bookbashuk Chapter 74 Good heavens! Voldemort has grown a brain!
Chapter 74 Good heavens! Voldemort has grown a brain!
Chapter 74 Good heavens! Voldemort has grown a brain!
"I carried that Galleon with me for a few days, and it helped me learn a lot of magic, and even greatly improved my speech," Ron said.
His words confirmed the two listeners' suspicions: Voldemort's linguistic charm was indeed remarkable. Whether he possessed Ron or the Galleon contained a portion of his power, it would cause some degree of change in Ron.
Perhaps it's a blessing in disguise for Ron—thinking about the appalling test papers Ron handed in at the beginning of the school year, Ryan felt that the Weasley family was quite lucky, and they really could turn bad luck into good.
"Then Malfoy challenged me to a duel—" Ron continued, "At the time, I thought Malfoy was too weak and wanted to humiliate him properly. So I accepted."
His eyes were filled with fear and confusion: "Next—" I became a spectator of my own body, only aware of what was happening outside, but unable to control my own body!
Unsure whether it was true or false, Ryan felt that the fear and trembling in his words were genuine, but Ryan's own Legilimency was just ordinary, and he couldn't use magical means to determine its authenticity.
He heard Dumbledore say, "Since you can't control your body, do you know what your body is doing?"
"I know, I know. I think there might be something wrong with that Galon! It's controlling me." Ron's voice rose several octaves, his eyes wide. "I saw it with my own eyes. I lured Filch here, then went to the fourth-floor corridor and used some unknown magic—a huge cloud of black mist..."
I don't know exactly what I destroyed, but after the spell ended, I found I could move again. And that three-headed dog could move too!
"It must be that Galon's fault!"
He said, "Luckily, I threw it away back then!"
Well, Ron hasn't really changed yet, Ryan thought. That's a good thing, otherwise, if he's been so deeply influenced by Voldemort that he's lost himself, then is he Voldemort or Ron?
Vio, Malfoy, Harry, Hermione, and others had all spoken to him about what happened back then in private.
Everyone knows that Malfoy felt his family name was insulted, so he kicked a Galleon that Ron treasured into the house where the three-headed dog was. The two then started fighting and biting each other. Ron wouldn't listen to anything or anyone else, and was determined to get the Galleon back.
Now, after hearing Ron's explanation, both Ryan and Dumbledore lowered their guard slightly.
Because Ron embellished these things, and his embellishment was rather crude. Voldemort wouldn't have done something so crude.
That's not necessarily true. After all, no normal person would think of chopping themselves into pieces—Ryan thought of Voldemort's feat and found it remarkable.
He could not understand killing for the sake of immortality; it was simply a matter of different paths.
But to dismember oneself in order to achieve immortality and even become mentally ill seems rather abstract.
He looked at Dumbledore, knowing that Dumbledore had taken his advice and installed a magical monitor in the room where Fulvi the Cerberus was housed.
"Headmaster, did the surveillance cameras in that room capture anything?" he asked, hoping to find out Voldemort's movements from the footage, or whether Ron went to collect the coins afterward.
He glanced at Ron out of the corner of his eye and noticed that Ron showed no sign of panic. This proved that after losing the coin, Ron had thought things through for a long time and finally managed to stay calm and not look for it, despite his fear of the coin and Luwei.
"If you're asking about the Galleons Mr. Ron just mentioned, I did find them," Dumbledore said, pulling a gold coin from his pocket. "I found Fluffy playing with this coin while I was installing the magical surveillance system."
"Unfortunately, once I got my hands on this gold coin, it was just an ancient coin and had no special function."
"Perhaps Mr. Ron still possessed some magic when he obtained it. But after breaking Luwei's protective array, the gold coin became ordinary."
It turned out that the three-headed dog was named Lou Williams. Ron listened intently, and the fact that the two of them didn't react violently to his plight helped him emerge from his previous state of constant anxiety.
"This gold coin doesn't look like anything special!" Ryan's eyes widened. He recognized this Galon, which Ron called an ancient goblin forged by the ancient goblin, as the very one he had unearthed from the alchemical ruins of the one who developed the external magical device and sold to Gringotts!
"Do you recognize this gold coin?"
"I sold this to a fairy. But that makes sense now."
Ron, who was standing to the side, felt that he could hear each word individually, but he just couldn't understand what they meant when put together.
Dumbledore knew the origin of the external magical device that Lane had been obsessed with during this time, and knew that Lane was referring to the time when Voldemort controlled Quirrell, when he went to rob Gringotts and took a few handfuls of gold coins.
Then, in a flash of inspiration, Dumbledore and Lane looked up at each other at the same time, and both saw terror in each other's eyes.
They all realized that Voldemort would definitely not only make one of these coins!
Voldemort must have created a batch of these gold coins and scattered them throughout Hogwarts!
Having a batch of such gold coins to entice students at Hogwarts would be a better way to muddy the waters!
Even Headmaster Dumbledore and the prophet Lane couldn't pinpoint his location!
Ron was the student most deeply affected by the gold coins and was also the first to be exposed!
Taking the most pessimistic view, Quirinas Quiro may very well have been a discarded pawn from the very beginning!
Oh no, Voldemort has a brain! The situation is extremely urgent. Ryan's mind raced as he tried to find a way to defeat the enemy, but even the cunning Dumbledore had just shown a hint of fear in his eyes. In his desperation, he couldn't find a suitable solution.
At this point, information that he himself could not understand was obviously unreliable, and he desperately hoped that he could still remember what the original plot of the first year was all about!
How was Voldemort dealt with this year in the original story?
Ryan is now filled with regret, deep regret.
Now, all he can do is figure out how to solve this problem.
However, this situation is difficult no matter how you look at it!
First, a Galleon is a significant sum for most students at Hogwarts; second, this gold coin also has the effect of aiding learning!
Having such gold coins would definitely be regarded as the little wizard's biggest secret, just like the cheat codes of every protagonist.
These young wizards would never reveal the secret of the gold coins unless the coins manipulated them into doing something that instilled fear in them, just like Ron is doing now.
"Lane, go and work with them to forge the alchemical device!" Dumbledore said calmly, appearing confident.
Ryan felt relieved, thinking that everything was under Dumbledore's control. The White Lord truly lived up to his reputation as the only person Voldemort feared.
He bid farewell to Dumbledore and turned to enter the Adventurers' Club.
"As for Mr. Ron Weasley, you'll come with me to the infirmary," Dumbledore said, stopping Ron. "I think you need to be examined and cared for by Madam Pomfrey now. The confinement can be postponed a day or two; Ryan will agree."