Chapter 1,188

"In fact, I know he tried this, five years ago," Dumbledore said, "but for several reasons, I think that for Voldemort, a magic stone has less power than a Horcrux."

"Smaller than a Horcrux?"

"Because the Philosopher's Stone, which is the elixir of life, really begins to prolong life, it must be taken on time, throughout life, if the person wants to gain immortality. Therefore, Voldemort will be forced to completely rely on the elixir of life if it If it's used up, or it's contaminated, or if the magic stone is stolen, he will die like everyone else," Fan Lin said. He had a magic stone. Fortunately, he didn't need it to make any longevity medicine. class stuff.

He didn't want to become like Nicoléme, it just felt like he had a leak, and there was no way to replenish it. Due to the limitations of life forms, if he didn't undergo essential evolution, he would always be like a dam that burst. The crack keeps widening.

By then, the effectiveness of the elixir of life will become less and less effective. Fanlin is very suspicious, what will happen if Nicoléme uses the elixir of life now?

Injection of new energy resulting in greater leakage?

The container itself can no longer support it.

"Oh, yes, that's right. If you have met Nicoléme in person, you won't have such a problem. Maybe there will be no problem in the first one or two hundred years, but... remember, Voldemort likes to be alone. Action. I'm sure he'll find a way to keep life alive, even with the unbearable elixir, of course he's prepared to drink it if it gives him a horrible part of his life that disappeared after attacking you. Just to get a body. After that, I'm sure he still wants to continue to rely on his Horcrux. If it's just to become a human, he won't need anything else. You see... …or closer to eternal life than anyone can ever get.”

Harry kept nodding. If Voldemort was not immortal, at least Harry had never seen that ghost come back from the dead. If it was really that simple, then Cedric wouldn't have to go through that kind of pain.

Thankfully, no one known to Harry had died so far.

However, Dumbledore didn't stop.

"But now, Harry, there is some warning in this message. You have succeeded in obtaining for me this vital memory. We have come closer to Voldemort's secrets before anyone else. You listened to what he said, 'To make yourself strong. , wouldn't it be better to divide your soul into many pieces? I mean, for example, 7 is the most magical number, isn't it? 'Isn't 7 the most magical number? It is very attractive for Voldemort to divide his soul into seven pieces. This is also the topic that Fan Lin and I discussed in the past. The key problem is that we were not sure at that time what Voldemort would use to make Horcruxes. And he will make several Horcruxes."

"He made seven horrues?" Harry was surprised when several of the portraits on the wall made similar noises in anger. "But they could be anywhere in the world - hidden - buried or invisible -"

"I'm glad to see you recognize the vast number of problems," Dumbledore said quietly. "But first, no, Harry, there are not 7 Horcruxes, there is one. The seventh part of his soul still resides in his reborn body. This part lived on some strange objects during his wandering years Without it, he has no self at all. Within him is the seventh piece of soul - the last piece that must be destroyed by those who wish to kill Voldemort."

Fan Lin looked up at Dumbledore, and then at Harry. Dumbledore's calm face looked very calm.

There are seven Horcruxes, and the soul of the main body is hidden in Voldemort's current body.

It can be said that if nothing unexpected happens, Voldemort will need to die eight times before he can really disappear.

"But, there are six more..." Harry said with a little disappointment, "How can we find them?"

"You forgot... you have already destroyed one, I have destroyed the other, and of course, there is Fan Lin, he has destroyed two."

"Wait, you mean, four have been destroyed?" Harry said unexpectedly, "But, I only know the diary and Slytherin's locket."

Dumbledore suddenly raised his hand. His condition was not very good. At least Fanlin couldn't see any blood on Dumbledore's hand.

"This is the ring, Harry. Voldemort's ring. It has a very terrible curse on it. This should never have happened... Forgive me, I lack some necessary humility... for my great abilities, but thankfully Yes, I survived, Fanlin saved me, in Gunter’s hut.”

"I believe that even without me, you will get out of there alive." Fan Lin said.

"Oh, no, that curse is terrible...but Tom may be disappointed that the ring is no longer a Horcrux."

"But how did you discover it?"

"Well, as you know by now, many years ago I made some deals to discover as much as possible about Voldemort's past life. I traveled around and visited some of the places he visited. I was broke in hiding the ring. He hesitated across from Gaunt's house. It was as if Voldemort had successfully sealed a piece of his soul inside, and he never wanted to take it with him again. He hid it away, protected it with many powerful magics, and placed it among his ancestors. In the hut where I once lived, perhaps he never imagined that I might one day go to the trouble of visiting the ruins, and that I could find incredible hiding places.”

"In any case, we can't celebrate us too early. You destroyed the diary and I destroyed the ring, but if our deduction about the seven souls is correct, there are still two Horcruxes."

"But, what is the other thing?" Harry asked, "Slytherin's locket, Tom Riddle's diary, Marvolo's ring...another..."

"In my hand, those two pieces to be exact." Fan Lin said, taking out Slytherin's locket and Ravenclaw's crown with broken gems from the space.

Fanlin has been trying to repair Ravenclaw's crown, but in fact, even after destroying all the magic about Horcruxes, Ravenclaw's crown has not returned to its original appearance.

It can be said that Fan Lin destroyed her core and wanted to repair it. To do this, he needed to find a pure gem of wisdom, but putting it here...

"The diadem of Ravenclaw, what you have seen is the alchemy product I have been tinkering with in the laboratory."

"How did you find her? She has been missing for a long time, Helena..."

"In the Room of Requirement." Fan Lin said, "I forgot exactly when. I needed a laboratory at that time, and then the Room of Requirement appeared there. When I was cleaning up, I finally discovered it."

"A magical experience," said Dumbledore, "but it saves us a lot of trouble and gives us less to look for."

"But they could be anything?" Harry asked. "They could be uh, they could be in tin, or, I don't know, empty potion bottles..."

"You are going astray, Harry. It is certainly an ordinary object, easily overlooked. But would Voldemort use tin or an old potion bottle to guard his precious soul? You have forgotten what I showed you. Voldemort Likes to collect collections, his preferred objects have a powerful and mysterious origin, his pride, his belief, his superiority, he is determined to find for himself a surprising and mysterious place To carve these things implies to me that the Horcruxes chosen by Voldemort are objects of honor and value."

"But the diary is not that special."

"The diary, as you said yourself, is proof that he is the heir of Slytherin. I'm sure Voldemort considered its staggering importance."

"So, what about the other Horcruxes?" Harry said. "Do you think you know what they are, Professor?"

"I'm just guessing," said Dumbledore. "For the reasons I have given, I was convinced that Voldemort would use something inherently noble. That's why I searched Voldemort's past to see if I could find any clues that such ancient treasures had disappeared around him. "

Harry said loudly. "Hufflepuff's cup!"

"Yes." Dumbledore said with a smile. "I could use... or not quite, but I could bet everything in my future that Hufflepuff's cup was the Horcruxes, and that Voldemort found them. The one that's left... and here again I'm assuming he has a total of With only six copies made, it's hard to guess, but I'd hazard a guess that after settling Hufflepuff's and Slytherin's babies, he started looking for the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw babies."

"Then, he deceived Helena." Fan Lin said, "The ghost of Ravenclaw, she is the daughter of Ravenclaw."

"Daughter of Ravenclaw?" Harry opened his mouth. He had never heard of such a thing.

"In fact, this is a bit of a bloody love story, about the bloody Barrow and Helena." Fan Lin said briefly, "So, Voldemort found this."

"But it is certain that there are already relics of the three founders. Naturally, Tom will set his sights on Gryffindor. However, I can guarantee that there is no problem with Gryffindor."

Dumbledore pointed with his bluish-white fingers to the wall behind him, where a ruby-encrusted sword was lying quietly in a glass box.

"Do you think that's the real reason he wanted to go back to Hogwarts, Professor?" Harry said. "To find out something from one of the other founders?"

"Exactly so," said Dumbledore, "but unfortunately it doesn't give us any advantage either, for he has given up, or I believe he has given up, without a chance to search the school, and instead Other things. I have to conclude that he never achieved his ambition of getting four founders' things. But he did get three... and that's the best we can do at the moment."

"Destroy him." Fan Lin said, "We have already done this, but in fact, we have no clue about the sixth soul lock, which is the Horcrux. This is what Slughorn needs to remember. Why, that’s important.”

"But... I think I know what the sixth soul lock is. I admit that I was once very curious about that snake - Nagini. I want to know what you think about it?"

"That snake?" Harry was shocked. "Can animals be used as soul locks?"

"Yes, that would be unwise," said Dumbledore. "Because it's a huge risk to put part of your soul into something that can think and act. Anyway, if I'm right, Voldemort was six months away from making it when he broke into your parents' house and planned to kill you. At least one of the goals of the soul lock has not been completed. He is planning to use a special murder to make the soul lock. He believes that killing you will eliminate the danger described in the prophecy. . He believed it would make him invincible. I'm sure he wanted to use your death to create his last soul lock. He failed a few years later with Nagini. Old Man Melon may have accidentally turned it into his last soul lock. It lurks in the secret chamber and enhances Voldemort's mystery; I think he may not favor it more than other things; no doubt. He just wants to keep it around. It seems that he can control it in an extraordinary way, far more than an ordinary Parseltongue. I suspect that there is a soul connection between him and Nagini, and, ha Every time you look at a snake...what's wrong, Fanlin?"

Dumbledore suddenly looked up at Fan Lin. Fan Lin's cough interrupted Dumbledore's analysis.

"In fact, I thought so at first, Professor..." Fan Lin shook his head and said, "But in fact, Nagini was killed by me and sent away on the night Voldemort was resurrected. After that, I killed him."

"What?" Dumbledore said in shock, "How did you..."

"The Severe Fire Curse..." Fan Lin said, "I found that the Severe Fire Curse is very effective against Horcruxes, because both the material of the Horcrux itself and the soul fragments inside are very consistent with the characteristics of the Severe Fire Curse. "

"Nothing can burn..." Dumbledore paused, "What a genius idea. I have been worrying about how to destroy the Horcruxes, but you said you killed Nagini?"

"Yes, before I leave." Fan Lin said.

"My fire spell hit Nagini, which caused Voldemort a lot of pain, but it is certain that Voldemort was not as bad as he imagined. I have destroyed Horcruxes, whether it was Slytherin's locket, Or the diary, Ravenclaw's diadem, this feels different, Nagini is not a Horcrux, Professor."

"this……"

"But, I am possessed by it...I mean, Nagini's body...if he is not a Horcrux..."

"I think that may be another body of Voldemort." Fan Lin said, "When we were in the Albanian forest, Harry also heard that his broken soul could not form a ghost at all. Going forward, Voldemort must possess something, and Nagini should be the most successful choice. There are very few snakes that can carry Voldemort's soul... Or, before this, Nagini was Voldemort's pet? "

Fanlin really doesn't know exactly when Nagini existed.

"In any case, Nagini once served as the carrier of Voldemort's main soul. Therefore, there will be a strong aura of Voldemort in Nagini's soul. This is why Nagini was mistaken for one of the Horcruxes. reasons." (To be continued)