Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 347 Unsung Hero
As he had just become a father, Ted did not want to put too much pressure on Sirius, so he did not talk about his brother for the time being.

But the matter of Horcruxes should be dealt with sooner rather than later.

This kind of thing definitely can't be done by anyone else, Ted can't trust it.

So, he mobilized his own puppet butler, Little Barty.

During this period, Barty Jr. was transforming and adapting himself, while also closely monitoring and investigating those Death Eaters who had escaped punishment in the past by various means.

In fact, there are quite a few such people.

In the original book, there are many Death Eaters like Malfoy who are at large.

In the original book, Voldemort had just been resurrected and used the Dark Mark to summon Death Eaters. There were about twenty or thirty people who came!
These people are all wizards from pure-blood families, and they are much smarter than those diehard fans of Voldemort.

Many of them did not reveal their true identities at the beginning, did not act so arrogantly, and did not get involved in those overly shocking major cases.

I was just slacking off, just like going to work. So after Voldemort's downfall, I made the cut easily.

After all, they are the pillars of the pure-blood families, we can't throw them all into prison, right? If that happens, half of the British wizarding world will collapse.

Besides, it was just a wrong political investment and team-standing. Even if Voldemort lost, wouldn't you, Dumbledore, need the help of pure-blood families to support the entire wizarding world when you came to power?

Just turn a blind eye.

However, in Batty Jr.'s eyes, these people are potential enemies.

Because as long as Voldemort returns, these people will gather around him again. This kind of thing can't even be voluntary.

Once he was branded with the Dark Mark, it would be impossible to disobey Voldemort.

Do you think Voldemort looks cool by getting a tattoo? It is a powerful means of control and also a powerful means of punishment.

Although Voldemort has not appeared yet, he will definitely return to Britain.

If he has taken any action now, then these potential Death Eaters must have made some small moves.

Although Barty Jr. was not very old when he joined the Death Eaters, he had advantages in strength and intelligence, and was still highly favored by Voldemort.

In fact, Voldemort trusted brainwashed young wizards like him more.

Therefore, Little Batty knows these former colleagues very well. He is currently collecting their information, living habits, etc. If necessary, he can catch them all in a short time.

Little Batty was not a kind-hearted person to begin with, and now that he no longer had flesh and blood and emotions, he became even more cold-blooded.

Barty: Join the glorious evolution~
Now, his young master assigned him a task, and he immediately put down everything else on hand, took those magic props and alchemical potions, armed to the teeth, and appeared near the old house of the Gaunt family under the cover of night.

Ted, on the other hand, uses his contractual relationship with Little Buddy to observe everything around him through his eyes.

However, in that dilapidated old house, little Barty tried every trick in the book but still couldn't find the ring that Ted wanted.

But it was not without gain. He found a secret compartment under the floor. There was a small box inside. It used to contain a small object, but it was gone now.

"The traces are very new, my master. No more than half a year!" said Little Batty.

"Yeah, I see." Ted said.

Taking a deep breath, Ted gathered his thoughts.

The most likely possibility is that the Gaunt family's resurrection stone ring was taken away by Voldemort.

He must have come to England a few months ago, and he may not even have left now.

Also, he started collecting Horcruxes. This was not like his habit.

You know, in order to ensure that he could be resurrected, he finally divided out seven or eight Horcruxes.

All eggs should not be put in one basket, so Voldemort never puts these things together.

So, why did he take the ring away now?
Sure enough, Voldemort's early resurrection brought huge changes.

"Go look around here, to the old Riddle house."

There is an old house called Riddle nearby, which is the mansion of Voldemort's father.

I don't know what stimulated the Gaunt family back then, but they suddenly isolated themselves and stopped contacting other wizards. Then they started to marry close relatives...

So much so that by the time of Voldemort's mother's generation, people had already begun to become deformed and mentally abnormal.

Even so, her father and brother still controlled her, not allowing her to leave and forcing her to marry her brother.

But Voldemort's mother fell in love with his neighbor, the tall, handsome and rich Master Riddle.

Although they are in self-isolation, they are wizards after all, and their family is ancient and traditional.

Voldemort's mother taught herself how to make a love potion and found an opportunity to give it to Master Riddle.

Then the two of them eloped.

About a year later, Voldemort's mother became pregnant. She no longer wanted to use drugs to control her love. She felt that after such a long time together, they must have developed feelings for each other. Moreover, she had a child!

I feel a little more confident!
As a result, Master Riddle, who was no longer taking medicine, woke up all of a sudden, and when he thought about it again - My God, it was a nightmare!

A terrible woman who was ugly, even deformed, a little mentally ill and incoherent, gave himself a bottle of medicine that made him fall in love with her obsessively as if he was controlled by the devil, and eloped with her!
Riddle ran away that day and went home.

The desperate mother of Voldemort had nowhere to go. She certainly couldn't go home. Moreover, she suffered too much mental trauma and died after giving birth to Voldemort.

Voldemort discovered the mystery of his life before or just after graduation.

To be honest, this is a great shame!
He became the kind of half-blood that he despised the most, and was born under such circumstances.

I guess his mentality collapsed at that time.

He killed his father's family, then went to the nearby Gaunt family and killed his grandfather and uncle. He used the family heirloom ring to make a Horcrux and hid it here.

……

The two places were not far apart, less than one kilometer each, and they soon arrived at Riddle's mansion.

As soon as he reached the door, Ted frowned.

Through little Batty's eyes, he saw that the gate's lock, which was badly rusted, was open.

The Riddle family was wiped out decades ago, and after several successive owners moved in, nothing good happened, so it was abandoned. Now it is called a haunted house.

Logically, there should be an old man watching over the place living in a small house not far away.

In this case, the lock on the door should not be opened.

Little Batty flashed into the Riddle family's dilapidated manor and disappeared into the darkness.

He moved forward stealthily and soon discovered vague traces on the ground, indicating that someone had walked here a few months ago.

Finally I found a relatively obvious footprint. Fortunately, the temperature has been low and it has not rained in recent months, otherwise it would have been washed away.

Through the analysis of the footprints, Little Batty determined that the owner of the footprints was an old man about 160 meters tall, weighing about pounds, with a bit of bow legs...

Ted had a rough idea of ​​who it was, but he didn't say anything.

Little Batty carefully squeezed into the door, which was ajar with a gap.

Little Batty stretched out a hand, and some small bead-like things fell from under the mechanical arm, but there was no sound when they landed on the ground. Instead, eight silk-slender legs stretched out and turned into a simple puppet spider. It quickly crawled into the crack of the door and explored the surroundings.

After a few minutes, Little Batty found a door outside the living room.

"Someone used a powerful spell here. It feels like the work of the Dark Lord."

Little Batty also found a broken old flashlight by the wall. It seemed that the old night watchman had met with misfortune.

"Look around to see if there are any strange traces." Ted ordered.

Perhaps because he was too proud, Voldemort did not deliberately erase his footprints. You can still see the footprints.

But Ted didn't find any traces of what he wanted to see.

First, there is only one person.

It's not like in the original book where Voldemort has Pettigrew or other servants.

Secondly, there were no signs of any snakes crawling.

If there was a big python, it would inevitably leave traces of its crawling on the ground covered with thick dust.

In the original book, Pettigrew escaped from school and ran all the way to Albania, where he found Voldemort who possessed small animals.

Then he used the cursed blood of the unicorn, the venom of Nagini, etc. to make a potion, restored a deformed baby-like body, and was half resurrected.

But, because Barty Jr. took him away from Albania in advance with Ryan and helped him to be fully resurrected, he didn't meet Nagini?! What about the last Horcrux?
"Don't look for it, just go back." Ted cut off the connection.

The Resurrection Stone Ring was taken away by Voldemort in advance.

What about the locket?
You can't rush this.

First of all, there is no use in being anxious.

If Voldemort had already taken the fake locket, there was nothing he could do.

Secondly, even if he retrieves a few Horcruxes, I, Dumbledore, and maybe Grindelwald, would have a three-to-one advantage.
Besides, we only know that the cave is near the sea, but we don't know where it is exactly. We still need to look for it.

Even if I'm in a hurry, I can't go there for the time being.

The next day Ted contacted Lupin, told him some simple information and asked him to help find a cave.

The only clue is that when Voldemort was still in the orphanage, he once abused a child here and even pushed him into the sea, nearly drowning him. That’s why he discovered this cave on the cliff.

Therefore, the location of the orphanage was crucial.

Lupin is worthy of being a famous detective in London, he is very capable.

It only took one day to find the cave on the cliff.

Lupin: "I found the orphanage, but it was bombed during World War II and has been destroyed..."

"However, even if it was destroyed long ago due to the war, the cave must not be far from here. We just need to find the nearest coastline and search."

It's really reassuring to see Lupin doing things.

Now, Ted and Lupin were standing on the edge of a rock with a huge rock pillar.

All you can see is black rocks, no caves. This place is hidden by magic, if you don't break the magic, even if you touch it, it's just stone.

Lupin tightened his jacket to block the sea breeze and said in a deep voice: "I sense an unusual fluctuation of magic here..."

His eyes were somewhat gloomy. "I heard that decades ago, there was a village of ordinary people nearby. But overnight, everyone disappeared. Later, the village was abandoned."

He roughly guessed what happened to those missing villagers.

In fact, if a powerful dark wizard does evil, it would be an irresistible disaster for ordinary people.

Ted hesitated, wondering whether to tell Lupin the details.

Sirius had just had a baby boy and had just tasted the happiness of being a father. He was taking care of his son clumsily.

But Lupin has only been married for a short time!
Moreover, in the original novel, in the seventh grade war, both husband and wife died, leaving behind a newborn child.

Should I tell him myself?
But even if we don't tell anyone now, how long can we keep this secret?

Voldemort is already taking action, and even Grindelwald is a professor at Hogwarts. And... this world is always being eroded by other worlds, and strange things are coming into this world every day.

...Happiness is something that is really too rare.

"Ted, what's wrong?" Lupin asked.

Ted said nothing.

"You have always behaved very maturely, even a little bit like a child. I know you have your own plans, but even if you don't regard us as elders, you should still regard us as friends. No matter what happens, don't carry it alone."

"Okay." Ted smiled, "I hope you won't regret it after listening to this."

"That's what happened. It's related to the Dark Lord..."

Ted told the story, starting from the beginning, for a full ten minutes.

Lupin scratched his head with a tangled expression. "To be honest, I do regret it a little. I regret not asking you earlier and letting you bear this pressure alone..."

Ted rolled his eyes at him. "What are you thinking? I won't bear this alone. Dumbledore is taller, let him bear it."

"If it weren't for the fact that he's been dealing with those old guys from other schools and his hair is starting to fall out from worry, I wouldn't care about this kind of thing."

Lupin had long known about the multiple faces on the back of Quirrell's head in his first year, so he was not too surprised by Voldemort's resurrection.

After hearing about the Horcruxes and their functions, I understood why Voldemort was able to be resurrected.

"Although I can understand that you sympathize with Sirius, who has just become a father. But this is his younger brother after all, and I think he has the right to know. Otherwise... he would be too pitiful."

"Okay. I'll contact him."

About half an hour later, Sirius, his house-elf Kreacher, and Dumbledore arrived.

Of course, Dumbledore couldn't be left out of this matter, lest he become suspicious. Besides, with Dumbledore around, he could still be a thug.

There was no need for Old Dumble to take action to deal with this old-fashioned hidden magic. Ted used an alchemical circle to transform the magic power and destroyed the magic effect, revealing a huge cave.

"Follow me!" Dumbledore drew his wand and took the lead.

Ted took a special look at the old wand with a strange shape and tree knots.

You know, nowadays magic wands are all straight and straight, which makes them lose their distinctive features.

……

This cave goes deep into the cliff and it opens up after walking for a while.

However, there was no road in front of us, but instead a very large pool of water.

A shabby little boat was lying on the shore.

"Should we row over there?" Sirius asked urgently. He had been crying since he heard what Ted had said about his brother. His eyes were swollen.

He felt pain in his chest, a heart-wrenching pain.

His only younger brother, whom he had always thought was stubborn and unrepentant, later disappeared.

I didn't expect it to be like this. He fell down in this cold cave...

The old house elf Kreacher on the side was sobbing and kneeling on the shore, unable to stand up.

The young master could have let him drink the poison, but he chose to sacrifice himself.

(End of this chapter)