Hogwarts: The Cat Wizard of the Moving Castle.

"How much do you know about Riddle?" Mu En paced in this dirty room. The sofa had already been bitten by mice who didn't know where it came from, and the areas not covered by dust were full of dirt.

His fingertips kept shooting small light bullets forward, knocking the tin cup to the ground, or directly penetrating the cabinet, and then made the sound of breaking porcelain.

"Well, I was the one who came into contact with him when he entered school. He was still a child that year and lived alone in an orphanage that lacked care.

He discovered early on that he was different and felt smug about it. Maybe it's talent, or maybe it's the desire for this supernatural ability.

When I met him, he was already able to control magic power very freely and do some extraordinary things with his desire.

He also caused many vicious incidents that frightened other children, and developed the habit of hoarding stolen goods.

No, no, that shouldn't be said. It should be said - trophies. He felt proud of those 'victories'. "

And indulged in the sense of power that "I can easily hurt them if I want to." "

As he spoke, Dumbledore's tone became annoyed, and his expression seemed to return to that afternoon in the orphanage.

"So...I made a decision that, looking back now, may have been the wrong one."

"What did you do?" Mu En looked at him in surprise.

"I told him, 'I can easily hurt him if I want to.' Originally, I wanted him to feel the perspective of someone being bullied.

However, it seems that what he learned from it was something else. "

As he spoke, Dumbledore also opened a cabinet, and two hay leaves that had been there for an unknown period of time appeared in the cabinet.

"After my warning, he just understood from another perspective that he was still too weak, so he learned to disguise early on, which also deepened his pursuit of power."

"What a unique interpretation." Mu En praised slightly, but Dumbledore couldn't tell if there was any other meaning in it.

"So who is he? Dumbledore, I'm talking about his logic in doing these things!"

As he spoke, Mu En looked at a simple snake-shaped relief sculpture among the bricks on the fireplace pipe.

"Or to put it bluntly, is he the kind of person who would hide a Horcrux here?"

"It's very possible." Dumbledore agreed.

Generally speaking, there are only two ways to hide something.

Either hide it from the world, or hide it in a strict place.

The purpose is to prevent others from getting it.

"The Gaunt family has always been about ostentation, and Riddle is a person who pursues a sense of ritual. This can be seen from the fact that when he was a child, he kept the trophies he got from teasing the children in the orphanage in the closet," Dumbledore said.

Later, he also had the same doubts as Mu En.

"Anyway, this place is a mess. Apart from magic, it doesn't look like a place with any sense of ritual."

"Tsk——"

Mu En rolled up his sleeves and took out his wand.

"Wait! Take another look!!" Dumbledore quickly wanted to stop him, but Moon moved so quickly that he had already raised his wand and pointed it at the snake pattern on the fireplace.

He was already a little distrustful from the punch just now.

However, the next moment, the wand was used as a pen, and runes flew out from Mu En's wand, heading towards the snake pattern.

Then, the snake pattern on the brick wall suddenly began to twist, and soon it seemed to come alive, swimming on the entire surface of the wall.

Moon retracted her wand and looked at Dumbledore: "What did you want to say just now?"

Dumbledore clasped his hands on his chest, stroking the emerald ring with his withered fingers.

"No, it's nothing."

Mu En also adjusted a pewter ring on her little finger: "I am a professional."

"I think so too." Dumbledore smiled, and then the two of them focused on the snake patterns swimming on the wall.

If what they expected was true, there was probably a soul sealed in the snake pattern.

Mu En felt that if he had been younger, he would probably have to bet with Dumbledore on whether it was Voldemort's grandfather or grandmother.

The snake pattern just swam on the wall and quickly headed towards the back room. The two of them followed quickly, and after a while, they arrived in front of the basement door.

There was no restriction on the door this time, but when the door was pushed open, a majestic death energy poured out from it like a flood.

Dumbledore stood behind Moon, and the end of the Elder Wand lit up with a soft but extremely diffuse bright light.

Walking down, the first two steps, the wooden steps were still shaky and creaked under the weight.

As they gradually went down, the stairs became stronger and stronger. When they looked back, they had already gone down about three or four floors, which was far more than a conventional basement.

When we arrived here, those simple building structures had disappeared. What we stepped on were solid stone brick steps, with a high dome, surrounded by smooth and row upon row of masonry structures.

"Secret room?" Mu En said.

"It looks like this." Dumbledore's mood became better. No matter what the arrangement was, at least their trip was not in vain.

"I think Riddle must have been deeply impressed when he first walked into the Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts." Moon said, walking down the last step and setting his sights on the statue. .

It was a statue of himself.

With a bald head and a ferocious noseless face, if others saw it, they would definitely feel mysterious and powerful.

The basement is roughly a circle, surrounded by seven towering statues. Outside the statues, there is a circular pool surrounding the entire basement.

In the middle of the circular basement is a stone pillar platform that is half a person's height.

In the center of the table, there was a ring.

Mu En raised his palm, and his flesh and blood surged, gradually turning into a blue swallow.

"go with!"

He raised his hand slightly, and the swallow smoothed its feathers in mid-air, and then flew up with its head held high.

At the same time, Mu En's own eyes slowly closed and connected to Yanzi's vision.

After circling around, seeing that there was nothing unusual in the entire basement, the swallow landed on the central pillar, tilted its head, and opened its beak, intending to pick up the ring.

Dumbledore also raised the Elder Wand and carefully observed his surroundings.

Click——

A subtle crunching sound echoed in the empty basement.

The swallow took it off straight away without triggering any defense mechanism.

"Pay attention to safety." Dumbledore reminded, there was no abnormality, but it was the biggest abnormality.

Mu En did not speak, but watched the swallow take the ring back, but did not rush to take it with his hand.

Suddenly, the sound of water flowing from the nearby pool appeared.

Mu En turned around and saw a man with long hair flying, pale face and broken body walking out.