[HP] Seven Nights Talk

The next day, the storm died down, but thick bluish-gray clouds were still rolling over the ceiling of the auditorium.The three of Harry checked their timetables at the breakfast table, and Ron was once again dismayed to find that he had two Divination lessons on Monday afternoon by himself, while Hermione was going to Arithmancy, and Harry had none at all.

"You give it up like I did, okay?" Hermione urged him as she stuffed something into her mouth.

Ron looked very surprised. "You actually... well," he slumped his shoulders, "do you think Professor McGonagall would agree to this?"

While they were discussing the matter, Harry did not participate, but looked carefully at the teacher's table.The handsome young man with black hair and black eyes was still talking with others, except this time it was Professor Sprout.The two talked and laughed happily, and the expression on Voldemort's face also seemed approachable.

He looked normal, but only Harry knew it was definitely not normal - joking?approachable?Voldemort?He found that he really didn't understand what Voldemort was trying to do.

Then Harry misplaced the eyeball and saw the Headmaster talking to Snape.No emotion can be seen on their faces, such as nervousness and vigilance.

Harry couldn't help but think again.Dumbledore must have known that Voldemort had been like this before, but had he told anyone else about it now?Like Snape who was undercover for the Order of the Phoenix?And Voldemort, is he planning to win over the other professors at Hogwarts and ignore this traitor?

Harry did it fairly secretly, because neither Ron nor Hermione noticed.After finishing their breakfast, the three of them followed the flow of people out of the auditorium to attend the first and second classes of the new school year.If Harry recalled correctly, herbalism class involved squeezing green-yellow ichor from Babo tubers, and Care of Magical Creatures class followed by feeding tiny snails that looked like big slimy white caterpillars.

...It really is the beginning of the semester that suits his mood.

So while waiting for lunch, the Gryffindors were all in a bad mood.Ron started to retreat when he thought of divination class in the afternoon, while Hermione decided to go to the library after finishing eating.She invited Harry to come along, since he had no classes in the afternoon anyway.Harry thought for a while and agreed, he could study how to defeat Horcruxes, as Voldemort definitely had lessons.

The restricted area of ​​Hogwarts - Harry has sneaked into it more than once.So even though it was daytime this time, after Hermione went to the arithmetic and divination, he took a chance and slipped in when Mrs. Pince went in to get books for other students—he was a completely invisible person at that time .If Voldemort knew about this, he would probably lose his temper, but wouldn't he know?

Then Harry saw "The Dark Arts Revealed" that Hermione had brought out from the bookshelf in the headmaster's office in seventh year.This book is full of evil black magic, including all knowledge of Horcruxes.Dumbledore didn't find the diary as a Horcrux this time, and he didn't say he had a headache (nor did he, in fact).Then the headmaster can't be sure that Voldemort made a Horcrux, and he didn't take the book to the headmaster's office for research.So he had something about Voldemort's soul in his head, and now only he and Voldemort knew about it.

Having said that, Harry can probably draw three conclusions.One is that Voldemort wanted to read this book again when he was in his first grade—Voldemort must have slipped into the forbidden book area countless times like him back then; the other is that Dumbledore did have a reason not to tell him, because it For once it looked like he wasn't the only living Horcrux that could actually kill Voldemort.

Thinking of that man, Harry sighed inwardly.Even if Voldemort no longer saw him as Avada Kedavra, it was still far from his ideal state.

Obviously, it's impossible to read them all in one afternoon.In order to prevent being discovered, Harry secretly used the Copying Charm, and then groped out holding the copy.It's best not to let anyone see this thing but him... Voldemort has had his own office since the day before, so it shouldn't be a big problem...

By the time Harry had carefully tucked the book under the bed, it was almost time for dinner.He came to the Great Hall to find the Weasley twins talking to Ron and Hermione about their Defense Against the Dark Arts class that afternoon.

"Not on the same level at all!" Fred said excitedly. "He understands it all too well!"

"Yeah, I can't imagine that at his age, he already knows so much about the outside world." George said, blinking his eyes mysteriously.

"What's going on outside?" Ron asked anxiously.Like the twins, he had previously had misgivings about their new professor, but that was clearly not the case now.

"It's black magic, fight black magic." Fred added for George. "As soon as you hear it, you know that he is not much more reliable than Lockhart!"

"Maybe it's because he has a good relationship with the head of the Auror office," Hermione interjected.

Maybe it was because he was the biggest Dark wizard himself, Harry thought.Then he sat down and got himself something to eat.

Ron frantically flipped through the timetable, disappointed to find that they didn't have Defense Against the Dark Arts until Thursday, and couldn't help turning to him: "Harry, you already know that too?"

"No, it's the first time I've heard of it." Harry was quite calm about this kind of question now.

Ron heaved a long sigh.While spreading jam on the bread, Harry asked seemingly casually, "What did he serve you?"

The twin brothers deliberately winked to show off. "You'll find out by Thursday!"

Before Thursday came, though, Harry was spending his time with the Dark Arts books.He has a goal he wants to achieve, so the purpose of reading the book is very clear-only about Horcruxes.

There are very few people who have done this thing before, and there are only two or three recorded ones, and only one split soul.Aside from the need to kill people as an introduction, those experimenters do not seem to intend to cut themselves into more slices to obtain a more secure immortality.According to Slughorn, not many people are willing to live in that form, it would be better to die.

So how confident is Voldemort to say that seven is a magical number?And he was even sixteen or seventeen?

Harry now fully understood Slughorn's pale face when he heard this, and Dumbledore's definition of "evil far beyond ordinary".But this is not his focus, what he focuses on is how to find the weakness of the Horcrux, so that he can take some effective actions when facing it, but with little success.

Because the Horcrux is attached with the creator's magic power and protection, it is immune to many kinds of damage spells, and only items with extremely strong magical effects or powerful wizards can destroy it.This is why Kreacher has not found and destroyed the locket Horcrux for more than ten years.And if you want to recycle, it can only be based on the subjective wishes of the parties, and you have to pay a huge price.That is to say, in addition to the question of whether Voldemort wants to or not, there is also the question that he needs to endure the pain that is enough to destroy people.

The description of the recycling process is a pain that he would never want to experience just by looking at it—Harry heard Hermione say something before, but listening to it and watching it carefully are two different things—Voldemort would never have thought that he needed it before. do it.It is definitely easier to give a Horcrux a sword than to recover it, he came to the final conclusion, but the ring is nothing more than when it is asleep, isn't it also part of a person after waking up?Besides, with Voldemort around... It seemed like he couldn't get past Voldemort to deal with the Horcruxes.

Since no one had done it before, only Voldemort knew how much killing the Horcruxes had on Voldemort.However, judging from the fact that Voldemort chose to take it back, he probably realized that immortality cannot be obtained, and there are consequences of splitting the soul.It was impossible for Voldemort to say the confession, but he did realize it, didn't he?So he said that people always have to pay a price for what they have done... a price!

Harry breathed a sigh of relief, then tensed at the thought of his own words.If he hadn't thoroughly understood what a Horcrux was, he might never have known exactly what Voldemort had done before and what he was doing now.Although he still doesn't quite understand what Voldemort wants, it seems that he can at least rest assured that Voldemort will not repeat the same mistakes.

It is a major premise for Voldemort to recover the Horcruxes and make himself whole again. Under this premise, it is impossible for there to be differences in the general direction.For example, Barty Jr., who seems to be the most favored Death Eater at present, can rise to that position so quickly, isn't it the Death Eaters who paid for him?Although he was a Death Eater who more or less turned his back on Voldemort, it was still a price.The other Death Eaters are logical, and it is impossible that they cannot be dealt with.

Then it's just between the two of them.Harry thought hard, and besides completing the seven-year plan well, he really couldn't think of what else he wanted to ask Voldemort to do.After all, there is that major premise, isn't it?Or, should he really push his feet?

After the two dull days in the middle passed, Thursday finally came.The Gryffindor fourth-year students were all looking forward to it, rushing to the classroom just after lunch.On the way, Neville, who was traveling with him, almost collapsed, because he was punished by Snape to disembowel a vat of horned toads yesterday, because he had burned another cauldron in Potions class.

From this, Ron concluded that Snape's vindictiveness had reached a new high during the summer, and that it was all because he hadn't been awarded the Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching position.

Harry was noncommittal.It looked like Voldemort was well hidden, and Dumbledore hadn't told Snape of his suspicions, otherwise their Potions professor couldn't have reacted that way.But even if Voldemort showed that he was only an excellent Auror friend, this was enough for Snape to be afraid-he couldn't know how many Death Eaters Crouch actually sent into the Auror by the name of Chester. Azkaban.

Still, Hermione did the best job.Except for exceptions, she always sat at the front of the classroom, facing the podium, and this time it was the same.Harry was a little lucky, he reckoned that this would be the closest distance between him and Voldemort in a normal situation.

Not long after the students sat down, footsteps were heard in the corridor outside, and then Voldemort opened the door and walked in.Harry saw a piece of cloth he had seen once in Madam Malkin's shop, and the contrast between the distance and the distance was even more pronounced.This made him look more directly at the other party, without dodging at all.But no one noticed, because almost everyone reacted this way.

Soon, they saw the Defense Against the Dark Arts technique that George and Fred admired.It turns out that Voldemort got some three-dimensional magic video records from Batty Jr., which recorded the capture process of a Death Eater.They basically use silent spells in battle, so what Voldemort has to do is to explain what spells the two sides in the battle are using during slow-motion, as well as the timing judgment and grasp during the battle, as well as the use of the surrounding environment.According to him, there is more than one video, but only this one is enough for the students to be dumbfounded.

"Actually, most Hogwarts graduates can't reach this level." Voldemort said slowly, "So you should know what you have worked hard for?"

Everyone, look at me and I look at you, most people still don't believe it.Although there are many spells they haven't heard of, but a simple one will definitely work, right?

Voldemort saw this emotion, so he didn't say much, and only ordered the next time to practice the disarming spell.The spell was fairly common, but with the exception of Hermione and Harry, all it took was one shake of their partner's wand to be successful.Only now did they know the actual situation, and they couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat—if they really faced the Death Eaters in the video, wouldn't that be the end of it?

But a bold student asked: "Professor, the video... No, I just want to ask, can you give us a demonstration yourself?"

"Among you, there is no match for me," replied Voldemort, his eyes falling on Harry's face for the first time, but then looking away quickly. "But this requirement can be met." He took out a cherry wand and tapped the table.As if appearing out of nowhere, a mouse suddenly jumped out from there.

Several girls screamed, but that was just the beginning.The mouse was suspended in the air before its front legs stepped off the podium.Voldemort shook his wand, and it was on all fours, screaming.Voldemort swiped his wand again, and the sound died away as if his throat had been choked, leaving behind a half-sharp breath.

At this time, no one in the classroom spoke, and they all stared at the frantically and hopelessly thumping mouse.Three long bloody mouths were suddenly drawn on its body, and the blood spurted out quickly; then the skin and flesh of the wound turned outward, as if it had been roasted yellow by an invisible flame.The smell of blood mixed with the smell of burnt flesh, some people couldn't bear it anymore and vomited it out.

But Voldemort didn't stop the movement of his hands from the beginning, and the expression on his face didn't change.The student who was still struggling to control his disgust now felt that there was an inexplicable chill on that handsome face.

Voldemort swung his wand again, and the dying mouse disappeared as if it had never been there.He scanned the class and saw that no one else, except Harry, dared meet his eyes.

The voice that could not find its source sounded at this moment.

"This time it's the night of the final stage of the Triwizard Tournament. But before you return to your beds, you must announce your relationship."

Harry and Voldemort looked at each other... staring.

The author has something to say: Author's note:

About Horcruxes——

It's relatively long, and those who are interested can watch it.

Someone earlier said that Horcruxes have no effect on the magical power of the main soul.In fact, when Voldemort killed the soul tablet on Harry in the Forbidden Forest, he passed out directly, and woke up almost at the same time as Harry returned from the white mist. ("Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", Chapter 36, a hundred secrets) From this reaction, it can be deduced that Voldemort weakened himself while killing his own soul piece, that is, the Horcrux has a part of him. strength. (If memory serves me right, there is a passage in the movie that shows this - as the diadem burns, Voldemort feels dizzy and immediately indiscriminately kills a nearby person ← He is clearly guilty of fearing that his powers will be compromised influence, and Avada Kedavra requires powerful magic power)

As for his lack of response when the previous horcruxes were eliminated, Harry asked Dumbledore in the original book, and the latter inferred that it was because the time was too long, the distance was too far, and the soul was too broken, so the connection between the horcruxes was weak. . (From Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 23, Horcruxes)

Since Voldemort couldn't even notice that several parts of his own soul died, how could he accurately judge the change of his own magic power? (So ​​in the movie, he judges by the success of the Killing Curse) (JKR is the screenwriter of the movie, all scripts have to be reviewed by her in the end, and she is also the producer of the seventh Up and Down movie, adding this kind of plot should be considered)

One can only assume that if Voldemort knew this was going to happen before he made the Horcruxes, then he found immortality more attractive to him; but it is also possible, without enough previous examples, that he Didn't know there would be results other than immortality.

But no matter what it is, Voldemort should know that this violates the basic principles of magic (Tamper with the deepest mysteries-the source of life, the essence of self-only if prepared for consequence soft the most text reme and dangerous kind. - The first of Adalbert Waffling's Fundamental Law of Magic), but he ignored it directly - he arrogantly believed that he could defeat death, he could defeat that huge and dangerous consequences.Making a horcrux will dehumanize and reduce guilt, which in turn promotes the birth of the next horcrux; so horcrux making is a vicious circle, to the limit of what the soul can split. (from Wikipedia)

There are many more, if you are still interested, you can read the following Wikipedia [Maybe you can guess what happened at the beginning of this article, and the finale scheduled by the author ╮(╯_╰)╭

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As far as I know - and I think Voldemort knew too - no wizard has ever split his soul into more than two pieces. (Dumbledore)

Voldemort seems to have become less and less human over the years, and I think that metamorphosis can only be explained by the damage to his soul beyond what we would call ordinary evil... (Dumbledore)

"Will Voldemort know when a Horcrux is destroyed, sir? Can he feel it?" Harry asked, ignoring the portraits.

"Very interesting question, Harry. I don't think so. Because Voldemort is so guilty now, and these important parts of him have been separated for so long, I believe he doesn't feel as well as we do. Perhaps at the end of his life, he just would feel the loss...like when the diary was destroyed he didn't notice it, and it was later forced out of Lucius Malfoy's mouth. I heard that when Voldemort found out that the diary was destroyed and lost all magic power, once A fit of rage, very scary."

—From Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 23, Horcruxes

"Owner……"

"No problem," said Voldemort's voice.

More footsteps: several people step back from the same spot.Desperate to see what was going on, Harry opened his eyes a tiny slit.

Voldemort seemed to be rising from the ground.Several Death Eaters hurried away from him and joined the crowd around the clearing.Only Bellatrix remained behind, kneeling beside Voldemort.

Harry closed his eyes again, thinking about what he had seen.The Death Eaters had just gathered around Voldemort who seemed to have fallen.Something must have happened when Voldemort hit Harry with the Killing Curse.Did Voldemort faint too?It seems so.Both of them were in a coma for a short time, and now they are both awake...

—From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", Chapter 36, a hundred secrets