"Yes, it's very exciting. Harry did a good job." Albert smiled and sighed, "I haven't seen the Gryffindor team win such a hearty game for a long time."
"I remember you were good at Quidditch too."
"People's energy is limited, so they have to make choices." Albert brought the topic back again, "How is it used over there?"
"The approximate location you predicted has been found." Dumbledore withdrew his gaze from the window, "However, they did not find the bodies of Cassandra Wabraski and her family. How about you make another divination?
We used to have to search everywhere?"
"Okay, I guess I was turned into an inferi or stone." Albert took out the crystal ball and continued to divine the whereabouts of the corpse.
"Do you think they don't want people to know about this?" Dumbledore looked at Albert who was doing the divination and asked, "Or, they just disposed of the corpse casually."
"I hope it's the latter." Albert looked up at Dumbledore and asked, "Do you think he doesn't want people to know about this?"
"I don't know." Dumbledore shook his head and said, "Cassandra should have expected that Voldemort would find her, otherwise she would not have been hospitalized. Unfortunately, she still underestimated Voldemort after all."
"If I had left the UK from the beginning, or found a place to hide, I would not have encountered such misfortune." Albert focused all his attention on the crystal ball in front of him, "So, I never underestimate it.
Mysterious people don’t make fun of their own lives.”
"Voldemort is indeed not a good person, but many people still have luck." Dumbledore can actually understand the thoughts of ordinary people, and everyone just wants to live a good life.
"This is how normal people think. No one wants to be involved in this cruel war, but they have no choice, don't they?" Albert put away the prophecy ball and said: "Near a Muggle village, the corpse was
It turned into a pile of stones and was thrown away haphazardly.”
"It's time for us to set off."
Dumbledore raised his arm, and after Albert reached out to put it on, he was directly apparated.
As soon as Albert's eyes returned to normal, he felt a cold wind blowing in his face. He found himself standing outside the wilderness, surrounded by several strange figures. Probably hearing the sound of Apparition, several wizards raised their hands one after another.
Point your wand this way.
"Dumbledore!"
Kingsley looked at Dumbledore in surprise, and then his eyes fell on Albert who was looking around, obviously very surprised by Albert's arrival.
"You look busy!"
Albert tapped his body with his wand and instantly put on a thick cloak to protect himself from the cold wind outside.
"The Aurors in the ministry have other things to do, so now many non-dangerous matters are handed over to the crisis response team." Kingsley also felt helpless about this. The crisis response team is now handed over to the Ministry of Magic.
They are odd jobs, but Aurors can't be distracted from dealing with these trivial matters. They have more dangerous things to deal with.
"Have you found it?" Dumbledore asked.
"not yet……"
"I guess you are looking at the wrong place. The location of my divination is not here!" Albert looked at the village not far away, somewhat doubting that this group of people were waiting here for them to come over before moving together. After all, it was safer that way...
"Come with me!"
Dumbledore walked forward quickly and led everyone to a nearby abandoned village.
After looking around, Albert waved the magic wand in his hand, conjuring a pile of corpses out of thin air from the originally empty ground.
"Transfiguration." He explained to everyone, "The Death Eaters turned the corpse into a pile of stones and threw it here randomly."
Albert waved his wand again, arranged these people neatly in front of everyone, and looked for Cassandra in the pile of corpses.
There is no doubt that this old man who has lived for a century is dead.
"I really don't understand why Voldemort wanted to kill them."
When the wizards were helping to dispose of the bodies of Cassandra's family, Kingsley came to the two of them to discuss the matter, and others around him also curiously pricked up their ears to eavesdrop.
"The mysterious person probably wants to use divination to achieve a certain purpose." Albert looked sideways at Dumbledore and suddenly asked an inexplicable question: "What do you think the probability is that she is a fake?"
"Fake?" Kingsley was a little stunned. He didn't understand what Albert meant. Could the body be fake?
"You mean the compound potion?"
Dumbledore reacted quickly and immediately understood the meaning of Albert's words.
The main reason is that the mother of Barty Crouch Jr. and Peter's mother used compound potions to transform into their own sons and died in Azkaban Prison.
If you die after taking the compound potion, you will not change back to your original appearance.
This is also the escape method provided by Albert to Scrimgeour, allowing a dark wizard to be killed by the mysterious man in his place.
As long as Scrimgeour dies, leaves England and never appears again, basically no one will notice anything is wrong, let alone cause trouble for a dead man.
"It's possible, but it shouldn't be very likely. And why would Voldemort do this?" Dumbledore looked at Albert and frowned slightly.
If the mysterious man really did this, how much must the mysterious man hate Albert to lay such a trap?
"It's always good to be careful."
Albert took out a bottle of potion from his pocket and handed it to Kingsley and said, "Try this thing. I'm not sure whether the anti-curse potion is effective on the dead."
As expected, the anti-curse agent had no effect on Cassandra's body, or it could be that it was Cassandra's own body.
"Isn't it because Cassandra refused to help with the prophecy that Voldemort killed their entire family?" Kingsley was a little confused and felt that this matter was different from what he thought.
"Of course not, Cassandra must have made a prophecy for the mysterious man." Albert reminded: "As long as you carefully calculate the time of Cassandra's disappearance, you will know, otherwise she would not have died recently, I
I never thought that the mysterious man's temper would be good enough to... tolerate someone going against his will."
"But why did the mysterious man kill his whole family?"
"Maybe she lied, maybe the mysterious man...who knows." Albert shook his head and said: "After all, the mysterious man himself is an elusive madman."
"What did you find?"
Albert saw Dumbledore bend down and pick something up from Cassandra's fingers...
"Some clues are probably the code words Cassandra left for you!" Dumbledore took out a few things that looked like hair and looked them up and down in front of his eyes.
"Can you translate?" Albert narrowed his eyes and stared at a piece of hair in Dumbledore's hand, which seemed to have some weird knots on it.
"The final result is a series of numbers: 1227,624,815." Dumbledore looked at Albert and asked, "What do you think these three numbers represent?"
"Date." Albert said without thinking, "The three time points should be December 27th, June 24th, and August 15th."
"date?"
Kingsley was even more confused, how did Albert think of the date in the first place, and why did he feel like a fool who didn't understand anything.
"Why did Cassandra leave these dates?"
"She probably wanted to hint that something bad might happen on these three dates." Dumbledore glanced at Albert, thinking that Albert might know something.
"No, I mean she seemed pretty sure we would find her body." Kingsley felt that the whole thing was becoming more and more baffling.
"It should be said that she thought I would confirm whether she was dead." Albert felt that he might have been too careful. If all these corpses were fake, then the trap would be big enough to trap him.
However, Dumbledore said that when he found the clues, his suspicions had been reduced a lot, because June 24th should be Dumbledore's death date, and August 15th is likely to be Scrimgeour's death time. That December
The one corresponding to the 27th should be himself.
Of course, this was also fabricated by Voldemort, but it is actually unlikely.
After the corpses were handed over to the Ministry of Magic, Dumbledore and Albert returned to Hogwarts School.
"What did you find?" Dumbledore placed three white hairs on the table.
"In my prediction, you are likely to die in June." Albert picked up the warm black tea and took a sip.
"You think June 24th is the day of my death." Dumbledore quickly accepted this, and did not shy away from his own death, and seemed to be considering whether to set the time at this time.
"August 15th is probably the time of Scrimgeour's death." Albert put down the tea cup and continued to speculate: "Although I have not divined the specific time, Scrimgeour's death time should be around here.
And I suspect that the time may not be accurate, it should be said that this is just a prediction range."
"Do you have any plans on December 27th?" Dumbledore seemed to realize something?
"Hermione wants to send her family away, and she hopes that I can provide some help." Albert narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Cassandra probably divined this matter and told the mysterious person about it.
"
Dumbledore stared at the hair on the table for a while, sighed softly and said, "I probably know what prophecies she made for Voldemort."
"It's not hard to guess, isn't it?" Albert said softly. He actually didn't blame Cassandra, she was dead anyway.
"What are you going to do?" Dumbledore asked again.
"It depends on the situation. If there is danger, you must avoid it!" Albert said without thinking. "As long as you avoid the prophecy, there is a high probability that it will fail. Umbridge once successfully avoided a prophecy because she did not go to the Forbidden Forest. Otherwise,
You will definitely receive warm hospitality from the horse people."
"You can advance the time." Dumbledore took out a quill and wrote something on the parchment. "There is no need to take risks. If Miss Granger needs to take leave, I can give her permission."
After a few days of vacation, let her go back early to deal with things at home."