"Mr. Taylor, did you go to Professor Quirrell's office yesterday?" Professor McGonagall asked, her eyebrows almost knitted together.
"That's right." Joel knew that Professor McGonagall meant this to Dumbledore.
Sure enough, Dumbledore immediately turned around when he heard this sentence, "Joel, can I know the content of the conversation between you and Quirrell?"
"sure."
"Let's go outside and talk," Professor McGonagall glanced at the sleeping Neville and Harry and lowered her voice, "Don't disturb the children."
Outside the gate of the hospital wing, Joel told the reason he had already thought about. Anyway, Quirrell was dead and Voldemort was still escaping outside. Even if he made up a little lie, no one could confront him.
"You went to Professor Quirrell to ask about your parents?" Professor McGonagall was quite helpless, "What did he tell you?"
"He said that my parents were employees of the Department of Mysteries and disappeared because of an accident..." Joel blinked.
"Is he kinder to you?" Dumbledore asked.
"...It's okay, but not bad."
Professor Dumbledore chuckled, "Tom seems to have not discovered the truth of the matter until now."
"What?" Joel felt that he might be able to get the correct answer to his life experience from Dumbledore.
"Silly boy," Professor McGonagall's tone was still a little cold, but it was the gentlest thing Joel had ever heard her say, "You look very much like your mother, especially those eyebrows."
"Your parents caused a lot of trouble for Tom back then," Dumbledore reached out and patted Joel on the head. "They are indeed employees of the Department of Mysteries, but they are also members of the Order of the Phoenix. The Order of the Phoenix is...
The organization that fought against the Death Eaters."
One sentence lifted Joel's heart.
"The couple sneaked into the Death Eaters and provided us with a lot of top-secret information, helping the Potters and Longbottoms escape from Voldemort's siege many times."
"But ten years ago, the two of them received a mission to study some kind of supernatural phenomenon with other Death Eater staff in the Department of Mysteries. However, the mission failed, and the two of them disappeared together with six Death Eater Silencers.
without a trace."
"The orphanage..." Joel was stunned.
"Your mother was very weak after giving birth to you and almost lost her life," Dumbledore explained. "She loved you very much and didn't want to expose you to Death Eaters."
"Although Voldemort trusted your parents very much, he did many crazy things at that time. Your parents were afraid that your safety would be threatened, so they sent you to an orphanage. They hoped that you could grow up there until Voldemort lost power, and even changed his mind.
Lost your last name and the memory of the orphanage director."
Joel squatted down against the corner.
Dumbledore's palm gently touched the back of Joel's head, bringing a bit of warmth.
"Why did Voldemort know my true identity?" Joel still felt something was wrong, "You can't just rely on appearance to guess, the surnames are obviously different..."
"The name your mother changed for you..." Professor McGonagall said hesitantly, "Anyone who is interested can guess it."
"What do you mean?" Joel didn't calm down.
"Your last name Taylor comes from your mother's name," Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore looked at each other, "Your last name Joel comes from your godfather."
"I still have a godfather?" Joel was stunned, "Is he still alive?"
"He was also an employee of the Department of Mysteries and died eleven years ago." Dumbledore shook his head slightly.
"Ah..." Joel let out an inexplicable sigh. The current situation is that the parents and godfathers of the original owner of the body have all disappeared. Since his parents' undercover identities have not yet been exposed, the Order of the Phoenix and Voldemort have a pretty good attitude towards him.
Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore looked at each other with a bit of worry in their eyes.
"Mr. Taylor," Professor McGonagall said, "If you are willing, you can change your father's surname back to your father's name. We can provide the necessary help."
Joel shook his head, his expression as normal, "There's no need, Professor McGonagall, I think this name is pretty good."
"Professor Dumbledore, come with me. I made some new discoveries in the grass outside the castle at midnight."
Joel led the two professors out of the castle and found the cage in the grass. The tiger cub was still inside but looked a little impatient.
"Oh..." Dumbledore raised his eyebrows after seeing the tiger cub.
"This cage looks like Tom's work at first glance." He touched it with interest. The young tiger was quite repelled by this strange human being and growled in a threatening manner. "It's very interesting. It allows animals to stay in it.
, neither the physical level nor the magical level can destroy this cage."
"It seems that even the sound can be blocked, interesting..." Dumbledore's eyes sparkled with curiosity.
"Isn't that..."
"Don't worry," Dumbledore said with a bit of a smile on his face, "This cage is also a transfiguration after all. How Tom built it, I can also follow the same path to change the cage back to its original shape."
Dumbledore walked around the cage twice. The cub's eyes followed his body, and he leaned down to make an attack posture. It was very sensitive to the enemy's breath and could judge who was the greatest threat to it.
It seems that the old man with the white beard in front of him is more terrifying than the black hood.
Dumbledore seemed to have found the trick. He muttered something, stretched out his wand and knocked hard on the cage, startling the cub.
The cage folded up like a mechanism, and finally turned into a skull emitting green smoke in Dumbledore's hands.
A system prompt rang in Joel's mind: The side mission - rescuing the heterochromatic pupil tiger cub has been completed, and he received the reward: the trust of the heterochromatic pupil tiger cub.
As soon as he turned off the system prompt, the freed tiger cub jumped up, put two strong paws on Joel's shoulders, and rubbed his big head against the side of Joel's neck.
"It seems that you two get along well." Dumbledore originally thought that the tiger cub would attack them, but he didn't expect that the first thing he did after being rescued was to go to Joel to show off his affection.
"I found it in the grass before. I thought it was pitiful and I tried to comfort him." Joel explained quickly.
"But why are there tigers in Europe?" Professor McGonagall, who had been standing aside, was a little confused.
"This tiger must have escaped from the Forbidden Forest," Dumbledore was not surprised. "There are many alien species in the Forbidden Forest, many of which were abandoned by wizards and stayed in the Forbidden Forest to continue living."
"Then we have to put it back into the Forbidden Forest?" Joel said as he stretched out his hand to touch the cub's head. There was a fishy smell on its tongue with barbs, and it licked Joel's face.