The Mightiest Badger at Hogwarts

Standing in front of Riddle's house, Link felt his body trembling slightly.

He couldn't tell whether this was caused by nervousness or excitement, but the only thing worth knowing for sure was that it was definitely not fear.

Link made a lot of preparations for this adventure.

In addition to the hardware of the equipment, he also estimated where Dumbledore might take him.

After excluding impossible options like the Ravenclaw Diadem, the most likely options are the Grotto (fake pendant), Gringotts (gold cup) and Riddle House (resurrection stone).

The other two items are easy to say.

The result of going there is nothing more than returning with nothing, or returning with a full load.

But Riddle House was different.

Because in the original book, Riddle House has always been the hiding place for Voldemort and others during the Goblet of Fire.

In other words, when they come to Riddle House this time, they can not only harvest the Resurrection Stone, but they may also directly run into Voldemort, who is still in an extremely weak state.

This is simply a perfect opportunity!

"Do you know where this place is?"

At this moment, Dumbledore's slightly ethereal voice suddenly sounded again.

Link frowned, tightened the wand in his hand, and still stared at the old villa warily:

"Riddle House, you just said that."

"No, no, no, I mean, do you know where Riddle House is?" Dumbledore shook his head and said to himself without waiting for Link's answer, "This place was originally called Gaunt. The old house is the last residence of the Gunter family.”

Dumbledore's pupils began to slowly expand, as if he was remembering something, "The Gaunt family is the only remaining descendant of Salazar Slytherin. They are very proud of this. In order to continue to inherit this glory For the purity of their bloodline, they chose inbreeding.

The result of this is that their descendants begin to become more and more stupid, irritable, and restless, and the powerful magical talent that should have been in their blood slowly disappears.In the end, after generations of extravagant spending, the Gaunt family declined.

Currently, the last remaining descendant of the Gaunt family is Tom Riddle, also known as Voldemort.

Tom, this child, is the epitome of the glory of the Gaunt family for generations.

As a young man, he was humble, courteous, amazingly talented, and full of wisdom.However, his birth was an accident, or in other words, a scandal that was spurned by everyone in the Gunter family.

Just like countless vulgar love tragedies that have happened in the past, Tom's mother was a poor woman who was born in the Gaunt family, but lost her magic talent due to inbreeding and was treated as a maid by the Gaunt family. Fucked a muggle.Tom was the result of her love affair with the Muggle man after she used a love potion to confuse him.

How can a love that is only maintained with love potions last long?

The happy life of Tom's family was soon shattered due to the failure of the love potion.

The abandoned Tom was brought into Hogwarts by me. I thought he would gradually be educated into a good boy.Unfortunately, I underestimated the hatred and ambition in that child's heart.

The child returned to Gaunt's old house as soon as he gained strength, avenged his poor mother, killed his uncle and grandfather, and occupied the old house at the same time.

According to what I know about him, if he really hid all those Horcruxes, then this must be one of the places where the Horcruxes are hidden. "

Although Link already knew this part of the plot, he still did not interrupt Dumbledore. Instead, he said dissatisfiedly after Dumbledore finished his speech:

"I feel that now is not the time to introduce the past to me. If this old house really has extraordinary significance to Voldemort as you said, then he is very likely to be hiding in this house now!"

"Don't worry, Link." Dumbledore raised his head slightly, as if he was letting the cold wind of the winter night caress his cheek, and seemed to be sensing something, "I didn't smell his scent, so he definitely Not here."

Hearing this, Link's tense muscles relaxed, but a feeling of disappointment arose in his heart.

He had no reason not to believe in the most powerful white wizard today.

Since Dumbledore said that Voldemort was not here, this old house should be a short house.

"But what you said makes sense. Time waits for no one. Let's get started."

Dumbledore said again.

After saying that, his legs that had been stagnant for a long time finally started to move.

Link quickly followed.

The two pushed open the rotten iron fence door, stepped on the dead grass and gravel on the ground, and walked toward the eerie old house that was completely shrouded in the hazy moonlight.

During this period, Link keenly noticed that there was a vague path in the open space where they were walking that seemed to have been trampled by someone.

This made Link feel nervous again.

Because this means that someone must have been in and out of Riddle Mansion frequently recently, and apart from Voldemort, Link can't think of anyone else in this group.

Dumbledore was much calmer than Link. He walked with a relaxed expression. All the dead grass and gravel on the ground in front of him were constantly crumbling. It was as if there was a powerful magic power. He was looking for a path ahead of him.

It wasn't until the Riddle House's family crest had been removed and the rotten door was crushed to pieces by magic that the magic in front of Dumbledore gradually subsided, with a wider range of effects, but The gentler approach spreads towards the old house.

At the same time, the entire structure of the large kitchen on the first floor of Riddle House was revealed to Link.

This is one of the worst rooms Link has ever seen. It is second only to the Shrieking Shack before it was rebuilt. The difference between the two is mainly reflected in the fact that the Shrieking Shack is littered with the carcasses of various animals. and feces, but there is only a thick layer of dust on the floor here, as well as a series of dense footprints and some traces similar to snakes crawling across.

All the tables and chairs in the kitchen have disappeared. Only the kitchen counter against the wall is still piled with a large number of plates and cutlery. There are even some dry black stains on it, as if some food has rotted and dried. Same as there.

In addition, the air was filled with a strong musty smell and a stench that Link couldn't place.

This forced Link, who had a slight mysophobia, to cast a head soaking spell on himself.

Dumbledore, on the other hand, looked directly into the large kitchen as if he didn't care at all about the smell and environment in the room.

When he passed by Link, he smiled and shook his head at Link, as if he was mocking Link for not being able to stand this taste.

Link didn't care about Dumbledore. The two simply ignored the other rooms on the first floor and went upstairs on the wooden stairs that were creaking, in disrepair, and even missing a piece in some parts.

Standing on the landing, Link turned right and immediately discovered the most worth exploring room in this Riddle Mansion adventure.

This is not difficult to find at all, after all, the doors to other rooms are tightly sealed with wooden bars, and only the door to the room at the end of the corridor is open.

And on the dark, dusty floor of the corridor, there were a lot of footprints and traces of snakes crawling all the way to the room.

By this time Dumbledore seemed to be on guard.

He drew out his wand and cautiously approached the room with Link.

Then Link saw,

In this room that should obviously be the master bedroom, there are many traces of human life that are not found elsewhere.

For example, the dust on the floor has long been swept away.

There were a lot of burned ashes piled in the fireplace, and there were also a lot of wood that had been cut down but hadn't had time to burn.

Judging from the remaining paint and paint on the wood, these wood should have come from the missing furniture on the first floor.

The most important thing is that there is an old-fashioned baby rocking chair placed in the center of the room, with thick bedding piled inside, and a dirty baby bottle with white juice residue inside.

"They must have lived here for a while." Dumbledore grabbed the bottle and shook it twice. "I smell his scent here, but it's very weak."

Hearing this, Link's brows wrinkled.

He still didn't understand what Dumbledore meant by 'smelling'.

Curiosity drove him to turn on his super-sensory spell with all his strength, and immediately, large streams of magic flow flashing with various strange colors filled his field of vision.

These magic flows are far more active and powerful than the outside world, as if they have been amplified by some means.

The most important thing is that it also contains a kind of black magic that can make the two of them feel uneasy.

A small part of them were scattered among other magic flows in the room, but most of them were gathered in the ashes-filled fireplace, like a dark python, entrenched in it.

As Link watched, the unsettling dark python seemed to sense something. It raised its head and spit out the snake message at Link, then opened its huge mouth.

Immediately afterwards, as if under some kind of call, the black magic power scattered in the magic flow around the room began to tremble according to certain rules.

Then those originally ordinary magic flows began to assimilate under the pull of black magic power.

When most of the magic flow in the entire room began to tremble together, a faint hum broke out in the air.

"Headmaster Dumbledore, I feel something is not right."

Link said to Dumbledore with a somewhat ugly expression.

He had never seen such a change in magic power occupying such a large area, but this did not prevent him from sensing the corresponding danger.

Right now, every hair on his body was on its feet, screaming at him to get out of the room.

But Dumbledore remained extremely calm. He put a big hand on Link's shoulder and said:

"Don't worry, it'll be fine as long as I'm here."

After saying that, he stretched out his wand and tapped it in the void.

Link's eyes widened instantly.

Because in his magic perception field of vision, he could clearly see that Dumbledore's wand hit a piece of black magic in mid-air.

And with his movement, the tremors in the room that were not too big suddenly increased, and then broke through the critical value of qualitative change.

"Boom!~"

An inhuman roar accompanied by the fire came from the fireplace. Link suddenly clicked the button and saw that a large dark red flame had rushed out of the fireplace, like a large piece of catkin being ignited in late spring and quickly spreading throughout the room. Come on.

Link's reaction was quick.

Before the flames carrying strong resentment and ominous aura rushed to him, he quickly controlled the power of the curse to form a circular protective shield that enveloped him and Dumbledore.

But Dumbledore's movements were faster and more thorough than his.

I saw a sudden wave of the wand in his hand.

A large cloud of umbrella-shaped light mist spurted out from the tip of the staff, directly suppressing the spread of the fire and pushing all the flames back into the fireplace.

"The Fierce Fire Curse is still a trap trigger."

Dumbledore still seemed very relaxed, and he even had time to explain the magic spell in front of Link, "I think you have seen the detailed arrangement method through the super-sense spell before. This is a very clever and creative magic spell." Maybe you can learn how to use the curse in the future.

This should be Tom's parting gift to us. He wants to use this fire spell to destroy the traces of their activities in this old house, and maybe get rid of intruders like you by the way.

But what he didn't count was that this time I would be the one to take action! "

Dumbledore said this and thrust his wand forward!

In an instant, the white light flourished, and the bright light curtain crushed all the flames, and finally crushed the flame python curled up in the fireplace and screamed into nothingness.

"OK! Done!"

After doing all this, Dumbledore turned around and gave Link a bright smile and said.

Seeing this, Link could only forcefully smile and nod, while Akam, who had been peeking at his collar, ducked back as if he was running away.

The scene just now brought back some bad memories.

"Is this the power of the curse you currently have?" Dumbledore discovered the protective shield Link had placed in front of them. He tapped the wand curiously and said, "The skills used are also very good. The only It's a pity that it's not strong enough. Maybe you should find a way to strengthen it."

Hearing this, Link's face turned a little dark.

It's not that easy to increase the magic power. Dumbledore is in pure Versailles this time.

Link didn't want to discuss with him his ability that he gained through cheating the system, so he directly removed the protective shield and said:

"Let's leave this house quickly. The Horcrux is definitely not here."

"Oh?" Dumbledore seemed to have heard something interesting, "How did you know?"

Link knew that Dumbledore was deliberately testing himself.

He rolled his eyes and said:

"Don't say you didn't see it! Fire can destroy Horcruxes. If the Horcruxes are really hidden in this old house, how could Voldemort set up a fire trap here?"

"Bingo! The answer is correct!" Dumbledore looked very happy. As he spoke, he gestured his lips in a certain direction. "The Horcrux is indeed not hidden in the old house, but in the back."

"Behind?"

Link repeated the words and looked in the direction of Dumbledore's mouth.