Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

At the long table in the restaurant, everyone in the Order of the Phoenix looked at Zhang Xu who was standing up after lunch, waiting for him to start performing.

"I have bad news or worse news, which one do you want to hear first?" Zhang Xu said to the members of the Order of the Phoenix.

"Ahem..." Professor McGonagall, who seldom attended Phoenix Society meetings, reminded Zhang not to seek death.

With Professor McGonagall's reminder, Zhang Xu will not die.

"These two pieces of news are sequential and causal. The bad news is that one of Dumbledore's extremely critical plans has gone wrong. Although this plan has brought many obvious benefits, but due to Dumbledore's dissatisfaction with a certain Insufficient knowledge of magic has led to even worse news." Zhang Xu said.

The mere mention of Dumbledore's plans going awry caused a bit of a commotion among the Order of the Phoenix.But everyone quickly quieted down, waiting for the arrival of worse news.

"Let me start from the beginning." Zhang Xu said after taking a look at the Double-Yellow Eggman, "Dumbledore spent a lot of effort on this matter in the past few years, and some of us also know This matter is the matter of destroying the mysterious man's Horcrux."

"Since four or five years ago, Dumbledore has been looking for and destroying the mysterious man's horcruxes after confirming that the mysterious man was making the horcruxes, so as to prevent the mysterious man from resurrecting again after failure. For several years, this The work has made a lot of progress, so I won’t talk about the specifics, and I will talk about the key parts next.”

After briefly explaining to people who don't know what a Horcrux is, Zhang Xu took out a stack of magazines and put them on the table. Someone recognized from the spine that this was a magic magazine that was supposed to be released tomorrow.Then he went on to say: "Making and preserving multiple Horcruxes at one time is unprecedented in the history of magic. Since there is no precedent to check, neither Dumbledore nor You-Know-Who himself knew that when one person simultaneously crafted and preserved multiple Horcruxes What kind of impact will it have on the parties involved.”

"So, after Dumbledore thought about it and weighed the pros and cons, he gave some people including me the task of finding and destroying Horcruxes, and he himself devoted himself to this work."

"However, no one expected that just because several Horcruxes were destroyed, the Mysterious Man has undergone some very bad changes for us."

Then Zhang Xu waved his hand, and the magazine in front of him flew in front of everyone.

"I went to the editorial office in the morning and bought a few magazines in advance. You can read the first paper of this issue of the magazine. This is the mysterious man's mockery of Dumbledore."

Professor McGonagall and other academic masters were the first to pick up the magazine. Others may have never read the magazine before.

Turning to the magazine, everyone saw that the title of the first paper was a study on the influence of soul splitting on oneself, and the author was Voldemort.

Seeing that everyone who was reading the paper had no objection to what he just said, Zhang was relieved.

It was Zhang who made Dumbledore realize the location of the Horcrux in advance and began to destroy the Horcrux.And the one who eliminated the most Horcruxes was him, the guy who delivered food to the dementors.

However, who would have imagined that the resonance between multiple split souls would have an effect similar to the "mentally retarded halo" effect on the main soul.Its principle is similar to that there are several voices whispering in your ears all the time. This is not someone saying, “Love me will never change”, but it seems that there are a bunch of flies around you all day long, buzzing. ...hum...hum...flying into your ears, it's no wonder that you don't have any mental problems in the long run.

Moreover, when soul fragments are violently destroyed, they will cause a huge impact on other souls that will take a long time to recover at the moment of destruction.

However, if these souls are slowly digested, not only will there not be a sudden shock, but it will gradually weaken until the "mentally retarded halo" produced by the soul resonance is eliminated.

The problem now is that the horcruxes other than Harry have been disposed of long ago, and most of them were slowly digested by the dementors, which resulted in Voldemort's own soul not being impacted, and helping him The "mentally retarded halo" has been lifted.And the black hand behind all this is him, Mr. Zhang.

Recalling the "plot", Horcruxes such as rings, lockets, cups, crowns, and double-yolk eggs were all violently eliminated in a short period of time.The impact on Voldemort is probably that his head twitched and Narcissa Malfoy went to see if Harry was dead, instead of directly cremating Harry's "body" with a fire.And later he relaxed the protection of the snake girl, making Nagini's gift of the snake head become Neville's experience bag.If Voldemort had been more cautious at that time, cremated Harry in public in front of the teachers and students of Hogwarts, and then kept Nagini hidden, then it is estimated that the author could have written two more books.

At the same time, this can also explain why Voldemort's IQ is now online, not only recruiting troops all over the world, developing from regional terrorists to Grindelwald's transnational organizations, but also making a lot of show operations.

And helping Voldemort to lift the "mentally retarded aura" and reduce the impact of the soul, and let his IQ go online again, objectively speaking, Zhang cannot escape, after all, he was open and secret in the beginning of the elimination of the Horcrux. Promoted.

Fortunately, although Voldemort's IQ is on the line, he still can't be sure about Zhang's role in this matter. After all, he can't realize that Zhang is one of the first few people to know the secret of the Horcrux, and there are still people in front of him. A Dumbledore stood in front of him, so he thought that Zhang's actions were all ordered by Dumbledore.

In order to combat Dumbledore's remaining prestige and build confidence on his own side, Voldemort made this matter semi-public.

As a highly academic journal, magic magazines are not read by ordinary wizards.Voldemort used a little Spring and Autumn style of writing when writing the thesis, and then told those knowledgeable and capable wizards in this way: You see, being as wise as Dumbledore will objectively help me relieve my worries, and my destiny is clear I am none other than you, hurry up and follow me.At the same time, he told those dark wizards who took refuge in him: Your Dark Lord will always be your Dark Lord, so it is right for you to follow me.And those people who eat melons, after hearing the news a few times, will only realize that Dumbledore is stupid and Voldemort is awesome.

Fortunately, Zhang was not mentioned at all in the paper, so he took this opportunity to let Dumbledore memorize the pot and the bottom of the pot.

As for the matter of revealing that he has a Horcrux, Voldemort is afraid that he will dig a deep pit and bury the Horcrux quietly. Where can you find it?

Professor McGonagall, who was the first to read and understand the paper and the meaning behind it, closed the magazine and looked at Zhang Xu with a complicated expression.And Zhang Xu could only return a wry smile.

Although he, Zhang, had already realized that Voldemort's IQ was on the line, he did not expect that Voldemort himself had discovered this very early on, and had made concessions to him on many issues before to paralyze him.

At the beginning, he planned to use the locket in the cave by the sea as an opportunity to let Voldemort know that his Horcrux had been stolen when the time was right, and induce Voldemort to attack Hogwarts, which had set up an ambush circle, and then attack him. Launch the final blow.

When he lent the Elder Wand to Voldemort, he used the Unbreakable Oath to set two conditions. In addition to ensuring that Dumbledore's tomb was not destroyed, the second condition was to let Voldemort know that Slytherin's locket was stolen. Then let Voldemort sue Black as the owner, and then sell the ownership of the locket to himself.In this way, not only can Voldemort be introduced into the ambush circle, but also Slytherin's locket can be obtained.

However, after Voldemort suspected that there was something wrong with his Horcrux, he decisively sent people to the seaside cave and the ruins of the old house to confirm the situation of the locket and the ring.As a result, after confirming that all the horcruxes in these places were missing, not only did he not get mad on the spot, but he also guessed Zhang's intentions.

So when the Wizengamot was rebuilt, without waiting for Zhang to mention it, he filed a lawsuit against Regulus Black for stealing his locket from the Wizengamot.After all, only the house elves of the Black family knew about it back then, and later on Regulus Black disappeared for no apparent reason, and was buried around the time when the soul fragments in the locket were suspected to have been destroyed. If the upper locket was missing again and it was not in someone Zhang's hands, then it was almost impossible for the cauldron to be on Regulus Black's body.Sirius Black, an immediate family member of Regulus Black, was the defender of his late brother and was not present at the trial, so the Wizengamot convicted the late Regulus Black of the theft, locket Voldemort must be returned.

On Christmas Eve, the envelope that Voldemort gave Zhang Xu as a Christmas present contained the verdict of this case and the gift document of the locket.

Now, from a legal point of view, Zhang Xu has become the legal owner of the Slytherin locket.

As for why the locket belonging to a certain lady became Voldemort's property, no one in the Wizengamot thought about this issue, after all, none of them would make life difficult for themselves.

This very important card that Zhang Xu laid down many years ago was suddenly lifted by Voldemort, which caused him a lot of blows.

Fortunately, he still has other cards to play, so he won't lose all the cards.

At this time, as long as everyone in the Order of the Phoenix had a good brain, after reading Voldemort's thesis, they already understood Zhang Xu's intention for calling them here. In the 70s, Voldemort, who had a problem with his mind, could shock the entire British wizarding world three times a day.But now, the mainstay Dumbledore is gone, Voldemort has become smarter, and the situation has become serious.