"What's next? What did my brother do after you told him these things?" After hearing the story just now, Sirius suddenly became excited. If Lupine hadn't stopped him and said
Maybe he would just go up and grab Kreacher's neck and question him.
"Master Regulus is very worried, very worried." Kreacher hissed, "Regulus told Kreacher to hide and not leave the house." Then... after a while... one night, Regulus told Kreacher to hide and not leave the house.
Master Regulus went to the cupboard and found Kreacher. Master Regulus looked strange, not like his usual self. Kreacher could see that he was in a mess... The young master asked Kreacher to take him to the cave.
The cave where Kreacher and the Dark Lord went...
"He made you drink the potion?" Hermione asked with some disgust. Although she had no plans to liberate the house elves now, as a person who grew up in modern society, she was naturally disgusted with this slavery system.
Kreacher shook his head and burst into tears. Hermione covered her mouth: She seemed to have guessed something.
"Master Leregulus took out a locket from his pocket, just like the Dark Lord's," Kreacher said, tears streaming down the sides of his long nose. "He told Kreacher to hold it.
, after the stone basin is dry, change the locket..."
When he said this, Kreacher was so sad that he couldn't help himself. He forced himself to continue:
"He ordered Kreacher to leave and leave him alone. He told Kreacher to go home and not tell the mistress what he had done but that he must destroy the first locket. Then he drank the potion and Kreacher changed the locket.
The locket watched helplessly... Master Regulus... was dragged underwater... and then..."
"Stop talking, stop talking." Sirius grabbed his hair hard, with a painful expression on his face. "Regulus is still too weak. He became a Death Eater as soon as his parents told him.
It's all my fault, if only I could have persuaded him to leave this home."
"It's not your fault, you didn't do anything wrong." Lupine comforted him from the side. "If we want to make mistakes, the biggest mistake is also because of Voldemort's ambition and evil." Hermione also nodded in agreement.
"So, you brought the locket home." Looking at Lupine who was comforting Sirius, Ryan, who felt that he did not need to intervene, was determined to ask everything about the locket, "Try to destroy it.
?”
"Kreacher couldn't leave any trace on it." The old elf said sadly, "Kreacher tried all the methods, but none of them succeeded... There are so many powerful magics on the box, Kreacher believes that only
It can be destroyed from the inside, but it cannot be opened... Kreacher punished himself repeatedly and tried again. Because Kreacher failed to carry out the order, Kreacher could not destroy the locket! The mistress went crazy with grief because Thunder
Master Regulus is missing, and Kreacher cannot tell her what happened, because Master Regulus forbids him from telling his family what happened in the cave..."
"Oh, God..." Hermione couldn't help but turned around and hugged Ryan's neck, and then rested her head on his shoulder.
"The flames of justice and courage will still burn in people's hearts even in the darkest times, and having these noble qualities has nothing to do with their origin, education level or even blood. The only thing needed is to be filled with hope. I think
Sirius's brother should have died generously with the hope of defeating that man." Ryan put his arm around Hermione's shoulders at this time and kept comforting her.
Ryan also felt that his nose was sore at this time. It was one thing to read about it in a novel, but it was another thing to experience it personally. This kind of person who sacrificed his life for a noble idea is worthy of being called a "noble" person from any angle.
He is a real hero.
At this time, the living room fell into silence, with only the sound of Kreacher sniffing. After everyone calmed down a little, Ryan said to Lupine, who had almost recovered: "Professor, I think you may need to inform Principal Dumbledore.
.The magic level of house elves is not much weaker than that of ordinary wizards. The fact that the defense is so strong and allows that person to hide something in such a complicated way should be very important to that person. This is beyond the scope of what we can solve.
Already."
"I'm going to find Dumbledore right now." After saying that, Lupine stood up immediately, patted Sirius on the shoulder and walked quickly downstairs.
"I think Dumbledore should be able to destroy this thing." Ryan said looking at Lupine coming down the stairs.
"You must destroy it!" Kreacher suddenly jumped up and hugged Sirius, crying. Sirius was about to scold him, but thought of something and swallowed his words back. It was just a little stiff that made Kreacher sit quietly.
Just wait there.
After waiting in silence for more than 20 minutes, footsteps were heard on the stairs. Dumbledore appeared at the top of the stairs wearing a purple robe. After greeting Sirius and the other three, he asked straightforwardly.
his purpose.
"You said that you found a locket of Slytherin relics that was hidden by Voldemort using various mechanisms, and you all thought that the box could not be harmed? Can you let me take a look at the box?"
"This is it." Ryan handed the locket to Dumbledore, and then added, "I feel that this locket is a bit like the ring we met with Moody last time."
"Got it." Dumbledore nodded with a serious face, took out his wand and used magic to levitate the locket in the air. Then he pointed the wand at the locket and began to cast a spell. A stream of golden-red flames came from the head of his wand.
It spurted out, and finally formed a phantom of a phoenix rotating around the locket.
Ten seconds later, the locket was completely wrapped in golden-red flames and formed an artificial sun in the sky. Dumbledore began to slowly spit out unfamiliar pronunciations in his mouth, but Ryan, who had studied ancient runes, knew that this was
Anglofurtok, a British variant of the famous rune script.
As the spell was uttered, traces of black smoke emerged from the locket. After seeing this, Dumbledore swayed away the flames surrounding the locket, and then reached out to take the locket.
"Ryan, your feeling is correct. This is indeed another Horcrux of Voldemort." At this point, Dumbledore looked helpless. "And unlike the last ring, the core of this Horcrux is hidden in
It's inside Slytherin's locket. So his protection is stronger than the ring last time. This means that what we are facing now is the double protection of Slytherin and Voldemort. Such protection is difficult to open directly with brute force.
"
Seeing the uneasiness on the faces of the four people watching, Dumbledore added: "That being said, from another aspect, this Horcrux is also easier to destroy. Because of the characteristics of the locket itself, Voldemort is also very
It is difficult to fuse the soul with such an object. It can be seen that his spell only strengthens the locket itself, so the split soul inside should be simply placed inside rather than being combined with the object.
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"This means that as long as the box can be opened, the pure soul inside can be easily destroyed." Ryan reacted after Dumbledore finished speaking. "I have a guess, this is Slytherin's locket, so maybe open it
Will use some Slytherin-specific methods."
"You mean Parseltongue?" Dumbledore reacted immediately.
"It's very possible, and the mysterious man also masters this language. He may have chosen to use this thing as his Horcrux after discovering this." Ryan said the information he had in a conjectural tone.
.
"Your analysis should be correct." Dumbledore nodded. "But the problem is that wizards who can speak Parseltongue are hard to find."
"I remember Harry should know it. He once said that he had a conversation with a python before entering school," Ryan said.
"Ah, that's a choice. But because of the curse that failed to kill Harry, Voldemort's brain may sometimes be connected to Harry's brain. If we find Harry, our plan will be exposed to Voldemort.
Maybe, so this can only be used as a backup option. By the way, remember to keep this sentence a secret, especially not tell Harry himself." Dumbledore said seriously, and the other four people nodded seriously.
After seeing that this option was rejected by Dumbledore, Ryan thought for a moment and said to Dumbledore, "I think I might be able to speak snake language. Can you let me try it?"