Chapter 450： Voldemort's strength

Dumbledore's blue eyes blinked behind the lens.

"Very interesting question. Felix, few people ask me so bluntly."

"I mean... Voldemort did nothing against Hogwarts during the war. He seems... um... very jealous of someone in the school... and in the eyes of the world, it is clear that the two have never had a record of fighting." Felix said carefully.

"Maybe this is the truth." Dumbledore said with a smile.

"It may be only part of the facts." Felix said immediately, "Some people see the facts in their eyes, they only see the results, or a few points in the process, but they can't get a complete picture."

Dumbledore's eyebrows furrowed slightly, his mouth slightly opened, as if he was picking the right words.

Felix knew he had to do something, say something...otherwise, when the old man made a decision, he could only wait for the result. So he cleared his throat and said, "Albus, we all know that Voldemort and Little Crouch are hiding out. The Ministry of Magic has sent a large number of Aurors and strikers but they have found nothing... I am afraid we have to consider the possibility of his successful resurrection. , And I need to know his strength."

After a moment of silence, Dumbledore seemed convinced

"I can assure you, Felix, although I have never seen him die in front of me, I have indeed broken and destroyed his body more than once, leaving him with trauma that ordinary people cannot heal."

Dumbledore quietly uttered a long-buried secret.

"Ordinary people can't be cured?" Felix asked keenly.

"I remember I told you...I interviewed him?" Dumbledore said softly, leaning his head back and staring at the ceiling.

"...That's it." Felix said slowly, suppressing the excitement in his heart.

"This is what he was like at the time"

Dumbledore waved his magic wand sharply, and a somewhat illusory figure gradually became clear. His face seemed to have been burned, his facial features were blurred, there was almost no arc ups and downs, and the skin on his face was strangely twisted like solidified pewter. The whites of his eyes seemed to be permanently filled with blood, and the black pupils shone indifferently.

Felix looked closely at the Voldemort in Dumbledore’s memory. He was not unfamiliar with this image. He had seen it once when he found the locket, but it was obvious that Voldemort looked even less human than last time. .

‘This seems to indicate that Voldemort completed the production of the locket Horcrux long before the interview. This thought flashed through Felix's mind. Reminiscing about Dumbledore’s words just now, he tentatively asked: "Is it the effect of black magic? Or the influence of Horcrux?"

Dumbledore glanced at him approvingly and waved away the phantom in the air.

"Both possibilities exist, and my personal preference is the former...Of course, we can't rule out the lack of soul caused by multiple Horcruxes and the impact on the body. After all, no one has done this like him in history."

"So Voldemort's body is not the same as a normal person? He combined Salazar Slytherin's blood magic with his own dark magic, causing the fatal injuries in the eyes of ordinary people to be very bad for him?" Felix combined with Dumbledore If it is, analyze it.

He couldn't help frowning, how could he hit this?

He suddenly thought of a possibility. Felix looked at Dumbledore suddenly, unable to conceal his surprise, and lost his voice: "Magic creature?" Has Voldemort reached the realm of Ms. Ravenclaw?

At the same time, he recalled the last time Dumbledore heard the word "magic creature" when he was a child.

"Felix, I can't give you many useful insights. When I was young, I did think that I was omnipotent... Magical creatures? This statement was too modest, and I was too Arrogant."

Also at the same time, Dumbledore showed him the "tip" of using his fingers to fly the spell...

Dumbledore straightened up from the back of his chair, put his hands on the desk, and shook his head slowly and firmly: "I don't think that's the reason, at least I have never had this ability. Even... the other founders of the school There is no similar record. On the contrary, Salazar Slytherin, as far as I know, was suspected of possessing a magic that can draw life force to heal himself."

"Diary?" Felix said alertly. Two years ago, the diary Horcrux confuses Ginny Weasley and absorbs part of her life force. Fortunately, it was not much, and it was discovered in time that it was cured by Madam Pomfrey with brilliant medical skills.

"Probably so." Dumbledore nodded slightly: "Although the magic that causes loss of vitality is rare, it is not without it, but it transfers vitality from one person (Ginny) to another soul, but I do not Never heard of it."

"Is it the influence of the Horcrux?" Felix guessed another possibility. "Maybe the Horcrux has the characteristics of absorbing life force." But he realized that something was wrong. He had read the Horcrux chapter in the Black House. It is an antique book called "The Secret of Cutting-edge Black Magic". The understanding of Horcruxes is not lacking.

Dumbledore also denied this speculation.

"The Horcrux is to strip a piece of soul and leave it in a corner of the world, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing the producer from being destroyed. In short, it is immortality." Dumbledore said, "For this purpose, to be stripped out His soul should be in a deep sleep state, at least it should be extremely inactive, unless there is a fatal threat around the Horcrux, will it rise up to resist, so that it is safe."

Felix nodded slightly and agreed with Dumbledore. Normal people shouldn't want the soul fragments in their Horcruxes to be active and independent. What if they cause trouble and are found to be ruined?

What's more, only a small piece of soul is enough to cut the soul, and it is difficult for this soul to do much.

"...But the diary should be special?" he pondered.

"Yes." Dumbledore nodded and said, "When Ginny Weasley wrote in the diary for the first time, she got a response and fell into a trap that Voldemort carefully wove... I can almost conclude, Voldemort. He did not regard it as a life-saving Horcrux, but a key to open the secret room, so he gave his diary many privileges, such as his memory until the age of 16, and enough activity...Naturally, it also includes his inheritance. The knowledge of the Slytherin ancestors in the secret room."

"But all this is speculation." Felix said with a frown, and a irritation arose in his heart, but Dumbledore's tone sounded plausible. How could he be so sure?

He sorted out the information roughly. Dumbledore had secretly fought Voldemort many times during the war, and suffered heavy losses more than once, but Voldemort soon jumped up alive again. It is estimated that Dumbledore is also investigating the reasons behind it. Dumbledore believes that it is black magic and blood magic. The reason is that there are records that Salazar Slytherin possesses the magic to absorb vitality to heal injuries, and that Ginny has been absorbed vitality... But there is another possibility, Felix can't help but think, why not?

So he asked: "Why can't he be resurrected with a Horcrux?"

Dumbledore glanced over, and said calmly, "Why do you think so?"

"Just guessing," Felix shrugged. "Maybe he did use dark magic to transform his body, but there should always be limits, right? For example, he just delayed death and found a loyal one after escaping. Servant, hold a resurrection ritual for him...Well, will he use the obfuscation curse or forgetting curse to erase the troubles afterwards? Or he may just abandon it..."

Dumbledore lowered his head in silence.

"There is indeed the situation you said, Felix." He said. "But no matter what, the information we have is quite limited." He looked at the legs of the table thoughtfully, and said in a slightly inaudible voice, "Maybe I can be more positive."

"What?" Felix didn't hear him clearly.

"Thank you for reminding me, Felix." Dumbledore said with a smile, "I almost neglected this. Intuition tells me that this information is particularly useful."

Felix knew that this meant the end of the conversation, maybe he should go to Professor Marcheban, maybe it would be nice to molest Kramy's grandfather... but he was a bit unwilling, he hadn't asked Voldemort's strength yet.

He stood up from the sofa and said, "The last question, Albus, can I understand that you are far more powerful than Voldemort?"

There was another silence

"I'm old," Dumbledore said seriously. "Even twenty years ago, I could barely gain the upper hand. If he is resurrected again, the outcome will be difficult to predict."

"Barely gaining the upper hand?" Felix asked puzzledly. Dumbledore had previously said that he had "broken and destroyed Voldemort's body" more than once. uukanshu.com has done this more than once, which is worth pondering.

"I used a special method," Dumbledore blinked his blue eyes happily, "Let Voldemort mistakenly believe that I had hidden my strength before, and the purpose was to set up traps... But the fact is that our strength gap was not that big at the time. ."

"Special method..." Felix repeated slowly.

"A little trick to temporarily restore my heyday." Dumbledore said with a smile in a coaxing tone.

…

When I came out of the principal's office, it was completely dark. Felix felt that his mind was a bit messy, and he urgently needed to sort out the information he had gained today. He hurried back to the office without leaving the door behind closed doors. As for Professor Marcheban, let's talk about it tomorrow, anyway Dumbledore mentioned that she will stay for a while.

On the other side, Dumbledore was still sitting on the chair in the circular office. After a while, he opened the drawer on the left, where there was a locket and a magic wand.

Phoenix Fox on the perch fell on Dumbledore's shoulder and whispered in a low voice.