Chapter 681 Resurrection Stone

"Severus, I think you must have forgotten what happened just now, right?"

Dumbledore got up from the ground as if nothing had happened, and asked casually while brushing off the dust on his body.

Who would have thought that the headmaster of Hogwarts, the most powerful wizard in the world, was kicked to the ground by his own professor, and his face fell to the ground. If this matter were to spread, his old face would be completely lost.

Dumbledore didn't know about others, but he was sure that Dug McPhail would be so excited that he would tremble all over, and if he knew, it would be equivalent to the whole wizarding world knowing.

In order to prevent this from happening, Dumbledore even had a flash of the idea of ​​silencing him.

Well... It's very quiet here, peaceful, and the furniture is also complete. It is very suitable for Snape, a guilty person, to live for a long time, and no one can find him.

On the other side, Snape was still feeling the slight touch left on the sole of his shoe...I didn't notice it just now, but now that I see Dumbledore's appearance clearly, why do I feel so comfortable?

It was like stepping on a stream full of Felicis and Phoenix Tears. An indescribable sense of joy and satisfaction spread from the soles of his feet to every corner of his body.

Snape wished he knew some magic that could keep this feeling forever.

"Severus..."

Dumbledore called again, and Snape finally came to his senses. He vaguely felt a cold wind blowing past him.

It was strange. He had just closed the door, so why was there still wind?

"Sorry, the situation is urgent, I can only do this."

Snape said seriously: "The ring has a terrible curse. Even a wizard as powerful as you may not be able to stop the damage it brings."

"I understand, Severus, you want to save me. From this point of view, I must thank you." Dumbledore wiped off the dust on his body and walked over.

The two of them tacitly did not mention what happened just now.

At this time, Dumbledore once again set his eyes on the ring, and a trace of pain and struggle flashed in his clear blue eyes.

"So what is this thing?" Snape couldn't help asking.

"The ring of the Peverell family." Dumbledore said.

"The Peverell family... the three brothers who got the Deathly Hallows in the story collection?" Snape said subconsciously: "It's just a ring of an ancient family. No matter how famous it is, it shouldn't make you lose your composure like this..."

Suddenly, he seemed to think of something and looked at the ring with disbelief.

"It seems you guessed it." Dumbledore said calmly, "This should be the legendary Deathly Hallows, the Resurrection Stone that can bring people back to life."

In an instant, Snape's breathing also became heavy, and his hand unconsciously stretched out, as if he wanted to grab the ring.

Dumbledore's legs under his robes moved a little, but in the end he didn't stretch it out.

He just waved his wand, and the ring on the table disappeared instantly.

Snape's hand stopped in mid-air, and he almost growled, "Where did you put it!"

"Remember what you said just now?" Dumbledore said calmly, "There is a curse on it, which Tom used to protect the Horcrux."

"I don't care." Snape roared, "The curse only applies once, and I will take it, so you don't have to worry about it anymore, isn't that good?"

"I know what you think, but Lily is dead, and the Resurrection Stone can't really revive her."

"Also, have you thought about Connor?" Dumbledore looked at him calmly, "I remember that child is about to take the assessment of the Extraordinary Apothecary Association."

After a while, Snape's voice gradually calmed down.

"Maybe she doesn't need me, and she can live well."

"I believe it." Dumbledore said with a smile, "Kyle is a very good child, they are together..."

"Shut up!" Snape growled again, forcibly interrupting Dumbledore's words.

I don't know why, he suddenly didn't want to touch the cursed stone.

"You should try to accept this, Severus." Dumbledore persuaded earnestly: "They are really a good match, and I must remind you that it is useless even if you object. You should know this."

"If you mention this again, I will publish your lying on the ground in the Daily Prophet." Snape said coldly.

At this time, Dumbledore also shut up, and the old house of Gaunt suddenly fell into a strange silence.

I don't know how long it took before Snape broke the silence first.

"Well...how did you wake yourself up?" He asked: "I noticed that your hand paused at the critical moment. If it wasn't like this, I wouldn't be able to get there."

"This is the most magical part." Dumbledore stretched out his arm and looked at the bloodstains that had not faded on it, and his eyes gradually became complicated.

"I never thought that the original agreement would actually let me escape."

"What is this?" Snape couldn't help asking, he always thought that those injuries were caused by the curse.

"A magical contract," Dumbledore explained. "It restricts me from using the Horcrux. It is because of this restriction that I cannot touch the Resurrection Stone, because it is also Tom's Horcrux."

"You knew that the Dark Lord would make the Resurrection Stone into a Horcrux?" Snape frowned and said, "This is the backup plan you left for yourself before coming here."

"No, I don't know." Dumbledore shook his head, "And this magic contract has existed for a year. If it weren't for what happened today, I would have almost forgotten its existence."

"A year ago?" Snape didn't understand even more.

Who would make a magic contract for themselves when they have nothing to do... Dumbledore doesn't look like a brainless idiot.

"It's Kyle..." Dumbledore suddenly said, "The other half of the contract is with him, and he was the first to propose this contract."

"Wait, what does this have to do with him?" Snape didn't expect to hear that annoying name here, and asked in confusion, "But didn't you just say that this contract works on Horcruxes?"

"Kyle has a Horcrux in his hand." Dumbledore said calmly, "The legendary Slytherin locket is in his hand."

Snape blinked and spent ten seconds trying to understand what Dumbledore meant.

Ten seconds later...

"How dare you hand over something as dangerous as a Horcrux to a student!" Snape's neck veins popped up, and his voice was so loud that it shook the dust off the ceiling.

"What if there is a curse on it... What if someone accidentally touches it, what do you think!"

Looking at Snape's look, he even wanted to go up and kick Dumbledore again.

"Don't worry, Severus, don't be nervous." Dumbledore said quickly: "I have checked it, there is no curse on the Horcrux, nor any other bad magic, it will not threaten Connor, I promise."

Dumbledore grasped the key point sharply.

"It's better this way." After hearing that Connor would not be involved, Snape finally calmed down a little. As for what would happen if Kyle took the Horcrux... who cares.

"So you originally wanted to use this magic contract to restrain Kyle, right?" Snape sneered, "It's really interesting, I didn't expect it to save your life in the end."

"It's really interesting." Dumbledore said, "But I must say that this is Kyle's own idea. I never thought of using magic to restrain him."

"You mean, he knew that the Resurrection Stone would be made into a Horcrux?" Snape's voice rose slightly.

"I think he shouldn't know..." Dumbledore looked at his arm again and said softly, but no one knew what he was thinking.

...

After getting the ring, the two left the Gaunt House. Dumbledore waved his wand, and the vines that had been separated before climbed up the house again.

Then the bushes closed up and hid the Gaunt House again, looking no different from before.

"What are you going to do with the Resurrection Stone?" Snape asked.

"It must be destroyed." Dumbledore said.

There is no doubt that the Horcrux must not be kept, but he did not mention how to do it specifically, or when to destroy the Resurrection Stone.

Fiendfyre is the simplest way, but both Dumbledore and Snape seemed to have forgotten this magic, and no one mentioned it.

"I have some other things to do." Dumbledore looked up at the heavy clouds in the sky and asked, "Are you going to continue to follow me, or go back to Hogwarts."

"Where are you going?"

"Maybe, go to Devon first." Dumbledore said.

"I have classes in the afternoon." Snape glanced at him, as if he wanted to say something, but finally stopped and said, "Don't touch the curse, or you will die."

"Ah, I know." Dumbledore said lightly, "And even if I want to do this, there is no way. I can't lift the restrictions of the magic contract by myself."

Snape did not speak.

A gust of wind blew, and the hedges on both sides swayed in the wind, dropping a few leaves, and the two people disappeared on the dirt road.

...

Snape came to Hogsmeade through Apparition. He did not stop, but hurried back to the school, and then pulled Kyle out of the greenhouse.

"Professor, what are you doing..." Kyle muttered, "The exam is coming soon, and poison tentacles are a very important course."

Snape didn't care about that, and walked to a place far away from the greenhouse, and then asked coldly, "Where is Slytherin's locket? Hand it over!"

"What?" Kyle blinked.

"Don't play dumb." Snape narrowed his eyes, "I know that thing is in your hands, now give it to me.

"As the head of Slytherin, I have the right to keep the things left by Mr. Salazar."

Kyle turned his head and whispered, "Then you should go to Professor Dumbledore..."

"Are you trying to say that you gave that thing to the headmaster?" Snape sneered, "Coincidentally, it was he who told me that the locket was with you. "

Kyle stopped talking. He didn't expect Dumbledore to be such a big mouth and tell everything. That was Slytherin's locket. How could he tell Snape... What's the difference between this and going to find Fang with a piece of steak in his pocket.

"Hand it over quickly." Snape stretched out his hand.

"Sorry, Professor..." Kyle said calmly: "It's not that I don't want to give it up, but the locket is really not with me. I gave it away."

"Give it away?" Snape seemed to have thought of something, and his voice suddenly became sharp, "Damn it, don't you know how dangerous that thing is!"

"I gave it away because I knew it," Kyle said. "After all, in the magical world, only Nicolémeil can solve the problem of the locket without destroying it."

"Nicholas Flamel?" Snape was slightly startled and said subconsciously: "So you didn't give the locket to..."

At this point, he suddenly closed his mouth.

"Ah, to whom?" Kyle asked.

"Shut up, five points from Hufflepuff," Snape said.

However, after learning that the Horcrux was not in the school, he breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the castle, leaving only Kyle behind.

He couldn't help but glance at a window at the highest point of the castle...Dumbledore was back? Or did Snape go find him?

Also, judging from Snape's tone just now, it seemed that he had already seen Horcruxes.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that the only Horcrux that has not been found yet is the Resurrection Stone.

The main reason is that he really doesn't know where the thing is. Whether it is in the Hogwarts library or the private collection of Sirius's family, there is no record of Gaunt's old house.

He even asked Dumbledore in a roundabout way, but the other party didn't seem to know.

Kyle frowned.

When Dumbledore left school this time, could it be that he was looking for that stone?

And that Bob Ogden...seems to be a key figure as well.

Kyle glanced at his arm... He didn't know if the magic contract he had made before was useful. It should be of some help...

It's a pity that Dumbledore hasn't returned yet.

Kyle shook his head, didn't think about it anymore, and prepared to go back to the greenhouse to continue the class.

But Snape suddenly mentioned Slytherin's locket today, which made him subconsciously think of Ravenclaw's diadem.

Since he last returned to Hogwarts from Nicolas Flamel, this magical crown, the only Horcrux that has been repaired so far, and which also contains part of Ravenclaw's consciousness, has disappeared.

Also missing was the ghost Lady Grey, Helena Ravenclaw.

They seemed to have hid in a corner of the castle, spending time together in a long-lost world. After all, mother and daughter had not seen each other for more than a thousand years, so naturally they had a lot to say.

Kyle also tried to find them, but to no avail.

Before, Ms. Gray's name, like other ghosts, would appear on the Marauder's Map, but now she has disappeared.

Kyle also wondered if they were hiding in the Room of Requirement, but when Harry and the others had a DA party, the Room of Requirement was still in normal use.

Of course, it is not ruled out that there are more hidden rooms there. After all, even the Room of Requirement was built by Ravenclaw, so it would be too easy for her to leave a back door for herself.

If that was the case, Kyle would naturally not be able to find them.

When Kyle returned to the greenhouse, Professor Sprout was instructing everyone to put on dragon skin gloves.

"Poisonous tentacles are a very dangerous plant. Although what we see is only a seedling, it will not be fatal if it is stung, but it is enough to make you lie in the school hospital for a month... If you miss the exam by then, Don’t blame me for not warning you.”

This is also the reason why Poison Tentacle is placed in the sixth grade, because there are no particularly important exams in the sixth grade, so even if you miss it, it won't be a big problem.

Kyle opened the door and returned to his original position after receiving Professor Sprout's consent.

Connor next to her asked curiously: "What does Professor Snape want from you?"

Mikel and Ryan also looked over.

Snape had just barged in aggressively, startling them, and some even speculated that Kyle blew up his private storage room and was discovered by him to settle the score.

"Nothing." Kyle shook his head, "He wanted to ask me for Slytherin's locket."

"Slytherin's snuff bottle?" Mikel blinked, "What is that?"

"Idiot, it's a locket!" Ryan corrected: "It's something left by the legendary Big Four. Each college has one. Gryffindor's is an indestructible sword, and Ravenclaw's is The crown that brings wisdom to people, as for us Hufflepuffs, is a golden cup.

"But these things have been lost for centuries, and no one has actually seen them."

"That's cool..." Mikel's eyes lit up, and then he looked at Kyle doubtfully and asked, "But if that's the case, why would he come to you to ask for it?"

"Who knows..." Kyle put on his dragon leather gloves and shrugged, "Maybe someone told him something."

"That person must want to frame you." Mikel said angrily, "It's really bad."

"Yes, I think so too." Kyle nodded in agreement.