Harry returns from Hogwarts Legacy

Chapter 216 Say NO to Virgin Behavior
When Harry came to his senses from the dizziness, he found himself on a reef.

The sound of rushing waves is in my ears, the salty smell of sea water lingers at my nose, and when I look up, I see the bright morning sun hanging in the sky, rising slowly from the sea level.

"a little cold."

Sirius held his clothes tightly. After all, it was winter now. Even though the North Atlantic Current kept the sea water from freezing, the air was still cold.

Harry turned his head to look behind him. Behind him stood a tall, steep cliff, looming in the darkness.

The huge rocks around them, including the one under their feet, looked like they had collapsed from the cliff.

The surroundings were desolate, without a single blade of grass or tree, not even a grain of sand.

"It should be said that he is a smart man." Sirius said again: "Look at this place, I really doubt whether seagulls and albatrosses will come here to lay eggs, let alone whether anyone will come here."

"If I were Voldemort, perhaps I would make the same choice as him," said Dumbledore.

He paused for a moment and then continued, "But I have only heard a few words about this cave from some places. We still need to explore what is inside."

"About what?" Sirius asked curiously.

Not to mention Sirius, even Vivi showed a curious look and looked at Dumbledore.

Everyone loves to listen to this kind of gossip.

"It's just some rumors, they may not be true."

Dumbledore said, looking around. "I have heard others tell me that there is a kind of valley about halfway up the cliff behind us. I think that is where the orphans were taken by Tom, under the pretext of smelling the sea and seeing the waves. No, I think that is the only place Tom and his young victims could visit. No Muggle, except a very few excellent mountaineers, can come to these rocks."

"They couldn't come to the cliffs by boat either. The water around here is too dangerous for them... I think Tom used a rope to climb down, although magic would have been easier. He also brought two children with him, maybe just for the fun of scaring them."

"When did this happen?" Weiwei asked with a frown, "Was it after he became an adult?"

"No, to be precise..." Dumbledore frowned and sighed, "Actually, this happened before he entered Hogwarts... when he was in his early teens."

Hearing the answer given by Dumbledore, Vivi exclaimed subconsciously.

She never imagined that Tom was so evil at such a young age.

"It seems that he is indeed born evil. I still don't understand why you thought you could influence him, Mr. Headmaster?" Vivi looked at Dumbledore puzzledly: "You should know that Voldemort is the product of aphrodisiacs and does not know what love is. In addition, I need to remind you that he has exposed his evil nature at a very young age. What we need to do most is to strangle him in the cradle."

"Everyone has the right to be redeemed, Miss Grindelwald." Dumbledore still insisted on his point of view: "Even if he is such a born bad seed."

"Really?" Weiwei sneered, "How many people have suffered because of your momentary saintly behavior? How many people have been separated from their wives and children because of your indulgence... I really can't understand it. If it were me, I'm afraid he would be drowned in this sea by my magic spell before he could even leave the orphanage."

Unexpectedly, applause suddenly broke out from the side.

Sirius got to know this good daughter-in-law who was much older than him again. Her decisive and ruthless character was really... quite suitable to be Harry's girlfriend.

"I have to admit that you are right, Miss Grindelwald." Sirius nodded in agreement and said, "Simply drowning him in this sea is the greatest kindness to him!"

Dumbledore chose to ignore their conversation, which would have been an endless debate.

He was a little tired now, but he didn't want to convince anyone anymore.

Tired, destroy it.

Maybe they are right.

"Let's go." Dumbledore continued, "This is not their final destination. That cave was discovered by Tom when he was eleven years old. When he wanted to store the Horcrux, this was almost the first place he thought of - it's right in front."

He motioned for everyone to walk down along a crooked stone nest on the edge of the reef that was barely wide enough for a foothold. The slightly concave stone nest extended to the huge rocks half-submerged in water closer to the cliff.

It is very slippery. As the stone has been soaked in sea water all year round, there is a sticky and slippery film on the surface of the stone. It is very slippery even if you touch it with your hands, let alone step on it with your feet.

Sirius cast an anti-slip spell for everyone to prevent them from falling into the water because it was too slippery.

The waves washed over the rocks at their feet, and Harry could even feel the fine, powdery, cool mist hitting his face.

This area is a little dark, perhaps because it is blocked by rocks.

"Lumos!"

Dumbledore chanted a spell, and the shining spell light reflected countless spots of light on the slippery rock walls around him.

"See?" Dumbledore pointed to the front and said, "There is a staircase there. As long as we walk over it, we can enter the cave... But there is a question. Do you mind getting a little wet?"

"Wet?" asked Harry, frowning, not understanding what Dumbledore meant.

Why get it wet?
"Oh, the entrance to the cave has been filled with sea water. If you want to pass through there, you need to swim underwater." Dumbledore said indifferently, as if it was not him who was going to swim.

"I mind."

Before Harry could answer, Vivi spoke first: "But I have a better idea. We don't need to learn anything about mermaids."

Then, she drew her wand and looked at Harry.

"Harry, do you remember the spells I taught you?"

"What spell?" Harry asked confusedly.

"It was in the second semester of the fifth grade." Vivi guided Harry to recall the original scene, "When the two of us went to rescue Fiona..."

Harry remembered that the poachers' camp was under the lake at that time. Vivi taught Harry to use a spell to drain the lake completely, and wiped out the poachers without any effort.

He remembered clearly how terrified the poacher leader looked when they appeared at the poachers' hideout.

Thinking of this, Harry also took out his wand.

Holly wood, phoenix tail feathers. The ruby ​​on the tip of the wand is emitting an eerie light.

"Let's do it together." Vivi stood beside Harry, and they both pointed their wands at the water in the underground hole.

Suddenly, ripples appeared at the entrance of the cave, and then a long water dragon suddenly shot up into the sky from the entrance and landed in the sea not far away.

The water dragon's momentum was getting stronger and stronger, and it seemed that there was no intention of stopping.

"It seems that Voldemort has made some protections here." Sirius said, "Perhaps he just has a bad taste and wants us to enter this cave by swimming instead of using magic..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the diameter of the waterspout shortened a little.

The waterspout became thinner and thinner, and in the end, it became just a little water line.

"Of course, it is also possible that I am wrong." Sirius changed his words quickly. He was not a stubborn person, especially in this regard.

"It looks good." Harry said with a smile. No matter what kind of magical protection it was, it only needed the spell to break it to be strong enough.

This is the principle behind the legendary powerful brick flying.

"Not bad indeed." Sirius gave a thumbs up to his good godson and Vivi, praising them sincerely.

He didn't know that his godson had absorbed the Philosopher's Stone, but he could see the godson's surging magic power from this spell.

Not to mention James, even if all the Gryffindor graduates of their year were tied together, they might not have one percent of the magical power of this godson.

"Then keep going down," Dumbledore said to them.

They walked down along the wall of the cave. It was dark inside, but with the light from the spell in Dumbledore's hand, it was enough to see the walls around them clearly.

Walking all the way up, they finally reached the real entrance of the cave.

After stepping onto the stairs, Dumbledore held his wand high and checked the walls and ceiling.

"This should be a hallway," Dumbledore said quietly. "We need to go further in... Now we are facing obstacles set by Voldemort himself, not just natural ones."

"So, the water just now was not an obstacle set up by Voldemort?" Sirius asked with a frown.

"Perhaps, and perhaps not," Dumbledore replied ambiguously with nonsense literature.

He walked closer to the wall of the cave, stretched out his hand and gently stroked the wall, muttering some strange language that no one could understand.

Dumbledore walked twice around the wall, touching as many of the rocks as he could, occasionally stopping to run his fingers back and forth over a particular spot, until he finally stopped.

He pressed his palm flat against the wall and turned to Harry and the others and said, "Here, the entrance is hidden by Voldemort's magic."

With that, he stepped back from the wall and pointed his wand at the rock.

After a moment, an arc appeared there, bright and dazzling, as if there was a very powerful light source behind the gap.

"Looks like you succeeded, Professor," Sirius said with a grin.

"No." Dumbledore said, and took out a short silver knife from his pocket. He stretched out his hand and cut it on his palm. Blood gushed out from the wound.

He pressed his hand on the wall, and the crack in the wall through which the light shone began to shake violently. After a moment, an entrance large enough for two people to pass through side by side was revealed.

"As I thought, we're going to have to pay something to get through."

After saying that, he withdrew his hand and touched the wound on his hand with the magic wand.

A miracle happened. The wound on his hand began to heal at a rapid speed.

"Perhaps we have a better way, Dumbledore." Vivi frowned and said, "I can feel that after you sacrificed part of your own blood, your body has weakened a little... I hope you can inform us before taking any action. After all, you are not only the headmaster of Hogwarts, but also my junior."

"I understand, Miss Grindelwald." Dumbledore did not feel offended, but rather enjoyed the feeling. "But this situation is sometimes unavoidable."

"How can you know if you don't try?" Vivi said softly.

Dumbledore nodded to Vivi, he looked up at the rock wall, then at the open door, and turned back and said, "Then we can go in... If my guess is correct, that's where Voldemort wanted to put Slytherin's locket, and... it's also where Regulus is buried."

Sirius's Adam's apple rolled. Although the answer was about to come, he still couldn't help but become nervous.

This is understandable. Anyone who is about to see the body of a loved one will have such a reaction.

The passage was very narrow at first, and could only accommodate one or two people passing side by side. But after walking a few steps, it became clear. When they walked to the end, they found themselves standing on the edge of a huge black lake. The lake was so big that they couldn't even recognize the shore in the distance.

This is a high cave with no visible ceiling. A green light shone in the mist in the distance, reflected on the completely still lake surface, making it look like it is in the center of the lake.

This green light and the light from the wand cut through the velvety darkness all around, although the light from the wand did not go that far.

Somehow, the darkness was much denser here than elsewhere.

It was so dark that it was a bit suffocating.

"Is this where the Horcruxes are hidden?" Sirius asked cautiously, "It can be seen that this place does not give a very good feeling, at least I think so..."

"I still can't imagine that the eleven-year-old Voldemort dared to come to this place." Harry looked around and said, "Not to mention that he had a plan and premeditated attempt to murder his two companions in the orphanage... I think what Vivi said is indeed right. Some people are indeed born evil, and this cannot be changed in any way."

As he was speaking, the green light wandering in the distance suddenly shone brighter, reflecting patches of pale green on the entire lake surface.

"The center of the lake is where Voldemort hid the fake Horcrux." Dumbledore looked at the small island in the center of the lake and said, "He hid the Inferi at the bottom of the lake. I don't know how to lure out the Inferi, but I know how to take out the Horcruxes."

(Ask for monthly ticket)

(End of this chapter)