Chapter 641 Dumbledore's Probe and Decision

"Harry and Ethan? Albus, isn't that appropriate?"

Professor McGonagall questioned immediately, she didn't understand why two lower grade students were allowed to follow into the secret room? I don't know what kind of danger is hidden there, not to mention facing a monster that has attacked countless people in the school.

"Minerva, with Severus, you'll be fine."

Dumbledore didn't emphasize his tone, but when he said that, Professor McGonagall knew that Dumbledore had made a decision.

The principal seemed to be a very kind person, but Professor McGonagall knew that once Dumbledore made a decision, basically no one could make him change his mind.

After realizing this, she stopped talking to dissuade them, but told Harry Potter and Ethan to be careful, and at the same time asked Snape to protect the two students.

"Now let's go in and see what's in there."

Of course Dumbledore would not be the first to jump down, Snape was the first to go in, and then Dumbledore. After Harry and Ethan glanced at each other, Ethan jumped down first.

If possible, he preferred to land slowly, but with Harry chasing him, he didn't want Harry to step on his head.

Galloping all the way along the 'slide', Ethan soon arrived at his destination.

Because he had been prepared, he didn't fall to the ground in embarrassment like Harry Potter behind him, but stood firmly on top of a pile of bones, then gently took out his wand and cast a cleaning spell on himself, Clean up the dirt and dust contaminated when sliding down.

After finishing these actions, he turned his head to look at Snape and Dumbledore next to him. These two professors also didn't get any dust, and they should have used cleaning magic to tidy up their appearance.

In comparison, only Harry, who arrived at the end and fell to the ground, was in a bit of a mess, but no one took the initiative to clean it up for him—if he didn't have this ability himself, he could only stay like this.

"Stay beside me and don't go far."

Dumbledore gave an order, and then followed Snape to go deeper into the secret room...

Snape took the lead, and Dumbledore followed with Harry and Ethan, taking care of the two students by the way. This combination had no suspense against a basilisk that didn't have a high IQ.

For this combination, the only trouble is that the big snake will not appear without Voldemort actively summoning it.

But it's just a little troublesome. For Dumbledore, it's not difficult to get the big snake out. As for the subsequent battle, it's also calm. Harry and Ethan just need to stand at a distance and watch Snape And Dumbledore's heroic posture of casting the magic hammer blasting snake, just shouting yo from time to time.

Harry Potter, who was supposed to go through a hard fight and then killed the big snake in a thrilling manner, only used Parseltongue to open the entrance to the chamber of secrets, and he didn't show much more than that.

After eliminating the basilisk and leaving the Chamber of Secrets, Dumbledore simply told Harry Potter to go back to rest, but Ethan was once again kept by Dumbledore and brought to the principal Talk alone in the room.

Ethan looked at the positions of Dumbledore and Snape: one was in front of him, and Snape was always standing behind him, and he still chose Ethan's left rear, which was not conducive to right-handed people. The location of the attack.

"What's the matter? Professor Dumbledore."

"There are some things I want to talk to you about." Although Dumbledore was very calm, Ethan noticed that he was holding the wand in his hand, because it was not easy to detect because of the wide sleeves and the cover of the back of the hand: " Before that I need to make sure, is Ethan Arendelle your real name?"

"Ethan is my real name."

Dumbledore nodded, he understood the meaning of Ethan's words: Arendelle is not his real surname.

"Then your full name is...?"

"It's Ethan."

Although he didn't have to turn his head, Ethan could still feel that Snape was holding his wand tightly and posing slightly, so that he could cast spells at any time.

Dumbledore observed quietly for a while, and found that Ethan had always looked very calm and calm, and seemed not worried about the current situation at all—either he had something to rely on, or he didn't realize how big the problem was at all.

Judging from the wisdom shown by Ethan before, he is not such a stupid person, so he must have something to rely on.

"You know what? Ethan." Dumbledore sorted out his thoughts and decided that it would be better to talk calmly first: "I used to think you were just a smart and ambitious young man... At that time I thought the worst The situation is that Slytherin gave birth to a Tom Riddle again."

Ethan pouted, and answered when Dumbledore paused slightly: "This is really flattering."

"No, I think you have the potential to..."

"No, no, you misunderstood what I mean." Ethan waved his hand, interrupting Dumbledore: "I mean you are flattering Tom Riddle too much."

Dumbledore was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Ethan to say that, his first reaction was that Ethan didn't know who Tom Riddle was, but it was obvious from his expression that this was not the case - this also fits According to his previous judgment, Ethan knew many things, and he didn't happen to be involved in the matters of the Philosopher's Stone and the Chamber of Secrets.

Tom Riddle's other identity, Ethan, must have known about it, and he could still say such things... Could it be that Ethan is just an arrogant and ignorant child?

Dumbledore was a little confused, and he had to ask a bit to be sure: "You should know Tom Riddle's other identity..."

"Voldemort." Ethan nodded, "Yes, I know who Tom Riddle is."

Then he spread his hands, this expression fully proved what he meant by what he said just now: Tom Riddle deserves to be compared with me?

At this time, Snape, who was standing behind, had already fallen into a state of sluggishness. He felt that the development and changes of the situation today were even more outrageous than the countless possibilities he had imagined before.

He thought that Ethan might fall into a panic and be at a loss; or resist beyond his capabilities, and then be captured by himself; or simply kneel down and beg for mercy, just like countless Death Eaters who have been captured.

But I didn't expect Ethan to make such remarks—now I can be sure that Ethan is definitely not Voldemort's person, because the Death Eaters dare not be so disrespectful to the Dark Lord.

Dumbledore looked at Ethan intently for a while, reached out his hand to stop what Snape was about to say, and then asked a question that didn't seem to matter.

"How was your time at Hogwarts?"

Ethan suddenly laughed very happily. When Dumbledore asked this question, he realized that Dumbledore had made the right decision, which was in line with Ethan's needs.

That being the case, he should just pretend that nothing happened to the various probing spells he secretly released before.

"Very well, Professor Dumbledore, there is a lot of knowledge here that interests me."

"Believe me, Hogwarts has enough mysterious knowledge."

Dumbledore then chatted with Ethan a few more words, the conversation was like a headmaster caring about an ordinary student, after the two chatted for a while, Dumbledore let Ethan leave.

Until this time, Snape was still a little dazed, he was a little confused about the situation, he didn't understand what was going on with this development.

"Let him leave like this? The identities of him and those children..."

"Their identities are not an issue, Severus."

Dumbledore looked away from the door and turned to Snape.

"This child... no, this person is not our enemy."

"But their identities..."

"He didn't hide it on purpose at all. This is also your previous judgment."

As an excellent spy, Snape certainly knew how to hide himself in the enemy's camp. Today Ethan would be asked to talk alone, and it was Snape who noticed that something was wrong with Ethan.

At first, he thought it was because Ethan was young and his ability to hide himself was not good enough to be discovered by himself. Later he felt that Ethan didn't want to hide at all.

In other words, Ethan didn't care that his 'true identity' was discovered by Snape or Dumbledore.

"Since he didn't think about hiding it, shouldn't he ask clearly?"

What Snape couldn't figure out was this, Dumbledore let Ethan leave without even asking.

"Is Ethan's identity really that important to us? We just need to make sure he's not a Death Eater."

"But this should not be certain yet."

"I'm pretty sure."

Dumbledore secretly cast several silent spells to test Ethan, but these spells seemed to have disappeared without any response—it was not a good idea to break his spell or accept his spell. Impossible, although Dumbledore is powerful, he is not arrogant enough to think that he is invincible.

But wanting to be as easy as Ethan cracked it, without even revealing the slightest fluctuation of magic power, Snape standing beside him couldn't find the extent of Ethan's magic at all...

More importantly, since Ethan came here, Phoenix Fox has not shown up, and conveyed the emotion of 'fear' with him, which reminded him of the three-headed dog Lu Wei who was in charge of guarding the Philosopher's Stone last year.

At that time, he thought that Lu Wei had fallen asleep, but later he realized that something was wrong and thought that Quirrell had done something.

Now it seems that Lu Wei was intimidated by Ethan!

The combination of all kinds of circumstances made Dumbledore make a decision: since Ethan has no ill intentions towards them and just wants to experience college life in Hogwarts, then he just treats Ethan as an ordinary student up.

And Ethan, who could continue to enjoy the college life, returned to the secret room at this time, and his goal was naturally the meat of the basilisk...