He is tall, sitting on a chair and is about the same height as Dumbledore. His pale blond hair is meticulously combed, and he holds a gold-plated snake-head scepter in his hand. His white robes are also decorated with complicated gold threads. He has a proud expression on his face and turns his head.
The look on Joel's face was like looking at an annoying fly.
"Is this Meadows' child?" the man snorted, "it looks a bit like that stupid couple."
"Lucius..." Dumbledore tapped his fingers on Fudge's desk, and Fudge, who was sitting across from them, raised his eyebrows uneasily, "There's no need for us to reminisce in Mr. Minister's office, right?"
"Return the inheritance of Mr. and Mrs. Meadows, that's the end of it." Dumbledore made his request.
"Dumbledore, is this child worth your whole day of fighting?" Lucius Malfoy asked softly, looking at Joel with disgust in his eyes.
It seems that the relationship between the parents of the original owner of the body and Lucius Malfoy is extremely tense.
"Joel is my student," Dumbledore responded. "He should get his share of the inheritance. If you want to embezzle it for yourself, of course I will stand up for justice."
"Ten years ago, you started to play around with other family legacies that perished in the battle," he continued: "If those families have no clear heirs, you just use a legal loophole. The Meadows couple are from the Ministry of Magic."
employees who disappeared while performing missions for the Ministry of Magic, the Ministry of Magic should treat their heirs well."
"Am I right, Mr. Minister?" Dumbledore turned the topic to Fudge.
Fudge wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "Yes, our Ministry of Magic has the unshirkable responsibility."
Lucius' eyes moved between Dumbledore and Fudge, and finally he glanced at Joel. Joel could read strong hatred in this contemptuous look.
"Okay..." Lucius said in a sinister voice, "The Malfoy family will remember this."
After saying this, he got up and left the office.
Joel couldn't understand why he could be so confident when it was clear that Malfoy had embezzled the inheritance of the original owner of the body. It was as if Joel had taken advantage of Malfoy.
Suddenly, a house elf appeared out of thin air in Fudge's office.
Its short and thin body was covered with an old pillowcase, with bat-like ears, a slender nose like Pinocchio, and big green eyes that bulged outward.
A gray cloth bag that was larger than its body floated beside the elf, and the bag was bulging with things.
It put down the gray bag, then bowed deeply to the three wizards present, snapped its fingers and disappeared with a snap.
"These are your parents' relics," Fudge put on his smile again and called to Joel, "Come over and take a look."
He seemed to have forgotten the unpleasantness of this morning, and his attitude toward Joel was like that of a familiar junior. The contrast between his attitudes before and after was like a Sichuan opera face-changing.
Joel didn't pay much attention and squatted down to untie the gray cloth bag.
A photo album, a diary, several sets of robes, skirts, some cosmetics and toiletries, a wallet, and the rest are stacks of books, probably hundreds of them, and the weight is amazing.
"There should be a Gringotts vault key in the wallet," Dumbledore said. "The goblin in Gringotts will ask you for the password and the vault owner after receiving the key."
"Don't worry, I will contact Gringotts right away," Fudge immediately took over the topic, "I guarantee that Joel can enter the vault directly tomorrow."
After receiving the inheritance, Dumbledore finally let Fudge go. Fudge sent Joel and Joel out of the minister's office, and he breathed a sigh of relief the moment he closed the door.
"Professor Dumbledore, thank you very much..." Joel said in the elevator.
"It's not such a big deal," Dumbledore said with a smile, "I can still afford it in one day."
"Gringotts, you should know how to get there, so I won't accompany you."
"No problem, Professor!" Joel agreed quickly.
Dumbledore took Joel back to the room on the second floor of the Leaky Cauldron with the cloth bag before apparating away.
Joel can finally calm down and sort out his inheritance.
Open the wallet, there are some coins inside, and two pounds. As Dumbledore said, there is a copper key in the wallet.
He took the keys out and put them in his pocket, then put his wallet aside.
Wearing two black plain robes, Joel measured the size. The size was slightly larger but not exaggerated. He recalled the photo that Professor Flitwick gave him and judged that it should belong to the mother of the original owner of the body.
The two floral long skirts, judging from the craftsmanship, must have been produced by Muggle machines, and Joel even saw the Lancôme logo in other cosmetics.
The books in the legacy - it would be more appropriate to call them books. They have a simple appearance, coupled with yellowing pages, and many books are missing pages. The full text of the books is written in runes (Joel in the Charms textbook
I’ve seen this type of text before).
Runes cannot be taken as an elective until the third grade. Joel plans to take these books to school and study them carefully then.
What is left is a diary that is not thick, with a simple black cover, and a faded date below the cover - September 1942.
Joel opened the first page, and there was a cursive signature inside. It was too old and the ink was blurred, so Joel had to read it carefully.
Tom Riddle.
After recognizing the handwriting, Joel was afraid that he had read it wrong. He read it carefully three or four times and immediately closed the diary after confirming that it was correct.
His heartbeat increased sharply, and Joel knew it was Lucius' fault.
Originally, Riddle's diary was supposed to be put into Ginny's cauldron by Lucius due to a conflict, but now he actually took the opportunity to retaliate and stuff it into the inheritance of the original owner's parents.
Lucius Malfoy didn't know that the diary was a Horcrux, but he knew that the diary was a dark magic item, and the magic contained in it could reopen the Chamber of Secrets. Killing two birds with one stone, it not only disrupted the order of Hogwarts, but also...
He has the opportunity to drive away the principal Dumbledore and frame the trouble on Joel.
If Joel were a native of the magical world, he might have fallen into Lucius's trap, but he was familiar with the plot of the original work and knew the true identity of the diary.
He simply sat cross-legged on the bed and thought.
There are two very important points in the copy of the secret room, one is Riddle's diary, and the other is the basilisk in the secret room.
The diary manipulates people's minds to reach the entrance of the secret room, uses Parseltongue to open the secret room, releases the basilisk, and causes a certain amount of damage. Harry uncovers the fog and uses Parseltongue to enter the secret room, kills the basilisk and destroys the diary.
In this copy, the basilisk is far less harmful than the diary. As long as the diary is destroyed, there is no way for the basilisk to come out without the Parseltongue to open the secret room.
The question now is who will be the one to destroy the Horcrux.
Joel excluded himself first.
His current situation is very safe. Voldemort still doesn't know the true identity of his parents, and the people in the Order of the Phoenix treat him quite well. Even if Voldemort finds a physical body and is resurrected, he will not encounter any trouble.
If he rashly destroys the Horcrux, it will naturally arouse the hatred of Voldemort. Even if his parents were Death Eaters, they will not be able to save him.
How about... find a way to give the diary to Ginny? Follow the original plot?
It's not impossible. As long as Joel survives until Voldemort dies, everything will end perfectly.
Does this count as pushing Ginny into the fire pit?
Joel couldn't make up his mind for a moment. Although Ginny was the first owner of Riddle's diary in the original work, the world he lives in now is not exactly the same as the original work, and many of its contents have quietly changed.
At least judging from the current plot direction of the world, Ginny will not have a relationship with this diary.
This is obviously different from the copy of History of Magic. Quirrell (Voldemort) had already targeted Harry at that time. Joel just had to maintain the "do nothing" approach, but Lucius has obviously changed his target of blaming him. If he
Giving Ginny the diary was, at best, just to follow the original plot and not break it up, but at worst, wasn't it a frame-up?
Joel sighed. He went to bed extra early today, and his dreams were filled with Ginny's innocent smiling face.
Early the next morning, Joel walked through the Leaky Cauldron to Diagon Alley.
Passing through an alley, he came to Gringotts again.
Taking out the key, the goblin from Gringotts had obviously been notified. He just asked the owner's name and then took Joel to the underground vault.
There were sparks and lightning all the way on the trolley, and ten minutes later, Joel finally saw the vault.
The moment the goblin opened the door for him, he was blinded by the gold galon.
"Here...how many gold coins are there in total?" Joel's heart was pounding.
"21,000 pieces," the goblin reported the number, "mostly from interest and the return of royalties from the Meadows couple."
21,000 galleons, similar to his net worth.
"Interest?" Joel was a little confused, "If I keep my money in Gringotts, will there be interest?"
"Of course not," the goblin said sternly, "A trust agreement must be signed, so that Gringotts will invest the gold you have stored here, and then we will pay you interest."
"In fact, this kind of investment is very safe." After realizing that Joel was a potential customer of Gringotts, the goblin tried to persuade Joel to keep the gold galleons. "Gringotts has existed in the world for hundreds of years.
We provide investment and financial management services to tens of thousands of wizards, and we fairies have always been very trustworthy."
"...I'll think about it again." Joel didn't agree first. This deposit of tens of thousands of galleons cannot be used for system recharge, but he can use it in other places. The purchase of real estate and daily expenses can be made from this deposit.
Misappropriation of money.
The goblin didn't ask any more questions. Joel took out the gold galleons and deposited them into his account along with the 9,000 galleons he had on him, leaving only 1,000 galleons as a spare.
Joel got his Gringotts key at noon.
By chance, Haylis sent a letter asking about his current situation.
Joel explained truthfully and just ignored the notebook that Lucius stuffed into the inheritance. In his reply, he asked Haylis to help refer to the residence.
In the evening one day later, Haylis sent over a stack of information for Joel to compare carefully, and made an appointment with him to meet at the Leaky Cauldron at 8:30 the next morning.
Joel received the letter, fed Bobby who was very tired, and then lay on the bed and learned the runic phonetic table by the light.
After two hours, the runes became crooked and twisted, like small black snakes burrowing straight into his eyes. Joel finally couldn't resist the tide of sleepiness and fell asleep in a daze.
When Joel woke up in the morning, he removed the runic phonetic table covering his body, rolled over and got out of bed. He first faced the rising sun outside and pointed at his heart and recited the Animagus practice mantra, and then went to wash up.
He could feel another power gradually forming in his body at sunrise and sunset recently, and he estimated that the Animagus form would be completed soon.
All it takes is a storm.
He deliberately skipped breakfast today. Joel had recently had enough of Tom's cooking skills, so he could go out to a restaurant with Haylis.
At 8:15, when Joel went downstairs, Haylis had already arrived and was standing at the bar chatting with the boss Tom.
She was wearing a long white dress, with only a small portion of her delicate ankles exposed, and her black hair spread like seaweed and fell to her shoulders.
Hailis saw Joel coming downstairs with a smile on her face and said, "Good morning."
"Morning," Joel responded, "You haven't had breakfast?"
Haylis shook her head slightly.
Just in time, Joel took her to the fast food restaurant. After eating a hamburger and drinking a drink, Joel felt full of strength.
Hailis felt that the breakfast here was too greasy, so she only ate one potato chip, then she held her chin with her hand and looked at Joel.
After breakfast, Hailis took out the palm-sized bag she carried with her and took out a map.
"Look, we are going to these places today," Haylis took out a pen and connected lines on the map. "Yesterday I circled several cost-effective residences, Godric's Hollow, Huo
Germod Village..."
"This is our nearest route. We will rest in Hogsmeade Village at noon, and by the way we can go to Three Broomsticks and drink two bottles of butter beer..." Haylis planned the route last night and took this opportunity to go out and have some fun.
Just don't have to put up with Bernie at home all day.
The two of them stretched out their magic wands in the alley and got on the Knight Bus.
Fifteen minutes later, they successfully arrived at Godric's Hollow in southwest England, the most famous half-wizard settlement in the UK, the birthplace of Godric Gryffindor, one of the founders of Hogwarts, and the current
Headmaster Albus Dumbledore also grew up here.
The names of ancient wizarding families are engraved here, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a legendary place in the British wizarding world.
Joel and Haylis were standing in the small square in the center of the village, staring at the war memorial in the center of the square.
In the eyes of Muggles, this is a plain war monument, but in the eyes of the wizards Joel and Haylis, there is a statue of three people: a man with disheveled hair like a hedgehog and wearing glasses, and a beautiful man with long hair.
A touching woman with a baby boy sitting in her mother's arms.