Hogwarts: Harry's Path to Witches

Chapter 238 Read more books, Sirius! This is good for you!

After a long period of time, Sirius finally came out of his long trance, but the expression on his face was still painful.

And Sirius kept repeating those words: "Regulus...why are you so stupid?"

At the same time, the way he looked at Kreacher was not right, and he became murderous.

Apparently, Sirius attributed the direct cause of Regulus' death to Kreacher.

If Professor Lupine hadn't reacted quickly enough and grabbed Sirius, Sirius' Cruciatus Curse would have hit Kreacher.

"Are you crazy, Sirius!" Professor Lupine pressed Sirius on the chair and shouted loudly.

"I'm not crazy, let me go!" Sirius responded unceremoniously,

"This dirty and lowly house elf didn't bring Regulus back and allowed him to be dragged into the water by the Inferi!"

"Obviously Regulus can be saved! It can obviously bring Regulus back and let Regulus survive!"

"It is the most direct murderer of Regulus! I want to kill it, torture it with my own hands and then kill it! Kill this beast!"

I don't know when, the velvet curtain was opened, but the portrait of Mrs. Black inside said nothing, just quietly listening to the conversation in the living room.

Another figure also appeared on the edge of the portrait, the old principal Phineas.

Apparently, Blake still has a portrait of him in his old house, allowing him to travel between them.

Now he was quietly listening to the conversation in the living room, wondering what he was thinking.

After hearing Sirius' words, the last tense nerve in Kreacher's mind collapsed.

It knelt down again, howled loudly, and took out a hammer from nowhere, as if it wanted to smash its own hand with the hammer.

At the same time, it was crying and wailing as if possessed:

"...It turned out to be old Kreacher's problem...it was old Kreacher who killed Master Regulus..."

"Old Kreacher is guilty! Why didn't old Kreacher think of coming back with Master Regulus?"

As a last resort, Harley bound Kreacher and Sirius with spider silk again and waited until both of them calmed down before releasing the restraints.

"I think we should contact Professor Dumbledore," Professor Lupine suggested after seeing that the situation was under control.

"This matter involves Voldemort, so we cannot be careless. It is necessary to inform Professor Dumbledore."

"Then you may have to wait a week." In Mrs. Black's portrait, Phineas suddenly said,

"Dumbledore is not in Hogwarts now, but in Azkaban."

"Didn't Sirius alert the Ministry of Magic last time and tell them that there were loopholes in the magic surrounding Askaban?"

"So the Ministry of Magic found a way to contact Nico Flamel through Dumbledore and asked the two to help maintain the magical defenses around Azkaban."

"And Professor Dumbledore himself is going to Azkaban to find some key information."

Having said this, Phineas nodded to Harley,

"He went for the descendants of Slytherin, and his goal was related to the locket in the hands of this Potter girl."

"He told the old principals in the office that he was going to be there for at least a week."

"And this locket has been at Black's house for a long time. There shouldn't be any big problems in a short time, so he won't be in a hurry to come back."

"By the way, if I'm not mistaken, the locket floating next to you is probably the legendary Slytherin's locket."

"That little bastard Voldemort really deserves to be cut into pieces. He actually made such a precious treasure into a dark magic item!"

As he spoke, Phineas cursed angrily and cursed, and waved the wand in his hand.

Sirius and Professor Lupin were stunned and looked at Harry.

"Is this actually Slytherin's locket?"

"Harry, what kind of dark magic item was this locket made into?"

"My stupid great-grandson, do you still need me to tell you such a simple question again and again?" Before Harley could reply, Phineas said first,

"Can't you recognize the snake-shaped S? Can't you recognize the lines around the locket? Isn't that the symbol of Slytherin?"

"The crest of the Selwyn family, which still has descendants, is a black wolf, and the crests of the Sethos and Senek families, whose surnames have been lost, do not include the element of snakes."

Phineas sighed;

"Did you become a black dog for so many years and your brain became stupid? You have forgotten such basic knowledge."

Sirius rolled his eyes: "Old man, you don't know, I always hate remembering these things, and I hate the theory of pure-blood families."

Sirius's tone was quite polite. After all, although Phineas had passed away long ago, the portrait he left behind also had a very foul mouth and was not polite to anyone.

But Sirius knew that Phineas was a sharp-tongued man who could be said to be the best to him among all the living and dead elders.

(This refers to the portrait. After all, the magical portrait inherits the personality and thinking mode of the person painted. I don’t know how to express this situation. Although it feels like this sentence is awkward, but...)

However, Phineas was still angry and glared at Sirius's words.

"Harry, what is that dark magic item made from Slytherin's locket?"

Hermione couldn't restrain her curiosity and once again asked Professor Lupin's previous unanswered question.

"It's a Horcrux." Harley replied calmly, "A low-level black magic used to save lives."

"The principle is to make your soul unstable by killing people with malicious intent, and then use the spell to split your soul."

"Next, we need to use a spell to hide this soul fragment in a certain item."

"In this way, as long as this item is not destroyed, even if the wizard using this magic is hit by the death curse, he will not die and will have a chance to recover his body."

"After all, there is still a part of his soul that is undamaged in this world, anchoring it in the real world."

Later, Harley told some of the truth about what happened in the second grade, including the diary Horcrux that was finally handed over to Dumbledore.

After Harley finished explaining, the other three people opened their mouths in surprise, unable to believe that there was such evil magic in the world.

Although Hermione knew more truth than Professor Lupin and Sirius, she only knew that Senior Riddle was a memory of Voldemort, and did not know that it was a Horcrux.

"So Voldemort stayed immortal through this kind of magic?" After a while, Hermione asked softly again.

Hermione frowned when Harry nodded.

"If Voldemort made a few more Horcruxes and placed them on the top of Mount Everest and the deepest part of the Mariana Trench,"

"Or he could just throw the Horcrux on a rocket and send it into outer space. Then wouldn't he die?"

"Do you think he knows so much knowledge?" Harley rolled her eyes,

"If nothing else, you can ask Sirius and Professor Lupin now if they know the places you mentioned?"

"Not to mention Voldemort, who is devoted to dark magic. He must be disdainful of this kind of Muggle knowledge."

Hermione turned her head, looked into two pairs of confused eyes, then turned her head silently and nodded.

Hermione suddenly realized that she had overestimated wizards' common sense.

"Don't worry about Voldemort's Horcrux, Professor Dumbledore will probably take care of it." Harley said softly, and added silently in her heart,

Even if he really has a way to resurrect, I can let him live and die once.

"So this locket... what should I do with Voldemort's Horcrux?" Sirius glanced at the Horcrux in mid-air.

"Who knows?" Harley spread her hands and leaned on the chair.

"The most I can do is seal the diary and then hand it over to Professor Dumbledore."

"Dumbledore studied the diary and unearthed a lot of memories about the soul fragment inside,"

Phineas in the portrait is trying to remember,

"Then he started to try some magic based on records in some ancient books to see if it really couldn't cause harm to Horcruxes."

"But as recorded in the book, not even the Death Curse could destroy the Horcrux. In the end, only Li Huo succeeded."

Seeing the surprised expressions of Sirius and Professor Lupin, Phineas raised his eyebrows and added:

"Don't think too much. Different magics have different solutions. No magic is omnipotent."

"Although the Horcrux has the characteristics of a living creature, it is expected that the Death Curse cannot destroy it."

After listening to Phineas' explanation, Sirius and Professor Lupin looked at each other and both showed wry smiles.

The two of them had used the Unforgivable Curse several times. Of course, the targets were all the heinous werewolves or extremely brutal Death Eaters during the Wizarding War.

But the magic of the Fire Curse touches the two people's knowledge blind spots.

Although the Severe Fire Curse is not classified into the scope of the Unforgivable Week because of its counter-curse.

But for some special reasons, this spell is kept even more secret than the Unforgivable Curse.

Seeing that the two adult wizards were helpless, Harry proactively suggested:

"I'll seal this Horcrux first, and then let Professor Dumbledore handle it when he comes back."

With that said, Harley picked up the locket.

The locket seemed to have a premonition of the coming danger and began to struggle frantically, but to no avail.

Layers of cold air rose from Harley's hands, and the locket was wrapped in layers of ice, finally turning into an ice ball.

The green light, so shallow that it was almost invisible, penetrated into the ice ball along Harley's palm, forming the strongest line of defense.

"So be it. After all, we can't do anything with Horcruxes." Professor Lupine nodded, and Sirius and Hermione had no objections.

Seeing that the Horcrux in front of him was temporarily sealed, Phineas spoke again:

"Sirius, if you can, don't forget to bring Regulus' body back."

"His body is probably still in the cave, turned into an Inferi. If possible, try to let every member of the Black family go home."

Kreacher, who had been blaming himself, instantly raised his head and looked at the wizards present with hopeful eyes.

However, Sirius ignored him and looked at Phineas in confusion:

"It's been so long since Regulus's body, wouldn't it have already decomposed?"

Seeing the confused expression on Sirius' face and hearing his stupid question, Phineas couldn't help but cover his face:

"How could I have such a stupid, uneducated great-grandson!"

"Don't you know? There is a chance that the body of a person killed by an Inferi will directly turn into an Inferi."

"Even if it cannot be transformed directly, it will be infected by the unique magic power of the Inferi, making it easier to make it into an Inferi."

"Although according to Kreacher's description, the mysterious man does not often return to that place, a lot of magic is exerted there."

"In this case, I can come up with several ways to turn the intruders who died there into my guards."

Looking at Sirius' thoughtful expression, Phineas stabbed him in the heart without hesitation:

"Read more, my stupid great-grandson! It won't do any harm to your unintelligent brain!"

The expression on Sirius's face fell instantly, looking extremely embarrassed.

Mrs. Black on the wall laughed directly, and Phineas himself also showed a nasty smile.

Professor Lupine coughed twice and helped Sirius change the topic:

"So should we go to that cave now and help Sirius bring Regulus's body back?"

When saying this, Professor Lupine looked at Harry seriously.

Obviously, he was deeply aware that together with Sirius, he might not be able to defeat Harley alone.

Harry nodded: "Of course, the godfather's business is my business, and I have no shirking responsibility."

After hearing this, Kreacher, who was still lying aside, looked at Harry gratefully.

After listening to Phineas' words, Kreacher also remembered that the Potter family was a famous pureblood.

Although other members of the Black family have questioned the Potter family's stance towards Muggles, they have not questioned the purity of the Potter family's bloodline.

And Harry was willing to help it bring back Regulus' body. Although it wasn't because of its request, it still felt grateful.

"How about waiting for Professor Dumbledore to come back? There is magic arranged by Voldemort himself." Hermione whispered.

Although she had no say here, Hermione didn't want Harry to take such a risk.

"It's okay. From Kreacher's description, it's not dangerous there." Harry rubbed Hermione's hair.

"And Kreacher will be coming with us, and it can bring us back."

"Yes," Kreacher looked at everyone pleadingly, "Please make sure old Kreacher is with you."

"For Master Regulus's body, old Kreacher is willing to risk his life."

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