Hogwarts: The Cat Wizard of the Moving Castle
Chapter 189 Gaunt’s Old House
According to the information that Mu En knew before, Riddle did have Slytherin blood.
However, today, this line has long been cut off, leaving Tom alone.
As for the others who have spread out, they have probably killed themselves to death because of some bloodline "traditional virtues".
According to Dumbledore, in the sixteenth century, one of Riddle's ancestors murdered his sister and brother-in-law.
The reason is because the other party behaves a little more friendly towards Muggles.
In comparison, the Malfoy family's previous efforts to drive away Muggles from occupying the land through pretense and magical plagues seemed much gentler and shrewder.
Northern England.
Mu En looked at the village not far away and said, "So this is called Slytherin Plains? Just like Godric's Hollow is named."
Dumbledore burst into laughter, and then explained: "Slytherin does not have male heirs, um. After the Chamber of Secrets incident, I spent a lot of time investigating the founder.
After leaving Hogwarts, he seemed to become disheartened and tasteless of everything in the world. He neither cared about his daughter nor whether his surname would be passed down. "
Mu En nodded and asked, "How did you make this inference?"
“Mainly considering the qualities required of Slytherin as a house.
I think that if Slytherin himself had not changed his mentality, he would never have allowed his daughter to abandon her surname and marry into another wizarding family.
As the most powerful wizard in the world, he should not be guilty of letting his girl climb a high branch. "
"Climbing high branches?!"
"Yes, that is the Gaunt family. They are descendants of the Peverell family." Dumbledore explained: "As for the Peverell, that is another story."
"That's possible." Moon agreed with Dumbledore's idea. Slytherin, who valued honor, just sat back and watched his last name being abandoned? This is obviously a decision made under unusual circumstances.
No, it shouldn't be said about decision.
It should be said that at that time, he probably didn't care about these things at all.
"I don't know what he did in his later years." Mu En sighed: "If he is studying magic, then I am still somewhat interested."
"That's unknown." Dumbledore sighed: "But what can be confirmed is that even if Slytherin himself doesn't care whether his surname's bloodline continues, the Gaunt family does.
According to existing information, the Gaunt family has been claiming to be descendants of Slytherin blood in recent hundreds of years. In order to maintain the purity of their bloodline, they have a more paranoid habit of marrying close relatives than other families.
However, it is a pity that the last prominent person in their family besides Riddle was one of the founders of Ilvermorny, Aesop Ther.
Remember the Gaunt family witch I just mentioned who was murdered by her own sister? Aesop is their daughter. "
"I have an impression of this person." Mu En nodded. He had an introduction to this witch in the "History of American Magic" he had read before.
Well, it's a book as thin as a British menu, and it's written generously about the witch.
She was one of the first wizards to arrive in America on the famous Mayflower.
Slytherin's own wand, a snake-wood staff, was also taken away.
The wand has now grown back into a giant snakewood tree, the only magical snakewood in the world.
"Slytherin is orthodox in the United States?!" Mu En sighed.
Dumbledore also laughed and then ignored the topic.
The two of them walked on the country road and soon stopped in front of a sign.
There were two indicator arrows on the left and right, the one pointing them the way they came said: Great Hangleton, 5 miles. Pointing ahead it read: Little Hangleton, 1 mile.
"Let's go." Mu En turned around: "Is this a wizard village or a mixed village?"
"This is a Muggle village." Dumbledore raised the corner of his mouth: "Because the Gaunt family used to care about ostentation and spent all their money.
So when it came to Riddle's parents' generation, the Gaunt family could only come here to live a poor life while scolding the Muggles.
By the way, they occasionally accept charity from villagers.
Because they really don't know how to do "lower people's work" such as farming. "
They walked for a while and saw nothing else around them. They only saw tall shrubs on both sides and a dark sky above their heads, indicating that a rain would fall here soon.
Then, the path turned to the left and descended steeply down the hillside. Then, an unobstructed view of the valley appeared in front of them.
Looking further down, a village is nestled between two steep hillsides, with a church and cemetery clearly visible. On the hillside across the valley, there is a very grand house, surrounded by large green lawns.
But they were not going to that village. After striding downward for a while, the path turned to the right. When they turned the corner, Dumbledore took a step forward, got into the fence first, and disappeared.
Mu En also followed him to a narrow dirt road. The hedges on both sides were taller and denser than the ones they passed just now.
When we got here, the scene became weird for no reason. The dirt road was unreasonably winding, full of potholes and rocks. It leads straight down to a small patch of dark woods below.
After not walking far, they came across the bushes, and the house was half hidden among the tangled trees.
The walls were covered with moss, many tiles on the roof had fallen off, and the rafters in the structure of the house were exposed in many places.
Nettles grew thickly around the house, and no one wanted to use them as yard grass, but here the nettles reached up to the windows.
At the same time, a quiet atmosphere also emanated from the room.
Absolute silence, no sound of leaves being blown by the wind, no chirping of small insects.
When the ambient sounds disappeared, a strange feeling naturally came over me.
Mu En was reminded of the scene when Voldemort sneaked into Hogwarts. At that time, Quirrell's wrapped head was also so "empty".
"This is the mansion of the Gaunt family. Where is the mansion of the Del family?"
"In the nearby village." Dumbledore said: "The Riddle family are all Muggles.
So I just agreed with your inference. The reason why Riddle wanted to kill them was probably because he couldn't accept that his father was an inferior existence like a Muggle!
In addition, the Riddle Mansion is now just an ordinary horror house with strange rumors. But here is the real trouble. "
"Okay." Mu En nodded, raised his hand, and a ripple spread out, releasing it forward, immediately chopping up all the nettles that were an eyesore.
But the next moment, the nettles grew wildly again, like some kind of twisted green snake.
But in the blink of an eye, the nettles in the yard returned to their chest-high posture, swaying in the wind.
Dumbledore smiled helplessly: "This is the trouble -"
His words stopped suddenly because he found that Mu En didn't listen to him at all.
The wand appeared in his hand, and the blazing blue-purple fireworks suddenly spread out, burning towards the green plants.
crackling——
This is the first sound that appears in this silent space. It is undetectable, but it is like opening a certain valve.
However, what followed was nothing but crackling and burning sounds like waves.
There were also shrill screams.
It's like this flame is burning on someone.
Similarly, the nettles also began to twist violently, and the thick black smoke condensed into ferocious faces that looked like screams, and escaped towards the sky.
Those were hundreds of human souls, and they were screaming with extremely shrill and heart-rending screams.
However, while these sounds are harsh, there is also a real sense of relief in them.
"this…"
Dumbledore's eyes were stern: "These nettles... I never paid attention to them when I came here before. They have nothing special except for disturbing visitors."
Mu En retracted his wand and said calmly: "This is a commonly used method in formations. The magic pattern array itself is disguised as a creation of the formation to create a dark effect under the light!"
"I see."
Mu En nodded and took the lead to walk in.
He would not say that he was simply unhappy with these nettles, so he wanted to set fire to them.
As for those ghosts, formations, etc... it was just a beautiful accident.
However, when he stepped inside, he suddenly felt a strange sense of attention.
Raising his hand again, a flame appeared and bloomed in his palm.
However, the flame was only about the size of a lighter.
"It seems that only one point has been broken." Mu En said, looking at the room.
Although the house was dilapidated, it had not been affected by his spark just now.
This proves that at least the house itself does not have some overly strong spiritual properties.
When they arrived at the mansion, there was a mummified snake in the middle of the old door panel. Its tail was nailed to the door panel by a nail, but there were no wounds elsewhere.
Mu En had even seen it twisting and being nailed alive, and then the snake was twisting on the door panel.
Then he pushed the door open.
Not moving at all——
It was at this time that the snake on the door suddenly raised its triangular head stiffly and hissed.
"What does it say?"
"It says that only the blood of the Gaunt family can enter it. I was thinking before that maybe I could let Harry try it. He can speak Parselmouth and should be a descendant of the Peverell family."
After that, he took a step back and said, "It's up to you."
After what happened with the nettles just now, Dumbledore felt that it would be better to leave professional matters to professionals.
Then, he heard the snake hissing again.
"Those with low bloodline are not allowed to enter."
Similarly, he also saw Mu En raise her fist.
What Mu En likes most is to use the most violent method to destroy other people's plans.
Since you want to ban demons, you then feel that others cannot open your forbidden door.
Then I will——
The next moment, the golden human runes on the entire arm suddenly appeared, and he punched out——
Smoke and dust were everywhere, and the sky was filled with frightened birds.
The sound of the explosion would startle even those in the village.
Mu En waved his hand, "It's not bad, it's a little harder than the slap on the three-headed dog on Christmas."
At this time, the door was already open. Perhaps because of the special magic structure in the house, the door did not fly out. Even the house that looked extremely dilapidated was not too damaged.
If it were an ordinary house, the power of this punch would not be much different from that of a full-strength impact on the house and the ground.
As for the chirping mummy snake from before, a soul is emerging from it.
"Thank you." He said very vaguely.
"Who are you?" Mu En looked at him, his translucent face already blurred.
"Tom Riddle," he said.
?
Moon tilted her head: "Are you Riddle?"
"Ah yes"
As he spoke, the soul shattered inch by inch and flew towards the sky.
Moon turned her head and looked at Dumbledore.
Dumbledore was also stunned, and then slowly said: "This may be Voldemort's father."
"Okay, okay, you are worthy of being a descendant of the Gaunt family." Mu En kept nodding, feeling ridiculous.
As if killing him wasn't enough, he also took out his soul and became a gatekeeper.
If there really is such a thing as merit, I'm afraid he would have to accumulate just this one trip!
"By the way, what did you mean when you said that Harry also has the blood of the Peverell family?"
"The three Peverell brothers, the makers of the Deathly Hallows." Dumbledore explained, while also briefly showing the Elder Wand with regular scars in his hand.
"Is this one of them?" Mu En asked.
"Yes." Dumbledore nodded, but took the initiative: "Want to try?"
Mu En was a little surprised and took the Elder Wand: "Aren't you afraid that I will be careful?"
"Then you can?" Dumbledore smiled slyly.
Moon briefly waved it, tried a flashing spell, and handed the Elder Wand back to Dumbledore.
"So Harry's invisibility cloak is one of the Three Holy Artifacts?"
"It seems so at the moment." Dumbledore said calmly: "I did a brief research on that piece of clothing before I got it. It is not an ordinary invisibility cloak made of invisible animal skin."
"Then the Gaunt family, did you get this Elder Wand from Riddle after his death, or did you?"
"The Elder Wand in my hand has nothing to do with Riddle. As for the Gaunt family, my guess is that they should be the heirs of the Resurrection Stone." Dumbledore said.
With that said, the two walked into the house, and a stench came from it. The house was dirty, because the heavy punch just caused the explosion, and there was a smell of dust in the whole air.
"Riddle didn't find the Resurrection Stone? Otherwise, why would he still be thinking about the Horcrux?"
"This also proves that the so-called Resurrection Stone is just a beautiful scam, doesn't it?" Dumbledore raised a smile.
"Okay." Mu En nodded: "What about the God of Death?"
"Well, you are talking about the plot of Beedle the Bard, and I personally prefer that the three brothers are the makers of the Deathly Hallows."
"Tendency?" Moon turned around and keenly caught Dumbledore's choice of words.
"Yes, this is another conjecture." Dumbledore took a deep breath: "I discussed this issue with both Bathilda Bagshot and Nico Flamel.
Unfortunately, there are currently no traces of the alchemical creations of the three brothers other than the holy artifacts left in history, so..."
As he spoke, he waved his hand: "But no matter what, this guess is more realistic than the God of Death or something like that."
"What do you think?" Dumbledore asked instead.
"Maybe."
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