Spotted By Grindelwald And Went To Hogwarts Chapter 568: Sean’s ancestor?

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As soon as it was caught in the hand, a sunken eye and a mouth appeared on the hat.

"Oh, oh, that's not polite, kid."

"Hey Mr. Hat, do you remember me?" Sean greeted.

The Sorting Hat made a long sound with a dry and funny voice: "Of course, but you shouldn't catch me like this..."

Sean immediately imitated Professor McGonagall and pinched the peak of the Sorting Hat.

"I prefer to be held by others..." The Sorting Hat's words stopped abruptly, and then said bitterly, "It's okay, it's not bad if you get used to it..."

If there is enough time and there are no major issues behind Sean's ass, he would be more than willing to have a pleasant chat with the Sorting Hat, but now he is eager to verify some things and needs the help of the other party.

He hugged the hat into his arms: "Mr. Hat, just remember me - I kept my promise and didn't tell your secret."

The Sorting Hat shook its tip in satisfaction: "You are a person who keeps your promises."

"Then can I?"

The sorting hat readily agreed: "Put me on, and just ask your questions in your heart."

Sean immediately put the sorting hat on his head, and quickly asked in his heart: "Is the portrait of Professor Dumbledore different from that of other principals?"

After waiting for a long time without an answer, Sean was about to ask, when the Sorting Hat's puzzled voice came first: "Why don't you speak?"

Sean was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that his Occlumency was off.

For some reason, he thought of Professor Dumbledore again—when he first met, he even slandered whether the other party would use Legilimency to peek at what was in a little wizard's head.

Sean sighed with a wry smile. Dumbledore had never used Legilimency on himself, but he could always guess what was going on in his mind and what other people were thinking.

Collecting his mind, he activated the Occlumency Technique, and then described his problem again.

The Sorting Hat was silent for a moment, and then the voice sounded in Sean's mind seemed a little uncertain: "Mr. Dumbledore's portrait is indeed different..."

"What do you mean?" Sean cheered up immediately.

"Uh... Let me describe it this way. As a hat, my biggest role is to sort Hogwarts freshmen. My magic is fixed by the creators, and finally connected with the magic of Hogwarts itself. I can see some things that wizards can't see, like that book and that pen—sigh—you should know that? That shouldn't be a big secret..."

Sean nodded: "The book of admission and the pen of acceptance."

The Sorting Hat breathed a sigh of relief, although it did not have these breathing organs.

"I can't control my mouth... Forget it, it shouldn't matter to you, after all, you and the House of Requirement..." Halfway through the sentence, the Sorting Hat paused, and then its voice in Sean's mind was full of remorse, "My mouth..."

Does the Sorting Hat know that I have partial access to the Room of Requirement? Sean's eyes are getting brighter, which shows that the Sorting Hat not only has the magical abilities on the surface, it can see a lot more things than I imagined!

What about Dumbledore? !

Shawn quickly comforted: "It doesn't matter. I know that as a member of Hogwarts, you have to keep the secret for the entire castle and the headmaster, but I am also a member of Hogwarts. I have already been in touch with the Room of Requirement. Does this mean that I am the same as you, whether it is Mr. Hat or Ms. House, we are also a part of Hogwarts, and we are essentially the same kind."

The Sorting Hat immediately cheered up: "You're right! This is great. The Room of Requirement and the thing in the Forbidden Forest don't talk to me. I finally have someone to communicate with!"

Sean blinked, as if he got an extra piece of news?

The House of Requirement actually has a partial sense of autonomy like the Sorting Hat? Are there similar items in the Forbidden Forest?

Worth jotting down to explore later.

Sean immediately asked from the bottom of his heart: "What did you just say about Professor Dumbledore?"

The Sorting Hat spoke a lot more refreshingly this time: "It's hard for me to describe to you...Let's put it this way, Hogwarts is a whole magical existence. It's not accurate to describe her with living beings, because various items in Hogwarts will gradually 'awaken' over the long years, instead of giving birth to souls, but gradually possessing independent consciousness. This consciousness will not cause any harm to the people in the castle. "

"But in essence, we all belong to Hogwarts as a whole, so we will not cause any harm to the students and staff of Hogwarts - the oil painting cursing is his character, it is not harmful, let me declare."

"They gradually gained consciousness over the years, because they 'bubbled' in the huge magic field of Hogwarts, but I had consciousness from the beginning—" Speaking of this, the Sorting Hat's tone was obviously a lot more proud, "I am the consciousness bestowed by Gryffindor, which allows me to learn and think—of course, the limit of thinking is very small, after all, I am just a hat."

"I spend most of my time in the principal's office, it's nice here, but it's boring when there's no one there - I'm connected to the magic of Hogwarts, so when I'm bored, I'll observe the magic that I can see, and then slowly understand something."

The brim of the sorting hat trembled, pointing to the wall where the principal's portrait was hung: "The portraits of the previous principals, like the portraits in other places, only have memories of their lives. They don't know how to think, but they only retain part of their behavior patterns and speaking methods during their lifetime—normally speaking."

"However, because of the particularity of Hogwarts, I gradually discovered that these portraits seem to not only retain the state of life, it seems that they can also start thinking like me..."

Shawn thought deeply: "So, the portraits will indeed discuss a lot of things with the current principal."

"Yes, there are many things. If you can't think, you can't discuss it. Although I'm just a hat, I also understand this."

"Professor Dumbledore?" Sean asked anxiously.

The voice of the Sorting Hat was a little uncertain: "I said that I can see the magic power. Normally, after the new headmaster's portrait is moved to the office, the magic power will be integrated into Hogwarts. Then, because they are powerful wizards, they will quickly start to generate part of the consciousness that can think. Generally speaking, this time ranges from one to three years - so the headmaster's portrait is usually not able to speak when it is first moved in, because the generated part of the consciousness conflicts with the magic power of the portrait itself, but after the consciousness grows stronger, it is equal to that consciousness that can control the portrait. Magic, so the people in the painting can speak and think.”

"As soon as Mr. Dumbledore's portrait was moved in, I felt the magic that merged with Hogwarts. If he hadn't died, the magic on the portrait would not be effective...you understand what I mean?"

Sean nodded: "What about the different places?"

"The difference is that I found that the portrait of Mr. Dumbledore does not seem to have any signs of self-awareness at all... This is unreasonable. I have seen all the portraits of the headmaster, Mr. Phoenix Black, he is the one who is the slowest to produce consciousness, but on the first day he was moved in, I felt his gradual consciousness through the magic of the entire Hogwarts-although this process will last for a long time, it is impossible to have no signs at all. It is like a seed, as long as the seed is not dead, the most sensitive land You can always feel his budding."

"But Mr. Dumbledore does not have such a situation." The Sorting Hat finally concluded.

This news made Sean a little excited. He thought for a while and asked, "Does that mean that the soul of Professor Dumbledore is different from the previous headmasters?"

"No, no," the Sorting Hat immediately denied his answer. "Souls are essentially the same. Although Mr. Dumbledore is very powerful, whether he is a Muggle or not, souls are equal after death."

"No, I mean, is Professor Dumbledore's soul different from other dead people..."

The Sorting Hat made a slamming sound in Sean's heart: "You mean, Mr. Dumbledore didn't really die? That's not right. If he hadn't passed away, the magic on the portrait wouldn't work."

"But how do you explain the difference between him and other principals?"

Facing Sean's questioning, the Sorting Hat became distressed again.

After a while, it opened its mouth cautiously.

The voice of the Sorting Hat was very hesitant: "Is there such a possibility? I mean it is possible. After all, I have been in the principal's office for so long, and I have seen many strange things... Could it be that Mr. Dumbledore's soul is in the passage between the underworld and the underworld, and he is hesitating whether to return to the world and become a ghost..."

Before Sean could speak, the Sorting Hat vetoed its own statement: "Impossible, none of the previous headmasters of Hogwarts would have done such a greedy thing, not even Phoenix Black, let alone Mr. Dumbledore."

Sean thought about it and said, "Is there any other possibility? Professor Dumbledore's soul has gone to other places..."

For example, the blurred illusion that he didn't say.

Sean always felt that it was impossible for Dumbledore to walk away like this. Although he is indeed a very free and easy and honest person, there are still many things that have not been dealt with in the real world...

However, Dumbledore's body was carried back by him himself. Before that, Sean had confirmed countless times that there was no breath of life in the old man's body.

The Sorting Hat seemed to be reminded by Sean, it said "Oh!": "When you said that, I remembered one thing—about seven hundred years ago? Or eight hundred years? Never mind, it was a long time ago."

"At that time, I was worried about how to compose the new song for the next school year, but I had no inspiration, I was just a hat! So, I thought of looking elsewhere, you know, I am connected with the magic of Hogwarts, to some extent, I can observe the outside world through all the things in the castle, as long as those objects agree."

Shawn nodded, he now knew why Professor Dumbledore always knew everything that happened in the castle.

"That time, my consciousness wandered around the castle, but I suddenly saw a person—" the Sorting Hat lowered his voice when he said this, "it was a knight on an oil painting. He used to be a guard of Hogwarts, but died at the hands of a dark wizard. To show his respect, the headmaster at that time put his oil painting in the presentation corridor."

"Like I said, the portraits at Hogwarts will produce consciousness—but I don't monitor everything in the castle all the time, so I only discovered then that the portraits of the knight and Professor Dumbledore's portraits seem to be in the same situation!"

Sean immediately asked: "Where is that knight now?"

The tone of the Sorting Hat became strange: "If I remember correctly, the portrait of that knight seems to have been taken away by Professor Dumbledore..."

"Hey, speaking of it, I thought of a little bit - your name, I remember, is Sean Wallop, right?"

"That's right." Sean nodded.

The Sorting Hat's tone became more and more confused: "Strange, why didn't I think of it before... I don't know what that knight's name is, but he is called the Great White Rose, and his surname is also Wallep..."

Sean's child hole immediately contracted violently, a portrait in the same situation as Dumbledore was taken away by Dumbledore, and then, the surname is also Wallop? !

He knew something was wrong right away.

Could it be that that knight is my ancestor?

The Sorting Hat seems to have thought of this too: "Mr. Wallop~IndoMTL.com~Maybe you should check your genealogy, maybe you are connected with that knight from long ago!"

Sean nodded. He expressed his gratitude to the Sorting Hat, and under the strong request of the other party, he said that he would definitely come back and take it to the most luxurious bathroom to wash the hat body that has not been washed for a thousand years.

Taking off his hat, he left the principal's office and immediately ran towards the staff lounge.

Mom and Dad should be there, I have to ask Dad...

A few minutes later, a father and son ushered in the Room of Requirement.

As soon as the wooden door was closed, Sean asked impatiently: "Dad, do you know where the genealogy of our Wallop family is?"

Mr. Wallop showed a puzzled expression: "Haven't you always been less interested in the history of the aristocracy? Let me think about it. I put the genealogy in the manor in the suburbs, you should remember? When I was young, I often took you there with your mother. You especially like to explore in that manor. Every time, your mother, me, and a dozen servants have to find you for a long time."

"By the way, do you remember the time when you hid in the basement? In that basement, there is our family tree."