Chapter 162: The Last Secret

A short twenty minutes passed, and Harry draped on his clothes again and went out to date the Zhang Qiu of May.

"Are you brewing medicine?" When Harry walked into the Chamber, he saw the Zhang Qiu of May sitting cross-legged in front of a cauldron, looking at a book while tending to the bubbling potion.

"Ah, Harry." Zhang Qiu looked up and revealed a smile.

"What are you reading?" Harry noticed that the book in her hand didn't look like a textbook; the cover was an exquisite portrait of a beauty, and a string of Chinese characters was written on the side in fancy script.

"A novel." Zhang Qiu closed the book on the ground. "Something like a domineering CEO."

"So, what kind of story does it tell?" Harry picked up the book with interest; it was full of Chinese characters he didn't recognize.

"The gist is about a certain company CEO—you know what this means, right?" Seeing Harry nod slightly, Zhang Qiu continued, "He fell in love with a small employee in the company, but that girl didn't like him, so he started using various means to forcibly approach the girl."

"You know, he's a CEO, after all, and the girl couldn't resist." Zhang Qiu shrugged. "Gradually, the two understood each other and started to have a little affection, when the CEO suddenly discovered that the girl had fallen in love with another small employee in the same office. Of course, that employee was quite capable and was highly valued by the board of directors, so the CEO was unhappy."

"And then?" Harry asked curiously. "Did he fire that employee?"

"No, he promoted him instead; this was to pretend that he wasn't targeting him." Zhang Qiu continued. "But next, the CEO started to make things difficult for that person, assigning him very difficult tasks, trying to force him to leave. Unfortunately, this person was very capable and completed the tasks brilliantly, and the CEO had to promote him again."

"Sounds interesting." Harry nodded; he was also looking forward to the plot afterward, not knowing who the girl would choose.

"I haven't read the rest yet." Zhang Qiu spread her hands. "And my martial aunt didn't send me the second volume."

"Alright, I admit this story is very interesting; I'm even a little expectant." Harry commented seriously. "And it sounds very real, like something that has actually happened."

"Right. It's rare to have a decent romance novel; you don't know what I was reading before, things like 'the pampered wife runs away with the child'." Zhang Qiu complained while brewing the potion. "Can you imagine a story where a woman hides her name and raises a child for ten years, and then is taken back to a wealthy family? What's even more outrageous is that the male lead, in order to marry a wealthy lady, makes her claim to be a cousin and calls his son a nephew."

"This kind of novel is truly disgusting; I don't even understand how the heroine could endure it." Zhang Qiu waved her hands exaggeratedly.

"I always feel this story sounds a bit familiar." Harry said, holding back a laugh.

"Ah?" Zhang Qiu was stunned for a moment. "You couldn't have read those domestic romance... oh right, Tang Nade."

"Reality is often more magical than novels." She sighed.

Next, they quickly threw the novel and gossip to the back of their minds, because Zhang Qiu's martial uncle sent a new fun game, and Harry liked "Bang Bang Simulation" the most; commanding a naval battle is truly too romantic for a boy.

It wasn't until that day at the end of June, when Harry came to the Chamber again, watching Zhang Qiu add the hair of the second-year Na Wei into the prepared Polyjuice Potion, and then quietly walked to Hermione's necessary path, only to discover that Tang Nade had already ambushed in that place in advance, that the discussion about romance novels surfaced in his mind once again.

Although Tang Nade's experience could not be explained by logic no matter what, as the proverb says, everything is legal in love and war. Observing Tang Nade from the perspective of a romance novel, then the parts of him that were incomprehensible became completely reasonable.

"Extraordinary wisdom is the greatest wealth of mankind." Harry couldn't help but recite the Inspiration Charm. Suddenly, the whole process of the matter became incomparably reasonable before his eyes.

From beginning to end, Tang Nade just liked a girl like Hermione. He didn't take care of her because he missed old feelings; he just simply wanted to fall in love with Hermione.

So he would teach Luo En in advance that a knight cannot be addicted to beauty, because in divination, Luo En and Hermione seemed to have quite a connection, and Luo En might become his threat; and when he discovered that Hermione and Na Wei were walking very close, he first wanted to make him make a fool of himself in class, but failed, so Tang Nade founded the Dueling Club and Avalon, wanting to divert Na Wei's attention. He also encouraged Hanna to boldly pursue Na Wei, so that Na Wei wouldn't compete with him for Hermione.

Harry suddenly recalled that Tang Nade had invited Hermione to study at a university in the United States several times, because that would enter his territory, and Hermione was very moved by this at first. However, after the Hai Pa Sheng Shi incident, Hermione seemed to have started to have a good impression of Na Wei again, perhaps it was a crush, because Na Wei had never responded to her.

When Tang Nade could no longer solve the problem with gentle, kind means, he decided to adopt the most direct and lowest-class means. Therefore, in Zhang Qiu's surprised eyes, Tang Nade drank the Polyjuice Potion he made himself, and then put on the Gryffindor school uniform, and at the same time put on Na Wei's face.

Then, he walked out of the corner and recited loudly: "Petrificus Totalus!"

After Zhang Qiu recovered from her surprise, she also followed suit and recited the Inspiration Charm, and then she also revealed that look of sudden realization.

Harry also thought of last year, the testimony under the Chamber. Tang Nade said he was following someone who looked like Na Wei holding Hermione down to the Chamber, while the second-year Zhang Qiu saw Tang Nade holding Hermione down to the Chamber.

Perhaps because he was wearing the Gryffindor school uniform, last year's Zhang Qiu would suspect that she had seen wrong; and Tang Nade thought his lie was reasonable, but he ignored the impact of changing height on the duration of the potion's effect. When he broke into the bathroom, the Polyjuice Potion had actually already expired.

When the last puzzle was also cleared up, Harry, in this summer vacation between the third and fourth year, finally dared to say that he had completely cracked all the truths of the second year.

"Actually, I had some suspicions in the second year, but at that time I thought he was Deng Buliduo's white glove, so I didn't expose him in front of Luo En." Zhang Qiu said indignantly. "But this is a big deal; I have to write a report letter, 'copper-refining' must not die well."

Harry wiped his forehead. Now it seems that the one reporting Tang Nade was not the second-year Zhang Qiu, but the third-year Zhang Qiu; she had more and more sufficient evidence in her hands (such as Cassandra's past), and the Magical Congress would also handle this matter more seriously.

Next, Zhang Qiu would leave the school, and then continue to improve her magic level according to the plan, until time flowed back to when she set off.

Harry returned to the TARDIS, preparing to borrow this time machine to go straight back to the end of the third year.

After pulling down the operating lever, the Doctor called him.

"Harry, I think, after going back, we will hardly have another chance to find such a private place to have an unknown conversation." He said with a serious face; this was an expression Harry had never seen before. Neither Professor Doudou nor Sir Johnny had ever made this expression. At this moment, he truly looked like a Doctor.

"Fu Di Mo grows in failure; we cannot kill him directly." The Doctor said. "If he indeed masters some kind of immortal secret and turns to resurrect elsewhere, perhaps we will face a more cunning, more difficult-to-deal-with Fu Di Mo."

"You are right, my idea is to use the Stupefy Charm." Harry said. "The Stupefy Charm after multiple layers of superposition should be enough to stun him, so that he can be controlled and imprisoned permanently, and then we will slowly settle the members of the Death Eaters."

"Good strategy, but this is the last part, and it's the simplest instead." The Doctor nodded. "The difficulty lies in how we can make Fu Di Mo stand in front of you and duel with you."

Harry pursed his lips tightly, and the Doctor continued: "We will use the Triwizard Tournament; you will fight as a champion of Hogwarts, and you must achieve good results. Deng Buliduo will appear to value you very much; we must let Fu Di Mo know that you are not only a powerful wizard with excellent talent, but also the next leader of the righteous forces; we must make him realize that you are a threat, a threat that must be removed by his own hands."

"The Triwizard Tournament will be held at Beauxbatons; Fu Di Mo can easily break through there; we will give him a chance, a loophole in defense, and tempt him to take action." The Doctor said very seriously. "The details of the plan will be adjusted at any time according to the situation; you need to remember one thing, and that is after arriving at Beauxbatons, listen to the command of Barty Crouch; he is one of our own."

"Oh right, I mean Barty Jr.; he will mix into Beauxbatons in advance and become an English teacher there." The Doctor added. "And Barty Sr. is the official certifier of this competition; he doesn't know the details of the plan."

"Alright." Harry said equally seriously, "I think I understand."

"We're here." The whistling sound of the TARDIS stopped, and the Doctor nodded. "Remember, it's the end of the third year now; call me Professor Doudou."

When he quickly switched his expression back to the simple and honest look of Professor Doudou, Harry couldn't help but smile. Then, as he gently closed the door, the wardrobe returned to its original appearance.

"Harry, what are you looking for in the wardrobe?" A voice that was both familiar and strange sounded. Harry turned his head back; Luo En was holding a huge ice cream, greeting him with a smile.

Thousands of words rushed to Harry's lips; he couldn't wait to share this time travel with Luo En, tell him the truth about the Chamber, Cui Ge's life story, and what a contradictory person Tang Nade was.

But Harry stopped; perhaps not everything can be told to anyone. Deng Buliduo was also like this; he was always tight-lipped and never told inappropriate things to inappropriate people.

"Nothing." Harry said softly.

"Oh right, what did you do in the morning?" Luo En shared half of the ice cream with him. "Was it Professor Doudou looking for you?"

"That's right, he told me," Harry noticed that Na Wei also happened to have returned, so he paused and said seriously: "Barty Crouch Jr. has formulated a plan to capture the Mysterious Person..."

In a happy, hopeful atmosphere, the third year, which should have ended long ago for Harry, finally and truly came to an end. ===== CHAPTER 163 =====