Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 438 Could His Father Be

Chapter 438 Could His Father Be...

There is something that looks like a watermelon slice, smells like a watermelon slice, and tastes like a watermelon slice when you pick it up with a fork, but when you put it in your mouth you realize it is actually a cake.

Charles didn't expect Dumbledore to get such interesting snacks. When the headmaster first took out the fruit bowl, he thought he had brought it back from a KTV room.

Dumbledore asked Charles with a smile: "Charles, do you want to participate in the Triwizard Tournament?"

Charles forked up another slice of apple cake and said as he ate, "No, the bonus is too small."

He has no interest in the game.

If Fleur hadn't been chosen, he would have wanted to throw Snape's name into the Goblet of Fire.

Dumbledore didn't believe it at first, but the reasons he gave were irrefutable.

"In fact, you can participate." Dumbledore continued, "As you guessed, Diggory and his friends took special lessons during the summer vacation to prepare for this competition."

"After the rules for selecting assistants were finalized, they were discussing whether they could ask you to be their assistant."

Charles felt something was wrong and asked, "Principal, I feel like you have other intentions."

Dumbledore nodded and said, "If you participate in the tournament, you are forbidden to bring rubies."

Charles thought, "So that's how it is." It was indeed too unfair to bring Phoenix to the competition. Since he was not going to participate anyway, he naturally agreed.

He wondered if the other two schools needed such a guarantee, so the principal came to him to discuss this matter.

In recent years, Ruby has often gone to Beauxbatons and Durmstrang to eat and drink, so it is normal for them to be worried.

Dumbledore took out a book and placed it in front of Charles, and asked, "Have you read this book?"

Charles took the book. On the black leather cover was printed a golden title - "The Path to Power: Grindelwald's Fifty Years of Reflection". The author was Bakalova, who interviewed Grindelwald.

"It's published so soon?" Charles was a little surprised. "I haven't read it yet."

Dumbledore said, "He gave this to you."

Charles raised his eyebrows, took the book, opened the cover, and on the title page it read "Presented to Charles Smith, thanking him for opening a new door for me", and below it was Grindelwald's signature.

Dumbledore looked at Charles with a complicated expression and finally sighed.

He thought that a dragon in prison could educate Charles and establish correct concepts, but he didn't expect Charles to let the dragon out and replace it with new claws.

Dumbledore's eyes suddenly became sharp. Perhaps Charles was the more powerful dragon.

He quickly put the thought aside. So far, it seemed that the only bad thing Charles had done was to beat Malfoy too hard after Malfoy destroyed the plants in the greenhouse with bugs.

Charles began to read the book with great interest. Dumbledore said to him earnestly, "Charles, I hope you don't get too close to Gettler. He has killed too many people."

"I hope you can learn more from your grandfather. He is a kind man."

Charles smiled and said, "I will, Headmaster."

A smile also appeared on Dumbledore's face.

Charles laughed because he knew what had happened before, and Dumbledore laughed because he had forgotten what had happened before.

It was almost lunch time, and Charles went downstairs to eat lunch while reading a book.

The Slytherin fourth-year students had just finished their Divination class and met Charles on the stairs.

"Charles!" Daphne smiled and walked over to him, "What class did you just come back from?"

Pansy Parkinson and a few others saw it and covered their mouths with their hands and laughed in the back.

Charles heard Seamus tell her about what happened on the train last night. It seemed that what Eleanor said in Africa was true. He knew what she wanted to do and said, "I was just called by Professor Dumbledore. I was warned for being too close to a dark wizard who killed many people."

What he said was not wrong. Dumbledore said that he and Grindelwald were too close, which was definitely seen as a warning by others.

But Daphne and others knew nothing about Grindelwald. In the context of British wizarding society, the dark wizard who killed many people generally refers to Voldemort, especially since the Dark Mark appeared again not long ago.

Many families of students in Slytherin House knew that the Death Eaters escaped from Azkaban last year, and there were rumors that Voldemort had returned.

Although many people were arrested at the Quidditch World Cup final not long ago, including many former Death Eaters, these families easily discovered that none of the newly arrested and escaped Death Eaters overlapped. Now more and more of them believe that Voldemort has returned secretly.

But this creates another problem. Young people today have never seen Voldemort. They know Voldemort, but Voldemort cannot possibly know them. How could Charles get close to him?
A possibility suddenly popped up in Daphne's mind. Charles was abandoned back then. Could he be Voldemort's child, and Voldemort came to find him?
If Charles was Voldemort's son, that would explain why he was so good.

Now, judging from Dumbledore's warning, this is very likely.

Charles didn't know what she was thinking. He turned around and said to Pansy seriously, "Pansy, tell Malfoy to wait for me in the library at eight o'clock tonight. If he doesn't come, you will bear the consequences."

He left quickly after he finished speaking, and Daphne was still brainstorming and didn't come back to her senses.

Pansy went over and patted Daphne, saying, "Hey, everyone's gone."

Daphne asked her mysteriously, "Do you think Charles is the son of the mysterious man?"

Pansy shuddered and said quickly, "Are you crazy?!"

Dumbledore left the headmaster's office later than Charles, walking behind the Slytherin students. He had just seen Daphne approach Charles to chat with him, and instantly went into gossip mode, then walked away invisibly to watch the show.

So he also heard Daphne's speculation.

Dumbledore smiled, then stopped.

He suddenly remembered that when Voldemort was still a bastard, he often made him go to Quirrell's office as a form of confinement.

He thought of many possibilities at the time, such as Voldemort taking a fancy to Charles's talent, but none of them were conclusive.

Now Daphne has raised a new possibility. Dumbledore has thought about it for a long time, and it seems that this can best explain why Voldemort valued Charles so much back then.

After lunch, Dumbledore came to the Potions classroom where Snape was preparing for the afternoon class.

Snape saw him coming over and thought he was asking about the Death Eaters again, so he said, "No new information."

"That is not what I am asking," said Dumbledore.

"Severus, please recall, did Voldemort have a son fourteen years ago?"

Snape's brain was offline for five minutes. He almost lifted up his left sleeve and used the Dark Mark to send a group message: "My family, who knows? Dumbledore is asking me if the Dark Lord has a son! How should I answer? Wait online. It's urgent!"

He trembled and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Could it be... Potter..."

He thought Dumbledore was asking Harry whether Voldemort drank the Polyjuice Potion and disguised himself as James Potter to inquire about information in the Order of the Phoenix, and made Lily pregnant, and then gave birth to Harry.

This would explain why Harry, like Voldemort, speaks Parseltongue.

This also explains why Voldemort promised not to kill Lily.

Dumbledore shook his head and said, "Not Potter."

Snape breathed a sigh of relief, thought about a circle of children of the right age, and asked doubtfully: "Could it be Draco Malfoy?"

There was a period of time when Voldemort often went to the Malfoy house.

Again Dumbledore shook his head.

Snape thought for a moment and asked, "You mean Charles Smith?"

"His background is indeed suspicious. When he was in the first grade..."

He also thought of the time when Voldemort often called Charles to the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office.

Dumbledore nodded.

Snape recalled what happened back then, but Voldemort did not report what he did to the Death Eaters at that time, so he could not verify it.

Now it seems that Dumbledore may have some evidence.