Chapter 514 512. Rats crossing the street
The old house of the Gaunt family really cannot be called a house, it can only be regarded as a wooden shed.
It's obvious that no one has lived in it for a long time, the furniture is covered with dust, and there are tatters everywhere. It doesn't look like a pure-blood family with a long history and heritage.
It didn't take them much time to find the Gaunt ring, which was hidden in a chest of drawers in the wooden shed.
It was Jon who discovered it first. He carefully picked up the ring from the chest of drawers, and at the same time felt a familiar magic in it.
That clearly belonged to Voldemort.
The gemstone on this ring is the resurrection stone left by the legendary "Grim Reaper", which has the magic that can resurrect people, but in fact Jon knows that the so-called resurrection is fake, and the only thing it can do is to bring people back to life. The soul of the dead is just condensed, and resurrection or something is completely empty talk.
Jon couldn't absorb the unique magic power of Death God. The Horcrux was made of Voldemort's soul fragments, and he couldn't solve it, but there was obviously a magic power used to maintain some kind of curse on the ring.
After feeling this, Jon's heart became clear.
This must be the curse that indirectly caused Dumbledore's death in the original book. Voldemort obviously left behind this ring with almost no safeguards. If Dumbledore was not strong enough, he probably wouldn't be able to sustain it at all. To the extent that he ordered Snape to kill himself.
So after thinking about what the magic power attached to it was, Jon absorbed it without hesitation.
He has eaten too much of Voldemort's magic power. It is nutritious, healthy and delicious, and he can still feel full if he eats a large amount.
Erasing the curse above, Jon turned around and handed the ring to Dumbledore. This ring is of course safe when the attributes of the Horcrux are completely erased.
This can also be regarded as helping Dumbledore to eliminate the risk. The Deathly Hallows will not be easily destroyed. Even if the function of the Horcrux is eliminated, Dumbledore can still use it to satisfy part of his regrets.
The trip still seemed to be going smoothly, and they didn't encounter any trouble from the beginning to the end. Just when Jon and the others were finding something and were about to leave directly, two voices suddenly sounded faintly outside the door of the wooden shed.
“.It was originally your task alone, but you insisted on pulling me in!”
"Didn't you live near here before, don't complain, this is not a big deal, after I find the things, I will invite you to the Pig's Head Bar for a drink."
"Hogsmeade? Forget it, it's too close to Hogwarts. It used to be easy to say, but now it makes me feel uncomfortable when I get close to Dumbledore."
The two voices of conversation are getting closer and closer, obviously approaching the door.
Both Dumbledore and Jon responded quickly.
Jon immediately pulled Harry to hide in the corner of the wooden shed, then pulled out the invisibility cloak he was wearing, and covered himself and Harry, who was still in a daze, while Dumbledore But he waved the magic wand in his hand, and in the next second, all the traces left by them in the room disappeared, and it returned to its original appearance.
"Wait a minute, why isn't this door locked?"
The short, middle-aged wizard who opened the door first said with a vigilant expression.
His reaction made the companions behind him also tense, and the two of them pulled out their wands at the same time, changed their casual conversation before, and walked carefully into the Gaunt family's ancestral house.
But after entering the door, they found that the surrounding area was full of thick dust that would only be left in long-term uninhabited places. There were no footprints on the ground, and the floating ash on the tables, chairs and cabinets was evenly distributed. Look, I don't feel the slightest abnormality.
"You were too surprised. The owner didn't tell us when we came here. The door here must be locked. It's a big deal for a mouse to come to this shabby place. How could there be someone hiding here? ?”
The words of his companion made the short wizard at the beginning also relax his vigilance. He put away his wand and said with staring eyes.
"It's been a long time, and you have forgotten how we came here more than ten years ago! Don't forget what we are doing now! It's always good to be careful!"
Of course what he said made sense, and the companion didn't argue with anything, but just started rummaging in the house.
And their every move at this time is being carried out under the eyes of the three of Jon!
Harry felt extremely nervous and excited, he swallowed, watched the two wizards who looked like they were not very kind turned the whole room upside down, but found nothing, and then he felt Jon beside him didn't know when he had quietly raised the wand in his hand that was exactly the same as Dumbledore's.
Harry didn't know if Dumbledore and Jon had any communication in private, or if it was a tacit understanding between the two.
Without the sound of chanting a spell, a red light suddenly lit up at the tip of Jon's wand!
On the other side, the same red spell also appeared, leaving no room for the two wizards in the room who had already put down their guard to react!
The next moment, the two wizards who were still rummaging through boxes and boxes were knocked out by the huge spell power, and then fell to the ground, unable to get up again.
After finishing all this, Jon tore off the invisibility cloak, and Dumbledore also lifted the Disillusionment Curse on his body. Harry was still in a state of shock, and before he could react, the battle was over.
Jon walked up to the short wizard who was closest to him, opened the sleeves of his robe, and sure enough, he found a tattoo of a snake passing through a skull on his arm!
"Death Eaters!"
Harry screamed, of course he also recognized the sign. At the end of the Triwizard Tournament last year, Barty Jr. proudly shared this mark on himself with him and Cedric.
Jon and Dumbledore were not much surprised by this. The only people in the wizarding world who could think of coming to this place to find things were people related to Voldemort.
What made Jon frowned and wondered was that even if the Death Eaters in this world still existed, they should barely get by like street rats.
How did they find such a place as Gaunt's ancestral house today?
(end of this chapter)