Chapter 284 Diary

After hearing what Wade said, Dumbledore said for a long time: "Do you want to destroy it together?"

"I think this should be decided by you." Wade said: "This Horcrux is very special... I have actually been hesitating about how to deal with it."

Dumbledore was silent for a moment and said: "... Well, let me see it."

"Of course I won't carry such an important thing with me." Wade said: "To avoid accidents, I left it at school."

"In the dormitory?" Dumbledore frowned slightly: "This is not a safe choice. The Horcrux is likely to lure students or house elves to help it escape."

"It's not a dormitory, it's the Room of Requirement, on the eighth floor of the castle." Wade said: "Do you remember? I found the Ravenclaw diadem there, which was also made into a Horcrux by Voldemort."

The last time Wade was frank with Dumbledore, it was also in this cave, on the boat leading to the center of the Black Lake.

He mentioned the process of finding the crown in the Room of Requirement, but at that time, Voldemort's other Horcrux was right in front of him, so Dumbledore did not ask too much.

Wade believed that Dumbledore would not forget about this kind of thing after hearing it. But after that, the headmaster did not get to the bottom of it.

Wade used to think that this kind of respectful distance made people feel more at ease and trustworthy. There was no need to bring up the Horcruxes that had been disposed of repeatedly.

But at this moment, he felt... maybe Dumbledore didn't want to use more extreme means to pursue it, he just had restraint and patience that ordinary people could hardly imagine.

"Ah... a very smart idea."

Dumbledore closed his eyes, as if he had broken free from some emotions.

He said casually: "If it is in the Room of Requirement, then no one can find it easily except you... This may be the safest place in the world..."

He thought of the process of Voldemort's job search at the school, the Horcrux of the crown hidden in Hogwarts for decades, and the scene of his accidental discovery of the Room of Requirement.

"Voldemort realized this very quickly, but I never thought of it... I was always complacent about my understanding of the school... Ralph is right, I am so arrogant..."

-Ralph?

Wade felt that the name was familiar, as if someone had mentioned it to him.

After thinking carefully for a while, he remembered it.

-It was McGee who mentioned it.

He said that it was the oldest house elf in the school, even much older than Dumbledore.

The lifespan of a house elf can reach more than 200 years. In an ancient wizard family, a house elf often serves several generations, and they also hold the most secrets in the family.

Wade waited for a moment, and after Dumbledore finished his self-reflection, he asked, "Then let's go back to school? I'll find the Horcrux for you."

Dumbledore did not object.

He held Wade's arm, and Fawkes also landed on Dumbledore's shoulder.

With a flash of fire, they appeared on the eighth floor of the castle.

The portrait of Silly Barnabas was right next to him, still being hit on the head with sticks by the trolls in ballet skirts, looking silly.

Wade walked back and forth in the corridor three times, and a familiar door emerged from the wall. He turned to Dumbledore and said, "Professor, please wait a moment."

"Okay." Dumbledore waited patiently.

Wade opened the door and went in, and after closing the door, he let out a long breath.

He took off the pencil case on his waist and threw it on the ground. The pencil case turned into a suitcase in the blink of an eye.

Wade opened the box and found the magic-shielding box. After opening it, he saw a black notebook lying quietly inside.

This is Tom Riddle's diary.

The Horcrux...actually, it has always been with Wade.

Even when he was in class, he carried the bag with him in the form of a schoolbag; when he turned into a peregrine falcon, he also held the pencil case in his claws.

Although the diary had always been quiet, and although Wade had locked it in a shielding box, Wade would never let this ghost thing live in the same house with his parents.

And leaving it in school, risking someone finding it and taking it away? That was even more impossible.

The reason why he said that just now was actually because the atmosphere in the cave... or some kind of suppressed emotion of Dumbledore... made Wade feel uneasy.

But returning to the familiar environment of the school, not only did Wade relax, he could also clearly perceive that Dumbledore quickly turned back into the elder he was familiar with.

Thinking of the cold palm that just grabbed him, Wade couldn't help but sigh softly.

The death of Ariana - Dumbledore's sister - even if it had been a hundred years, it was still a hurdle in Dumbledore's heart.

Wade closed the box with a click, turned it back into a pencil case and stuffed it into his pocket, then walked out of the Room of Requirement with the box.

"Professor, this is the Horcrux I was talking about, and it's the last one I can find," Wade said.

Dumbledore hesitated for a moment before taking the box, opening it and seeing the diary inside, he was slightly stunned.

"This is Tom Riddle's diary."

Wade explained: "At the beginning of the second year, I saw Lucius Malfoy put it into Ginny Weasley's cauldron during the chaos, so I found an opportunity to get it."

"This is a thoughtful diary, and it also tries to communicate with me. But I have always kept it in a box and never taken it out."

Vader did not explain why he did this.

Since in Dumbledore's understanding, he was a wizard with similar precognitive abilities, wouldn't it be reasonable to foresee the danger of Voldemort's diary?

Dumbledore took the diary, stared at the tattered black cover intently, and turned to the first page, which read Tom Marvolo Riddle.

In the hands of the principal, the diary looks very cute and ordinary, as if there is no weird magic in it.

But Dumbledore seemed to have seen something of interest, and his eyes scanned the blank paper.

After a while, he closed the diary.

"Thank you, Vader." Dumbledore lowered his head and said gently: "This diary may be the first Horcrux created by Voldemort... I think it will tell us a lot of useful things..."

"As long as it helps you." Vader said, "I just hope that after you finish researching it, you don't use the fire spell to destroy it just now. You can use the basilisk fangs to leave it with a 'whole corpse'. This diary may have other uses..."

He lowered his voice and whispered a few words.

Dumbledore looked surprised, then smiled.