The third-year wizards will head to the wizarding town of Hogsmeade for the first time during the day on Halloween Eve.

Of course, Harry Potter couldn't go because he didn't get his guardian's permission because of the summer vacation. Of course, he actually had no intention of paying attention to Hogsmeade at the moment. The news Hermione brought back from Mr. Sellers gave him a huge shock, especially since the murderer had been caught and now all that was left was to find Sirius to testify in court.

'I will have a home...' Harry stood alone behind the window of his dormitory, feeling extremely happy.

But soon, he became worried again.

'Will he accept me?'

He is somewhat anxious about gains and losses.

"Of course he would. In fact, he would willingly give you everything he has."

A familiar voice suddenly sounded in Harry's ears, startling Harry. He suddenly came to his senses and looked around, but didn't see anyone: "Who is talking?"

"It's me." Cyrus knocked on the window.

Only then did Harry notice that there was a golden eagle perched in front of his window. He quickly opened the window, and the cool wind immediately blew in, making him shrink his head.

Then he saw the eagle jump into his house, and in his astonished eyes it turned into a man in a black and gold cloak.

"Mr. Sellers?!" Harry's eyes widened!

"Good morning, Harry. How's Sirius going?" Cyrus greeted naturally.

He didn't know the Gryffindor password, so he chose this method to get in.

"Peter Pettigrew has been imprisoned in the Ministry of Magic. The headmaster said that the trial can be held as soon as Sirius appears." Harry answered naturally, but he soon realized that in addition to answering, he still had too many questions to ask Cyrus.

For example - things related to Voldemort.

"How... have you been recently? Hermione said that you ignored her again after you replied to her in your diary last time." But he opened his mouth and only said ordinary greetings. He was worried that if he said something too clearly, they would no longer be able to be friends.

"I can't stand her chattering all the time. I have a lot of things to do."

"Busy bombing Gringotts?"

"It is true that I did what happened at Gringotts." Cyrus nodded, "But I was just following the normal procedure to get something, but those greedy goblins plotted against me. You did remind me - I can't let them have it easy."

Cyrus planned to write to Lucius Malfoy some time.

The greedy goblins must pay for their actions, but blood is not enough! Cyrus wants to take their most precious treasure!

Harry made no comment.

"So who are you this time?"

"I came to the school to find something, but I have to do some tricks first to avoid being discovered," Cyrus explained.

He was referring to the Marauder's Map.

Although the Pavilion of Knowledge was in Hogwarts, Cyrus did not expect to find its location immediately. This might take some time. Cyrus needed to ensure that he could stay in Hogwarts for a long time without being discovered.

"So, do you need someone to possess you?" Harry asked quickly. He even looked a little eager to try.

Cyrus: ???

"No, I don't need to possess you now, Harry." Seeing that Harry seemed a little disappointed, Cyrus added, "Don't tell anyone about my whereabouts, okay? This is our secret."

"certainly!"

Cyrus picked up the wand and transformed into another person in front of Harry - Neville Longbottom.

This is a boy with a fat round face, a very poor memory, and often forgets things. Cyrus spent some time with him when he possessed Ginny last year, so he is a familiar transformation target.

The most important thing is that with Neville's memory, it is normal for him to appear in the castle on a day when everyone is heading to Hogsmeade. No one would doubt it, and everyone would think that he must have forgotten something and had to stay.

After completing a perfect human transformation, Cyrus was about to go out when he noticed that Harry was looking at him eagerly.

"Together?" he asked tentatively.

Harry seemed to have been waiting for him to say this, and nodded without hesitation: "Of course!"

Instead of staying in the dormitory alone, it would be better to go out on an adventure with Cyrus. Even if it’s not an adventure, just wandering around would be nice.

"Where are we going now?"

"Let's go to Fred and George's dormitory first. I want to find a map and erase my name from it. By the way, have you heard of the Pavilion of Knowledge?" Cyrus asked as they walked.

"Sound like a library?"

They soon reached Fred's room, and it did not take Cyrus long to find the map.

Harry was stunned at the usefulness of this map. He never dreamed that Hogwarts had such a treasure.

"This was made by your father, Sirius and two other people together." Cyrus used a Confusion Charm on the map, and then cast an Anti-Interpersonal Charm and a Dispelling Charm on his own name, and finally erased his name from it.

"Can you erase my name as well?"

"If that's the case, then they'll know the map has been tampered with." Cyrus rejected Harry.

After finishing these things, Cyrus and Harry left the common room together. At this moment, the castle was sparsely populated, and only young wizards from lower grades occasionally passed through the corridor, but Harry still felt a little guilty, fearing that Cyrus would be discovered by others.

Harry followed Cyrus all the way to the Owlery.

"Lend me Hedwig for a moment."

"certainly!"

Harry nodded in agreement, and Cyrus walked up to the snowy owl and tied a letter to its feet.

"Who did you write to?"

"Lucius Malfoy," Cyrus said honestly.

"Malfoy...are you in cahoots with him?" This answer made Harry feel very uncomfortable. He never thought that the Malfoy family were good people.

"To strike at the economic lifeline of the goblins, I need the help of the Malfoy family, they have great prestige among the purebloods." Cyrus explained. To deal with Gringotts, we must act quickly, and stir up public opinion while Gringotts' prestige is damaged. After a long time, when the attack is over, it will not be so effective.

It would certainly be more convenient if Cyrus brought out Voldemort's identity, but now was not the time to show off.

"If Malfoy is obedient enough, he will soon declare that Gringotts is not trustworthy and that goblins cannot protect their wealth, and then take out all the gold stored in Gringotts. At that time, I hope you can do me a favor and respond to his call." Cyrus said to Harry, "It would be even better if you can persuade Black to do the same."

After that, Cyrus and Harry walked around Hogwarts several times but couldn't find the so-called Curiosity of Knowledge.

Cyrus thought his question was very thoughtful.

But if I want to go to the principal's office, I obviously can't go with Harry.

"Tonight is the Halloween party, and Professor Dumbledore will stay in the hall longer than usual." Harry suggested, "I can help you keep watch. If the professor leaves the hall, I will notify you."

"Good idea." Cyrus immediately produced two fake Galleons and threw one of them to Harry. "If anything happens, use this to notify you. As long as you cast a spell on it, mine will heat up, and I will leave immediately."

Harry nodded and put the fake Galleons away.

Then, the two of them went for a walk around the Black Lake. In the evening, the little wizards who went to Hogsmeade came back one after another, and Cyrus couldn't continue to act under Neville's face. He separated from Harry and turned into an eagle to hover over the castle.

Until night, Cyrus fell under the stars and the moon.

He came to the door of the principal's office.

The door to the principal's office was locked, and two gargoyles glared at him.

"Lemon Sherbet." He tried a password.

But the statue didn't respond. Then, he tried many more passwords for sweets, but the same thing happened. Cyrus wasn't surprised. Of course, reality couldn't be like a fan fiction, where the protagonist just happened to say a password and it would be correct.

Otherwise, the protection of the principal's office would be useless.

'The password to the Headmaster's office has always been sweets, but that was set by Dumbledore himself when he needed to see someone,' he thought to himself, 'but what password would he leave if he left and didn't want anyone to come in?'

"What password is unthinkable to others, and what Dumbledore has been thinking about all the time?" He lowered his head and muttered to himself.

A figure suddenly flashed through Cyrus' mind.

——Grindelwald! That was Dumbledore's love, but also his regret; that was the person he longed for, but also the person he could never forgive in his life. Cyrus didn't think Dumbledore would use Grindelwald's name as a password.

Dumbledore's feelings towards Grindelwald must be complicated. Not only was there the love that was difficult to express for more than two months, but there was also hatred for Grindelwald. At this point, there is no need to dwell on whose curse Dumbledore's sister Ariana died under.

Dumbledore, Aberforth and Grindelwald may all be responsible.

What is even more chilling is Grindelwald’s decision at that time.

He left behind two suffering teenagers and a cold corpse and fled Godric's Hollow alone.

Since then, there was the matter of Cresden...

Grindelwald owed Dumbledore too much. Cyrus heard that Grindelwald had often written to Dumbledore since he entered Nurmengard, but he did not get a response until he tore the bedsheets to pieces.

The spell could not have been Grindelwald's name, but something else.

Cyrus looked at the two gargoyles and spoke tentatively: "For the greater good."

The door opened.

Cyrus suddenly realized that this was not a password to open a door, but a spell to imprison two souls that were tormenting each other.

In Nurmengard, a prison in Northern Europe, the same words were engraved in German on the gate. Grindelwald was imprisoned there voluntarily, and Dumbledore also made a prison in Hogwarts.

For the greater good.

There is nothing wrong with this statement, it just depends on whose interests this "interest" refers to.

Grindelwald naturally represents the interests of wizards. His position is the same as Voldemort's, both of them regard Muggles as enemies; but his thoughts are completely different. He does not hate Muggles, nor does he despise them. On the contrary, Grindelwald attaches great importance to the power of Muggles. He regards Muggles as different from wizards, but equally useful.

Yes, it is "people"! The concept of "people" in the wizarding world has changed many times. Nowadays, whether it is goblins, centaurs or giants, they are actually classified as "people". In the past, they were magical beasts.

Grindelwald considered Muggles his equals, but he always sided with the wizards.

In fact, it is precisely because Grindelwald can see the strengths of Muggles that he pays more attention to Muggles, knows better that the Statute of Secrecy needs to be broken, and understands that the wizarding world needs change. If the opportunity is not seized, the situation of wizards will only get worse.

From a wizard's point of view, he was not wrong, but he was too radical and his methods were too bloody.

But traditional wizards are too conservative.

Regarding the relationship between wizards and Muggles, Cyrus does not stand on the side of wizards because he was a Muggle without magic in his previous life. Of course, if a war between wizards and Muggles really breaks out one day, he may not necessarily fight for Muggles.

He has no feelings for the Muggles in this world, and it can even be said that he has no connection with them.

He didn't think much about it, but stepped onto the spiral elevator.

There is no danger in the headmaster's office now, unless Dumbledore uses the time-turner again to leave another version of himself waiting for him in the office.

The possibility of this happening was very low, and even if it did happen, Cyrus was not very afraid. This was different from what he had been doing in the Shrieking Shack a few months ago. It was impossible to defeat Dumbledore, but he was still confident that he could just escape.

The elevator took Cyrus to the principal's office.

"Tom Riddle!" a sharp voice rang out.

"Shut up, Phineas!"

The portraits on the wall expressed great surprise at Cyrus's sudden visit.

"Quick! Someone go find Dumbledore!"

No one responded, but it was obvious that the headmasters in several portraits were ready to leave and inform Dumbledore.

This time Cyrus would not ignore the portrait.

"I need you to stay here for a while."

He looked around and immediately cast a spell to imprison the people in the portrait, temporarily locking them in the photo frame in the principal's office so that they could not leave. However, he did not let down his guard, because at this moment, on the table, there was a small and beautiful red bird looking at him.

This is Fawkes, the phoenix that Dumbledore keeps.

Although it looks small, the phoenix is ​​actually a relative of the thunderbird, which is comparable in size to the fire dragon.

Cyrus would not underestimate its power just because of its size, not to mention that it could bring Dumbledore to him in the blink of an eye.

"Good evening, Fox." Cyrus greeted him familiarly, but Fox just looked at him in surprise without any movement.

It didn't seem to have any intention of leaving here to inform Dumbledore, so it leaned against the shelf and closed its eyes.

(End of this chapter)