Hogwarts: I've acquired the Father System

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Harry looked at Dumbledore.

"Are you angry... Are you angry that I came too late, or are you angry that I blocked the curtain?"

I've already removed that wall. I was just worried you'd fall, Darren..."

Dumbledore tried to say something. But Harry suddenly became angry.

"You understand nothing, you know nothing!"

He suddenly picked up a silver ornament from Dumbledore's table and smashed it against the wall.

The portraits were terrified.

“Harry, calm down, perhaps I have to tell you, Darren…”

"I don't need you to inform me of his death. I don't need to know these things. Since you don't care about him, then you never need to care about him again!"

Dumbledore frowned at Harry. Then it suddenly dawned on him.

He wanted to explain something. But he suddenly stopped. He didn't explain anything. Instead, he sat down and said...

“Harry, we should talk.”

Harry picked up another piece of silverware and threw it on the ground.

"Don't talk!"

He turned around and tried to open the principal's door. But the door was firmly shut and wouldn't budge.

"let me out!"

Dumbledore remained silent.

Harry closed in on him and yelled, "Let me out! I don't want to say another word to you!"

"I need to talk to you. If you don't, then I won't open the door!"

"Dumbledore said, trying to be cheeky."

But Harry couldn't laugh. In fact...

Guilt and pain tormented him.

"I have to admit, Harry, I'm the one who caused all of this."

I must admit, I should have spoken to you in the first place, and then we would have known that Voldemort had been trying to lure you to the Department of Mysteries.

Harry turned to look at him. Dumbledore gestured for him to sit. Harry didn't move.

Dumbledore did not force him.

“Darren has been in a very bad state this year, and I have always been reluctant to give him such heavy tasks.”

But both he and the others in the Order of the Phoenix believed that Darren should share some of my burdens, and they wanted Darren to take over my position.

Harry knew about this; Darren was just too good. And Darren was so powerful.

If Darren hadn't run out of magic the night before his History of Magic exam, if Darren hadn't had a headache during the exam.

If Darren hadn't been attacked by centaurs while searching for him and Hermione.

If Darren hadn't channeled the ropes that attacked them into his own body, if Darren hadn't blocked the blinding curse that struck Hermione.

If Darren wasn't poisoned.

If... then he definitely wouldn't have fallen in.

And all of this is because of him.

It was all because he was so reckless in going to find Sirius. It was all because he fell into Voldemort's trap.

It was all because he overestimated his abilities to save Sirius. Dumbledore ignored his thoughts.

He continued, "I gave him too many tasks, and I made him have to argue with Snape."

That's right. The poisoning you saw, and the scenes of him fighting with Snape, were all taught to him by me. We made him follow this procedure.

He really had absolutely no talent for acting, so everything was done with my and Severus's help.

The arguments you saw between him and Severus earlier were all staged for you by the two of them.

This was used to create the illusion for Voldemort that Severus was out of my control.

He succeeded; he kept it a secret from both you and Voldemort. But he himself endured immense mental stress.

When I was around, he could relax and get a good night's sleep, but after I was expelled from school, Severus told me that he hadn't slept in a long time.

This led him to make the wrong decision; instead of waiting for Severus to return, he went to find you when you insisted on rescuing Sirius.

“He was influenced by me. I urged him to hurry up and told him that he had to go find Sirius immediately.”

Harry forced the words out of his throat.

This almost made his tears catch in his throat. Dumbledore remained silent for a moment.

He then continued, "In any case, I need to take a large part of the responsibility for Darren's situation."

I should have explained the plan to him from the beginning.

But I also felt conflicted, thinking that the less he knew, the easier things would be for him, because he was already really exhausted.

"I don't want to know any more of this..."

Harry's lips trembled as he spoke.

But Dumbledore insisted, "Sit down, Harry, I need you to know everything!"

Five years ago, Darren appeared before me, and Severus and I were filled with suspicion towards him, which was something we couldn't do anything about.

His birth already made me very wary, then he disappeared after chapter 257, and then he appeared just as you were about to go to Hogwarts.

It's too much of a coincidence, Harry. Darren's appearance is too much of a coincidence. It's not just me who's worried; everyone in the Order of the Phoenix is ​​worried.

They're worried that Darren's appearance will be detrimental to you..."

"No, he did nothing to harm me. My whole life revolves around me!"

Harry roared.

"Yes, yes, but at the time we couldn't be sure of that."

We used Truth Potion, Legilimency... Harry, I don't want to go into details anymore, it's the part of an old man he hates most about himself.

In short, after years of trials, Darren became one of us. No one in the Order of the Phoenix dared to disobey him; even Moody liked him very much.

So they suggested that I recruit Darren right now, because he absolutely had to become part of the Order of the Phoenix.

However, Darren failed on the first mission because we were too nervous about him, which led to Voldemort finding out about the place instead.

Darren collided with Voldemort and suffered severe injuries. You might think Severus had healed him, but the injuries are still quite serious.

However, because of the Order of the Phoenix's mission, he did not intend to go to the school clinic, fearing that others would find an opportunity to learn about the Order of the Phoenix's plans from him.

My control over the school has been exceptionally poor this year, which has made him even more panicked.

“I know! If you keep talking about these boring topics…”

"Sit down and listen to me, Harry!"

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“I know you don’t want to hear that, so let’s talk about what happened tonight.”

Darren's first bad decision was that he didn't wait for Severus to return.

Secondly, he went to fight the centaurs…

"It was those centaurs who attacked us!"

Harry glared angrily at Dumbledore.

Dumbledore waited for him to calm down before continuing, "I know the centaurs attacked you first, but Darren clearly had a better way to get you away directly."

He chose the most foolish method, which led to his injury.

"He did it for us. He saw we were about to be killed, he..."

Harry burst into tears.

Dumbledore looked at him with pity.

"That should be the case, that's right... but he should have chosen a more prudent option."

Are you blaming him?

"No, I know it was out of kindness, but I'm heartbroken that he made such an unwise decision. What if he..."

"That's enough, he's already... don't say anything more about him!"

Harry stood up angrily.

Dumbledore sighed.

"Harry, let me finish!"