Chapter 1074

"Until last year when you entered the maze, you and Fan Lin saw the return of Voldemort, and the two of you had a narrow escape... I still didn't tell you, although I knew that Voldemort had returned by then, and I had to do it soon. , now, tonight, I know you've been ready to know that I've kept this secret for so long, because you've proven that I can hand you this burden. My only statement is: I want you to work hard. A heavier burden than any student who has ever left this school, including me—the greatest of them all.”

Harry waited in silence, but Dumbledore stopped talking.

"I still don't understand. Or why not Fan Lin?" Harry asked, looking at Fan Lin who was curled up in the chair next to him.

"Because I was not chosen." Fan Lin said, "This is Voldemort's own choice, or... in short, Harry, just listen to Professor Dumbledore and continue."

"The reason why Voldemort tried to murder you when you were still a baby was because of a prophecy made shortly before you were born. Although he did not know the details of the prophecy, he knew that there was such a prophecy, and he believed that this prophecy could be fulfilled and therefore he killed you as a baby. , after the price of failure, he found that he was wrong, so after he regained his body, especially after you escaped from him again last year, he was determined to know the full content of the prophecy, and this was the weapon he worked hard to find after returning. , how to kill your knowledge.”

The sun has now fully risen. Dumbledore's room was bathed in sunlight, and the glass box containing the Sword of Golan Findor shone white and transparent. The fragments of the silver instrument that Harry had thrown to the ground shone like drops of water, and beside him little Fawkes murmured in its ashes.

Everything seemed promising, but Harry's heart was filled with darkness.

"The prophecy ball is broken," Harry said numbly. "When facing Voldemort, Fanlin and I couldn't protect him, so I broke it."

"You did well, Harry, and what's broken is simply a record of the prophecy kept in the Ministry of Mysteries, and the prophecy was made by someone who could recall it perfectly."

"Who heard that?", Harry asked, although he thought he already knew the answer.

"Me!" Dumbledore said slowly, "On a cold, damp night in the 17th year, in a room of the Pig's Head Bar, I went there to see a person who applied to be a professor of prophecy. Although this was not the same as what I had always received. The habits of applicants for prophecy subjects are inconsistent, but that applicant is the great-great-granddaughter of a very famous and very talented prophet, so I think it is more polite to go see him. I am very disappointed. It seems that she has not inherited Such a talent, I told her, I hope politely, that I didn't think she was qualified for the position, and I turned away."

Dumbledore stood up and walked past Harry to the elevated cabinet where Fawkes stood. He bent down and took out a stone basin, just like the one Harry had seen his father in from Snape. Dumbledore walked back , put the stone basin on the table, then took out the wand and pointed it at his temple, took out some memories and put them into the stone basin. He sat back at the table again, watching the silver light flowing in the memory basin in front of him, and then he used it again The wand parted the silver haze above, and an image emerged - her eyes were large behind her glasses, and she was spinning slowly, her feet in the basin.

However, when Sybil Trauni spoke, her voice was not as erratic and mysterious as usual, but as rough and hoarse as Harry had heard before: "The man who will destroy the Dark Lord is approaching... Born into a family that had defeated him three times, born at the end of the seventh month... The Dark Lord would mark him as his nemesis, but he would have powers that the Dark Lord did not have... and one of them would have to die the other Hand of one because while one survives the other cannot survive... The one who has the power to destroy the Dark Lord was born at the end of July...

Professor Trauni slowly spun back behind the screen and slowly disappeared.

The room was very quiet. Harry, Verlin, Dumbledore and all the portraits made no sound, even Fawkes was silent.

Fan Lin always thought that this prophecy was made by Dumbledore asking Sybil to make it, and it was a trap to lure Voldemort. But from the perspective of the situation, the goddess entered the state...

Sure enough, this was not entirely a trap. Harry was the one destined for Voldemort, and Dumbledore had long known this. It was nothing more than a choice, just the inevitable result of going on.

"Professor Dumbledore?" Harry said calmly, while Dumbledore seemed still lost in memories, "What does he mean... what does he mean?"

"It means..." Dumbledore said, "The only person who can conquer Voldemort was born at the end of July nearly sixteen years ago. This child's parents have challenged Voldemort three times."

Harry felt something approaching him and his breathing became labored again. "Are you talking about... me?"

Dumbledore studied him for a moment through his glasses. "The strange thing is, Harry," he said softly, "it's also possible that he's not talking about you at all. There are two boys who match Sibyl's prophecy. They were both born in July, and their parents are both members of the Order of the Phoenix. , have escaped from Voldemort three times, one of them is of course you, and the other is Neville Longbottom."

The scene suddenly calmed down, Neville... Yes, Neville also met all the elements to defeat Voldemort, but...

Bellatrix destroyed Neville, and while destroying the spirits of the Longbottoms, she also destroyed some of Neville's things.

The courage to resist?

At least Neville can't do it now, but what if it's a few years from now?

Perhaps, if Harry failed, Neville would be a good replacement.

"Then...why is it that my name is written on the prophecy ball instead of Neville's?" Harry continued to ask. In fact, this was what Harry didn't understand.

The chosen person, why must it be him, and from the looks of it, Fanlin can do better than him, and there is Neville... Oh, of course, it will definitely not work to let the current Neville do it.

"After Voldemort attacked you as a baby, the official records of the Ministry of Magic were revised!" Dumbledore said calmly, "For the Prophecy Hall, it seems very clear that Voldemort will only kill you because he Think you are the child in Sybil's prophecy."

"Then...maybe it's not me?" Harry said. In fact, Harry had endured Voldemort for long enough. This kind of pressure once made him breathless, especially when Fanlin and Hermione left Hogg. In Woz's days, he needs to make his own decisions on everything, including a portion of Ron's share.

"I'm afraid..." Dumbledore said slowly, each word seeming quite laborious, "no doubt it's you."

"But you said - Neville was also born in July, and his parents..." Harry said quickly.

"You forgot the second paragraph of the prophecy, the last sign that identified the boy who could destroy Voldemort... Voldemort himself marked him as his enemy, and he did, Harry, and he chose you over Neville. He gave you that scar of blessing and curse."

"But he may have chosen the wrong person!" Harry said, "He may have marked the wrong person!"

"He chooses the boy who looks more dangerous to him..." Dumbledore said, "Did you notice that he did not choose pure blood, but a half-blood like him? When he printed that scar on you, he He failed to kill you as he wished, but gave you strength and a future. It was this that made you get rid of him not once but four times - neither your parents nor Neville's parents could do it. "

"Then why did he do that?" Harry felt numb and cold, "Why did he kill me when I was a baby? He should wait until we grow up to see whether Dinawee or I are more dangerous before deciding who to kill..."

"Indeed, this is a special case!" said Dumbledore, "if it were not for Voldemort's incomplete intelligence. The Hog's Head pub, the one chosen by Sybil, has long been attracted by its low price compared to the Three Broomsticks. Customer. As you and your friends discovered, and I discovered that night, this is not a place where you can avoid being eavesdropped. Of course, I wasn't dreaming when I went there to see Sybil. .When I was teaching Trauni, I would hear something worthy of being eavesdropped, so the eavesdroppers there only heard a little bit of what we left there..."

"So all he heard was..."

"He only heard the beginning of the prophecy, which predicted that the boy born in July, whose parents would defeat Voldemort three times, obviously, he did not hear that his leader's attack on you would impart power to you and mark you as his enemy. So. Voldemort didn't know that attacking you would put him at risk, and it would be wise to wait and learn more, he didn't know that you would have powers that he didn't have..."

"No one would choose a difficult enemy if possible. In fact, it is very troublesome!" Fan Lin said, seeming to be thinking about what would happen if he chose Neville.

However, the conclusion reached is just a replica of Harry with different experiences. Fan Lin does not think Voldemort will do anything. Fundamentally, Voldemort himself does not fit in with the current magical society.

"But I don't!" Harry choked. "I don't have any power that he doesn't have. I can't fight like he did tonight. I can't control other people or kill them..."

"There is a room in the Ministry of Mysteries..." Dumbledore interrupted him, "No matter when it is closed, there is a power more wonderful and terrifying than death and human power. At the same time, it may be many disciplines. The most incredible power in research. It's the power that you have so much and Voldemort has nothing. The same power that led you to save Sirius in your third year, the same power that saved you from Voldemort's control tonight. , because he cannot bear to exist in a body filled with this kind of power that he hates. In the end, it is not you who closes your mind, but your heart itself that saves you."

"That wasn't me, it was Fanlin who helped me break free..."

"Don't neglect your efforts." Fan Lin said, "The effect of the soul ring is not as powerful as you think."

Harry closed his eyes and tried to calm himself down...but...passively choosing to be involved in the various causes and effects of Voldemort was not what Harry wanted to see.

If Voldemort had not chosen him, then his parents would not have died, but in that case, Neville...

Harry couldn't imagine what Neville would become, and his grandmother, that slightly stubborn old woman...

"At the end of the prophecy... it sounds like... there is only one of us..."

"...one will survive..." said Dumbledore.

"So..." Harry dug out words from the deep despair in his heart. "So this means... one of us must kill the other... in the end?"

"Yes." Dumbledore answered truthfully.

For a long time, they were silent. Harry heard the sound coming from outside the house, and the students had already started to go to the hall for breakfast. It was incredible that there were still people in this world who wanted to eat and still could laugh.

And he himself was sitting in the slightly warm principal's office, feeling cold all over, being chosen by Voldemort, and then forced to...

Fan Lin looked at Harry with some worry. He naturally knew this feeling. Compared with Voldemort, his troubles seemed to be bigger. Before that, not only Voldemort, but even Dumbledore, were like a mountain pressing on Fan Lin's head. Compared with Harry...

However, at least he had survived, and Harry was obviously still in such an embarrassing stage of choice.

Accept it calmly, and then fight back, or give up on himself...

However, Dumbledore obviously would not accept the second result. Then, force Harry to come out to attract Voldemort, and then stage such a scene again?

Or just push him out to replace Harry?

This is not impossible, especially after Voldemort came into contact with the god of death and tried to obtain its power, the possibility of this plan became particularly great.

In fact, wizards are more superstitious about prophecies than anyone else. Although wizards should believe in their own power and rely on their own power to change the world, not all people can do this.

The stronger the power, the more unknown areas are exposed. Death, fear, irresistible, and various factors influence the thoughts of all wizards.

For example, Dumbledore now, because of the prophecy, has always believed that Harry is Voldemort's final destination. Moreover, Dumbledore has always believed that Fanlin has something to do, and there is no doubt that this goal falls on the god of death who has not yet appeared in Voldemort's hands.

So, what should he do? And this time the plan was proposed by Fan Lin himself to Dumbledore...

"I think I owe you another explanation, Harry," Dumbledore said hesitantly, "You may have wondered why I didn't appoint you as a prefect? ​​I must admit... I did think so... You are not reliable enough."

"Not reliable enough..." Harry looked at Dumbledore, and then at Fan Lin.

It goes without saying that he is different from the ordinary little wizards in Hogwarts. His thoughts are connected with Voldemort, and Voldemort can see a lot of things about Hogwarts through him.

About Dumbledore's information, or about the Order of the Phoenix... Even, let him hurt someone, such as Dumbledore.

In fact, he has had this idea more than once, killing Dumbledore? (To be continued)