The Old Chessmaster! Part-2

{Headmaster's Office, Hogwarts, Scotland}

{02:12 PM, 11th Jan 1992}

Dumbledore stared at Harry as the other stared right back, an impasse was reached which Dumbledore broke by asking, "But why Voldemort and soul Merging?" he could see the reasoning behind Harry's words till now but the final conclusion he had reached was still a long shot.

Harry stopped for a moment and considered Dumbledore, the man was drenched in secrets, being an agent he was easily able to tell that he was gathering information, and Harry wasn't necessarily in the mood to give him everything, but still a small doubt lingered in the back of his mind, he called out his status going through it once more to see if he wasn't missing anything!

[Harry James Potter]

[Age: 11]

[Race: Wizard]

[Level: 36]

[Mana: 11800/11800]

[Health: 2200/2200]

[Stamina: 210/210]

[Stats:]

[Strength: 25]

[Speed: 32]

[Dexterity: 44]

[Vitality: 22]

[Endurance: 21]

[Intelligence: 118 (+38 from last time)]

[Wisdom: 116 (+16 from last time)]

[Points: 0]

[SKILLS:]

[Combat Skills–]

[Unarmed Combat (Lvl 44)]

[Melee Combat (Lvl 24)]

[Marksmanship (Lvl 72)]

[Breathing Technique (Lvl 37)]

[Magical Skills–]

[Mana Manipulation (Lvl 59)]

[Wandless Magic (Lvl 26)]

[Legilimency (Lvl - 23)]

[Metamorphmagus (Lvl MAX)]

[Linguistic Skills–]

[English (Lvl MAX)]

[French (Lvl MAX)]

[German (Lvl MAX)]

[Parseltongue (Lvl MAX)]

[Other Skills–]

[Ambidextrous (Lvl 23)]

[Acting (Lvl 51)]

[Sneaking (Lvl 88)]

[Observe (Lvl 57)]

[Intellegence gathering (Lvl 25)]

[Spells:]

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Harry scanned his status searching for anything abnormal, or maybe even a title, but nothing stood out to him. Still, he wanted to be sure so he explained, "Charlus Potter grew up being coddled up in a manor, although my disappearance had made the kids growing up more mature, he still had a sheltered life, from the brief history of my family that I know off, Potter's were known to be fighters of the so-called Light-side, I have seen the medals hanging in Potter manor, so you should have no doubts regarding his allegiance, both James and Lily Potter fought against Voldemort too. So the only problem would be if something was wrong with Charlus's attitude, you surely have seen him many times since birth and unless he was into some dark magic or cruel shit, he should have been given the benefit of the doubt."

Harry took a deep breath as he collected his thoughts, "So you are suspecting and even testing a seemingly innocent kid when you have no reason to, which leaves me to only two possibilities, you are testing him to see if he could hold the title of the Boy-Who-Lived, or you think something weird happened on the night when various kinds of soul magics were used. Voldemort being a Dark Lord must be adept at soul magic..."

Harry finished his little speech, and although he kept his reasoning a little short in the end, there was no reason for Dumbledore to know all kinds of shit HYDRA had tried over the years, he still remembered hearing about someone named Zola that had his conscious was stored in a computer...

"What do you know about Soul magic," Dumbledore's words were calm and his face was still blank but Harry could hear the caution in his tone.

'So he does suspect something, but as far as I could see Charlus was fine, a bit moronic but fine nonetheless...'

"Does it matter, you aren't going to tell me anything anyway, I have played this game before, Professor, HYDRA is full of secrets too, compartmentalizing information is the reason most of their missions work out but I don't think your subordinates would appreciate it. Actually leave it, it doesn't concern me, what does concern me is that whatever the thing you suspect is wrong with Charlus is it the same for me?" That was the thing Harry was most concerned about, he knew he had suffered the worst of consequences that night so he wanted to know if there was more from where that came from...

"No" Dumbledore replied, his tone a little cold and Harry realized he had burned some bridges with the old headmaster, "the only thing that was wrong with you that night was your damaged core, nothing else..." Harry gave a curt nod to him and stood up to leave, Dumbledore didn't stop the young man that left the room as his attention turned back to the locker in which he had stored the old Diary.

'Tom Marvallo Riddle' although from what he suspects he was a little powerless at the moment, maybe more like a spirit, but the devastation that his old student has left behind was still palpable.

Dumbledore sighed as his thoughts shifted to young Harry, he shouldn't blame him for not caring for his family, he had grown up a little differently with a rather skewed moral compass, he knew that Harry would one day become a powerful sorcerer, and although he had sworn to not let another Voldemort rise to power, he was feeling a little powerless.

'Unless he does something drastic let's leave him alone... judging by his stance Dumbledore gave it till the end of the year before Harry leaves Magical Britain,' and to be honest Dumbledore wasn't going to warn the Potters or try to stop him, his upbringing had caused a wide chasm to appear between them, while he could see Harry, eventually when he grows up, forgiving his siblings, the rest of them was another matter altogether...

He opened the locker and pulled out the Diary from it, he could sense the evil radiating from the Diary, ''' Tom Marvallo Riddle'', was engraved on the diary with golden letters as Dumbledore once again picked his notes on the spell he was creating.

'In the end, we may all owe our lives to Harry, if James wasn't enraged because of his kidnapping, he wouldn't have searched the houses of Purebloods and Malfoy wouldn't have tried to get rid of this Diary...' and he won't have it in his hands, to experiment and maybe figure out where rest of the soul pieces are...

'After all, no matter if the soul was severed, it does have a connection to the others of its kind after all...'