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Chapter 404 Peverell Crest
10 pm.

The sky was completely dark, and it was at this time that Dumbledore and Sherlock came to a village that had been shrouded in night through Fox's Apparition.

"This is where Riddle's grandfather, the Gaunt family's old house is located. Of course, his father's house is also nearby. The two houses are not very far apart, just on the other side of the valley, but now there is no one on both sides. there is none left."

Dumbledore took Sherlock to a dilapidated house against the biting cold wind. They didn't go in immediately, and Dumbledore was still telling him how he found this place.

"I followed the clues to find Riddle's mother—the Gunter family where Merope Gunter belonged, but Riddle's grandfather, Marvolo Gunter, had passed away long ago, but fortunately, he still had One son lived, Morfin Gaunt, Riddle's uncle. He was once sentenced to life in Azkaban for murdering an entire Muggle family by magic."

"Fortunately, he didn't escape with the others during the Death Eaters' escape. He was seriously ill. Even if the dementors ignored him completely, he couldn't escape. Just when he was dying When I was about to pass away, I found him on the island where the dementor had long since left, and was lucky enough to obtain the precious memory of the first and only meeting between him and his nephew."

"Because time is limited, I didn't let you read that memory again when I was in the office just now, but it's very simple to repeat the content inside."

"When he was still in school at Hogwarts, Riddle started to investigate his own life experience during the summer vacation. The orphanage once received his mother. Merope said two names when he was dying, one It's his father's - Tom Riddle, which is exactly the name his mother gave him, and the other is his grandfather's name - Marvolo."

"He searched for old Tom Riddle in the prize room, in the prefect's list of the old school records, and even in the history books of magic, but found nothing, and finally he was forced to admit that his father never went to Hogwarts I believe that was when he ditched the name for Voldemort's and began to investigate the family history of his mother whom he had previously despised - a woman whom he had thought succumbed to death, a shameful human weakness. Possibly a wizard."

"The only clue he had was the name 'Marvolo', which he had learned from the orphanage administrators to be his maternal grandfather's name. After much searching through old books and wizarding families, he finally found Slytherin The remaining branch of the family. In the summer of the age of 16, he left the orphanage where he would go back every year to find his relatives in the Gunter family."

Looking at the dilapidated, haunted house in front of him, Sherlock said softly.

"He came here then?"

"That's right, of course he found it here, and even met his uncle Morfin."

"Riddle looks a lot like his father, they are both equally handsome, so Morfin recognized him at first sight. Because old Tom abandoned Riddle's mother and came back to this town, so Marvolo and Morfin is well aware that Merope has been dumped."

"But they have always looked down on the only female member of their family. After knowing this, they will only say that they deserve it. They don't have any thoughts of venting their anger or revenge on their daughter or sister."

"Riddle learned everything from him, and then Morfin's memory was interrupted here. After he woke up, Riddle's father's house, the entire Riddle family was dead, and someone used it on them Killing Curses, and it was Morfin's own wand that cast them."

"Morfin confessed to his guilt and showed it off, but the last family heirloom left to him by his father was lost. It was a black ring, which was originally worn on his finger. But after waking up, the ring disappeared."

"At that time, the magic world was in great confusion for another person. The case about Morfin was not tried carefully at all. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban. Not long after I got this memory from him, He died on that island and was finally buried there."

After clarifying all the causes and consequences, the truth of this case can be easily judged.

Sherlock analyzed.

"Voldemort stunned his uncle, took his wand, traveled across the valley to the mansion, killed the Muggle who had abandoned his wizard mother, killed his Muggle grandparents by the way, wiped Went to the unworthy Riddle family, and got revenge on his biological father who never wanted him. Then he went back to the Gaunts, cast that little complicated magic, planted false memories in his uncle's brain, and put the wand Beside its unconscious master, took the ancient ring and walked away."

His analysis was approved by Dumbledore, but there was still a little problem that Sherlock didn't understand.

"It never occurred to Morfin that he did it?"

"No. As I said, he confessed and showed it around."

"But he has kept this real memory?"

"Yes, but it took a lot of highly skilled Legilimency to draw it out. Morfin has pleaded guilty, so who's going to dig his mind? But I visited him in prison during his last days. I managed to extract this memory, and after seeing these contents, I tried to fight to save Morfin from that island, but before the Ministry of Magic made a decision, Morfin passed away."

Sherlock didn't have much emotion about this. After all, this Morfin was arrested, and it can't be said that he was completely wronged. Since Voldemort added false memories of his murder to his mind, he didn't make him regret it at all, saying Perhaps the idea of ​​killing the Riddles had arisen in him long before Voldemort found him.

Still, Sherlock complained about another thing.

"It can be seen from this that the Ministry of Magic's supervision of Hogwarts students not being able to cast spells outside the school during the summer vacation is superficial. Those whose parents are wizards, or students who live next to wizards have no way to supervise them. , can only depend on their self-consciousness."

"This is indeed a loophole in the magic law." Dumbledore also nodded and said, "But we don't have the energy to pay attention to these for the time being, Sherlock, you should have already guessed what the last Horcrux we are looking for today is. gone."

Sherlock stared at the dilapidated house in front of him.

"The ring that Morfin lost?"

"That's right, and you've seen this ring before, can you recall it?" said Dumbledore.

Sherlock thought for a while, and thought of what Dumbledore said, where he had seen the ring.

"You mean the black ring on Riddle's hand in Professor Slughorn's memory?"

Dumbledore drew his wand, and with a flick of his hand the door that stood in front of them swung open.

"That's right, when I saw the memory you brought back, I was already suspicious. Although I haven't seen the real thing yet, I have basically confirmed that the Horcrux hidden here is that ring."

They walked into a dusty room with cobwebs all over the ceiling that looked like it hadn't been cleaned in ages.

"Can you feel it, Sherlock?" Dumbledore asked, looking at Sherlock.

For the perception of Horcruxes, Sherlock is much more sensitive than anyone else.

And after entering the door, the imprint on his left arm really produced a strong burning sensation.

Naturally, he couldn't be more familiar with this feeling. Dumbledore was right in finding the place. The only Horcrux they didn't know before was hidden in this room.

Sherlock spread out the control magic. After using the remnant soul of Voldemort in the Slytherin locket to make a thread, the range of control magic was doubled, which could completely cover this small house.

But Sherlock did not find any shadow of the black ring in the house.

He frowned. There were only two possibilities for this situation to happen. Either Dumbledore guessed wrong, and there was indeed a Horcrux here, but that Horcrux was not the ring they had seen.

Either Voldemort used some means to hide the ring. This hiding method is very special, and it can even block Sherlock's perception.

He repeated the results of his detection with Dumbledore, and both of them were more inclined to the second explanation.

Because that ring is undoubtedly in line with the characteristics of Voldemort's selection of Horcrux materials, the family ring of the Gaunt family, and the proof of Riddle's wizard blood.

Sherlock didn't find a problem with controlling the magic, but Dumbledore, relying on his experienced experience, discovered that there was something wrong with the position next to the bookcase.

It looks empty from the outside, and the ground is full of dust, no different from other places.

But when Dumbledore tapped the wall next to him with the Elder Wand in his hand, a string of sparks suddenly burst out in the open space.

The two of them looked at each other, obviously someone used some magic here.

Dumbledore's ability to explore and solve the curse is undoubtedly much stronger than Sherlock's. This does not mean that Sherlock's strength is much weaker than Dumbledore's.

But after all, Old Deng has lived for a long time, and he has learned a lot about all kinds of weird magic, so he knows what kind of method is more effective when encountering special situations.

It didn't take long for Dumbledore's face to show a look of enlightenment. He held the wand and muttered something, and finally waved it lightly, and a hidden wooden cabinet appeared in front of them.

The cabinet was as dilapidated as this house, with only two simple drawers on it. Dumbledore opened all the drawers and discarded other miscellaneous things. The extremely conspicuous black gemstone ring caught their eyes.

Dumbledore narrowed his eyes staring at the ring, and Sherlock's breathing quickened slightly. They all knew that finding the ring meant that they knew where all Voldemort's Horcruxes were stored.

Seeing that Dumbledore stretched out his hand without hesitation, Sherlock subconsciously reminded him.

"professor."

Dumbledore understood that he was worried about the curse on the ring, shook his head and said.

"It's okay, I can see that there will be nothing wrong with the person who picks up the ring, but it's not necessarily the case when he wears it."

As he said that, he had already taken Gaunt's ring from the drawer, and seeing that nothing happened, Sherlock couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"If people don't know the details of this ring, they may still wear this ring and have been cursed by Voldemort, but since we all know that it is a Horcrux, how can we possibly wear it?"

Sherlock said relaxedly, he is indeed in a relaxed mood now.

Although not all the Horcruxes have been collected, one of the remaining two is in Hogwarts Castle, and the other has been with Voldemort all the time.

As long as you know the specific location, the rest is just to wait for the opportunity, there will always be opportunities.

And as soon as Sherlock's voice fell, he realized that something was wrong with Dumbledore.

After getting Gaunt's ring, Dumbledore seemed to have discovered something, and his blue eyes were fixed on the notch in the center of the black gemstone set on the ring.

Sherlock had never seen Dumbledore's expression and gaze like this before.

His hand holding the ring was trembling, and the eyes staring at the ring were full of excitement and mixed with sadness and sadness, which looked very complicated.

"Professor, what's wrong with you?"

Sherlock frowned tightly. He thought that Dumbledore hadn't discovered the spell Voldemort had placed on the ring, just like the poison in the stone basin in the cave before.

As long as you get the ring, you can't help but want to put it on.

Dumbledore seemed very emotional now, but he seemed to have used great willpower not to take the next action rashly, but stretched out the hand holding the ring in front of Sherlock.

"You, can you recognize this sign?"

Dumbledore's voice was completely gone from the gentleness and calmness of the past, and that slightly trembling tone was something Sherlock had never heard before.

Sherlock saw the pattern he said was located in the center of the black gem.

A circle is drawn in a regular triangle, and there is a straight vertical line right between the triangle and the circle.

Naturally, Sherlock also felt familiar with this sign, he just thought for a while and remembered where he had seen it before.

"This is the badge of the saints under Grindelwald at the beginning of the [-]th century?"

Dumbledore never took his eyes off the ring, he took a deep breath before speaking.

"That's right, Gellert did use this logo as the badge of his organization back then, but before that, it already existed in the world, and it has its own name—the Peverell crest."

(End of this chapter)