375 Not the right path, more experiences, sleepless nights, next goal

375 Not the right path, more experiences, sleepless nights, next goal

Voldemort's emphasis on the locket attracted Karan's attention, and he also remembered another thing - in the memory of the secret room of Potter Manor, the three brothers once said that the treasure parchment was placed in the locket first. inside, and then was put back into the secret room by Cadmus, who was about to leave for the Curtain Arch Bridge.

Although there is a small chance that the treasure parchment is still in the locket today, it is definitely worth opening it and giving it a try.

But this proposal aroused Hermione's opposition.

"No!" She immediately stood up and retorted: "We also hope to use this locket to find more Horcruxes. Harry's prying into the mysterious man's mind alone is not enough to do this - both of you Have you forgotten? Ever since he spied on those seven hundred Horcruxes, it has become increasingly difficult for Harry to see clear memories of the Horcruxes!"

"Is this happening?" Karan asked quickly.

Harry nodded palely: "The mysterious man's thoughts are becoming more and more confusing. Although the scar has not stopped hurting, most of what he sees are meaningless pictures."

"Perhaps this indicates that the mysterious man is becoming more crazy, so we are rushing to find you, the person predicted to bring hope to the war."

It seems that after continuously splitting souls, the treasure parchment has a deeper and deeper influence on the mysterious man, resulting in some changes that even Karan did not expect.

Perhaps there are also taboos on the treasure parchment!

"Then all the more reason we should destroy the locket!"

Karan's expression suddenly became solemn: "The mysterious man is about to lose control completely, and we must seize the time before then - but the curse of the locket alone is enough to drag us down, and even prevent us from approaching the crowd. , otherwise we will be discovered by Death Eaters once the Inferi appears again!"

Callan's proposal was approved by Ron - he had long wanted to destroy the locket, and the curse of the Inferi on it made him more and more uneasy, and he felt that even if Hermione found more Horcruxes, he could If successful, you can also try to use other Horcruxes to replace the function of the locket.

The only person who didn't express his opinion was Harry.

He lowered his head and was silent for a while, then looked at Hermione and said helplessly: "Didn't we already agree that if the person in the prophecy really exists, then we will do our best to help him. Just like Karan said, The remaining time may really be running out, but the number of Horcruxes is a full seven hundred, and now it may have become even more..."

Ron also joined in and said: "Yes, Hermione, do you remember when Harry told us that there were more than 700 Horcruxes left? It took us a long time to not completely collapse, and finally decided to continue looking for Horcruxes. .Karan’s method may be wrong, but at least it’s not wrong, right? Our original purpose is to destroy the Horcruxes anyway.”

Harry and Ron's words once again confirmed the reason why they chose to believe Karan - they really had no other way to fight against the mysterious man. If it weren't for Professor Sybil's prophecy, they might not even have the last glimmer of hope. reserve.

Hermione didn't speak. She clutched the locket on her chest tightly, as if she still had no intention of handing it to Karan. Even the look she looked at Karan had a hint of disgust: "I prefer to believe that Guspard Professor, he can definitely find a way to find more Horcruxes—"

After witnessing Hermione's sudden change, not only Callan, but also Harry and Ron realized something was wrong——

"Hermione was affected by Horcruxes!" Ron shouted in disbelief: "How could it be so fast this time?!"

"What are you talking about?" Hermione frowned. She stretched her palm down and was about to take out the wand in her witch robe, but Karan was much faster than her!

"All petrochemical!"

The ash wand appeared in Karan's hand at some point, and he read the spell loudly to Hermione. Hermione's body suddenly became straight, but then her arms actually bent slightly, and she was about to break away from the shackles of the petrification spell!

All three of them saw the locket around her neck slowly floating up - this was incredible!

"Quick! Hold her down!" Karan shouted anxiously!

Only then did Harry and Ron recover from their panic. They rushed towards Hermione, each of them held down one arm, but Hermione's strength suddenly became extremely strong and almost knocked them over. .

"What the hell is this?!" Ron Mou yelled with all his strength: "We have been taking turns hanging such horrible things on our necks before?!"

Karan also rushed over. Naturally, his small body alone could not hold down Hermione, but he set his target on the locket.

He put his hands on the silver chain on the back of Hermione's neck, but suddenly there was a hissing sound - the chain of the locket suddenly became hot. Karan threw his hands and put his sleeves on his palms, and grabbed the chain again. , and then suddenly took off the locket!

"Oops!"

Karan felt a powerful force on the locket, and not even wandless magic could stop it from escaping.

"Quick! Destroy it!" Karan shouted with a red face: "Destroy the locket now!"

As if he had a premonition of his own imminent destruction, the small golden cover of the locket popped open with a click. Behind the two small glass windows, there was a living eye blinking, black and bright, and a voice hissed from the Horcrux. Hissed.

"I see your heart, it's mine."

"I see your dreams, Ron Weasley, and Harry Snape, and I see your fears, and that's about to happen, no lie!"

Harry and Ron were both stunned. They saw two soap bubble-like objects popping out of the two small windows of the locket. Inside were two different pictures - the tragic death of the Weasley family, Lying sideways in the Burrow; James, Sirius, Remus, and Regulus losing their breath...

They were all under the control of Horcruxes, more than ever before.

But Karan didn’t.

He resisted the burning sensation in his palms and took out an exquisite pistol from the arms of Harry who was in a daze. His cold eyes met the eyes behind the small glass window, and the two sides looked at each other silently.

"Go to hell!" Karan said viciously.

Then--

"boom!"

The locket was knocked out, and a shrill, high-pitched howling sound came from inside. It fell to the cold snow, and then slowly smoke came out, and it stopped screaming again.

Hermione had passed out, and Harry and Ron were both broken into cold sweats. They quickly looked at Callan, their eyes dumbfounded.

The powerful reaction force intensified the burning sensation in the palm of his hand. The heavy pistol fell to the ground. Karan hissed and said in pain: "Let me take care of the Horcrux in the future. I can resist the influence of the Horcrux. The locket just I was not chosen as the target of the attack."

Ron's mouth opened wide in shock at Callan's special ability, and then he and Harry nodded quickly.

Callan glanced at the Sword of Gryffindor next to Ron's seat, and the pistol floated up slowly and silently, and flew back to the hands of Harry, who was stunned.

He suddenly laughed.

"You're right, Harry."

"This thing is much easier to use than a magic wand."

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The task of cleaning up the mess was left to the two uninjured people. The two worked together to carry the unconscious Hermione into the tent. When they came out, Harry took out a small bottle of white essence and handed it to Karan to treat the pain in his hand. Injury.

Ron picked up Gryffindor's sword. He carefully used the tip of the sword to pull the destroyed locket. At the same time, he blushed slightly because of embarrassment and explained: "This is the first time we have encountered this situation. Otherwise we wouldn’t let our guard down like this – who would have thought that a locket could do so many things?”

Karan nodded silently - of course he believed Ron's words. The performance of the locket was too special. Not only did it control Hermione unknowingly, it even wanted to escape.

This was far beyond what a Horcrux could do.

However, this just proves the specialness of the locket - as the sixth Horcrux made by Voldemort, it was also his success in splitting the soul seven times. Maybe they can really find it in the locket. What a clue.

After applying the white fresh essence, the injury on Karan's hand was completely healed quickly. He sat with Harry and Ron, with three pairs of eyes staring at the broken locket floating out of thin air. Then it opened again in front of the three people.

There is nothing inside.

There is no treasure parchment, not even a scrap of paper.

"Ok?"

Karan frowned and let the locket float forward a few inches——

"There's writing on it!"

Harry said pointing to the bottom of the locket.

Ron squinted his eyes, and he gradually made out the blurry handwriting:

"Isn't this the right way?"

"Isn't this the right way?"

There is only a short sentence at the bottom of the locket, but it seems to have been cut out with nails. It is difficult to imagine why Voldemort did this and why he left such a sentence - "This is not the right way".

"This is not the right way..." Harry murmured: "What does this mean? Is this really what the mysterious man left behind?"

Ron didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, but after thinking about it carefully, Karan's expression suddenly changed.

"This is not the right way," he repeated the same: "Eternal life, the purpose of making Horcruxes by the mysterious man is to live forever, and this locket is the last Horcrux he made in the first batch - maybe the mysterious man What clues were discovered that made him realize that Horcruxes are not the right path to eternal life!"

Treasure parchment!

Karan once again thought of the treasure parchment!It contains the method of making a Horcrux!If Karan's guess is correct, then the problem with the treasure parchment will be even bigger!

Because Horcruxes are not the right path to eternal life - this is contrary to the purpose of creating Horcrux magic!

"Maybe the Horcrux was originally a trap..."

Callan said in disbelief, and Harry and Ron were also shocked.

"I seem to understand why the locket Horcrux resisted so fiercely." Harry stared at the broken locket and said, "That's not the mysterious person preventing us from destroying the Horcrux, but what Karan said. The trap is preventing us from discovering the secrets left behind by the mysterious man!”

After a brief silence, Ron asked the most terrifying doubt buried in the minds of the three of them.

"Then the mysterious man...is he still just the mysterious man now?"

No one said anything, but the evidence was clearly in front of them.

This is not the right way.

Perhaps, since Voldemort successfully divided his soul into seven parts, he is no longer a complete Voldemort.

And what gradually replaced him was a powerful enemy that even Voldemort himself could not resist.

Likewise, this is the enemy that the trio and Karan need to deal with.

The trap hidden in the Horcrux.

Maybe there is... a forbidden one possessed by the treasure parchment!

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In the original war, Harry and Ron always thought that their real enemy was only Voldemort, but now an enemy more terrifying than Voldemort suddenly appeared, and might even have replaced Voldemort himself!

The terrifying speculation made the three of them feel depressed for a while. It wasn't until their stomachs began to growl that they started to prepare dinner in a hurry.

Fortunately, due to the prophecy they learned in advance, the trio had already been prepared to stay in this forest for a long time, which also allowed them to bring plenty of food.

It didn't take long for the tender steak to be sizzling on the campfire grill.

Hermione was still in the tent and had not woken up. To be on the safe side, both Harry and Ron decided not to leave yet, but to wait until tomorrow to see the specific situation.

While waiting for dinner, Callan told Harry and Ron about the existence of the treasured parchment.The two also asked him many things, especially Harry. He kept asking about Snape and Lily's past, but when it came to specific love experiences, Callan couldn't answer - in fact, even he I couldn't even figure out how Snape pursued Lily.

After all, before he came to this world, Lily only regarded Snape and herself as good friends, and the things she cared about most every day were probably learning magic and taking exams.

During the chat, Karan learned more about this magical world.

The Prewett brothers did not survive; they died before the turning point of the war.In addition, Karan also heard more familiar names, but only Meadows was not heard - presumably in this world, she might have died long before awakening the talent of a late bloomer.

The current Minister of Magic is a person that Callan has never heard of, but that is no longer important. According to the two men, the Ministry of Magic has long been controlled by Voldemort - this is not even just the British Ministry of Magic, France, Germany, the Magical Congress of the United States, and too many countries have already become vassals of Voldemort.

Voldemort's name had long since become taboo, following the turning point in the war when Voldemort placed a curse on his own name and the Death Eaters would capture anyone who dared pronounce his name.

There is no Dumbledore in this world, and there is no wizard who can stop Voldemort. Although Principal Dippet is also very powerful, he has done many things that Dumbledore should have done, but he is too old and cannot survive. He is more than 300 years old, which makes him unable to do many things.

Hogwarts is no longer so safe. During his school years, Harry encountered too many dangers every year, some from Death Eaters, some from terrible Horcruxes, and some from It came from a traitor - such as Peter Pettigrew, but this time he failed to get what he wanted. James did not trust anyone to trust Harry's life. It is said that Peter received a punishment from Voldemort after being exposed. He has been dead for a long time. It had been so long that it had never appeared in Harry's memory in person, and he only occasionally heard it from his adoptive father James.

The war has lasted for too long and a lot has changed, even the experience of the trio getting acquainted has changed.

Due to being adopted by James, Harry grew up in the wizarding world without his annoying uncle and aunt, which also allowed him to accept his identity as the "Boy Who Lived" more calmly.

In addition, because of Sirius's relationship with Molly Weasley, Harry knew Ron when he was very young. They would occasionally have dinner together, play together, and play Quidditch with Ron's brothers, but Harry Leigh's talent is really not very good. He prefers potions to flying broomsticks. It is said that this has made James feel lost for a long time.

Due to the reason of being too familiar, Harry became Ginny's sixth brother in disguise, and the two became a closer brother-sister relationship without being together.

And Ron, the aura still shines over his brothers, but Principal Dippet still chose him as his disciple - according to Principal Dippet himself, this was because he saw himself in Ron The shadow of the past, he himself has many outstanding brothers, but he firmly believes that he is the best one - the reason is very simple, he lived the longest, long enough to become the last person in his original family. No one can compare to each other anymore.

The aura of being a principal's disciple sounds much more powerful than that of the student council president. Ron no longer feels inferior, but is full of confidence. He has become the glory of the Weasley family, and is occasionally regarded by other students as the successor to Regulus. Then another student who most deserves to be called a true Gryffindor.

Finally, there is Hermione. As a Muggle-born, she knew in advance the never-ending war before coming to Hogwarts, and she also knew how much danger her blood would bring to herself. This made her never He was wary from the moment he got on the Hogwarts Express, and insisted on keeping silent about Harry and Ron, who were sitting in the same carriage. He didn't take the initiative to say a word until they got off the train.

Due to the disappearance of Dumbledore, Gryffindor is no longer as desirable as it was in the original timeline, so Hermione was assigned to Ravenclaw by the Sorting Hat, where there were many students as smart as her, and she also got to know them. He also met a professor of alchemy who also graduated from Ravenclaw College, Guspard Singleton.

The Guspard of this world noticed Hermione, the diligent number one in the grade, and this made Hermione naturally become Guspard's disciple - her research direction is the combination of Muggle technology and magical alchemy. , Harry’s two twin guns were her idea.

The trio really got to know each other at the end of their first year. Due to his special status, Harry had already known about the existence of Horcruxes. He told his good friend Ron about it, and finally met him again in the secret room. Hermione, a Muggle-born who was almost killed - the experience of living and dying together was much scarier than facing a troll. This also made the three of them forge a stronger friendship. After that, Hermione has been looking for a way to solve the Horcrux. method, and thus proposed the weapon of double guns.

But the difference is that because they are not in the same college, the three of them don't get together as much as in the original timeline. In addition, Hermione is always studying alchemy, and Ron is constantly accepting Principal Dippet. After training, the two did not fall in love in the end.But their common goal makes their friendship deeper.In Karan's view, it can also be love, but it is much more valuable than simple love.

Gradually, the sky became darker, and Karan generously distributed the remaining bluebell flames in his pocket to the two of them, and the unconscious Hermione was not left behind.Harry and Ron both rejected his request to stay on night watch. In their view, even though Callan came from the past and could be regarded as their elder, he was still just a child now.

And the child is about to rest.

Before turning off the lights, Harry hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn't help but ask: "In your world, my parents...are they doing well?"

Karan looked at the boy in front of him, who was not a few years older than him. He originally thought that his own generation was dangerous enough, but he did not expect that there would be an even more sinister world.

And Harry Snape grew up in such an environment.

The tragic fate of a man who has lost his parents and knows that he is destined to die, but has never met his biological parents.

"they are very good."

Karan said calmly, his fists hidden under the quilt clenched tightly unconsciously.

"I will help them and make their lives better."

Harry was stunned for a few seconds, and then gave a forced smile.

"Thank you." He whispered: "Actually, it doesn't matter to me whether I can be born again, but as long as they can live a better life and don't have to sacrifice to protect me, then... just... ....”

He couldn't talk any more and left the tent as if running away, walking to the campfire alone.

"Thank you, Karan."

All night long, Karan's fists did not loosen.

The next day, after half the night, Harry was woken up by Hermione's cry of pain. When he opened his eyes, he found that Ron had slowly helped Hermione up, and Callan was helping. Get water.

"My head hurts."

Hermione pressed her forehead hard twice and said, "Yesterday...how come I can't remember many things."

Callan slowly recounted the details of yesterday. Hermione couldn't help but exclaimed several times. Especially when she heard that the person who solved the Horcrux was Callan, she glared at Harry and Harry fiercely. Ron glanced twice - Fortunately, nothing happened to Karan, otherwise all three of them would have been responsible.

"It's not their fault."

Karan explained helpfully: "After all, it is an existence that even the mysterious man cannot resist."

After hearing about the treasure parchment and the existence of the Forbidden One, Hermione couldn't come back to her senses for a long time.

"Then what should we do?" She said fearfully: "New plan, we must make a new plan, otherwise-"

"We already have a plan."

Callan said suddenly, and even Harry and Ron were shocked - they only learned about it now.

"Pig's Head Bar." Karan looked at Ron: "Who did you say is the owner of the Pig's Head Bar yesterday?"

"Effias Dorje." Ron said blankly: "An old man who has suffered from dragon pox. What happened to him? Is it related to the plan you mentioned?"

Elphias Dorje was Dumbledore's friend when he was young, but in this world, he took Aberforth's place and became the new owner of the Hog's Head.

"Are you going to Hogsmeade?" Hermione shook her head and said, "It's just as dangerous there, not much better than Hogwarts. There are many Death Eaters patrolling there."

"No, we're not going to Hogsmeade."

Karan said with a smile, and the three of them didn't understand how he could still laugh at such a time.

"We're going to find someone."

"Find another person who will bring hope to the war. Or, he is the hope to end the war."

Harry quickly asked: "Who are you talking about?"

Karan narrowed his eyes slightly and turned to look at the snowflakes floating outside the tent.

"Albus Dumbledore."

He turned around again and read out this name that was slightly unfamiliar to the three of them.

"We're going to Godric's Hollow."

"Go find Albus Dumbledore!"