A certain Hogwarts magical cat

Chapter 341 The Secret Room Trap in the Old Mansion

"Voldemort's maternal grandfather was Marvolo Gaunt. He had two children, a son named Morfin and a daughter named Merope. The three were the last heirs of the Gaunt family and the last blood of the Slytherin line.

Their line was notoriously restless and violent, a trait that became more pronounced with each passing generation because of the habit of consanguinity.

And they are irrational, plus they especially like luxurious pomp.

So, generations before Marvolo, the family fortune was squandered.But they are impoverished and arrogant, and their conceit is unreasonable.

One day, because his brother Morfin discovered that his sister Merope had fallen in love with a handsome Muggle nobleman named Tom Riddle, he used a curse to make him develop painful hives all over his body.

The Ministry of Magic sent an Auror to verify the situation, but Marvolo thought his son's actions were all right, and attacked the Ministry of Magic Auror together with his son.

In the end, both were arrested by the Ministry of Magic and imprisoned in Azkaban, Marvolo was imprisoned for half a year, and Morfin was imprisoned for three years.

Without the suppression of her father and younger brother, her sister Merope used a love potion to make the handsome Tom Riddle abandon her original girlfriend, fell in love with herself, and eloped with herself to London, where Voldemort was born a year later.

After Voldemort was born, because Merope loved too deeply and didn't want to live a false life anymore, he stopped using the "love potion" on Old Tom. After waking up, Old Tom abandoned Merope and Voldemort without saying a word.

The sad Merope gave Voldemort the same name as his father, Tom Riddle, and died after leaving him at the gate of an orphanage.

And when Voldemort was 11 years old, I brought him from that orphanage to Hogwarts! "

Dumbledore used all the information he had found about the Gaunt family, combined with his own guesses, to tell the story of Voldemort's birth.

After hearing this, Charlie could only sigh:
"Hateful people also have pity!"

When a person is born, he is a blank slate. What he becomes later is mainly related to the environment and experiences in which he grew up.

It is difficult for children who grow up in a harmonious and loving family environment to have particularly extreme personalities.

Those with extreme and flawed personalities have experienced some misfortune in many childhoods.

However, to Charlie, this is nothing more than an exclamation. Whether it is pitiful or hateful, as long as it is his enemy, it is all the same.

Know that when you sympathize with your enemies, your enemies will not sympathize with you.

"Clean up!"

At the gate of Gaunt's old house, Dumbledore's mouth moved slightly, and the vines all over the walls of the old house and the dust, tiles and nettles on the ground all disappeared in an instant.

"Instant spell, it really deserves to be Dumbledore!"

Charlie just felt a wave of magic in Dumbledore's body, and the old Gaunt house in front of him immediately took on a new look.

Just like that, the two pushed open the wooden door and walked into the not very big old house together.

The area inside the old house is not large, except for some dilapidated furniture, nothing can be seen inside, it doesn't seem like a place where the Horcrux can be hidden.

"I feel some magic fluctuations, it seems to be underground!"

Turning around in the old house, Dumbledore said slowly.

The magic fluctuations faintly emanating from the old house are very weak. If it weren't for Dumbledore, ordinary wizards would really not be able to detect it.

Because at this time, Charlie didn't notice the magic fluctuations that Dumbledore said.

However, he stretched out his hand and cast a floating spell on the messy furniture in the old house.

When all the furniture was floating in mid-air, Charlie noticed something strange on the floor under the closet at a glance. There seemed to be a secret secret door leading to the ground there.

"Charlie, don't move yet, there are three black magic traps on the secret door, leave them to me!"

When Charlie was about to open the trapdoor in the underground passage, Dumbledore stopped him.

Charlie didn't say much about it, but moved away.

Regarding cracking black magic, he is really not very good at it, because compared to unlocking the traps of black magic bit by bit, he is better at brute force cracking.

He felt that any magic defenses and traps, as long as they were strong enough, could be broken through violent means.

It's like a door that has been attached with various anti-unlocking spells. Instead of slowly finding the corresponding magic solution, it is better to make a miracle with great strength. As long as the force is strong enough, no matter how powerful the anti-unlocking spell is, it will be useless.

As a former professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, Dumbledore was also quite knowledgeable about black arts, so in less than a minute, he easily dispelled the three magic traps on the secret door.

"Fluorescent flashes!"

Through the secret door of the old house and into the basement below, Charlie immediately cast a lighting spell.

The soft magic light illuminated the entire basement, and a small stone platform appeared directly in front of the two of them.

On each of the four corners of the stone platform, a three-meter-high gargoyle was carved, and directly above the stone platform, a ring with a jet-black gem was lying there quietly.

"Unexpectedly, Voldemort actually hid a Horcrux here!"

Dumbledore showed a hint of surprise on his face, and walked towards the stone platform with Charlie.

And just when the two were about to reach the stone platform, the gargoyles on the four corners of the stone platform suddenly opened their eyes, and suddenly moved from stillness, flying towards the two with their teeth and claws.

It turns out that the gargoyles on the four corners of the stone platform are not only carved, but also cast a revitalizing spell by Voldemort. The purpose is to kill the thief instantly when the thief's attention is attracted by the ring.

If it was an ordinary wizard, in the face of the four gargoyles that suddenly attacked, it would be too late to chant a spell to defend, and thus be killed by the gargoyles.

It's a pity that the two people who came today are not ordinary wizards, but the two strongest existences in the world.

I saw that the two gargoyles attacking Dumbledore were directly blocked by an iron armor curse that Dumbledore cast instantly, and then the two explosive spells were instantly cast, blowing them into pieces.

The two gargoyles who attacked Charlie were even worse. Before they had time to swing their claws, Charlie stepped forward and slapped his head with two big slaps on the left and right.

"The Animagus of Fantastic Beasts is really different from the Animagus of humans!"

Dumbledore couldn't help sighing when he saw Charlie smashing the hard gargoyle into rubble with his flesh and blood without magic.

He knew that after Charlie turned into a human with the Animagus, his strength seemed to be no less than when he was a magical animal, but seeing it with his own eyes today, he still felt a little surprised.

After all, when a wizard uses animus to turn into an animal, it is actually no different from a normal animal.

(End of this chapter)