A friendly day at Hogwarts

Bright, golden-red flames suddenly emerged and spread in circles like waves.

"I've wanted to use this spell for a long time..." Glenn said with a smile, waving the wand in his hand, controlling the wall of fire to cover the Inferi mercilessly.

The dense and terrifying army of Inferi fled in a hurry, seeming to want to escape back into the lake.

Harry, who was lagging behind, struggled to get up and crawled back to the others.

"I'm sorry...I thought..." he said guiltily.

He was only looking for water for Dumbledore, but he didn't expect that he would attract a swarm of Inferi.However, this operation was not entirely unhelpful. At least Dumbledore had regained his consciousness under the stimulation of the cold lake water.

Seeing the large group of Inferi panicking and dizzy in the flames summoned by Glenn, Dumbledore breathed a sigh of relief and showed a weak smile of relief.

"Okay, it's really time to leave this time." Glenn controlled the fire ring to shrink, protecting everyone, and then said to Rooney.

Rooney nodded, let several other people put their hands on his shoulders, pulled Glenn's robe himself, and then lightly snapped his fingers.

The fire suddenly blazed and then disappeared.

When the Inferi crawled out of the lake again, there was no one on the island in the center of the lake, except for a translucent stone basin that had been refilled with green liquid.

At the same time, Rooney appeared out of thin air with several people in the principal's office at Hogwarts.

Dumbledore walked back behind the table with difficulty and sat down shakily. This was the first time in many years that he showed such an old look befitting his age.

Glenn waved his hand and conjured a glass, filled it with water and handed it to him.

"Finally, I can drink a glass of water in a down-to-earth manner..." Dumbledore smiled, took it and drank it in one gulp, "It's my fault that I forgot to remind you not to touch the water in the lake, okay? Experienced in Glen knows how to deal with them with fire.”

Harry was still feeling guilty, and his face was obviously not pretty.

"Don't blame yourself, Harry!" Glenn patted his shoulder and consoled him, "If I hadn't happened to read the introduction of the Inferi in the book, I would have made the same choice as you."

"Okay..." Harry nodded reluctantly.

"Don't think too much. Anyway, we have all returned safely, and we are safe." Qiu smoothed things over, "By the way, Professor Dumbledore, do you need to call Professor Snape for you? To deal with this kind of magic I think he has more experience than me with the damage caused by drugs.”

"I don't think it's necessary. There's nothing wrong with my body, but it's just a lot of physical exertion." Dumbledore smiled and shook his head, "Rather than this, I'm more interested in what's hidden under the potion. "

"Yes!" Qiu Ye quickly reacted, "I think I saw Glenn getting a golden object from the stone basin. Is it Slytherin's locket?"

"That should be it..." Glenn felt in his pocket and took out a golden locket.

There's something wrong with this locket.

Compared with the Hepzibah Smith collection seen in the Pensieve, this locket is significantly smaller and does not have any pattern marks, let alone the Slytherin-specific "S" mark. .

Dumbledore frowned and took it, playing with it twice in his hands.

He seemed to press somewhere, and the locket made a soft "click" sound and popped open automatically.

A small piece of tightly folded parchment was added where a locket would usually hold a photo.

Dumbledore unfolded the parchment and read softly.

To the Dark Lord

I'll be dead before you read this

But I want you to know that I discovered your secret.

I stole the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as possible.

I'm willing to risk my life, but I hope that when you meet your opponent

can be killed.

RAB

"RAB? What does this mean?" Harry asked, as usual, with a confused look on his face.

Although the Horcrux he took such a big risk to obtain was a fake, Harry's mood at this time was not too bad, at least compared to the original work.

After all, Dumbledore was just a little weak, and he didn't lose his life directly like in the original book.

"This should be the abbreviation of a person's name." Dumbledore pondered for a moment and said, "What we can confirm so far is that this person, RAB, is on our side, at least when he took the locket away. of."

Qiu frowned and thought for a while, then speculated: If nothing else, he should be someone who is very familiar with Voldemort. "

"Why do you say that?" Harry asked with perfect timing like a curious baby.

The hero and heroine always need someone who is not so smart and inquiring, and the savior happens to fill this role.

"He did not dare to leave his full name, obviously to avoid his family being implicated, which means that Voldemort should also know his identity." Qiu explained seriously, "In addition, this person called Voldemort the Dark Lord. If If you are his opponent, then you should not use this title, but call him by his name or the mysterious person. Therefore, this person is most likely a follower of Voldemort, or was once one of them."

"If that's the case, we can narrow down the scope of our search." Glenn took the opportunity to say, "Those who have the opportunity to know the secrets of Horcruxes should most likely be the core members around Voldemort. After all, even Lucius Marr Fudo doesn’t even know how important the diary is.”

"It makes sense." Dumbledore nodded with satisfaction, "In that case, we might as well target those pure-blood families first. Harry, do you have any ideas?"

Harry recalled it carefully and said tentatively: "Burst? There is a Slytherin in our grade named Millicent Burst. He should be a pureblood."

"Hmm...I'm afraid not." Dumbledore shook his head, "As far as I know, the Burst family should not have such a name in recent generations."

"Is it possible that it has something to do with Borgin Burke?" Qiu thought for a while and asked.

"This possibility cannot be ruled out," Dumbledore said. "There are many members of these two families. Maybe someone can match the number. However, based on their habits, it should not be easy to win Voldemort's trust."

"Is there a possibility..." Glenn whispered, "This B... stands for Black?"

He looked at Qiu and said in guidance: "Do you remember that there is a locked room in the old Black house in Grimmauld Place?"

"You mean..." Qiu recalled carefully, her eyes lit up, "We noticed it many times when we were helping with the general cleaning - Sirius's younger brother!"