"Squeak——"
Even though it is covered with dust, it still looks structurally sound. There is no sign of decay. The door panel is still standing strong here.
No one has been here for a long time. In a sense, this is the so-called place of right and wrong. Even Luke doesn't want to come here more often.
It’s not much to have one more property in your home, but it’s not enough to have this one property in your home. There is no need to put yourself in such a dangerous place.
"This door..." Taylor knocked lightly on the door panel. Hearing the crisp "dongdong" sound, his expression was a little strange. Then he blew the ash on the door panel and choked and coughed. Luke reacted quickly, and a magic shield appeared in front of Taylor.
Taylor didn't care. He took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the remaining dust. Through the crack, he could see the exquisite, beautiful and natural texture of the wood.
"Every part of your house can really surprise me."
Taylor put the dirty handkerchief back into his pocket, shook his head and said with emotion.
"Is this house made of the same wood as your cabin?"
Luke had never noticed this, so he leaned over and took a look. Then he shook his head: "It's different. It's quite different. Although it looks very similar, it obviously doesn't have a natural magic resistance pattern."
"This is a special magical plant. After it grows for a certain period of time, it will have considerable magic resistance. But this tree was obviously cut in a hurry, or the person who cut the tree was inexperienced, and the lines have not yet formed. Just cut it off."
Luke looked a little regretful. Taylor was confused.
It turns out there are such magical plants in the world!
"I never heard."
"Only my family has it. The ancestors of that generation in my family are more possessive. This thing can only grow in that special environment. So he transplanted all the trees in our mountain to create that kind of environment. The original natural The environment was destroyed by him.”
Luke said it easily. But Taylor was speechless for a moment.
"Your ancestors are quite different..."
"I don't dispute that."
Luke nodded in agreement. But he didn't continue to say anything. After all, he was a vested interest. If you don't, don't curse your mother while eating.
"Let's go, don't worry about this door."
Luke looked at Taylor and said seriously: "If you like to go back, I can find something better to give you. Forget it here. Except for a few things, I feel dirty if I touch anything else."
The last three men of the other Gunter team were too useless. They no longer look like nobles, they almost live like Russian serfs. Even normal wizards are too close to forget it.
Taylor rolled her eyes at Luke angrily. In her opinion, Luke was not thrifty at all. After all, he would be so dismissive of something that seemed valuable at first sight.
Of course, Taylor doesn't care about the money this thing can sell. He was more curious about whether this kind of wood could be used in potion preparation.
"Then remember to search for me carefully. Professor Snape asked me to find a new material that can be used as a raw material for potions during the summer vacation."…
Taylor followed Luke's footsteps and gave Luke serious instructions.
Luke raised his eyebrows: "Snape asked you, a student, to discover a new potion ingredient. Merlin's beard. Who is he trying to make trouble for?"
"Of course it doesn't have to be new!" Taylor argued weakly, "The professor said... it can also be lost or extinct."
Luke turned his head and saw Taylor's slightly aggrieved expression. In the end, he just sighed: "He's not testing you, he's testing me..."
Snape made it clear that he wanted Tyler to take something out of Luke's hand that no one else could see. How can he not know if others don't know? During this year, Professor McGonagall's strength has grown further, and her research on transfiguration has also taken a new direction. These are all the result of the notes Luke lent her at that time.
This made some professors feel envious but also began to think about it.
During the last period of his life, Luke lived a very comfortable life in school, even without the indulgences of his professors, intentionally or unintentionally.
Of course, Luke can basically solve most learning problems. After all, this cannot be considered as opening a back door. At most, it can only be regarded as a convenience for outstanding students. These are two completely different concepts.
"Actually, I can do it myself."
Taylor stuck out her tongue to Luke and said, "When I was communicating with Hermione, she mentioned that there are some interesting plants in the Muggle world. Many of them can be used as medicine. Although they cannot be used because they have no magic power. It is used as the main medicine. But it should also be used as an effective auxiliary material."
"I have started experimenting, and currently it seems that it is indeed possible to complete this task."
Luke listened to Taylor's words and nodded with satisfaction. It seemed that Taylor had indeed listened to what he had told him before. It's a good thing to be able to listen.
"You study it first, and when I get home I will find some rare materials and send them to you. Snape is a potion master, so he should have seen all the ordinary things. I have to look for them carefully."
Having said this, Luke looked at Taylor steadily as if he suddenly realized something.
Taylor looked a little strange at him, frowned, and touched his face: "What's wrong?"
"You're so lively today." Luke looked Taylor up and down, "You're wearing much nicer clothes too."
Luke's description was still not accurate enough. After all, Taylor dressed up carefully today. When I didn't dress up before, I was more worried that I would passively become the center of a storm. After all, pretty girls attract a lot of attention wherever they go.
Of course, it also means testing Luke as a person. After all, the worse his first impression of her is, the better he can see this person's reaction when faced with something he doesn't like.
Most people can be gentle and patient when it comes to things they like. But facing something you don't like is another matter entirely.
It's not uncommon to be passionate about something you like. In Taylor's eyes, only those who can still be patient and gentle with things they don't like are worth trusting.
After a year of getting along with each other, Luke has initially passed the test. And... it's okay to have Hermione in school. He didn't know how many beautiful girls he had provoked during this summer vacation. ….
Taylor felt a sense of crisis inexplicably. So I decided to drop those pretense.
That is to say, this guy Luke is too familiar with Taylor. I'm so familiar that I don't pay much attention to Taylor's changes in some small details.
As for the change in personality, it is due to the increase in self-confidence. She had little contact with peers before. I always suspect that I have some shortcomings. But now it seems. Not only are my shortcomings not serious, but I can even be called excellent among my peers. As a result, his submissive appearance began to change.
"What? I want to dress up too." Taylor said angrily to the slow Luke.
Luke, on the other hand, didn't care about Taylor's little temper at all, but touched his chin seriously: "Let's go back to Diagon Alley later. Go buy some clothes and fix your hair."
Luke raised his head and looked at the shy Taylor, and said seriously: "The style of your clothes is retro. Your hairstyle is also quite antique. It's not that it doesn't look good, it just seems a little inappropriate for your age."
Taylor's face turned red upon hearing this. She said she wanted to dress up, but a twelve-year-old girl didn't know how to dress up. It was all helped by her grandma. So it’s normal to have a sense of age, right?
She was a little shy, but Luke didn't take it seriously at all and just moved around the room silently.
Taylor knew that he was avoiding some magical traps that looked scary. But isn’t this home? Even an insecure person like Luke wouldn't have so many traps in his home that look too much!
But at this time, Taylor also realized that the things in the room that Luke mentioned before were probably not that easy to get.
gone
Soon, they finally passed this area.
Luke breathed a long sigh of relief, then shook his head and said: "After I was here last time, I could only watch this place from a distance and write down all the traps. After all, some of them need to be cracked directly. At that time I can’t do it.”
Luke has been practicing this short walk for a long time. Although he could just bring Dumbledore over. But once he didn't want to be Dumbledore, he was now eager to collect Horcruxes. Secondly, Luke didn't know if Dumbledore could stay calm when faced with something like the Resurrection Stone.
Unlike other things, the Resurrection Stone is definitely one of the things Dumbledore longs for.
Although Dumbledore did not use the Resurrection Stone in the book he read in his previous life, or rather he did, but he understood that the Resurrection Stone was just an illusion.
"Is that the ring you want to take?"
Taylor pointed to the ring lying quietly on the table, feeling a little absent-minded for a moment.
Luke looked over. I saw a beam of light coming through the window and shining on the ring. The dust is like an elf in the beam of light, dancing around the black ring. At the top of the ring is a diamond-shaped black gemstone.
The gem looked unremarkable and felt like an ordinary black stone. There is nothing outstanding about it. What really caught Taylor's attention was the ring's body.
The ring body made of gold looks so gorgeous, shining golden light in the sun. If nothing else, who can refuse a ring that shines golden light? ….
Moreover, Taylor seemed to hear the ring calling to her. It's telling itself the secret of magic. It's telling yourself the magic of the spell. It is telling itself the truth about the future.
As long as he can get it, as long as he holds it in his own hands, Taylor can become his savior and let Luke, the son of the prophecy, be his rich young master! Those heavy futures and those heavy ideals are left to her!
The king will take charge! The king will bear it! That's right, as long as she can get your ring, she can become the king of the wizarding world!
...What a fart!
Taylor suddenly woke up, and she was wearing a heavy breath. After coming back to his senses, he suddenly found that he had walked a certain distance. If he took a few steps forward, he would be able to reach the ring.
"Okay, so dangerous..."
Taylor sighed with some panic.
"It's not dangerous. I'm still with you. What's the danger?"
When she came to her senses out of breath, Luke chuckled and said to her.
He looked at Taylor's nervous and flustered expression, and suddenly felt a little amused.
After all, Taylor usually looks like he has pearls of wisdom in his hands. Luke was shocked when they met for the first time, but he was not afraid of the danger of his life when he was duel with Norbert. Although she is a little more lively now, but she can free herself from this temptation, which already shows that Taylor's ability is far beyond the average person.
You know, this is not just some kind of temptation ability. It was the dual temptation of the Horcrux and the Resurrection Stone. Although Taylor doesn't know what these two things are yet. But Luke knew that it would take more than a simple sentence to defend against something like this.
He stepped forward and stretched out his hand to support Taylor, who was a little weak. Strictly speaking, she wasn't weak, just a little scared.
"What is this?"
Taylor leaned against Luke's body and stared at the ring in front of him with lingering concern. Even now that he has woken up, the ring is still whispering in his ear, and it even tends to get worse.
"It? It's just an ordinary gold ring that was made into a Horcrux, with the Resurrection Stone from the Three Holy Artifacts of Death inlaid on the top."
Luke described the two major features of this ring in the tone of describing an 'ordinary leopard print aunt'.
What if it’s a young wizard who doesn’t know much about black magic or ancient legends? Most young wizards have probably never heard of Horcruxes. And there are some Muggle wizards who have never heard of either.
Unfortunately, Taylor not only has an in-depth understanding of black magic, but also has some research on ancient legends. So she understands what kind of evil magic Horcruxes are. We also know what kind of treasure the legendary Resurrection Stone is.
"It's really enlightening to come out with you." Taylor said with a rather complicated mood, "Last time you gave me the Sorcerer's Stone. Now you tell me that I can see the pinnacle results of black magic. At the same time, I met a treasure that only appeared in fairy tales."
"Luke, you're amazing."
Luke shrugged: "This is something that belongs to my family, so I don't think it's magical. You have never seen or even heard of the reason why the Resurrection Stone appears. It's just because it is in our home."….
Taylor felt that Luke was saying something exciting, but it also felt like this guy was just telling the truth.
So the whole person held it back. Don't know what to say.
But she still came back to her senses and asked: "Then what are you going to do? If your ancestors hadn't left things like Horcruxes, then they would certainly not have a good look on you... No, even if they were your ancestors, You can't touch what's left behind. Black magic is very serious in alienating a complete soul, let alone a fragment of the soul in a Horcrux."
"The souls inside, let alone your ancestors, even your direct... relatives cannot be kind to you. You are not allowed to go there either."
Taylor almost couldn't control her mouth. She now felt that she might as well return to her taciturn state. After all, it is not unreasonable to say that more words lead to mistakes.
Luke didn't pay attention to her words. He just patted her hand and said with relief: "An Xin, it's not that scary. I have no intention of causing trouble for myself. And this Horcrux doesn't belong to any of my ancestors."
"This is Voldemort's Horcrux."
As soon as these words came out, Taylor's eyes widened again. She stared into Luke's eyes, disbelief written all over her face.
But Luke looked calm, and Taylor knew that Luke was not lying to him.
Then, Taylor's eyes flashed with fierce meaning.
"As long as this thing is destroyed, then there will be no chance for him to be resurrected, right?"
As Taylor spoke, he took out a small ball from his collar. It seemed that after getting Luke's affirmative answer, he was ready to throw it out.
Luke didn't know what Taylor was going to throw, but being able to be hung in that position basically meant that it was something Taylor used to save his life. Whether such a thing can be used or not, it is best not to use it.
"Calm down, it won't happen, it won't happen."
Luke quickly grabbed Taylor, and he noticed Taylor's trembling body and red eyes.
He knew that many people had a sworn grudge against Voldemort. Relatives, friends, parents, children, there are too many wizards who died directly or indirectly at the hands of Voldemort and his Death Eaters. The turmoil initiated by Voldemort greatly weakened the power of the British wizarding community in a real sense. If Dumbledore hadn't been alive, the British wizarding world would have been ridden over the wizarding world of other countries.
The weak still want rights? Isn't that just charity from the strong?
But it was also the first time that he saw the people around him being so angry that they even wanted to risk their lives. If Luke said that this thing in front of him only needs to be destroyed, then Voldemort would immediately burp completely. But the destruction of this thing would come at the cost of Taylor's life.
Then Taylor might make a decision in the blink of an eye.
Tom Noseless Riddle, you are really doing a lot of harm to people.
"It's no use. That bastard Tom should have more than one Horcrux."
Luke couldn't care less about aristocratic elegance at this time. Although the movements are still gentle and gentlemanly. But the words that came out of his mouth still had a rude and presumptuous meaning.
Taylor's brows furrowed for a moment, and then he quickly regained his composure. ….
Watching Tyler recover, Luke breathed a sigh of relief and then let go of the restraints on Tyler's emotions.
"There's not even one mysterious person.
A Horcrux? "
Taylor asked with a complicated expression. She knew very well that every Horcrux represented the loss of an innocent life. Each Horcrux symbolizes the darkest side of the wizarding world.
"More than one." Luke said calmly, "As far as I know, I don't know that there is one. But since there are multiples, then according to what that guy Tom thinks, he will definitely not randomly pick a number. I guess it may be... …”
"Seven..."
Taylor said with blurred eyes: "Seven is the most magical number. But he failed. His mistake led to another tragedy. The magic number was destroyed, and his perfection was broken. Death is coming. .”
The corners of Luke's mouth twitched.
"Daydream?"
Luke asked tentatively, and Taylor suddenly came to his senses and realized something was wrong with him. She recalled what she had just done, then shook her head and said, "I don't know, maybe I was too stimulated today, so even my ability to predict is too active."
"Let's not talk about this first. How are you going to deal with this thing? If the magic stone is made into a Horcrux..."
"You look down too much on Tom." Luke said as he reached for his belt, "The level of existence of things like the Philosopher's Stone itself is higher than that of Horcruxes. According to legend, it is a creation of the God of Death. In fact, No one knows, but their power cannot be ignored. It is not something that Voldemort can contaminate. Even...I doubt he knows that the things above are resurrection stones..."
"However, before that, there is one last thing to do."
Taylor originally thought that what Luke pulled out would be some kind of weapon that could destroy the ring. But she didn't expect that what Luke escaped would be a knife.
The knife was completely black, and just looking at it from a distance would make people feel deeply uneasy. What surges above is dark magic.
"This is……"
Before Taylor finished speaking, Luke had already gently held the blade in his hand and slid it.
The sharp blade cut Luke's hand instantly. Blood seeped out from the wound.
"There is one last protective magic around this ring." Luke explained to Taylor while clenching his hand: "I searched around and finally figured out what this magic represents and how to contact it."
As long as it is a magic trap, there will be traces of it. Thanks to an ancestor in the family who was extremely skilled in magic traps, Luke could easily identify most of the magic traps in the house.
The only exception is this one.
To be honest, it was Dumbledore's tragic situation that year that reminded Luke. As seen in his previous life, Dumbledore suffered a serious blow here, and his entire body had entered a countdown to death. This made Luke cautious when he first came.
Take all possible precautions. Although other magic traps are terrifying, according to Luke's knowledge, they should not be enough to cause Dumbledore to be so seriously injured. So Luke conducted a lot of exploration into the seemingly unremarkable area in front of him. ….
It was finally determined that the last and most powerful magic trap was engraved on the table.
This trap allows the vicious black magic energy to invade the human body.
But Luke didn't find a solution at the time.
Finally, after nearly half a year of futile efforts, he suddenly understood that trying to lift this magic trap was most likely a dream. Because Dumbledore must have tried it, and he knew the result of Dumbledore.
Dumbledore failed every time he came into contact with this magical trap. Although it is not known whether the attack on him was the backlash after the failure to remove it, or the backlash he received during the forced cracking. But it is basically certain that it is impossible to escape this trap through normal contact channels.
Then we have to start thinking about the arrangement of this magic.
Finally, Luke found an interesting-looking magic protective array from a book called "Advanced Protective Magic". That's for immediate family members
The magic that protects one's loved ones uses blood as its basis. Only people of the same bloodline can enter and exit the protective range.
The application conditions for this thing are actually quite harsh. After all, you can only use it if your opponent has no blood relationship with you, and you have no direct relatives who can be controlled by confrontation.
That's why these fancy spells are rarely used by people.
A single Loyalty Charm can handle most problems very well.
But what really makes Luke feel interesting is the variation of this thing. It is a protective magic with blood as the key. However, this magic is extremely strong and can fight back independently. The only disadvantage is that the protection range is fixed...
If it was defending an area the size of a house, it would be impossible for three or five adult wizards to break through.
If its defense range is that of Hogwarts, then a mouse can easily break through this defense.
But...if its defense range is only the size of a ring...then it will be difficult for Dumbledore to break through it.
And the most interesting thing is that the defensive spell can be modified. For example, blood is still the key, but the power of counterattack becomes black magic...
So, Luke completed this magic trap in the outer layer of the Room of Requirement without anyone knowing.
He finally knew the solution to this magic trap.
"Tom, you didn't expect that." Luke looked at the ring and the inconspicuous traces of magic around it, and slowly let go of his hand, "You thought you had no relatives, so your baby was treated like this Magical protection makes it absolutely safe. If anyone wants to touch it, they will have to pay the price with their lives."
"But, but... there is one more variable like me."
A drop of blood with a black halo fell on the table. A huge wave of magic power erupted, pushing away everything around him. Luke, who was well prepared, opened a magic barrier, wrapping himself and Taylor inside.
While Taylor looked around cautiously, he silently walked behind Luke and stood back-to-back with Luke.
"I thought I heard something screaming."
Taylor said to Luke a little warily.
Luke had a smile on his face. He took out another small bottle from his pocket and said with a smile: "Because some people already know what their ending will be!"
Luke unscrewed the small bottle, and a sweet fragrance came out, making Taylor feel a little weak in his limbs.
"No, no, no! Let me go! We are blood relatives! I can give you all my knowledge and treasures. I can even make you achieve eternal life!"
A shrill howl filled Luke's ears. That was the plea from Voldemort's soul in Luke's mind.
He was asking for a way out.
"What a pity. I don't like your bastard grandson."
Luke smiled and poured the contents of the small bottle down.
"No!!!!"
This time, even Taylor heard the shrill wail. Gold is melted in a light purple liquid. A black liquid spurted out of the ring for no apparent reason.
That is the last trace of the decayed soul after death.
This represents the death of a dark soul. .
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