028-Legilimency!

Fawkes, who was lazily combing his feathers, felt an ominous feeling surrounding the new student that just entered the office. He raised his red eyes and looked around for other possible threats. After he analyzed Ivan's low magical reserves, it just closed its eyes and started resting, looking unconcerned.

However, Ivan, who was harmless at the moment, stretched out his right hand under the pretense of petting Fawkes and develop a closer relationship for his future plans.

He waited for a bit expecting an adverse reaction, but upon seeing Fawkes was still dozing off, he cautiously stroked Fawkes feathers.

At soon as he made contact, the Phoenix swiftly opened its eyes and looked into Ivan's eyes. After a stalemate, Fawkes confirmed that the other party had no malicious intentions, but he still slapped Ivan's hand with his wings, a warning flashed in the phoenix's eyes.

As a phoenix, how can he allow himself to be petted by that double-faced kid...

However, no matter much Fawkes tried, Ivan was also shameless.

After all, as it was Dumbledore's pet, It was impossible for Fawkes to harm Ivan. In the end, after a while of playing hide and seek, Fawkes reluctantly compromised.

And that was only because Ivan did not show the slightest malicious intentions from the beginning to the end, otherwise Ivan's fingers would have been gone.

"I was able to touch a Phoenix!" Ivan happily petted Fawkes, using his previous experience of petting his owl, Ivan did his best to pat Fawkes with the intention to gain its favor, so that one day it would willingly give Ivan his blood.

Fawkes's appearance also gradually changed, from being impatient at the beginning to being indifferent, and in the end, he willingly raised his arrogant head and let Ivan pet the feathers on his neck.

Ivan was looking at Fawkes, just a few days ago he had read about Phoenixes in a book, regarded as a creature of legends.

Unlike what he remembered seeing in the movie, Fawkes looked more like a large turkey with beautiful golden-red feathers. Although it looked majestic, but somehow, in the back of his mind Ivan wondered how it would taste...

Just as Ivan was thinking of roasting the phoenix, a gentle voice suddenly rang.

"flames are like a hotbed for the phoenix, maybe you should change the cooking method..."

Ivan turned his head and looked behind him. Dumbledore's tall body was walking in from the door. The age of a hundred years did not seem to have caused any problems to the greatest wizard of the century. He still looked full of energy, and even joked with Ivan...

Fawkes, who heard what Dumbeldore said, hurriedly flew up, pecked Ivan's head angrily, and then flew to Dumbledore's hat, looking at Ivan with a vigilant look.

Fawkes didn't know that the harmless little wizard in front of him actually was planning to roast him.

"Professor, I'm curious how did you know what I was thinking about? Can you read my thoughts?" Ivan asked with a naive face, touching his aching head.

"Sometimes a person's actions and behaviors alone are enough to reveal their thoughts." Dumbledore did not admit nor refute but spoke mysteriously.

Ivan tried to act impressed, but in his heart, he cursed, 'Like hell, I'll believe you, the greatest wizard of the century my ass!'

Perhaps it was because the time limit had not expired for the previously exchanged master learning experience card. When Dumbledore spoke for the first time, Ivan felt a foreign presence sneak into his mind which he noticed, and then this power disappeared without a trace.

Ivan was suddenly vigilant, he could guess that this unknown power was Dumbledore's Legilimency, he didn't know why he could perceive such silent and mysterious mind magic traces in the experience card state, but now was not the time to think about it.

For some reason, Dumbledore didn't use legilimency after his first attempt. Instead, he dragged his long blue-purple robes and sat down on the headmaster's chair. He gestured for Ivan to sit down while pulling on a drawer and placed some snacks out on the table.

"Would you like some cockroach clusters? Or how about the latest flavor of Honeydukes Candy?" Dumbledore presented two stacks of sweets to Ivan.

Ivan didn't even think about touching the infamous cockroach clusters, but he was a little curious about the Honedukes Candy. He took a wraped one and threw it into his mouth.

His mouth was instantly filled with the sweetness of honey, the broken pieces of candy seemed to have self-consciousness, and it quickly spread everywhere in the mouth, avoiding Ivan's teeth, a bit like the popping candy he had eaten in his previous life with just a touch on the sweeter side.

Dumbledore did not rush to ask questions but gave Ivan another glass of iced lemon juice, seemingly wanting Ivan to calm down from the previous ordeal.

After eating some candies and drinking more than half a glass of lemon juice, Ivan gradually eased his anxiety caused by seeing Dumbledore for the first time and began to tell what happened.

Of course, Ivan told the truth instead of what Hermione said when she lied. After all, Hermione's story was a little too naive, let alone Dumbledore, even he didn't believe it.

Furthermore, Ivan wasn't sure if Dumbledore would suddenly use Legilimency during his narration, or if he could read his expressions.

So what Ivan said was almost all the truth, but he concealed some key information.

I started by saying that before the Halloween party, I learned from Harry that Hermione was hiding in the bathroom alone, and so I went looking for her. After encountering a troll in the halfway, I into a hidden corridor to escape. But when Hermione accidentally attracted the troll, I had to step forward to try to rescue her and finally managed to kill the troll.

In order to increase the credibility, Ivan even described the battle in general.

The remaining evidence of the battle included the iron thorns that have been transfigured in advance to limit the actions of the trolls and the sleeping potion ingredients that could be detected on the trolls' corpses.

Ivan could explain the former. If Dumbledore asked, he can simply say that he was practicing the transfiguration and shrinking charm. As Ivan had started making this stuff a few days ago, many students can testify for him, so no matter how Dumbledore investigates, he could only reach the conclusion that it was a coincidence.

Ivan didn't mention the sleeping potion though, because even if it was detected, Dumbledore just wouldn't suspect him but Quirille will most likely be the primary suspect, as the potion could have been used to smuggle the troll into Hogwarts.

Ivan quickly went through the story once again to see if there were any suspicious parts.

However, Dumbledore's reaction made Ivan feel a little underwhelmed...