Master Druid at Hogwarts

Chapter 688 Gaunt's Old House
It was a stone house with moss on the walls, the tiles on the roof were gone, and the branches of the nearby trees came from the roof and the small windows that were thick with old grime. Stretched in.

There were dense nettles growing around the house, and the tall nettles reached all the way to the window, and covered most of the door. Dumbledore could only vaguely see the outline of a door.

Dumbledore didn't rush forward to enter the house, but flicked the wand in his hand, turning a stone on the ground into a puppet, and let it push away the nettles, revealing the door.

However, as soon as the puppet approached the door, a ball of flames sprang up on the ground in front of the door. In the blink of an eye, the stone puppet was burned into a pile of white ashes, and the nettles at the door were also burned. clean.

But the crumbling wooden door was still intact, and Dumbledore could even clearly see the knife marks of different shades on the door...

Having read Ogden's memory, he knew that it was left behind when Morfin Gunter nailed the snake to the door for fun.

Dumbledore walked up to the trap triggered by the puppet just now, knelt down to identify it carefully, then raised his wand, and shot rays of light of different colors at the ground.

However, the moment he successfully disarmed the magic trap at the door, poisonous snakes suddenly emerged from the ground next to him and bit Dumbledore.

Dumbledore's body flashed, and with an ear-piercing crackling sound, the apparition was five meters away, and the poisonous snakes quickly disappeared into streaks of black smoke after missing a single blow.

"Careless." Dumbledore glanced at the corner of his clothes and sighed softly.

Although he evaded in time just now, a snake still touched the corner of his clothes, and the place touched by the snake seemed to be corroded by something, and an arc-shaped gap appeared.

Dumbledore regained his energy, and walked towards Gaunt's old house again with a more cautious attitude than before.

The protective magic that Voldemort set up in Gaunt's old house is very clever, both hidden and dangerous.But under Dumbledore's careful handling, those magic traps were cracked one by one.

After an hour or so, Dumbledore finally pushed open the broken wooden door, and the wooden door was already overwhelmed, and when it was pushed open by Dumbledore, it fell completely and smashed into the ground. Piles of broken wood.

Dumbledore stood at the door, carefully looking inside...

The furnishings inside the house are very simple. The furniture inside has decayed to varying degrees due to time, and because no one has lived in it for a long time, there is a thick layer of dust on it.

Weeds were overgrown on the ground, and mushrooms even grew in some places, while some high corners and between the branches protruding from outside were covered with white spider webs.

Dumbledore conjured another puppet and let it wander around the room without triggering any traps.It appeared that Voldemort had only set up defenses outside the house.

But Dumbledore did not let down his vigilance. Holding his wand, he carefully searched the old house of Gaunt.

Because the house was not big, and Voldemort probably had confidence in his arrangement outside, Dumbledore quickly found the ring in Ogden's memory in a drawer in the back room.

Dumbledore picked up the ring and stared at it blankly, showing signs of struggle.

The black gemstone inlaid on the ring was engraved with a pattern composed of triangles, circles and vertical lines. It was the crest of the Peverell family, but Dumbledore knew better that it was the symbol of the Deathly Hallows. It was also the sign he chose when he was young and when Greenwald wanted to show off his ambitions.

Through this sign and the information he had discovered with Grinwald, Dumbledore had already guessed the true face of this black gem when he was watching Ogden's memory——among the Three Hallows, he most hoped Get the resurrection stone.

Dumbledore gently stroked the pattern representing the Deathly Hallows on the black gemstone with his fingers, and the expression on his face kept changing.

In the end, he still couldn't resist the desire to see his parents and sister again, so he put the ring on the index finger of his right hand.

Just when Dumbledore was about to activate the ability of the Resurrection Stone, a terrifying energy burst out from the ring, and his right hand dried up quickly as if it had been drained of blood, and this situation still persists. Spread rapidly from his right hand to his arm.

"Well……"

Dumbledore snorted and fell to his knees on the ground.

Then he resisted the pain on his arm, quickly took off the ring on his finger, threw it far away in the corner of the room, and picked up the wand that had just fallen aside, pointing at the wand that was still drying up and gradually becoming weaker. With his scorched right hand, he muttered words.

As Dumbledore's spell took effect, his right hand gradually stopped deteriorating, and the dry and scorched condition also stopped near the right shoulder, but Dumbledore's heart was not happy at all.

Although the situation is no longer getting worse now, he has already noticed that there is a very vicious curse hidden in the ring, and he just suppressed it temporarily. This curse is still consuming his magic power continuously. When it continues, the curse will erupt again, and at that time, he can no longer stop it from spreading.

"Greed is indeed one of the original sins..." Dumbledore looked at his right arm, which looked like a charred corpse, and shook his head with a wry smile.

In fact, death was not such a terrible thing for him, but now that Voldemort was resurrected, Harry hadn't grown up yet, and Fish...was unreliable, and he still needed to contribute his strength to deal with Voldemort.

By the way, Fish!
Dumbledore, who was still distressed, suddenly reacted after thinking of cats...

Just because I can't do anything with this spell, doesn't mean that Fish has no way!
You know, Fish's spell called tranquility even saved the Longbottoms who had lived in the hospital for more than ten years.

Dumbledore regained his energy, then raised his wand with his left hand, and cast the Fiercefire Curse on the Resurrection Stone ring that he had just thrown into the corner.

Violent flames shot out from the tip of Dumbledore's staff, forming a phoenix the size of a palm, which looked like Fawkes who had been shrunk down by Fisch's animal reduction technique.

Under Dumbledore's control, the fiery phoenix flew to the corner where the ring was, and then pecked at the resurrection stone inlaid on the ring.

"Crack!"

Accompanied by a crisp cracking sound, spider web-like cracks appeared on the resurrection stone, and the ring that wrapped it was also melted into a puddle of liquid due to the high temperature emitted by Fiendfire.

At the same time, a streak of black gas escaped from the crack, and was swallowed by the Fierce Phoenix still flying above.

Dumbledore dispersed the palm-sized Fierce Phoenix, stared blankly at the cracked Resurrection Stone in the corner for a while, and then stepped forward to pick it up.

This time, he no longer had any thoughts about the resurrection stone in his heart, he put it directly into his pocket, and then restored Gaunt's old house to the way it was before he came... He even restored those traps. Arranged again.

After all this was done, Dumbledore activated Apparition, and disappeared with a piercing crack.

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　In the original book, Dumbledore split the Resurrection Stone with Gryffindor's sword, but my Gryffindor's sword did not absorb the basilisk's venom, so it does not have the ability to destroy Horcruxes.

　　
　
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