Elena gazed down at the dismantled hard candy in her palm. The square hard candy displayed a light orange glow akin to amber. It smelled as though an abundance of caramel had been added as the main ingredient. The girl licked her lips... It looks like candy.
Isn't that so? She is angry now!
The little silver-haired Loli suddenly shook her head and composed herself. If it weren't for the candy being dismantled, she would have even wanted to throw the candy from her hand.
Is he really cajoling her like a kindergarten child?
At this moment, she felt the top of her head being tapped again and heard Dumbledore's voice in her ears very seriously.
"Among all the young wizards I have seen, your powerful magical potential shines as brightly as the sun in the sky. But a talent too powerful is not always entirely good. If it lacks proper guidance, it may even turn against your own body, rendering you a dreadful inhuman existence..."
As he said this, Dumbledore furrowed his brow, pondering how to explain the girl's current physical condition.
After all, at present, Elena's magic control is much better than he had thought.
Dumbledore did not wish to create an alarming and frightening sensation for the girl by describing too many terrible consequences.
"...Obscurial, I know."
To Dumbledore's surprise, Elena nodded and replied dryly.
As a fan of the Harry Potter movies, she had also watched the first part of the "Fantastic Beasts" movie before traversing. She was particularly impressed by the silent man named Cradens. After all, she was capable of sensing the existence of one of the most powerful dark wizards in history, Grindelwald.
To escape such fate, young wizards would suppress their magical powers, but due to the lack of guidance, they have not learned to control and master their own powers, leading to derivatives: the power of dark magic called "Obscurus."
Once the wizard undergoes significant emotional fluctuations, the silence within the body will explode, and the silenced individual will turn into a black mist without substance, with extremely powerful destructive power.
However, in the wizarding history documentary, except for Kradens the Silent, there is no case proving that the Silenced can live up to 10 years.
And Elena is only ten years old now.
Elena unconsciously squeezed the hard candy in her hand and then continued a little nervously.
"But I always have the ability to use it secretly, even before receiving a letter from the owl, I always called it the 'Charming Human.' Professor Dumbledore, do you mean, I will become like that?"
The mixed-race Xiaomei bit her lip firmly, speaking rather reluctantly.
"Meaning, if I refuse to join Hogwarts...?"
If she was not mistaken, this should be the lethal tool that Dumbledore had prepared for her to enter the school: to join for treatment or to follow orders.
Dumbledore shook his head, raised his hand to stop the girl, and spoke directly.
"Even if you do not join Hogwarts, I will still continue to teach you how to control magic. Human life is not a bargaining chip."
"It's just that Hogwarts and the magical world will not provide you any kind of refuge and intellectual help."
Dumbledore continued plainly. "And when you threaten the peace of the non-magical or magical world, I will not intervene or suggest any reasonable action by the Ministry of Magic."
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Elena stared at the elderly man who was crouching in front of her, known as the patriarch of the magical world. Her lips moved, and she swallowed the "thank you" she was about to say.
Averting her gaze, avoiding Dumbledore's eyes, the little silver-haired Loli tapped the thick fur rug and whispered, "Talking as if I join Hogwarts, you will help me back after the disaster, right?"
Back... pot?
Dumbledore's eyes flickered with helplessness, realizing another issue that would always arise when communicating with Elena: too many strange Muggle words.
Even though he could clearly hear each word, he could not precisely understand what the girl was trying to convey.
He knew that in his youth, Dumbledore always prided himself on one of the advantages that he always accurately understood the ideas of most people (including all kinds of intelligent magical creatures).
Perhaps, like many rumors, he was truly growing old and beginning to follow the thinking of the young.
Dumbledore shook his head, clearing his mind of such thoughts, and looked into Elena's eyes, speaking seriously with a very firm tone.
"In fact, what I want to say next is: If you become my student, I will be willing to protect you as much as I can, impart all the magical knowledge I know until you grow to be a witch on your own."
"Protector? All the magical knowledge...?"
Elena raised her eyebrows and repeated, she did not think Dumbledore would be confused enough to distinguish between the words "protection" and "guardian," nor naively thought that everything that came out of Dumbledore's mouth only included the content of the Ordinary Wizarding Levels (OWL) and Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests (NEWT).
"Yes, you deserve all of this," Dumbledore smiled calmly.
"But... Professor, what is the price?"
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