days at Hogwarts

Chapter 193
"Merope loves her husband deeply, and she can't bear to continue to use magic to control him in her hands. She loves too obsessively, and the long time of getting along makes her believe that Riddle is also in love with her, or maybe she Thought the husband would stay for the sake of the children."

"So she let go of the control on Riddle, but Riddle didn't think so. He was terrified, and Riddle fled back to Little Hangleton the first time he came to his senses."

Dumbledore waved his wand, and the snakes and insects hiding in the courtyard were dispersed, and they crawled along the wall into the woods outside in a dense line.The scales, touching the feet and rolling over the leaves under the tree, made a rustling sound.

Loren shrank behind Dumbledore and followed him into Gaunt's old house.

There are three rooms in this house. The large room in the middle is used as a kitchen and living room, and there are two doors leading to other rooms.

The blackened stove was broken and chipped, and next to it, a dirty armchair hung with the flesh and bones of a snake.The table was covered with dust, a moldy and rusty pot lay on the floor, and a pile of dirty pots and pans stood on a shelf by the wall.

"After being abandoned by old Tom Riddle, the pregnant Merope wandered alone in London. She needed money, warm clothes and food for the fetus, so she had to sell Slytherin's Locket. The price is 10 gold Galleons."

Hearing this, Loren's face was full of disbelief: "10 Galleons? Even the toilet used by Slytherin is not only 10 Galleons. Isn't she a wizard? Why doesn't she use magic to get food from Muggles? ?”

"Well," said Dumbledore, "perhaps she could. But I think—I'm speculating, but I believe I'm right—that Merope stopped using magic after being abandoned by her husband. No more. She probably doesn't want to be a witch anymore."

"Of course, there is another possibility that her unrequited love and the resulting despair have greatly weakened her strength. Even Merope was unwilling to raise his wand to save his own life when he was in difficult labor. life."

"On the dark eve of December 1926, 12, when Merope died in a snowstorm, she gave birth to Voldemort in a Muggle orphanage, named him Tom Marvolo Riddle, and hoped that Tom Riddle Jr. Del can have the same good looks as his father."

Loren raised his eyebrows: "Principal Dumbledore, do you have sympathy for Voldemort's mother?"

Dumbledore sighed: "In that kind of family, Merope didn't feel loved, nor did he have the ability to love someone."

His perception of Merope is very complicated. He has read Bob Ogden's memory and thinks that she is different from the rest of the Gunter family, and there is still a trace of love in her heart.

After a pause, Dumbledore asked, "What do you think of Merope?"

"Well——" Loren thought for a while, "Poor, hateful, and pathetic. This is her own choice, and everyone should be responsible for their own choices."

Merope twists Riddle's will and forces him to accept her deformed love, dooming the relationship to a tragic end.

"Everyone is responsible for their own choices..." Dumbledore repeated, lost in distant memory.

"and after?"

Hearing the inquiry, Dumbledore came back to his senses: "Later, the 17-year-old Voldemort came back here and learned the truth about his life experience. He killed the Riddle family and blamed Morfin on it. He also stole the ancestral inheritance of the Gaunt family. ring, I think—and this is another guess, and I still think I'm right—that Voldemort made the Gaunt ring into a Horcrux."

His eyes searched the room.

Loren also opened up the vision of magic power and felt the fluctuation of magic power.

A thick and deep black magical breath continuously emanated from a clay pot on the shelf, and the evil and dangerous feeling was hard to ignore.

Dumbledore smiled: "Voldemort is too confident. He thought that what he did was perfect. He firmly believed that no one knew that he was related to the Gaunt family, and there was no clue pointing to him in the investigation of the murder case, so he felt relieved. The ring is hidden here."

Although he believed that Voldemort was careless in hiding the ring, Dumbledore remained vigilant. He stretched out his wand and tapped twice on the clay pot.

The pot flew smoothly off the shelf, over the table, and then turned the pot upside down, pouring out its contents.

Ding ding dong!
The black gemstone ring landed on the table with a crisp sound.

The dust adhering to the surface of the ring shakes off in the vibration, revealing the original mysterious and simple true colors.The black gemstone on the face of the ring reflected a faint light in the gloomy room.

Putting the pot back on the shelf, Dumbledore and Loren stepped forward tacitly to observe the ring.

The ring was large, like it was made of gold, with rough workmanship, and a heavy black gemstone was embedded in it.

A strange coat of arms was engraved on the black gemstone, a circle surrounded by a symmetrical triangle with a vertical line in the circle.It looks like a triangular eye with a vertical line in the middle of the pupil.

The deep and thick black magical aura, the feeling of evil and danger emanates from this ring.

"Principal, there is a very powerful curse on the ring." Loren said, suddenly remembering the plot about Dumbledore's finger.

The specific scene when Dumbledore destroyed the ring was not explained in the movie, but when he took out the destroyed ring, he was still cursed that could not be lifted.

Loren turned to look at Dumbledore, realizing that he was in an unusual state.

Dumbledore seemed unable to hear Loren's voice, he ignored Loren, seemed fascinated by the ring, staring at the ring.

His expression was full of painful pity, and his eyes were filled with heavy sadness and mourning, and the calm and wise eyes in the past completely disappeared.

"I admire the symbol of Lear, the symbol of the Deathly Hallows..." Dumbledore murmured, completely ignoring the existence of Loren.

"Resurrection Stone... Arianna..." His eyes were full of hope, and his fingers trembled slightly, as if he wanted to put on the ring.

"No, no, the limit of death is difficult to violate..." Dumbledore was still functioning with his sanity, and his face showed struggle.

"Principal! Principal Dumbledore!" Loren yelled loudly, trying to wake Dumbledore up, but to no avail.

He shook Dumbledore's body with his hands, and Dumbledore was completely unresponsive to external stimuli.

There was something wrong with the ring, and Loren felt something was wrong. Even if Dumbledore wanted to use the resurrection stone to resurrect his sister, struggling with family affection and understanding of life and death, it would not be what it is now.

If it is Dumbledore in a waking state, although he will also be tempted by the resurrection stone, it is impossible to completely indulge in the illusory world.

Loren opened his eyes slightly, leading his eyes to blur the focus, and enter the deep magic vision taught by Dumbledore.

Everything in the room suddenly faded away, leaving only outlines drawn with white lines like a line draft.All the lines are twisted and intertwined like water.

He saw, between Dumbledore's eyes and the ring on the table, a flowing line drawn.

Sure enough, the ring was affecting Dumbledore!

Thinking back carefully, the diary can absorb people's emotions, explore the desires deep in the heart, and even control Ginny to release the basilisk.It is not surprising that other Horcruxes have similar functions.

"Principal, wake up!" Loren called out in a trembling voice, picking up the wand in his hand to make a big noise.

"It's useless, he is indulging in his own fantasy." A voice said softly.

Loren suddenly noticed a figure beside him, a tall black-haired man wearing a magic robe belonging to Slytherin House.The outline of the man was vague, and he didn't look like a ghost, but was more transparent than a ghost.

"【Thunderbolt Hole Piercing】"

A blazing red light pierced through the door of the main house and hit the side room, and the explosion destroyed the entire side room in an instant.The dust deposited for more than ten years was blown into the woods with the wind and waves, breaking the long-term desolation here.

Not annoyed by the curse, Riddle showed an elegant and friendly smile: "I don't have an entity right now, and the spell doesn't work on me."

Of course I know it won't work for you, but I feel uncomfortable if I don't try it... Loren whispered in his heart.

He held his wand tightly, and turned his attention to the direction of Tom Riddle. Taking advantage of the phantom on the opposite side not paying attention, he slightly observed Dumbledore's state.

What made him a little anxious was that even with such a huge explosion, Dumbledore still showed no sign of waking up.

The tremor in his fingers had spread to the palm of his hand, and when the tremor had spread to the whole arm, Dumbledore would wear the ring with the vicious curse.

"Who are you? Why are you here?" Loren asked knowingly, delaying time while thinking of a way.

As Dumbledore's emotions were absorbed by the ring, Riddle's figure gradually became more solid, and the elegant smile on his face became brighter: "Maybe you should call me senior, I was once a Hogwart students of Ziz."

He turned his head and glanced at the struggling white-bearded headmaster, and his tone couldn't tell whether it was good or bad: "Professor Dumbledore personally introduced me to the school. Oh, no, according to what you said just now, I should be called headmaster Dumbledore now." .”

Loren suddenly had a bold idea in his heart: "Do you have any way to wake up Principal Dumbledore?"

Riddle couldn't maintain his politeness any longer, and laughed wantonly: "Hahahahaha..."

This seemed to be a big joke, he laughed for a long time before he stopped: "Dumbledore brought you here, don't you know my identity? Or are Gryffindor students so naive and so innocent?" madness?"

What responded to him were two swift spells, and Loren waved his wand continuously: "【Shenfeng Wuying】【Thunderbolt Piercing】"

"It's said that the spell doesn't work on me anymore." Riddle laughed.

But the curse didn't go towards him, but towards the ring on the table. The transparent edge quickly slid across, followed by the red light of the Piercing Curse.

I saw two spells hit the resurrection stone ring, but it had no effect.The gloomy light on the surface of the ring disappeared in a flash, and even the magic spell disappeared. The Shenfeng Shadowless Curse did not cut the ring, and the explosion of the Piercing Curse did not resound.

Realizing that this little wizard could not pose a threat to him, Riddle showed his true posture, and looked at the scene coldly with a sneer on his face: "Give up, Horcruxes are indestructible."

Loren remained silent, thinking quickly about countermeasures.

He actually wanted to teleport away with Dumbledore's apparition, but his apparition hadn't been practiced enough to lead people, and he was afraid that the headmaster would lose his arms and legs.

Moreover, Riddle was already able to show his figure. Loren was worried that after they left, Voldemort would randomly control a few snakes and escape with the ring, and there would be endless troubles.

Regardless, Apparation is the last option, missing arms and legs is better than being cursed to death.

His eyes were on the connection between Dumbledore and the ring, on the flowing lines of magic.Drawing Dumbledore's emotional growth, this kind of thing sounds familiar...

Kind of like a dementor...

"Anyway, ordinary spells don't work on Riddle and Horcruxes. Dead horses are treated as live horse doctors. Try it."

Loren held up his wand: "【Call God for Guard】"

In the old house where the sky was covered by trees, suddenly there was a bright light that had never been seen before.Blazing silver-white light burst out from the tip of the wand, converging into a gigantic figure.

The house couldn't fit Loren's orca Patronus at all, and most of its body was on the roof.

Riddle looked at this scene in horror. Although he couldn't use the Patronus Charm himself, he knew about this spell and had seen other people's Patronus. Even in the legends about coaxing little wizards, there was no such amazing Patronus. .

He suddenly had an ominous premonition.

Loren swung his arm and swung his wand downward.

The patron saint of killer whales swung its tail, and its majestic body appeared cumbersome, creating a turbulent wind in another dimension.

The giant whale rammed downward without any hesitation.

The action of the patron saint was silent, and even the snakes and insects in the woods outside the house were quiet, and everything was silent for a while.But Loren seemed to hear the roar from the distant deep sea, and invisible ripples spread in another dimension.

The impact area covered Riddle's phantom, the resurrection stone ring, and the white-bearded old wizard.

The silver-white light of the patron saint blocked the line of sight, making it impossible to see anything clearly.

"I've never seen such a magnificent patron saint, it's really amazing." The old wizard's old voice came through the brilliance.

"Principal Dumbledore!" Loren shouted in surprise, he quickly put away the Patronus, and rushed to Dumbledore, "Principal, you finally woke up!"

His hands stopped shaking, and there were no rings on them, and there were no black curses or runes.

It seems that there is no trick.

Loren looked to the side, but couldn't find Riddle's hazy figure anymore.But Gunter's ring was still intact on the table, still exuding a dangerous and evil aura.

He sighed somewhat disappointed.He thought that his patron saint of killer whales was different, and it was a fatal blow to Voldemort's evil spirit hidden in the ring, so he could directly praise him.

Looks like I'm thinking too much...

(End of this chapter)