Chapter 86 Magical Numbers (Ch 86)

“I think I know who that person is…” Dumbledore said with a long sigh of relief.

Kaisen understood, a physical version of blocking one’s ears, like a creeper head suddenly appeared in his hand and was suddenly put on Lockhart’s head.

“Tom Riddle…you know his…” Dumbledore said helplessly.

“No? Can he still die?”

Dumbledore shook his head. “In short, we now know that Tom is now possessed by a book, and this book should be the work he wrote when he was in grade six or seven. It may contain a memory or personality of his time, just like… a portrait.”

“wrong.”

“Hmm?” Dumbledore looked at Kaisen.

“It’s not the personality or the memory, but the soul,” Kaisen said seriously.

“How do you know?”

Dumbledore asked.

Kaisen didn’t know how to explain for a moment, so he simply took off the monocle stuck in his eye socket and turned it around to put it in front of Dumbledore.

“Human…magic…what does MC mean?” Dumbledore saw Kaisen’s true nature through his monocle and asked with some confusion.

“Don’t worry about the details.”

Kaisen took the monocle back and said, “What I want to say is that when Voldemort possessed Lockhart, one of Lockhart’s entries was soul.”

“Soul………….” Dumbledore murmured, and after a long time he sat down on the chair.

He didn’t know whether to be happy or sad…

“A hopeless person.”

He said in a trance.

“What?” Kaysen asked.

“Tom is a hopeless person…it turns out that at that time he was…”

“Please explain yourself more clearly.” Kaisen sat down and poured Dumbledore a cup of black tea.

“He killed a person… If that thing in Lockhart’s body was really a soul, then he had already killed a person at that time, an innocent person…”

“Using this cruel method, he split his soul and created Horcruxes. This is the secret of his immortality, and also the secret of his gradual madness.” Dumbledore said with a serious face.

“Horcrux?”

Dumbledore nodded: “By killing innocent people, he splits his soul and attaches the soul fragments to objects. He then uses ritual magic to protect the object. When his body is killed, one of his soul fragments cannot go to the world of the dead, so he will be half dead and become a wandering ghost between the worlds…”

“He relied on killing people to split his soul. Who did he kill back then?” Kaisen asked.

“At that time…Myrtle, there was only her. She is now a ghost of Hogwarts, in…an abandoned bathroom on the second floor of the castle.”

Kaisen sat in his seat and took a sip of tea: “You are right, that guy is really hopeless…”

The crystal ball on the desk flashed red, and after it was pressed, the office door in the distance opened.

Snape walked in and looked at the terrifyingly large office in surprise. The next moment he cast a flying spell and quickly came to the desk. He pulled a chair for himself and sat down. While drinking tea, he also looked at Lockhart, who was dizzy and had a coolie hat on his head not far away.

The four little ones began a long…exercise.

“I should bring my broomstick next time,” Harry whispered.

“I think… that makes sense.”

“What’s the matter? You accidentally knocked Lockhart stupid and asked me to save him?” Snape asked Kaisen while sitting in a chair.

Kaisen touched his chin and said little, while Dumbledore next to him looked a little embarrassed.

He called Snape here because he wanted Snape to give Lockhart some truth serum, which he could then use to assist in his Legilimency double search of body and soul.

But now I have confirmed who that person is. In short… there is no point in Snape coming here.

“………Don’t tell me that I came here for nothing.” Snape said to the silent Dumbledore.

“Of course not. We just went to the principal’s office to talk.”

In this way, the four little ones finally approached the desk panting, and then Dumbledore Apparated away with Kaison and Snape.

“….Are they kidding us? Making fun of us?”

“It was definitely Snape’s idea.”

“Although…but…I agree!”

The other side……………….

“The secret of Voldemort’s immortality has been discovered… a very evil alchemical creation… a Horcrux.” Dumbledore said as he sat in his chair.

“So that’s how it is. As long as we find the Horcrux…” Snape nodded.

“I don’t think Tom needs just one Horcrux. One Horcrux is not enough to turn him into a half-human, half-ghost.” Dumbledore shook his head.

“…………………..”

“…………………..”

Kaisen and Snape looked at each other, then simultaneously turned speechless expressions towards Dumbledore, obviously dissatisfied with the Riddler’s behavior.

“Bridget Wenlock discovered a magical number,” Dumbledore explained.

“7? He made seven Horcruxes?” Snape asked.

“It can only be said that it is possible. This is my judgment based on his personality. If he chooses to make more than one Horcrux, then he probably won’t choose to make them randomly. His arrogant and twisted personality cannot accept anything that is not magical.” Dumbledore nodded.

“…How many do you know now?”

“One of them, one of his notebooks.”

“Where?”

Kaisen shook his head. “Lockhart picked up the notebook and was possessed by Voldemort until I found him and suppressed him in my office. Voldemort’s soul must have suddenly left Lockhart’s body. I searched Lockhart’s body and office, but I don’t know where the notebook went.”

“A Horcrux, a soul fragment, it doesn’t even have much magical power except for bewitching people, how could it disappear?” Snape frowned.

“That idiot Lockhart followed Voldemort’s instructions and infused his magic into the notebook,” Kaysen explained.

“…..a complete idiot indeed.” Snape said sarcastically.