Adelaide was full of anxiety at this moment, a question constantly circling in her mind: Why did Lord Voldemort suddenly decide to exterminate the MacFusty Family?
This certainly wasn't part of the original plot.
Setting aside Jack MacFusty, who was currently in a coma at St Mungos, just considering Alice MacFusty's prominent performance at Hogwarts now—if she had actually attended Hogwarts in the original story, how could there not be a single mention of her?
From this, it could be inferred that in the original setting, the MacFusty Family likely never faced such a catastrophe, and Alice and her brother probably lived safely with their kin on the Hebrides Islands.
Where exactly did things go wrong... there must be a crucial clue she overlooked!
Thinking of this, Adelaide turned to Alice MacFusty and pressed further: "Miss MacFusty, please try your best to remember—even if it's just a guess—do you know why Lord Voldemort summoned your Family Head?"
Hearing this question, Alice couldn't help but frown slightly. A look of contemplation appeared in her beautiful eyes, and after a moment of silence, she slowly replied:
"I vaguely remember the elders at home discussing this. It seemed Lord Voldemort wanted to obtain a method for curing Blood-Cursed Beastmen from our family. But in reality, once the bloodline of a Blood-Cursed Beastman awakens, it's irreversible. The Blood-Cursed Beastmen in our clan basically just integrate into the Hebridean Black Dragon population; there is no cure at all."
Eh?
Lord Voldemort had actually targeted the MacFusty Family for a way to cure Blood-Cursed Beastmen? This made Adelaide even more confused.
Could it be that he planned to use such a method on his pet snake, Nagini, to restore her to human form?
She thought about it carefully and felt something wasn't quite right; she sensed there was another hidden reason.
Numerous thoughts flashed through Adelaide's mind like dazzling stars flickering in the night sky.
She felt she was only one step away from uncovering the truth behind this mystery, and the key seemed to be hidden within that seemingly insignificant twin-tailed Giant Cockroach.
Yes, the Giant Cockroach!
"Heh! I've got it! Jie-jie-jie!"
Adelaide's sudden, manic joy startled Alice, who instinctively took a few steps back to distance herself from this classmate who looked like the Monkey King descending from the mountain.
Adelaide ignored the wary Alice. With eyes wide and a strange grin splitting her face, she followed her train of thought—although the Cockroach's mind was relatively simple and powerless to contest the dominant soul of Lord Voldemort's powerful soul fragment, it couldn't be ignored that it still possessed a complete soul.
When it channeled soul energy into the Horcrux, it would naturally transmit its own unique habits and memories as well.
Imagine Lord Voldemort's Horcrux finally waking up after a long slumber, only to keenly perceive that certain unspeakable changes had occurred in the depths of his soul.
After receiving the information transmitted from the cockroach soul, Lord Voldemort's soul fragment might suddenly develop an urge to crawl into a dark, damp sewer to build a nest, or to rummage through trash cans for food in a fit of hunger.
These strange subconscious impulses that didn't originally belong to him began to appear frequently, leaving him utterly bewildered.
The concept of transmigration was too far-fetched, and given Lord Voldemort's arrogant nature, he probably wouldn't believe he'd been possessed by a Cockroach even if his soul were scattered.
The Animagus transformation is something learned later in life; he had never considered turning himself into a lowly animal before, and in his soul state, he couldn't practice becoming an Animagus.
After much agonizing thought, Lord Voldemort would find that the only remaining possibility in the Wizarding World was this—he had to suspect that because he was in a soul state, he had unintentionally awakened a long-dormant Blood-Cursed Beastmen bloodline within himself.
After all, he had been an orphan since childhood and knew very little about his parents' bloodline heritage. He only knew his father was an ordinary Muggle and his mother came from the noble Slytherin family.
As for whether there were some unknown twists and turns behind that... the thought of Lord Voldemort's cockroach horcrux Diadem having to constantly suppress the urge to crawl into sewers made Adelaide feel extremely gratified—serves you right for sending people to kidnap me, go eat trash in the sewers!
The more she thought about it, the more excited she became, and the images in her mind grew clearer.
If it were the soul of a snake possessing Lord Voldemort, perhaps he wouldn't be so miserable; but for it to be a Cockroach—it was simply too hilarious!
At this moment, the soul fragment of Lord Voldemort inside the Diadem must be both furious and terrified. He must be afraid that if he truly succeeded in resurrecting, what if he actually turned into a lowly Giant Cockroach because of that damned Blood Curse!
Adelaide believed that before finding an effective way to break the curse, Lord Voldemort's resurrection plan would likely be put on hold—perhaps even indefinitely.
After all, even an ancient blood-cursed family like the MacFusty Family was helpless against this curse; the chances of Lord Voldemort finding a way to break it were minuscule.
Thinking of this, Adelaide seemed to understand why Lord Voldemort insisted on destroying the MacFusty Family.
Besides venting his anger, it was likely mostly out of deep jealousy—why do you get to have the noble Dragon bloodline while I can only be reduced to the lowliest Cockroach!
This intense contrast and sense of injustice must have driven Lord Voldemort nearly insane.
"Jie-jie-jie, hee-hee-hee..."
Adelaide was immersed in her thoughts, laughing wickedly with delight, completely failing to notice when Alice MacFusty had left.
When she recovered from her thoughts, she saw Dumbledore, Amandine, and Madam Pomfrey surrounding her in a triangle. Not far away, Alice was holding back a tearful Senior Cho Chang, preventing her from rushing forward.
She also heard Alice whispering to Senior Cho Chang: "Calm down, Grindelwald's current state is not right, don't provoke her!"
Adelaide was completely bewildered. What kind of act were they putting on?
Before she could react, Amandine lunged and pinned her down firmly, then Madam Pomfrey pulled out a bottle of suspicious liquid and began pouring it into her mouth.
"What are you—glug glug... doing—glug glug... I'm not si—glug glug—"
She didn't know what the potion was made of, but as soon as it hit her mouth, Adelaide's head began to swim, and her eyelids suddenly felt as heavy as lead.
Before losing consciousness, she faintly heard Madam Pomfrey saying to the others: "This poor child probably hasn't recovered from the previous fright; she still needs quiet rest..."
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