Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 455

"Severus!"

Dumbledore yelled as he motioned for Snape to do something.

He himself was trying his best to control the green mist from spreading, and at the same time drive the aura that inspired Voldemort's residual magic power... that [(Horcrux) Notebook] to find another Horcrux here.

[Notebook] There is a black smoke entangled now... The smoke seems to be alive, and it is constantly moving in a certain direction... Gathering, and finally turned into a long rope... Pulling the [Horcrux (Notebook)] to levitate, moving toward the top of a certain bronze cabinet.

Dumbledore followed the direction and soon spotted the gleaming Hufflepuff cup.

"It's here!"

He immediately realized that this was another Horcrux.

"The golden cup is flying!"

"Oh, right, I can't use the [Flying Curse]..."

Dumbledore laughed self-deprecatingly, and then he waved his wand again, and the skin of the armor and the skeleton guard in the bronze cabinet with horns that had been erected in the corner of the cave melted and became smooth and shiny, and then——

come alive

They bowed slightly to Dumbledore, walked to the cabinet step by step, and stretched out their hands (originally they couldn't reach the top of the huge bronze cabinet, but under the control of Dumbledore's spell, their arms and arms stretched slowly, as if they could stretch and stretch rubber... trying to grab the golden cup.)
But for some reason, the golden cup fell from it without anyone touching it.

"Oh, as expected!"

After Dumbledore froze the green mist again, he freed his hand and waved his wand again,
A pair of ribs guarded by the horned skeleton suddenly folded backwards, stretching out from the back of the spine... turning into two skeleton arms,

The extra skeleton hand grabbed hold of the falling Hufflepuff's golden cup in mid-air.

The golden cup trembled, as if it had been ignited, it kept trembling, crackling, all kinds of identical replicas emerged in the air, and fell to the ground... stuck between the skeleton guard's ribs, piling up... burning heat waves... almost drowning the skeleton guard.

"What's going on?"

Snape's doubtful voice came from the side, and Dumbledore turned his head to look, and saw him waving his wand to float the blistered and screaming goblins in the air, walking towards this side.

And behind him is a McGuffin with eyes spewing out rage, a face full of blisters, and burn scars all over his skin (at this time, Professor Flitwick's disguise on MacGuffin has been destroyed and disappeared.)
The little wizard stared at Dumbledore viciously, floating in the air, not even healing his injuries, obviously very angry.

"Wait... Let's deal with these troubles first!" Dumbledore raised his wand, controlled the armor and the horned skeleton guard and walked over step by step,...the gold cup was spilled on the ground, and the lower body of the skeleton was covered with gold cups.

After everyone, including the skeleton guard, approached Dumbledore, the old bee stuck his wand into the ground, the ground under their feet rumbled, and a stone pillar continued to grow abruptly, heading towards the ceiling of the cave.

Dumbledore commanded the armor and skeleton guards to kick down all the gold coins and treasures that were pouring over and emitting heat waves.

"Albus, what is this?" Snape also noticed the weirdness of this golden cup, obviously no one touched it, this thing was trembling all the time, copying its own sample, as if trying to get away with it.

And the other treasures and gold coins can no longer be copied after ten to twenty times.

But this thing...continues continuously, until now it is still spilling copies of itself.

Although he also realized that this should be one of the Dark Lord's [Horcruxes], but the original notebook did not have this ability.

This thing, it seems... as if it came alive, had its own independent consciousness, and began to control the magic attached to the golden cup.

Dumbledore made a gesture to talk later, and then stabbed a handful of the basilisk's fangs on the cup of the golden cup.

A terrible, long-lasting, ear-piercing scream came from the golden cup, and the thing was struggling and shaking, sending out waves of heat that made it feel like being in a furnace, and then...

Everything fell silent suddenly.

The heat wave emanating from it disappeared in an instant.

The skeleton guard's body... the one that just fell on the stone pillar, as well as the gold cup in the sea of ​​gold coins under the stone pillar, all disappeared in one fell swoop.

For a moment, there was only the goblin's hissing and fussing screams... and the sound of the golden cup being pierced by the basilisk's venom, burning a black charred hole, and black smoke hissing out from inside.

Dumbledore took his wand, pointed at the gold cup, touched it up and down, studied it, and finally announced, "Okay, it should be all right."

Afterwards, he lightly waved his wand and cast healing spells on several people (including two goblins) one by one, and the blisters and scars on their bodies were healed.

The stone pillar also rumbled down to the ground again and began to return to its original shape.

And those seas of gold coins and treasures that were emitting heat waves like lava gradually receded without anyone touching them, and all the replicas disappeared one by one.

The vault regained its calm.

But some things—it can no longer be pretended that it never happened.

For example, McGuffin was pitted into the sea of ​​gold coins by Dumbledore, and the words he yelled out because of the extreme pain just now——

Although not explicitly stated, the old bee undoubtedly refers to Dumbledore...

Snape began to watch with great interest how the two foxes, the old and the young, would play against each other.

McGuffin is also cursing secretly in his heart now.

He realized that he had yelled the truth, but he couldn't be blamed for it, this old bee is really stupid!
He looked up at Dumbledore, the old guy was standing there studying that Hufflepuff's gold cup, he seemed to be thinking about something... and the two goblins who were yelling beside him had already been fixed in place by his [Petrification Curse].

After coming here for a long time, McGuffin really couldn't stand the oppressive silence, and Snape's expression of watching the show made him unable to bear it any longer. He spoke in a very low voice, trying to resolve the embarrassment of the atmosphere,

"Professor! Is that [Horcrux]? Has it been destroyed?" (Voice softly, very softly)
"Yes, but... It seems that the situation is more serious than I expected. Judging from the situation just now... the soul fragments on the [Horcrux] have been revived due to magic power, and gradually have their own consciousness... We must find out the whereabouts of the rest of the [Horcrux] as soon as possible, otherwise it will be very troublesome."

The old bee did not pursue his new title just now, which greatly relieved McGuffin.

Dumbledore looked at the gold cup, and took out his pointed wizard hat from his pocket (it seemed that the pocket was also cast with the Untraceable Stretch Curse).

Then he changed the hat into the shape of a golden cup, compared it with the original golden cup, and then made slight adjustments to make it as consistent as possible. After that, he came over to Snape and asked for some deep-sea squid ink and some other potion mixtures. He waved his wand and turned them into various runes and imprinted them on the transformed golden cup.

McGuffin could see that the spell cast by Dumbledore was supposed to keep the fake gold cup's continuous deformation time. It seemed that the old bees didn't want to expose their whereabouts today to others.

Sure enough, Dumbledore and Snape then cast the [Forgetting Curse] to erase the memories of the goblins here, and recreated some false memories with instigmatism and injected them into the goblins' brains.

And let McGuffin cast the spell of [Transfer Soul Phantom] again, and the idea that none of the treasures were lost or taken away... was deeply injected into the goblin's mind to enhance its credibility.

McGuffin called out Dumbledore's nickname directly at the top of his voice before, but now he is guilty, and can only obey his orders very obediently.

In the end, Dumbledore put the real [Hufflepuff Gold Cup] into his pocket, and put the fake gold cup back to its original place, so that the armor and horned guard skeletons were also in their original positions, and he waved his wand again, turning McGuffin into the appearance of Professor Flitwick again,

And said to Snape and McGuffin, "Severus, Albert... Pay attention to your expression, show disappointment, and be a little angry."

"what?"

He raised his wand to the goblins, "Resuscitate quickly!"

After experiencing burns, petrification, and amnesia... the goblins whose memories and thoughts were changed finally regained their sanity.

They blinked, and after waking up, they immediately began to greedily scan the surrounding treasures and gold.

Dumbledore cleared his throat, his face darkened, and he whispered in a disappointed tone, "It's time for us to leave, McGuffin, Severus... Nothing was found, we got nothing!"

The expressions on the faces of the two goblins immediately became exciting, and Bogrod even squeezed out an 'uncomfortable' expression that was half a smile (like constipation), and started his performance, "Oh, really? Professor Dumbledore... This, this is really unfortunate."

"Yes, yes, it's unfortunate. I really hope that you can find what you are looking for in other places."

"Can we leave?" Snape didn't need to act, and his face was always gloomy and terrifying.

"Okay, okay, but... before that, we must carry out some necessary procedures... necessary inspections."

After finishing speaking, Bogrod trotted all the way to the metal door of the treasury, put his fingers on it and tapped it three times, and asked loudly, "The specific amount of treasures in the Lestrange family treasury..."

On the metal round door, an unusually old goblin face began to squirm and deform, and a red light suddenly appeared from the treasure house, shining on the treasures... The face began to open its mouth and loudly announced the number of gold coins, silver coins and copper Knuts, and counted the number of other treasures one by one.

When everything, including that gold cup is counted.

It seems that the thing does not have the ability to distinguish between true and false.

"Pull the ring!"

Bogrod yelled, and Griphook hurriedly pulled out a piece of parchment from his body and moved to his side.

After muttering together for a long time, the two goblins finally came to Dumbledore and the others, licking their smiling faces, "Good professor, there is no mistake at all, we can leave now."

"I'm really sad that you didn't find that thing... I hope you can find it soon." The two goblins said falsely again.

They shook the jingle tablets in their hands again, passed in front of the terrible and pitiful dragon, and returned to the cart.

After running wildly in the trolley, they finally returned to Gringotts again.

At this time, the giant Thestral carriage, as well as the wizards and goblin guards who carried the black iron boxes had already left here.
The black iron box and the giant door... and the trolls also disappeared, and instead, goblins in suits or robes of various colors appeared in the marble hall, began to sit on their high stools, and began to prepare for a new day's work.

After the shop owner in Diagon Alley in the hall paid the goblins some coins, he waved his wand to float the large package in the corner and moved it away.

In the reluctance of the goblins, Dumbledore and McGuffin finally stood on the marble steps outside Gringotts.

At this time, the sun began to break through the layers of cloudy clouds that had existed since the day before yesterday, shining down, making the wet and smooth cobblestone path very shiny and dazzling.

Most of the shops on both sides of the street are also open for business, and there are wizards wearing various costumes in twos and threes.

Diagon Alley gradually came to life, and it became noisy, and customers began to come and go on the marble steps of Gringotts, for example, not far from the three of them... just a bunch of people gathered together to make noise, and they didn't know what they were doing.

"Stop the curse!"

The sun is shining warmly on my body, so comfortable!

When McGuffin came outside and saw that no one was paying attention to him, he immediately waved his wand to remove Professor Flitwick's disguise.

After all, it was very uncomfortable to go all the way with this shell.

But when McGuffin just lifted his disguise, he immediately met an unexpected person——

"Professor Dumbledore!"

"Mc-McGuffin... why are you together!"

A stuttering voice suddenly came from the side, and McGuffin looked up in the direction of the voice.

It was Percy Weasley.

This guy was wearing a brand new gold-rimmed black wizard robe, holding a bulging briefcase, and was staring at the scene in front of him with dull eyes.

Kind of can't believe it.

One old, one young, and one middle were standing on the marble steps in front of Gringotts, and it looked as if the combination of old, middle and young had just finished something from there.

Percy couldn't believe it.
He even couldn't believe that McGuffin could catch up with himself, the "star of tomorrow" of the Ministry of Magic, and had already started to take a solid step on the road to power. He was able to work with Principal Dumbledore without graduating. (Ron didn't believe it when he boasted.)
Although he didn't want to admit it now, the picture in front of him did look like that.

"Oh, Weasley! What are you doing here... I remember you were supposed to be dealing with werewolves under Fudge."

"Yes, yes, Professor! I now..."

Percy puffed out his chest, and highlighted the badge on his chest that engraved his name, the staff of the Ministry of Magic's Law Division - Percy Weasley -.

I don't know if it's because of the magic spell, but the badge keeps shining brightly, making people dizzy.

"Now... I am specially authorized by Minister Fudge to deal with matters related to those werewolves... I am counting the number of werewolf groups in Knockturn Alley, so as to solve the problem of wolf disease that has plagued the magic world for hundreds of years."

Percy replied aloud with pride on his face.

(End of this chapter)