Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures

Tsk, that doesn't sound like what Slughorn would say to Riddle.

That is, in addition to hiding some of the more important memories, Slughorn tampered with and fabricated the latter part of the memories.

A few seconds later, the three returned to Dumbledore's office again.

Harry seemed a little confused. He looked at Ivan, turned around and looked back at Dumbledore sitting behind the table, not knowing what was going on.

Dumbledore just said it was his most important memory, but he couldn't see where it was important. Of course, that sudden white mist, and nobody seemed to notice it, was strange, but nothing else seemed to have happened, except that Riddle asked a question and didn't get an answer.

“You may have noticed that this memory has been tampered with.” Dumbledore did not go in circles and bluntly said, "Professor Slughorn tampered with his own memories, and he gave me a false one. ”

“Tampered memories? Why would he do that?” Harry couldn't help but ask.

“I think he should be ashamed of this memory, so he tampered with it, made himself decent and erased what he didn't want me to see. Tampering is bad, which is a good thing that real memories are still underneath. ”

“Professor, is this memory about the Horcrux?” Ivan interrupted and asked.

“Yes, an important memory of the Horcrux.” Dumbledore said with interest, "We knew long ago that Riddle wanted to make a Horcrux, and he believed that in this way he could gain eternal life. In fact, when he took the ring and returned to Hogwarts, he had succeeded in producing a Horcrux, which was an uncontrolled accident. I talked to him, Voldemort thinks he's a problem, and the reason he's still there is nothing more than trying to figure out what to learn from it...”

“And did he succeed?” Ivan asks, knowing what Dumbledore says later, he refers to Riddle, 15 years old.

“No!" Dumbledore said, "So Voldemort turned to Slughorn to ask for instructions on how to make a Horcrux. He should have found some content from the book, but it's not comprehensive, and there are some details to confirm. ”

“For example, the number of Horcruxes that can be made…” Ivan said.

“Very sharp idea, Evan. The exact number of Horcruxes, which is one of the important things we need to figure out. After all, from what we currently have, Voldemort has made a lot of souls, Riddle's diary, Slytherin's pendant box, Ravenclaw's crown, the statue of the Evil God, and because of the accidental appearance of this ring.” Dumbledore said that his bright eyes quickly swept Harry's eyes and turned back to Evan, "I said earlier that he had a habit of collecting loot and that we had found so far so many, but certainly not all, that we had to confirm the final quantity. ”

“What is the limit of the number of Horcruxes a person can make? How many times can you split your soul? ”

“Theoretically infinite, unlimited in number, but no one can do that, because it requires more evil than you can imagine. How much pain has been inflicted when the soul is divided, and its own soul suffers equally. Dumbledore said," But Voldemort is clearly no longer a normal person, so we can't measure him by general criteria. In fact, in response to the memories we have just seen, I would like to assign you a task, and I hope that you will find ways to expose Professor Slughorn's true memory and clarify what Riddle said to him, which will undoubtedly be our most critical piece of information. ”

It's not easy to get Slughorn's real memory.

Evan knew, of course, that Voldemort had finally made seven Horcruxes after asking Professor Slughorn, but he could not guarantee that this was Voldemort's ultimate number of Horcruxes. That guy is obviously crazy, working with the Evil Gods and who knows what he'll do.

Splitting the soul is impossible for most people, but for Voldemort, it's as simple as eating and breathing.

How helpful are Slughorn's memories now, no one can say...

But it's better to know than nothing.

“Professor, if you want to get memories, can't you use intoxication or vomiting agents?” Harry asked.

“It's unlikely, Harry, that Professor Slughorn is a very capable wizard, and he will prevent these two moves and other magic. His brain closed much more than poor Muffin, and since I forced him to give me this distorted memory, it's not the antidote he's carrying with him.” Dumbledore gently said, "I think it's foolish to try to force the truth from Professor Slughorn, and I don't want him to leave Hogwarts. We are going to take a more moderate approach, and it is fortunate that he, like all of us, has his own weaknesses, and I believe that you are the ones who can break through his lines of defence. Especially you, Harry, and Slughorn are obviously more interested in you than they are in Ivan's vigilance, and it's easy for you to get his trust and let him fulfill your requirements willingly and willingly hand over his memory. You know, it's important to get real memories, how important they are, only after you've seen the real thing. Well, this is the second memory, and we still have two memories to look at. This next memory is about what happened the night Evan and I found the ring, and my conversation with Riddle. ”

“Talking to Riddle?” Harry still didn't understand what Dumbledore was saying.

He followed Ivan back into the meditation basin, this time back to the Gunter family cabin.

Compared to the last time, however, the area has become ruined, leaving only broken walls.

Dumbledore's memories didn't start from scratch, he lost the experience of being bewitched by the magic left on the ring by the magic of Stone Voldemort, and it started directly with the 15-year-old Riddle coming out and communicating with Ivan.

Harry watched with surprise the sudden appearance of Riddle, as well as Ivan, Dumbledore and his conversation.

Incredibly, he had no idea that the ring on Dumbledore's right hand was the Horcrux.

No, he knew it was a Horcrux, but thought it was a destroyed Horcrux, didn't expect it to be intact.

Half an hour later, the three returned to Dumbledore's office and Harry looked at Dumbledore's ring on his right hand.

“Fortunately, we found this ring and had the opportunity to communicate face-to-face with Riddle, 15, inside, which helped greatly in our subsequent plans.” Dumbledore said he didn't seem to notice Harry's gaze, "Next, I'm going to show you another crucial memory of what happened after Riddle graduated from Hogwarts, which is hidden information about raising the elves home...”