Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

Following Dumbledore's movements, Ivan felt that his whole body became dry and warm immediately, and his clothes didn't even have the slightest trace of being soaked by sea water, as if they had been hung in front of a raging fire to dry.

"Thank you!" Ivan, Harry, and Hermione said gratefully in a hurry, and they saw that Dumbledore turned his attention to the solid cave wall again.

He didn't try any other magic, just stood there, staring at the cave wall intently, as if there was something extremely interesting written on it.

"Where is Regulus?" Sirius suddenly shouted, "Kreacher, tell us how to get in?"

There was a hint of impatience in his tone, they had already wasted too much time, and the dark and eerie cave in front of him made him even more confused.

This is not something he is good at. He would rather fight a battle with the corpse than stay here...

Chapter 206 The Great Black Lake

"Tell me, Kreacher!" Sirius clenched his fists and growled loudly, "How do I get through here?"

"Blood is needed, master!" Kreacher pointed to a large smooth rock in front of Dumbledore, and said intermittently in a crying voice, "Kreacher saw the Dark Lord spilling blood on that rock, Ray Master Gules did the same thing at the time, he cut his arm open, and then..."

Sirius froze for a moment, as if he didn't understand Kreacher's meaning accurately.

Behind him, Harry and Hermione looked at the rock with unease on their faces, as if something was about to crawl out of it.When they heard Kreacher mention blood, they couldn't help but have many terrible things in their minds.

Unlike them, Ivan took two steps forward.

He stood behind Dumbledore, carefully observing the rock Kreacher was pointing at.

In fact, from the moment he entered the cave, he felt that there was a slight difference in that position, although the rock looked no different from the surrounding rock walls.

However, Ivan could feel something was wrong.This feeling is very strange, he doesn't know how to describe it, not in the senses such as vision and touch, but the magic power there is more abnormal than the magic power in other places.

It's like a normal light, suddenly cut off at a certain position.

"All magic will leave traces, you have to sense it with your heart!" Dumbledore whispered, he took a few steps back, and looked at Ai Wen with enlightenment.

"Sense with your heart?!" Ivan didn't know what to do.

He just instinctively felt that the magic reaction on the rock in front of him was a little abnormal, but he couldn't tell where the specific abnormality was.

Dumbledore didn't continue talking, he pointed his wand at the rock in front of him.

Suddenly, the outline of an arch appeared there, emitting a dazzling white light, as if there was a strong light shining behind the crack.

"You did it, Professor!" Harry exclaimed delightedly.

Just now he fell into uneasiness because of Kreacher's words, and immediately a glimmer of hope rose again.

With Dumbledore here, they didn't want to spill blood on that rock at all, and they could get through here.

However, before his words fell, the outline disappeared, and the rock was still as hard and thick as before, with nothing on it.

"professor?"

"Kreacher is right, blood is indeed needed to pass through here." Dumbledore looked at it and said calmly, "He thinks he is very successful, but he is too low-level!"

"I don't understand, why do we need blood to get through here?" Harry asked suspiciously, "Also, what does it mean that it's too low-level?"

"To be precise, Riddle's magic requires us to pay a price. We must weaken ourselves to pass here, so I said it is too low-level!"

There was contempt and even disappointment in Dumbledore's tone, as if Voldemort had failed to meet his expected standards, "Once again he failed to understand that there are many things that are much more terrifying than physical injuries."

"However, you must be able to avoid..."

"Sometimes it's unavoidable, and we have to deal with it according to the rules of magic."

As Dumbledore said, he shook up the sleeves of his robe, and suddenly a short silver knife appeared in his hand, the kind used to cut potion ingredients.

"No, Professor!"

Seeing Dumbledore raising the dagger, Ivan, Harry and Hermione rushed to stop it.

Everyone knows what Dumbledore wants to do, but they don't know what to say. If blood must be shed, they should choose one of them instead of letting Dumbledore do it.

"Let me do it, I can..." Harry snapped.

But someone was faster than him. When they stopped Dumbledore, Sirius had made up his mind. He rushed to the side of the rock quickly, a light flashed at the end of his wand, and a bright red shot out from his arm. Immediately, it was covered with shiny, dark red blood beads.

"Sirius!" Harry turned his head slowly, looking at all this in disbelief, his face turned pale instantly, and rushed to Sirius' side in panic.

Dumbledore, Ivan, and Hermione also hurriedly followed. They saw that the wound on Sirius' arm was huge, and a large amount of blood was gushing out uncontrollably.

"You should have let me do it, Sirius, your blood is worth more than mine."

Dumbledore ran the tip of his wand across the deep cut on Sirius' arm, and the wound healed instantly.

"No, I have to do it, it's for Regulus..." Sirius raised his head and replied weakly, "Don't worry about me, I'm fine, is there enough blood? Come once."

"I believe this is enough!" Dumbledore said softly, looking at the changing wall, "The effect is very obvious."

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.

"Let's go in, you'd better come after me and get your wands out!" said Dumbledore, walking through the doorway.

Sirius, Ivan, Harry, Hermione, and Kreacher also walked in after him, hastily lighting their wands.

In front of their eyes, is a very strange scene.

Although I heard Kreacher narrate it before, the real scene I saw with my own eyes was much more shocking than all words and imaginations.

At this very moment, they were standing on the shore of a great black lake.

The surface of the lake is so wide that it stretches as far as the eye can see, and you can't even see the opposite bank in the distance.

The cave they were in was so high that they couldn't see the top of the cave when they looked up.

Far away, as if in the middle of the lake, there was a dim, green light shining, reflected in the dead lake below.

Except for the green light and the bright light from the five magic wands, the surrounding area is completely thick with darkness, and the penetrating power of these bright lights is not as strong as expected. The darkness here seems to be denser than ordinary , thicker.

It is hard to imagine that they are in the cave inside the cliff.

Through that arch, Ivan thought they had come to a different space. He didn't know how Voldemort did it in the first place.He couldn't imagine how powerful it would be to transform an ordinary cave into what he saw.

"Kreacher, Regulus' body..." Sirius suddenly said, his voice sounded weird, not the usual shouting, on the contrary, there was a hint of uncontrollable sadness in his voice, "Tell me, where is his body?"

"There is an island in the middle of the lake, master!" Tears flowed uncontrollably from Kreacher's big eyes, and he choked up as he wiped away the tears, "Kreacher was there when he saw Master Regulus being killed by those dead people. dragged his hand into the lake."

Chapter 207 The Yin Corpse in the Lake

Hearing Kreacher's words, Sirius rushed forward.

Judging from his appearance, he seemed to want to rush into the lake to find Regulus' body.

"No, Sirius!"

Looking at the figure of Sirius, Harry and Hermione screamed, but fortunately Dumbledore stopped him at the last moment.

"Let me go!" gasped Sirius. "I'm going to find Regulus."

"I can understand your feelings, Sirius, but we must be careful." Dumbledore said softly, "This black lake is very dangerous. You have also heard Kreacher's description and know what is hidden in it. Corpse, and these lakes..."

"I'm not afraid of danger, and I'm not afraid of Inferi either!"

"I know, but you will not help Regulus by rushing directly into the lake. You are only doing a disservice."

Sirius was silent and gradually calmed down.

"Very well, let's go forward. Kreacher just mentioned the island in the center of the lake and the stone altar that was originally used to store the Horcruxes. I want to go there and have a look first." Dumbledore continued, "You A few followed me, remember, don't step into the water."

He walked around the shore of the lake, and Aiwen and the others followed closely behind him.

Their footsteps echoed on the narrow rocks by the lake.

They kept going forward, time passed by, but the surrounding scene didn't change at all: on one side was the rough cave wall, on the other side was the boundless, mirror-like black lake surface, and the mysterious green light shone in the center of the lake .

No one spoke, and the place and the silence were oppressive and disturbing.

Aiwen has been looking into the lake. The dark lake water is as bright and smooth as black glass. Although he can't see anything, he knows that under the calm lake, countless ferocious corpses are watching quietly. a few of them.

"When are we going to go like this?" Sirius said impatiently, his voice echoing loudly in the silent darkness.

"There is a big boat that can take us to the center of the lake, but Kreacher can't remember where the boat is." Kreacher said tremblingly, and punished himself by scratching his ears again.

"Don't worry, we'll find it." Dumbledore stopped Kreacher.

"I don't understand why it is necessary to go to the island in the middle of the lake and go directly into the lake to find Regulus..."

"Going down to the lake? Unless our luck is particularly bad!" Dumbledore said, "You can try it, Sirius, don't touch those lakes with your hands, use magic or throw something into it, and see what happens what."

Sirius picked up a stone from the ground and threw it into the lake.

Accompanied by a loud noise, countless pairs of white, marble-like dead hands stretched out from the calm lake.

These hands appeared suddenly, without any warning, as if from hell.

A second later, the lake boiled instantly, and the hands of the dead body covered the entire surface of the lake.

They struggled and twisted, as if trying to grab something in the air.

Seeing this picture, Hermione screamed and held Ivan's right arm tightly.

Ai Wen also took a step back, looking at the crazy lake with lingering fear. Although he was prepared, his heart was still beating wildly.

Sirius and Harry also looked bad. They stared at the lake in a daze, and the number of ghosts in front of them completely exceeded their imagination.

After a few seconds, the dead bodies and ripples completely disappeared at an uncanny speed, as if they had never existed before.And the stone thrown in by Sirius also completely disappeared, it didn't sink into the bottom of Dao Lake, but was forcibly decomposed and dissipated.

"Professor!" Harry yelled, his voice much shriller than usual, hardly his own.

"As you can see, this is not the correct way to wake them up." Dumbledore said calmly, "There are too many infernal corpses, and it is impossible to wipe them all out. We must find the place where Regulus was dragged into the water. "

"What do we do if they come out?"

"Like many creatures that live in cold and darkness, they are afraid of light and warmth. If necessary, we can use fire." Dumbledore said calmly, "The light and warmth brought by fire can effectively restrain them." !"

"But..." Harry still had horror written all over his face.

"You have to know that there is nothing to be afraid of dead bodies, just as there is nothing to be afraid of in the dark." Dumbledore stared at the dark lake, "Voldemort doesn't think so, judging from the situation here, he must be secretly afraid of these two things." Stuff. In this matter, he once again exposed his lack of wisdom. When we face death and darkness, we fear nothing but the unknown."

For Dumbledore's point of view, no one voiced an opinion, and no one disputed it.

It can be seen from the expressions that everyone disagrees with what Dumbledore said.When they thought that the huge lake in front of them was full of dead bodies, they felt particularly terrifying.

Perhaps only a powerful wizard like Dumbledore is qualified to say this. He is fearless about everything, even death.

Aiwen tried hard to recall the information about the necromancy that he had just read in the book "Secrets of Cutting-Edge Black Magic": the production of necromancy is not traditional magic in the British magic world, but comes from evil witchcraft in some parts of Africa. The wizards turned "cursed resurrected corpses" into manipulative "dreadful puppet" servants.

In those tribal traditions, the Inferi were considered warriors or guardians of the dead who did not care about their own safety.

They have many uses and are easily recognized and respected by other tribesmen.

Only the corpses of those who have made great contributions to the tribe are eligible to be made into ghost corpses, and continue to guard the tribe after death. This is the supreme honor.

After this witchcraft spread to Europe, after several centuries of development and changes, it was gradually transformed by black wizards into what it is now, becoming a pure black magic.

Compared with African witchcraft, the individual strength of these ghosts made by black wizards may be slightly weaker, but the production method has become simpler, and they are also fearless. They are considered to be one of the most evil black magic.

The corpses that have just died must be used to make yin corpses. Judging from the size of the huge lake in front of you, there are a lot of yin corpses inside.

Ivan didn't know how Voldemort found these corpses, which meant massacre.

The clothes on these dead bodies are all ordinary Muggle styles. They are likely to be killed by Voldemort and other Death Eaters when Voldemort rose.

Chapter 208 Strange Feelings

Thinking of this, Ai Wen felt particularly uncomfortable.

He still remembered that in the book "The Rise and Fall of Dark Magic", he described Voldemort's most powerful decade in this way: the era of Voldemort's rule was marked by destruction, and he and his suitors, who were called Death Eaters The dark wizards used various methods of coercion and lure to strengthen themselves, spread violence and fear everywhere, and used the Unforgivable Curse unrestrainedly to kill those who blocked them. Many Muggles were killed in the name of "fun".

Ivan originally thought that this was an exaggerated modifier for the brutal rule of Voldemort and the Death Eaters in the book. They may have killed a lot of people, but most of them should be wizards who resisted them.

It now appears that this is not the case at all.

They've done it, and they've actually killed a lot of innocent Muggles.

The big black lake in front of him is the evidence of the crime, and there are thousands of corpses in it.

In front of the powerful dark wizards, these ordinary people who don't know magic don't even have the strength to resist, but Voldemort and the Death Eaters still kill them and cruelly make them into ghosts.

Let their souls and bodies have no peace after death.

This kind of behavior can no longer be described as war, it is a massacre that destroys humanity.