Chapter 318: A Shocking Revelation

Chapter 318: A Shocking Revelation

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"Dialogue"

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Chapter 318: A Shocking Revelation

A loud knock was heard all of a sudden.

It surprised the two other occupants of the room, as they weren't expecting any more visitors.

But the Headmaster knew exactly who it was.

"Come in," he said.

"Mister Potter?" Professor McGonagall looked at Harry with wide eyes. It was very unusual for a student to visit the Headmaster directly.

If a professor had any issue with a student, they would first have to go through the Head of House, and she certainly hadn't received any messages concerning Harry Potter.

"Potter..." Snape narrowed his eyes. The mere sight of this boy already soured his mood, and this year had been bad enough on the first day.

"Oops...should I come later?" Harry asked the Headmaster.

Dumbledore stared at him for a moment. He knew that Harry wouldn't appear unannounced unless he had a good reason.

"No...we were already done with this meeting, just wait a bit."

"Albus, we were not done. That woman is talking about re-implementing a lot of medieval rules in our school, like physical punishments!. We have to do something!" McGonagall exclaimed.

"I'll see what I can do, Minerva...but for the moment, just try to keep your head down and don't give her any excuses to make trouble for you." Dumbledore knew this wouldn't satisfy the other professor, but for now, it would have to do.

McGonagall was still not completely aware of how tied his hands were already.

There was nothing he could do...at least not legally.

"Fine...let's leave it here...for now." McGonagall stood up and prepared to leave.

Harry was waiting near the door and noticed the inquisitive look on his Head of House's face as she passed by.

"Then...I presume my presence is no longer needed either." Snape stood up from his chair.

Harry closed the door.

"No, I want you to stay. We may need your assistance in this."

"You..." Snape muttered. "I knew there was something strange about you. Who are you really?!" Snape demanded to know.

"Now is really not the time for that..." Harry said.

"He is correct, Severus. Harry...tell me...when did you see him? Tell us all the details." Dumbledore leaned forward on his desk.

"Here's the thing...he's not here in person. I believe he is controlling some sort of magical construct," Harry clarified.

"A construct? You mean like a golem?" Dumbledore asked.

"Something like that...remember when I told you that Rookwood was dead? Well, I was right...he is definitely dead," Harry said.

"Dead? What is he talking about?" Snape had never heard about this.

Dumbledore, however, had an idea of what Harry was implying.

"You don't mean that..."

"Yes...if you remove the soul from a person, you are left with something that is neither completely alive nor dead...a vessel to be filled by something else," Harry explained.

"Right...that could be possible..." Dumbledore began to consider this possibility.

"You believe he put a fragment of himself in that vessel?" That would create something akin to a living Horcrux.

"No." Harry immediately dismissed that possibility.

He didn't think Voldemort would have recalled all of his soul pieces just to fragment his soul again and put them in living vessels.

That would make him even more vulnerable than before.

"I think he found a way to create a connection with the construct. I just don't know if he is directly controlling it or merely giving it orders like I would with one of my golems," Harry said.

"Mmm...regardless of that, we cannot have something so dangerous inside the school," Dumbledore said.

Snape was feeling a bit lost, but from what he understood, he had to agree with the Headmaster. Anything connected with the Dark Lord should be immediately removed from the school premises.

"Let's not be so hasty. I don't think that puppet is an immediate danger to the students," Harry said.

"How can you be so sure?"

"That's why I had to speak with Umbridge before coming here...I couldn't get any information from the construct...but I did get some interesting things from the toad....Let me tell you about it."

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