Chapter 710: Gaunt Family

After a dizzy spell, Fish stood on a country road, with tall, tangled hedges on both sides, a clear blue sky above his head, and a bright sun. It should be summer.

About ten steps ahead stood a short, fat man wearing a pair of glasses with particularly thick lenses. He was dressed very strangely: a striped swimsuit with a dress coat on the outside, and shoe covers on his feet...

Obviously, this was another wizard who didn't know much about the Muggle world and had no interest in learning about it.

Fish, who had used the Pensieve to read other people's memories many times, knew that this man must be Bob Ogden, the owner of this memory, as Dumbledore had said.

So he walked forward and looked at the wooden signpost that Ogden was looking at.

There were two arrows on the signpost, one of which read: Great Hangleton, 5 miles. The other read: Little Hangleton, 1 mile.

The cat, who had a good memory, thought for a moment and immediately remembered where this place was... The place where he and Harry were teleported by Barty Jr. with a portkey was called Hangleton, which he later learned from Snape.

At this time, Hermione and the others also entered Ogden's memory, and Fish immediately went to meet him.

"Albus, is this person going to Voldemort's home later?"

"Why do you think so?" Dumbledore asked curiously.

"Because the road sign over there says Hangleton, Voldemort's father's grave should be nearby..." The cat said, looking around. "But Fish hasn't found the cemetery yet."

"Even if you find it, it's useless, because old Tom Riddle is not dead at this time," Dumbledore and the three of them caught up with Ogden and explained: "To be precise, Voldemort was not born yet at this time."

Now not only Fish, but even Harry and Hermione were confused.

"What's the use of this memory, Professor?" Harry asked doubtfully, "Voldemort wasn't even born yet, so there was definitely no clue to his Horcruxes at this time."

"Don't be so absolute, Harry." Dumbledore shook his black index finger and said, "Just watch quietly. After we finish reading Bob's memory, we'll have plenty of time to discuss it slowly."

So Fish and Harry shut up and followed Ogden through a remote path to a dark forest, where the old Gaunt house where Dumbledore got the Resurrection Stone was.

Compared with the dilapidated house more than 80 years later, the Gaunt house today is not much better.

The walls are covered with moss, and many tiles on the roof have fallen off, revealing the rafters inside here and there. Dense nettles grow around the house, and the tall nettles are up to the windows. Those windows are very small and covered with thick old dirt.

And on the door of this house, there is a dead snake nailed to it.

While Hermione and Harry were paying attention to Ogden, Firth raised his head.

When watching other people's memories with a pensieve, the surrounding sounds and smells are also reproduced, even if the owner of the memory cannot notice these sounds or smells.

So Firth immediately found the man in tattered clothes sitting on the branch of a nearby tree.

The man jumped down from the tree and landed in front of Ogden, which scared him.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss..." Morfin Gaunt sounded the alarm to Ogden in Parseltongue.

And after Firth's reminder, Harry dutifully acted as a translator.

Then they followed Ogden's memory and saw Morfin, who seemed to not speak English, Merope, who was timid, and old Gaunt, who was hot-tempered and proud of his bloodline to the point of blind arrogance.

Therefore, they knew that they were actually descendants of Slytherin and Peverell. As for the other bloodline Peverell mentioned by old Gaunt, even Hermione, who had searched the library, didn't know who it was.

Harry looked at Merope who was beaten and scolded by old Gaunt but dared not resist, and felt a little empathy... His treatment in the Dursleys was not much better than hers.

Just as Ogden solemnly informed Morfin of the time of trial, the voices of two young Muggles, a man and a woman, were heard outside the door. According to their conversation, Firth and the others knew that the man was also called Tom.

"Yes," Dumbledore noticed the eyes of Firth and the other three, smiled and nodded, "That is Voldemort's father, Tom Riddle when he was young."

"Firth, go out and see meow!"

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The cat immediately passed through the wall and ran outside the house.

After a while, he ran back through the wall.

"The man looks like Voldemort when he has a nose, meow." Firth, who had seen Voldemort's appearance when he was young, said so.

However, before Hermione and Harry could ask further, old Gaunt wanted to strangle her because his daughter fell in love with a Muggle. After being stopped by Ogden, Morfin immediately attacked Ogden with his knife and wand.

Ogden ran away. Dumbledore motioned for them to follow him.

Ogden protected his head with his arms, rushed onto the dirt road, and quickly turned onto the main road, where he ran into a shiny bay horse. Harry and Hermione also saw the appearance of Voldemort's father when he was young.

It was a very handsome young man with black hair. Harry could hardly imagine how Voldemort changed from a face similar to this one to the terrifying face he had now.

Tom Riddle was riding on a bay horse and was startled by the sudden appearance of Ogden, but soon he and the beautiful girl riding a gray horse beside him laughed heartily, because Ogden's The costume is just too funny.

"Okay, it's time for us to leave."

Dumbledore looked at Ogden's embarrassed escape and said to Fish and the others, and reached out to hold Harry's elbow, while Fish also took Hermione's arm.

The two of them made a lifting motion together, and the four of them flew higher and higher in the darkness like weightlessness, and finally landed steadily back in Dumbledore's office. By this time, it was pitch black outside the window.

"What happened to the girl in the cabin?" Harry asked immediately: "Is that the one named Merope?" Because of what happened to the other party, Harry was very concerned about her next fate.

Dumbledore waved his wand, lit a few more lamps, and replied: "She survived." Ogden apparated to the Ministry and returned fifteen minutes later with reinforcements. Morfin and his father put up a desperate fight. , but both men were subdued, escorted out of the cabin, and later convicted by the Wizengamot."

As he spoke, he sat down again behind the table and motioned for Feish and the others to sit down as well. At the same time, he opened the drawer, took out some snacks and placed them on the table.

"Morfin already has a history of attacking Muggles and was sentenced to three years in Azkaban. In addition to hurting Ogden, Marvolo also hurt several other officials of the Ministry of Magic and was sentenced to six months. Prison sentence," he continued.

Harry breathed a sigh of relief, then imitated Fish's example, took a piece of chocolate frog from the table and started to nibble on it.

"So, what did you all discover from the memory just now?" Dumbledore put his elbows on the table, put his fingers together, and asked with a smile.

Fish was eating his snack intently, completely uninterested in Dumbledore's questions.

Harry slowed down his chewing speed. He knew something about Voldemort's life experience and had a vague guess in his mind.

However, just when he was about to speak, Hermione said first: "That witch named Merope...is Voldemort's mother?"

It is not unusual to have such speculation. After all, in the memory just now, Merop was almost strangled to death by his father because he fell in love with Tom Riddle.

"Yes." Dumbledore said: "Marvolo, his son Morfin, and daughter Merop are the last descendants of the Gaunt family. It is a very ancient wizard family known for its restlessness and violence. They are accustomed to marrying close relatives, and this character trait becomes more and more obvious from generation to generation. Their lack of rationality, coupled with their love of luxury, has led to the squandering of the family's wealth several generations before Marvolo's family. ”

He introduced the situation of the Gaunt family to Harry and Hermione.

"You have just seen that Marvolo ended up in poverty, with a terrible bad temper, but also unreasonably arrogant and conceited. He also has two ancestral relics in his hand, and he regards them as his sons. Precious, much more precious than his daughter.”

"Voldemort made them all into Horcruxes?" Hermione asked keenly: "The ring that hurt you is the one in old Gaunt's hand?"

"If this was in class, I would definitely give you fifty points." Dumbledore clapped his hands and praised, "Yes, Voldemort made the ring into a Horcrux and cast a spell on it. A vicious spell, I accidentally fell into it."

He talked about his injuries indifferently, then shook his head with a little regret and said: "Unfortunately, I couldn't find the locket around Merope's neck, and I didn't even have any clues. But it was probably made into a Horcrux by Voldemort."

"How many Horcruxes did Voldemort make?!" Hermione screamed.

"I don't know," Dumbledore sighed and said, "This is exactly the question I want to confirm right now."

"What's so difficult about this?"

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Fish finally raised his head from the snacks and said puzzledly: "Wouldn't it be better to just capture Voldemort and give him veritaserum? Didn't Severus have a heart-breaking potion that can make the brain Does Occlumency work? It's the kind Sirius once drank."

Dumbledore was stunned for a moment. He seemed to have never considered such a direct and brutal method. However, after being stunned for a while, he shook his head and said, "I want to capture Voldemort and let him fight without resistance." The feasibility of drinking Veritaserum and the Heart-Losing Potion is too low, and given his expertise in Occlumency, Severus' Heart-Losing Potion may not be effective."

"It never hurts to give it a try."

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Maomao still sticks to his plan.

Dumbledore didn't argue with him, and said with a smile: "Let's wait until Voldemort no longer intends to hide." He looked at the clock on the wall, "Let's stop here tonight, there will be something new next time Now that the story is over, I’ll let Fei Xu inform you.”

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I have shortened the original part as much as possible. This is the trouble with fan fiction. If I completely copy the original work, I feel that I am cheating for money because of the word count. If I don't follow it, the plot will appear to be fragmented.

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Regarding the translation of floors, there are indeed many talented readers. I have learned something.

Now I finally understand why when I look up information, many materials have conflicting descriptions of floors. For example, the bathroom leading to the secret room is said to be on the 2nd floor and the 3rd floor. This is the reason.

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To celebrate the historic meeting between the Rile Sect and the Melile Sect, let's go eat something good tonight! And give Zhongyuan a cat bar!

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