Chapter 252 Persuasion Failed

"How is it?"

Lu Yunkai looked at Dumbledore and raised his head, knowing that he had finished reading the memory placed inside.

"What is it?"

Dumbledore, who had collected complete information, was analyzing something. He was stunned when he heard Lu Yunkai's question.

"Is this memory real? Or is it a modified memory?"

"Of course it is real!" Dumbledore smiled, "But... I would rather it be fake."

"Yes! Seven Horcruxes... Hey, it's really cruel! He can do this to himself."

"Tom is a little too obsessed with immortality." Dumbledore put away his smile and sighed softly, "Now this trouble is a little difficult to solve."

"But I have a question." Lu Yunkai's expression was also solemn, "Although Voldemort planned to make seven Horcruxes, did he really complete all the production?"

"... Well, this matter is indeed a little hard to say." Dumbledore nodded.

"From what we have come into contact with now, he chose things that are memorable and valuable to him." Lu Yunkai continued: "Except for the notebook, which is an ordinary object..."

"That notebook is all his memories of Hogwarts, and it can't be considered an ordinary thing." Dumbledore interrupted Lu Yunkai, "Tom is a very conceited child. He will definitely not allow his soul fragments to attach to ordinary things. So... well, we can only continue to trace along this path."

"Thank you for your hard work, professor." Lu Yunkai smiled and nodded.

A gorgeous sideways pan.

"... I knew you wouldn't be willing to do this." Dumbledore's face showed a helpless smile again, "Forget it! It's safer to let you do it, but... well, I'll leave it to Harry!"

"..."

"By the way, do you have the Ravenclaw diadem with you?"

"No. That thing is very heavy, and it can't be put into the space bag. I usually put it directly at home."

"You can't put things with souls in the space bag, so of course it can't be put in." Dumbledore explained with a smile, "I paid some price this time, but I also found a way to deal with the Horcrux. You can purify the diadem when you go back."

"How did you do it?" Lu Yunkai asked curiously.

These days, when he was bored at home, Lu Yunkai had tried many ways to deal with the Horcrux, but none of them worked.

"I have to thank Tom for that. He provided me with a solution." Dumbledore smiled, "Do you remember the basilisk in the second grade? The basilisk's venom can easily kill people because its venom acts on the soul. And the Horcrux is actually just an ordinary object with a soul attached to it."

"...Did you get the basilisk's venom?" Lu Yunkai saw a shadow unfold in front of him.

Basilisk venom is available for sale, and it's not expensive.

Why didn't I think of such a simple solution? ?

A few days ago, Lu Yunkai even began to consider how to discuss with Chris to destroy its soul attachment, and then let it swallow another piece of Voldemort's soul fragment again...

"That thing is extremely rare, and I can't find it." Dumbledore shook his head, "But... Fortunately, in the Chamber of Secrets, Harry used Gryffindor's sword to cut the basilisk, and the sword was also stained with the basilisk's venom. And Gryffindor's sword is made of rare metals by goblins, and has the property of absorbing some power..."

"...Oh, yes." Lu Yunkai suddenly remembered.

When he took the Gryffindor sword from Harry in the infirmary, the system prompted that there was a poisonous enchantment on the sword...

"You can go back to school after school starts and use the sword to destroy the Horcrux in your hand." Dumbledore continued with a smile, "But for you, there is a simpler solution."

"...What?"

Do you know that I can buy basilisk venom? ?

"Anything that is effective for the soul can remove the soul fragments attached to it. For you, the simplest thing is to soak the crown in Chris's urine for a day."

"Huh???"

"It seems that you don't know that the reason why the magical animal Soul-Eating Lynx is hunted and killed by wizards is not because they can devour the souls of wizards, but because their urine is highly toxic to the souls of wizards, and this toxicity is even greater than the venom of basilisks." Dumbledore said with a smile, "Their colorless and odorless urine was once the best way for wizards to kill their opponents."

"...I really don't know about this." Lu Yunkai's eyelids twitched for a while.

He was trying to recall whether Chris had urinated on him...

Probably not, right?

"Not only do you not know, this matter has long been forgotten in the pile of historical papers." Dumbledore smiled and shook his head, "Otherwise, Jesse would have caught Chris from somewhere and made him his pet, and the Ministry of Magic would have blocked the door and killed him."

"...Since you know, why don't you remind others?"

"What is there to remind? The biggest trouble for people is that they have a good memory." Dumbledore put away his smile and shook his head seriously, "Just like you now, are you afraid that Chris will pee on you?"

"..."

"But it has never done this in all these years, right?" Dumbledore looked at Lu Yunkai who was unable to answer, but still did not smile, "It chose to be a cat... How could a cat have any bad intentions? It's all the fault of those wizards!!"

"Just like magic has no black and white, only wizards have black and white, right?" Lu Yunkai asked tentatively.

"That's not the case." Dumbledore continued to say seriously: "No matter how just the killing is, it is still killing after all."

"Even if it is to protect myself?" Lu Yunkai continued to test, "When Voldemort used the Imperius Curse on me, I could only use the Disarming Curse?"

"It seems that the Defense Against the Dark Arts class at Hogwarts really needs to be reorganized." Dumbledore sighed softly, "Do you have any misunderstandings about the Disarming Curse?"

"Misunderstanding?"

"The Disarming Curse is the most powerful spell." Dumbledore looked serious, "Nothing else."

"... Professor, can you please stop fooling me." Lu Yunkai had a strange expression, "If you really want to convince me to stay away from Grindelwald's theory that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, and the greater the power, at least be sincere!"

Lu Yunkai didn't say this casually, because just when Dumbledore suddenly changed the topic to the good and bad of wizards, Lu Yunkai realized that Dumbledore wanted to "lecture" him.

In fact, Dumbledore notified him to come to No. 12 Grimmauld Place today because Lu Yunkai mentioned Grindelwald in the communication mirror. But after meeting, Dumbledore seemed to have never directly reminded Lu Yunkai to stay away from Grindelwald.

This is obviously unscientific.

"You are so much like him." Hearing what Lu Yunkai said, Dumbledore finally laughed again and sighed, "So smart."

"...You are praising me, right?"

"The Disarming Curse is a truly undefendable spell." Dumbledore said seriously: "No protective spell can resist the Disarming Curse. The only thing that determines whether your Disarming Curse is effective is the strength of your magic itself."

"I remember Moody, um, Crouch Jr. said that the Killing Curse is also undefendable."

"Then why is Harry alive? Or do you think that Harry, as a baby, has the ability to resist the spell of Voldemort, who is in his heyday?"

"..."

"Even now, no one can use the Killing Curse on Harry. But when you duel with him, you can easily confiscate his wand with the Disarming Curse." Dumbledore continued, "So, if you are strong enough, you only need one spell."

"But the Disarming Curse can't help you kill the enemy." Lu Yunkai disagreed.

"You are free to treat your disarmed enemies as you wish." Dumbledore shook his head. "Why not give them a chance to admit their mistakes and give in?"

"You know they won't give in for the sake of revenge next time?"

"Next time? Just defeat him next time."

"...Okay." Lu Yunkai laughed.

This is a kind of Slytherin pride! It feels weird to hear it from Dumbledore.

"Sometimes kindness to the enemy is not necessarily cruelty to oneself, but also tolerance to oneself." Dumbledore continued, "Because some people may not necessarily be your enemies."

"Well." Lu Yunkai changed the subject. "After dealing with the Horcrux, do you want me to return the crown to Professor Flitwick?"

In fact, even if killing is not illegal, Lu Yunkai may not be able to do it (although he may not mind using someone else's hand). The issue he and Dumbledore are arguing about is meaningless.

It's just a simple argument.

Cutting the grass and eradicating the roots? It's really not Lu Yunkai's style of doing things. To be honest, if Chris hadn't been grumbling about Voldemort and telling him to kill the Dark Lord every day, Lu Yunkai might not have really fought Voldemort to the death. In fact, Voldemort's half-dead look before was pretty good...

But it can't be said that Dumbledore's words were meaningless to him.

It turns out that there is really no spell that can defend against the Disarming Spell!

Well, it seems necessary to practice hard.

"I thought you would want to keep this crown at home as a collection!" Dumbledore also took the opportunity to bring the topic back to business: "Then why did you secretly take it away from Hogwarts?"

"Because you didn't know it at the time!" Lu Yunkai said very frankly.

"... As the headmaster of Hogwarts, of course I have to protest against your behavior. But... it's true that Ravenclaw College doesn't really need this thing." Dumbledore smiled and shook his head, "So you can do it yourself!"

"Well." Lu Yunkai nodded.

"Okay, we've said everything we need to say, and it's time for us to leave." Dumbledore stood up and wiped his mouth with a towel.

Lu Yunkai then noticed that Dumbledore hadn't eaten much just now.

"Did I disturb you while you were eating?"

"As people get older, their appetite naturally decreases." Dumbledore smiled and shook his head, "It's okay."

"Then take care..."

"You'd better come with me." Dumbledore stopped Lu Yunkai, "Molly... um, Mrs. Weasley said before that she wanted to talk to you about something, and I think she should talk to you later."

"What?"

"She didn't tell me. But I think... it's probably because of George and Fred, right?" Dumbledore had a funny smile on his face, "Well, I have to say, you did a great job, but Molly may not think so. She still hopes that her children can go to work at the Ministry of Magic, and your funding is blocking their way."

"...Then let's leave together." Lu Yunkai suddenly felt a little chilly.

"Let's go!"

Dumbledore smiled and nodded.

…

"Meow! Are you disgusting?"

"...You think I want it!! Don't you have to try this! Hurry up!!"

"I don't want to pee now!!"

"Then I'll put it in your room and you'll take care of it? Why don't you drink more water..."

"Meow! How annoying!!"

Chrissy glared at Lu Yunkai, who forced her to pee as soon as she got home, and ran away.