Chapter 47: Professor, what is your morals?
Facing Ivan who can touch him, Ron doesn’t know what to say...
Harry also wanted to spit out what was so touching, but seeing Ivan's sincere expression, he swallowed the words that came to his mouth abruptly.
At this moment, an old and steady voice suddenly rang in everyone's ears.
"It's not ashamed to face the pain.. Hals..."
This is Dumbledore’s voice. Ivan heard it instantly. The Occupational Technique power was turned on in the next second. At the same time, he spent 100 academic points to activate the Xueba experience card mode, which gave him a sense of security. go with.
At the door of the principal’s room, Dumbledore, with white hair and beard, stood there quietly for unknown time.
"Professor..." Harry was surprised, and then he became a little nervous because they had used the magic mirror without consent.
Dumbledore was not looking at them. Instead, he looked at the Mirror of Eris. Ivan couldn't see any clues from the reflection of Dumbledore's eyes, only knowing that he had seen it for a while before regaining his senses.
Dumbledore stepped forward and stroked Harry's head with his hand, then looked at Ivan.
"What Hals just said is correct. This is the Mirror of Eris, which allows us to see the most urgent and strongest desire deep in our hearts. In the past, many people were lost in front of these false illusions. Over time, they are even obsessed with it, because they don’t know whether everything in the mirror is real or whether it is possible to achieve...
"I don't want you to be like them." Dumbledore added.
"Halse, do you mind telling me what you see in the mirror?" Dumbledore asked suddenly.
Ivan hesitated for a while, thinking of some excuse to fool the past, but finally hesitated for a while and told the truth.
"Family."
"Yeah, I should have thought of it..." Dumbledore whispered, seemingly moved.
"Professor, what do you see in the Mirror of Eris?" Ivan asked quickly without daring to make Dumbledore think for too long.
"I saw myself holding a pair of thick woolen socks." Dumbledore said.
"There are never enough socks..." Dumbledore continued. "I thought I could receive a few pairs at Christmas, but unfortunately they didn't. They insisted on sending me books."
Ivan curled his lips. Although he understood that Dumbledore used wool socks as a metaphor for family affection, he couldn't help but spit out in his heart.
Who just said to face the pain?
Professor, what is your morals?
After delaying the work of this meeting, Harry also woke up from the excitement and dissatisfaction of seeing his parents in the magic mirror, remembering what he had come for, and interrupted anxiously.
"Professor, we are here to report to you. A few days ago, a mysterious man in a black robe got a way to pass through Norway from Hagrid. He probably wanted to go through the trapdoor and steal what you put underneath. Magic stone...."
Harry finished speaking in one breath, and felt that this was not enough to win the letter, so he controlled his broomstick during the Quidditch game, and told him about Snape's calf injury after Halloween.
Ron and Hermione also added details on the side... It was just a momentary rush, and it was inevitable that they were a little confused.
"Don't worry, you can sit down and speak slowly." Dumbledore seemed to have known it, and was not surprised at this. He waved his wand and deformed four chairs, beckoning them to sit down.
Harry and the others nodded, and after a few people sat down, Dumbledore asked.
"Can you tell me first, where did you learn about the Sorcerer's Stone?"
Isn't the clue you left behind? Ivan murmured in his heart, but Harry and the others said something that shouldn't be said, and they said it first before they spoke.
"We learned from Hagrid that the thing hidden under the trapdoor was related to a man named Nicole LeMay, and then we found out that he was the maker of the Sorcerer's Stone."
"Then who do you think would do this kind of thing?" Dumbledore nodded, agreeing with Ivan's explanation.
"We suspect it's Snape! Or Professor Chino might also..." Harry said hurriedly.
Dumbledore did not reply this time, but fell into a long period of contemplation.
"Professor, don't you believe us?" Ron asked eagerly.
"No, of course I believe you." Dumbledore comforted Ron and the others, and then said in a deep voice, "But I also trust the professors in the school, they won't do this kind of thing."
Harry opened his mouth to refute, but Dumbledore waved his hand.
"It is not only the three-headed dog Norwegian used to guard the Philosopher's Stone. Every professor has arranged a protective measure under that, including Snape and Chino..."
"So the Philosopher's Stone is safe underneath." Dumbledore added.
"Then if there are no enemies, why did you bring the Philosopher's Stone to the school and set up so many protections there?" Ivan easily found the loophole in Dumbledore's words and asked aloud.
Now that he had found the opportunity to report Chino, Ivan was of course crazily suggesting that Dumbledore quickly resolve this potential threat.
Give a professor-level enemy who is still connected with the Dark Lord to their little wizards who have just entered the school Professor, won't your conscience hurt?
Ivan murmured in his heart, but he did not forget that he was running Occlumency at full speed, creating some reasonable false memories outside.
Because just before the Q&A, Ivan keenly noticed that Dumbledore had used three times of contemplation. They were when Harry told the story, mentioned the Philosopher’s Stone and asked them who they suspected.
Of course, the fluctuations in the memory of the three probes did not last long. It should only be confirmed whether they are lying or hiding something.
Thanks to the extraordinary bonus to Occlumency in the experience card mode, and Dumbledore did not use his full strength, Ivan successfully concealed his true thoughts.
"That's because I got news by chance that a very dangerous person is planning to hit the Philosopher's Stone, but it's not Snape or Chino as you said." Dumbledore gave Ivan an appreciative look, and didn't Explain more, but got up and looked at the Mirror of Eris.
"Anyway, thank you for your reminder. I will let other professors pay more attention. You should go back first... I am going to put this mirror somewhere else. If you find something wrong, you are welcome to tell me again. I."
"Okay, Professor, let's go now..." After confirming that Dumbledore did not intend to deal with Chino now, Ivan just wanted to leave quickly. He didn't want to stay in front of Dumbledore for even a second. .
Harry opened his mouth, there are still many questions to ask and many things to say, but in the end he left the principal's office with others without saying anything.
Just after the four left the headmaster's room, Dumbledore stood in front of the Mirror of Eris for a long time and meditated, then suddenly said.
"Severus... what do you think?"