Chapter 51: The Epilogue
Quirrell who was smashed into pieces, Voldemort who fled in black smoke, Harry who was unconscious, Ronald and Hermione who were terrified...and Solim who watched the whole show.
Draco's face was a bit complicated, he already knew that the one who wanted to steal the Philosopher's Stone was the Dark Lord. In his impression, the elders always said that he has boundless magic power and is omnipotent. But what did Draco see? A human face parasitic on the back of someone else's head, a dying Dark Lord. It can be said that Draco grew up listening to the legend of the Dark Lord. The adults said he was invincible, but Draco saw that Harry just touched the Quirrell possessed by him, which made him extremely painful, Quirrell Also because of Harry's touch, it turned into pieces all over the place.
The wizarding world says that Harry Potter is the savior who defeated the Dark Lord when he was a baby. Draco scoffed at this, thinking it was all nonsense. Until he saw it just now, the Dark Lord was barely able to fight back against Harry, and the Dark Lord was defeated by Harry Potter - again. In the end, the Dark Lord had to turn into a cloud of black smoke, which shook Draco's original reverence for the Dark Lord.
The dark lord, whom adults say is invincible, fled in front of a little wizard who was only eleven years old. This is simply a joke.
A group of people surrounded Harry, only Draco and Solim did not pass by. Solim has been paying attention to the expressions of Draco and Neville. Neville was just a little scared, but when Voldemort fled, he was the first to rush to Harry's side. But Draco was different, his face changed from surprise to fear, then to shock and disbelief, and finally turned to disappointment.
After appearing, Solim has been paying attention to Draco, and Solim has seen all these changes in him. The surprise when they knew that Voldemort was in this room, then the fear after seeing Voldemort's appearance now, then the shock of Voldemort and Quirrell being defeated by Harry, and finally the disappointment after seeing Voldemort's failure to escape.
It was not difficult for Solim to understand how Draco was feeling right now. You know, as a child who grew up in the Malfoy family, the elders he usually comes into contact with are... those people will always tell him how powerful the Dark Lord is, how omnipotent he is, and how powerful he is. In the future, he will lead the pure-blood wizards to create a brilliant future.
Children need an object of admiration, and Draco will of course regard Voldemort as an object of faith and admiration in his life under the influence of his ears and eyes. But what he saw today gave Draco a big shock. The all-powerful Dark Lord, defeated by the same little wizard, once again fled. Draco's worship of Voldemort began to collapse. Is such a down-and-out wizard who can't handle even a minor wizard really omnipotent as adults often say? Is it really as powerful as adults say? Can it really lead pure-blood wizards to create a brilliant future? If Draco had asked this question before today, Draco would definitely have answered in the affirmative. But after what happened just now, Draco abandoned all his original admiration and longing for Voldemort.
Seeing the tangled expression on Draco's face slowly subside, Solim said: "How is it? Is this performance still to your liking?"
"You already knew it was Black... No, it was Voldemort who wanted to steal the Philosopher's Stone, right." Draco looked at Solim.
"That's right, I think we can talk about it later when we go back." Solim signaled Draco to pay attention to the changes in the room.
Voldemort was gone, so it was time for Dumbledore to come back. His timing was just right, not long after Voldemort escaped, he brought Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape to this place.
Seeing a large group of people in the room, Professor McGonagall was very surprised. She originally thought there were only three people, but who knew there were so many insiders here. Besides Harry and Ronald and Hermione, there were Longbottom, Malfoy and Selwyn, and an adult wizard she had never seen before.
Compared to Professor McGonagall's surprise, you will never see surprise on Professor Snape's face. What's more, he has seen everyone here. As long as he had to think about it in his head, he knew that someone who shouldn't be here must have something to do with Solim. After a long time of contact, Snape knew Solim very well. Although he was much more mature than his peers and had a much broader vision, he would often do things that seemed meaningless. This time, he must be bringing people to watch the fun again. Snape wasn't surprised by that.
Dumbledore first checked Harry's condition, and then asked Professor McGonagall to take a few students to the school infirmary.
"Minerva, take these children to Bobby first, they need to rest now." Then he lowered his head slightly, and looked at Evans and Solim firmly through his glasses, "I think I have something to say Need to talk to this gentleman, obviously, now is the right time. Of course, I don't think Mr. Selwyn is hurt, and he will certainly not want to chat with an old man like me."
Solim shrugged, he didn't care. Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape were calling a group of students out, and Evans and Dumbledore were staring at each other. And Solim stood unsteadily in front of the Mirror of Erised.
Seriously, if there is a chance to see the Mirror of Erised, who can resist and not stand in front of the mirror and take a look at himself? In a way, the Mirror of Erised can make a person understand himself better inner longing. Because human beings have desires, but there are too many desires, and sometimes people themselves don't know which one is the most urgent and longing for. And this Mirror of Erised allows people to see what they desire most in their hearts.
Looking at himself in the mirror, Solim smirked.
He saw his many paper figurine wives and figurines filling a wall. And behind him, standing neither parents, nor grandpa and sister. It was an old thief and a fat man, one of them was smiling at Solim, and the other was holding a sign that said "-75%" and rubbing his fingers at Solim.
"It's really..." Solim didn't know what to say to himself. "Is this desire or resentment?" This year is 1992, even if I want to send money to that fat man, I still have to wait ten years. And that old thief, he has to wait seventeen years. "It seems that I am still an nerd in my heart." It was emotional and funny "Som left the Mirror of Erised.
Looking back, there were only three of them left in the room. Neither Dumbledore nor 700 Evans spoke, they both noticed Solim's movements.
Seeing both of them looking at him, Solim said to Evans: "Don't you take care of yourself? It's interesting."
Before Evans could speak, Dumbledore spoke first: "Then Mr. Selwyn, if it's convenient, can you tell me what you saw in the Mirror of Erised?" Dumbledore's glasses reflected the firelight on the surrounding walls , making people unable to see his eyes clearly.
Hey, I used to call out Solim one by one in your principal's office, but now I'm Mr. Selwyn. Solim rolled his eyes mentally.
"Nothing, something interesting!" There was no way Solim could just tell Dumbledore what he saw.
Seeing that Solim didn't want to talk about it, Dumbledore didn't bother, and he still had a lot of things to deal with now, so he didn't have time to waste time on it.
"So, is this the first meeting, Mr. Summerby?"
Hearing Dumbledore's words, Solim looked at Evans, whose last name he knew for the first time. For Dumbledore to know Evans' surname, Solim was not at all surprised. If he couldn't even find out this, Dumbledore would have been found out long ago.
"Solim... Summerby, Felix Summerby?" Solim thought of a name. When it comes to Samobi, the first thing he thinks of is this name. The owner of this name invented the happiness spell. And the Happy Charm is a compulsory part of the ordinary wizarding level examination, that is, O.W.Ls. .