The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 364 Locket

After Ryan and the three of them cleaned up in the living room for a while, Lupine also went upstairs to join them.With the help of the former Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, the progress of the cleanup has been greatly accelerated.

Ryan also picked up a few goodies along the way, like a silver utensil resembling multi-legged tweezers that can crawl like a spider.Since Lion felt he could modify the thing into something useful, he silenced it with a rune and asked Sirius to leave the thing. (Sirius: I said that you can take it directly if you like it.)
"What's in it?" Lupine took out a souvenir box and broke it vigorously, "Why can't you open this thing?"

Sirius also took the box and tried it, and then said curiously: "Why don't I remember that this thing was put in the cabinet? Could it be that it was put in after I was kicked out?"

"You still remember the origin of everything in the cabinet? How did you do that? There are some things in my decorative cabinet that I can't remember where they came from." Hermione said in surprise when she heard what Sirius said.

"I hate this." Sirius smiled wryly. "But since I was five years old, my parents have often brought me here to tell me the story behind each item, and sometimes even let me go all the way because I didn't tell the glory behind an item. Meals are rusk and water. In this case, I still remember everything even after I have been away for many years."

"Can I take a look?" Ryan said after Sirius finished speaking, and when they said they couldn't open it, Ryan suddenly woke up with a jolt.Because he thought of an important thing.

After taking the souvenir box, Ryan found that the so-called souvenir box was an egg-sized locket made of octagonal gold.The lid has an ornate letter s inlaid with emeralds.More importantly, when Ryan perceived the box through magic, he found that the complexity of the magic runes on the box far exceeded other things.

"Black." Ryan turned around and looked at Sirius seriously. "If I'm not mistaken, this thing should belong to the relic of Slytherin, one of the four giants of Hogwarts. It is very precious. It can even be said that the things in your glass cabinet are not as expensive as the locket. According to your home Habit can't just be stuffed here without any record."

"Then it could only be that I was put here after I was kicked out of the house." After hearing this, Sirius turned serious, "In that case, I think only Kreacher knows the source of this thing."

With that, he yelled "Kreacher." With a snap, the house-elf appeared in the living room.

"Oh, that annoying young master is dictating poor old Kreacher again. As if everything here really belongs to him." After finishing speaking, he looked up at the decoration cabinet and said: "Even he put things with family honor Take it out, like a robber who broke into this house—"

"Shut up!" Sirius interrupted Kreacher, and then took out the locket. "Tell me where this thing came from, and I ask you to answer truthfully. There must be no concealment or lies."

Kreacher was only looking at his feet, but he raised his head to look at Sirius' hands under Sirius' force.At the first glance, Kreacher's expression froze.Then he gasped, his shriveled chest rose and fell, and he opened his eyes with a blood-curdling scream.

"—and the locket, Master Regulus' locket, Kreacher made a mistake, Kreacher failed to carry out the master's order!" As he spoke, he picked up a heavy silver box and was about to smash it on the head .Ryan and Hermione quickly grabbed him from left to right, and then shouted to Sirius: "Quick, make him stop."

"I order you to stop." Sirius, who was a little dazed by what the house elf said, quickly recovered from Ryan's yelling, and then ordered Kreacher.

As soon as this order was issued, Kreacher froze there.Just as Ryan and the others let go, Kreacher lay straight on the cold stone floor, tears gushing from his sunken eye sockets.Even the dullest person could see at this point that the locket was supposed to be about something important.

"You said the locket was 'Master Regulus'," said Sirius, "then why does my brother have such a thing? What orders did he give you that you didn't complete? Kreacher, Sit there and tell me all you know about the locket and my brother's connection to it!"

Kreacher sat up, curled up in a ball, held his teary face between his knees, and began to rock back and forth.When he spoke, his voice was low and muffled, but it was very clear in this empty and quiet living room.

"Master Sirius ran away, and it was good that he was gone, for he was a bad boy, and my mistress was heartbroken by his unruly behavior. But Master Regulus had pride, and he knew the name Black and his What does pure blood mean. At the age of 16, he joined the Dark Lord's organization, and he was so proud, so proud, so happy, to be able to serve in..."

"Hey, that younger brother of mine is too weak and lacks his own opinion. As soon as my parents instigated him, he ran to follow the Dark Lord. But the job of Death Eater is really not suitable for him." Hearing this, Sirius was very Said in a low tone. "If he'd left the house like me, maybe he'd be a Chaser for the Tornados by now. I hear him say that all the time before I leave the house."

After listening to Sirius' memories, Kreacher's tears flowed even more. Tears flowed down his long nose and into his grinning mouth, where a mouth of gray teeth could be seen, "A year later, one day, Regu Master Luth came to see Kreacher in the kitchen. Master Regulus has always liked Kreacher. Master Regulus said...he said..."

The old elf sobbed hard, shaking even faster.

"...he said the Dark Lord wanted an elf. Master Regulus offered Kreacher. It was an honor, said Master Regulus, an honor for himself and Kreacher. Kreacher had to do black Everything the devil asked him to do...and go—go home."

Speaking of this, painful memories made Kreacher's answer intermittent, but the four wizards sitting here still listened carefully.

"So Kreacher went to the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord didn't tell Kreacher what to do, but took Kreacher to a cave by the sea. It was a big rock cave, and there was a big black lake in the cave... There was a boat by the lake ...the boat took me to the small island in the lake - there was a stone - stone basin on it, full of potions. The black - the Dark Lord made Kreacher drink..."

Kreacher drank it, and while drinking, he saw a lot of horrible scenes... Kreacher's internal organs were on fire... Kreacher called Master Regulus to save him, and called the mistress, but the Dark Lord just laughed... He made Kreacher drink up the potion...he threw a locket into the empty basin...and filled the basin with potion. "

"Then the Dark Lord went off in a boat, leaving Kreacher on the island... Kreacher needed water, he crawled to the edge of the island to drink from the Black Lake...many hands, dead men's hands, stretched out of the water Come out and drag Kreacher down..."

The hoarse voice made everyone feel a bit of coolness rising from behind. Hermione subconsciously grabbed Ryan's hand when she heard this, and Ryan patted the back of her hand with the other hand to calm his emotions.

"And then, what happened then?" Sirius demanded.

"Master Regulus said he wanted Kreacher to go home." Kreacher revealed a strange smile when he said this. "The highest law of house elves is the order of the master. If the master tells Kreacher to go home, Kreacher will go home..."

(End of this chapter)