In the middle of the night, there was a blizzard outside, but the headmaster's office windows were still lit, and Dumbledore, dressed in snow-white pajamas and covered in a purple dressing gown with a gold background, sat on a high-back chair behind his desk, flipping through the latest issue with the help of candlelight. of.

"It's really surprising. I didn't expect that my ineffective great-great-grandson would actually start a magazine, and the style seems to be pretty good." Phineas' lazy voice came from the portrait.

"Sirius is a lot more mature than before, and he knows how to take care of his friends." Dumbledore said gently.

"It's not that I look down on him. With that guy's character, he can't do it to such an extent. 80% of people help him." Phineas squinted and asked Dumbledore. "What do you say Anderson wants to do?"

"Not sure."

Dumbledore's eyes stayed on the page mentioning Karkaroff as a Death Eater for a long time, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"You seem to trust him very much." Phineas did not wait for Dumbledore to answer, and continued: "To be honest, I always think his character should be in Slytherin. He is not as simple as you think. I always I think Anderson is planning something."

"I never ignored him."

Dumbledore continued to flip through the magazine in his hand and chatted casually with Phineas, "It's too sloppy to characterize a person with a branch. People are always complicated, and everyone will have their own thoughts."

"Instigate the divorce Phineas, you are just worried about the Garon you paid last time. Don't forget, the other party saved your great-great-grandson." A big fat wizard with a red nose roared loudly.

"I'm telling the truth. That guy is greedy, money greedy, and sinister. My poor great-great-grandson is just a tool he can use, but he himself didn't realize it at all." Phineas I wanted to figure out what Albert Anderson wanted to do, lest Sirius would fall into the pit one day.

Phineas knows a lot of people, and guys like Albert Anderson are definitely the most difficult and dangerous.

Since Sirius Black got to know Anderson, the wealth in the Black family's vault has been lost at an alarming rate.

This makes it hard for Phineas not to doubt that Albert wants to seize the property of the Black family.

"With all due respect, Mr. Anderson is not greedy. He is even more generous than most wizards." Dumbledore raised his head and corrected. "Phineas, you probably don't know that Mr. Anderson is actually richer than the Black family."

"It's impossible." Phineas immediately denied it.

"It's not impossible, but you don't know it." Dumbledore closed and said softly. "In Mr. Anderson's heart, there is a balance for weighing everything, and everything he does has his own consideration."

"It's like he borrowed the magazine in your hand to easily uncover the secret called Karkaroff, making him like a bereavement dog, to revenge Karkaroff for giving him 1 point?" Phinea Si couldn't help but sneered, "That guy is more like a Slytherin student than a Slytherin student."

This is also what Phineas is most worried about. Mr. Anderson is even more sinister and cunning than expected.

"We are dead, Phineas," the big red-nosed wizard reminded. "And you are actually worried about the living now?"

Before Dumbledore could answer, someone knocked on the door of the principal's office.

The portraits also stopped communicating and began to pretend to sleep.

"Come in." Dumbledore said.

The wooden door of the principal's office was pushed open, and Snape walked in and said straightforwardly: "Kakaroff has left!"

"I know about this." Dumbledore had expected that Karkaroff would now be resisted by the entire British magical world. Not many people knew about it, but after it was made public, Coupled with the Dark Marks that appeared in the Quidditch World Cup, Karkaroff has really not had a good time during this period of time, and he has been bombarded by yelling letters.

Snape moved his lips, as if he wanted to say something, but he seemed to be still hesitating. After some struggle, he finally said: "Kakaroff's mark has started to turn black. In recent months, it has changed. It's getting more and more obvious."

Speaking, Snape opened his sleeves and showed Dumbledore to see the Dark Mark on his arm. Originally, when Voldemort lost his power, the Dark Mark looked like a scar, but after Voldemort gradually recovered his power. , The Dark Mark began to recover.

"The Dark Lord is still alive and is accumulating strength."

Snape looked at the shadow on Dumbledore's face and continued: "Kakaroff knew this well, so he was nervous and worried that he would be punished. You know that after the fall of the Dark Lord, he gave a lot of help to the Ministry of Magic. , The Dark Lord obviously won't let the betrayer go easily, so he escaped by this incident, planning to find a place to hide."

"Really?" Dumbledore said softly, "you also want to find a place to hide with him?"

"I'm not such a coward." Snape laughed at himself: "Moreover, I don't think Karkaroff can escape. With the character of the Dark Lord, I will never let the betrayer easily."

"You are much braver than Igor Karkaroff." Dumbledore comforted: "Don't worry, the situation is not as bad as you thought, it is still in our expectations."

"Expected?" Snape was skeptical. "You knew he would return?"

"I knew it a long time ago? No, no one knew." Dumbledore said quietly, "but I know that Voldemort is not dead, and it will be a matter of time before he returns. Many things indicate this."

"That's how you watched this happen. UU reading www.uukanshu.com" Snape's eyes widened and looked at Dumbledore in disbelief.

"There are some things, even if they know it, they can't be stopped. There is a saying: Use it to stop it, it is better to think about how to solve this after it happens." Dumbledore intertwined his hands. He looked up at Snape and said, "Also, the biggest problem is that we don't know how he did this."

"Even you don't know?"

"I'm just an ordinary person, Severus." Dumbledore said helplessly. "By the way, I hope you can help me pay attention to Moody."

"I thought you trusted him." Snape's tone was a sneer, he hated Moody.

"Yes, trust him, but someone reminded me that I should be wary of him." Dumbledore didn't care about Snape's surprised expression.

"You actually believed it." Snape felt incredible. He knew Dumbledore's friendship with Mad-Eye Moody. "Did you find something wrong?"

"Not so far, but I think it's always right to be cautious." Dumbledore lowered his eyes and said, "I hope you can help me configure Veritaserum, the most powerful Veritaserum."

"He searched my office." Snape said grimly. "In your name."

"I suspect someone has sneaked into Hogwarts," Dumbledore whispered. "I asked Moody to check all the professor's offices."

"He searched everyone, but he was indeed an exception?" Snape felt like he was following Dumbledore's thoughts, but he was actually more curious, who on earth reminded Dumbledore that there was a problem with Mad-Eye Moody, and Dumbledore had doubts about his old friend.

"No, it's not for this reason. Anyway, help me pay attention to him."

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