Chapter 160 The night before departure
"Haish-ya (You're going to Beauxbatons tomorrow. Are you nervous, Della)?"
A small blue-gray snake slid up along the edge of the table, spitting out its tongue. When it noticed the contents of Della's book, its yellow pupils suddenly erected.
"You know I can always adapt to new environments, Maggie." Della can speak snake language, but her Maggie is smarter than most snakes and has the ambition to become a human, so she usually communicates with him in English now.
In the past, I communicated with Maggie in snake language to express closeness; now I communicate with Maggie in English to express respect.
After a brief reply, Della continued to stare at the Clingreton family tree on the page in front of her. This family tree only had three generations including Della, but it had continued for nine hundred years by relying on alchemy to transform the body, and except for the first generation, everyone's surname was different.
Here perhaps one less pleasant detail may be added: each of them also met with a violent death.
Yes, everyone, but the last generation returned to the world by chance.
Della's surname is Riddle, the Muggle surname of the Dark Lord Voldemort; her biological father Bronte's surname is Dorotheus, which was her grandfather's old surname before he married into the family of Clint Graydon; her biological mother Doreen's surname is Schiller, an ordinary Muggle surname.
Muggle is the name given by the magical world to ordinary people who cannot use magic, and Bronte is an alchemist and a wizard.
More than a decade ago, the Death Eaters could not stand the union of wizards and Muggles.
Death Eaters attacked them, and Della, who was a baby at the time, died. At the critical moment when Bronte used alchemy to revive her, Voldemort, the leader of the Death Eaters, found them by accident. With a wave of his hand, Della's biological parents died.
Maggie, who was over 900 years old and enjoyed the same immortality as the Clingreton family, pounced on Voldemort, tearing off a large piece of the demon's flesh with her fangs, and was then knocked away by a Killing Curse.
Amidst the splatter of flesh and blood, Voldemort's blood seeped into the core of the resurrection ceremony, allowing the resurrected baby to possess his blood; Voldemort's soul continued to split during this killing, and finally merged into Maggie.
Thus, a Horcrux with independent consciousness that hated him was born, and a girl who inherited his appearance and talent also came into this world.
"Maggie, have you ever thought about how we should deal with Voldemort?" Della stared at the portraits of everyone on the family tree. The hair on the stick figure portrait with her name on it was scribbled a few times. The Clintons and Graydons all had golden hair and blue-green eyes, but she, who had mixed in with the blood of her enemy, had black hair and black eyes.
However, Della still inherited Cling Graydon's bewitching eyes and extraordinary alchemical talent.
"Sith-ya (We can't do it directly)." Maggie hissed. Della and Maggie both came from alchemy, and when alchemists allowed alchemical creations to hurt others, they would always deliberately exclude themselves. Voldemort's blood and soul gave them new life, so they could not kill him directly.
"Are you talking about conspiracy?" Della held her face and sighed slightly. She closed the book and turned her dark eyes to Maggie. "But if you stand on the opposing side, you are choosing to pin your hopes of killing Voldemort on others. I don't like the feeling of putting my fate in the hands of others."
"Hai-xi-ha-xi (We still have time to discuss this. Voldemort is probably still eating ashes on the Albanian grasslands anyway)." Maggie was in a good mood. She was now looking forward to Della's study abroad trip to Beauxbatons and Durmstrang in the coming year.
Beauxbatons gave Della a letter of recommendation to the Alchemy Group, and a professor at Durmstrang was willing to give Della a letter of recommendation to the International Society of Dark Magic. Maggie had a feeling that Della would reap a lot in this year.
Children always have to have the opportunity to grow up, right? Compared to staying in Hogwarts and dealing with those stupid children - among whom Maggie despises Draco Malfoy the most, the new environment is definitely more suitable for Della.
Even though this study abroad trip was just a last resort, Della was cursed to be away from her homeland and old friends. Before the curse was lifted, she would either stay in the Muggle world of Country Y or go to the wizarding world of another country.
The Ministry of Magic paid a huge compensation of 750,000 Galleons to Della, a minor, for the harm she suffered under the program, and gave her very favorable conditions for studying abroad.
"I like what you said." Della laughed, opened the drawer and took out the only letter from the wizard from Country Y that she could receive now, from Severus Snape, her adoptive father.
This legal parent-child relationship is now Della's only link to the wizarding world of Country Y.
"Professor Snape sent me a letter today. It's short, but not very happy," Della read the solitary words on the letter. "Slytherin lost the house cup this year."
Della could see that Snape was not so keen on writing to her. She guessed that it was Dumbledore who asked her to do so. Headmaster Dumbledore had always taken good care of her.
"Then who took away your house cup? Gryffindor?" Maggie didn't really care about the result, but she still tilted her head in cooperation.
"I think it's Hufflepuff, Aidan Royer, the Hufflepuff male head who you introduced Tom Riddle's soul to help us solve the diary. Didn't the newspaper say that he won the Order of Merlin, First Class? I think it can add a lot of points to their house."
Aidan Royer, a wizard who received home education but attended Hogwarts in name only, became the male head boy even though he had only been to school a few times, because of his rich practical experience investigating with his investigator parents.
As far as Della knew, this president, who didn't even want to remember his name, returned to school to spend more time with his girlfriend. His girlfriend was the Slytherin female president of the same year, Arrianne Lind, a senior who had a very good relationship with Della.
However, after the fact that she was Voldemort's descendant was exposed, Della's previous social relationships had probably undergone a drastic change.
Della understood this, but she was worried about her relationship with Draco. She had hidden too much from Draco in the past, and she didn't tell him that she was a Parseltongue when the boy was most worried about her. If Della was kept in the dark like this, she would definitely take the initiative to end the relationship.
But the party at fault always hopes for forgiveness from the other party at this time, and Della is the same.
"That guy," Maggie felt a little sad when she mentioned Aidan, because this young man once tried to squeeze out his reproductive cavity to confirm his gender, "he will come to take you to Country F tomorrow."
"Yes, but—" Della curled her lips, "I always feel that he is not very reliable in these little things."