The sky in late spring was clear and cloudless, and the sunshine brought warmth to the earth. However, you could not feel this in the woods outside Little Hangleton Village. The ancient trees cast a cool, dark and dense shadow. Ryan stood in the woods.
I shivered involuntarily.
"Don't be nervous, you should trust me and Professor Moody." Dumbledore said in a gentle tone.
"It's okay, I just suddenly felt a little cold when I walked into the shade. By the way, Professor, where is this place?"
"This is the old house of the Gaunt family. They claim to be the direct descendants of Slytherin. Voldemort's mother was born here, and his so-called Slytherin bloodline also comes from this family." Dumbledore explained.
"Descendants of Slytherin? But this" Ryan said with some disbelief, pointing to the shack in front of him. After all, knowing it is one thing, but seeing it with his own eyes is another. Looking at the shack in front of him, he really
There's no way to connect this with Slytherin's name.
"But that's the truth." Dumbledore said slowly. "The Gaunt family is a very old wizarding family, famous for its restlessness and violence. Because they are used to marrying close relatives, this character trait becomes more and more serious from generation to generation.
Obviously. They lack rationality, and they particularly like luxurious ostentation. Therefore, several generations ago, Voldemort's grandfather, the family's property was squandered, and they could only end up in this situation."
This proves that regardless of whether there is magic or not, the problems of consanguineous marriage will appear, but these problems will be exposed more slowly in the case of magic.
"Okay, let's clean up here first. Ryan, you can see if there is anything unusual." After saying that, Professor Dumbledore began to wave his wand to clear the collapsed roof. And Ryan took out his portable alchemy array.
and a lot of bottles and jars, ready to look for traces of magic around them. After glancing at the two people, Professor Moody clenched his wand and stared at the surroundings vigilantly.
As a few drops of blood and a pinch of mixed powder were placed on the alchemy array, blue-white flames ignited on the six corners of the hexagram on the alchemy array. As Ryan chanted the magic spell, these flames began to follow
The runes and lines on the alchemy array moved quickly. Finally, a flame lit up the entire alchemy array.
The materials in the center of the alchemy array slowly floated in the air as the flames moved, and mixed with each other under the command of Ryan's gestures. Finally, they turned into a ball of green-looking powder.
"Everyone who walks by will leave traces." Ryan recited this spell in ancient Latin language. After the words fell, a gust of wind suddenly appeared, blowing all the powder on the alchemy table in the direction of the room that Professor Dumbledore had just cleared.
.
Soon, the entire house was enveloped in a sheet of fluorescent green powder. The powder slowly settled down over time, and finally all fell to the ground.
"Okay." Ryan said to the two professors waiting aside. Professor Dumbledore smiled, and then walked directly into the ruins of the Gaunt family. Moody leaned against the door of the ruined building and stared vigilantly.
surrounding environment.
When Ryan stepped into the door, Moody whispered beside him: "I did read it right, you did a great job."
Most of the powder in the room has completely disappeared, but five or six places are showing a glowing green light. This means that these places have magical reactions, so there are much fewer places to search.
Everyone searched them one by one according to the size of the magic reaction, and found something in every place with magic reaction. However, the Gunter family was indeed in ruins, and the things dug out were all broken trinkets.
not worth.
"Okay, let's see what this is." Dumbledore came to the place where the reaction was the weakest: behind the decorative stone slab above the fireplace. After cleaning up the dust on the decorative slab, they could see that the stone slab was rough.
is carved with a snake.
"The coat of arms of the Gaunt family? This place fits Voldemort's character quite well. He must have a sense of ritual when placing these things and will not place them randomly." Professor Dumbledore waved his wand and removed them as he spoke.
That stone slab.
The strange thing is that there is nothing behind the stone slab, only a complete stone. But there is a rectangular green light spot on the stone.
"Ah, it's an illusion." Dumbledore shouted to break the trap before Ryan could do anything. After waving the wand a few times and getting no response, his wand emitted a layer of silver-white light.
Under the illumination of the light, a groove appeared on the stone. A golden box was placed in the groove. But on the mouth of the groove, many green runes emerged.
"Driving away harmful magical creatures, preventing fire and weathering, reinforcing, and counteracting curses." Professor Dumbledore reported the functions of the runes one by one as he watched the runes. Ryan watched carefully from the side as Dumbledore recognized and
destroy these things.
"Okay." Professor Dumbledore stretched out his hand and took out the golden box from the top of the table. It turned out that he avoided the most densely magical place in the gap, and then destroyed the magic on the stone and punched a hole in the side.
took out this box.
Seeing that Professor Dumbledore was about to open the lid of the box right here, Ryan quickly stepped forward to stop it: "Professor, we have got everything and we are not in a hurry. Wouldn't it be better to go back to the office to deal with it?"
"Indeed, I'm a little impatient." Dumbledore stopped reaching for the box, took out a dragon skin bag from his arms and threw the box in. Ryan could feel that this bag was made of real dragon skin.
Instead of those leather products such as dragon skin gloves made from dragon-veined creatures that are listed on students' lists every year.
The accumulation of hundreds of years of wizards should not be underestimated, whether it is knowledge or wealth. It seems that the estimate of the true strength of that group of pure bloods needs to be adjusted higher. Maybe each of those families has a few in the basement.
The ancestors who are ready to raise their bodies at any time.
After confirming that nothing was missing in the room, the three of them took the Phoenix Express back to the principal's office at Hogwarts.
In Professor Dumbledore's principal's office, three people gathered around the table and looked at the gold box placed on the table.
"I have checked that there is nothing wrong with the box. Let me open the box." After saying that, Dumbledore reached for the gold box again, but was still stopped by Ryan.
"Professor Dumbledore, this gold box was made by goblins. The special materials and techniques isolate us from all detection methods. What if there is a curse on the thing inside? Especially since you said that person is good at deceiving people, even if
The mechanism inside can only control you for a few seconds, and the consequences will be disastrous. So I thought it would be better for me to open this box, so that even if there is any mechanism, you can easily control me."
"I'm not old enough to need an underage child to protect me from danger." After hearing this, Moody also stood up. "Why don't I do it. Ryan, you are too young and you are a little cursed.
It might kill you in an instant. I think I can hold on for a little longer in this situation, and if something happens, Albus can control me and avoid danger."
Finally, Professor Moody took over the task of opening the box. Ryan stood behind Dumbledore and watched him warily.