The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World
Chapter 334 Old House
Chapter 334 Old House (Please subscribe, please collect, please vote)
The late spring sky was clear and cloudless, and the sun brought warmth to the earth. However, this was not felt in the woods outside the village of Little Hangleton. The old trees cast a chilly, dark, and dense shadow, causing Ryan to shiver involuntarily as he stood in the woods.
"Don't be nervous, you should trust me and Professor Moody." Dumbledore said in a gentle tone.
"It's okay. I just felt a little cold when I suddenly entered the shade. By the way, professor, where is this place?"
"This is the old house of the Gaunt family. They claim to be direct descendants of Slytherin. Voldemort's mother was born here, and his so-called Slytherin bloodline also comes from this family." Dumbledore explained.
"Descendants of Slytherin? But this--" Ryan pointed at the shack in front of him and said in disbelief. After all, knowing is one thing, and seeing it with your own eyes is another. Looking at the shack in front of him, he really couldn't connect this with the name of Slytherin.
"But that's the truth." Dumbledore said slowly. "The Gaunt family is a very old wizard family, famous for its restlessness and violence. Because they are used to marrying close relatives, this character trait becomes more and more obvious with each generation. They lack rationality, and they particularly like luxurious ostentation. Therefore, the family's wealth was squandered several generations before Voldemort's grandfather, and finally fell to this point."
This proves that the problem of inbreeding will appear regardless of whether there is magic or not, but these problems will be exposed more slowly when there is magic.
"Okay, let's clean up here first. Ryan, you can check if there is anything unusual." After that, Professor Dumbledore began to wave his wand to clear the collapsed roof. Ryan took out his portable alchemy array and a bunch of bottles and jars to look for traces of magic around. Professor Moody looked at the two people and then held his wand tightly and stared at the surroundings vigilantly.
After a few drops of blood and a pinch of mixed powder were placed on the alchemy array, blue-white flames ignited on the six corners of the hexagram on the alchemy array. As Ryan chanted the spell, these flames began to move quickly along the runes and lines on the alchemy array. Finally, a flame was lit on the entire alchemy array.
The materials in the center of the alchemy array slowly floated in the air as the flames moved, and mixed with each other under Ryan's hand gestures, finally turning into a ball of green powder.
"Everywhere you go, you leave a trace." Ryan chanted this spell in ancient Latin. As soon as he finished speaking, a gust of wind suddenly appeared, blowing all the powder on the alchemy table towards the direction of the room that Professor Dumbledore had just cleared.
Soon, the whole house was covered with fluorescent green powder. As time passed, the powder slowly settled down and finally fell to the ground.
"Okay." Ryan said to the two professors waiting on the side. Professor Dumbledore smiled and walked directly into the ruins of the Gaunt family. Moody leaned against the door of the ruined building and stared at the surrounding environment vigilantly.
When Ryan stepped into the room, Moody whispered beside him: "I was right. You did a great job."
Most of the powder in the room had completely disappeared, but there were five or six places that were glowing green. This meant that there was a magical reaction in these places, so there were fewer places to search.
Everyone searched from the largest to the smallest magic reaction, and found something in every place with magic reaction. However, the Gaunt family was indeed in decline, and the things they dug out were all broken gadgets, worthless.
"Well, let's see what this is." Dumbledore came to the place where the reaction was the weakest: behind the decorative stone panel above the fireplace. After cleaning the dust on the decorative panel, they could see a snake crudely carved on the stone panel.
"The Gaunt family crest? This place is quite in line with Voldemort's character. He must have a sense of ceremony when placing these things, and he would not just put them randomly." Professor Dumbledore said as he waved his wand to remove the stone slab. The strange thing is that there is nothing behind the stone slab, only a complete stone. However, there is a rectangular green spot of light on the stone.
"Ah, it's an illusion." Before Ryan could do anything, Dumbledore shouted that the mechanism had been exposed. After waving his wand several times without any response, his wand emitted a layer of silver-white light.
Under the shining light, a groove appeared on the stone. A golden box was placed in the groove. However, many green runes appeared on the mouth of the groove.
"Drive away harmful magical creatures, prevent fire and weathering, reinforce, counter curses--" Looking at the runes, Professor Dumbledore reported the functions of the runes one by one. Ryan watched carefully from the side how Dumbledore recognized and destroyed these things.
"Okay." Professor Dumbledore reached out and took out the golden box from the table. It turned out that he avoided the most densely magical part of the gap, and then after destroying the magic on the stone, he made a hole from the side and took out the box.
Seeing that Professor Dumbledore was about to open the lid of the box, Ryan quickly stepped forward to stop him: "Professor, we have got the things and there is no rush. Wouldn't it be better to go back to the office to deal with it?"
"Indeed, I am a little impatient." Dumbledore stopped reaching for the box, took out a dragon leather bag from his arms and threw the box in. Ryan could feel that this bag was made of real dragon leather, not the dragon leather gloves made by dragon vein creatures listed on the students' list every year.
The accumulation of a hundred years of wizards is indeed not to be underestimated, whether it is knowledge or wealth. It seems that the estimation of the true strength of those pure-bloods needs to be raised a little bit. Maybe each of those families has a few ancestors in the basement ready to rise from the coffin at any time.
After confirming that there was nothing missing in the room, the three of them took the Phoenix Express back to the headmaster's office at Hogwarts.
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In Professor Dumbledore's headmaster's office, three people sat around the table looking at the golden box on the table.
"I've checked the box and there's nothing wrong with it. Let me open it." After saying that, Dumbledore reached out for the golden box again, but was still stopped by Ryan.
"Professor Dumbledore, this golden box was made by goblins. The special materials and techniques block all our means of investigation. What if the thing inside is cursed? Especially since you said that person is good at bewitching people, even if the mechanism inside can only control you for a few seconds, the consequences will be disastrous. So I think I should open the box, so that even if there is a mechanism, you can easily control me."
"I'm not so old that I need an underage child to protect me from danger." Moody also stood up after hearing this. "Why don't you just let me do it. Ryan, you're too young, and some curses may kill you instantly. I think I can hold on for a while longer in this situation, and Albus can control me and avoid danger if anything happens."
Finally, Professor Moody took over the task of opening the box, while Ryan stood behind Dumbledore and watched him warily.
(End of this chapter)
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