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He said in a hoarse voice: "Those mediocre people in the Ministry of Magic are not even as good as a child. None of them suspected that I was someone else pretending to be me, nor did they take any precautions at all."
"I don't understand what you're saying, Professor." Kyle looked at him puzzled.
Although I was indeed testing him, it would be a bit rude to say it to his face.
However, Professor Moody seemed not to have heard Kyle's explanation and continued:
"It is necessary to verify my identity." He patted the water bottle in his pocket. "Everyone knows that I only drink the water I bring with me. If someone wants to pretend to be me, they only need to put the Polyjuice Potion in the water bottle and drink a sip every hour. It's so simple."
Kyle didn't say anything, mainly because he didn't know what to say. After all, there really were people who did this.
"Are you interested in being an Auror?" Professor Moody suddenly said.
"Auror?" Kyle shook his head. "Not yet, but I might consider it in the future."
"Then you should really think about it carefully." Professor Moody said, pointing to his magic eye, "I believe in my own vision. You are very smart and more vigilant than most people. This is particularly important. As I have always said before, always being vigilant is the most powerful weapon of an Auror.
And you are the one who possesses this weapon. I dare say that you will become a legendary Auror like your mother in the future."
"My mother?" Kyle, who had only wanted to get rid of Professor Moody, showed a look of surprise and doubt for the first time. "But Professor, I think you must have remembered it wrong. My mother is not an Auror."
"Mistakenly remembered? No, not really." Professor Moody laughed again, "Diana didn't join the Department of Mysteries right after graduation. She is one of the best and most promising Aurors I have ever seen, and she has been like this since she first joined.
"Before I retired, I once thought that she would take over the Auror Office in the future, but unfortunately, she did not choose to stay here.
"But now it seems that her decision was right. The current Ministry of Magic is simply rotten... and that Fudge, he only wants to get more power instead of being a good minister."
Professor Moody started to get angry again. He didn't say anything to Kyle and limped towards his office.
Even though he had walked a long way away, Kyle could still hear him cursing.
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(End of this chapter)
Chapter 557: Nicolas Flamel's Letter
Diana was once an Auror?
To be honest, this was a bit beyond Kyle's expectations. He subconsciously thought that Professor Moody had remembered it wrong, but when he thought about it carefully, it seemed that this was really possible.
Kyle remembered that the year he received his acceptance letter, he went to Diagon Alley to buy something. The Leaky Cauldron, which was originally bustling, became quiet and silent the moment Diana pushed open the door.
However, the identity of the Silent Man in the Department of Mysteries is obviously not enough to achieve this. After all, this identity is kept secret and few people know about it.
"Auror..."
Kyle muttered something under his breath, then turned back to the classroom door and walked towards the stairs with Kanna.
In the next two weeks, Kyle continued to go to the headmaster's office every Saturday to study with Dumbledore, which made everyone who knew about it envious.
Because Easter is coming soon, and it is also the last long holiday before the end of the school year.
The fifth-year OWL exam seems to be just around the corner, with more and more homework and the professors' requirements becoming more and more strict.
They were now going through more parchment every day than they had in a week.
But Kyle was an exception, because he had to study with Professor Dumbledore and he only had to do his Potions and History of Magic homework.
Not to mention Potions class, even Dumbledore couldn't let Snape exempt Kyle's homework. As for History of Magic...it was useless even if Dumbledore said anything.
But even so, Kyle saved a lot of time. According to Mikel, Professor McGonagall now asked them to write a roll of parchment homework every day. Every time he went to Hogsmeade, he had to buy a stack of parchment and two bottles of ink as backup.
The day before the Easter holiday was also a Saturday. If anyone was outside the castle, they would see the windows of the principal's office flashing golden and red lights.
The headmaster's office had also changed completely. The room had been expanded countless times, and Dumbledore moved an entire lake, almost as big as the Black Lake, into his office.
On the surface of the lake, there were flames that had not yet been extinguished. The temperature in the room was frighteningly high, like a furnace. All the former principals were huddled in a picture frame with a winter background, as if this would make them cooler... although they could not feel the temperature change at all.
Fox was very happy. He stood on the branch with his eyes squinted, and occasionally made a comfortable humming sound.
"Yes, even I can't find any fault with it." Dumbledore said as he looked at Kyle, who was sitting in the chair and breathing heavily.
He waved his wand, and in an instant, the lake disappeared and the principal's office returned to its original state.
"Drink some, you'll probably like it."
A cup of hot cocoa appeared on the table next to him and Kyle took a long sip.
"As I just said, Kyle." Dumbledore also took a sip of the black tea in front of him, "You have completely mastered this spell, and you don't need to continue learning...
"Next Saturday, you don't have to come to my place anymore. You can do whatever you like."
"Okay." Kyle nodded, and after calming down his somewhat excited mood, he took out the booklet that Dumbledore gave him at the beginning and said, "Professor, can you give this to me?"
"If you like it, of course it's fine." Dumbledore said with a smile, "To be honest, when these contents were published, almost no one read them... Most people are not very interested in ancient runes."
“But there are still some people who like it, right?” Kyle said.
"That's right." Dumbledore said with a smile, "Oh, by the way, I have one more thing to tell you."
"What?" Kyle put the booklet away again and put it in his pocket.
"It's about the Easter holidays." Dumbledore opened the drawer and took out a piece of red stone.
"This can't be Nico's portkey..." Kyle blurted out.
The main reason was that Kyle was too familiar with this thing, he had one on him, but it was blue. This was given to him by Nicolas Flamel a few years ago, saying that if he needed it, he could return to the library in his old house in Paris.
But until now, Kyle has never used this thing, and he doesn't know when Nico was talking about it.
"It seems you still remember it, so I don't need to explain it again." Dumbledore nodded, "Yes, this is the portkey.
"Nico wrote to me yesterday, saying you might need this...oh, here it is."
As we were talking, a brown owl appeared outside the window.
Dumbledore opened the window and let it in.
The owl came straight to Kyle, put a letter in his hand, then shook its body, turned into a pile of feathers and disappeared.
"Don't be surprised." Dumbledore explained at the right time: "This book was made by Nico with owl feathers... to prevent others from finding his address through owls."
Kyle nodded in understanding.
Then he opened the letter.
"I take back what I said to you before. You may need to come over. A certain lady seems to want to talk to you..."
The letter was not long and there was no signature on it, but there was a crown-like pattern drawn at the end.
"It looks like you have new things to deal with." Dumbledore said with a smile, "Do you need any help? I'm quite free recently."
"Thank you, Professor, but I don't think it will be needed for now." Kyle thought for a moment and said, "This is something I asked Tony to help fix before, and it seems to have a problem."
"This is really strange, something Nico took over could still go wrong... Oh, I think I understand."
Dumbledore suddenly realized and said, "I was wondering how you were going to deal with the locket. Would you destroy it directly with the fangs of the basilisk? I didn't expect you to give it to Nico. This is indeed a good idea.
"I remember Nico studied Horcruxes for a long time. No one knows more about it than him."
"Yeah, I thought so too," Kyle said.
Dumbledore guessed right, but only half right. It was true that Nico came to him because of the Horcrux, but not the locket.
Nico had said before that he was busy dealing with the Philosopher's Stone and the Time-Turner and had no time to deal with other things, so the locket should not have been touched at this moment.
And from the crown pattern at the end of the letter, it is not difficult to see that he is referring to the crown of Ravenclaw.
Of course, Dumbledore didn't know this.
"Professor, what is the time for this portkey?" Kyle asked.
"You can do it at any time," said Dumbledore. "You only have to hold it in your hand and silently say Nicolas Flamel's name.
"But I suggest you go tomorrow, the train leaves the school at nine in the morning.
"Don't forget that you are still a warrior. Your every move is being watched. If you leave school early, it will inevitably arouse the suspicion of the guests."
"Okay, tomorrow then," Kyle said.
He had no intention of leaving immediately.
Nico's letter came too suddenly, and there were many things he didn't understand that needed to be thought about carefully.
There was a lady who wanted to talk to him. Who was this person? Kyle felt that it definitely wasn't Nico's wife.
Combined with the Ravenclaw crown... Kyle couldn't help but think of a possibility.
Although this sounds a bit ridiculous, there seems to be no other answer.
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(End of this chapter)
Chapter 558 The Magical Crown
The next day was the Easter holiday, and Kyle got up early and left the common room.
He first found Helena in the castle tower with the help of the fat monk, and then arrived at Hogsmeade Station before nine o'clock.
I don't know if it's because of the Triwizard Tournament, but not many people went home for the Easter holiday this year, and Kyle was the only one in the prefect's box.
But it's good this way, no need to look for somewhere else.
As the train doors closed and were about to start, Kyle took out the door key that Dumbledore had given him yesterday and whispered.
"Nicolas Flamel..."
The whistle that just sounded in his ears stopped abruptly. When Kyle opened his eyes again, he was already at the entrance of a familiar manor. In front of him was the majestic manor gate and two lifelike fire dragon statues.
Kyle walked over curiously. He remembered Nico saying that these two statues were among his most satisfying works in recent centuries.
However, Kyle did not see what was so magical about these two statues. They felt like the same stone statues in the castle. The only difference was that there were many more complicated magic symbols on the statues in front of him.
"Welcome, sir!"
There was a sharp sound in my ears.
The house-elf Tata was standing there, bowing to Kyle.
"The master asked Tata to pick up the gentleman."
"Thank you, Tata," Kyle said.