Chapter 307 Hufflepuff: Voldemort Doesn't Sound Like Anything Special

But what surprised Helga was that Dumbledore opened the door of her office within five minutes of sending her letter.

"Professor White, I heard that our Professor Trelawney made a wonderful prophecy?" Although the expression on Dumbledore's face was no different from usual, his appearance here in such a short time was very telling.

"Yes." Helga described to Dumbledore everything she had just witnessed in the West Tower.

"Are you free now? I want to go to the principal's office with you to talk about this, how about it?" After listening to Helga's words, Dumbledore decided to take her to the principal's office and reproduce the scene in her memory through the Pensieve. However, if White didn't want to, Dumbledore could just ask for her memory just now.

The Pensieve is a rare magic prop. Wizards can extract the memories in their minds and put them in the basin to view what happened in the past in person.

Generally speaking, extremely private magic props such as the Pensieve will be buried close to the body like a wizard's wand, but the Pensieve at Hogwarts is an exception.

Since it was dug out of the ground by the founders of Hogwarts, it has been passed down from generation to generation as a school heirloom together with the Sorting Hat - yes, the Pensieve in the Hogwarts principal's office was dug out of the ground by Salazar and his team when they built Hogwarts.

Hufflepuff wanted to give her memory to Dumbledore directly after her speech, but when she heard Dumbledore's invitation, she changed her mind: Which founder could refuse the temptation to visit the principal's office a thousand years later?

In their time, the principal's office was more like a storage room for miscellaneous items. The founders would pile up magic props that they got by chance but could not use, and they were too busy to put them in the office or storage props, such as the Pensieve. Usually, they would work in their own offices - Godric once spent a night in the principal's office because he was drunk, and the next day he was "respectfully" called the principal by the other three old friends headed by Slytherin.

Since then, even if he asked students to carry him back to the office, Godric would not spend the night in the principal's office.

With Godric's example, others naturally stayed away from this office. No one wanted Gryffindor's experience to happen to them. This made Godric feel upset for a long time: working in the principal's office is a good thing, why don't you live there? !

'I don't know what the principal's office looks like now. '

Once this idea came to Hufflepuff's mind, it immediately spread like wildfire in her heart, so she accepted Dumbledore's invitation without hesitation. But she was also a little strange: why did Dumbledore care so much about an ordinary dark wizard leader?

"Professor Dumbledore, you seem to care about Voldemort?" On the way to the principal's office, she couldn't help but ask Dumbledore this question.

After hearing Hufflepuff's words, Dumbledore first glanced at her, and then slowly told her the story of Voldemort.

"Professor White, you haven't experienced that era, so you don't know how terrifying he is.

About twenty years ago, he recruited a group of wizards and witches and named them "Death Eaters". Among the Death Eaters, some supported Voldemort to become the master of Muggles and Muggle-borns, some hoped to gain power from him, and some were just afraid of him. In Voldemort's eyes, Death Eaters were not friends or family, but his servants. They used the Unforgivable Curse at will, killed innocent people indiscriminately, and tortured people for fun. The entire magic world was shrouded in his shadow."

Hufflepuff nodded: Listening to his style, he is a standard dark wizard leader, but is there anything special? Is his method extremely cruel?

"During the Wizard War, he recruited a large number of werewolves and giants to work for him. Some people suspected that goblins were also involved, but there is no evidence. This is quite terrible." Dumbledore continued to tell Professor White about the horror of Voldemort.

Hufflepuff:?

It doesn't sound like there's anything special about it?

"Hundreds of wizards died because of him, and the entire British wizarding world is in a state of panic." Dumbledore ended his introduction to Voldemort. He hoped that through this introduction, Professor White would clearly realize the horror of Voldemort and begin to face this enemy squarely.

"So his activities are limited to the UK?"

Dumbledore nodded again. Voldemort's influence overseas is relatively weak, and most of his Death Eaters are wizards from the British Isles.

Hufflepuff: This...

She couldn't say anything.

"Well, then... well, he and his accomplices killed hundreds of people, which is indeed very excessive. Is this the total number of people he killed in his lifetime, or the total number in a certain period of time?"

Dumbledore: ? ? ?

What do you mean?

Hufflepuff naturally had no other meaning. She simply felt that Voldemort seemed to be nothing great. A dark wizard with little influence and an extremely abstract way of collapse, she didn't know why the headmaster Dumbledore in front of her valued him so much.

The two of them came to the eighth floor of the castle and stopped in front of a huge and extremely ugly stone monster.

"Iced grape juice!" Dumbledore read out the command, and the monster suddenly came to life and jumped to the side. The wall behind him split in two, revealing a spiral staircase that was slowly moving upwards.

After the two stepped on it, the stairs automatically led them to a shining oak door.

"It's great not to have to climb the stairs." Hufflepuff sighed from the bottom of her heart. The stairs in other places in the castle were not so convenient. She had the urge to change all the stairs in the school to escalators when she was standing on the stairs just now.

"This is a little benefit for us old people." Dumbledore blinked his eyes. Although there was an urgent matter at hand, he did not forget to make a joke.

He walked down the spiral staircase and pulled the brass door knocker in the shape of a griffon on the door. The door opened silently, revealing the spacious and beautiful principal's office behind the door.

There were many strange silverware on the table in the office. They kept rotating and spewed out small streams of smoke from time to time. The wall opposite the door was covered with portraits of former headmasters and headmistresses, who were now dozing in their frames.

What attracted Hufflepuff's attention the most was the tattered and wrinkled sorting hat placed on a partition.

She raised her eyebrows at the dirty hat. She had wanted to ask during the sorting ceremony, is this hat never washed?

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Sorry for being so late

These two days were like serving Umbridge in Azkaban...

Fortunately, I made it through, and I'm back to updating as normal! I'll put the updates for these two days in my account, and I'll find a way to make up for it.

The next update will be in the evening