themonasnovels Chapter 436 Tom, always come up with some new tricks
Chapter 436 Tom, always come up with some new tricks
Chapter 436 Tom, always come up with some new tricks
As a descendant of Slytherin, Gaunt, one of the 28 pure-blood families, can be regarded as a rich ancestor.
But their family is not very smart, known for restlessness and violence.
the reason is simple:
Pure-blood families value blood, and the Gaunt family especially.
In order to keep the family blood pure, Gunter often chooses to marry his own family members.
Not only that, they also encouraged this behavior, and even had a "German Orthopedics" and were proud of it.
A history of the Gaunt family is a history of incest, no exaggeration at all.
The long-term inbreeding also caused the wizards of the Gaunt family to have a bad temper.
This character trait has become more pronounced from generation to generation.They are irrational and particularly fond of pomp and pomp.
Therefore, as early as a hundred years ago, the property accumulated by the family for nearly a thousand years was squandered, and it was completely ruined.
The huge family, proud of inbreeding, also declined because of inbreeding.
Standing at the door of the dilapidated house, William was still squinting, carefully observing the Ouroboros knocker.
The door knocker looked shabby, but it gave William a very uncomfortable feeling.
Dumbledore didn't speak, and waited silently for him to observe.
William tapped his wand in the void, and said cautiously: "There is a strong curse on it, if you touch it casually, you will be killed directly..."
"That's right." Dumbledore exclaimed, "Looking and observing, the difference between the two is obvious.
Many wizards don't have the ability to observe.
William, you have come a long way in the field of magic. "
"Professor, this door knocker is the key for us to get in. But curses are not my field of expertise, can you crack them?"
William is best at alchemy and ancient runes, but he has little research on curses.
On the contrary, some time ago, I often saw Hermione holding the "Book of Cursing" that he borrowed from the restricted area, secretly studying it, and I didn't know who she wanted to curse.
But it didn't matter, Hermione wouldn't curse anyone who cursed him... right?
William still has this little confidence.
Dumbledore looked at the door knocker and shook his head: "Tom likes things with curses. Those Horcruxes, in a sense, are also a curse.
He certainly didn't want others to enter this old house easily, and cast many spells on it. "
"If you give me a little longer time, maybe it can be completely cracked, but we are running out of time now..."
William pondered for a moment, then analyzed: "Tom left the door knocker, it's impossible to just kill the approaching wizard."
"He himself may occasionally go in to check his big baby, which means that this door knocker can open the door of the house, and it probably requires a special password..."
"Parseltongue!" William's eyes lit up.
"That's right." Dumbledore smiled: "This is obviously a reference to the design of the Chamber of Secrets.
Tom was the heir of Slytherin, and naturally he wanted to show that to others.
Even if he didn't think that someone could find the secret room, let alone here. "
Tribute to Slytherin... Whether it's Voldemort or Tom, there's always something new to do!
Both William and Dumbledore can't speak Parseltongue, but...Harry, a tool man, can.
William took out an Oxford dictionary from the safety watch and looked it up carefully.
During the last semester, William had nothing to do, so he asked Harry to read it in Parseltongue according to the Oxford dictionary, and coded it according to the page number of the dictionary.
William has collected a lot of high-frequency vocabulary and beautiful sentences, which are stored in the crystal ball.
Even Zaun's quotations made Harry record some of them.
Just so that one day, it will come in handy when facing Voldemort.
When Voldemort heard the Parseltongue version of "I am your father", I don't know if he would be very happy.
William quickly found what he was looking for.
"Open the door!" Harry hissed from the crystal ball.
The eyes of ouroboros flickered, and suddenly came alive, turning into a living creature shaped like a basilisk.
It swam out, spat out a silver key, held it in its mouth, raised its little head, and wagged its tail towards William as if asking for credit.
William took the silver key, but couldn't find the lock.
"I think..." Dumbledore said suddenly. "We still have to pay to find the lock."
"The price?" said William. "You have to give the snake something?"
"Yes," said Dumbledore, "blood, if I'm not mistaken."
"Blood?"
"Yes, Tom wants the visitor to enter by weakening himself," said Dumbledore.
"It's really low-level. Tom hasn't grown up in his life."
There was contempt in his tone, disappointment even, as if Voldemort had not lived up to his expectations.
"Voldemort never understood that there are many things more terrible than physical injury."
Like the life of the person you love the most?
William shrugged.
The Grim Reaper is very smart at this point, he needs two brothers who are as close as brothers to obtain the Deathly Hallows!
Dumbledore took out a fruit knife from nowhere.
"..."
William seriously doubted whether the headmaster still had bananas and the like with him.
What a fruit monster!
Dumbledore was about to hit his wrist, but William stopped him: "Wait...Professor."
"What's the matter?" Dumbledore asked suspiciously, "William, are you going to use your blood?"
"No!" William quickly waved his hand and took out a small bottle from the safety watch.
"I have fresh basilisk blood here, I wonder if it can be used?"
William's tone was as if he had just milked the milk in the morning and forgot to finish it.
Well, the blood was only released in the morning, and the basilisk was woken up every few days, some blood was taken, and then let it continue to sleep... This has become a habit.
William felt that the basilisk would feel uncomfortable if he didn't bleed himself every few days, right?
"If it doesn't work, I still have dragon's blood, civet's blood, acromander's blood, Lu Wei's blood... There are all kinds of flavors, there must be one that suits it?"
"..."
As it turns out, the door knocker doesn't have to be that particular, as long as it contains magical blood.
William chose the blood of the least valuable acromantula and splashed it on the door knocker.
The blood turned into dots and seeped into the door ring, turning into a door lock.
Dumbledore inserted the key in and twisted it lightly.
With a creak, the door opened.
The two walked in.
The room is filled with thick darkness, and you can't see your fingers.
Both wands light up simultaneously.
Gaunt's old house was unspeakably filthy, with thick cobwebs on the ceiling, and a pile of rusty pots on the table.
The ground was dark and dusty.
There's still a row of...footprints!
It seems that the time of the footprints is not short, and there is dust again, but the thickness is not as deep as that on both sides.
"It seems that someone has already come here before us." Dumbledore's expression was not very good.
There are three small rooms in this house. The large room in the middle is used as a kitchen and living room, and there are two doors leading to other rooms.
The two followed their footprints and walked towards one of the rooms.
After entering, William was dumbfounded.
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Thanks to the big guy "Daoist, please stay behind" for the reward)
(End of this chapter)