From Beauxbatons to Hogwarts

The shrill cries of the house elves echoed in the cave, and Sirius plunged into the water. It was not until the lake water mixed with the smell of salt and rotting corpses poured into his mouth that he remembered that he had not gagged himself. Apply the Bubble Charm.

But he didn't care so much anymore. He held his breath and swam to Kreacher's side in one breath, and saw the white body that had been soaked in the lake water.

It's Regulus!

Sirius recognized Regulus at a glance. He had not changed much from the Regulus he had seen the day he ran away from home. He had familiar black curly hair and a familiar handsome face.

The only change was that the smile that once hung on his face would never appear again.

Sirius ditched Kreacher and insisted on taking Regulus' body back to shore.He was shirtless, sitting on the bank with Regulus beside him.He looked at Regulus, who was as peaceful as if he was asleep, breathing heavily. Water drops kept falling from his face, but Sirius himself couldn't tell whether it was lake water or tears.

"Regulus! I'll take you home!"

It wasn't until Kreacher brought Sirius the clothes that he had placed on the shore that he used the flames to evaporate the moisture from his body, stood up from the ground, and put on his clothes.

At this time, Calvin rowed the boat back to the shore from the island in the middle of the lake, saw Sirius holding Regulus' body, and took out a suit and a coffin from his sleeves.

"Although these may not be worthy of him, let him leave here with dignity first."

Sirius and Kreacher nodded without saying a word, and began to clean up Regulus' remains in a tacit understanding. It took about 10 minutes before they put Regulus, who was wearing a black suit, into the ebony box. In the coffin.

"Let's go." Calvin said calmly.

Sirius looked at the fire dragon still hovering on the top of the cave, "What should we do with it?"

"You'll know when you get out."

Kreacher took the coffin and Sirius and took the lead to leave the cave and return to the outside platform, and Calvin appeared shortly after, having cracked Voldemort's restriction on disembodiment.

Sirius soon heard a dull rumble coming from the cave. The sound became louder and louder. Finally, an incandescent flame dragon rushed out of the cave with the rumble, and the cave was completely covered with large boulders. Buried.

"Did you ruin this place?"

"Lest someone enter here by mistake and lose their life in vain." Calvin looked at the giant dragon flying farther and farther away, gradually dissipating in the unique icy rain in England.

"Going back." Calvin pulled the master and servant, and the coffin, and disappeared onto the platform by the sea.

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After returning to the old house, Sirius cast several spells on the coffin to ensure that Regulus inside would not rot in a short time, and then held a grand funeral for him after the dust settled.

After placing the coffin in the attic, Sirius took Kreacher back to the study.At this time, Calvin had been sitting inside waiting for him for a long time, with two lockets placed in front of him.

Sirius easily identified the two lockets as genuine and fake.The real locket still retains its luster after thousands of years, shining under the candlelight;

Only the color of Regulus's imitation locket was close to the real one, but the rest of the size and pattern didn't match, and it didn't even have Salazar Slytherin's unique snake-shaped mark.

Of course, this is understandable, after all, Regulus was forged based on Kreacher's confused memories.

Calvin saw Sirius sitting opposite him with a solemn expression, and pushed the imitation locket in front of him, "I opened it and took a look. There was no magic in it, just a piece of Regulus' parchment. I haven't Look. I think you should be the first to read his last words."

Sirius immediately reached out and took the imitation locket and took out the parchment inside.But when it came to unfolding the parchment in the final step, he hesitated.

Sirius finally took a deep breath and slowly unfolded the parchment. When he saw his brother's familiar handwriting, his eyes instantly became moist.His lips kept trembling as he read the words above:

"To the Dark Lord:

I know I will be dead when you read this letter, but I want you to know: I discovered your secret, and I have taken the real Horcrux and will destroy it as soon as possible.

I'd risk my life for you to meet a mortal of flesh and blood when you hit your opponent.

RAB"

Kreacher wailed and fell to the ground, crying silently.

Calvin was about to say something when a bird made of parchment flew in from the window, landed in Calvin's palm, and automatically unfolded into a parchment note.

Calvin glanced at the note quickly, stuffed it into his sleeve, and said, "Sirius, my condolences, Regulus' reputation will be restored when Voldemort falls."

Then, he put on his top hat, picked up the real locket, looked at the master and servant crying in the study, couldn't help but sigh, and returned to Hogwarts through their fireplace.

In his office, Calvin took out the parchment he had just found and read it again.

The above message is very short, only a few simple sentences:

"The Dark Lord left England and asked me to interfere with Dumbledore at Hogwarts."

The signature is a capital "L".

Calvin rubbed his fingers, lit the parchment on fire, and said softly, "You are the one who was scared away this time, Voldemort. When did you become so cowardly?"

He tore off a piece of parchment and wrote, "Follow his instructions and don't worry about anything happening." Then he folded himself into a bird and flew out of the window.

Calvin stood by the window, looking at the paper bird disappearing into the horizon, and said to himself, "Come on, Voldemort, I want to see how big a storm you can make this time."

He turned back to his chair, took out the locket, and began to study it carefully for the first time.

Although Calvin knew that Voldemort had at least four Horcruxes, the only ones he had come into close contact with were Ravenclaw's diadem and Slytherin's locket in front of him.

Calvin easily discovered the biggest difference between the locket and the crown as Horcruxes - the soul fragments in the locket were not as active as the crown.

Really?

Calvin carefully groped for the locket and discovered the biggest problem - as a box, Calvin couldn't open it.

Calvin tried a lot of lockpicking magic, but he couldn't open the locket.

"This is really a ghost..."

Calvin was also in trouble for a moment. It was easy to destroy the locket, but there was no way to open it.

To be honest, Calvin didn't want to destroy the locket. He had already melted Ravenclaw's diadem once, so why should he destroy Slytherin's relics?If those old antiques in the alchemy world really knew about this, where would I put my face?