Chapter 252: Dumbledore: I Have a Plan (Edited)

Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore were dumbfounded when they saw Fish run in with a with a roll of quilts.

But they soon realized that it wasn't just a with a roll of quilts that Fish was holding, but that there was also a person inside the roll of quilts.

"What are you doing?"

Professor McGonagall looked dumbfounded at Fish as she laid Harry on the floor with the blanket.

"Didn't you ask me to bring Harry here, Minerva? And I can't tell anyone else..."

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Fish cocked his head in confusion and said, "Fish thought to sneak Harry out so no one would find out."

"Hmm... Well done."

Dumbledore hesitated, but paid a compliment.

After all, even if Fish didn't treat Harry very well, it was actually a good way.

Even if Voldemort found out by accident, he'd probably think Fish was playing a joke on Harry, rather than thinking he'd been found out.

"Professor Dumbledore? what happened?"

Harry, who had had the petrification spell lifted, got up from the floor in a daze and then saw a lion with a wild mane, McGonagall....

"This... we brewed a Multijuice Potion, just to find out who the heir of Slytherin is!"

Harry, who thought they were investigating the subject of the Multijuice Potion, explained.

"Oh? So you're in on this?"

Professor McGonagall narrowed her eyes, even more intimidating in her lion form.

"..."

Harry felt like slapping himself...for telling on his.

"That's over, we won't hold you accountable for your mistakes."

Luckily, Dumbledore soon reassured Harry.

"We brought you here to discuss other matters."

"What is it, Professor?"

Harry asked relieved to know that they would not be held accountable for the use of the Multijuice Potion.

Dumbledore did not answer him directly, but turned his head to look at Fish and said, "Why don't you come and talk to Harry?"

Then Harry saw a strange twisted expression on Fish's face.

He scratched his cat ears with his hand and said to Harry in a friendly voice, "Fish told Minerva and the others what you speak Parseltongue nya..."

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"..."

Harry looked at the self-proclaimed tight-lipped kitten, and was dumbfounded.

"Professor, speaking Parseltongue... I don't know... I don't..."

After a few incoherent words, Harry shrugged and sighed, "Believe it or not, I didn't open the Chamber of Secrets."

"Hahaha, I think you've got it wrong, Harry." Dumbledore stroked his beard and explained with a smile, "We didn't think you were the heir to Slytherin."

"Yes nya, it was that villain named Voldemort who opened the Chamber of Secrets, and Fish was worried about you before he told Minerva and the others nya."

Fish nodded, saying that it wasn't that he didn't keep his word, and that the cat was still very secretive.

"It's like this..."

Dumbledore then briefly explained the current situation to a confused Harry.

"Although we speculate that your Parseltongue may be caused by the magic Voldemort inadvertently left in your body, but to be sure, it's best to have it checked out."

"I see."

Harry nodded and stood in front of Dumbledore very cooperatively.

Holding his wand, Dumbledore leaned down and circled Harry several times, checked Harry's body several times in great detail, and finally let out a long sigh of relief and straightened up.

"It seems I was right, there is no sign of possession or control, only the inheritance of Voldemort's magic."

Dumbledore's tone was relaxed, but he was actually distressed.

Checking for possession or control was simple and not time consuming, Dumbledore had only been checking to see if Harry had indeed become one of Voldemort's Horcruxes.

Unfortunately, his suspicions were correct, although Harry's Horcrux was not complete, the core of the Horcrux's function was still there, and Voldemort could be "resurrected" in Harry's body if certain conditions were met.

"Do you have any way to get Voldemort's magic out of my body, Professor?" on the other hand, Harry asked anxiously as he exhaled a sigh of relief.

Because of his dislike of Slytherin and Voldemort, Harry had rejected Voldemort's magic in him, even though it had given him the rare ability to talk to snakes.

However, Dumbledore shook his head, "I'm sorry Harry, Voldemort's magic has been in you too long and I have no way of removing it at the moment."

Of course, this was a lie to Harry, Dumbledore simply didn't want him to think too much about it.

So he added reassuringly, "Even if you have Voldemort's magic inside you, that doesn't stop you from being a Gryffindor, does it?"

"But... the Sorting Hat thought I was better suited to be a Slytherin..." Harry was still a little confused.

"And yet you chose Gryffindor, that's what matters," Dumbledore smiled and pointed at Fish. "Have you forgotten how Fish was sorted into Gryffindor in the first place?".

"Nya?"

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Fish blinked, wondering what Dumbledore was doing suddenly mentioning it.

But he told Harry seriously, "The Sorting Hat said Fish could choose his own House nya."

Professor McGonagall, on the other hand, also said, "The Sorting Hat took five and a half minutes to decide whether I should go to Gryffindor or Ravenclaw, and in the end I chose Gryffindor myself."

"Every year there are always students who have the qualities of more than one House, and the Sorting Hat has to combine all the factors to decide where they go, and for those who, like me, take longer than five minutes, there is a suitable term 'hat dilemma'."

Professor McGonagall paused to tell Harry a cold fact about the Sorting Hat.

"Ahem, anyway, you can rest assured that Voldemort's magic won't affect you much, you'll be fine as usual."

Dumbledore picked up the conversation and then warned, "But be careful, after all you are Voldemort's main target, if you see anything unusual, come and report it to me or Professor McGonagall."

"I understand."

Although he still felt a little uneasy, Harry knew that the most important thing now was to find Voldemort lurking around the school.

"Don't you need to remind Ginny, Professor?"

After sorting out his own problems, Harry thought of Ginny, who had been controlled, and couldn't help but voice his concern.

"I can only be sure that she is not possessed and controlled at the moment, but I'm not sure if Voldemort has left any means of surveillance in her vicinity, it would be best to keep her out of it for the time being so as not to alert the enemy."

Dumbledore shook his head, then gave Harry a task.

"You can help keep an eye on her during the day, just be careful not to act too obviously."

Actually, Dumbledore didn't think Voldemort paid too much attention to Ginny, he was just trying to give Harry something to do, after all, the boy had had the audacity to steal the Philosopher's Stone from Snape last term....

It was all his own doing, but it proved that the Boy Who Lived is not a peaceful sort.

Even if Voldemort had something on Ginny, he could use it to lure him in and give Harry some work to do.

Last term his plan had been ruined because of Fish, so he could make up for it this term.

It's still the same reason: it's rare to meet such a weak Voldemort, let Harry, the prophesied savior, meet the Dark Lord beforehand, it's better to train him beforehand.