The Dark Lord's Guide to Employment at Hogwarts

Yes, when he saw the strange black fog and sensed the powerful magic contained in it, Li Weide had already guessed the true identity of this thing.

Credence Barebone the Obscurial...or rather, Aurelius Dumbledore, is Aberforth's biological son.

Livid only knew that around 1930, after the Kirin election incident, Aberforth took him home.

As for his ending, Li Weide is not sure.

However, it has been seven or eight years now, and judging by the short lifespan of the Silent Ones, even if Aurelius is gifted, his situation is definitely not optimistic now.

After all, this period of time has been so long that even Nagini has gradually sunk into obscurity and disappeared from people's sight...

It is a miracle that Aurelius, the Obscurus, is still alive.

Just as Li Weide was considering whether to break through the floor and jump down to run away, or to slowly retreat down the stairs.

Suddenly, Aberforth's voice came from behind.

"Don't move, don't panic..."

Upon hearing this, Li Weide stopped immediately.

Then, Aberforth walked out from behind Levid.

He approached the black fog cautiously.

"Calm down...Aurelius, calm down. You can do this. I can trust you, right?"

As Aberforth gently persuaded, the black mist began to tremble.

Gradually, the black fog that filled the entire corridor began to shrink slowly, and finally gathered in the corner of the corridor and turned into a pale young man.

His body was shaking uncontrollably. "I... I can't hold on any longer... Please, kill me... I can't hold on much longer anyway. Instead of letting me stay here and not knowing when I'll lose control and hurt someone, it's better to send me away from this world now..."

"Nonsense! How could a son force his father to kill him? Besides, there's a magic spell in the attic set up by your uncle. Even if you lose control, it can't be destroyed. Don't worry, you won't hurt anyone."

"But I escaped without realizing it this time, didn't I? Even my uncle's magic couldn't stop me... Father, just promise me... Let everything end..."

Aberforth's face was filled with sadness. "Don't say that! Good boy, let's go back. I will always be with you until the end... You don't have to worry about anything else! Please... don't force me anymore..."

He supported Aurelius and slowly stood up from the ground.

Aurelius' pale face was filled with bitterness. He turned his head to look at Livid and said, "I'm sorry..."

He seemed to want to say something, but after opening his mouth, nothing came out.

During this period, Li Weide said nothing, but just watched them quietly. Finally, he watched them slowly walk up the stairs to the attic.

Now Levid fully understood why Aberforth didn't let them go to the attic.

Because Aurelius was still alive, he lived in the attic. Moreover, because the Obscurials were too dangerous if they lost control, many protective spells were set up in the attic.

If he guessed correctly, the sound Li Weide heard just now was the sound of the out-of-control Mo Mo Ran attacking the protective magic.

As he walked out of the corridor, Mo Moran just broke through the protective magic and ran out, and ran into him head-on...

Not long after, Aberforth came down with a heavy face.

He came to Li Weide and said, "If you have any questions, just ask."

Aberforth knew that the child's unexpected sighting of Aurelius today would definitely cause him to have a lot of questions, and it was obviously not an option to not tell him anything.

Children of this age are extremely curious, and if they try to find the "answers" themselves, they might get into trouble...

"What was that just now?" Li Weide had no choice but to ask symbolically.

"That's the Obscurus... You can understand it as a disease, and the person who has that disease is my son, Aurelius Dumbledore. People who have this disease may become an Obscurus at any time and lose their rationality... This was an accident, and I have strengthened the protective magic again." Aberforth replied.

Levid looked at Aberforth's expression and didn't want to ask any further.

Because asking further would undoubtedly make this poor father recall the tragic past that he did not want to look back on.

Besides, he had probably already guessed the whole story, so there was no need to ask further.

"I have no further questions..."

Aberforth looked at Levid in surprise.

If it were him, he would definitely have a lot of questions if he encountered such a thing, but Li Weide only asked one question and then stopped?

But Aberforth quickly understood Levid's thoughts.

"Okay... come to me if you have any questions." Aberforth looked at Levid deeply, turned and walked down the stairs.

'What a gentle child...' Aberforth thought to himself.

……

It was three o'clock in the afternoon when Tom woke up.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Li Weide practicing transfiguration, turning a matchstick into various shapes.

You bastard! You let me sleep while you secretly work hard? How shameless!

Li Weide raised his head and saw Tom looking at him with a sad and angry face.

"How was your sleep? You seem much more alert."

"Don't you know best how I sleep?" Tom glared at Li Weide angrily.

"Okay, okay, I know you don't want to see me again, Tom." Li Weide waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter. Anyway, I was just thinking about how to leave."

Tom frowned. "What do you mean?"

Li Weide took out a key and waved it in front of Tom.

"As a wealthy man with five or six thousand Galleons saved in Gringotts, there's really no need for me to live under someone else's roof. Wouldn't it be nice if I could just buy my own house? At worst, I could find a place and build one myself! I have Toby to take care of my daily life, so why would I need a guardian?"

With a huge amount of gold galleons and valuable gold bars, Li Weide does have the necessary conditions to live alone.

The most important thing is that living alone, he can conduct many experiments that he had always envisioned but did not have the conditions to carry out.

These experiments cannot be carried out under the supervision of guardians...

Tom shook his head. "Dumbledore won't agree. If he doesn't agree, you'll never be able to accomplish this. Forget it. You should know that he's not as kind as he seems."

"You have a point, but I will definitely find a way." Li Weide frowned and thought.

"Also, don't forget, those thousands of gold galleons and gold bars you mentioned still include my half!" Tom emphasized.

In the beginning, the work was done by two people, and the trouble was also caused by two people. No matter what, Tom must take half of the money he got!

"Oh, of course, of course, your share is indispensable." Levid put the key to Gringotts back into the collection.

After a long silence, Tom suddenly asked, "If... you can find a way to move out... can you take me with you?"

"What?" Li Weide looked at Tom in shock. "Don't you want to stay with me? Tom, don't have any intentions towards me! I have no interest in men!"

"Asshole! What kind of dirty thoughts are in your head!" Tom's face was full of black lines. "What I mean is...we move out together, get rid of the constraints of the so-called guardians, and then go our separate ways!"

Chapter 35 Li Weide: No way! Tom, do you really believe it?

Although Tom didn't want to stay with Levitra, he also didn't want to have a so-called guardian watching him all the time.

In fact, Tom and Li Weide are the same kind of people.

In the future, there will inevitably be many little secrets that I don’t want others to know.

The reason why he wanted to be alone was actually the same as Li Weide's.

Levitra finally agreed to Tom's proposal and was ready to join forces with him to escape from Dumbledore's "watchful eye".

After they got out, the two went their separate ways.

Li Weide had no objection to this. Even if he wanted to gain merit points from Tom, there was no need for them to stay together all day.

Anyway, we will all be in the same school, or even the same college, in the future, so there will be plenty of opportunities to gain merit points from him.

And, like Tom, he has a lot of secrets that he can't let anyone know.

Therefore, living alone is the best choice.

After the two of them had discussed it, they continued to do their own things.

After half an hour of working without interrupting each other, Tom suddenly asked, "Why don't you accept Grindelwald's offer?"

Li Weide put down the "Transfiguration" in his hand and asked, "Why do you ask that?"

"I just thought about what Grindelwald said last night. Don't you think...he actually makes a lot of sense?"

Tom took a handkerchief and wiped his wand carefully while saying, "Besides, if we had agreed to Grindelwald's recruitment last night, wouldn't we have been free directly? We wouldn't have to rack our brains to move out like we are now..."

Li Weide smiled and said, "Do you think he makes sense? I see you're attracted by the so-called 'knowledge and power' he promised. You don't seem like someone who's concerned about the country and the people."

Tom couldn't help but blush when his inner thoughts were directly exposed.

But he quickly recovered and said, "Putting aside his promise to us, what he said does make sense!"

"Look, we all have great power. Those Muggles are weak in front of us. Why can we only hide and dare not let Muggles find us?"

"In my opinion, it's only natural for the strong to rule over the weak! We should be at the top of the world!"

"I really don't understand why Dumbledore would stop him."

Livid looked at Tom in surprise. "No way, Tom? You really believed what Grindelwald said?"

Tom frowned and said, "Doesn't this make sense? Why shouldn't I believe it?"

Li Weide sighed and said helplessly: "The reason why you think he makes sense is only because he tells you what you want to hear."

"What we want to hear?" Tom frowned.

"Don't you always think that you are special?" Li Weide asked.

"Of course!" said Tom proudly.

Leaving his head against the pillow, Levy said leisurely, "Many wizards think the same way as you do, believing that they, possessing magic, are nobler than Muggles. So, Grindelwald will seize on this point and start advocating your uniqueness..."

"'Magic blossoms only in the souls of a few', such a moving phrase..."

"When you heard this, did you feel satisfied? Did you feel that you belonged to the most special group? Did you feel that you should be above all ordinary people? Did you feel that you were the chosen one?"

"When you think like that, you've fallen into a trap. Because at that point, you'll think breaking the Statute of Secrecy is perfectly natural. And to break the Statute of Secrecy, you naturally have to join Grindelwald's team... and that's his true purpose."

"When he invited us to join him last night, did he express any of his philosophical views? No!"

"What did he say? He told us that if we joined his side, he would give us the power we longed for!"

"Why did he only tell us that we could gain power and not tell us anything else? Because he knew that you and I were still young and had no idea what changing the world meant. We were only interested in power."

"That's why he only talks to us about power to lure us in... In other words, all the ideas and concepts Grindelwald says are not actually true. He just says one thing to one person and another to another."

"His real purpose is just to find more supporters and gain more loyal fans to help him reach the top of the world."

"He doesn't care about the world, other wizards, or other Muggles."

“In fact, he is not a revolutionary who truly wants to change the world, but an ambitious man who uses revolution as an excuse to achieve his own goals.”

Tom's head was buzzing. "Is it true that his ideas will never come true?"

In Tom's opinion, how the world will become in the future has nothing to do with him. He only cares about whether what Grindelwald advocates can really be realized in the end.

If wizards can really rule the world in the end, Tom doesn't care. As long as he is one of the people standing in the clouds, it is enough.

“What cannot be achieved, even if it is finally achieved, cannot last.”

"As I just said, he's indifferent to the world and other people. In other words, his ideas won't make the world a better place. In fact, they'll only make it more chaotic and worse!"

"So, when people with insight realize this, they will definitely stand up to stop him, such as... Dumbledore."

"Apart from the resistance of these knowledgeable people...do you think that if a real fight breaks out, will the Muggles resist?"

"Don't think that all Muggles are weak and insignificant, just ants, not worth worrying about..."

"Do you know how many wizards there are in this world, and how many Muggles there are?"

"No matter how powerful you are, how many Muggles can you kill? Besides, do you really think the Muggle violence agency is just a group of farmers wielding pitchforks?"

"Don't forget, the purpose of the International Statute of Secrecy is not to protect Muggles... but to protect wizards from Muggles!"

"Believe me, if the ambitious Muggles knew about the existence of wizards, what they would do would be ten thousand times more terrifying than what Grindelwald did!"

"So, Grindelwald's final fate will either be ended by wise men like Dumbledore, or he will drag the entire wizarding world down with him..."

After listening to Li Weide's analysis, Tom fell into complete silence.

Even though he looked down on Muggles, he knew that what Levid said was true.