[Zhongyingmei] My dad is Voldy

After the others left the headmaster's office, Dumbledore handed Harry the Ravenclaw crown and said slowly, "This is Voldemort's Horcrux."

"Horcrux?" Harry asked curiously, examining the diadem.

"Yes, Horcruxes," Dumbledore explained, "Voldemort split his soul and hid the soul fragments in one of the Horcruxes. That way, even if his body is attacked or destroyed, as long as there is a small piece of soul is safe, and he will not die. This is the immortality Voldemort has been seeking."

Harry gasped, and murmured softly, "You mean, as long as the Horcruxes are not destroyed, we can't kill Voldemort?"

"I'm afraid so, Harry."

"Then we've destroyed Voldemort's Horcruxes now, haven't we?" Harry asked expectantly.

"We destroyed one of the Horcruxes."

"More than one Horcrux?" Harry's eyes widened in horror, "but they could be hidden anywhere in the world."

"I'm glad you can see the seriousness of the problem." Dumbledore said, "According to my sources, Voldemort made a total of seven Horcruxes. Anita has already destroyed one, and I have also destroyed one." Deng As he spoke, Bullido took out a ring from the drawer, "Marvolo Gaunt's ring, although I paid a little price, I still destroyed it."

"But how do we find the remaining Horcruxes?" Harry asked. "They could be anything. The more ordinary objects that are easily overlooked, the more likely they were turned into Horcruxes."

"You might think so, but would Voldemort use ordinary objects to preserve his precious soul? No, he was too proud to be content with ordinary objects, even if they were more hidden. Voldemort liked to have powerful magic and history Meaningful things, because he was confident I wouldn't find them. I lost the clue to the next Horcrux after destroying the ring, but Ravenclaw's diadem gave me a new clue."

"A relic from the remaining three of the Big Four?" Harry speculated.

"Yes." Dumbledore smiled, "I can guarantee that the relics of Gryffindor are safe and sound. The whereabouts of the relics of Slytherin and Hufflepuff are unknown. I have reason to believe that Voldemort made them into Horcruxes." .”

"In this case, we already know four, how can we find the remaining three?"

"Be patient, Harry," said Dumbledore. "I've been researching Voldemort's past experiences, trying to find items of special significance to him. At the same time, we can learn from the two known Horcruxes. —Slytherin's locket and Hufflepuff's cup—beginning."

"Any clues?" Harry asked impatiently.

"Not yet, but we should be able to find some clues from Voldemort's experience. The ring was found in the ruins of Gaunt's house, which is the old house of Voldemort's mother family. As for the crown, we can't be sure until Ginny wakes up." I don't know where she found it, but I presume it's somewhere in Hogwarts. So it's obvious, isn't it? These are places that have special meaning to Voldemort. Places that have special meaning... so Where it all began..." At this point, Dumbledore shut up and refused to say more.

Seeing Harry's curious and worried expression, Dumbledore smiled and said, "Okay, leave these to me to worry about. I'm telling you this because I think you have the right to know, but what you have to do now is to study hard .”

Harry knew he couldn't help at all right now, although he wanted to know the follow-up, he nodded helplessly.

"Did Voldemort's soul piece be cast with your wand?" asked Dumbledore, who had noticed Harry's strange attitude towards his wand while he was in the school hospital.

"Yes." Harry nodded, looking at his wand with a complicated expression.

"It's not your fault, and certainly not your wand's fault."

"I know. I just..." Harry couldn't tell what he was feeling. On the one hand, Anita was the daughter of Voldemort, the murderer of his parents, but on the other hand, Anita was taken from Voldemort. saved them.

"Don't think too much. Just follow your heart." Dumbledore said, "Come on, I'll help you erase the traces of Voldemort's curse. You definitely don't want to have a trace of the Unforgivable Curse on your wand. The Ministry of Magic has It’s unreasonable when it’s time.”

Dumbledore took Harry's wand, pointed the tip of his wand at the tip of Harry's wand, and said, "PriorIntato."

A puff of thick smoke spewed out from the junction of the two wands, gradually forming a picture of Anita rolling and struggling under the torture of the Cruciatus Curse. Even if there was no sound coming out, one could see how tragic the picture was at that time.Harry turned his head away, unable to bear to look any further.

Dumbledore played back a few more times, erasing all traces of the Crown Prince's casting, before returning the wand to Harry.

Harry stroked his wand, still bewildered.

"Are there any questions?" Dumbledore asked with a smile, and he seemed to be in a good mood.

"Yes." Harry frowned, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I don't understand. Since Ann...Prince is Voldemort's daughter, why did Voldemort torture her like this? Why did Prince be able to do so without any hesitation?" Hesitating to destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes? I'm not saying Prince didn't do the right thing, I mean Prince did the right thing. But Voldemort was a bad guy, a bad guy as bad as he could be , he is also Prince’s biological father, isn’t he?”

"Harry." Dumbledore said quietly, putting his fingers together under his chin, "not every parent loves their children. Yes, everyone says it's natural for parents to love their children. That's a lie , at least partly a lie. Some people don't understand love, like Voldemort, he doesn't understand love, so he can never get the power of your mother. Remember, Harry. Beinglovedisaprivilege, notaright. Soalwaysbegrateful. (Remember , Harry. Being loved is a privilege, not a right. So always be grateful.)”

"As for whether Anita hesitated when destroying Voldemort's Horcrux, I don't know. It doesn't matter. What matters is that Anita chose the right side in the end. Maybe Anita did it because she Never admitted that Voldemort was her father. Her father was Severus, wasn't he?"

Harry nodded thoughtfully, and asked again, "Why did Anita endure Voldemort's torture? If she had a recording of a rooster crowing in her hand, she could have attacked before then."

"You know the answer, Harry," said Dumbledore quietly.

"Anita is here to protect Ginny. Only when Voldemort's remnant soul comes down from Ginny, will her attack not hurt Ginny." The expression on Harry's face was extremely complicated.

"To protect you, Hermione and Ron, you see, Voldemort controlled you to threaten Anita." Dumbledore smiled again, "Harry, I am not qualified to tell you who to forgive .But remember, don't let hatred blind you to true friendship."

For a while, neither of them spoke.After a while, Dumbledore said, "It's getting late, Harry, what you need now is a good night's sleep."

On the other side, Severus strode forward in billowing black robes, Anita and Draco trotting behind him.Anita thought that Severus would not let her go easily this time, and would probably let her copy the potion book and kill it.But unexpectedly, Severus didn't stop when he passed by the office, but continued to walk forward.

Anita and Draco paused, looked at each other in disbelief, and then hurriedly caught up with Severus, but the ominous premonition lingered in their hearts.

When he reached the door of the Slytherin common room, Severus said two words coldly, "Go in!"

Anita and Draco hesitated, Anita said weakly, "Dad..."

Severus interrupted Anita directly, "Don't make me say it a third time, go in and sleep!" Severus' voice was obviously suppressed with anger.

Anita wanted to say something else, Draco pulled Anita's sleeve, signaling her not to add fuel to the fire.No matter what you say at this time, it will only make Severus more angry, so it's better to wait until tomorrow when Severus is calmer.

Anita also knew that at this time she should be obedient, and she would do whatever Severus asked her to do.But she still holds the eyes and skin of the basilisk in her hands. She doesn't know how to handle such advanced potion ingredients, and the medicine won't be as effective as fresh ones tomorrow.As a potion master, wasting medicinal materials is absolutely intolerable.

So Anita handed the snakeskin package to Severus under Severus' terrifying eyes, and said in a low voice, "These are the eyes of the basilisk and the skin of the basilisk. The fangs were brought out, but they were taken away by Professor Dumbledore. However, when I was in the Chamber of Secrets, I extracted a little basilisk venom. The basilisk’s venom sac had disappeared along with the flesh and blood, but the basilisk’s teeth and Ordinary snakes are also hollow, so I extracted a few drops using the method of extracting the venom of ordinary snakes, and put them in a small bottle made of snake skin..."

Anita's original voice was still trembling, but when it came to the process of collecting potion materials, she began to talk eloquently.Draco sweated for the big-hearted Anita, but he didn't expect that although Severus' face was still gloomy, he didn't get more angry, but seemed to be in a better mood?

After Anita finished speaking, she realized that her father was still angry, and she shrank her neck involuntarily.Severus sighed and said, "Go to bed! Come to my office tomorrow after school, you two, this is not over yet."

Anita nodded, seeing that her father didn't seem to be so angry anymore, she boldly hugged Severus' waist and said softly, "I'm sorry, Dad. Good night!"

After speaking, he didn't dare to look at Severus' reaction, and dragged Draco into the common room quickly.

Severus stood at the door for a while, before shaking his head and sighing, he turned and went back to his office.

Anita and Draco said goodnight to each other and went back to their rooms.After taking a hasty shower and gargling at least twenty times (the strange taste in my mouth didn't ease at all), I lay on the bed, but unexpectedly fell asleep.Her body was extremely exhausted, but her spirit was extremely excited, and she hadn't recovered from the previous thrilling experience.

"Our next goal is the Slytherin locket." Anita said to the diary.

"No." Said Mr. Diary.

Anita gave Diary Mr. a questioning look.

The diary added, "Our next step is to put you to sleep."

"I think so too." Anita rolled on the bed irritably, "I can't sleep. Why don't you sing me a lullaby."

Mr. Diary said with a straight face, "I can't sing."

"Why don't you read a bedtime story?" Anita deliberately teased Mr. Diary, "Let's just tell "The Legend of the Three Brothers."

"Stop messing around and go to sleep." The diary gentleman coaxed, "You don't have "The Tales of Beedou the Poet" here."

"You never forget the books you read." Anita propped her head on her hands, staring at the diary without blinking her big eyes.

Mr. Diary did not speak.

Just when Anita thought that Mr. Diary didn't want to talk to her anymore, Mr. Diary's unwavering voice sounded in the room, "Once upon a time, there were three brothers who were traveling along a secluded path..."

"Pfft." Anita couldn't help laughing, and quickly covered her mouth to suppress the laugh, for fear that the diary-lord would become angry from embarrassment.

There was a look of helplessness in the eyes of Mr. Diary, but the voice of reading the story did not stop, but the tone was full of self-defeating.

In this way, after a while, Anita fell into a deep sleep amidst the uneven but extremely soft voice of Mr. Diary.

Mr. Diary looked at Anita's slightly pale sleeping face, and didn't stop until he finished reading the whole story.He kissed Anita lightly on the forehead and said, "Sweet dreams, Anita."

Anita murmured in her sleep, "Good night, Father."