Chapter 4165 4167 [All in Hand]

Xiang Nan then conjured up a water cup and drank up the pink liquid in the stone basin.

Now the toxicity of the despair potion has been eliminated by Xiang Nan's antidote, so it's okay for him to drink it.

The reason why Dumbledore didn't do this was, on the one hand, because the despair potion was a black magic potion created by Voldemort himself, and it was difficult to brew an antidote in a short time.

Xiang Nan had learned potions from Voldemort's soul fragments, and he knew that the green liquid in the stone basin was the despair poison, so he had plenty of time to study and make an antidote in advance.

On the one hand, Dumbledore had been cursed at the time and had less than a year left to live. He had no time to slowly find a way to crack it, so he could only choose to bear it.

If he had enough time, I believe he would slowly study it, and even regard it as a good research topic.

After drinking up the liquid in the stone basin, Xiang Nan really saw Slytherin's pendant box at the bottom of the stone basin.

It was a golden pendant box, the size of an egg, with a gorgeous letter "S" on it, inlaid with many small emeralds, very exquisite and very beautiful.

The reason why this locket has been treasured by the descendants of the family for generations is not only because it is the relic of Salazar Slytherin, but also because it was once a huge storage box.

Salazar Slytherin stored a large amount of wealth, potions, magic props, magic books, etc. in the locket, which is enough to maintain the continuation of the entire family.

Since this locket can only be opened with Parseltongue, which is unique to the Slytherin family, no one except the descendants of the family can open this locket, and no one can take away the items stored in it.

Because this locket has an impeccable anti-theft effect.

But he didn't expect that his descendants were so unfilial that the inheritance in the locket had been squandered before it was passed down for several generations, leaving only an empty locket, which was now turned into a Horcrux by Voldemort.

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After taking Slytherin's locket, Xiang Nan cast the "Copying Spell" to make a fake and put it back in the stone basin.

In the stone basin, the despair potion that had been drunk up was gradually filling up the entire stone basin.

Xiang Nan knew that this was deliberately designed by Voldemort, who liked to torture people repeatedly.

The despair potion was very difficult to drink, and the more you drank, the more painful it was. Most people could not hold on after drinking a few cups.

Even Dumbledore, who had a strong willpower, almost gave in, but Harry Potter followed his instructions and forced him to drink it.

So Voldemort deliberately designed that the despair potion would be filled slowly to prevent someone from drinking the potion multiple times and not letting people exploit this loophole.

Seeing this, Xiang Nan poured another cup of antidote.

In this way, when Regulus Black came to get it again, he would not have to suffer so much, nor would he have to drink the lake water, and naturally he would not be attacked by the corpses.

As the saying goes, a prodigal son who returns is more valuable than gold. That child is not bad, and it is worth saving.

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After the arrangement, Xiang Nan left the island in the middle of the lake, left the cave, and then used Apparition to leave this place and came to Hogsmeade Village outside Hogwarts.

Then he entered Hogwarts from the main gate.

I haven't been back to school for two years. I feel a lot more familiar when I come back.

Xiang Nan immediately cast the Patronus Charm and let it inform Dumbledore to tell him that he has found the remaining Horcruxes and will come to his office to find him immediately.

A moment later, Xiang Nan had arrived at the third floor of Hogwarts, and Dumbledore was waiting at the door.

"Cockroach pile~" Dumbledore said, and then a staircase appeared.

The two walked up the stairs and entered the office on the eighth floor.

Xiang Nan then handed over the Hufflepuff's gold cup, Slytherin's locket, and the diary that he had just obtained.

"Hufflepuff's gold cup!! Slytherin's locket!!" Dumbledore said in surprise, and the portraits of the headmasters of all generations were also surprised.

These are the holy objects left by the founders of Hogwarts, with extraordinary significance and great value.

After the death of the founders, they were basically left to their families, so even the headmasters had never seen them. Now they have opened their eyes.

"This diary is..." Dumbledore said curiously again.

"It is a notebook used by the mysterious man." Xiang Nan said, opening the diary, and saw the words "Tom Riddle" on the first page.

Xiang Nan then picked up a feather pen on the table and wrote in the diary, "My name is Severus Snape~"

"Hello, Severus, my name is Tom Riddle. How did you find my diary?" A line of handwriting quickly appeared on the diary, and then slowly disappeared.

Dumbledore immediately understood.

This diary has a certain intelligence, which is very doubtful.

"Now the five Horcruxes are complete, I just hope he didn't make the sixth and seventh Horcruxes." Xiang Nan said again.

"I don't think so. Making a Horcrux is already a terrifying thing. He actually made five Horcruxes, splitting his soul into six parts. I think his soul is very fragile now, and I'm afraid it can't withstand another split." Dumbledore waved his hand.

Horcrux making does not divide the soul into six equal parts, but each split takes half of the soul. Therefore, every time a Horcrux is made, half of the soul will be lost.

Voldemort made five Horcruxes, so his soul is now only one thirty-second of the complete state.

Ordinary wizards would have died at this point, but Voldemort was gifted and could hold on.

However, the multiple splitting of his soul also made him less and less human, and his mind became more and more crazy and unstable.

Therefore, Dumbledore concluded that Voldemort would not make Horcruxes again.

However, Xiang Nan knew that Voldemort wanted to make six Horcruxes. Including himself, there are seven.

And the number "seven" is a mysterious number with magic in the magic world.

It's just that maybe he didn't find a suitable container, because Voldemort has always been the most pursuing pomp. Except for the first time he made a Horcrux, he had nothing and could only choose his diary. All other Horcruxes were top holy objects in the magic world.

Resurrection Stone, Slytherin's Locket, Hufflepuff's Gold Cup, Ravenclaw's Diadem, he even wanted to get his hands on Gryffindor's Sword.

In the magic world, top holy objects like this are very rare, and he didn't want to wrong himself, so he never made the sixth Horcrux.

In the original novel, Voldemort didn't know that Harry Potter had a piece of his soul, so after he was resurrected, he created the Horcrux Nagini.

This also caused his soul to split twice, leaving only about one hundred and twenty-eighth of its complete form.

This is also why Voldemort made many stupid moves after his rebirth, and he had no intelligence and charm of a top villain boss, and could only say "hehehe".

Because his soul has been shattered into slag, it would be strange if he didn't fall into madness, confusion, and stupidity.