Dumbledore didn’t say anything more, but patted Harry on the shoulder.

“Remember, love is a more powerful force than hatred at any time. Especially as a Paladin, don’t forget why you picked up the sword.”

After hearing what Dumbledore said, as a paladin who had sworn a vow of revenge, Harry really wanted to tell Dumbledore that he had fulfilled his vow of revenge perfectly.

He was questioning his own honor, and if he wasn’t his own headmaster, Harry would have wanted to throw the white glove to Dumbledore right now in the name of honor.

If Dumbledore had not said at this moment, “I have dealt with many undead in the past. I will take James back to see if there is any way to free him from Voldemort’s control.”

Harry almost reprimanded Dumbledore right then and there.

But after Dumbledore said this, Harry swallowed back the words that had almost come out of his mouth.

After all, if it is possible…

So when Black thanked Dumbledore.

Harry walked over to James.

“What? Son, are you here to take me back to my coffin now?”

Looking at James lying on the ground, Harry drew his sword.

“Oh~comfortable~”

As Harry sheathed his sword, he looked at James, who was lying on the ground with a hole in his abdomen burned by the power of light, and said coldly.

“I’ll keep an eye on you.”

“Staring at me? Stop staring at me and talk to me about something else. Cho just told me that you won the Quidditch Cup in your first year?”

Harry didn’t say anything. He just pulled Qiu Zhang, who was about to say something, away from James.

James behind him was still shouting, “Harry! Cho is a good girl! I agree with whatever you want to do!”

At the same time, in the headmaster’s office of Durmstrang, the young Voldemort, lying on the sofa, said with a smile as he looked at the Mind Flayer Voldemort and Karkaroff with the ring on his hand.

“Brothers, our plan was successful.”

125 Snape’s Old Tree Revives in Spring

Although this time the Aurors and Dumbledore were like the Muggle police in the movies, arriving at the scene only after things were almost over.

But they were not like the Muggle police in the movies, who served Harry a cup of hot coffee, wrapped him in a blanket, and then sent him and others back to Hogwarts, or sent them to the Ministry to record their statements.

After Dumbledore waved his wand and froze James in a block of ice, he explored Malfoy Manor with Harry and others.

Although Harry had no talent in finding the Chamber of Secrets, Qiu Zhang was obviously very good at it. Many of the Chamber of Secrets that the Aurors had not found in the previous four attempts were found by Qiu Zhang this time.

From these secret chambers, the Aurors discovered many seriously prohibited dark magic items.

Basically, the dark magic items in one secret chamber are enough to meet the KPI of the entire Auror Office in terms of dark magic items for a whole year. What’s more, there is more than one secret chamber, which fully proves how powerful the Malfoy family is as an old aristocratic family.

As the exploration continued, Harry and his friends found the secret chamber where Voldemort and his men had once hidden.

Or it cannot be said that they found it, because Draco walked too hastily when he helped Narcissa out of the Chamber of Secrets, and did not close the door of the Chamber of Secrets. The door of the entire Chamber of Secrets was left open, and even a blind British man could easily find it.

In the Chamber of Secrets, whether intentionally or unintentionally, Voldemort did not take away the coffins and torture instruments, not even the bones and the throne of flesh and blood.

When he saw those coffins, even Dumbledore, who was well prepared, had a dark face.

“Harry, you can go back to Hogwarts now. Although I don’t want to say this, you can still catch up with the last class of the day if you go back now.”

Dumbledore looked back and forth among the coffins as if looking for something. He took out his wand, drew a circle, and summoned a portal for Harry and others to return to Hogwarts.

Although Harry was now very curious about who Voldemort had resurrected, he remembered that he had skipped most of the day’s classes and that things were basically over.

Harry and the others passed through the portal and returned to Hogwarts.

Since they did have classes to attend next, the three of them said goodbye briefly and then went to their respective classes.

The matter has basically been announced to be over here.

Originally, Harry thought that the incident was over because, apart from himself and Draco, Qiu Zhang and Neville were deducted one point each for skipping class.

Because such a big thing happened, the Daily Prophet did not report any news about it for several days, as if nothing had happened at Malfoy Manor. It seemed that the Ministry of Magic was indeed preparing to adopt Rufus’ plan and start a secret war with Voldemort.

James, who was frozen in ice by Dumbledore, was also transported back to Hogwarts by Dumbledore.

However, for safety reasons, Dumbledore did not place James in the headmaster’s office, but in the dungeon of Hogwarts, the farthest place from the headmaster’s office where Voldemort’s main soul was placed.

To be exact, it was in Snape’s office.

The reason why Harry knew this was because he actually saw a smile on Snape’s face during this period.

It was not the kind of smile that Harry usually saw, with three parts sarcasm, seven parts ridicule, and ninety parts suspicion of IQ.

It was a smile from the depths of his soul, a smile like “Aha! You have finally met your fate!” when he saw his old enemy not only in bad luck, but also falling into his hands.

Snape was in such a good mood that he could basically get an A in Potions class as long as the potion was not too outrageous.

Compared with Snape in the past, this can no longer be considered as letting go, it is simply releasing a Mediterranean Sea.

So much so that the students at Hogwarts were privately saying, “Professor Snape recently successfully dated a certain witch. It’s time for the old tree to have spring back to life!”

Also because Dumbledore asked Harry to chat with James every night, even if he didn’t chat, he could just play a few games of Gwent.

So Harry saw his old father in Snape’s office, his entire body except for his head frozen in ice.

Opposite his old father, there was a comfortable-looking armchair, a footstool, and a coffee table with a record player, wine bottles, and cups.

Apparently, Snape often sat in that armchair and had “friendly” conversations with James.

Because when Harry came to chat with James, Snape was sitting on that chair, drinking and looking at James in front of him with an expression as if he was appreciating some masterpiece.

Although Harry was somewhat reluctant when he first communicated with James.

After all, James at this moment was obviously an undead controlled by Voldemort.

But after getting to know him, Harry discovered that his old father was indeed an interesting person. In other words, although he looked very steady, James was a person who loved to have fun like the Weasley twins.

If some special factors are excluded, Harry doesn’t mind being friends with James.

However, in order to prevent some important information from being leaked during ordinary chats.

So Harry and James rarely talked about their own lives. They always talked about the past or played Gwent.

Or to say, most of the time, I play Gwent.

Because every time James started talking about the past and mentioned certain things, Snape would wave his wand to silence James manually.

Harry didn’t want to argue with Snape, so he just spent most of his time playing Gwent with James.

At this time, because James couldn’t play cards himself, Snape needed to help James shuffle and play cards.

Then Snape would give James some “comfort” when James played the wrong cards or was about to die.

Snape’s “comfort” made Harry even more determined not to add voiceovers or narration to Gwent.

After all, no one wants to hear their cards say something like “well played” or “a glorious fight” to them after they lose.

Chatting with his old father for half an hour every day was only part of the results of this operation. Draco returned to Hogwarts a week after the operation ended.

But after returning to Hogwarts, Draco was in a bad mood. Harry wanted to know what happened, but he could only see “Don’t bother me!” from Draco’s stern face.

Even when Angelina came to him to ask what happened, he always acted indifferent and ignored her.

Angelina, feeling frustrated, walked away from Draco with an angry roar.

But when she left, Angelina yelled, “Don’t ever come to see me again in your life! This is the end of us!”

But in private, Angelina found Harry and asked him what had happened to Draco and whether there was a cat outside, so now only the new people were laughing but the old ones were not crying.

If that were the case, Angelina would definitely leave gracefully after “blessing” them.

But the problem now is that Angelina hasn’t met the new guy either.

So Angelina hoped that Draco’s good brother, Harry, her good teammate in the team, could help her find out what had happened.

In fact, even if Angelina didn’t come to Harry, Harry was ready to solve this problem.

After all, except for the training time, when Draco was training as crazy as himself, the rest of the time he was like a ball of mud, collapsing wherever he went, looking like he was “tired and ready to start”.

No matter what problems you encounter, choosing to start is not a good option.

As it happened, as an experienced adventurer, Harry obviously knew very well how to solve the current problem.

So Harry went to the kitchen and asked the house-elves to make him some veal that was so delicious that he wanted to swallow his tongue.

Then he asked the Weasley twins for some butterbeer.

Although under normal circumstances, Harry should have at least some fire whiskey at this time.

But as Harry, who has blacked out twice, now deeply realizes the reality that if he doesn’t use magic, at least he is no match for alcohol now.

With veal and butterbeer, Harry dragged Draco, who was like a pile of mud, to the Black Lake near the Forbidden Forest.

You can see Hogwarts Castle from here. Not many people usually come here. This is a good location that Harry and Draco found when they were clearing out the eight-eyed giant spiders in the Forbidden Forest last semester.

Harry said nothing, but opened the box filled with veal, prepared in various ways by the house-elves.

Then he took out some ice-cold butterbeer and stuffed it into Draco’s hand.

He didn’t say anything, just sat silently beside Draco, looking at the scenery of the Black Lake in front of him, eating veal and sipping the butterbeer in his hand.

Draco held the bottle of butterbeer and looked at the Hogwarts Castle not far away without saying a word.

The atmosphere became a little awkward for a moment, but Harry seemed not to feel the awkwardness and continued to slowly eat the veal in the box.

It was as if Harry had forcibly dragged Draco out today just to have Draco accompany him here to eat veal and drink butterbeer.

Just as an awkward atmosphere spread in the air, a noise suddenly came from the forbidden forest.

As soon as Harry turned his head, a huge claw and beak fell on him.

“You’re here, Lightning.”

Harry patted the paw that rested on his shoulder, and rubbed the beak that tapped his head coquettishly.

A hippogriff as big as a motorcycle rubbed against Harry hard, then lay down beside Harry and put its head on Harry’s legs.

While letting Harry feed him veal, he could also rub his head.

This hippogriff, whom Harry had once rescued from the mouth of a giant spider, obviously ate meat much faster than Harry.

When half of the box of veal was eaten, Draco, who was originally looking at the Hogwarts Castle in the distance, had to reach out and try to take the meat from the box.