Chapter 53 Bad Old Man

Fish clung to the edge of Dumbledore's pocket and poked his head out to look around.

Professor McGonagall was finally persuaded by Dumbledore.

In fact, if it weren't for the school, Professor McGonagall would have been much more tolerant of Fish, but when Fish became a student at Hogwarts, as the vice-president and the dean of Gryffindor, she became a little anxious about educating Fish.

So after being persuaded by Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall quickly changed her mind. After returning the wand to Fish, she did not preach to Fish anymore, but left the trophy display room directly.

Fish followed Dumbledore to check the specific location of the Sorting Hat and see what kind of animal the phoenix he mentioned was.

Because he had to prepare for stealing the Sorting Hat in the future, Fish carefully remembered the bad old man's walking route. Judging from the current direction, the bad old man should be walking to the third floor now.

Fish's speculation was not wrong. Dumbledore went down the stairs and came to the third floor of Hogwarts. When he passed the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher's office, Fish couldn't help but cover his nose with his little paw.

Even through a door, he could smell the disgusting smell coming from inside that made cats feel disgusted.

"Quirinus..." Dumbledore noticed Fish's movements. He stopped and looked at the closed door of Professor Quirrell's office. He sighed softly: "I shouldn't have agreed to his application for practice. I hope I was wrong..."

"Meow?"

"Oh, sorry, it was just an old man's boring rambling just now. You don't have to pay too much attention to it."

Dumbledore smiled, raised his foot and walked forward again, and at the same time reached his hand into his pocket, wanting to touch Fish's little head.

When dealing with bad old men, Fish was not as patient as he was with Minerva. He opened his mouth directly and bit Dumbledore's finger.

"Oh...you naughty little fellow." Dumbledore retracted his hand, looked at the tooth marks on his hand, and then praised: "But you are much more sensible than when we first met. At least my hand is not bleeding."

Fish ignored him, licked his teeth that had just made achievements, and continued to look around.

"Hehe."

Dumbledore laughed and shook his head. With Fish in his pocket, he turned a corner and came to a stone monster statue with a strange appearance.

Fish had an impression of this stone statue. He had slept on it.

"Chocolate frog."

Dumbledore said a term that Fish was very concerned about to the stone monster.

However, before Fish could find where the chocolate frog was, the monster in front of him came to life. It hunched over and jumped to the side, leaving the wall behind it.

At the same time, the wall behind the monster also split in half, revealing a spiral staircase hidden inside, which was slowly rotating upwards.

"Meow~" (=ΦωΦ=)

Fish immediately jumped out of Dumbledore's pocket, jumped onto the spiral staircase, and then jumped down one step at a time at a speed similar to the speed of the staircase, looking as if he was standing still.

Dumbledore did not disturb Fish, but watched him playing with a smile.

However, Fish soon got tired of this game, and lay down on the steps, with his little head facing the outside of the stairs, and was taken upward by the stairs.

This experience of spinning upwards was quite novel. Fish lay on the steps, looking at the wall in front of him moving to the lower right with great interest.

"Interesting stairs, right?"

Dumbledore also came to the stairs. He stopped four or five steps away from Fish, and then sat on the steps, with his head at the same height as the step where Fish was lying.

"Meow~"

Fish turned his head and responded, and after casually shaking his tail twice, he turned his eyes back to the moving wall.

"I don't understand what you are saying. Cat language is too difficult to learn."

Fish shook his ears and ignored him.

Dumbledore didn't seem to notice Fish's cold attitude. He moved his butt and put his head next to Fish, then adjusted his half-moon glasses and looked at the wall following Fish's gaze.

"Is there something on the wall? It attracts you so much."

(=﹁ω﹁=)

Fish glanced at Dumbledore and didn't say anything, because he didn't want to answer this boring question.

Dumbledore blinked his blue eyes and spoke again.

But this time he was no longer speaking English, but a string of strange gibberish.

"Meow?"

This string of strange gibberish finally caught Fish's attention. He tilted his head and looked at Dumbledore. His pair of green eyes stared at Dumbledore's blue eyes through the half-moon lenses without blinking.

Dumbledore had a faint smile on his face, and continued to utter a string of goblin language.

After seeing that Fish had no reaction, he switched to the sharp and harsh mermaid language.

This time Fish reacted...

"Meow!" (╬◣д◢)ツ

He waved his little paw and slapped Dumbledore in the face.

This slap was different from the one at the Three Broomsticks. Fish did not cast a spell like Bull Strength on him, so Dumbledore could continue to scream unaffected.

So Fish straightened his upper body, used his two front paws to fight, and gave the bad old man a set of cat punches on his head, knocking the half-moon glasses on his nose to one side, which successfully made Dumbledore shut up.

In fact, Dumbledore was testing whether Fish could understand his mermaid and fairy language, or whether he could understand Fish's meow.

But at present, his test obviously failed.

Dumbledore did consider asking Fish directly, but with Fish's confused appearance now, he estimated that it would be useless to ask.

Let's see if Fish can communicate with Fawkes without any obstacles.

Dumbledore straightened his crooked glasses and secretly calculated in his heart.

Of course, he did not invite Fish to visit his office casually. After observing for a period of time, he began to doubt his initial guess that he was born an Animagus. Out of personal habit and responsibility as the headmaster, Dumbledore could not help but want to find out the truth about Fish.

Fish didn't know what the bad old man next to him was thinking. After he got tired of looking at the wall, he began to pull Dumbledore's long white beard again.

"Don't bother with my poor beard."

Dumbledore, whose chin was hurt by the pulling, quickly protected his beard and took out a candy from his pocket and handed it over.

"I'll treat you to candy."

Fish glanced at the slightly shabby candy in the bad old man's hand, and suddenly remembered that he had a bag of dried fish given to him by Big Eyes in his pocket.

So he changed back to human form, sat on the steps like the bad old man, and then took out a small bag from his pocket.

"I have my own food, meow!" (*￣ω￣*)

Fish proudly showed Dumbledore the dried fish in the bag, "Big Eyes gave it to me!"

"Argus? He does often fry fish for Mrs. Norris..." Dumbledore nodded, then approached Fish with a shameless face, "Then, can you give me some to try?"

"Meow?"

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At this time, Dumbledore should not have confirmed that the traitor was Professor Quirrell, but just had some suspicions.

He invited several professors to set up the level together, which should be to confirm his guess. I personally think that when Quirrell was really exposed, it should be the moment when the troll was released on Halloween.

Of course, this is just my personal speculation. Anyway, the original book does not clearly state when Dumbledore discovered that Quirrell was a traitor, and it is not certain that he knew that Voldemort was possessed by Quirrell.

So according to the principle of one and only, naturally I have the final say!

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I was typing on QQ today, and after finishing, I found that the content seemed a bit off, and I wanted to delete it and rewrite it…

I will calm down for a night and make a decision tomorrow.

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