Jingyan of HP

Chapter 53 The Gaunt Ring

Cheng Jingyan and Snape's life as an old couple in Spider's End began.

Snape's vacation is still inseparable from potion research, and Cheng Jingyan still worries about his basic necessities every day as before, but what is different from the past is that they now occasionally take time out for a walk together, or go to Virgil Drinking afternoon tea at home, or simply going out for a walk, sometimes receiving Lucius or Dumbledore, as well as visits from Mr. Cheng and Mrs. Cheng, and the bed sheets will be rolled every now and then at night.Both are quite satisfied with their current lives.

From the beginning of the holiday until now, Snape was in a pretty good mood, although it didn't seem obvious on the surface.

But this morning when he finished his breakfast and read the Daily Prophet, his complexion became darker than ever.

"Severus, what's the matter? Your complexion doesn't look very good..." Cheng Jingyan sat next to him and asked worriedly.

Snape thrust the newspaper into his hand with a dark face.

"Black escaped successfully - the Ministry of Magic confirmed today that Sirius Black, who was originally imprisoned in the Azkaban Prison for the most vicious prisoners, is now on the run." He read it out, and then looked at Snape suspiciously , "Sirius Black? Who is this?"

Snape snorted coldly, with hatred in his eyes, "Don't you know? Didn't Albus tell you that James Potter and I were rivals?" He glanced at the man with a grim expression on the newspaper, "He is An associate of that stupid Potter."

Cheng Jingyan carefully looked at Black's photo, and suddenly remembered the black-haired boy he saw in Dumbledore's memory bullying Snape together with Potter.He unconsciously clenched the newspaper in his hand, then looked at his lover distressedly, and comforted him pretending to be relaxed, "Honey, why are you so angry? Think about it, he is a A fugitive who everyone shouts and beats, and as his deadly enemy, you are a successful potions master and a professor at Hogwarts, I dare say he would be more uncomfortable than you if he knew, and you can look down on him."

"And you also have a lover who is excellent, caring and loves you deeply," he hugged the man deliberately, "If that guy knows, he will definitely envy you and hate you!"

"Hmph, I only see a clingy and nagging guy, how could he be so good and caring!" Snape glared at him, but the coldness in his eyes had receded, and the curvature of the corners of his mouth had also changed. Soften up.

Cheng Jingyan smiled and kissed him on the face, "Not excellent and caring? Then there is always someone who loves you deeply, right?"

Snape fled into the potions room again with red ears.Although the time together is not too short, he still can't get used to these nasty words.Every time Lucius came to be a guest before, he said that he would be blinded by their sweet state, and Dumbledore would complain for a while after every visit.He also complained to Cheng Jingyan, but someone shamelessly told him "I just want to treat you well", and then doubled up on all kinds of pampering.

Day by day passed, and one week before the end of the summer vacation, Lucius and Dumbledore came to Spider's End Alley together.

"Horcrux?" Cheng Jingyan sat up excitedly, "Could it be the relic of the founder again this time?"

Dumbledore smiled and said, "I thought I'd show you a memory, Severus, do you have a Pensieve?"

Snape fetched the Pensieve from a chest of drawers.

"I went to check the Gaunt family related to Voldemort, and asked Lucius to get this memory from an old employee of the Ministry of Magic's Law Enforcement Department." Dumbledore took out a small crystal bottle, and put the silver memory in it. Poured it into the Pensieve, "Come on, you will know after reading it."

They looked down.

This is a weird hut built in a valley. The tall trees block all the sunlight, and it looks gloomy even in the daytime.

In the house lived the Gaunt family: a vulgar father and son, and a plain girl.

"See this? Do you know where it came from?" Old Gaunt snarled at the owner of the memory. "It's been in our family for centuries..." He showed an ugly black coin on his middle finger. gemstone ring.

What was shown after the screen was the scene of old Gaunt pulling a gold chain around his daughter's neck.

"See this?" Old Gaunt shook the heavy gold locket on top, "Slytherin's! We are his last living descendants!"

They came back to reality from memory.

"We have reason to believe that the ring and the locket are Horcruxes," Dumbledore said seriously, "I know him, he has always been a collector of precious objects, and he wants to keep all the treasures for himself Yes, that ring is a family heirloom of the Gaunt family, and it has special meaning to him. The locket, if I read correctly, should be a relic of Slytherin, and it is very likely that he made it into a soul. device."

Lucius continued: "Based on what I know about him, he is unlikely to put these two things in the same place, but there is no doubt that there will be one in Gaunt's old house."

"If that's the case, why don't you just burn that house down with Fierce Fire? Isn't that the solution?" Cheng Jingyan asked suspiciously.

Lucius shook his head disapprovingly, "We have to be sure which one it is, so we can look for others later."

"Since you're coming to tell us, what do we need to do?" Snape asked straight to the point.

"Of course I need you to provide the compound potion. After all, it's better to hide it. It would be better if you can go together." Dumbledore said with a smile.

So the group drank polyjuice potion, and apparated to the vicinity of the old Gaunt house.

The house in front of me was not very big, but it was gloomy and had a creepy feeling. The crooked door was dirty, and the door handle was crumbling, with a shriveled dead snake hanging on it.The snake's eyes were open, dark green, and its head was facing their direction, as if staring at them.

Dumbledore cautiously issued a few detection spells, and sure enough, he found many defensive spells around the house.Together they broke the curse and entered the house.

The house was dirty and messy, and every step they stepped on the floor stirred up a lot of dust.

The elegant platinum aristocrat frowned in disgust, and walked as lightly as possible.

Dumbledore and Snape cast one detection spell after another, and removed quite a few jinxes, before finally finding the ugly ring under a floor tile.

Neither the Flying Charm nor the Levitation Charm worked on the ring.After some disputes, Dumbledore snatched the right to take the ring by relying on his old self.

He put on the prepared dragonhide gloves and picked up the ring.

The next three people saw that his expression was in a trance, and his blue eyes slowly filled with tears.

He stared blankly at the front, and said a name in an almost inaudible voice: "Gellert..." Then he was about to put the ring on his finger with trembling hands.

"Albus!" Snape unceremoniously gave him a fountain of clear water, and then dragged him out of the house.

He regained his senses as soon as he was out, and hastily put the ring on the ground, and began to burn it with the fierce fire.

Still the same as the previous few times, the ring screamed and bleed black blood, but after burning it did not turn into ashes, only the strange black stone set on the face of the ring cracked a crack.

Dumbledore slowly bent down to pick it up, looking at it in a daze.

The others had never seen him so emotionally exposed, and they were a little stunned for a moment.

After a while he said with a smile: "Ah, another one has been solved, let's go back! Can I just leave this ring with me?"

The three of them had no opinion.

So everyone apparated back to Spider's End.Lucius and Dumbledore also had a dinner with Cheng Jingyan and Snape, which they nicknamed "Celebration Banquet".

They parted ways after dinner.I just don't know why, the figure of Dumbledore stepping into the fireplace looks a little old and stooped.

It's finally the start of school. This year, Virgil's family has another Douding going to school. Fortunately, Dennis is the most honest among Douding, which relieves Cheng Jingyan a lot.

Because he was notified by Lucius in advance that the Dementors would search the Hogwarts Express in order to hunt down Sirius Black, Cheng Jingyan called all the children to his own box. Fortunately, the Weasley twins listened to him. If so, I will run to protect my younger siblings in the future, otherwise it will be too crowded.

After arranging the seats for Douding, Cheng Jingyan was surprised to find that Harry had brought a big black dog with him.

"Huh? Didn't you say you don't like pets? Even owls are reluctant to buy because they have QQ. Why did you bring such a big dog this year?" He patted the child's head and asked with a smile.

Harry said braggingly: "Xiao Hei is very powerful, he will fetch the newspaper for me in the morning, and he will fetch my slippers for me when I get home! And all the dogs in Privet Drive listen to him!"

"Really? Then where did your little black come from?" Cheng Jingyan took out a sausage and handed it to him to feed the dog.

The child squatted on the ground with a sausage and teased the dog while triumphantly saying: "I was robbed that day when I was out shopping, and Xiao Hei suddenly jumped out of the trash can next to me to save me. I saw it as if it was wandering. Just took it home."

"Oh, then I should thank it very much, for saving my precious little Harry." Cheng Jingyan squatted beside him, and also stretched out his hand to rub the big dog's head.

Harry shoved him shyly, "Stop calling me baby Harry! I'm all grown up!"

The other Doudings all burst into laughter.

"Okay, okay, my Harry is a big boy! Will I call you Mr. Potter from now on?" Dad teased him maliciously.

"No, no, it feels like Professor Snape!" The child shook his head hastily.

The big dog lying on the ground suddenly barked.

Harry put the sausage in his hand into its mouth, then sat down on the chair, took out his summer homework and started asking Dad questions.

The author has something to say: Well, cheers for the girls who are looking forward to the appearance of the old devil king, he should appear soon, this time it's the baby daddy's turn to be the old man!

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