Chapter 324 You Should Retire Quickly and Let Zhang Be the Principal

The gargoyle spun to give way, and the stairs slowly descended.

Zhang Xiao walked in familiarly, just like taking the elevator at work in his previous life.

Wait a minute, I'm just going to work now. I'm obviously still a third-year student, worrying about the principal every day.

When did it become like this?

Was it the time a car rolled over a first-year Slytherin? Or that time when you drank too much? Or that time at the Sorcerer's Stone?

That time in the secret room? Capture Peter Pettigrew? Horcrux?

If this continues, it will definitely be no problem to become a principal directly after graduation.

Could this be Dumbledore's plan?

Zhang Xiao pondered and subconsciously opened the door, and the high-backed velvet gilt chair he was used to sitting on slid over silently.

The silver pot on the tray was tilted high, and the delicate tea leaves in the cup danced a 'seaweed dance', allowing the scalding boiling water to fully come into contact with themselves.

Just for a moment, the fragrance of tea overflows.

After recalling the events in which he had actively or passively participated in the past three years, Zhang Xiao finally came to a conclusion.

It's all Voldemort's fault!

He stretched out his hand, and the tea cup slowly floated in his hand. After taking a gentle sip of the slightly hot tea, he realized where he was.

In the spacious and beautiful circular principal's room, Dumbledore was sitting behind the huge table, looking at himself with a half-smile.

It was a long table with claw-shaped legs, with many strange silverware placed on it, rotating and emitting small puffs of smoke.

In addition, they make all kinds of funny little noises.

On a shelf behind the table, there is a tattered, wrinkled wizard hat - the Sorting Hat. This hat has its eyes closed and murmurs an unknown meaning. It should be writing a new warm-hearted novel. Field song.

Fox stood on his solid gold shelf, holding Qingluan's magic photo in his mouth, looking at himself eagerly.

There was nothing we could do about it. Zhang Xiao shrugged at it. Qingluan was in China. The recent period was not peaceful. Most of the time, the mobile phone was useless and there was no signal at all.

Only Qingluan can break through some restrictions and deliver information, so Sister Bird's task has always been very heavy and important.

The walls are covered with portraits of old principals, both men and women. They all have bright eyes in their respective photo frames and watch the fun happily.

Phineas Nigellus, the most unpopular principal in history and Black's grandfather, raised a glass of wine he got from nowhere and gestured towards Zhang Xiao.

"Aha, Zhang, you looked like a principal just now. It seems that you are ready to enter this office at any time.

Dumbledore, I suggest you retire immediately.

Zhang is already a mature principal and can handle all the affairs of the school. As for people outside the school, isn't there still someone else?

Isn't that right, Dumbledore, Lord Minister? "

Very rarely, Phineas's opinion met with no unanimous opposition.

On the contrary, many portraits gave out good-natured laughter, because they also felt that Zhang Gang looked like a real principal.

In fact, this little wizard's performance in the past three years has already conquered these portraits. If they were asked to choose, there is only one answer, and that is Zhang.

"I can retire early if you need me, although my idea is to keep going for a few more years."

Dumbledore stood up, blinked narrowly at Zhang Xiao, and made a joke.

Zhang Xiao shook his head helplessly:

"Professor Dumbledore, I don't intend to be limited here. The world is so big and I haven't taken a good look at it yet. Maybe I will go around the world and find what I really want in my heart, and then make plans. "

Dumbledore walked over briskly. He also poured himself a cup of tea and asked curiously:

"Oh? It's a very practical and important thing that your heart really wants. Do you already have a clue?"

"No, but I think...at least it won't be immortality, invincibility or anything like that."

The old man and the young man laughed together.

Dumbledore shook his sleeves gently, and the silverware on the table was pushed away by a gentle force, revealing a large blank tabletop.

Then the tabletop suddenly rippled slightly, as if the hard tabletop turned into water.

Under Zhang Xiao's curious gaze, the rippling tabletop slowly rose and bulged. At first, it was just a weird uneven appearance.

But soon, little details were being perfected, and the short bulges gradually became angular, with windows, doors, and even the bricks and tiles on the eaves clearly visible.

In just the blink of an eye, a vivid market appeared in front of Zhang Xiao.

This is Diagon Alley!

Dumbledore even conjured up a lot of little people to wander around inside.

This is exactly what transfiguration is!

Zhang Xiao looked at the 'Miniature Diagon Alley' on the table in amazement. Every shop on it matched the one in his memory, and the signboards were exactly the same.

In the eyes of laymen, there may be no explosions, no fire, and not cool, but in the eyes of experts, Dumbledore's move is simply formidable.

"Zhang, according to the news from your family in the East, the Horcrux this time should be in Diagon Alley, and in the Gringotts area?"

Zhang Xiao nodded, just as he had thought before, what if the golden cup was not in Bella's vault.

Moreover, you can calculate the approximate location and understand it, and you can directly calculate which vault it is in and what it is about.

Even if Dumbledore didn't understand Dongfang Xin, he would have to make up a reason next time when counting another Horcrux, so it would be better to just tell him an approximate location.

Avoiding strategic misjudgments is both reasonable and trouble-free.

Dumbledore knocked on the table gently, and the three-dimensional model on the table changed again, and the surroundings surged and fluctuated rapidly. Only then did Zhang Xiao understand why Dumbledore had to go to so much trouble to simulate the entire Diagon Alley.

Because as the tabletop rises, Diagon Alley seems to be lifted up from the ground, rising into the air, with a huge cavity below:

"Zhang, this is the underground space of Gringotts. The goblins have spent hundreds of years digging deep, but no one knows how deep it is."

Zhang Xiao suddenly remembered that the original book said that the goblin dug hundreds of miles or even deeper.

What a concept hundreds of miles! That has already dug into the mantle! He even dug through the asthenosphere. If the goblin has a way to deal with magma, Zhang Xiaoxin, after all, magic doesn't make sense.

But if it were said that goblins can handle the 180-kilometer-thick asthenosphere, then the entire book would have to be renamed Goblin Legend.

"Professor, what do you think Voldemort's Horcrux should be?"

"That's exactly what I was going to tell you." Dumbledore smiled, condensing some patterns made of flames in the air.

"Ravenclaw's diadem, Slytherin's locket. And through constant recollection, I recall the greed with which Tom looked at the sword of Gryffindor in this office."

Dumbledore waved his hands quickly, the crown made of flames, and the pendant flashed in the air:

"Combined with the location you provided - Gringotts, I have reason to believe that this Horcrux is likely to be Hufflepuff's golden cup."

Zhang Xiao nodded secretly and had to say that it was so comfortable to do things with someone like Dumbledore.

You never have to worry about him not being able to keep up. On the contrary, he may even be faster. You don't have to worry about him falling off the chain (occasionally). Many times he will provide very useful opinions.

Such as now.

But Dumbledore's output still did not stop, he said happily:

"As soon as I realized that Tom was in love with the founder's relics to make Horcruxes, I immediately started investigating. Fortunately, I found some clues."

The flames jumped, gradually turning into letters, and finally formed a name.

‘Hepzibah Smith’

Dumbledore said slowly: "After Tom graduated from Hogwarts, he unexpectedly rejected all job offers, including many very good positions from the Ministry of Magic.

Instead, he chose to go to Borgin Burke and become a clerk. It was a store in Knockturn Alley, and almost everything in it was related to black magic.

Tom is very good at disguise. To outsiders, he is a very polite, personable and handsome clerk. This disguise makes him very popular, especially among the older witches.

They have a rich fortune, spend lavishly, and possess many precious items. After gaining their trust, Tom has a busy business.

One of the women named Hepzibah Smith, one of the descendants of Hufflepuff, was the one who liked Tom the most.

Although the process was difficult, I still found evidence that Tom controlled Ms. Smith's house elf Haoqi, murdered the owner, and left with the gold cup never to return. "

Zhang Xiao nodded while listening to what was described in thousands of words in the original work.

Dumbledore's mobility was simply off the charts. Voldemort's mind back then was not as bad as it is now. It must have been planned and cleaned up very carefully.

Even so, it was still clearly investigated.

"Professor, I very much agree with your opinion, so now the question is how to find the golden cup? And then how to bring it out?"

"You're right, Zhang. This is exactly why I came to you tonight. I want to know if you have any surprising ideas about this.

After all, you always surprise people. "

Dumbledore nodded approvingly.

Zhang Xiao thought of the Gringotts robbery that he always thought was almost interesting in the original book. Since Dumbledore was taking the lead, why not pick up weapons, rush straight to Gringotts, kill him without leaving any trace, and finally smash open the door arrogantly, Walk away?

Although he thought so in his heart, Zhang Xiao still tried to tell the solution in the original plot.

"Professor, can we first control a goblin, then use the Imperius Curse to ask him to take us to see a supervisor with high authority, and finally control the supervisor as well.

Let the supervisor take us directly to the vault to find it? "

At the end, he added:

"Voldemort wouldn't leave something as important as a Horcrux to just one of his subordinates, right? It must be the person he trusts the most.

There are only a few purebloods who fanatically follow Voldemort, so we can just find them one by one. "

"Oh?" Dumbledore raised his long white eyebrows: "A bold idea, but - not realistic."

ah? Unrealistic? Isn't this the method used in the original work? Why is it unrealistic?

"Zhang, as a notorious curse, the Imperius Curse is powerful and effective. It is indeed very useful, but it is not omnipotent. At least I know a lot of tips to resist the Imperius Curse."

Dumbledore waved his hand and zoomed in on an area where there was a small waterfall and the goblins' rail cars.

“Thief-proof Falls”

Zhang Xiao murmured.

"That's right, the anti-thief waterfall is the pinnacle of goblin skills, a magical creation they are proud of. The goblin's rail car will shuttle back and forth in the waterfall, and the waterfall will wash away all the magic. In addition, the goblins have many other ways to prevent wizards from stealing the vault."

Dumbledore paused and added:

"After all, what they have studied most for hundreds of years is how to protect Gringotts and protect wealth."

Well, in fact, Zhang Xiao didn't know what measures Gringotts would take. Most of what he knew came from the original book he read in his previous life.

This is also one of his doubts, because according to the operation of the Iron Triangle in the original book, they can steal the single-digit most tightly guarded vault like Bella Strange.

That means that wizards can get some Polyjuice Potion, use the Imperius Curse, and find a Gringotts goblin to steal Galleons from the vault.

After all, the guards of many vaults are far inferior to those of single-digit vaults, such as Harry's vault, the vault that once stored the Philosopher's Stone, which doesn't even need a key, only a goblin can open it.

Sure enough, this road is blocked.

Zhang Xiao opened his mouth, why not just break in violently, wouldn't it be easy to follow Dumbledore to attack Gringotts?

The two of them will kill together, I will be responsible for the killing, and Dumbledore will be responsible for the killing.

"Directly attack Gringotts" Before Zhang Xiao could say his suggestion, Dumbledore shook his head and rejected the proposal to himself:

"No, although this is indeed a simple way, order still needs to be protected. If I choose to break into Gringotts, it can't be concealed, and the order of the wizarding world will be destroyed."

So being a good person is not good, tied up, it is harder than climbing to the sky to do something, look at Voldemort, if he wants to attack Gringotts, he will attack Gringotts, if he wants to kill protected animals, he will kill protected animals.

The first grade broke into Gringotts, the second grade killed the rare magical animal unicorn, the third grade was honest for a year, the fourth grade began to disrupt major intercontinental competitions, and the fifth grade brazenly invaded the Ministry of Magic.

In the sixth grade, it was amazing. They sent people to assassinate the spiritual leader of the wizarding world. In the seventh grade, they were even more unpretentious. I am the king of the wizarding world!

Zhang Xiao complained in his heart, but he still tried hard to think about whether there was a practical way.

For a while, many movies such as Now You See Me, Gemini Thieves, and National Treasure appeared in his mind.

Speaking of which, the current situation is really like a movie. First, they planned secretly, then recruited soldiers and formed a team.

It was like a thunderbolt breaking through the night sky. Zhang Xiao was stunned. He frowned and said slowly:

"Professor. I may have a good idea."

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