Master Druid at Hogwarts

Chapter 752
Dumbledore had been busy since Lupine had brought back news of Greyback, and so had the rest of the Order.

After Tonks notified Kingsley, the Aurors did find some traces of Greyback, who had appeared near London and kidnapped a Muggle.

But the Aurors never found the Muggle, or his body, and he seemed to have vanished with Greyback.

A few days later, Greyback returned to the werewolf settlement alone, and as if nothing had happened, he returned to his previous routine—spreading his theory that werewolves ruled the world in the gathering place.

As for the unlucky Muggle, members of the Order of the Phoenix speculated that he was probably killed by Greyback, but no one knew why Greyback wanted to abduct him.

In addition, Greyback will take several of his subordinates to leave the werewolf settlement on the night of the full moon, hoping to increase the number of werewolves.

Fortunately, at this time, Lupine would warn the Order of the Phoenix, which made Greyback's several attacks all end in failure.

If that was the case, it wouldn't involve too much energy from the Order of the Phoenix. After all, werewolves were far away from the crowd, and it would take a lot of time just to go back and forth, enough for the Order of the Phoenix to react.

But apart from the werewolves, during this period of time there were still many Death Eaters who started their activities one after another. They carefully hid their tracks and scattered all over the place. This made the Order of the Phoenix have to spend a lot of energy to find out what they did. what.

However, the number of the Order of the Phoenix is ​​far less than that of the Death Eaters. In addition, most of them usually have their own jobs, and they cannot have a lot of free time like those pure-blooded nobles, or dark creatures such as werewolves. It can be said that it is operating at overload.

And Dumbledore also had to spend time and energy while searching for the Horcrux, looking for really useful content from these clues that seemed to be used to deceive people.

Then after some inspections, he suddenly discovered that Greyback, whom he thought to be a smoke bomb, seemed to be connected with the whereabouts of the last Horcrux.

Dumbledore wasn't sure whether Voldemort deliberately used this true or false method to hide his purpose, or that he was just trying to set a trap for himself, but anyway, since there were clues about the Horcrux, Then he must be impossible to give up.

So he followed Greyback and other collected clues, and traced all the way to a place that could barely be called a village, which was very close to London and near the sea.

This village composed entirely of Muggles was built on the half-waist of the cliff, and few people usually come here, but according to the clues Dumbledore found, Greyback had appeared nearby.

In addition, Dumbledore is no stranger to this place, because he once followed the memory of Mrs. Cole, the director of Wu's Orphanage who adopted Voldemort, and came here - these are the places where the orphanage organized outings. one.

Unexpectedly, the Wu's Orphanage has been demolished, but this little village still exists.

Dumbledore did not enter the village, but avoided the people in the village and came to the edge of a steep cliff.

He looked down the cliff against the howling sea wind, his white hair and long beard swayed wildly, so he had to gather them up with his hands and hold them firmly.

When Voldemort was young, he once took two orphans named Dennis Bishop and Amy Benson into a cave, and frightened them severely inside, and what Dumbledore is looking for now is that cave.

Fortunately, Dennis Bishop was still alive at this time, which allowed Dumbledore to obtain the specific location of the cave from him.

It's just that Dumbledore's observation was hindered by the wild beard and hair and the turbulent waves below. It took him a long time to find the place in Dennis Bishop's memory.

Dumbledore, who had found the right location, activated Apparition, and came to a tall black rock out of the sea. The waves rolled and foamed under his feet.The surroundings are bare and desolate, except for the vast sea and rocks, there is no tree, no grass and sand.

The erosion of time and waves has made the environment around the rock slightly different from the scene in memory, but the general path to that cave can still be recognized.

After confirming the direction, Dumbledore crawled down along the jagged crevices on the edge of the rock.

After some difficult climbing, Dumbledore reached the bottom of the cliff. In an inconspicuous position, there was a hidden crack hidden in the shadow of the stone and the churning sea water. For reference, Dumbledore would not have noticed the existence of this rift at all.

Dumbledore first illuminated his wand with the Illuminating Charm, then put it in his mouth, and then slid gently into the water, swimming towards the dark chasm.

As he continued to swim in, the crack gradually turned into a dark tunnel, with only three feet between the rock walls covered with slime and barnacles. Under the light of Dumbledore's wand, Glittering wet like tar.

At the end of the waterway, there was an obvious step, which had never appeared in Dennis' memory. Dumbledore looked in the direction of the step, and it really led to the cave in his memory.

Dumbledore ascended the steps, secretly relieved in his heart.

There are obvious marks on this step that have been scoured by the sea for a long time, which at least shows that this is not a temporary trap prepared by Voldemort, at least it is also one of the secret places he has used.

But this does not mean that this is not a trap. After all, Voldemort has always regarded werewolves as a useful tool. It is hard for Dumbledore to believe that he would expose his Horcrux to Greyback.

Even if Voldemort really told Greyback about his horcruxes, it would not be a good thing, because Voldemort already knew that several of his horcruxes had been destroyed, but he still didn't care much about them, which shows that he is already working on them. Getting ready to make a new Horcrux...maybe even already made one.

No matter what the situation is, Dumbledore still needs to confirm the situation inside.He waved his magic wand with a heavy heart to dry and warm his body, and then he walked to the center of the cave, raised his wand high, and slowly circled on the spot, carefully inspecting the rock wall and the cave top.

The magic mechanism here is not the same type as that of Gaunt's old house, and it is not offensive, but hides the real entrance.

Dumbledore approached the cave wall, stroked it with his fingertips, and whispered some strange words in his mouth.He walked twice around the cave from the right, touching the rough walls as best he could, pausing occasionally to run his fingers up and down in certain places.Finally, he finally stopped and pressed his palms flat on the cave wall.

Dumbledore stepped back from the cave wall, pointing his wand at the rock.Suddenly, the outline of an arch appeared there, emitting a dazzling white light, as if there was a strong light shining behind the crack.

But as the light dissipated, the outline also disappeared, and the rock was still as hard and thick as before, with nothing on it.

"Too low-level." Dumbledore said, with contempt and even disappointment in his words.

Obviously, Voldemort's institutions here failed to meet the standards expected by Dumbledore.

He took out a short silver knife that was usually used to cut potion ingredients from his robe, and cut his arm without hesitation.

As Dumbledore's blood spilled, the outline of the dazzling white arch reappeared on the cave wall again, and this time it did not disappear.The blood-stained rock within the arch disappeared suddenly, revealing a doorway that contained what seemed to be endless darkness.

Inside the cave is a large black lake, which is extremely wide and endless.In the center of the lake, a dim, green light shone.

Dumbledore walked silently around the shore of the lake for an unknown amount of time. He stopped suddenly, and then stretched out his hand to paddle slowly in the air, as if he wanted to find and grab something invisible. .

After a few seconds, Dumbledore's face showed a look of joy, and then he closed his hands and grabbed something invisible in the air.At the same moment, his other hand raised his wand, and tapped his fist with the tip.

Immediately, a thick green copper chain suddenly emerged from the depths of the lake and rushed towards Dumbledore's clenched fist.Dumbledore tapped the chain with his wand, and the chain began to slip through his fist like a snake, coiling up in a heap on the ground, and the tinkling sound echoed loudly as it hit the rock wall.

After a while, the chain pulled a small boat up from the bottom of the lake. The boat glowed green like a chain and looked very ominous.

But Dumbledore boarded without hesitation, and the boat immediately started to drive automatically, sending Dumbledore to the green light in the middle of the lake.

After more than ten minutes, the boat lightly bumped into a smooth rocky island in the middle of the lake and stopped.

The island was about the size of Dumbledore's office: a large flat black stone slab, empty except for the light source that emitted the green light from a stone basin resembling a Pensieve, a stone basin There is a base underneath.

Dumbledore approached the stone basin and looked into it.The stone basin was filled with a basin of emerald green liquid that shone with phosphorescent light.

Dumbledore stretched out his hand, wanting to touch the liquid in the basin, but found that he couldn't do it, and then he tried various methods, but found that he couldn't empty the liquid in the basin.

Only when he used the cup to scoop the liquid from the basin could be filled into the cup, but when Dumbledore poured the liquid from the cup aside, they reappeared in the stone basin.

"I think... I probably know what happened to that poor Muggle..." Dumbledore put away his glass, looked at the dark lake around him, and murmured, "But... Voldemort really will take such an important Do you want to leave the matter to a werewolf?"

Dumbledore stared at the lake and pondered for a long time, and finally nodded heavily as if he had made up his mind.

He regained his senses, took a deep look at the green liquid in the stone basin, then boarded the boat again, and carefully left the cave along the original path.

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