My name is Sasuke, from being the richest man in Naruto to dominating the world

Chapter 606: Holidays and the Horcrux Ring
After leaving Hohenwarts and taking the train back to London, Zhou Ming first sat with his classmates from his own college, but it wasn't long before Hermione and Cynthia came to his door.

When the other students saw this, they immediately ran out with smiles on their faces.

"Really? Why are they running?"

Hermione sat opposite Zhou Ming with a blushing face.

"Who knows? Maybe they have something important to do."

Zhou Ming smiled and handed over a small cake.

"Thank you."

Hermione took the cake and took a bite. "By the way, you mentioned before, the special training during the holidays..."

"Don't worry, I won't break my promise. Go home and rest for a few days, then I'll come find you."

Zhou Ming explained.

"I don't doubt you, you don't have to explain like this."

Hermione mumbled as she took a bite of cake.

"By the way, Zhou Ming, I have always wanted to ask you a question."

"what is the problem?"

Zhou Ming stuffed a piece of chocolate into his mouth and looked at Hermione.

“You, and Cynthia, are you really ordinary students?”

Hermione thought about it and finally decided to ask this question, mainly because this doubt has been in her mind for a long time, and she would feel very uncomfortable if she didn't ask it.

"Why do you ask?"

Zhou Ming asked back.

"Because you look completely different from ordinary students. You are too powerful. I asked those seventh graders, and they all said that they are no match for you. What's more, you know a terrifying amount of things. And... and that crown. Is that really something that ordinary students can do? Even that person was not as good as you when he was in school, right?

So, Zhou Ming, who are you?"

Hermione was worthy of being a Gryffindor. Once she decided to get the question clear, she stopped hiding it and asked all the questions she wanted to ask at once.

"As you can see, I am indeed a student of Hogwarts, which Dumbledore and other professors can prove to me. However, I do have some secrets. Although I don't want to hide anything from you, there are some secrets that I cannot tell you now. Wait for some time. When the time is right, I will tell you my secrets."

Zhou Ming said.

Hearing what he said, Hermione nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

Cynthia raised her head and glanced at him. There was no fluctuation in her eyes, but Zhou Ming could still understand the meaning - just lie to the little girl.

Zhou Ming responded with a righteous look - how could this be a lie? Did I tell a lie?
He did not lie, because he was indeed a student of Hogwarts, but this identity was given to him by the little devil. But the identity was correct, so it was not a lie, at most it was just deliberately concealing some information.

The train rumbled and soon returned to London.

The students passed through the wall of Platform 9 3/4 and returned to the world of ordinary people.

Hermione's parents had been waiting for a long time. After Zhou Ming said goodbye to her, he took Cynthia out of the station and called a taxi to go home.

In the following days, Zhou Ming didn't go anywhere and stayed at home reading.

A week later, he took Cynthia to visit Hermione's home and was treated to a good meal by Hermione's parents. After dinner, they studied magic in Hermione's room for the whole afternoon.

Originally, such activities were to be held several times, but unfortunately plans could not keep up with changes. On the tenth day of the holiday, Hermione and her family left London and went to travel to France.

The main reason was that Hermione's father had an academic conference to attend. Her father was a dentist and was well-known in the industry. This time he was invited to France.

Hermione's mother hadn't been to France for a long time and was also interested.

Hermione didn't want to go at first, but her parents were worried about her staying at home alone, so Hermione was reluctantly taken to France by her parents.

In fact, even if she didn't go to France with him, Zhou Ming probably wouldn't have time to study with her in the next few days, because Dumbledore sent a message saying that he had found a Horcrux and invited Zhou Ming to go check it out.

Zhou Ming didn't expect Dumbledore to be so efficient. It seemed that old man really cared about the Horcruxes. He had achieved some results in less than half a month after the holiday.

So he said goodbye to Cynthia and went to the agreed place alone.

Cynthia was reluctant to go with them, because dealing with Horcruxes was not as attractive to her as reading at home. She obviously had not forgotten her loss to Zhou Ming, and was trying hard to win back the game.

Zhou Ming didn't want to spoil Cynthia's fun, so he let her compete on her own. He went out to check the Horcruxes, which was a disguised way of letting her go.

The agreed location was a place Zhou Ming was familiar with.

Great Hangleton, the old Gunter house. Although Zhou Ming had never been to this place, he was very familiar with it.

In the original book, Dumbledore found a Horcrux here, and even got one of his hands cursed because of touching the Horcrux. Even with his own strength, he couldn't completely remove the curse, and needed to rely on Snape's potion to suppress it.

Great Hangleton is not far from London. Zhou Ming took the train and arrived nearby in no time.

He hasn't learned how to Apparate yet, so for now he can only use this stupid method.

"I thought you would learn quickly."

Dumbledore said jokingly after learning this.

"I've been a little slack lately, and the progress has slowed down a bit. Where is the Horcrux? Is it in the village ahead?"

Zhou Ming asked.

"No, that's Little Hangleton. Our destination is Big Hangleton, which is not far away. It's four or five miles away from here. I want to walk there. I hope you don't mind."

"I don't mind. It's good to walk around and exercise occasionally."

"I didn't expect that as a god, you would have such thoughts."

Dumbledore looked at him in surprise.

"This is normal. Gods are just more powerful beings. If you look closely, they are not much different from humans."

Zhou Ming shrugged and said casually.

Dumbledore nodded, said nothing more, and began to lead the way.

Little Hangleton and Great Hangleton are two neighboring villages, and this is also where Voldemort's father lived. Perhaps because they were neighbors and often passed by here, Voldemort's mother fell in love with Voldemort's father when she was young, a handsome and wealthy, but arrogant Muggle.

For the sake of so-called love, she used a love potion to make Voldemort's father fall in love with her, and eloped with her to live in London.

Later, as time went by, she really thought that Voldemort's father fell in love with her, so she tried to stop using the love potion and told him that she was a witch.

The result was that Voldemort's father was frightened and abandoned his wife and the baby in her belly on the spot and ran back to Little Hangleton.

Voldemort's mother lived alone and gave birth to little Tom. Later, she must have died, but no one knew how and when she died.

In short, when Hogwarts noticed little Tom, he had been living in the orphanage for many years.

After Voldemort grew up, the first thing he did was to return to Hangleton, kill his biological father and grandparents, and put the blame on his uncle.

His uncle Morfin is still imprisoned in Azkaban. The reason Dumbledore was able to find this place is mainly because he obtained Morfin's memory. Of course, he also wished to bail Morfin out.

But this happened many years ago. Dumbledore did agree to Morfin's request at that time. Unfortunately, before he could take any action, Morfin died in prison.

Dumbledore had obtained this memory a long time ago, but he had never considered it in the direction of Horcruxes at that time. He just wanted to figure out Tom's later experiences and changes, and how he went from a good student who was loved by everyone to a big evil demon.

Looking back on this memory now, Tom's behavior was obviously a bit strange, so when Dumbledore started looking for the Horcrux, he thought of this place first. Sure enough, he found the ring that had been made into a Horcrux in the Gaunt house.

The Gunter house is very old. From the outside, it looks like a dilapidated wooden house.

The outer walls were covered with moss, and the tiles on the roof had fallen off, exposing the rafters in many places. A thick growth of nettles grew around the house, reaching up to the windows, which were very small and thick with old dirt.

Dumbledore pushed open the door and Zhou Ming followed him in.

The room was dirty, with dust everywhere and spider webs hanging in the corners.

Zhou Ming was so disgusted that he casually waved his magic wand and cleaned up the entire room in an instant.

"A very skilled cleansing spell. I feel like you use it better than I do."

Dumbledore said with a smile.

"You're so kind, Professor. I'm definitely not as good as you in this area."

In terms of strength, Zhou Ming at this stage may really not be a match for Dumbledore, especially in terms of in-depth research on magic, he still has a long way to go compared to Dumbledore.

However, this gap is narrowing rapidly. I believe it won't be long before he can catch up with Dumbledore.

"Where is the Horcrux?"

"In the closet in front."

Dumbledore said this and was about to step forward to open the drawer, but was stopped by Zhou Ming.

"Leave the rest to me, Professor. Senior Tom's little tricks can hurt you, but he can't hurt me. I can touch the Horcrux with confidence."

"Then I can only watch?"

"Is there anything wrong with this? Isn't it more important to deal with the Horcruxes?"

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you then."

Dumbledore smiled and didn't insist.

Anyway, this kind of thing is not important. Zhou Ming is willing to take the initiative to take responsibility. He is very happy.

The reason why Zhou Ming took the job was very simple, mainly to prevent Old Deng from repeating the same mistake.

Why did he fall for it in the original novel? To put it bluntly, it was because he was controlled by his greed.

Of course, what he was greedy for was not the Horcrux or the ring. What he really cared about was the Resurrection Stone in the ring.

The three artifacts in the Harry Potter world are the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone and the Invisibility Gauntlet, which are the three artifacts given to humans by the god of death in fairy tales.

The Elder Wand is in Dumbledore's hands, and the Invisibility Cloak was originally a relic of the Potter family. Dumbledore returned it to Harry when Harry was in his first year.

Finally, the resurrection stone is in the ring of the Gaunt family.

When Voldemort found the ring, he didn't know that it contained the Resurrection Stone, so he directly made the ring into a Horcrux and stored it here.

Dumbledore is different. He can recognize the special symbols on the ring and can detect the existence of the Resurrection Stone at the first moment.

The fundamental reason why he wanted the Resurrection Stone was that he wanted to see his sister again.

Dumbledore's sister, Ariana Dumbledore, was accidentally seen by three Muggle children while practicing magic when she was very young. They did something terrible to her. Since then, Ariana has lost control of magic, and magic has continued to accumulate in her body until she drives her crazy.

Their father taught those Muggles a lesson, but he refused to say anything in order to prevent Ariana from being imprisoned in St. Mungo's for life, so he was thrown into Azkaban.

Dumbledore's mother moved to Godric's Hollow with the three siblings and announced that Ariana was in poor health, so the girl did not go to Hogwarts to study.

But the magic power in Ariana's body could not be released, which only made her go out of control. The mother of the brothers and sisters also died during one of Ariana's outbursts.

Later, Dumbledore met Grindelwald and they had a great conversation.

At that time, Dumbledore agreed with many of Grindelwald's ideas. Especially after his sister's death, he hated Muggles very much and was extremely dissatisfied with the situation in the wizarding world at that time.

As a result, they became happier and happier as they talked, causing Dumbledore to become too self-absorbed and neglect taking care of Ariana.

This made his younger brother Aberforth very dissatisfied and he blamed Dumbledore. Grindelwald disliked that Ariana would affect their great cause, so the three of them had a dispute and even fought.

During the fight, someone's spell accidentally attacked Ariana, causing her to go berserk and die on the spot.

So the person Dumbledore felt most sorry for in his life was his sister.

If he were to see the Resurrection Stone, he would definitely think of his sister first, and then would involuntarily touch the Resurrection Stone.

The result has been given in the original book, that is, he was struck by Voldemort and eroded by an extremely powerful curse.

Zhou Ming certainly would not allow this to happen again in his presence, so he stopped Dumbledore and checked the Horcrux himself.

At this time, the ring was lying quietly in the drawer. He reached out and picked it up, took a look at it, and put it directly on his finger.

The next second, a very fierce curse suddenly entered his body through the ring. Zhou Ming immediately closed his eyes and began to quietly feel the power of the curse.

(End of this chapter)