The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 365 Another Horcrux

"Next, after you told my brother these things, what did my brother do?" After hearing the story just now, Sirius suddenly became excited.If Lupine hadn't held him back, maybe he would have gone up and grabbed Kreacher by the neck to 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 Master Les went to the cupboard and found Kreacher.Master Regulus looked weird, unlike usual, Kreacher could see that he was in a state of confusion... The master asked Kreacher to take him to the cave, the same cave that Kreacher and the Dark Lord had been to...

"He made you drink the potion?" Hermione asked with some disgust. Although she didn't intend to liberate the house elves now, as a person who grew up in modern society, she would naturally dislike this slavery system.

Kreacher shook his head, crying bitterly.Hermione covered her mouth: she seemed to have guessed something.

"Master Ray—Master Regulus took out a locket from his pocket, just like the Dark Lord's," said Kreacher, tears streaming down the sides of his long nose, "his name is Kreacher Look at it, and when the stone basin is dry, replace the locket..."

When it came to this point, Kreacher was already so sad that he couldn't help himself.He insisted on continuing to say:

"He ordered - Kreacher leave - leave him alone. He called Kreacher - go home - not to say to the mistress - what he did - but must destroy - the first locket. Then He just drank - drank the potion - Kreacher swapped the locket - and watched... Master Regulus... being dragged underwater... and..."

"Don't say any more, don't say any more—" Sirius grabbed his hair vigorously, with a painful expression on his face. "Regulus is still too weak. As soon as his parents said he became a Death Eater. It's all my fault. If only I could persuade him to leave this family back then."

"It's not your fault, you haven't done anything wrong." Lupine comforted beside him. "If you say something wrong, the biggest mistake is because of Voldemort's ambition and evil." Hermione also nodded in agreement.

"Then, you brought the locket home." Seeing Lupine who was comforting Sirius, Ryan, who felt that he didn't need to intervene, was determined to ask all about the locket, "Try to destroy it ?"

"Kreacher couldn't leave a trace on it." The old elf said sadly, "Kreacher tried everything, but none of them succeeded...There are so many powerful magics on the box, Kreacher believes that only It can only be destroyed from the inside, but it won't open... Kreacher repeatedly punished himself and tried again. Because Kreacher failed to carry out the order, Kreacher couldn't destroy the locket! The hostess went crazy with grief, because Ray Master Gullus is missing, Kreacher can't tell her what happened, no, because Master Regulus forbids - forbids him to tell his - family - what happened in the cave..."

"Oh, God..." Hermione couldn't bear to turn around and put her arms around Ryan's neck, then rested her head on his shoulder.

"The flame of justice and courage will still burn in people's hearts even in the darkest of times, and having these noble qualities has nothing to do with their origin, education level or even blood lineage. The only thing needed is hope in their hearts. I think Sirius' younger brother should have generously died with the hope of defeating that person." Ryan put his arms around Hermione's shoulders at this moment, comforting her constantly.

Ryan also felt that his nose was sore at this time. It was one thing to read it in a novel, but another thing to experience it personally.This kind of person who gave his life for a noble idea can be called a real hero from any angle.

At this time, the living room fell into silence, only the sound of Kreacher sniffling.After everyone calmed down, 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. Something with such strong defenses that that person can hide in such a sophisticated way should be very important to that person. It's beyond what we can fix."

"I'm going to find Dumbledore right now." Lupine immediately stood up, patted Sirius on the shoulder and walked downstairs quickly.

"I think Dumbledore should be able to destroy this thing." Ryan said, looking at Lupine who was going downstairs.

"You must destroy it!" Kreacher jumped up and hugged Sirius and howled, Sirius was about to scold, but he swallowed the words when he thought of something.It's just that it was so stiff that Kreacher sat there quietly and waited.

After waiting in silence for more than 20 minutes, footsteps were heard on the stairs.Dumbledore appeared on the stairs wearing a purple robe.After greeting Sirius and the three of them, he asked straightforwardly what his purpose was.

"You said that you found a locket of Slytherin relics that Voldemort used various mechanisms to hide back then, and you all think that this box cannot be harmed? Can you show me that box?"

"This is it." Ryan handed the locket to Dumbledore, and then added. "I feel like this locket is a bit like the ring we met last time with Moody."

"Understood." Dumbledore nodded with a serious face and drew out his wand to suspend the locket in the air with magic, then pointed the wand at the locket and began to cast spells.Streams of golden-red flames erupted from the tip of his wand, finally forming a phantom of a phoenix spinning around the locket.

Ten seconds later, the locket was completely wrapped in golden-red flames in the air, forming an artificial sun.Dumbledore began to spit out strange pronunciations slowly, but Ryan, who had studied the ancient runes, knew that this was the Anglo-Fortok script, a variant of the famous rune script in Britain.

As the spell was uttered, strands of black smoke emerged from the locket.After seeing this scene, Dumbledore waved away the flames surrounding the locket, and then reached out to take the locket.

"Ryan, your feeling is right. This is indeed another Horcrux of Voldemort." Speaking of this, Dumbledore looked a little helpless. "And unlike the last ring, the core of this Horcrux is hidden in Slytherin's locket. So his protection is stronger than the last ring, which means that we are now facing Slater Lin and Voldemort's double protection. Such protection is difficult to open directly with brute force."

Seeing the uneasiness on the faces of the four onlookers, Dumbledore added: "That being said, this Horcrux is also easier to destroy from another perspective. Because of the characteristics of this locket itself, Voldemort is also very It is difficult to fuse the soul with such an object. It can be seen that his spell is simply strengthening the locket itself, so the split soul in it should be simply placed in it rather than the object combined .”

"This means that as long as the box can be opened, the pure piece of soul inside is easy to destroy." Ryan realized after Dumbledore finished speaking. "I have a guess. This is Slytherin's locket, so maybe some Slytherin-specific methods will be used to open it."

"You mean Parseltongue?" Dumbledore responded 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. "The problem is that wizards who speak Parseltongue are hard to find."

"I think Harry should, he once said that he had a conversation with a python before entering school." Lane said.

"Ah, that's a choice. But because of the spell that failed to kill Harry, Voldemort's brain may sometimes communicate with Harry's. Finding Harry would expose our plans to Voldemort." Possibly, so this can only be used as a backup option. By the way, remember to keep this sentence secret, especially not to tell Harry himself." Dumbledore said seriously, and the other four nodded seriously.

After seeing that this option was rejected by Dumbledore, Ryan thought for a while and said to Dumbledore. "I think I might speak Parseltongue, can I have a try?"

(End of this chapter)