Falsifying history is good business

"It was a great job indeed, but I admire Voldemort even more. After seeing the note, he was able to remain calm and leave it behind as a trap. If it were me, I would have burned the box and the note to ashes on the spot. Who knows, the whole cave might have been destroyed."

Lin You threw the locket back into the stone basin, and it was immediately picked up by Dumbledore.

"What do you mean? You mean Voldemort already knows that the Horcruxes have been swapped?" Sirius realized belatedly.

"Needless to say? How could a fake Horcrux that was swapped be cast with so much advanced dark magic? These were all added after Voldemort discovered them. After he was resurrected, he came back here to reconfirm the status of the Horcruxes."

Lin You leaned against the stone platform and looked around the cave; the black magic traps here almost reached the limit of what human wizards could achieve. If the author had not accompanied him on a trip and crushed them with the power of a true god, Dumbledore and the other three would have suffered a lot.

What's more important is that you suffer a lot and only get a fake Horcrux.

Dumbledore carefully examined the note and said in a serious voice: "The key question is who is this RAB? Or is there no such thing as RAB at all, and this note is just another trap left by Tom?"

"You mean Voldemort knows we are searching for Horcruxes, so he is deliberately creating confusion to mislead our investigation? That is possible." Lin You pretended to be stupid. "But even if it is fake, if you want to deceive an old fox like Dumbledore, the content of the note must contain some real information. For example, the name RAB must have a corresponding real person, it can't be completely fictional, right?"

Dumbledore did not respond, but lowered his head in thought, trying to find the name of a person that matched the RAB abbreviation from his memory.

Lin You didn't need to think, he just had to find a way to guide everyone's thinking towards the correct answer; "Whether it's true or false, the person who could steal things under Voldemort's nose must know his secrets and is even quite trusted by him; maybe he is a senior Death Eater who rebelled for some reason. Judging from the abbreviation, this person's last name should start with the letter B; and the first and middle names should start with R and A."

Sirius sneered self-deprecatingly: "It starts with the letter B. Doesn't that mean our Black family does too? My cousin, my..."

The mocking voice stopped abruptly, and the smile seemed to freeze on his face in an instant.

Lupin was the first to notice something was wrong: "Sirius?"

"Regulus..." Sirius muttered to himself, and kept shaking his head, as if trying to get rid of the ridiculous thoughts in his mind.

"What? Who are you talking about?" Lupin was confused.

Sirius pretended to be calm: "Nothing, maybe I was distracted."

"Whether you have a wrong idea or not, you might as well speak it out; we have no idea right now, so it's always good to have an idea." Lin You encouraged.

It sounded like a nice thing to say, but Sirius always felt that he could hear something malicious in it.

Facing the waiting eyes of Dumbledore and Lupin, Sirius couldn't get angry when they were discussing business, so he muttered unhappily: "Regulus, my brother; his full name is RAB."

"Does he have a good relationship with Voldemort?" Lin You asked at the right time.

"Oh, that silly boy has been brainwashed by my mother since he was young, and he is crazy about worshipping the supremacy of pure-bloods. Sometimes I even feel that he almost regards the Dark Lord as his father." Speaking of his younger brother, Sirius had a tone of hatred for his incompetence.

"Like Barty Crouch Jr?"

"That's about right! Little Barty hates his father, Regulus... I guess he hates me, just like my mother hates me." Sirius shrugged nonchalantly. He had given up any hope for his original family early on, so he didn't feel much when he talked about it now.

"What happened next? Barty Crouch Jr. went to jail for his 'father', and after escaping from prison, he worked hard to resurrect Voldemort. So what about your brother, where is he now?" Lin You maintained his patience for a rare moment, and when he spoke of Regulus he did not tease Barty Jr. as he did with him.

Sirius shook his head irritably, "I don't know. He disappeared before Voldemort's last fall. No one knows if he's dead or alive. Why do we keep talking about him? Even if the name is the same, he can't be this RAB."

"Don't be so arbitrary, Sirius." Dumbledore listened for a long time, thought for a long time, and now seemed to have figured something out, and finally spoke, "We don't know the authenticity of this note yet; if this is a trap, then RAB may not be Regulus. Tom needs a real person to confuse us better."

Sirius was so overwhelmed with thought that he finally gave up thinking and muttered, "That idiot; the person is missing and his name is still being used by others."

"It seems that there are no more clues in this cave." Lin You felt that it was time to reveal the mystery, so he interrupted to remind everyone, "I want to destroy this place to prevent Muggles from accidentally breaking in; especially the Inferi under the water must be completely burned. By the way, do you want to identify them carefully? I heard that some Aurors and members of the Order of the Phoenix disappeared in the last war, and no one found them alive or dead. Could they have been made into Inferi by Voldemort and placed here?"

"That is indeed possible. We should notify the Auror Office, where they have a list of all the missing persons from the last war." Dumbledore sighed sadly; defeating two generations of Dark Lords is a great achievement, but how many people died in obscurity along the way? There are only a few people like the Potters who can leave their names and be remembered by many people.

"Then let's take a look; there are probably quite a few missing Muggles here. Although the Inferi must be destroyed, we must also leave archival records for reference." Lin You waved his wand casually, and the light of the Helios sphere quickly converged. The light it emitted no longer had the evil blazingness of the sun god burning time, and only had a simple lighting effect.

The Inferi under the water reacted most sensitively, and soon stopped diving to fight for the dark area; the ripples on the surface of the water gradually subsided. But then, they were dragged by an invisible force, one after another, floating on the surface of the water, floating in the air, and nowhere to hide in the sunlight.

The "sunlight" in the cave changed again. The originally warm light became "moist", as if fine raindrops fell on the heads of the corpses and seeped into their bluish-white skin.

Sensing the danger, the Inferi roared and vented their venom and evil towards the unknown source of power, but it was all in vain in the face of the absolute suppressing force.

As the dark magic that kept the Inferi "alive" was suppressed, the roars in the cave gradually subsided and finally disappeared. Each Inferi became quiet, waiting for the inspection of the living.

"Okay, now we just have to wait for Mr. Scrimgeour to come and clean up the mess. Find out the identities of each Inferi before they died, register them, and then set them on fire, so that these disgusting evils will dissipate in the flames." Lin You "sighed" with emotion, but in fact he was intentionally or unintentionally controlling the queue of the Inferi, making sure that Sirius could see most of them, especially those Inferi made by young men around 20 years old.

Soon, Lin You saw the result he wanted. When one of the young male Inferi, who was dressed completely different from a Muggle, floated past Sirius, he suddenly froze in place; his eyes were first filled with incredible shock, and then, he was drowned by a tide of sadness.

"Regulus..." Sirius called out his brother's name again, but the tone was completely different from before.

This time, Dumbledore and Lupin were immediately alarmed; they, too, recognised the youngest Black child.

"It's really him!" Lupin was also stunned.

Dumbledore said nothing. He waved his wand and dragged Regulus' body out of the crowd of Inferi and laid it flat on the ground. He looked at him for a long time before sighing, "I remember this child. Regardless of his position, he was a very outstanding young man. Even though everyone knew that he was a Death Eater, it could not be denied that he had many valuable qualities. But I didn't expect..."

"It seems that we need to pay more attention to the contents of the note." Lin You didn't know Regulus, so he wouldn't get caught up in unnecessary emotions. "We need to find insiders, people who might know the truth about Regulus' disappearance. People who were close to Regulus and had close contact with him before and after his disappearance."

"Kreacher..." Sirius, who was kneeling beside his brother's body in a trance, suddenly said, "When he disappeared, besides my mother, Kreacher was the only one in the Black house."

"Kreacher is..." Lin You continued to pretend to be confused.

"The Black family's house-elf has served their family all his life." Lupin explained on behalf of his good friend.

"Is he on good terms with Regulus?"

"He still likes to use Regulus to belittle me. In the eyes of that old man, perhaps there is only one young master in the Black family; I am not worthy of being called Black at all." Sirius' tone was depressed, and when he talked about the only remaining family member whom he hated the most, he no longer had the disgust he had in the past.

"Then let's start with this house-elf. Let's split into two groups. Dumbledore, you and Sirius go back to find Kreacher and ask about the cause and effect of Regulus' disappearance." Lin You urged, "By the way, notify the Auror office to act quickly. I don't want to wait here for long."

Sirius was hesitant to move, so Lin You said coldly, "Go quickly and come back soon, and find out the truth as soon as possible; if Regulus is really RAB, then we can be more targeted whether it is revenge for him or restoring his reputation. Don't worry, I won't burn your brother's body before you come back."

Hearing the word "burn", Sirius suddenly raised his head, his eyes were fierce, but then gradually became gloomy.

The Inferi cannot be preserved. Not only are they a threat to the living, but more importantly, they rely on black magic to keep their bodies from decaying.

Once the black magic on the Inferi is removed, they will complete the whole process of decay and ossification in a very short time and quickly turn into a pile of ashes. But if the black magic is not removed, the danger of the Inferi cannot be eradicated.

Not long after, Dumbledore took Sirius back to the Black mansion first. Lupin stayed behind to hand over to the Aurors who arrived shortly afterwards. As for Lin You, he threw Regulus's body into the dimensional space and went straight back to the manor to sleep.

When the day came, Lupin had returned to report on his work, and Dumbledore had also been waiting with Sirius for a long time.

Also arriving was an ancient locket; it was no more exquisite than the Western locket found in the cave, but the magical aura it exuded was a hundred times stronger, and it was undoubtedly another Horcrux.

Dumbledore told the truth about the incident that he had learned from the house-elf last night.

The story of a brave young man who sacrificed himself silently is also a story familiar to many Harry Potter fans. The protagonist of the story is a pure-blood family member who regards the lives of house-elves equally, and a Death Eater who chooses to betray Voldemort purely out of his ideals.

"That person... it's not easy." This is Lin You's evaluation. "In terms of getting rid of the bad influence of his original family, he performed better than Sirius. The difficulties he faced were more and greater, and it was not easy for him to make such a decision."

"Not easy? Is that all?" Sirius' eyes were red and his voice was hoarse, "He should be vindicated, everyone should know what he did and what kind of person he is. He is Regulus, my brother, he is not a Death Eater, he should not die with a stigma!"

"You've chosen the wrong person, Mr. Padfoot. I am not responsible for public opinion in the wizarding world, and Regulus does not have a bad reputation in the Muggle world. In fact, in the Muggle intelligence department, your reputation was once much greater and worse than your brother's." Lin You responded coldly, "You should talk to the Ministry of Magic, or the Wizengamot about these things."

When he heard the first half of the sentence, Sirius's eyes were almost murderous; but when he heard the last sentence, he immediately turned his gaze to Dumbledore.

Dumbledore's words were more effective than anyone else's in the Wizengamot.

"Of course, I agree with you, Sirius. We will discuss this matter later and come up with a plan." Dumbledore comforted his former student. "For now, let's focus on the Horcruxes."

"That's easy." Lin You held the pendant box in his palm, and the flames immediately enveloped his hand; thick, smelly black gas came out from between his fingers and was soon reduced to ashes under the burning flames.

While dealing with the Horcruxes, Lin You continued the conversation as if nothing had happened: "Including the locket, we have dealt with five Horcruxes, right? I mean, if Mr. Harry Potter is also considered a Horcrux."

"Yes, five." Dumbledore nodded slightly, "But the problem now is that we don't know how many Tom made."

"No matter how many are made, the crown must be one of them. I just don't know if there are any others." Lin You spread out his palms.

"I am tracking down clues. Perhaps an old friend can tell me what Tom once thought." Dumbledore looked at the locket that had regained its glory after being reborn from the ashes, and his face was obviously relieved. (End of this chapter)