Right nya!"

Knowing that business was more important, Fish withdrew his dangerous gaze and turned his head to rush outside.

Because the school was on vacation now, so it was easy to find people, except for Percy, who had gone on a date with Penelope, but the rest were in the Common Room, and Fish soon had them all together.

"Fish, what exactly does Professor Dumbledore want with us?" asked Ron suspiciously, eyeing the group summoned by Fish.

If it had been just him and Harry, or just George and Fred, or just Percy, he would have understood, but calling them all together seemed odd.

If Harry hadn't been there, he would have thought something had happened at home.

Harry, on the other hand, had seen the composition of the group and had guessed it.

Had Voldemort been captured?

He was a little excited.

Everyone around him had always told Harry that his parents had died at Voldemort's hands, and that he had been a baby when he had defeated the Dark Lord, that he was at the height of his power.

But in reality, Harry had no memory of Voldemort at all, so his feelings towards him were quite contradictory.

Hatred, curiosity, fear... but, above all, he had no very real idea of Voldemort as a being.

"You'll know when you see Albus nya."

?(●ΦωΦ●)?

Fish shook his arms and walked to the forefront.

I couldn't explain Ron's question even if I wanted to, but I'd leave that kind of trouble to that mean old Dumbledore.

"Nya!"

To everyone's amazement, Fish used a cat cry to make the stone gargoyle on the third floor jump aside, revealing a spinning staircase on the wall behind him.

None of them had ever been to the headmaster's office before, except Percy and Harry, but the twins knew the place, they just didn't know the password.

"The password to the headmaster's office is 'Nya'?" asked Fred with a straight face as he followed Fish up the spiral staircase.

He couldn't imagine Professor Dumbledore meowing every time he returned to his office.

"No, Albus usually likes to use the name of the candy as a password, that was Fish's password, it means 'Fish' nya."

The little cat shook his head twice and explained to them.

Then he wrinkled his nose and grumbled, "Actually, that stone gargoyle on the door has known Fish for a long time, he's so smart, but he always needs Fish to yell the password for him to let him in."

It wasn't just the stone statue guarding the Headmaster's room, a lot of the statues at Hogwarts were really smart, but they didn't usually talk, they just kept quiet or acted like they couldn't answer.

Fish only found this out when he was once sleeping on the head of a stone statue and it suddenly asked him if he wanted to go into the headmaster's office.

"It's enviable to be able to enter and leave the headmaster's office at will."

Ron sighed helplessly, Fish was really pampered by everyone....

George and Fred, meanwhile, exchanged a silent glance, keenly noting something Fish had revealed earlier: Dumbledore's penchant for using candy names for his passwords.

This secret made the twins, who loved exploring the school, a little more excited.

As they talked, the group reached the upper floor and Fish pushed open the oak door and entered first, followed by the others.