The Emerald at Hogwarts

Chapter 543 The Death of Hepziba
Among pure-blood wizarding families, or people of power, Voldemort's parentage was never a secret.These people knew that Voldemort was half-blood, and that he had admitted his Muggle father to the Death Eaters.

Voldemort once regarded himself as a descendant of Slytherin, which is easily reminiscent of the Gaunt family that disappeared in history.

Now that Mr. Bokin learned that the pregnant woman who sold him the locket was from the Gaunt family and was Voldemort's biological mother, this situation had to make Mr. Bokin think about it.

I can't bear to think about everything, let alone scare myself.

As soon as he thought that Mr. Bojin had already completed his self-guided strategy, there was no need for Ada to waste any more words.

"I sold the locket many years ago to Hepzibah Smith, a foolish, greedy woman," said Mr. Borgin. The Slytherin locket suits her well."

Hepziba Smith, Ada has some impression of this name, but can't remember where she saw it or heard it.Compared to this, Zacharias Smith is more impressive.

"The last business I had with Smith was a pair of goblin armor. I wanted to buy it for five hundred Galleons." Mr. Bokin continued, "Later, Hepzibah Smith died, and this The business was over. Maybe the locket was hidden by her, maybe it was lost, anyway, there was no news of the locket after that."

Hearing this, Ada frowned. According to Bo Jin, the situation of the locket has become a little complicated.

It is possible that the locket did not become a Horcrux and was hidden by Hepzibah Smith, or it may have fallen into Voldemort's hands after Hepzibah's death.Ada didn't like the uncertainty, she'd rather know that Voldemort had got the locket.

"Hepziba Smith died abnormally, but I didn't kill her." Mr. Bojin added, he misunderstood Ada's expression.

"Of course," Ada came back to her senses, "Mr. Bojin has always been a good citizen who abides by the law." Before coming here, he had a righteous image, but after getting the information he wanted, Ada's face became extremely ugly .

After another false compliment, Ada and Lola left Borgin-Bock.

On the way back, Ada and Laura talked about Mr. Bokin's performance today.The two agreed that Mr Birkin was not telling the truth and that he was hiding a lot, especially with regard to the death of Hepzibah Smith.

If you continue to interrogate, maybe you can find something, but the authenticity is doubtful.

If Bojin deliberately made a bad move, it might be a fork that is very close to the truth but deviates to an outrageous level.Instead of this, it's better for Ada to investigate the truth of Hepziba Smith's death by herself, and find out more things along the way.

After returning to the Ministry of Magic, Ada struggled to organize the files. The files that she pushed to the ground before were asking for trouble.

Although Bojin concealed part of the truth, Hepziba Smith's name is also important enough, coupled with her unnatural death, all provide Ada with a new direction.

It was another monotonous life of flipping through files for several days. Before Ada couldn't recognize 26 letters, she finally pieced together the truth about Hepziba Smith's death.

According to internal records of the Ministry of Magic, Hepzibah Smith died of poisoning, and the murderer was her house-elf Hokey.

When interrogated by Ministry of Magic officials, the house-elf, Hotkey, confesses to having mistakenly put poison in her mistress's evening cocoa tea.

The case of Hepzibah Smith's wrongful death is closed, and the Ministry of Magic brings the house-elf Hotkey to trial, ruling that she wasn't murdered on purpose but that she was blind.

When the house-elf Hotkey is convicted, Hepzibah's family discovers that two of her most valuable treasures are missing.Even so, the Ministry of Magic still did not investigate deeply, but closed the case hastily based on the house-elf's confession.

It's outrageous!The Ministry of Magic is no longer incompetent, but disregarding human life.No, it was just an insignificant house-elf to the Ministry of Magic.

Putting down the file, Ada's head was buzzing, good news and bad news coexisted.

The good news is that Ada knows who Hepzibah Smith is; the bad news is that Hepzibah is a descendant of Helga Hufflepuff, and the whereabouts of two stolen treasures are unknown.

It was confirmed by the Hepziba tribe that one of the two lost treasures was Hufflepuff's gold cup, and the other was, if nothing else, Slytherin's locket.

Obviously, the death of Hepziba was someone who wanted to kill and seize the treasure.Although Hao Qi has a very clear memory of her killing the mistress, Ada still feels that the house elf is just a scapegoat, and the real culprit is someone else.

Because this case is really familiar, Ada has seen it before.

Also from the Ministry of Magic's internal information, the deceased was the Muggle Riddle family living in Little Hangleton, and the murderer was Morfin Gaunt.

Like the house elf Hao Qi, Morfin also confessed to his murder and has a detailed memory of the murder. His wand was also the murder weapon that killed the Riddle family.

The deceased was Voldemort's Muggle father, and the murderer was an uncle in Voldemort's blood. If you said there was nothing about him here, who would believe it?What's more, in Little Hangleton's cemetery, Voldemort himself admitted that he killed his father.

The similarities between the two murders don't stop there, both cases lost the belongings of the four founders.In Hepzibah's case it was Slytherin's locket and Hufflepuff's cup, in Riddle's case it was the ring.

The two highly similar cases make it hard not to remind Ada of Voldemort.

When Borgin told about Hepzibah Smith and the locket, he kept something secret, veiled.Will the truth hidden by Bojin have something to do with Voldemort?
If Voldemort had anything to do with Hepzibah's death, that means Slytherin's locket and Hufflepuff's chalice also fell into his hands.Dumbledore has proved that the ring was made into a Horcrux by Voldemort, but what about the locket and the gold cup?

In order to find out whether the house elf Hao Qi was wronged, and to further find out the possible whereabouts of the gold cup and the locket, Ada sent someone to ask the house elf resettlement department.

That's the department under the Department for the Regulation and Control of Fantastic Creatures, and house-elves have always been run by them.

It's a pity that Ada didn't get good feedback. The house elf Hao Qi is dead, and the truth of Hepziba's death will always be dusty with Hao Qi's death.

The whereabouts of the cup and locket were a mystery, and it was no wonder that Borgin said that Ada could not find it.

If these two treasures were stolen, they should have appeared long ago, or some news had spread.There are no clues like now, which can only show that they are hidden by people and cannot be kept secret from the world.

Perhaps Ida should go to Borgin-Bock one more time and have a good and frank talk with Mr. Borgin.

(End of this chapter)