Chapter 756: Corpse

On Sunday morning, after having breakfast in the hall, Firth did not go to Hogsmeade with other students, but stayed in school under the pretext of going to the Forbidden Forest with Hermione.

In fact, he turned into a cat and was led by Harry, who was wearing an invisible cloak, to the stone monster on the third floor quietly.

"Meow~"

After confirming that there was no one else around, Firth called softly, and the stone monster standing in front of them immediately jumped to the side, revealing the secret door behind them.

Harry walked into the secret door, took off his invisible cloak, and went up the spiral staircase with Firth, then pushed open the glowing oak door and walked into the principal's office.

Dumbledore had been waiting inside for a long time, and he had even put on a black traveling cloak, which was the one he wore when he and Firth went to the Dursleys' house to pick up Harry.

"You are here."

Dumbledore glanced at the two of them, and finally stopped his sight on Harry.

"Harry, I must warn you in advance that this journey may be extremely dangerous. Even so, do you want to go with me?"

"Of course!" Harry hurriedly answered before Dumbledore finished speaking, fearing that he would regret and abandon him.

"Very good, then listen."

Dumbledore straightened his back and made his request to Harry: "I don't know if Fish told you in advance, but there is a condition for me to take you: you must obey any of my orders immediately without question. Including orders like "run", "hide" or "go back". Do you agree?"

Harry glanced at Fish and found that the cat was pouting with an unhappy face.

Obviously, this condition was not directed at him, and Fish did say yesterday that Dumbledore needed him to be obedient, but Harry was too excited at the time and didn't take it too seriously.

"I agree." Harry answered solemnly.

"Very good." Dumbledore nodded, "Then let's go." He stretched out his hand and said, "Come on, put your hand on my arm."

Harry and Fish grabbed his arms on the left and right, and Fawkes fluttered his wings and landed on Dumbledore's shoulder.

With the dazzling firelight flickering, the three of them disappeared from the office together.

"Is this the place, meow? Where Voldemort hid the Horcrux?"

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Fish turned his head and looked around curiously, then said puzzledly: "It's strange, why does Fish feel that this place is familiar?"

"Because this is just a small hill outside Hogsmeade." After Dumbledore let Fawkes go back alone, he explained to the cat: "Fawkes doesn't know that place, so he can't send us directly there, don't let go."

A vortex centered on Dumbledore suddenly appeared, and rolled Harry and Fish, who were holding his arms, into it, and the three disappeared again.

A moment later, the three of them appeared at the bottom of the cliff, and the cold water with the smell of the sea would splash on their faces from time to time.

"Albus, where is the boat?"

Fish still remembered that Dumbledore said that it was necessary to take a boat to go to the hiding place of the Horcrux, so he was not surprised that they appeared on the seashore.

Harry, who had recovered from his shock, also found that they were standing on a reef and couldn't help asking, "Where are we?"

"We have to walk a distance to the place where we take the boat. Voldemort cast the counter-spell of Apparition there, so we can't use magic to go directly there." Dumbledore answered the two people's questions in the order of the questions, "Do you remember that Mrs. Cole from the orphanage once mentioned something? When Voldemort was a teenager, he took two poor children to a cave. That's where we are going."

He pointed to the inconspicuous crack on the rock wall not far away and said, "See? We need to swim in through that crack now... You don't mind getting wet, right?"

"It's okay." Harry said.

Fish, who knew the underwater breathing spell, naturally had no objection, but...

"Wait a minute, meow." He called out to Dumbledore, who was about to go into the water, and then took out three small crystal bottles shining with golden light from his pocket, the same shape as the bottle in Harry's hand, "Before going in, let's have some Felix Felicis!"

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Mao Mao handed the Felix Felicis in his hand to Harry and Dumbledore, "This is what Fish specially got from Horace in exchange for several potion materials, meow."

"Ha!" Dumbledore chuckled and shook his head, "I actually forgot about the Felix Felicis..." He reached out to take a crystal bottle, and then drank the golden liquid inside without hesitation.

"It feels really good," he smacked his lips and said, "I haven't had this stuff for many years."

Fish and Harry also drank the Felix Felicis respectively. Harry, who was a little nervous at first, immediately became confident, and Fish immediately had a premonition...

It was to make Dumbledore drink the potion.

"Let's go." Dumbledore, who was also in high spirits, said with a relaxed expression, then lit his wand and walked into the sea with it in his mouth.

Harry imitated Dumbledore, holding the glowing wand in his mouth, and gently slid from the smooth pebbles into the sea.

Fish turned back into a cat and jumped into the sea with a splash.

The two men and the cat paddled through the dark and narrow waterway, climbed the long steps at the end of the waterway, and finally arrived at the cave mentioned by Dumbledore.

Dumbledore walked directly to the rock wall where the secret door was hidden, and then took out the silver knife again.

"What are you doing, professor?" Harry asked in surprise.

"This is a way for Voldemort to protect the Horcrux. Those who want to find the Horcrux must weaken themselves to achieve their goal." Dumbledore explained with contempt: "But he didn't understand that there are many things that are much more terrible than physical damage."

As he spoke, he waved the knife in his hand. A silver light flashed, and a stream of crimson spurted out from Dumbledore's arm, and the surface of the rock was immediately covered with shiny, dark red blood beads.

Fish immediately went forward and gave him a rejuvenation spell.

"Thank you, Fish." Dumbledore moved his fully recovered arm and praised: "No matter how many times I see it, your healing spell is so amazing."

At the same time, a dazzling white archway appeared on the cave wall, and then the blood-stained rock in the archway suddenly disappeared, revealing a doorway.

The three walked into the cave, and Dumbledore dragged the boat up from the bottom of the lake again with familiarity, then Fish turned back into a cat and fell on Dumbledore's shoulder, and Harry boarded the boat with him.

"What's in the lake?" Harry stared at the lake, and the Felix Felicis was keeping him away from the lake.

"Inferi." Dumbledore replied in a deep voice: "Voldemort used black magic to refine the bodies of some of the people he killed into zombies to serve as his army."

As he explained, Harry and Fish saw a white figure flashing under the lake. Even with the Felix Felicis to strengthen his confidence, Harry still felt a chill in his body.

Fish, who was squatting on Dumbledore's shoulder, also lowered his ears, arched his body, and his hair stood up. His green eyes stared at the lake.

"Don't worry," Dumbledore calmly taught them how to deal with the Inferi. "Like many creatures living in the cold and darkness, the Inferi are afraid of light and warmth. If necessary, we can turn to them - fire."

Harry secretly memorized this method in his heart, because he inexplicably felt that he might need this knowledge later.

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