Chapter 688: Gaunt's Old House

This is a house made of stones, with moss on the walls, and the tiles on the roof have fallen off completely. The branches of the trees nearby are sticking out from the roof and the small windows that are covered with thick old dirt.

Dense nettles grow around the house, and the tall nettles are up to the windows and cover most of the door. Dumbledore can only vaguely see the outline of a door.

Dumbledore did not rush to enter the house, but shook the wand in his hand, turning a stone on the ground into a puppet, and asked it to push away the nettles to reveal the door.

However, as soon as the puppet approached the door, a ball of fire suddenly jumped up on the ground in front of the door, and in the blink of an eye, the stone puppet was burned into a pile of white ashes, and the nettles at the door were also burned clean.

But the wooden door that looked shaky was still intact. Dumbledore could even clearly see the knife marks of varying depths on the door...

Having read Ogden's memory, he knew that those were left when Morfin Gaunt nailed the snake to the door for fun.

Dumbledore walked to the trap that the puppet had just triggered, squatted down and carefully identified it, then raised his wand and shot a series of lights of different colors at the ground.

However, at the moment when he successfully removed the magic trap at the door, poisonous snakes suddenly emerged from the ground next to him and bit Dumbledore.

Dumbledore's body flashed, and with a sharp explosion, he Apparated to a place five meters away, and those poisonous snakes quickly turned into black smoke and dissipated after missing a hit.

"I was careless." Dumbledore glanced at the corner of his clothes and sighed softly.

Although he dodged in time, he was still touched by a snake, and the place touched by the snake seemed to be corroded by something, with an arc-shaped gap.

Dumbledore regained his spirit and walked towards the Gaunt House again with a more cautious attitude than before.

The protective magic set by Voldemort in the Gaunt House was very clever, both hidden and dangerous. But under Dumbledore's careful handling, those magic traps were cracked one by one.

It took about an hour for Dumbledore to finally push open the broken wooden door, and the wooden door had already been overwhelmed. When Dumbledore pushed it open, it fell down and smashed into a pile of broken wood on the ground.

Dumbledore stood at the door and looked inside cautiously...

The furnishings inside the house were very simple. The furniture inside had decayed to varying degrees due to time, and because no one had lived there for a long time, there was a thick layer of dust on it.

The ground was overgrown with weeds, and some places even had mushrooms growing. In some corners above and between the branches outside, there were white spider webs.

Dumbledore conjured another doll and let it walk around the room, but it did not trigger any traps. It seemed that Voldemort had only set up defenses outside the house.

However, Dumbledore did not relax his vigilance. He held his wand and carefully searched the old house of Gaunt.

Because the house was not big, and Voldemort was probably confident in his arrangements outside, Dumbledore soon found the ring in Ogden's memory in a drawer in the back room.

Dumbledore picked up the ring and stared at it blankly, showing a look of struggle.

The black gem inlaid on the ring was engraved with a pattern composed of triangles, circles and vertical lines. It was the crest of the Peverell family, but Dumbledore knew that it was the symbol of the Deathly Hallows, and it was also the symbol he and Grindelwald chose when he was young and wanted to show his ambitions.

Through this symbol and the information he had discovered with Grindelwald, Dumbledore had already guessed the true identity of this black gem when he was watching Ogden's memory - the Resurrection Stone that he most wanted among the Three Deathly Hallows.

Dumbledore gently stroked the pattern of the Deathly Hallows on the black gem with his fingers, and the expression on his face kept changing.

In the end, he still couldn't resist the desire to see his parents and sister again, and put the ring on the index finger of his right hand.

Just when Dumbledore wanted to activate the power of the Resurrection Stone, a terrible energy burst out from the ring, and his right hand quickly dried up as if the blood was drained, and this situation was still spreading rapidly from his right hand to his arm.

"Um..."

Dumbledore groaned and knelt on the ground.

Then he resisted the pain in his arm, quickly took off the ring on his finger, threw it far away in the corner of the room, picked up the wand that had just fallen to the side, pointed it at his right hand that was still drying and gradually becoming charred, and muttered something.

As Dumbledore's spell took effect, his right hand gradually stopped deteriorating, and the drying and charring stopped at the position almost to his right shoulder, but Dumbledore was not happy at all.

Although the situation was no longer getting worse, he had already noticed that there was a very vicious curse hidden in the ring, and he had only suppressed it temporarily. The curse was still continuously consuming his magic power. When he could no longer sustain it, the curse would break out again, and at that time, he would no longer be able to stop it from spreading.

"Greed is indeed one of the original sins..." Dumbledore looked at his right arm that looked like a burnt corpse, smiled bitterly and shook his head.

In fact, death was not such a terrible thing for him, but now that Voldemort has resurrected, Harry has not grown up yet, and Fish... is not very reliable, so he still needs to contribute his own strength to deal with Voldemort.

Oh, Fish!

Dumbledore, who was still distressed, suddenly reacted after thinking of the cat...

Just because he couldn't do this spell doesn't mean Fish couldn't do it!

You know, Fish's spell called Tranquility even saved the Longbottom couple who had lived in the hospital for more than ten years.

Dumbledore regained his spirit, then raised his wand with his left hand and used the Fiery Fire Curse on the Resurrection Stone Ring that he had just thrown into the corner.

Violent flames spurted out from the tip of Dumbledore's wand, forming a palm-sized phoenix, which looked like Fawkes who was shrunk by Fish using the Animal Shrinking Spell.

Under Dumbledore's control, the Fiendfyre Phoenix flew to the corner where the ring was, and then pecked at the Resurrection Stone embedded in the ring.

"Crack!"

Accompanied by a crisp cracking sound, spider web-like cracks appeared on the Resurrection Stone, and the ring wrapped around it was melted into a pool of liquid due to the high temperature emitted by the Fiendfyre.

At the same time, a black gas escaped from the cracks and was swallowed by the Fiendfyre Phoenix still flying above.

Dumbledore dispersed the palm-sized Fiendfyre Phoenix, stared at the cracked Resurrection Stone in the corner for a while, and then walked forward and picked it up.

This time, he no longer had any thoughts about the Resurrection Stone in his heart, and directly put it in his pocket, and then restored the Gaunt House to the way it was before he came... He even rearranged the traps.

After doing all this, Dumbledore activated the Apparition and disappeared with a sharp explosion.

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In the original book, Dumbledore used Gryffindor's sword to split the Resurrection Stone, but my Gryffindor sword did not absorb the basilisk's venom, so it does not have the ability to destroy the Horcrux.