The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 366 Destroyed (asking for subscription, asking for collection, asking for tickets)
"Snake language? You?" Dumbledore's sky blue eyes under the half-moon glasses showed doubts.

"It's just trying to master an unknown language out of learning habits. At that time, I thought it was Slytherin's unique ability. How powerful is this language?" Ryan stared into Dumbledore's eyes and smiled. for a moment. "It turned out that there was no special power in Parseltongue, it was just a purely foreign language. After I discovered this, I gave up studying, but in the process I learned some simple Parseltongue vocabulary, so I just now Say try."

"It's better to try, at least it's better than doing nothing." Dumbledore nodded, and then let the other three leave first. "The more people, the better. Voldemort is good at demagoguery. I'm worried that too many people here may have a negative effect. So you'd better go downstairs now."

Sirius and the others nodded and took Kreacher downstairs. When they went downstairs, Hermione gave Ryan a worried look.Ryan smiled back to reassure her.

"It's nice to be young, isn't it?" Dumbledore's voice came from behind after everyone went downstairs.He had just winked at Lane after placing the locket on a battered cabinet. "Okay, let's get started. Is there anything else you need to do?"

"Sorry, professor, I need a preparation." Ryan took out eight silver nails from the space bag and nailed them around the locket on the cabinet. The nails were wound several times to hold them together.

"Eastern means?" Dumbledore looked closely at the runes carved on the stone. "I can feel that this is aimed at the soul. Very good, we must be cautious when facing Voldemort." After roughly feeling Ryan's arrangement, Dumbledore nodded approvingly.

Ryan took a few steps back after arranging the circle, while Dumbledore stepped forward and stood by the cabinet, pulled out the Gryffindor dagger and aimed it at the locket in the center of the circle.The locket trembled slightly after feeling the dagger approaching it. Fortunately, the locket had not absorbed much human life and soul after being stored in the cabinet for more than ten years, and all it could do was tremble in the face of threats.

"Such a dangerous thing should be destroyed as soon as possible." Dumbledore said in a low voice while looking at the trembling locket.Then turned to Ryan and said:
"Ryan, I will count to three later, you will use Parseltongue to open that locket, and then I will use this dagger to give a fatal blow to Voldemort's soul hidden inside."

"Okay." Ryan nodded and agreed.

"Then." After Ryan drew out his wand and posed, Dumbledore started to move. "One... two... three... Ryan!" Dumbledore pointed his dagger at the Horcrux and shouted loudly.

Immediately after receiving Dumbledore's order, Ryan hissed loudly at the locket in Parseltongue: "Open!"

The small gold lid of the locket popped open with a click.Behind each of the two small glass windows was a living eye blinking, black and bright, like Tom Riddle's before the eyeballs turned red and the pupils became a line.

A strange black mist emerged from the locket, and Ryan immediately felt great pressure coming from the magic circle.The evil power to which this pressure belongs even partly broke through the defense of the magic circle and leaked out.

"I see your heart, Albus Dumbledore." Then a voice hissed from the Horcrux, and the defense Voldemort had devised in the locket came into play.Although he couldn't tamper with the relic of Slytherin, he made the piece of soul inside into an offensive effect, attacking the most vulnerable side of the soul of the attacking Horcrux.

"You are an unfortunate man who longed for a happy and harmonious family but never got it. Your best friend betrayed you and killed your sister. And made your only living relative refuse to be with you even if he was close to you." You admit it. All you do now is to atone for your sins, but you can never protect what you hold dearest, Albus Dumbledore!"

From the two small windows of the locket, and from the eyes, rose a grotesque soap-bubble, which soon rose from the locket in the form of a maiden.

Ryan has never met this person, but he knows that this is Ariana, Dumbledore's younger sister who died young, and a scar in his heart forever.This irritated Dumbledore a lot.Ryan could see tears streaming down his cheeks.

Oops, thinking of this, Ryan suddenly urged the whole body's mana to input into the magic circle, suppressing the power of the locket in an instant.At the same time, biting the tip of his tongue, he shouted with the sound of wind and thunder using Leifa. "Professor, do it!"

With the soul weakened in the horcrux, Dumbledore immediately got rid of the influence of Voldemort's horcrux.With a flash of sword light, the dagger in his hand slammed into the locket.

Ryan heard a "ding" sound of metal clashing, followed by a long scream that touched the soul.Ryan subconsciously released a defensive spell, but this Horcrux did not have the imaginary dying blow.The apparition of the girl disappeared, leaving only Dumbledore standing there, dagger in hand, looking down at the locket.

Ryan also turned his attention to the locket, and he found that the glass of the two small windows inside the locket had been punctured, the strange eyes were gone, and wisps of smoke were emitting from the colored silk lining of the locket.The piece of Voldemort's remnant spirit kept in the locket disappeared.The oppressive feeling in the room before also dissipated.

"Professor?" Seeing Professor Dumbledore standing there motionless, Ryan asked with some concern.After hearing this, Dumbledore wiped his face with his hands and straightened his body.

"Did you hear it just now?" the headmaster asked in a deep voice.

"This—" Ryan didn't know how to answer now, so he could only stand there awkwardly.

"It's okay, you don't have to worry about anything." Looking at Ryan a little nervously, Dumbledore comforted: "There is nothing about my past that cannot be known to others. The reason why you rarely hear about it is that I am older and know these things. Most of the people involved are gone.”

After speaking, Dumbledore smiled wryly: "To be honest, I was a little worried about you at the beginning. Because I think you are very similar to me when I was young, and you are also crazy about all kinds of knowledge—"

For the next five or six minutes, Professor Dumbledore gave a rough account of his history of going astray when he was young.Finally, looking into Ryan's eyes, he said seriously: "You are better now than when I was young, but I still hope you must remember to pay attention to the people around you no matter what. Don't wait until you lose it to regret it."

Ryan nodded seriously, he knew that this was a summary of an old man's lifelong lessons.The reason why I told Ryan today is purely out of an elder's concern for the younger generation, hoping that the younger generation will not make the same mistakes as him.

"Okay, I think we've stayed here for too long. Call Sirius up now, or they'll be worried." After everything to say, Dumbledore asked Ryan went downstairs and called the others up.

Ryan nodded and went downstairs to call for someone.

(End of this chapter)