Harry Potter: Dark Alchemy

Neither Wright in St. Catchpole nor Harry in Little Whinging, Surrey, knew anything about what was happening in remote Spider End.

Dumbledore might know about this, but that would have to wait until he asked Snape about it later.

What's more, there are things that are more worthy of Dumbledore's attention now. For this reason, he has postponed several Wizengamot court trials and two meetings of the International Federation of Wizards.

Undoubtedly, apart from Grindelwald, who was still in Nurmengard and chose to self-exile, the only person who could attract Dumbledore's attention was Voldemort, who had made the entire British wizarding world restless decades ago. .

In the eyes of many people, Voldemort had been eliminated by the magical little savior thirteen years ago, but Dumbledore never relaxed his vigilance ever since he learned that Voldemort had produced more than one Horcrux.

In his opinion, Voldemort's comeback was only a matter of time.

Dumbledore was naturally not afraid of Voldemort, he was just worried that Voldemort would return to the world again and again with the help of his immortal Horcrux, but he was already on the road to death.

Therefore, what Dumbledore wanted to do was to take advantage of the resurrection of the remnant soul that escaped Hogwarts a year ago to catch all the Horcruxes that Voldemort had ever made.

But at this time, except for knowing that the diary that confused Ginny Weasley and opened the school's secret room last year was one of the Horcruxes that Tom made when he was a student, Dumbledore did not have enough valuable information. .

The appearance of the Horcrux, its location, the clues about the Horcrux, and most importantly, how many Horcruxes Tom had made.

Hogwarts Castle, the Headmaster's Office on the eighth floor.

"Jerry, if you don't mind, can I ask you something?" Dumbledore's palm gently brushed the cover of the black diary. Even though he had not seen the Horcruxes made by others, this book seemed to be for the soul. The torn and painful diary was still like a beacon in the dark night, slightly pointing the way for him.

"Of course I don't mind, Mr. Principal." Jerry stood on the steps under the principal's desk as always, and his polite nodding seemed to show that he was a gentleman who paid great attention to etiquette. If his hair color was not like a castle, The green grass outside is so bright.

"A Horcrux cruelly splits a person's soul and hides part of it in an object outside the body." Dumbledore said a topic that was completely expected by Jerry, "In this way, even if that person Even if his body suffers a terrible attack or is completely destroyed, he will not die immediately because there is still a part of his undamaged soul that remains in the world.”

"Yes, Mr. Principal." Jerry smiled, and his handsome facial lines trembled slightly with his movements, but did not lose any of his handsomeness. "I understand my identity. I am the former Tom Riddle. A divided soul."

"No." Dumbledore shook his head slowly, shaking his waist-length beard and white hair together. "Although I call you Jerry, this is just an innocuous concealment method. Your The real identity is undoubtedly Tom."

"Yes, Mr. Principal."

"There are many ways to split the soul. In this book "Decryption of Advanced Black Magic", Mr. Ole Block also gave a detailed description of the steps." Dumbledore looked at another tome on the table. The dark brown book with some faded silver fonts does nothing to detract from its evilness.

Jerry had already been able to face such a topic easily because he knew that the old man on the steps would not do anything to him.

"Killing." Dumbledore looked stern, and softly spat out this word that had nothing to do with him. "Killing will split the soul, and wizards who want to make Horcruxes will use this evil act to The split soul fragments are sealed in the items he prepared early."

"The question is," Dumbledore paused, "how many pieces of soul do you think Voldemort will split to make his Horcruxes?"

"I don't know, Mr. Principal." Jerry said, "You know, I am just a soul split from the Horcrux made by Tom Riddle when he was a student. All I have is that he was making this Horcrux. All the memories from before. I have no way of knowing how many Horcruxes he made in his subsequent life."

There was a hint of well-hidden schadenfreude in Jerry's calm voice.

But Dumbledore heard it and saw it, but he didn't expose it.

"I'm not asking you to confirm this question, I'm just asking for your opinion." Dumbledore said, "As a young Tom, Jerry, how many times do you think you will split your soul? I think you have enough. Authority, explain your own thoughts.”

Maybe twice? After all, who in the right mind would split their soul multiple times?

Jerry wanted to say that.

But the contract he had signed with Dumbledore prevented him from saying this perfunctory sentence.

The power of the ancient contract reminded Jerry of the exchange he had with Horace Slughorn after a Slug Club banquet in his fifth grade.

Jerry said insincerely: "Isn't seven the most magical number? Seven -?"

Seven? Dumbledore gathered his thoughts.

The only evidence currently obtained that can prove that Voldemort split his soul is this Horcrux diary.

According to the information Wright had told him before, this Horcrux diary was stuffed into Ginny Weasley's cauldron by Lucius Malfoy. If I remember correctly, it happened to be the day when the Ministry of Magic raided Malfoy Manor. Lucius probably chose to throw away the diary secretly to prevent the diary from being discovered by the Ministry of Magic. Perhaps he also had the idea of ​​framing the Weasley family.

Perhaps Voldemort never thought that Lucius would get rid of his diary. After all, the real purpose of a Horcrux is to safely seal part of a person's soul, not to open a secret room or attack students.

However, from the fact that Voldemort handed his Horcrux diary to the Malfoy family, it can be seen that he did not attach much importance to this diary, which probably means that he has made more Horcruxes.

Since Jerry thought he could split his soul seven times, Tom might have thought so too.

Dumbledore was not prepared to ask Jerry about the hidden location of the Horcrux. After all, this hidden location could be chosen at will, and the uncertainty was too high.

But since there is one in the Malfoy family, maybe there are some Horcruxes hidden in some other Death Eater families. The Crabbe family and the Goyle family cannot bear the favor of the devil, but the Lestrange family will definitely not be missing. This honor.

As for the other Horcruxes?

Dumbledore thought of Voldemort's pride and superiority. He didn't think Voldemort would randomly choose items to make Horcruxes. The rusty iron cans on the roadside or the pebbles on the bottom of the river were not worthy of his arrogant character.

So, what will Voldemort choose?

Dumbledore had several guesses in his mind.