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Chapter 123: Benefits of having more undercover agents

He glanced at the fireplace that had always maintained a green flame, and his expression was a little strange.

Although the price of Floo powder has remained unchanged for a hundred years, and it has been sold at two Sickles per spoon for a long time, it is really nothing for a big wizard like Dumbledore who is not short of money... But Dumbledore's behavior of adding Floo powder every once in a while does seem a little unwise...

"Ahem... Maybe there is something wrong." Dumbledore's hand was about to reach for the jar of Floo powder, but he froze in mid-air when he heard Dracula's question.

Without the replenishment of Floo powder, the flame in the fireplace finally couldn't maintain its green form and turned back to its original red color.

"Professor Dracula, hasn't Tom Riddle's Horcrux returned?" Dumbledore turned to look at Dracula and asked, "That doesn't make sense... Isn't the Death Eater meeting over yet?"

"So you're waiting for Snape, right?" Dracula curled his lips and looked at Dumbledore with disdain, "Riddle left the Death Eater meeting early to prevent his identity from being exposed, and the others should have to wait for a while. After all, he is Voldemort's Horcrux, so it's normal for him to get some special treatment."

Dracula thought Dumbledore was waiting for some important wizard, and his tone was mysterious.

Unexpectedly, Dumbledore just felt Riddle's return and thought that the undercover he placed in the Death Eater camp was about to return, so he used the special Floo powder to open the permission to go directly to the Hogwarts principal's office.

"Ah, so that's how it is!" Dumbledore smiled awkwardly and retracted his hand that was reaching for the Floo powder jar. "It seems that we have to wait for a while. Hmm... I wonder if Professor Dracula is interested in wizard chess?"

He casually took out a wizard chess board and began to kill time with nothing to say.

"You want to play wizard chess with me?" Dracula showed a very strange expression, "Are you sure?"

"Any questions, Professor Dracula?" Dumbledore looked at Dracula strangely, feeling that his expression was inexplicably weird.

"It's okay, come." Dracula slowly raised the corner of his mouth and stood up from the sofa.

He sat directly in front of Dumbledore's desk, looking at the wizard chess board on the table, and his heart quietly became interested.

Five minutes later-

Dumbledore looked at the situation on the chessboard in front of him and fell into deep self-doubt.

He believed that with his high intelligence and judgment, as well as his experience in participating in wizard chess competitions when he was young, he was a pretty good chess player.

Although he became increasingly busy after the outbreak of the global wizard war started by Grindelwald, and had few opportunities to play small things like wizard chess, he should not be defeated without any chance to fight back...

"Professor Dracula, I didn't know you were a professional chess player." Dumbledore looked at the silver-haired man in front of him with a playful expression, and said helplessly, "No wonder you look so confident, it's my own fault."

"I'm not interested in being a professional chess player." Dracula shook his head happily, "But I do have some experience in things like wizard chess that kill time."

During the more than a thousand years that Dracula had experienced, he was bored for a long time, trying to find various things that could kill time.

Wizard chess, a game that was born in India a long time ago, is one of the things he has studied.

In fact, in his thousand-year life, Dracula had long been tired of playing the game of Wizard Chess. He had studied all kinds of ideas and ways of playing, and he was too lazy to play chess with others.

But Dumbledore's sudden invitation suddenly made Dracula interested.

It sounds interesting to be able to defeat a great wizard in a unique way of Wizard Chess!

Seeing that Dumbledore had not moved for a long time, the magic chess pieces on the chessboard began to make noises-

Queen: "Why don't you point out the next step quickly? I've been waiting for a long time."

King: "Why don't you surrender? It's boring!"

Knight: "We are about to fight to the death, why did your majesty surrender first?"

Soldier: "..."

Dumbledore looked at the chattering chess pieces on the chessboard with a dark face, raising his hands and putting them down again, wondering if there was any chance of a comeback.

At this moment, the flame in the fireplace in the principal's office suddenly swayed rhythmically.

"Ah, it seems that Severus is coming back." Dumbledore immediately noticed the movement of the flames and stood up as if he had been pardoned.

He quickly put away the wizard chess, and covered up the chess game that had no chance of winning.

"Ahem, Professor Dracula, it seems that we don't have time to decide the winner today, why not fight again another day!" Dumbledore coughed lightly and said to Dracula who had not yet reacted.

Dracula: "?"

He was just enjoying the embarrassed expression of the old headmaster with great interest, how come the chess was gone without paying attention?

However, Dumbledore did not give Dracula a chance to protest. He reached out and grabbed a handful of special Floo powder and threw it into the fireplace, and the flames in the fireplace immediately burned with a green light.

A wizard with greasy hair walked out of the flames, his expression was cold, his long black hair was draped on both sides like a curtain, in the middle was a grayish-yellow face, a hooked nose and a pair of dark eyes.

"Welcome back, Severus!" Dumbledore asked enthusiastically, "What did you gain from today's Death Eater meeting?"

Snape looked at Dumbledore with his dark eyes, his eyebrows slightly raised, as if he was surprised why the old headmaster was suddenly so enthusiastic today.

Of course, what Snape didn't know was that the situation of the wizard chess game just now made Dumbledore a little embarrassed, and now he just used him as a tool to reasonably divert the topic...

"Dracula, why are you here too?" Snape did not answer Dumbledore's question, but turned his head to look at Dracula sitting at the desk.

"Why, don't you welcome me?" Dracula stood up from his chair, chuckled and came to Snape, looking deeply into his eyes, "It seems that your undercover operation is very successful, Professor Snape!"

"I am very curious, how did you deceive Voldemort almost perfectly? Even Voldemort's clone told me that you are definitely on the side of the Death Eaters."

Dracula showed a meaningful expression and raised his mouth slightly, "In addition, how did you manage to hide deeply in the Death Eater camp while gaining such deep trust from Headmaster Dumbledore?"

Snape looked at the wine-red light flowing in Dracula's eyes, pursed his lips tightly, and fell silent. There was no trace of emotion on his face.

The situation has become a little complicated now. Not only does Snape not trust Dracula, thinking that he is just an outsider who has only been in Hogwarts for a year; similarly, Dracula also does not trust Snape very much, because he was personally confirmed as a Death Eater by Riddle!

"Severus, Professor Dracula, you two don't need to question each other like this." Just when the air fell into silence, Dumbledore suddenly spoke.

"Severus, Professor Dracula is absolutely trustworthy. You can safely tell him what happened at the Death Eater meeting today." Dumbledore looked at Snape and nodded to him gently.

After choosing to use Dracula's plan to eliminate Voldemort instead of his own plan, Dumbledore knew that all kinds of information in the future could no longer be hidden from the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. Otherwise, there would only be more information gaps between the two, and even some rifts.

So Dumbledore told Snape without hesitation that he could tell Dracula the information he learned at the Death Eater meeting.

Then, Dumbledore turned his head and looked at Dracula again.

"Professor Dracula, I also fully trust Severus." He said softly, "Severus's recognition by Voldemort is not a reason for us to doubt him, but should be used as our capital to compete with Voldemort!"

"Excuse me, what is the reason why the headmaster fully trusts Professor Snape?" Dracula asked directly with interest, regardless of whether Dumbledore was willing to answer or not, "I have been curious about this for a long time."

After asking this question, Dracula noticed that Snape's face changed slightly.

"As far as I know, Professor Snape was a die-hard Death Eater back then..." Dracula raised his mouth and stared at Snape's eyes as deep as a dark corridor, "Why did he betray Voldemort so abruptly, and then he got the trust of Headmaster Dumbledore so abruptly?"

"There must be something I don't know in the middle!"

Dracula looked deeply into Snape's eyes, and then sighed with some regret.

Snape's brain occlumency is indeed very good. There is nothing useful in his eyes. No wonder he can be an excellent undercover in the Death Eater camp.

"These things have nothing to do with you, Dracula!" Snape finally couldn't help it, gritted his teeth, and said word by word, "If I were you, I would definitely take care of my own business first!"

"What a pity, Professor Snape... but you are not me." Dracula didn't take it as an offense at all, but smiled and said, "If you were me, you would understand how boring I am. It's rare to find something interesting, so of course you have to find out!"

Snape's face became more gloomy, and the wand in his hand was clenched tightly, as if he wanted to hit Dracula in the face at any time.

But he immediately remembered the scenes of being defeated by Dracula several times, so he turned his head with a stiff expression and chose not to look at Dracula's annoying face, out of sight, out of mind.

"Albus, I think we should be prepared." Snape looked at Dumbledore and said in a deep voice.

"Has Voldemort decided on the next action?" Dumbledore's face also became solemn.

"Yes, the Dark Lord asked us to take action on Halloween." Snape said seriously, "Almost all elite Death Eaters will be dispatched to break through the defense of Azkaban and rescue the most loyal servants of the Dark Lord!"

Then, Snape carefully told Dumbledore about Voldemort's plan-

Snape himself held back the two professors of Hogwarts, Yaxley bribed the officials of the Ministry of Magic, and Lucius used his connections and money to open up the relationship...

"In fact, after learning the detailed plan, the Death Eaters' action this time is easy to destroy." Snape said, "As long as you two can arrive in time, the Dark Lord will not have enough power to break the defense of Azkaban."

"No!" Dumbledore flatly rejected Snape's statement.

"Voldemort's plan can indeed be easily broken, but it is not worth the loss." He looked deeply at Snape and said in a very serious tone, "If Voldemort's plan is so easily destroyed by us, he can easily find out that there are undercover agents in the Death Eater camp!"

"Severus, the premise of all our actions is to protect your own identity first!"

"I know." Snape said softly, "The Death Eaters' other actions cannot be stopped for the time being, but I can pretend that I didn't hold you back and rule the Dark Lord's news a little later."

"Even the Dark Lord knows that there are few things that can be hidden from Dumbledore. He can't blame me for this matter."

"But even so, it will reduce his trust in you." Dumbledore frowned and shook his head gently.

He looked at Dracula, who was bored next to him, "Maybe we can find a better way. What do you think, Professor Dracula?"

Dracula crossed his arms and sat back in the chair in front of his desk nonchalantly, looking indifferent.

"You are worried about the exposure of the undercover agent!" He crossed his legs and raised his mouth happily, "In fact... we don't have only one undercover agent!"

"You mean..." Dumbledore adjusted his glasses thoughtfully.

"Do what needs to be done!" Dracula waved his hand and said decisively, "For example, the Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Magic, and the Director of the Auror Office, you should notify them all... The same goes for the Aurors and observers stationed in Azkaban, replace those who have accepted bribes!"

"Anyway, according to the original plan, Riddle's joining our camp will definitely be exposed soon, so why not let him expose it more thoroughly!"

"And Voldemort will be more relaxed about checking other undercover agents when he learns that he has a definite undercover agent, which can be regarded as making the best use of Riddle."

"This is the advantage of having more undercover agents!"