Dumbledore did not pursue the matter of Fred and George getting up and wandering around in the middle of the night, and followed Albert into an alley among the garbage dumps. After the two passed by the troll specimen, they walked a short distance and stopped at
In front of a large cabinet with a blistered surface, as if strong acid had been poured on it.
"Last time, I hid Mr. Hertok Dagworth's gold card here." Albert opened the cabinet door and pointed to the cage inside. The creatures in the cage were long dead. Judging from the bones,
It has five legs. "Later, I came over to study this thing again, and I thought this creature should be the legendary five-legged monster."
"I haven't seen a five-legged monster either. Almost no one knows where Delia Island is." Dumbledore also looked at the skeletons in the cage, shook his head and said, "However, your guess may be right."
"Where is the crown in the picture?" Dumbledore asked again.
"There!" Albert raised his finger and pointed to the top of the crate next to him. There was a bust of an ugly old wizard, with a gray old hair cover and a rusty hat covering his head.
crown.
"So it's here." Dumbledore reached out to grab the crown, but Albert reached out and grabbed it.
"What's wrong?" Dumbledore looked at Albert in confusion.
"I think it's best to wear dragon leather gloves. I heard that many black magic items are very deadly and may cause serious consequences if they come into contact with the skin." Albert took out the dragon leather gloves from his robe pocket and handed them to Deng.
Bullido: "Although it is not certain whether the crown is a black magic item, we should still be just in case. Otherwise, it would be really unlucky to lose your life."
Seeing Albert's serious expression, Dumbledore couldn't help being stunned. He took the dragon leather gloves and said with a smile, "I was negligent."
Although Dumbledore felt that Albert was too cautious, he was actually right. Many dark magic items were indeed dangerous.
After he put on the dragon leather gloves, he reached out and took the crown off the bust of the old wizard, put it in front of him and looked at it carefully, nodded and said: "You are right, this should be a dark magic item. Fortunately,
You didn't touch it, otherwise you don't know what terrible things would happen."
"Is it dangerous?" Albert asked.
"A very dangerous and evil dark magic item." The smile on Dumbledore's face had disappeared. He narrowed his eyes and looked at the crown up and down, not knowing what he was thinking.
Soon, Dumbledore's mood became cheerful again, and he took Albert out of the Room of Requirement. He smiled and said to Albert, "You handled it the right way, fifty points to Gryffindor."
"Those, sir, I'll leave it to you, I'll leave first!" Albert said hello to Dumbledore, then turned and left.
"A very good boy." Dumbledore murmured as he looked at Albert's leaving back.
After he returned to the principal's office with the crown, the portraits who had been pretending to be asleep immediately gathered around him.
"Is this the crown in the photo?"
"It does look a bit like Ravenclaw's diadem."
"Can you confirm its authenticity?"
"This... I'm not sure. After all, Ravenclaw's diadem has been missing for thousands of years. However, we have a simple way to tell." Dumbledore said to one of the principals: "Amon
Duo, please go find Ms. Gray and ask her to come to the principal's office."
"Ms. Grey? I understand."
Armando left quickly. He had a portrait of himself in the Ravenclaw common room, and in the past he could ask students who were not in class to help pass messages.
"Dumbledore, do you want to see me?"
Not long after, Ms. Gray came.
"There's something." Dumbledore pointed to the crown on the table and said, "I found it. Can you tell me if this is the legendary Ravenclaw's crown."
There was a moment of astonishment on Ms. Gray's face. She floated to the table, stared at the crown for a few seconds, and murmured: "It's very similar, but it's impossible. It can't appear in Hogwarts."
"Where did you find it?" asked Ms. Gray.
"In the Room of Requirement." Dumbledore added: "It's the magical room on the eighth floor of the castle opposite the tapestry where the troll beat Barnabas silly."
"Is this really Ravenclaw's diadem?" Armando was shocked, knowing that Ravenclaw's diadem had been missing for thousands of years.
"No way!" Ms. Gray murmured, "It should be in a hollow tree in the Albanian forest."
Now, as long as you are not stupid, you can guess Ms. Gray's identity from this sentence.
"Someone brought it back to school."
In fact, Dumbledore had already guessed what it was, and even more so who had brought the Ravenclaw diadem back to school.
"Ms. Grey, I regret to inform you that this Ravenclaw relic has been defiled by evil black magic."
"He... is very likable. He... is very considerate... compassionate." Ms. Gray was stunned, looking at Ravenclaw's crown in disbelief, and murmured: "How could he?
Do something like this."
"Tom is very good at using sweet words to deceive others." Dumbledore said softly, "You are not the only one who has been deceived by him..."
"Is there strong black magic cast on the crown?" Armando asked: "Can it be restored?"
"It is very possible that Tom made the crown into a Horcrux." Dumbledore said softly, "This is a very evil black magic. Ordinary magic can't even harm it! I need to find some special methods."
"Horcrux!"
At this time, all the principals in the past were in trouble!
"Fortunately, Mr. Anderson was very vigilant and took the correct approach when he found this thing, otherwise he might have been in big trouble!" Dumbledore raised his wand and tried to remove the dark magic on it. However, he
The magic has no effect.
"Can't you even do anything?"
"Destroying a Horcrux requires very powerful destruction, so powerful that the black magic on the Horcrux cannot resist it." Dumbledore shook his head and murmured.
"Use dark magic, don't tell me you don't know how to use it!" Phineas suddenly shouted. Although Dumbledore had hardly used those dark magics, he believed that Dumbledore would definitely use them.
"The Fire Curse or Avada's Kedavra should be able to destroy it!" Dumbledore naturally has methods, but if there are other better options, he doesn't really want to use those methods.
"Use the killing curse. It's not used on people anyway, so don't tell me you don't know how to use it!" Phineas couldn't help but curl his lips and said, he really didn't like Dumbledore's hypocrisy.
"Shut up Phineas." An old witch waved her cane at Phineas in a demonstrative manner. If he said another nonsense, she would hit him on the head with the cane.
"Destroy it, don't leave this evil thing here, it will make us feel uncomfortable."
Other principals also said that Horcruxes are so evil that no one knows what will happen if they are kept.
"Okay, Avada Kedavra!"
The next moment, green light filled the entire principal's office.
After the green light dissipated, the crown seemed to be vibrating violently, and then it cracked on the table in front of everyone. Bloody, black and sticky stuff seeped out of the crown, and an extremely weak scream of pain came from the crown.
"How could this happen, how could..." Ms. Gray was very shocked. Ravenclaw's diadem was ruined because the boy used evil black magic to defile it.
"It seems that I need to give Mr. Anderson another special contribution award!" Dumbledore said easily.
He raised his wand and waved lightly at the broken crown on the table, and the liquid disappeared completely. He reached out and picked up the damaged crown and put it into a box. Others said seriously, "By the way, find Raven
Please don’t make it public about Crow’s crown and the Horcrux. This matter needs to be kept secret. It’s very important. As for the crown, I will find someone to try to repair it, but I can’t guarantee that it can be completely repaired.”
"Mr. Anderson?" Ms. Gray murmured, "Maybe I should be grateful to that kid. It's all thanks to him that I didn't continue to be deceived."
Ravenclaw's diadem was eventually destroyed, making her regretful that she should not have trusted the boy in the first place.
…
At this moment, Albert, who was listening to the class, suddenly raised his lips in joy. On his task panel, three more tasks were completed. What a bumper harvest!
It seems that the Horcrux has been destroyed, and the principal is really acting resolutely!