A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 308 The Horcrux and Hao Qi's Story
The golden locket suddenly stopped shaking, and the wildly twisting gold chain lost all its strength and hit the table.Immediately afterwards, with a crisp "click" sound, its little golden cover popped open.

They saw the inner structure of the locket. There was a living eye blinking behind the two small glass windows, black and bright, clear and bright. Harry felt that if it was not sealed in the small box, the owner of the eyes would Should belong to a living person.

There is a black fog in the air.A hoarse and cold voice came from inside, "I saw your heart..." the locket said to Felix who was closest to him.

"Oh? How about this?" Felix performed Occlumency.

"...Felix Hep, I know you, I can sense everything around me, what's in that book you read here the first day? Don't deny it, I see your deepest desire, powerful , immortality, beyond death—you want to be the next me."

"Who is this?" Harry cried, Sirius took him back a few steps, and said complicatedly: "It's Voldemort, I really didn't expect that he hid himself in a box the size of an egg."

Harry's mouth fell open. Is this the one he met in first year?He's having a much worse time now than being glued to the back of Quirrell's head.

The owner of those eyes in the locket is still whispering: "You have the potential, why don't we work together? To rule wizards and Muggles together... And I, the greatest wizard who ever lived, would like to share my immortality with you." The secret - Horcruxes."

Something like a soap bubble twisted and appeared, and a figure rose from above the locket. It was a rather handsome young man, with thin cheeks and shiny black hair. He was very tall. arm, as if wanting to hug Felix.

But his feet were still in the locket, and he couldn't get out at all. He smiled more kindly, and said in a soft tone: "Why don't you start from now, from this moment, walk on the road of eternal life... only All it takes is a flick of a wand, and there are two trivial offerings over there."

But Felix said quietly: "I thought you'd have a better idea, Tom. Shut it, Harry."

"What?" The red light in young Voldemort's eyes flickered, and if he hadn't been staring at it, he might have thought it was an illusion.He raised his voice, still calmly trying to convince him: "You don't know what you've missed, I've gone farther than anyone else on the road to eternal life, join hands..."

But Harry had already made a "hissing" sound, and the next second, the lid of the locket closed, and the black mist full of hatred surged away, and Voldemort's image disappeared very abruptly.

Harry's heart was beating so hard and he was out of breath, he really thought Voldemort was going to jump out and fight them.

Felix picked up the locket, tapped on it for a long time, and finally put it in his pocket, "I will give it to Dumbledore," he said with emotion, "The principal hasn't touched any of them yet, I saw all three of them."

They sat on the sofa again, neither of them spoke. Kreacher held the door open and said tremblingly: "Mr. Hype, will you destroy it? This is the last order Master Regulus left for old Kreacher. "

"I assure you, Kreacher, the locket will be destroyed," Felix said.

"Thank you, thank you—" Kreacher sobbed and disappeared with a "bang".

Harry calmed down, and asked curiously, "Voldemort mentioned the Horcrux just now, what is it?" His eyes jumped between Sirius and Felix, hoping to get an answer, and his intuition told him that he Has been very deeply into the secrets of Voldemort.

Sirius looked at Felix too.

"Horcrux... a very evil kind of black magic. By splitting the soul and storing the soul fragments in a certain object, this thing is called a Horcrux." Felix explained simply: "As long as the Horcrux remains Now, Voldemort will not die, although he will be miserable, but there will be a day when he will return."

"This is the secret of Voldemort's immortality?" Harry said in shock: "No wonder he said that he transcended death, and it is really evil to split his soul."

"It's more than that, Harry, splitting the soul is the result, and the process needs to complete a ritual, killing, and stripping the soul by killing people. Don't look at me telling you that, it's actually far more complicated than this." Felix said .

"So what's in the locket is just a fragment of Voldemort?" Harry realized that the two Voldemorts he had seen were not the same soul.

"Yes."

"Then if we destroy the locket right now, Voldemort will die quietly in some dark corner?" Harry said thoughtfully, excited by the idea.

"It's unlikely, Harry. He made more than one Horcrux. I saw and destroyed two Horcruxes alone, and Dumbledore is still looking for more information." Felix explain.

Harry was stunned for a moment, "You guys have been doing this? Fighting Voldemort?" He didn't know anything about it.

"Dumbledore has been doing it, he's been actively pursuing the past that Voldemort was trying to hide," Felix said, "and I just happened to be at the right time."

"Harry, even when you're sleeping, the world is still going on, you just don't see it."

Harry nodded, he knew what the professor meant, there was no need to take the responsibility on himself, he was just impulsive, not stupid.The professor told him the function of the horcruxes, so he wouldn't be too hard to think about, trying to confront Voldemort before all the horcruxes were destroyed.

He cheered up a bit, feeling that he had an extra mission in his life. If Voldemort's Horcrux still existed when he graduated, he could spend his whole life chasing after it.

Thinking about that future, it's not too bad, especially this road is not lonely, there is Dumbledore, there is Professor Haip... maybe there are more people, figures emerged in Harry's mind.

He asked a key question: "If there is not one Horcrux, um... Now it seems that there are at least three, or four, will there be more, such as seventeen or eight?"

Felix was amused, "Do you think of the soul as a biscuit, you can break it open at will, and you can also drop the slag?" He thought about it seriously and said, "Actually, I can't be sure, the book "Secrets of Advanced Black Magic" The book does not specify the limit on the number of Horcruxes, and maybe the person who wrote the book did not expect future generations to be so crazy."

"Will it hurt to strip the soul?" Harry asked.

"Well, a strange question." Felix tilted his head: "But the book says it hurts, I haven't tried it myself, maybe Voldemort doesn't care much?"

"Okay," he stood up, "Let's get here first today, Harry, we should go back." He looked at Sirius again, "Our agreed time remains the same."

The two returned to Hogwarts, and Felix sent Harry, who was asking questions, to Dumbledore's office.

Dumbledore was still flipping through the documents, and after listening to Felix finish his visit, he studied the locket carefully.

After looking at it for a long time, he took off his glasses wearily, and wiped them with a small piece of velvet: "Just verified the guess I got from Hao Qi."

"Hao Qi?"

"I told you, the poor house-elf."

"You came back so late today, you just went..."

"Azkaban, yes."

Dumbledore told the story he heard from Hokey, the story itself is very simple, almost 50 years ago, Voldemort, who was working as a clerk in Bojinbok, visited a very rich witch - Hepzibah Smith , that is, Hao Qi's owner, and two days later, she passed away suddenly.

"There are two things worth noting about this incident. One is that with Hepzibah's death, two of her most precious possessions disappeared, which happened to be the relics of the four founders of Hogwarts— — Slytherin's locket, and Hufflepuff's cup."

"Voldemort did it," Felix said with absolute certainty.

"Unfortunately, it took Hepzibah's family a long time to ascertain that the treasure was lost, as she had many secret stashes and always kept her collections very strict. Before that, Voldemort had left Borgin Bock."

"You just said... Hao Qi is in Azkaban?"

"Yeah, the obvious scapegoat, but Hokey herself admitted that she had put something in her mistress's cocoa tea, which turned out not to be sugar, but a rare and deadly poison. The verdict says she didn't mean it." Murder, but blind-eyed--"

"Her memory has been tampered with?"

"I am very glad that we have reached an agreement," said Dumbledore. "Hao Qi's current condition is not good, and I am planning to apply to reopen the investigation of this old case."

"However, after so many years, Hao Qi's memory has become a mess. It is difficult to tell whether she was tampered with at that time. I can only raise doubts about the case itself..."

Felix also finds it difficult, there is no evidence now, everything is based on logical deduction, but Fudge was scared out of his wits just now, wondering if he has the courage to refuse Dumbledore again.

The two turned to discuss other issues—

"Principal Dumbledore, how many Horcruxes do you think Voldemort made?"

"It's a real headache. From what I know of him, Voldemort will pick a number that makes sense. Three, seven, nine, thirteen, it's all possible. I have to find out what he thinks and find some evidence to back it up." .Besides, we don't know whether he has accomplished the intended goal on the night he went to the Potters' house..."

That is to say, the number is uncertain, and it is also uncertain whether it has been completed. A number appeared in Felix's mind, seven, but he didn't say it. It was useless to say it. Dumbledore still had to explore and verify it by himself.

But he thought of something, "Ravenclaw's diadem, Slytherin's locket, Hufflepuff's gold cup... Dumbledore, is Gryffindor's sword also a Horcrux?"

Dumbledore shook his head, "I happen to know where the sword is, and Voldemort didn't get it."

After coming out of the office, the sky began to drizzle. Felix stepped on the wet soil, still thinking about the appearance of the Hufflepuff gold cup transformed by Dumbledore just now.

Dumbledore said cheerfully: "It's strange to say, I feel that you and Voldemort really have a certain fate, maybe you will encounter other Horcruxes in the future, it is best to let you see what the gold cup looks like."

Felix couldn't help but slander, you are destined to be with him, Dumbledore didn't want to entrust him with the task of dealing with Voldemort, did he?

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