The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 602: Views on the Deathly Hallows

Before Christmas, Ada visited Godric's Hollow and used Legilimency on Bathilda Bagshot, who lived there.

In Bathilda Bagshot's memory, in addition to seeing the unknown past of Dumbledore and Grindelwald, Ada also saw information about Cadmus.

The story of the three brothers is widely circulated and there are many versions. The most popular version is "The Tales of Beedle the Bard".

After Cadmus in the book obtained the Resurrection Stone, he returned to his own home, turned the Resurrection Stone, and resurrected his beloved girl.

However, the "resurrection" ability of the resurrection stone does not really reverse life and death. The girl is alive, but not completely alive. The "returned" girl did not bring happiness to Cadmus, but only greater sorrow.

Not long after, Cadmus committed suicide and followed the girl to the other world.

However, what Ada learned from her memory was not the case; Cadmus did not live alone.

Between the artistic children's books and the magic historians, Ada believed Bathilda Bagshot more and agreed with her point of view. Cadmus should have descendants, and the Resurrection Stone is likely to be in the hands of his descendants, just like Ignotus's Invisibility Cloak.

After returning to the Ministry of Magic, Ada immediately began to investigate the matter and look for Cadmus' descendants. To this end, she specially "invited" several genealogists to conduct joint research.

After much hard work, Ada finally found the descendant of Cadmus, Gaunt. Yes, it was the Gaunt of Marvolo Gaunt, the family of Merope, Voldemort's mother.

When Ida found the answer, she was devastated because the Gaunt family was a notorious prodigal son. The Gaunt family, who lived off their wealth, had squandered their fortune long ago, and when it came to Marvolo's generation, they were even poorer than ever.

Except for Slytherin's ring and locket, everything that could be sold in the house had already been sold. Later, Merope even sold the locket, and only sold it for ten gold galleons. It was also possible that the Resurrection Stone was sold.

Fortunately, Ada did not give up just because of the last name Gaunt, which allowed her to find the whereabouts of the Resurrection Stone in the old files of Marvolo and his son.

Morfin Gaunt was once summoned for using a curse on a Muggle (Tom Riddle Sr.), but Morfin ignored the Ministry of Magic. This is the only remaining pride of the Gaunt family.

The Ministry then sent officer Bob Ogden to Gaunt's house, but Marvolo and Morfin teamed up to attack him.

After being arrested, Marvolo was sentenced to six months in Azkaban, while Morfin was sentenced to three years for both crimes. Before going to prison, the Ministry temporarily took custody of the personal belongings of the father and son. The father and son had nothing but a ring, the Slytherin ring.

According to the records in the archives, this is a gold ring inlaid with a black gemstone, on which is engraved a coat of arms that is reminiscent of Peverell.

The whereabouts of the Resurrection Stone surfaced with this text from many years ago. Slytherin's ring is the Resurrection Stone. Whoever has held this ring may have the Resurrection Stone in his hands!

Ancestor of the Gaunt family → Marvolo Gaunt → Morfin Gaunt → Tom Riddle (Voldemort) → Albus Dumbledore.

After sorting out the order of previous owners of the ring, Ada began to analyze them one by one.

First of all, there is the Gaunt family, including Marvolo and his son. Judging from the flamboyant and ostentatious character of this family, they may not have discovered the secret of the ring, otherwise the whereabouts of the Resurrection Stone would have been spread far and wide and known to everyone.

The ring, the locket, and the emblem on the black gemstone, the Ministry of Magic only recorded these things because Marvolo Gaunt told the Ministry!

Marvolo is showing off his noble bloodline and his status. A toad has no hair, this thing has roots.

Excluding Gaunt, who no longer exists, only Voldemort and Dumbledore remain. Voldemort stole the ring from Morfin, and then made it into a Horcrux and put it back in Gaunt's old house.

It is hard to say whether Voldemort found the Resurrection Stone on the ring during this period. If he did, then the Resurrection Stone might be in his hands. If he did not, then the Resurrection Stone must be in Dumbledore's hands.

After listening to Ada's long speech, Grindelwald was silent for a while, and then asked: "Do you want to know whether the Resurrection Stone is in Albus's hands or in the hands of that self-righteous guy?"

The self-righteous guy was of course referring to Voldemort, and no one else.

When Ada first heard this kind of name, she might have needed to think about it, but now she can automatically imagine Voldemort's pale snake face.

Colleagues are enemies, and Grindelwald has always looked down on Voldemort, so naturally he calls this junior all kinds of strange names.

"You know all this!" Ada said in surprise. She didn't believe that Grindelwald, who stayed in Nurmengard like a otaku every day, could know everything about the world.

Could it be that Grindelwald also called himself Crouching Dragon? If that were the case, Grindelwald should have collected all the Deathly Hallows long ago.

Unlike Ada who was unbelieving and full of doubt, Vida had a slightly angry look on her face and gently patted Grindelwald's arm. She roughly guessed what Grindelwald wanted to say.

"Just ask Albus and you'll know everything!" Grindelwald said matter-of-factly, "The ring is in his hands now anyway."

Ada rolled her eyes speechlessly, thinking to herself: If I didn't know how to ask Dumbledore, why do I need you, an old man, to tell me!

"Thank you very much for listening to your words." Ada said, rubbing her arm.

Because of the eye roll she had just shown, Vida also gave her a slap on the arm, and the bowl of water was held levelly.

Putting away his joking expression, the disrespectful Grindelwald asked seriously: "Let me ask you, if you become the owner of the Deathly Hallows, what would you want to do with them?"

Grindelwald's sudden question stunned Ada, and it was a fatal word. It was something she had never thought of.

After racking her brains for a long time, Ada still couldn't come up with a clue. She had no idea what to do after getting the three Deathly Hallows. The reason she was looking for the whereabouts of the Hallows was just because the system happened to issue a task.

"You don't know?" Grindelwald continued, "Of course you don't know. You have never cared about these three things. You just looked for them for the sake of looking for them. You were satisfied knowing where they were. You didn't even have the slightest thought of possessing them, otherwise you would have fought for them long ago."

Ada puffed her lips. What Grindelwald said was completely right. She really didn't have much thought about stealing the Deathly Hallows. She was more enjoying the process of searching.

The Elder Wand is not invincible, as VIP user Grindelwald knows all too well; the Invisibility Cloak cannot deceive everyone, not even the Marauder's Map, as Dumbledore once saw through it; the Resurrection Stone is not a resurrection coin, there is no magic in this world that can resurrect a person.

The Deathly Hallows are not as powerful as the legend says, but they are not something that Aida cannot obtain.

As for the saying that "the one who possesses all the Deathly Hallows is the master of Death", Ada did not believe even a single letter. Compared to the three artifacts being gifts from Death, Ada was more willing to believe that they were made by the Peverell brothers.

The Story of the Three Brothers has a strange taste of chicken soup, so strong that Ada thinks that the Grim Reaper must be very boring because he likes to take off his pants and fart. And judging from the performance of the Deathly Hallows, the Grim Reaper's level is somewhat lame.

(End of this chapter)