The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 574 Origin (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
In the memory Harry got today, it can be seen that the 16-year-old Voldemort has been blinded by power. So even though Slughorn has emphasized the danger of Horcruxes, he still further asked: "How to split the soul?"

Ryan thought that Voldemort had already known some knowledge about how to make Horcruxes, and he was just trying to elicit Slughorn's next answer. However, Slughorn didn't know this at the time, and he said to Voldemort with some uneasiness, "You must understand that the soul should remain intact. Splitting it is a violation and unnatural."

Voldemort did not back down. He pressed further. "But how to split?"

"Through evil deeds - the most evil deeds, through murder. Killing people will split the soul, and wizards who want to create Horcruxes take advantage of this damage: they seal the fragments of the split soul -" Slughorn said. He is worthy of being a wizard with an ancient family heritage. He can also talk about this unpopular knowledge.

"Seal? But how--?" Voldemort asked for more knowledge. But this time, Slughorn did not answer directly. He shook his head uneasily. "There is a spell. Don't ask me. I don't know! Do I look like I have tried it-do I look like a murderer?"

"No, sir, of course not," Riddle said hurriedly, "I'm sorry... I didn't mean to offend..." In Ryan's eyes, this was a test to find out Slughorn's bottom line for the most critical next step.

Slughorn was comforted by his apology. Out of habitual care for outstanding students, it was also a kind of self-suggestion for himself. He said in a rough voice, "No, no, no, no offense, it's normal to be curious about these things... Talented wizards are always attracted to the magical side..."

"Yes, sir," said Riddle, who now thought Slughorn might be on his guard, and asked the crucial question. "But what I don't understand is - just out of curiosity, what I want to ask is, is one Horcrux useful? Can the soul only be split once? Wouldn't it be better to have more pieces, so that you would be more powerful? For example, isn't seven the most magical number? Seven -?"

"Good God, Tom!" cried Slughorn. "Seven! Isn't it evil enough to want to kill a man? Anyway... the splitting of the soul is evil enough... but the splitting into seven pieces..."

Slughorn was completely uneasy, and he stared at Riddle. Ryan felt that he must be very regretful now, which could be heard from the following words. Slughorn said in a low voice. "Of course, these are all hypotheses we are talking about, right? Just academic..."

The young Voldemort had already obtained what he wanted at this time, but he did not want others to know what he had done today. So he comforted: "Yes, sir, of course."

Next, Slug told Voldemort not to leak the conversation tonight. At this time, he had realized something was wrong. And this goal coincided with Voldemort's goal. This also explains why others don't know this memory.

After watching the young Voldemort leave the office while promising not to leak the matter, Dumbledore signaled everyone to leave.

"Thank you for putting the most important piece of the puzzle together." Dumbledore said to Ryan and the others immediately after coming out. "It confirms my speculation and proves that everything I did before was correct. The dawn of victory is just ahead..."

Perhaps because Professor Dumbledore was too excited, his voice was much louder than usual. All the old headmasters in the portraits on the wall were awakened and began to eavesdrop on their conversation. A fat wizard with a red nose even took out a hearing aid. As portraits, their daily lives were very boring. Naturally, they would not miss this opportunity to hear a new story.

"You already know that Voldemort made Horcruxes to try to escape death," said Dumbledore, "and what we saw today was the beginning of his making Horcruxes. Shortly after this interrogation, Voldemort made his first Horcrux, and a young witch lost her life for it. At the same time, Hagrid was expelled from school as his scapegoat." "So he just killed someone so casually, killed his own classmate?" Harry opened his mouth in surprise.

"Harry, you are a kind child. But Voldemort is different." Dumbledore, who was sitting behind the desk, shook his head. "Although I tried my best to guide him onto the right path, you saw the result. I failed. My education created a Dark Lord."

"This is not your fault." Ryan said, "Education is a matter for both parties. It is inappropriate to simply blame either the educator or the educated party for the failure of education. I think any normal person would be wary of the mysterious man for what he did back then."

"When you get old, you'll always recall the past, but these things are over and done with." Dumbledore waved his hand. "By the way, where were we just now? Oh, just now we were talking about how Voldemort began the process of making his Horcruxes. That's why he didn't die after the first attack on Harry failed."

“So there’s a Horcrux somewhere hidden away with a little piece of his soul kept safe forever?” asked Harry.

"More than a small piece. I think you may have sensed this before." Dumbledore said, "You just heard it. What he particularly wanted to know from Slughorn was what would happen if a wizard created multiple Horcruxes. However, he did not get the answer in the end because no one before him had cut his soul so many times."

Dumbledore paused for a moment, looked at Ryan and said, "Four years ago, I learned that Voldemort had created his own Horcrux. At that time, Ryan accidentally obtained a strange notebook and gave it to me. I found a piece of his soul in it. Although that piece of soul is very weak, I can be sure that it is a piece of Voldemort's soul. I can even be sure that this is the first piece of his soul that has split off."

"Ryan?" Harry and Hermione opened their eyes wide at the same time. They didn't know this before.

"Yes, I can only say that we were very lucky at that time. Because this Horcrux is not only a tool for preserving souls, but also a weapon. Theoretically, it can release Slytherin's monster. Fortunately, after obtaining this thing, Ryan's vigilance allowed us to resolve the crisis at one time."

"That's just because I had just entered the magical world, so I was wary of everything." Ryan said modestly, "I think the mysterious man was still young at that time, so he made such a Horcrux to prove that he was indeed a descendant of Slytherin."

"This analysis is very reasonable." Dumbledore nodded slightly. "The purpose of a Horcrux is to safely seal away a part of one's soul. It would be foolish to expose it as a weapon, so I successfully destroyed this piece of soul."

After that, Dumbledore took out a glass bottle filled with ashes. If you look closely, you can find that these ashes should have been a book or a notebook. "But such a Horcrux makes me feel very ominous. It means that he may have made - or planned to make more Horcruxes, so losing one would not be so dangerous. I don't want to believe this, but it seems that there is no other explanation that makes sense."

"The worst news was confirmed in the year of the Triwizard Tournament. After doing some research, I obtained another Horcrux of Voldemort from the last residence of the Gaunt family." Dumbledore said in a low voice. "He always believed that he had gone further on the road of immortality than anyone else. I think this is his confidence."

(End of this chapter)