Hogwarts: Harley from the Witch Path

Chapter 238 Read More, Sirius!It's good for you!
After a long period of time, Sirius finally recovered from the long trance, the expression on his face was still very painful.

And Sirius kept repeating that sentence: "Regulus... why are you so stupid?"

At the same time, the way he looked at Kreacher was not right anymore, and he became murderous.

Apparently, Sirius attributed Regulus' immediate cause of death to Kreacher.

If Professor Lupine hadn't reacted quickly enough to grab Sirius, Sirius' Cruciatus Curse would have hit Kreacher.

"Are you crazy, Sirius!" Professor Lupine yelled, pushing Sirius down on the chair.

"I'm not crazy, let me go!" Sirius responded unceremoniously,
"This dirty and lowly house-elf didn't bring Regulus back, and let him be dragged into the water by the Infernal Corpse!"

"It's clear that Regulus can be saved! It can bring Regulus back and make Regulus alive!"

"It is the most direct murderer of Regulus! I want to kill it, torture it with my own hands, and then kill it! Kill this beast!"

At some point, the velvet curtain was pulled back, but the portrait of Mrs. Black inside did not say a word, just quietly listening to the conversation in the living room.

Another figure also appeared on the edge of the portrait, which was the old principal Phineas.

Apparently there are still portraits of Blake in the old house, allowing him to walk between them.

Now he is also quietly listening to the conversation in the living room, not knowing what he is thinking.

After hearing Sirius' words, the last tense nerve in Kreacher's mind collapsed directly.

It knelt down again, howled, and pulled out a hammer from nowhere, as if it wanted to smash its own hand with the hammer.

At the same time, it was crying and wailing as if possessed by a demon:

"...So it was old Kreacher's problem... It was old Kreacher who killed Master Regulus..."

"Old Kreacher is guilty! Why didn't old Kreacher think of bringing Master Regulus back with him?"

As a last resort, Harry restrained Kreacher and Sirius with spider silk again, and waited until they both calmed down before releasing the restraint.

"I think we should contact Professor Dumbledore," Professor Lupine saw that the situation was under control, and suggested,

"This matter involves Voldemort, so we can't be careless. It is necessary to inform Professor Dumbledore."

"Then you may have to wait a week." In Mrs. Black's portrait, Phineas suddenly said,
"Dumbledore is not at Hogwarts now, but in Azkaban."

"Didn't Sirius alert the Ministry of Magic last time, telling them there was a loophole in the magic surrounding Askaban?"

"So the Ministry of Magic found a way to contact Nicole Flamel through Dumbledore, and asked the two to help maintain the magical defenses around Azkaban."

"And Professor Dumbledore himself is going to Azkaban to find some key information."

Having said that, Phineas nodded at Harry,

"He went for the descendants of Slytherin, and his goal was related to the locket in the hands of the Potter girl."

"He told the old principals in the office that he was going to be there for at least a week."

"And this locket has been in Black's house for a long time, so there shouldn't be any major problems in a short time, so he shouldn't be in a hurry to come back."

"By the way, if I'm not mistaken, the locket floating beside you is probably the legendary Slytherin locket."

"That brat Voldemort really deserves to be torn to pieces for turning such a precious treasure into a dark magic item!"

As he said that, Phineas cursed angrily, and waved the wand in his hand.

Sirius and Professor Lupine were taken aback, and looked at Harry.

"Is this actually Slytherin's locket?"

"Harry, what dark magic item is this locket made of?"

"My stupid great-grandson, do you need me to tell you such a simple question?" Before Harry could reply, Phineas preemptively said,

"Can't you recognize the snake-shaped S? Can't you recognize the pattern around the locket? Isn't that the symbol of Slytherin?"

"The family coat of arms of the Selwyn family, which still has descendants, is the black wolf, while the family coats of the Cytos family and the Seneck family, whose surnames have been lost, do not include the element of a snake."

Phineas let out a sigh,
"Did you become a black dog for so many years, and your brain became stupid? You have forgotten such basic knowledge."

Sirius rolled his eyes: "Old man, it's not that you don't know, I always hate memorizing these things, and I hate the theory of pure-blood families."

Sirius' tone was quite polite, after all, although Phineas had already passed away, the portrait left behind had a very bad mouth, and he was not polite to anyone.

But Sirius knew that Phineas had a knife mouth and a bean curd heart, and he could be said to be the best to him among all living and dead elders.

(Here refers to the portrait. After all, the enchanted portrait inherits the personality and thinking mode of the painted person. I don’t know how to express this situation. Although this sentence feels awkward, but...)
However, Phineas was still bearded and stared at by Sirius' words.

"Harry, what is that dark magic item made from Slytherin's locket?"

Hermione couldn't hold back her curiosity, and once again asked Professor Lupine's unanswered question.

"It's a Horcrux." Harry replied calmly, "A low-level black magic used to save lives."

"The principle is to destabilize one's soul by killing people maliciously, and then cooperate with the spell to split one's soul."

"The next step is to use a spell to hide this piece of soul fragment in a certain item."

"In this way, as long as this item is not destroyed, even if the wizard who uses this magic is hit by the death curse, he will not die, and he will have a chance to recover his body."

"After all, there is still a part of his soul that has not been damaged in the world, anchoring it in the real world."

Later, Harry told some of the truth about what happened in the second grade, including the diary Horcrux that was finally handed over to Dumbledore.

After Harry finished explaining, the other three opened their mouths in surprise, unable to believe that such evil magic existed in the world.

Although Hermione knew more of the truth than Professor Lupine and Sirius, she only knew that Senior Riddle was a memory of Voldemort, not that it was a Horcrux.

"So Voldemort uses this kind of magic to stay immortal?" Hermione asked softly again after a while.

Seeing Harry nodded, Hermione frowned.

"If Voldemort made a few Horcruxes and put them on the top of Mount Everest, in the deepest part of the Mariana Trench,"

"Or he simply threw the Horcrux onto the rocket and sent it to outer space, wouldn't he die then?"

"Do you think he knows so much knowledge?" Harry rolled his eyes,

"Not to mention anything else, you can ask Sirius and Professor Lupine now, do they know the places you mentioned?"

"Not to mention Voldemort, who is so devoted to the dark arts, he must have dismissed this kind of Muggle knowledge."

Hermione turned her head away, met two pairs of bewildered eyes, then turned her head silently and nodded.

Hermione suddenly realized that she still overestimated the common sense of wizards.

"Don't worry about Voldemort's Horcrux, Professor Dumbledore should be able to solve it." Harry said softly, and added silently in his heart,
Even if he really has a way to resurrect, I can make him live once and die once.

"So this locket... what to do with Voldemort's Horcrux?" Sirius glanced at the Horcrux in midair.

"Who knows?" Harry spread his hands and leaned on the chair,

"The most I can do is seal the diary and hand it over to Professor Dumbledore later."

"Dumbledore conducted research on that diary, and excavated a lot of memories of the soul fragment inside,"

Phineas in the portrait is trying to remember,

"Then he started to try some magic to see if it really couldn't cause damage to Horcruxes based on the records in some ancient books."

"But as it is written in the book, not even the Killing Curse could destroy the Horcruxes, and only Fiendfire succeeded in the end."

Seeing the surprised expressions of Sirius and Professor Lupine, Phineas raised his eyebrows and added:

"Don't think too much, different magic has different solutions, no magic is omnipotent."

"Although the Horcrux has the characteristics of a living creature, it is not surprising that the Killing Curse cannot destroy it."

After listening to Phineas' explanation, Sirius and Professor Lupine looked at each other, both showing wry smiles.

The two of them had used the Unforgivable Curse a few times, and of course, the targets were the heinous werewolves or the extremely murderous Death Eaters during the Wizarding Wars.

But the magic of Fierce Fire Curse touched the blind spot of their knowledge.

Although the Fiercefire Curse was not included in the Unforgivable Week because of the counter-curse.

But for some special reasons, the level of secrecy of this spell is higher than that of the Unforgivable Curse.

Seeing that the two adult wizards were at a loss, Harry offered to propose:
"Let me seal this Horcrux first. When Professor Dumbledore comes back, he will handle it."

Saying so, Harry picked up the locket.

The locket also seemed to sense the imminent danger, and began to struggle frantically, but to no avail.

Layers of cold air rose from Harry's hand, and the locket was wrapped in layers of ice, and finally turned into an ice ball.

The green light, which was so shallow that it was almost invisible, sank into the ice puck along Harry's palm, forming the strongest line of defense in fact.

"That's how it is. After all, we can't do anything with Horcruxes." Professor Lupine nodded, and Sirius and Hermione also had no objections.

Seeing that the Horcrux in front of him was temporarily sealed, Phineas said again:
"Sirius, don't forget to bring back Regulus' body if you can."

"His body is probably still in that cave, turned into an infernal corpse. If possible, try to let every member of the Black family go home."

Kreacher, who had been blaming himself all the time, instantly raised his head and looked at the wizards present with hopeful eyes.

But Sirius ignored him, but looked at Phineas in confusion:

"It's been so long since Regulus' body, isn't it already rotten?"

Looking at the bewildered expression on Sirius' face, and after listening to his stupid question, Phineas couldn't help covering his face:
"How could I have such a stupid, ignorant great-grandson!"

"Don't you know? People who are killed by Yin corpses have a chance to directly turn into Yin corpses."

"Even if it cannot be transformed directly, it will be infected by the unique magic power of the Yin Corpse, making it easier to make it into a Yin Corpse."

"Although according to Kreacher's description, the mysterious man doesn't often return to that place, but a lot of magic is cast there."

"In this case, I can think of several ways to make all the intruders who died there become my guards."

Seeing Sirius' thoughtful expression, Phineas stabbed him in the heart without hesitation:

"Read more, my stupid great-grandson! It won't do your stupid brain any harm!"

The expression on Sirius' face instantly collapsed, looking extremely embarrassed.

Mrs. Black on the wall laughed outright, and Phineas himself gave a nasty smile.

Professor Lupine coughed twice, and helped Sirius change the subject:
"So shall we go to that cave now and help Sirius bring back Regulus' body?"

When he said this, Professor Lupine looked at Harry seriously.

Apparently, he was deeply aware that if he and Sirius joined forces, he might not be able to defeat Harry alone.

Harry nodded: "Of course, the godfather's business is my business, and I am duty-bound."

After hearing this, Kreacher, who was still lying on the side, gave Harry a grateful look.

After hearing what Phineas said, Kreacher also remembered that the Potter family is a famous pure blood.

Although other members of the Black family questioned the Potter family's position on Muggles, they did not question the purity of the Potter family.

And Harry was willing to help it bring back Regulus' body, although it wasn't because of its request, but it still made it feel grateful.

"Why don't you wait for Professor Dumbledore to come back, there is magic arranged by Voldemort himself." Hermione whispered.

Although she didn't have much say here, Hermione didn't want Harry to take the risk either.

"It's okay, according to Kreacher's description, it's not dangerous there." Harry rubbed Hermione's hair,
"And Kreacher is going with us too, it can bring us back."

"Yes," Kreacher looked at the crowd pleadingly, "Please make sure that old Kreacher is with you."

"For the remains of Master Regulus, old Kreacher is willing to risk his life."

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(Thanks to "Nine-tailed Flaming Fox", "Only Eat Tomatoes", and "Boundless Wuji" for their rewards!)
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