Chapter 455 About Horcruxes

Horcrux is a word that is very unfamiliar to Ada. Even if Dumbledore writes it out, Ada will not recognize the word.

Ada's research on black magic is not particularly thorough. Although she learned a lot about black magic in "The Process of Modern Dark Magic" and in the restricted section of the library, this knowledge did not include anything related to Horcruxes.

In other words, Dumbledore touched on Ada's knowledge blind spot.

Horcrux refers to an object that contains part of a person's soul. The soul undergoes a division and stores the divided part in the object. In this way, even if the body is destroyed, the person will not die because there is still a piece of your soul that is not damaged in this world.

This is the reason why Voldemort did not die after being rebounded by the Death Curse, because his Horcrux was well preserved and he still had fragments of his soul alive. So he just lost his body and power, and became a being worse than a wandering soul.

Regarding the dark magic of Horcrux, its inventor is no longer known. The time when it first appeared was far older than the Big Four at Hogwarts.

Its inventor may have been the despicable Herbo, as this ancient Greek dark wizard was the first person to successfully create a Horcrux.

The despicable Herbo, one of the earliest dark wizards known in the history of magic, is also the most influential dark wizard. He invented many evil curses, which made him infamous.

Helbo was an early Parselmouth, and he was also the first dark wizard to discover that using toads to hatch eggs could hatch basilisks.

Because it was so long ago, no one knew the cause of Haierbo's death, and no one knew how his Horcrux was destroyed.

"Horcrux..." Ada muttered this word, and she once again felt the mystery and unfathomability of magic. She said, "Professor, is this why you said you couldn't stop him?"

Dumbledore nodded and said: "Yes, because of the existence of Horcruxes, I can only defeat him, but cannot kill him. Even if I succeed in destroying his body, he will be 'resurrected' again and again. "

"If we want to completely eliminate Voldemort, we must first destroy his Horcruxes. Otherwise, what awaits us will be his comeback again and again," Ada said, "It's like a nightmare that we can't wake up from."

Dumbledore walked slowly, as if he was treating the astronomy tower as the principal's office. He said: "Yes, it was only in the past few years that I learned about Horcruxes, and realized that Voldemort is more powerful than I imagined."

Except for Dumbledore, no one in this world is Voldemort's opponent, and only Ada can fight with him now. As for Harry, he can only be beaten when facing Voldemort now, and he is still far from being a savior!

Only Dumbledore can fight Voldemort and has the strength to defeat Voldemort.

But Dumbledore is already over a hundred years old, and he will continue to grow older day by day. One day, he will no longer have the strength to defeat Voldemort. What will happen then?

Voldemort only needs to live up to his name, be an old villain, survive to the end, and survive, and then people can only place their hopes on Harry. It's better for Voldemort to be more cruel and torture Harry to death. Anyway, he is immortal because of the Horcrux.

But Voldemort did not choose to do this. His pride did not allow him to have the last laugh in this way.

Furthermore, the future is always full of infinite variables. Even the first-generation Dark Lord who is good at prophecy cannot predict it with certainty, let alone the second-generation Dark Lord who is not good at this.

"Ada, do you remember what Voldemort said on the night of the 'resurrection'?" Dumbledore asked.

"I have gone further on the road to immortality than anyone else." Ada tried to imitate Voldemort's tone that night, "Conquered death. Now that I have been tested, it seems that at least one or two of my experiments have worked... …because I did not die, even though the spell was fatal.”

Dumbledore sighed: "The memory of young people is always enviable!"

Ada knocked on the wall rhythmically. After learning about the existence of Horcruxes and thinking about Voldemort's words, Ada instantly got goosebumps all over her body.

Conquering death, not even the three Peverell brothers in the story could do it. Although Voldemort exaggerated a bit, he did manage to avoid death.

On that night in 1981, he should have been killed by his own spell.

"Professor, when did you realize the existence of Horcruxes?" Ada asked, "Benedict Foley?"

In his first year of school, Foley took up the position of Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. He broke into the common rooms of four colleges and turned the entire castle upside down, but he found nothing.

"Foley gave me a wake-up call. He made me realize that there was something that could bring Voldemort back." Dumbledore explained softly. "It's a pity that he couldn't tell me what he was looking for, because he I don’t even know.”

"So after him, you invited Professor Cecil. You hope to learn more about black magic from Professor Cecil's mouth and find out this thing." Ada took over from the principal and said.

Grover Cecil, a learned dark wizard. A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher who hurt Ada but taught her a lot.

"That's right, we thought of some possibilities at the time, and Horcruxes were one of them." Dumbledore said, "But there is no evidence to **** the hypothesis that Voldemort may use any of these methods."

This happened when Ada was in her first or second grade, and then Quirrell peeked into the Sorcerer's Stone and the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets.

"Diary, Tom Riddle's diary!" Ada suddenly realized.

She always felt that the diary was very strange. Not only did it have its own thoughts and memories, but it could also absorb the vitality of others to separate herself from the diary and even have a brand new body.

So that’s the case, no wonder Ada can’t find any magic records similar to the “diary”, because they are Horcruxes! A Horcrux made by Voldemort when he was a student!

"It wasn't until I saw the diary that I was sure that Voldemort had used Horcruxes to ensure his immortality." Dumbledore's expression was heavy, without any joy. "The diary also made me realize that Voldemort was absolutely It can’t be just this one Horcrux.”

The diary from fifty years ago came from Lucius Malfoy. He probably didn't know the function of the diary, otherwise he wouldn't have put the diary into Ginny's cauldron.

Malfoy didn't know about such an important Horcrux. Was it because Voldemort didn't trust him enough? Or is this Horcrux not the only one, but slightly less important?

Ada felt like it was both. The diary was just one of the Horcruxes. Voldemort gave the diary to Malfoy for safekeeping, but did not tell him the truth because of his distrust of him.

Malfoy, who did not know the truth, planted this precious Horcrux on Mr. Weasley many years after Voldemort's fall because he was afraid of being liquidated for hiding items from Voldemort's student days.

"Where should we find Voldemort's Horcruxes?" Ada asked. "He must have hidden them in a very hidden place, and maybe there will be a powerful magic circle to protect them. Maybe they will be given to him like the diary. One of his men is keeping it. We don’t even know what a Horcrux looks like!"

Ada was a little emotional. Destroying the Horcruxes was equivalent to weakening Voldemort, but the question was where were these Horcruxes? What do they look like?

"I have been trying to find Horcruxes, but in the end I found nothing." Dumbledore said, "So I changed my mind. I hope to infer the possibility of Horcruxes by collecting old things related to him and his footprints. Hiding location and number.”

Ada looked at Dumbledore. She was not sure why the principal told her such a confidential matter. Is it out of trust in yourself, or is it because you hope that they can search for Horcruxes together?

"Professor, when you tell me this, do you want me to find Horcruxes?"

"Of course, you are the most suitable candidate." Dumbledore said, but his pun was not immediately recognized by Ada.

"But not now. You only have one year to stay at Hogwarts, and your student days are only one year left. In this year, don't think about anything, don't do anything, and cherish this time. The most wonderful time.”