The first memory Harry saw from Professor Dumbledore today was that of the house elf Hooch. Her owner was an old and very wealthy witch named Hepzibah Smith.
Voldemort, who was still called Tom Riddle at the time, relied on his good looks and his ability to manipulate people's hearts to gain the trust of this eccentric but wealthy old lady. During one of their meetings, the old lady proudly showed Tom her treasure.
: The gold cup passed down from her ancestor Hufflepuff and the Slytherin locket. Then she saw the red light flashing in Tom's eyes, but she thought it was just light.
It was a fatal mistake. Dumbledore told Harry that Hepzibah Smith died two days later. The Ministry of Magic determined that the house elf Hodge had mistakenly drank her mistress's evening cocoa tea.
Put poison.
Harry firmly believed that this was impossible. He believed that Voldemort had tampered with the memory of the house elf Hooch, just like he had done to Morfin. Dumbledore agreed with his inference.
"When Hao Qi was convicted, Hepzibah's family discovered that two of her most valuable treasures had been lost. At the same time, the clerk at Borgin-Bock, the young man who often visited Hepzibah and pleased her in that way
, has resigned and disappeared." Dumbledore said:
"Harry, what I need to remind you at this time are some details in the story. Voldemort committed another murder. This time he was not for revenge, but for profit. He wanted the poor old lady to give her
The two rare treasures he looked at. Just like he robbed other children in the orphanage, just like he stole his uncle's ring, this time he stole Hepzibah's cup and locket."
"I even have some evidence that Voldemort did not kill much in order to hide himself when he was not strong in the early days. The first killing was the murder of his father's family, and the second time he accidentally used a basilisk to kill a man.
A student at Hogwarts. And what we are seeing now is his third murder, and his first murder since leaving school." Dumbledore said slowly.
"But," Harry frowned and said, "This is really crazy... taking such a big risk, killing an innocent person, losing his job, and even leaving directly to arouse suspicion. Just for..."
"Maybe," Dumbledore said, "but Voldemort believes that he is a descendant of one of the Big Four at Hogwarts and has a great bloodline. So it is understandable that he has a special preference for these precious relics of the Big Four.
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Later, Dumbledore shared his memory with Harry, which was the memory of Dumbledore refusing Voldemort, who had been disfigured by dark magic, to teach at the school.
"Why?" Harry looked up at Dumbledore's face after reading this memory, "Why did he come back? Have you figured it out?"
"I basically figured it out. This is thanks to your friend Ryan. He found something from the school that confirmed my guess and gave me a new understanding of some of Voldemort's practices. I think you have learned from Ryan
"I learned what a Horcrux is there, but I'm still missing the most important piece of the puzzle. When you get Professor Slughorn's memory, I will tell you all about it, Harry."
Bullido said.
After listening to Harry's narration, Ron looked at Ryan with shocked eyes: "I can't believe it, buddy. You can actually help Professor Dumbledore, but can you tell me your details?"
What did you help the principal with?"
When he finished speaking, Harry also turned his head and looked at Ryan, looking very interested in the questions Ron raised.
"No, I can't." Ryan smiled and shook his head slightly. "Since Principal Dumbledore doesn't want you to know, there must be a reason. The information I have now is not comprehensive. If I tell you, I
If you know the information, I'm worried that this incomplete information may give you a wrong signal."
"Okay." Harry nodded helplessly. "I guess I can only think of a way now to get that crucial memory from Slughorn as soon as possible."
"Well, I can only wish you good luck." Ryan wished from the bottom of his heart. He didn't know that since all the Acromantulas in the Forbidden Forest had been cleaned up, Harry should be there this time.
How to get that memory.
In the next week, Harry racked his brains to think about how to get Slughorn to hand over his true memories, and even discussed methods with Ryan and the others from time to time, but he didn't have many good ideas.
However, while subconsciously flipping through the Half-Blood Prince's potions textbook, Harry found an interesting spell. This spell was recorded in the blank space of the textbook and he wrote a spell (Sectumsempra), with the word "to the enemy" underneath.
Three interesting words.
At first, he wanted to find a place to practice by himself, but after remembering what Ryan and Hermione had said before, he picked up the textbook and asked Ryan, who was finishing his thesis, to ask him to identify the magic. The reason why he didn't ask Hermione was
Because if you find Hermione, you will definitely be greeted by a lot of sermons.
"Sectumsempra?" Ryan followed Harry to the sofa where he was sitting and looked at the spell. He found that he couldn't remember what the spell was. After all, he mainly read translated novels and transliterated spells in his previous life.
He can still recognize it quickly, such as Avada or something, but now he really can't remember what this spell is.
"Yes, wait for me." Ryan said and took out a gold plate inlaid with a circle of mithril characters, then took out his wand and read this spell into the blank space in the middle of the gold plate.
In an instant, a crack appeared in the center of the gold plate. At the same time, the two runes on the gold plate near where Ryan's right hand was holding turned into blood red and black respectively.
"So it's this!" Ryan finally figured out which spell it was. This should be the very famous legendary Shen Feng Wuying. Unfortunately, the previous Chinese version of the novel used a free translation for this spell, which made him just
I didn't recognize it immediately when I saw it.
"What?" Harry asked curiously. He didn't hear what Ryan was whispering clearly.
"That's right, this magic is an offensive spell that can form a wound on the human body or objects like a sword." Ryan put away the gold plate and said to Harry.
"Sounds okay, it's just like a cutting spell, right?" Harry said excitedly.
"It's not just that." Ryan pointed out the key point. "The biggest difference between this magic and the cutting spell is that the part damaged by the spell cannot be regenerated by any means, but it can be healed through a counter-spell. It should be considered a more dangerous one.
Black magic. I personally recommend that you never use this spell on your classmates before you master the counter-spell."
"Is it like this?" Harry showed a frightened expression. He thought of the hand that Sirius had lost forever. "Thank you so much, otherwise I would definitely have made a big mistake."
"So like I said last time, whether it's a spell or a potion, we'd better understand their effects before using them. Otherwise, it's just a trivial matter if we don't get the effect we want.
When it comes to bad side effects, the problem becomes really big." Ryan warned seriously, and then returned to his original seat to write some homework assigned by the professor with Hermione.