The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 334 The Old House (for Subscription, For Collection, For Ticket)
The sky in late spring was clear and cloudless, and the sun brought warmth to the earth.But that was not felt in the woods outside Little Hangleton, where the old trees cast cool dark shadows.Ryan, who was standing in the woods, couldn't help but shiver.

"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 stepped into the shade. By the way, professor, what is this place?"

"This is the old house of the Gaunt family. They claim to be direct descendants of Slytherin. Voldemort's mother was born here, and his so-called Slytherin blood also comes from this family." Dumbledore explained.

"Descendants of Slytherin? But this—" Ryan pointed to the shack in front of him and said in disbelief. After all, knowing it was one thing, but seeing it with his own eyes was another.Looking at the shack in front of him, he really couldn't connect this with Slytherin's name.

"But it is true," said Dumbledore slowly. "The Gaunt family is a very old wizarding family, known for being restless and violent. Because they are used to marrying close relatives, this character trait becomes more prominent from generation to generation. They lack rationality, and they especially like luxurious ostentation. So, generations before Voldemort's maternal grandfather, the family fortune was squandered to the point where it could only end up."

This proves that the problem of inbreeding will appear regardless of whether there is magic or not, but these problems are exposed more slowly when there is magic.

"Okay, let's clean up here first, Ryan, you can see if there is anything unusual." After speaking, 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 to look for traces of magic around him.After glancing at the two of them, Professor Moody clenched his wand and stared around vigilantly.

After a few drops of blood and a pinch of mixed powder were placed on the alchemy formation, blue and white flames ignited on the six corners of the hexagram on the alchemy formation.As Ryan chanted the spell, the flames began to move quickly along the runes and lines on the alchemy array.Finally, a flame was lit on the entire alchemy array.

The materials in the center of the alchemy array slowly floated in mid-air during the flame's movement, and mixed with each other under the command of Ryan's gestures.In the end, it turned into a green-looking powder.

"Everyone who walks will leave traces." Ryan recited this spell in the ancient Latin language. After the words fell, a gust of wind suddenly appeared, blowing all the powder on the alchemy table to the direction of the room that Professor Dumbledore had just cleaned up. .

Soon, the entire house was enveloped in a fluorescent green powder.These powders slowly settled down with the passage of time, and finally all fell to the ground.

"Okay." Ryan said to the two professors who were waiting on the side.Professor Dumbledore smiled, and walked straight into the ruins of Gaunt's house.Moody, on the other hand, leaned against the door of the ruined building and stared warily at his surroundings.

When Ryan stepped into the door, Moody whispered next to him: "I'm not mistaken, you did a good job."

Most of the powder in the room has completely disappeared, but there are five or six places showing a glowing green light.This means that there are magical reactions in these places, so there are much fewer places to search.

Everyone searched one by one according to the size of the magic reaction from large to small, and you can dig out something in every place with a magic reaction.But the Gaunts were indeed in ruins, and the things dug up were broken trinkets, worthless.

"Okay, let's see what this is." Dumbledore came to the place where the least response was: above the fireplace, behind the decorative flagstones. After cleaning the decorative plaques, they could see the roughness of the flagstones. carved with a snake.

"Gaunt's coat of arms? This place is quite in line with Voldemort's personality. He must have a sense of ritual when placing these things, and he will not randomly place them." Professor Dumbledore waved his wand and unloaded it as he spoke. that slate.

The strange thing is that there is nothing behind the slab, only a complete stone.But there was a rectangular green spot of light on the stone.

"Ah, it's illusion." Before Ryan could do anything, Dumbledore shouted and broke the mechanism. After waving his wand a few times without any response, his wand emitted a layer of silver-white light.

Under the light, a groove appeared on the stone.A golden box was placed in the recess.But on the mouth of the groove, many green runes emerged.

"Repelling harmful magical creatures, fire and weather protection, reinforcement, counter-curse—" Watching the runes, Professor Dumbledore reported the functions of those runes one by one.Ryan watched seriously how Dumbledore recognized and destroyed these things from the sidelines.

"Okay." Professor Dumbledore reached out and took out the gold box from the top of the table.It turned out that he avoided the place where the most magic was concentrated in the gap, and then after destroying the magic on the stone, he made a hole in the side and took out the box.

Seeing that Professor Dumbledore was going to open the lid of the box right here, Ryan hurried forward to stop him: "Professor, we have all the things and we are not in a hurry. Wouldn't it be better to go back to the office and deal with them?"

"Indeed, I'm a little impatient." Dumbledore stopped reaching for the box, took out a dragon skin pocket from his bosom, and threw the box into it.Ryan could feel that the pocket was made of real dragon hide, not the dragon leather gloves made by dragon-veined creatures that were listed on the students' list every year.

The accumulation of a century of wizards should not be underestimated, whether it is knowledge or wealth.It seems that the estimate of the true strength of that vote of pure blood needs to be raised a bit more. Maybe there are a few ancestors in the basement of each of those families who are ready to reveal their coffins at any time.

After confirming that there was nothing missing in the room, the three took the Phoenix Express back to the headmaster's office at Hogwarts again.

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In Professor Dumbledore's headmaster's office, three people gathered around the table and looked at the gold box on the table.

"I have checked that there is nothing wrong with the box, then I will open the box." After speaking, Dumbledore reached out to the gold box again, but was still stopped by Ryan.

"Professor Dumbledore, this gold box was made by goblins. The special materials and methods have isolated all our investigative methods. What if there is a curse on something inside? Especially you said that the person is good at demagoguery, even if The mechanism inside can only control you for a few seconds, and the consequences are unimaginable. So I want to let me 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. "Just let me do it. Ryan, you are too young, and some curses may kill you in an instant. I think I can carry it a little longer in this situation, and Albus can control me to avoid accidents if anything happens." Danger."

In the end, Professor Moody took over the task of opening the box.Ryan stood behind Dumbledore and looked at him warily.

(End of this chapter)