It has been a week since Colin Creevey was attacked.
Finally, everyone is no longer forgetful, especially wizards born in Muggle families. They are very careful about matters that affect their own lives, for fear of becoming the next Colin Creevey.
Of course, there are always exceptions.
Albert has been very busy recently and is preparing to make first contact with Tom Riddle's diary. Because of Quirrell's experience, Albert does not dare to be arrogant enough to think that he can control everything.
Quirrell completely underestimated Voldemort back then and thought he could control him, which is why he ended up like that.
Albert did not dare to underestimate Voldemort at all, even though the Tom in the diary was just a young wizard.
After he was fully prepared, Albert took out the box containing Tom Riddle from the Room of Requirement and studied it.
At this moment, Albert is making preparations for research. He will not let Riddle know his true identity. God knows whether he can sense the specific situation outside the diary.
After all, at the end of the novel, Riddle ran out of the diary.
Albert threw the Lockhart hair he had collected earlier into a small cup of compound potion that was as thick as syrup. When the hair came into contact with the potion, it immediately hissed and bubbled.
After a few seconds, the potion turned as dark blonde as Lockhart's hair.
"I really hope this thing tastes better." Albert muttered. Although he didn't have any expectations for it, he drank all the compound potion in the cup in one go.
The taste of the compound potion was really hard to describe. It was a bit like overcooked cabbage and made Albert want to gag.
"Damn it!"
Albert coughed twice, and he could feel the effect of the compound medicine taking effect.
[After the compound medicine entered the stomach, a terrible burning sensation quickly spread from the stomach throughout the body, reaching to the fingers, toes and even all over the body.
I could feel my internal organs churning. If I hadn't taken the compound medicine, I even doubted whether I would have suffered from any serious disease and could have died on the spot at any time.
Recommendation: People with serious diseases should not use compound medicines to avoid getting sick while taking them.]
Albert's consciousness was quite strong. At least after taking the compound potion, he was able to control the quill next to him to record his feelings after taking the compound potion in his diary.
Albert stood in front of the full-length mirror and looked up at himself in the mirror. Due to the effect of the potion, he was breathing heavily, and his facial features were squirming and deformed like hot wax. He looked extremely weird and oozing.
[It was a terrible feeling, as if the skin all over my body was melting like hot wax.]
I watched helplessly as my hands began to get bigger, my fingers became thicker, and my whole body swelled due to the effect of the medicine.
Fortunately, Albert had already put on a new robe for himself in advance, so his clothes were not torn due to the deformation of the compound potion.
The transformation only lasted a few seconds, it came suddenly and went away quickly.
Standing in front of the full-length mirror, the person panting was no longer Albert? It was Lockhart, who was dressed a bit sloppily.
Everything stopped.
"I really don't know how little Claude has been taking compound potions for more than half a year." Albert took a deep breath and looked at his current body. He is still a little uncomfortable.
"Sure enough? The endurance of wizards is not ordinary." He muttered, and after arranging his clothes a little, he began to look up the records of taking the compound potion just now, and wrote down some personal experiences in it.
After Albert finished writing, he walked towards the box where the diary was placed. It was a box made of dragon leather, which could effectively isolate the magic.
There is also a wooden box in the dragon leather box, which is made of a guardian tree. Albert has cast a strong protective magic on it, which can effectively isolate black magic? Even a secret detector cannot detect the black magic inside.
trace.
As for whether these protections can effectively block the penetration of Horcruxes, Albert actually doesn't know, but even if there are these protections, he would not want to carry the Horcruxes with him.
The third layer is the box made by Nico Flamel. After Albert opens the box, he uses the magic control glove to take out the diary from the metal box.
Of course he would not touch the Horcrux directly with his hands? Even if he wore dragon skin gloves, Albert did not want to touch the Horcrux directly to avoid being affected by the Horcrux.
Although this should not lead to being controlled by a Horcrux, Albert still didn't want to take the risk.
After placing Tom Riddle's diary on the table, Albert took out various styles of dark magic detectors purchased by the house elves.
The first is the looking glass, which is a dark magic detector that looks like a glass top. When Albert placed it next to the diary, it did not light up or spin, which meant that there was no suspicious person around.
[The looking glass does not react to Horcruxes.]
The quill pen wrote this sentence in the diary.
[Sure enough, Tom Riddle’s Horcrux cannot be considered a human, so the looking glass did not react. This also proves why the Human Trace Curse did not react to Tom. 】
Next, Albert took a slender gold rod detector and poked it in Tom's diary. The honesty detector had a certain attraction without touching the diary, and the tip emitted a faint light.
[The honesty detector responded, proving that the diary was indeed enchanted.]
Then there is the secret detector. Unlike the honest detector used to detect hidden spells and hidden magical objects, the secret detector is an auxiliary tool used by the Ministry of Magic to detect dark magic items. As long as the detector touches a dark magic item, it will
A buzzing alarm will sound immediately.
[The secret detector responded, proving that the diary is indeed a dark magic item.]
[Routine testing has been carried out on Tom's diary. It is currently unknown whether Tom Riddle in the diary can peek into the outside world. 】
At the end of the novel, Riddle is powerful enough to appear outside the diary, and can even use the wand as an entity. He doesn't know what situation Riddle is in now, but he has to guard against it.
Next, he began to drip ink onto the diary. The ink shone brightly on the diary for a second, and then seemed to be sucked into the paper and disappeared without a trace.
Albert was anxious to write in the diary, but continued to drip water on the page.
However, this time it was ordinary water droplets, and the water droplets were not absorbed by the diary, but made the diary wet?
[Riddle’s diary was actually wet with water. Does that mean it can be ignited by flames? 】
Albert began to try to control the glove to tear off a page from the diary, but failed. Even if he used the cutting spell in the end, he could not damage the diary.
Sure enough, just as he remembered, the Horcrux was protected by strong magic and would not be destroyed at will.
But...why does the diary get wet with water?
This is unreasonable?
[Can I soak the diary and tear out the pages? 】
After Albert considered it, he recorded the idea and prepared to test it another day.
He now left a page of the diary exposed alone, looking like a prisoner about to have his head chopped off.
"The flames are blazing."
Albert raised his wand and tried to burn it on that page. The flames ignited, but quickly extinguished without causing any damage to the diary.
Next, I tried it with an ordinary flame, but still failed.
[Fire cannot cause damage to Horcruxes. (You can consider fierce fire.)]
After a simple test, there was still no sign of Tom Riddle appearing.
[Perhaps, you can consider using the threat of "throwing the diary into the cesspool" to see if you can force him out. 】
"He wrote this in his experimental diary, but this line was quickly spent, "Forget it, after all, I have to try to conduct communication research on Tom next, and it will be bad if it makes a stink."
"Hello, Tom."
The quill wrote according to Albert's wishes.
This line of text flashed on the paper and was sucked in, leaving no trace at all.
However, there was no other reaction in the diary.
"Ouch! Are you already wary of me?" Albert couldn't help but narrowed his eyes and said, "This won't work."