Chapter 830 You Are More Dangerous than Me, Hals!
"Apparate!"
Following a burst of space displacement, Ivan disappeared into Knockturn Alley. When he came to his senses again, he had arrived in a desolate small village, and directly in front of him was a towering church...
However, it seems that this place has been abandoned for a long time. The surrounding streets are empty, and there is not a single person in sight. Green weeds extend from the gaps between the stone bricks, and the yellow walls are covered with moss and vines, revealing a mysterious atmosphere. A smell of decay and dilapidation...
Ivan walked along the steps into the church and soon saw Dumbledore's figure.
After not seeing each other for a few days, the white wizard's physical condition seemed to have gotten worse. His unconscious right hand fell to his side, and a strange curse had eroded his neck. His thin figure seemed to fall to the ground if the wind blew.
The golden-red phoenix Fox also appeared in the church and kept hovering in the sky. The moment it saw Ivan, it let out loud chirps.
"You came much later than I expected, Hals..." Dumbledore turned around slightly stiffly, looked at Ivan who walked into the church, and said calmly.
"Originally I didn't want to go to the appointment... Judging from your injury, if it takes a few more days, we won't have the need to fight..." Ivan shrugged and joked.
"You are right. Maybe at this point, I have to express my gratitude to you..." Dumbledore raised his eyebrows. Just as Ivan said, his body could not support it for a few days. If Ivan deliberately avoided Well, he really didn't have much else to do.
Ivan sighed. If possible, he didn't want to have a duel with Dumbledore. After all, he was not the real "Ivan Hals", and he didn't feel that deeply about Orlando's death.
"I heard from my mother that Minister Barnold had invited you many times to be the Minister of Magic and to become the leader of the resistance... Can you tell me why you refused the position of Minister of Magic?" Ivan asked in confusion. , this is something he has never figured out.
Dumbledore was silent for a while, looking at Ivan intently, and then spoke slowly.
"That's because the most dangerous person in the wizarding world has never been Grindelwald, nor Voldemort..."
"It's me!" Dumbledore said softly, with a normal tone, without a hint of arrogance, as if he was just recounting a simple fact.
Ivan's pupils shrank and he froze in shock, but Dumbledore continued to speak.
"A powerful and unrestrained wizard is dangerous, as is the case with Grindelwald and Voldemort."
"I have more power than them, and naturally I am much more dangerous than them..." Dumbledore said calmly, walking down the platform step by step, his thoughts becoming a little wandering.
He has always been aware that he is not a selfless or noble person, and he has lost count of how many horrifying thoughts he has had in his mind over the past hundred years.
After Ariana's death, he desperately sought the Deathly Hallows. One of the important reasons was to resurrect his sister who died tragically in an accident in order to atone for his sins...
But there was no way to find out the whereabouts of the Deathly Hallows. In contrast, there was a simpler method that was always in front of his eyes, disrupting his will like a devil, and that was... black magic!
Dumbledore was extremely convinced of this. There were at least three kinds of black magic in his brain that could bring Ariana back from the dead. However, each ritual was extremely evil, required extremely high requirements on the caster, and required the sacrifice of others. to obtain sufficient vitality.
And he just has enough advanced magic knowledge to be able to complete these rituals. As long as he crosses that bottom line, he can bring Ariana back to life...
Dumbledore forgot how he got rid of this idea in the first place, but he clearly remembered the torturous feeling.
Because this feeling almost enveloped his whole life, causing him to constantly wander between good thoughts and evil thoughts...
"I used to resent my fate. I thought that I was so talented that I should show off my talents and do everything I wanted to do, so that the magic world could operate under my will..."
"This is not something difficult to accomplish. As long as I am willing to step out of Hogwarts and make up my mind to do something, no one in the magical world can stop me..." Dumbledore said.
He is well aware of the power he possesses. The last time he decided to use all his strength was the duel with Grindelwald decades ago.
In that duel, Dumbledore won very simply. Even though Grindelwald had the strongest wand, he still won.
After defeating Grindelwald and obtaining the Elder Wand, his power became even more unstoppable.
Dumbledore keenly discovered that compared to temptation, his limitations were almost negligible, so sometimes his evil thoughts and greed would even overwhelm his good thoughts, and he would do some irreparable wrong things.
For example, the death of Ariana, or the fact that he borrowed James Potter's invisibility cloak but was unwilling to return it, causing Harry's parents to lose their only hope of escape...
These mistakes made Dumbledore realize how dangerous some of his ideas were. Grindelwald was like the other side of him, doing what he always wanted to do, and also warned him about the consequences of his excessive ambition. as a result of……
"To this end, I have made three oaths to myself to restrain the growing desires in my heart..." Dumbledore strode up to Ivan and said solemnly. "Never be tainted by power unless necessary, never use black magic unless necessary, and never kill unless necessary!"
It was precisely because of these three points that he tolerated Fudge jumping up and down in front of him and ignored Voldemort's troubles in the British wizarding world.
It wasn't until the other party's behavior became unbearable that Dumbledore carefully formed an Order of the Phoenix to guide those righteous wizards to confront him.
He rejected the position of Minister of Magic several times because he knew that he could not maintain his true nature under the influence of power...
"But I'm afraid I have to break some oaths today... Hals! Because you are more dangerous than me!" Dumbledore stopped moving forward, and his momentum reached its peak. Under the impact of the escaping magic power, the church It was like a storm was rising inside...
Ivan did not give in at all. He ignored the impact of magic, gently raised his wand, and responded.
"I have to say that you are an amazing wizard. Not many people can control themselves like you..."
"But I still have to say one more thing, fearing one's own power is the behavior of a coward!"
(PS: The conjecture about Dumbledore’s oath comes from the chapter of the original book [King’s Cross Station]. Old Deng said that he could not restrain his ambition and desire and was not worthy of power. He ignored Grindelwald’s troubles in Europe and was not worthy of killing people with the Elder Wand. .
In addition, Lao Deng is the ceiling of combat power in the original work. There is no doubt about this. Under the premise of maintaining the oath not to kill [Voldemort mentioned this before the battle with Lao Deng: Dumbledore did not bother to do such a cruel thing to himself], Defeating Voldemort with Harry as a dragster - judging from the details of the battle, it was a complete victory without any suspense. )
In addition, here are a few passages from the original work as supporting evidence: in these two passages, Lao Deng directly stated that he did not kill anyone, even if the other party was Voldemort, he would not kill him.
["You don't want my life, do you, Dumbledore?" Voldemort said loudly, squinting a pair of blood-red eyes above the silver shield, "You don't bother to do such a cruel thing, do you?"
"We all know there are other ways to destroy a man, Tom," Dumbledore said calmly, continuing to walk towards Voldemort as if he had no fear in the world and as if nothing could disturb his stroll, " I admit, just taking your life will not satisfy me——"]
...In addition, this chapter of Kingdom Cross Station also has evidence:
[Perhaps one person among a million people can possess all the Holy Artifacts at the same time, Harry. I am only fit to possess the most trivial and uncharacteristic of them all. I am fit to have the Elder Wand, and I am not allowed to boast about it or kill with it. I can tame it and use it, because I take it not to take it, but to save others. 】