The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 366 Destruction (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
"Serpent language? You?" Dumbledore's sky-blue eyes behind his half-moon glasses showed confusion.

"I was just trying to master an unknown language out of habit. At that time, I thought it was a unique ability of Slytherin and how powerful this language was." Ryan stared into Dumbledore's eyes and smiled. "It turned out that there was no special power in Parseltongue. It was just a simple foreign language. After discovering this, I gave up learning it. However, I learned some simple Parseltongue words in the process, so I said I would try it now."

"It's better to try, at least it's better than doing nothing." Dumbledore nodded, and then asked the other three to leave first. "Now the more people there are, the better. Voldemort is good at bewitching people. I'm worried that too many people here may have a negative effect. So you'd better go downstairs now."

Sirius and the others nodded and walked downstairs with Kreacher. When going downstairs, Hermione looked at Ryan with some concern. Ryan smiled back to reassure her.

"It's good to be young, isn't it?" Dumbledore's voice came from behind after everyone went downstairs. He just put the locket on a broken cabinet and winked at Ryan. "Well, let's get started. Do you need anything else to prepare?"

"Sorry, professor, I need a preparation." Ryan said as he took out eight silver nails from his space bag and nailed them around the pendant box on the cabinet. Then he used a red rope with a rune stone hanging on it to wrap around the eight silver nails several times to connect them together.

"Eastern methods?" Dumbledore looked closely at the runes carved on the stone. "I can feel that this is aimed at the soul. Very good, we must be cautious when facing Voldemort." After roughly feeling Ryan's arrangement, Dumbledore nodded approvingly.

After Ryan finished setting up the magic circle, he stepped back a few steps, and Dumbledore walked forward, stood beside the cabinet, drew out the Gryffindor dagger, and pointed it at the locket in the center of the magic circle. The locket trembled slightly when it felt the dagger approaching it, but fortunately, the locket had been stored in the cabinet for more than ten years and had not absorbed much human life and soul, so it could only tremble in the face of threats.

"This kind of dangerous thing really needs to be destroyed as soon as possible." Dumbledore said softly as he looked at the trembling locket. Then he turned to Ryan and said:
"Ryan, when I count to three, you will use Parseltongue to open the locket, and then I will use this dagger to deal a fatal blow to Voldemort's soul hidden inside."

"Okay." Ryan nodded and agreed.

"Well." After Ryan drew out his wand and got ready, Dumbledore began to act. "One... two... three... Ryan!" Dumbledore pointed the dagger at the Horcrux and shouted.

After receiving Dumbledore's order, Ryan immediately hissed at the locket in Parseltongue: "Open!"

The locket's little golden lid snapped open, and behind each of the two little glass windows a living eye blinked, dark and bright, like Tom Riddle's eyeballs before they turned red and the pupils became a line.

A strange black mist emerged from the pendant box, and Ryan immediately felt a great pressure coming from the magic circle. The evil power of this pressure even broke through the defense of the magic circle and leaked out.

"I see your heart, Albus Dumbledore." A voice hissed from the Horcrux, and the defenses Voldemort had designed in the locket began to work. Although he could not tamper with the Slytherin relic, he made the soul inside it offensive, attacking the most vulnerable side of the soul of the attacker of the Horcrux.

"You are an unfortunate person who longs for a happy and harmonious family but can never get it. Your best friend betrayed you and killed your sister. Your only living relative refused to recognize you even though he was right next to you. Everything you do now is just to atone for your sins, but you will never be able to protect what you cherish most, Albus Dumbledore!"

From the two small windows of the locket, from the eyes, a weird soap bubble-like thing emerged, and soon it rose from the locket and turned into the image of a young girl. This person Ryan had never seen before, but he knew that this was Ariana, Dumbledore's sister who died young, and a scar in his heart forever. This was a great shock to Dumbledore. Ryan could see tears flowing down his cheeks.

Oops, Ryan thought of this and suddenly urged all his magic power to enter the magic circle, suppressing the power of the locket in an instant. At the same time, he bit his tongue and used the thunder and wind sound of the thunder method to shout. "Professor, do it!"

As the soul in the Horcrux was weakened, Dumbledore immediately got rid of the influence of Voldemort's Horcrux. With a flash of sword light, the dagger in his hand stabbed the locket fiercely.

Ryan heard a "ding" sound of metal collision, followed by a long scream that touched his soul. Ryan subconsciously released a defensive spell, but the Horcrux did not have the dying blow he imagined. The girl's phantom disappeared, leaving only Dumbledore standing there with a dagger in his hand, looking down at the locket.

Ryan's eyes also turned to the locket. He found that the glass of the two small windows inside the locket was pierced, the strange eyes were gone, and wisps of smoke came out of the colorful silk lining of the locket. The remnant of Voldemort's soul that was preserved in the locket disappeared. The oppressive feeling in the room before also dissipated.

"Professor?" Ryan asked worriedly, watching Professor Dumbledore standing there motionless. Dumbledore wiped his face with his hand and straightened up.

"You heard everything just now, right?" the principal asked in a low voice.

"This--" Ryan didn't know how to answer now, and could only stand there awkwardly.

"It's okay, you don't have to worry about anything." Seeing Ryan a little nervous, Dumbledore comforted him: "There is nothing in my past that cannot be known to others. The reason why you rarely hear about it is that I am older and most of the people who know these things are no longer around."

After saying that, Dumbledore smiled bitterly: "To be honest, I was a little worried about you at the beginning. Because I think you are very similar to me when I was young, and you were also crazy about pursuing all kinds of knowledge -"

In the next five or six minutes, Professor Dumbledore roughly recounted the history of his misguided path when he was young. Finally, he looked Ryan in the eyes and said seriously: "You are better now than I was when I was young, but I still hope you must remember to pay attention to the people around you no matter what. Don't wait until you lose them to regret it."

Ryan nodded seriously. He knew that this was a summary of an old man's lifelong lessons. The reason why he told Ryan today was purely out of an elder's concern for the younger generation, hoping that the younger generation would not make the same mistakes as him.

"Well, I think we have stayed here for too long. Now let's call Sirius and the others up, otherwise they will definitely be worried." After saying everything he wanted to say, Dumbledore asked Ryan to go downstairs and call the others up.

Ryan nodded and went downstairs to call for help.

(End of this chapter)