This discovery showed that Lord Voldemort had started to modify his body after he left the Hogwarts.
He was experimenting with all kinds of forbidden black magic on his body to make himself stronger.
Voldemort was not the first dark Magus to use such a ruthless method against himself in order to obtain powerful dark energy. He would definitely not be the last.
There were many similar examples, such as using a forbidden technique to reincarnate between different corpses, turning one's body into a giant white snake monster, or transplanting eleven powerful red eyes onto one's right arm, or replacing one's body with metal or other inorganic matter, gaining a powerful destructive power, or grafting five hearts into one's body, replacing the flesh and blood with countless blood vessels, gaining the power of immortality, and so on. Dark sorcerers were very crazy when it came to the black magic of body modification. There were also many scary spells.
For example, Lord Voldemort now only had red light flashing in his eyes from time to time. It was really not a big deal …
Even compared to his later appearance, the Voldemort before him was still too conservative.
Although he looked no different from a normal person, Lord Voldemort was extremely dangerous at the moment.
Hepzba, who had shown off two treasures in a row, was in a very dangerous situation, but she did not realize it at all. She was still saying proudly, "I dare say that Bork didn't pay her much. But look, it's so beautiful, isn't it? And all kinds of magic power. Although I'm just keeping it safe … "
Lord Voldemort did not answer. Hepzba laughed for a while and reached out to take back the small gold box.
For a moment, Lord Voldemort seemed to not want to let go, but it slipped from his fingers and fell on the red velvet cushion.
"Tom, dear, I hope you like these. Are you okay?!"
She looked at his face, and for the first time, the silly smile on her face became dull.
"I'm fine," Lord Voldemort said quietly. "I'm fine, I'm fine …"
"Oh, okay, then … I thought it was the light …" Hepzba said, a little flustered.
Unsurprisingly, she should have seen the red light in Voldemort's eyes for a split second.
The old woman finally became vigilant. No matter how stupid she was, she knew that this was not normal.
Anyone would be scared to see a red light flash in their eyes.
"Come on, Hao Qi, take them away and lock them up again. Well, I'll use my wand..." she said, a little flustered.
The elf waddled away with the box in her hand. Lord Voldemort's eyes followed her.
"Elwyn, Harry, we should go!" Dumbledore said softly.
The three of them passed through the void and returned to the office. It was already very late.
"Hepzba Smith passed away two days later." Dumbledore sat down and motioned for Elwyn and Harry to sit down as well. "The Ministry of Magic has determined that Hao Qi, the house-elf, mistakenly put poison in her mistress's cocoa tea."
"Impossible!" Harry said angrily.
"It was Lord Voldemort who did it. He played the same trick again and blamed Hao Qi for the woman's death." Elwyn said.
"Yes, I think so too." Dumbledore replied, "This death case has many similarities with the Riddle family's murder case. There are scapegoats in both cases, and the scapegoats have clear memories of the murder..."
"Why would Hao Qi admit it?" Harry said in disbelief.
"Because she remembered that she did put something in her mistress's cocoa tea. Later it was discovered that it wasn't sugar, but a rare and deadly poison. The verdict said that she didn't commit intentional murder, but that her eyes were blurred from old age. " Dumbledore paused and continued, "Of course, it was Lord Voldemort who changed her memory. Moreover, just like with Mo Fen, the Ministry of Magic was inclined to suspect that Hao Qi was the murderer, so they didn't put in the effort to investigate at all. "
"Because she's a house-elf?!" Harry had never sympathized with Hermione's organization: the House-Elf Liberation Front as much as he did now.
It was probably because she was a house-elf. With Elwyn's understanding of the Ministry of Magic, this was a very normal thing.
Due to long-standing beliefs and prejudices, the Ministry of Magic, the only official governing body in the magic world, was actually not that fair.
Among them, many pure-blooded officials who occupied important positions discriminated against wizards who were born as Muggle, discriminated against people like Muggle who didn't know magic, discriminated against non-human intelligent creatures like werewolves and house-elves, discriminated against people like Mo Fen who didn't have money, discriminated against …
Come to think of it, discrimination was everywhere. The theory of bloodline had always been very popular in the Ministry of Magic and even in the magic world.
Even if Lord Voldemort was defeated in the end, these beliefs would not be easily changed.
In other words, in the future, there would be a third generation of The Dark Lord, a fourth generation of The Dark Lord, a fifth generation …
Only by attacking the root of the problem could everything be changed. Elwyn thought of the future he saw last time in 18 years, and suddenly felt that he should support Hermione to run for the minister of the Ministry of Magic and bring change to the magic world.
"Hao Qi is a house-elf. Besides, she is very old. After she admitted to putting something in the drink, no one in the Ministry of Magic thought to investigate further. Just like Mo Fen, when I found her and got her memory, she was almost at the end of her life. Of course, her memory can only prove that Lord Voldemort knew about the existence of the cup and the locket. Later, we found the locket, which was made into a soul tool by Lord Voldemort, and then Sirius's brother … "Dumbledore did not continue, but changed the topic back to the gold cup and Lord Voldemort." From this, we can infer that Hufflepuff's gold cup is also a soul tool, unless I'm wrong. "
"The gold cup should be a soul tool, but it and the home of the house-elf …"
Dumbledore waved his hand, indicating that Elwyn should continue to listen to him and ask questions later.
"There is no memory to prove what happened later, but I can tell you that when people cleaned up Hepzba's belongings and found that the cup and the locket were gone, the clerk of Borgin Bock, the young man who often visited Hepzba and was good at pleasing her, had already resigned and disappeared. His boss did not know where he went, and no one knew where he went. Everyone who knew this was as surprised as Lord Voldemort when he first worked there. "
"He disappeared?"
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