Chapter 61: Answering the Wrong Question

"Chris! Wake up! You can sleep in the afternoon!!"

After attending a Transfiguration class in a daze, Lu Yunkai ran back to the dormitory without eating lunch.

He didn't listen to a word of this class.

"Meow, what are you doing? I worked hard all night last night!!"

"Listen to me, something bad has happened!"

"No matter how big the problem is, can it be bigger than that damn notebook returning to Hogwarts?"

Chris yawned, stretched, climbed up, licked her paws, and wiped her face.

"......You know?"

"Yesterday on the train, I was sleeping on the luggage rack when I saw Ginny take out the notebook and write on it." Chris nodded, "After getting off the train, I sneaked into the Gryffindor lounge, waiting for her to fall asleep and steal it out and throw it away."

"Then what?"

"But I didn't expect Ginny to put that thing next to her pillow. She would wake up when I approached her. Later, she seemed to feel something was wrong and directly hugged the notebook to sleep. I watched all night, but I didn't get the chance."

"......Thank you for your hard work." Lu Yunkai sighed deeply.

Listening to Chris's words, Lu Yunkai estimated that the notebook should have partially controlled Ginny's mind.

No wonder, even he, who has lived two lives and seen many intrigues and deceptions, and whose mental age is 40 or 50 years old, was fooled by a few words in the notebook and almost doubted Chris, who had done him a great favor, not to mention a simple-minded girl.

The problem now is very troublesome.

"Meow, you woke me up just to tell me this?"

"I just saw Ginny holding that notebook, which made me miss the whole class and was scolded by Professor McGonagall." Lu Yunkai waved his hand, "Let's not talk about this, how can we deal with that notebook!?"

"We still don't know what kind of magic Voldemort cast on that notebook!" Chris shook his cat head seriously, "If we don't even know this, how can we deal with it?"

"How about I ask Dumbledore?"

"Do you want to die?" Chris glared at Lu Yunkai fiercely, "You can tell Dumbledore all about receiving this notebook last year, being considered by Voldemort as someone who can help him resurrect, and returning this notebook to Lucius during the summer vacation... All these things? Then you might as well go to Azkaban directly to register for safety."

"I should have talked to Dumbledore about the notebook last year!" Lu Yunkai regretted it a little.

"Then you might be killed by Quirrell." Chris interrupted Lu Yunkai's self-pity, "It's useless to think about these things now, meow."

"How about I ask Hermione about this book?"

"Meow, even I don't know what this thing is, do you think that silly girl with freckles on her face can be better than me?" Chris was unhappy.

"Defense Against the Dark Arts class is in the afternoon. I'll go ask Lockhart?"

"Lockhart may not be as good as Hermione!" Chris shook her head, "But you don't have to be so anxious, just wait and see! Anyway, that notebook can't let Ginny deal with you for the time being."

"I'm not worried about myself, but Ginny!"

"Meow, why do you care so much about that Weasley girl? Aren't you afraid that Daphne will be jealous?"

"She's already jealous." Lu Yunkai waved his hand, interrupting Chris's gossiping heart, "I just think Ginny encountered this kind of shit just because I wanted to be lazy and save trouble, I have a responsibility! Okay, I won't say anymore, I'll go eat first, now I can only hope that Blaise's previous statement that Lockhart was a fool is false."

"Meow, as far as I know, that thing is true."

"You're the only one who talks too much!" Lu Yunkai glared at Chris fiercely, and left the dormitory with a heavy heart.

...

Time went by in the blink of an eye and it was evening.

"Lu Yunkai? What can I do for you?"

In Snape's office on the first floor of the basement, the black iron tower-like man in front of Lu Yunkai, who looked tangled, asked in his usual low voice.

"Sorry... Professor, I'm curious about a question and want to ask you."

"Um... Oh? Your brain-blocking skills are progressing very quickly!" Snape's tone was a little surprised.

"Ah? Is that true?" Lu Yunkai was confused.

This summer vacation, he was first busy going to Liverpool to find memories, then he opened a store with Mrs. Zabini, and then he and Daphne reviewed the second-year courses every day. How could he have time to practice brain-blocking skills?

"You are indeed a genius." Snape nodded with satisfaction. "I have nothing to teach you about Occlumency. I think even if a wizard is resurrected now, it is unlikely that he can read any of your thoughts."

"...I am not here for Occlumency this time." Lu Yunkai didn't know why Snape suddenly said these words, but he didn't care much now. "I have a question about other magic that I want to ask you."

"What?"

"Do you know a kind of magic that can make an object exist like a clone, such as a notebook."

"Doppelganger?"

"It means that it can comfort others for me, or answer some questions." Lu Yunkai tried to make the question specific.

"Why, do you think Daphne is troublesome?"

"...No, I'm just curious."

Lu Yunkai's forehead was black.

Why are you such a dead-faced person being so gossipy! !

"Even if it is, I won't tell you." Snape still looked serious, "All magic involving the soul is in the category of black magic and is strictly prohibited."

"I just want to be someone who...answers Daphne's questions for me." Lu Yunkai gritted his teeth and began to lie, "She is always asking questions about this and that. I can't even keep my spirits up while reading."

"That won't work either."

"...So, there is this kind of magic, right?"

"I don't know either." Snape shook his head, "Black magic is vast and profound, and there are many black magics that only a handful of people know and inherit, but from a magical perspective, this kind of thing is completely possible. "

"That means you can achieve this effect by taking a small part of your soul and attaching it to other objects, right? Are there other methods?"

"I can't answer your question." Snape shook his head.

"I'm just curious! Purely academic research."

Lu Yunkai actually understood Snape's answer: There is no other way.

"The tearing of the soul requires a huge price, and it has no meaning other than causing you pain. I advise you not to think about this issue anymore." Snape was particularly serious, "This matter I I won’t mention it to anyone, otherwise you will face questioning from the Ministry of Magic tomorrow.”

"Ministry of Magic?" Lu Yun smiled.

A bunch of losers!

They are so awesome, why can't they feel that there is such a dangerous thing in Hogwarts?

It's probably just a bunch of idiots like Lockhart hanging around there.

Thinking of this, Lu Yunkai's eyes flashed again to the "tragic situation" in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class this afternoon. Lockhart was confused by a group of small animals that could fly very fast and had no attack power. It was Hermione who stood up and led Lu Yun. A few of them used obstacle spells to put those things back into the cage.

In the end, he didn't even figure out what the little animal was called.

"It's a good thing to be curious. The most important thing for magic research is curiosity." Snape saw Lu Yunkai's disdain for the Ministry of Magic, and a hint of appreciation flashed in his eyes, but he continued seriously: "But curiosity The mind needs to be in the right direction, and the study of the soul is definitely not one of them.”

"Then if you want to deal with this kind of thing, is there any way?" Lu Yunkai saw that Snape was very insistent, so he could only go back to the front, "For example, I saw a person's soul attached to something, and I wanted to The soul is expelled from things..."

"You don't have this power." Snape interrupted Lu Yunkai, "Have you ever heard of the Unforgivable Curse?"

"No. Does it mean that after using it, it cannot be forgiven by the Ministry of Magic?"

"The Killing Curse, the Soul-Impering Curse, and the Cruciatus Curse." Snape nodded, "If you use any of these three spells on anyone, you will be sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban. And these three spells are all related to the soul. The way you want to erase the soul is the death curse..."

"Isn't it okay to just erase the souls that others have split using evil methods?"

"Once it splits, it will be an independent soul. If you want to destroy it, you are violating the Ministry of Magic's prohibition." Snape's tone also contained some contempt, "The rules are like this, you must abide by it."

"Is this so?" Lu Yunkai was a little disappointed.

"But if you think about it from another angle, you can get around this ban." Seeing Lu Yunkai's disappointed look, Snape seemed a little intolerable and continued.

"oh??"

"Destroying the thing to which the soul is attached, rather than touching the soul, does not violate the requirements of the Ministry of Magic."

"The thing was destroyed, and the soul attached to it..."

"When a person dies, will his soul still be there?" Snape asked.

"Thank you, Professor."

Ignore the soul of Voldemort attached to the notebook and destroy the notebook directly, so that at least this part of Voldemort's soul will be eliminated.

Although it is possible that it has other souls...

"By the way, Professor, if I split off part of my soul, will this part of my soul still share memories with me?"

Lu Yunkai finally raised the question he was most worried about.

He was afraid of being settled by Voldemort's queen! !

"I think you started to have random thoughts after you finished practicing Occlumency." Snape sighed softly, but did not answer his question, "I think it is necessary for Professor Lockhart to provide you with some after-school tutoring. , makes you realize the horror of black magic.”

"professor……"

"Okay, you go back first!" Snape said firmly, "I will treat what happened tonight as if it never happened."

"But……"

"You can leave." Snape said the last words in one word.

"Yes, Professor."

Lu Yunkai lowered his head and walked out of Snape's office.

Lockhart is unreliable and Snape refuses to say anything. Do you really force me to go find Dumbledore? ?

Even if you beat me to death, I won’t do it! What if he casts a sealing spell on me again!

In that case, it’s better to take the risk and destroy the notebook directly!

How about letting Chris give it a try?

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