"You mean—" Hermione frowned and asked, "Miss Malfoy's great-grandnephew? You must have misspoken, it's supposed to be her brother... Look, she's only seventeen..."
"She has quite a large generation gap~" Vivi shrugged, "It's due to some historical reasons. After all, families with long-standing traditions always have some quirky generational positions."
Ron accepted this explanation, Hermione was skeptical, while Lupin and Sirius were clearly unconvinced.
I believe you, you old hag! You're very shrewd!
However, the primary task now is not to dwell on Cassandra's true generational status or true identity. Pabi once again seized the key point: "I think Vivi makes a very valid point—someone as proud as Voldemort, the soul fragments he split would surely not be content just being soul artifacts—and we don't know why we haven't seen other soul artifacts acting up, but one thing we can be sure of is that at least that diary is not content to be just a soul artifact..."
"That's not right." Ron suddenly asked, "Wasn't the Voldemort you destroyed last year before Christmas the diary itself? Why say that soul artifact is still acting up?"
"I forgot to mention," Harry said, slapping his forehead, "that was Voldemort's main soul. I don't know the specifics, but it seems he swapped with that split soul. The split soul successfully detached from the soul artifact, and the main soul then entered the diary."
"If that's the case, then Miss Grindelwald's guess has a 80% probability." Lupin nodded, "According to Voldemort's proud personality, how could he, as the main soul, willingly ask to parasitize the diary and let the split soul go out and cause trouble? That's impossible..."
"Yes, like the Death God said." Harry concluded, "Now that diary soul artifact is wreaking havoc in the United States, but we don't know the exact location... So maybe we should consider trying to get some information out of Voldemort?"
"I should remind you, Harry." Sirius sighed and said, "Even if Voldemort wants to collaborate with us to eliminate this split soul, he will definitely set some traps waiting for us to fall into, do you believe it?"
"Yeah, Harry." Ron said, concerned, "Maybe... we should tell Dumbledore about this. He will surely have a way, don't you think?"
"Alright then." Harry nodded and said, he turned to Vivi, "Vivi, let Fiona send Professor Dumbledore a message."
Vivi reached into her exquisite small handbag, spread her hands to let Fiona fly out.
Fiona chirped once, a flash of fire passed, and it disappeared from its original position.
"And you, Harry." Sirius asked, "How are you feeling now? Does the scar still hurt?"
"I feel much better..." Harry reached up to rub his forehead, suddenly remembering something Voldemort had said, he remarked to Sirius, "By the way, Sirius—do you remember Regulus? Regulus Black."
Unexpectedly, upon hearing this name, Sirius's expression suddenly became complicated.
After a while, his gaze turned somber, and he snorted softly through his nose.
"Yes, Regulus is my brother—he's a year younger than me, but our beliefs are completely opposite..."
He paused, pulled at his sleeve, and continued, "Regulus believed in Voldemort's ideology. He stupidly pursued Voldemort's path, wanting to follow him on that extreme road... My mother supported him, you can tell before today, she always took pride in Regulus."
"I spoke to him several times, but he just wouldn't listen, kept following Voldemort blindly, becoming one of the Death Eaters."
At this point, Sirius rubbed his face and sighed deeply.
"Alas, it looks like he's dead—Death Eaters don't meet nice ends, at least I know he didn't end up in Azkaban, so he must have died..."
"I think you might misunderstand Regulus." Harry placed a hand on Sirius's shoulder and told him, "During my conversation with Voldemort, he cursed Regulus, said he'd expected Regulus to be his loyal servant, but Regulus betrayed him, let him down..."
Hearing Harry's words, Sirius's previously dim eyes suddenly brightened.
"What?! Regulus betrayed Voldemort? He let Voldemort down?"
"That's what Voldemort said, anyway." Harry shrugged, "I don't think he would lie about this, what do you think, Sirius?"
This statement did make some sense, after all, Voldemort wouldn't have any reason to lie about such a thing.
From a motive standpoint, it just doesn't add up.
Sirius excitedly stood up, pacing back and forth, muttering about "he betrayed the Dark Demon King, he betrayed Voldemort"...
Everyone left him alone, for a long time, Sirius finally came to his senses and said to Harry, "Thank you, Harry, this news is very important to me... I think we should ask Kreacher, find out what really happened to Regulus, what happened at home that led to this..."
"Like I said before, it's best to ask Professor Snape for some Truth Serum, what do you think?" Harry laughingly asked.
"I don't think Professor Snape will give you Truth Serum." Ron said from the side, "You should know how petty Professor Snape can be, I suspect even if a strand of my hair fell into a potion in first year, he'd remember it for seven years..."
Sirius thumbs up to Ron, then looked bizarrely at Harry, denying his suggestion, "Ha, asking that Snot Spirit? I'd rather jump off this building!"
"Then jump, black dog man as dumb as Wormtail."
The greasy, slow voice sounded from behind Sirius and Ron.
Ron turned around in fear, meeting Snape's cold black eyes.
Snape pulled a facial expression that wasn't really a smile and slowly said, "Well, Mr. Weasley thinks his Professor of Potions is petty, in light of your judgment, when school resumes, I'll look closely at your vacation homework—I hope you complete it diligently."
Before Ron could speak, Snape continued, "You should be thankful this isn't school, Mr. Weasley."
Implied meaning—if it were school, I'd have deducted your points already!
Ron didn't even dare to breathe, afraid Snape might test him right then.
"Looks like your sense of smell is as sharp as ever, Snot Spirit." Sirius retorted.
He's not Ron, he's not a student at Hogwarts, and naturally doesn't fear Snape giving him trouble.
Come on, let's hurt each other!
"Seems lively here, did I miss something?"
Dumbledore's voice also chimed in, and at some point, he appeared in the room.
Fiona must have led him.
"I saw the message Miss Grindelwald sent me, and learned about some of the happenings here." Dumbledore leisurely said, "I thought you might need Severus, so I took the liberty to bring him over, hope you don't mind?"
"Of course, I mind." Sirius snorted.
"I mind as well." Snape sneered ominously.
"I say..."
Cassandra suddenly said disdainfully, "You two, could you stop bickering like an old couple every time you meet? We have more pressing matters waiting to be done..."
(Request for monthly ticket)