"So you met Dumbledore?"

In the memory space, Cyrus's face was not very good. He only found out about this matter the next night. After Ginny returned to the dormitory last night, she fell asleep immediately.

"Well! Headmaster Dumbledore mentioned you. Although he didn't say your name, I know it was you." Ginny said excitedly, but then, Cyrus' words were like pouring a bucket of cold water on her.

"Maybe I've been exposed." Cyrus exhaled deeply, trying to calm himself down. He didn't expect that after waiting for so long, he would end up with such a result.

After all, he and Riddle were not the same person, and their attitudes towards Ginny were also different. A little coincidence was enough to make the outcome of things very different.

but--

'Maybe there is still hope,' he thought.

If Dumbledore thought everything was under his control, he would not be so eager to act.

Just like Quirrell last year, it would be perfect for him to be used as a training tool for his savior.

'There's still room for maneuver!'

Cyrus forced himself to calm down. In fact, he was not sure what Dumbledore was planning, but it had been almost twenty hours since Ginny met him last night, and he was still safe and sound in Ginny's hands, which meant that things were not in a desperate situation.

"Exposed? But I have never told anyone about Mr. Riddle?" Ginny was so scared that she almost dropped the pen and said anxiously.

"It's not your fault, but magic is always hard to guard against. Dumbledore is a master of Legilimency. When he looks into your eyes, he can roughly know what you are thinking." After Cyrus calmed down, he was in the mood to comfort Ginny.

"Generally speaking, wizards always say that Legilimency is not mind reading, but to an unguarded mind, it is actually more terrifying than mind reading."

"Then, what should I do next?" Ginny was about to cry.

She didn't want to cause Mr. Riddle's "death" because of herself, and she didn't want to lose such a close friend.

"Don't worry. If someone really asks you to hand me over, just hide me. I will modify your memory and hide with the real memory, so that no one can find me." Cyrus comforted.

This is the last resort.

Once it comes to this, he doesn't know when he will wait for another person to open the diary. And the diary is not destroyed, will Voldemort die? Cyrus and Ginny were worried, while Dumbledore sat in his office, trying to think about the little details of his meeting with Ginny Weasley last night. Although it is a bit shameful to say it, he did use Legilimency on a first-year wizard.

He really wanted to know why the other party appeared in that place so coincidentally.

But the information he got surprised him greatly.

He put his memories into the Pensieve and scrambled them, and the scenes from last night immediately emerged.

He saw himself aggressively and shamelessly using powerful magic to force his way into Ginny's brain and read her thoughts at that moment.

To this end, he deliberately asked a question to guide the other party to think - "Before you leave, I want to confirm, Miss Weasley, do you have anything else to tell me?"

At this moment, her voice kept echoing in her mind: "Draco Malfoy is the heir of Slytherin!"

Draco Malfoy?

Even he found it a little ridiculous.

If Salazar Slytherin had really chosen Draco Malfoy as his heir, he would have been blind.

It's not that Dumbledore looked down on Draco Malfoy, in fact, it was quite the opposite, he thought Draco was indeed a promising talent. But the Malfoy family was not so qualified to be a Slytherin, let alone the heir of Slytherin.

Ambition and honor? Yes, but not much.

And - he doesn't have a Parseltongue! This is a very important point, at least Dumbledore thought, if Slytherin really left behind a secret chamber, perhaps only a Parseltongue could open the door to the secret chamber.

But in other words, he couldn't confirm whether there was a secret chamber. Dumbledore knew very well that Hagrid was not the murderer of the murder fifty years ago. At that time, he didn't suspect that Tom Riddle was the murderer, but the truth of many things became more and more obvious after the passage of time.

The murderer fifty years ago was most likely Tom, but Dumbledore was not sure what method he used.

Was it a deliberate attempt to make a Horcrux? Or was it really like the rumors said, that the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets was opened to eliminate those so-called "people who are not worthy of learning magic"? "Draco Malfoy, it's not impossible. It seems that Arthur was raiding Malfoy's house during the summer vacation. Maybe Lucius asked him to bring some things from the Voldemort period into the school." Dumbledore guessed.

In fact, he had already guessed it almost exactly. It was just that because of the words in Ginny's mind, his guess was slightly off. And Draco, who was supposed to return to the dungeon with the team, appeared on the third floor at that time, which was more of a coincidence than Harry and the other two appearing there.

As for why Ginny Weasley appeared in the classroom where Hagrid hid the Acromantula, perhaps someone told her the location of "this Chamber of Secrets that is not the Chamber of Secrets".

Fifty years ago, it might have been his grandfather or grandmother.

"What is this old thing from Voldemort's time? The key to the Chamber of Secrets? Or is it -"

He came out of his memory and said happily while looking at Fox who was on the verge of rebirth.

"Hurry up and prepare to be reborn, old friend. I may need your help."

If that old thing was as he guessed, then he had finally made some progress on something that had been fruitless for decades. Of course, with Tom Riddle's madness, he might have made several such things, but anyway, it would be great if he could destroy one now.

Fawkes lowered his head and plucked out one of his tail feathers, ignoring Dumbledore's words.

"It seems I have to find time to visit my old friend, Horace Slughorn. I haven't seen him for a long time since he retired." Dumbledore paced in front of the window, watching the moonlight pouring down.

"But let's wait a little longer. If it's really Draco, I believe Lucius Malfoy will take action."

Ah - I'm so tired from work

(End of this chapter)