The Evil Thoughts of Hogwarts and the Genie

Chapter 186 The Resurrection Stone Can't Revive Anything

Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot we're not close. Let me think about it again.

[That's right! Adam, you can resurrect my venerable father, Adam, who is said to be the progenitor of mankind. Death, Death, have you heard my call?]

This desire, or rather, this malice,

The resurrection stone ring fell silent.

Not only did this thing not respond to Edmund, but it also seemed to have its pride wounded, and completely shut its "mouth" and stopped making a sound.

Edmund snorted softly and played with the Ring of Power, which was said to have the power to resurrect the dead, with even greater dexterity.

However, even without considering whether Death himself has the power to release the soul and restore the body and soul;

Just looking at the chapter on "The Legend of the Three Brothers" in the well-known Tales of Beedle the Bard, which is familiar to everyone in the wizarding world, is enough to make it clear:

The Resurrection Stone cannot bring back true souls. It is more of a trap than a blessing.

It is said that turning around three times can awaken the dead, but the person who returns is neither a ghost nor a living being, but an existence in between, which is intolerable to the whole world.

It will use that face of the dead, filled with pain and despair, to make the one that has been resurrected grieve uncontrollably.

Therefore, there was an old saying: "Give the Resurrection Stone to your enemy, and you can wait for him to die of grief!"

That's quite interesting.

Considering Dumbledore's strange reaction upon hearing about the Resurrection Stone at the beginning of the semester, Edmund thought that this little stone might actually have some useful applications.

Therefore, although he spoke to the stone, he did not really want to resurrect Abel.

This is a hellish joke that even hell wouldn't play.

Even if the Resurrection Stone ring could truly bring the dead back to life, how could a soul of such significance as Adam or Abel possibly accept the summons and manipulation of Death?

This is more like a challenge. Even if Death might not be able to sense it, someone is delusional enough to use his power to resurrect the progenitor of mankind, but Edmond feels uneasy if he doesn't do so.

anyway.

This is very strange.

Edmund thought to himself as he stroked the four-sided, jet-black stone on the cabochon.

First of all, a ring shouldn't be able to talk.

This sounds like a truism, but it isn't.

In the Book of the Tales of Beedle the Bard, the first owner of the Resurrection Stone used the stone entirely according to his own will.

He did not hear any voice from the dead, pleading with him, begging him to resurrect them and return to the world of the living.

At least it wasn't mentioned in the book.

Moreover, Edmund found it hard to imagine that Death's creations would try to tempt others to offend Death.

According to the logic of those old fogies, the reason why Death set this trap to bring back the living to suffer and be punished is probably because they are too afraid of death and are trying to reverse death.

Even that "Legend of the Three Brothers" is trying to spread a set of values ​​that are more in line with Death's wishes:

Everyone must die eventually.

Therefore, the ring's actions clearly violate the principles of its creator.

Unless this thing speaks to Edmund right now, claiming to be the Cain of the Ring world, on his way to assassinate Death...

Otherwise, Edmund would only think that some external force was influencing it.

This is another point of contention.

"The genie seemed to sense a corrupting power emanating from the ring, an aura belonging to a broken soul."

At first, Edmund didn't take it seriously at all.

In the eyes of the genie, imbuing magical objects with human souls was a common practice.

When he was still Solomon, almost all demons carried this extremely evil soul artifact.

Often, these gadgets don't even possess any special abilities worth mentioning; they can only emit screams or roars, and at best, they retain their consciousness and can talk to people.

He even found it hard to accuse the demons of being too cruel, because, it is said, hell lacks everything except the souls of sinners.

So initially, Edmund also thought that the aura of the soul he sensed was that of a sinner casually anchored to the ring by Death.

Or perhaps they are simply those who died because of the Resurrection Stone, worn down over hundreds or thousands of years, who have become the broken and dilapidated people they are today.

But after being tempted by the ring, Edmund couldn't help but have a new doubt—couldn't it be?

The genie carefully examined the antique-looking ring, weighing the "soul" within it.

The conclusion is that it is less than one-third.

This is no joke. It seems to be only a little less than a third of the original weight, which greatly surprised Edmund.

He almost thought that a new god had appeared in the world who could grant a wish by giving up a quarter of your soul, but upon closer inspection, he realized that it was impossible.

This ring comes from House Gaunt; and Voldemort, who speaks Parseltongue, is also suspected of having House Gaunt blood flowing through his veins.

Based on this reasoning, and considering the extremely malicious magical mechanisms of the Gaunt family, it should be considered fair to say that the Resurrection Stone Ring was hidden by Voldemort.

If that's the case, then these less than a third of the souls must also be related to Voldemort?

Edmund's expression turned strange.

If Voldemort, with his mortal body, could tear apart another's soul and then precisely glue it onto a ring...

He'll probably have to postpone his meeting with this "old acquaintance."

Edmund had to consider that if this guy failed to directly violate Cain's law that "whoever kills Cain will be punished sevenfold," then it would truly become a tough battle.

But the problem came again.

Is it really possible for an ordinary person to do such a thing?!

This doesn't sound like something that can be explained simply by saying "this is magic."

This is something even magic cannot do. As far as Edmund knows, everything related to the soul belongs to the realm of "God".

Is Voldemort a demon god walking among humans?

Is he the son of a demon, or is he actually a vessel for the arrival of some demon king?

The genie flipped through Edmund's memories, confirming that he didn't detect any trace of the old demon from the murderer.

Weird.

Edmund frowned.

How did Voldemort manage to do that?

Edmund had been a wizard for 12 years, and the last time he saw a soul being torn apart was in a certain year when an unlucky assassin failed to trigger "retribution sevenfold" and was instead killed by an old man Soman's men with a killing curse.

That curse tore apart and annihilated that poor soul.

Only then was Edmund able to confirm that when struck by this spell, the frail soul of a mortal was utterly destroyed.

"Disappearance" means being unable to move forward or backward. Neither heaven nor hell.

They can no longer return to the human world as ghosts.

But that doesn't make sense either.

Edmund could not understand.

How come Voldemort attacked someone with a spell similar to the Killing Curse, yet he spared their life and stuck them to the Resurrection Stone?