Admiral of Hogwarts

After quickly filling a silver plate with runes, Hugo took the locket he had just placed there casually from the carpet next to him and placed it in the middle of the runes.

This is an egg-sized locket made of octagonal gold. There is a gorgeous letter S on the lid, which is inlaid with emeralds.

The quality of those emeralds is very high, so under the sunlight outside the window, they look like they are connected into one piece, just like a little snake that has come to life.

"Okay, everyone, stay away for a little bit." Liang Guang glanced at everyone, then took out his wand and drew mysterious runes on the top of the locket.

As golden runes appeared in the air one by one, the runes on the plate also lit up one by one. Then the entire plate ignited with golden flames and wrapped the locket inside.

"It will be done right away -" Hugo whispered, and at the same time he began to wave his wand to make the flame shrink. But just when the flame shrank to a certain extent, a black-red mist suddenly came out of the locket. He rushed out and shattered the golden flame.

"Bang -" This black-red mist acted on the silver plate, extinguishing all the runes on it. Then the whole silver plate exploded like a bomb.

Fortunately, Hugo already had some experience in alchemy, so he prepared some defenses in advance. So the shrapnel-like silver plate fragments were stopped by a barrier that suddenly rose from the carpet and did not hurt anyone else.

"How's the situation?" Just when the fragments hit the barrier and clattered to the ground, Sirius rushed up and asked.

"Don't worry, I've seen many explosions like this during normal experiments. It's not a big problem." Hugo smiled and waved his hand, then pointed to the locket and said. "But this locket is very problematic."

"What's the problem?" Sirius asked nervously. Although the locket now looks gray, the gray-black mist and the unpleasant evil aura just now made everyone at the scene realize that this thing is not what it seems. So simple.

"This thing should be a relic of Slytherin, one of the four giants of Hogwarts. It is very precious. It can even be said that the thing in your glass cabinet is not as expensive as the locket. According to your family's habits, it is impossible to leave it without any records. Tuck it in here.

Hugo said. "More importantly, this locket contains an extremely evil power. I don't believe that a pure-blood family would just put such a thing here casually." "

"You are right, this thing could only have been put here after I was kicked out of the house." Sirius's face immediately became serious, "And in this case, Kreacher should be the only one in the room who knows what this thing is. ?."

After saying that, he shouted "Kreacher" into the air. With a snap, the house elf appeared in the living room.

"Oh, that annoying young master is dictating to poor old Kreacher again. As if everything here really belongs to him." After speaking, he looked up at the decorative cabinet and said: "He even put things with family honors Take it out like a robber breaking into this house——"

"Shut up!" Sirius interrupted Kreacher's babble, and then took out the locket. "Tell me where this thing comes from. I ask you to answer truthfully. There must be no concealment or lies."

Kreacher originally just looked at his feet and didn't want to look at Sirius' face. Only under Sirius's forced command did he raise his head and look at Sirius's hand.

But at his first glance, Kreacher's expression froze. Then he gasped for air suddenly, his withered chest rose and fell sharply, then he opened his eyes and let out a blood-curdling scream.

"——There is also the locket, Master Regulus's locket. Kreacher made a mistake. Kreacher failed to carry out the master's order!" As it said, it grabbed a heavy silver plate from its hand and prepared to put it in. Hit on the head.

Seeing this, Veneto immediately took a step forward, grabbed Kreacher tightly, then turned around and shouted to Sirius: "Quick, make him stop."

"I order you to stop." Sirius, who was confused by the secret his house elf had just revealed, suddenly came back to his senses at Veneto's sharp voice, and then ordered Kreacher: .

As soon as this order was issued, Kreacher froze. After making sure that the other party would not hurt him again, Veneto let go of his hand, and then Kreacher lay straight on the cold stone floor, tears pouring out of his sunken eye sockets.

Seeing this scene, everyone present fell silent and focused their attention on the old house elf. Even a usually dull person like Harry could sense that something was wrong here.

"You just said that the locket belonged to 'Master Regulus'," Sirius said as he knelt down and looked into the eyes of this house elf whom he had never looked at before.

"Why does my brother have such a thing? What orders did he give you that you failed to complete? Kreacher, sit down now and tell me everything you know about the locket and what my brother and I Its relationship!”

Soon, Kreacher sat up, curled up into a ball, put his tearful face between his knees, and began to rock back and forth. When he spoke, his voice was low and muffled, but it sounded very clear in this empty and quiet living room.

"Master Sirius has escaped, and it would be better if he left, for he is a bad boy, and his unruly behavior has broken my mistress's heart."

"But Master Regulus has self-respect. He knows what the name Black and his pure blood mean. When he was sixteen years old, he joined the Dark Lord's organization. He was so proud, so proud, so happy, and able to serve At……"

"My brother is always like that, too weak and too influenced by his family." Hearing this, Sirius sighed.

"It would have been nice if I could have dragged him away from home. I would rather he ended up going to dances and banquets all day like some of the other pure-blood families, rather than be like this-"

After listening to Sirius's memories, Kreacher shed even more tears. The tears flowed down his long nose and into his open mouth, and a set of gray teeth could be seen.

"A year later, one day, Master Regulus came to see Kreacher in the kitchen. Master Regulus has always liked Kreacher. Master Regulus said...he said..."

The old elf sobbed hard and shook faster.

"...He said the Dark Lord wanted an elf. Master Regulus contributed to Kreacher. This is an honor, Master Regulus said, an honor for himself and Kreacher. Kreacher must do Dark Do whatever the devil wants him to do...and go back home."

At this point, painful memories made Kreacher's answers start to be intermittent, but the several wizards sitting here still listened attentively.

"So Kreacher went to the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord didn't tell Kreacher what to do, but took Kreacher to a cave by the sea.

It was a big cave, and there was a big black lake in the cave... There was a boat by the lake... The boat took me to the small island in the lake - there was a stone basin on it, filled with magic potion. Black—The Dark Lord asked Kreacher to drink..."

Kreacher drank, and saw many horrific scenes while drinking... Kreacher's internal organs were on fire... Kreacher called Master Regulus to save him, and called the mistress, but the Dark Lord just laughed... He forced Kreacher to drink up the potion...he threw a locket into the empty basin...and filled the basin with potion. "

"Then the Dark Lord got on the boat and left, leaving Kreacher on the island... Kreacher needed water, and he crawled to the edge of the island to drink from the black lake... Many hands, dead hands, stretched out from the water Come out and drag Kreacher down..."

The hoarse voice made everyone feel a chill rising from their backs, and the hairs on their bodies all stood up suddenly on everyone present, because this time they truly realized how evil Voldemort was.

"Then, what happened?" Sirius asked.

"Master Regulus said that he wanted Kreacher to go home." Kreacher showed a strange smile when he said this. "The highest law for house elves is the master's order. The master tells Kreacher to go home, and Kreacher goes home..."