save the bachelors

Chapter 4165 4167 [All in Hand]

Xiang Nan then produced a water cup and drank up the pink liquid in the stone basin.

Now the toxicity of the despair potion has been neutralized by Xiang Nan's antidote, so it is okay for him to drink it.

The reason why Dumbledore did not do this was, on the one hand, because the despair potion was a dark magic potion created by Voldemort, and it was difficult to brew the antidote in a short period of time.

Xiang Nan had learned potions from Voldemort's soul fragments, and he knew that the green liquid in the stone basin was the poison of despair, so he had plenty of time to research and make the antidote in advance.

On the one hand, Dumbledore had already been cursed at that time and had less than a year left to live. He had no time to slowly find a way to break the curse and could only choose to endure it.

If he has enough time, I believe he will study it slowly and even regard it as a good research topic.

After drinking all the liquid in the stone basin, Xiang Nan saw Slytherin's locket at the bottom of the basin.

It was a golden locket, the size of an egg, with a gorgeous letter "S" on it, inlaid with many small emeralds. It was very delicate and beautiful.

The reason why this locket has been treasured by the family's descendants for generations is not only because it is Salazar Slytherin's relic, but also because it was once a huge storage box.

Salazar Slytherin stored a large amount of wealth, potions, magic props, magic books, etc. in the locket, enough to maintain the continuation of the entire family.

Since this locket can only be opened with Parseltongue, which is unique to the Slytherin family, no one except the descendants of the family can open this locket or take away the items stored inside.

Because this pendant box has an impeccable anti-theft effect.

But he didn't expect that his descendants were so unfilial. Before it was passed down for a few generations, the inheritance in the locket had been squandered, leaving only an empty locket, which has now been turned into a Horcrux by Voldemort.

……

After getting Slytherin's locket, Xiang Nan cast the "Copying Spell" to make a fake one and put it back in the stone basin.

The despair potion that had been drunk up in the stone basin gradually filled up the entire basin again.

Xiang Nan knew that this was a deliberate design by Voldemort, as he liked to torture people repeatedly.

The despair potion is very difficult to drink. The more you drink, the more painful it becomes. Most people can't hold out after drinking more than a few glasses.

Even someone with such strong willpower as Dumbledore almost succumbed, but Harry Potter followed his instructions and forced the drug into his mouth.

So Voldemort deliberately designed the despair potion to be filled slowly to prevent someone from drinking the potion multiple times and to prevent people from exploiting this loophole.

Seeing this, Xiang Nan poured in another cup of antidote.

In this way, when Regulus Black comes to get it again, he won't have to suffer so much, he won't have to drink the lake water, and naturally he won't be attacked by the Inferi.

As the saying goes, a prodigal son who returns is worth more than gold. That child is a good person and is worth saving.

……

After completing the arrangements, Xiang Nan left the island in the middle of the lake, exited the cave, then used Apparition to leave the place and arrived at Hogsmeade village outside Hogwarts.

Then enter Hogwarts through the main gate.

I haven't been back to school for two years. When I first came back, I felt a lot more familiar.

Xiang Nan immediately cast the Patronus Charm, asking it to notify Dumbledore and tell him that he had found the remaining Horcruxes and would come to his office to find him immediately.

A moment later, Xiang Nan had arrived at the third floor of Hogwarts, and Dumbledore was already waiting at the door. "A pile of cockroaches~" Dumbledore said, and then a staircase appeared.

The two walked up the stairs and entered the office on the eighth floor.

Xiang Nan then handed over the Hufflepuff gold cup, Slytherin locket, and the diary he had just obtained.

"Hufflepuff's gold cup!! Slytherin's locket!" Dumbledore said in amazement, and the portraits of past headmasters were also amazed.

These are holy objects left by the founder of Hogwarts, with extraordinary significance and great value.

After the death of their founders, they were basically left to their families, so even principals like them had never seen them. Now they can be said to have broadened their horizons.

"This diary is..." Dumbledore asked curiously again.

"It's a notebook used by a mysterious man." Xiang Nan said, opening the diary and seeing the words "Tom Riddle" on the first page.

Xiang Nan then picked up a feather pen on the table and wrote in the diary, "My name is Severus Snape~"

"Hello, Severus, my name is Tom Riddle. How did you find my diary?" A line of handwriting quickly appeared on the diary, and then slowly disappeared.

Dumbledore understood immediately.

It is doubtful that this diary possesses any intelligence.

"Now that the five Horcruxes are complete, I just hope he doesn't make the sixth or seventh Horcrux." Xiang Nan said again.

"I shouldn't. Creating a Horcrux is already a terrifying thing. He actually created five Horcruxes and split his soul into six. I think his soul is very fragile now and may not be able to withstand being split again." Dumbledore waved his hand.

The production of Horcruxes does not divide the soul into six equal parts, but each time the soul is split, half of the soul is separated. Therefore, every time a Horcrux is made, half of the soul is lost.

Voldemort created five Horcruxes, so his soul is now only one thirty-second of its complete state.

An ordinary wizard would have died at this point, but Voldemort was gifted and could still hold on.

However, the multiple splits of his soul have caused him to become less and less human, and his mind has become increasingly insane and unstable.

Therefore, Dumbledore concluded that Voldemort would not create any more Horcruxes.

But Xiang Nan knew that Voldemort was determined to create six Horcruxes, so including himself, there would be seven.

The number "seven" is a magical and mysterious number in the magic world.

It may just be that he didn't find a suitable container, because Voldemort always pursued ostentation. Except for the first time he made a Horcrux, when he had nothing but his diary, all the other Horcruxes were top-notch holy objects in the wizarding world.

The Resurrection Stone, Slytherin's locket, Hufflepuff's cup, Ravenclaw's diadem, and he even wanted to get his hands on Gryffindor's sword.

In the wizarding world, top-level holy objects like this are extremely rare, and he didn't want to let himself down, so he never created the sixth Horcrux.

In the original novel, Voldemort did not know that Harry Potter had a fragment of his soul, so after he was resurrected, he created the Horcrux Nagini.

This also caused his soul to split twice more, leaving only about one hundred and twenty-eighth of its complete form.

This is also the reason why Voldemort made one stupid move after another after his rebirth, and he lacks the intelligence and charm of a top villain boss, and can only say “hehehe”.

Since his soul has been shattered into pieces, it would be strange if he did not fall into madness, confusion, and stupidity.