Chapter 99: Resurrection Stone and Nagini



"Let's go, Nagini."

Meeting Nagini was an unexpected surprise.

From Riddle's memory, he had indeed met Nagini a long time ago, when he was still living in an orphanage. But Cyrus didn't expect that he just came to visit the "historical sites" of the Riddle family, but unexpectedly found Nagini lying quietly in the lush ivy.

She mistook Cyrus for Riddle.

Surprisingly, Nagini had forgotten almost everything about her past as a human being, but she remembered the boy she met fifty years ago who could talk to her so clearly, as if she had just slept during these fifty years, and when she woke up again, time had not moved forward very far.

It was always a pleasure to meet someone, even though Cyrus had explained that he was not actually Riddle himself. However, with Nagini's current brain capacity, it might be difficult to understand.

She would never be able to distinguish between good and evil, nor would she know that the child she once knew later became a Dark Lord more terrifying than Grindelwald.

But no matter what, at least she could still feel that she was different from other "kinds of people", and this time, she chose to leave with Cyrus.

Leaving Little Hangletonshire, go four or five miles further to find Gaunt's old house.

Compared to the Riddle House, this place looked like a straw shed for raising livestock. The only decoration was probably an S-shaped dead snake nailed to the door.

The walls were covered with moss, and many of the tiles on the roof had fallen off, revealing here and there the rafters from the inside. A thick growth of nettles grew around the house, reaching up to the windows, which were very small and thick with old dirt.

The whole house has become a world of rats and spiders, and the spider webs everywhere are entangled with dead moths.

Cyrus did not rush in, as he knew that Voldemort had left a curse here. But he also knew how to remove it. The Gaunt family ring and diary were made at very close times.

Many people think that the diary was created when Voldemort murdered Myrtle, but this is not the case. Myrtle's death was an accident, and Voldemort's first real murder was when he killed the Riddle family and the rest of the Gaunt family.

Both Horcruxes were made at that time.

Of course, compared to the diary, the ring did come later.

But in fact, there is a connection between the Horcruxes and even Voldemort's body. Harry and Voldemort can invade each other's brains, and even Harry can overlap with Nagini's perspective.

Therefore, although the diary does not contain many memories, Voldemort can still resonate with them when he feels strong emotions.

As a result, Cyrus also saw the moment before Voldemort's "death".

It was at that moment that Voldemort's connection with the Horcruxes he had made was severed. Whether it was the diary, the pendant, or the golden cup... Voldemort was unaware that these Horcruxes were destroyed.

But Voldemort was devastated when Nagini was killed, not to mention that he was knocked out when he hit Harry with the Killing Curse.

But even so, the curse is very complicated.

It took him almost a whole night to get the ring. Of course, the ring was not important, but the black prismatic stone on it. It looked like a piece of black crystal, with the Peverell emblem engraved inside.

However, resurrecting people through the resurrection stone will not bring happiness. They are more like a body without a soul.

Of course, if the story of the Grim Reaper and the three brothers is true, then it is not so much that the people resurrected by the Resurrection Stone have no souls, but rather that they have lost their emotions. People who have lost their joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness will eventually fall into madness even if they are still alive.

Regardless, this cannot conceal the power of the Resurrection Stone.

Because it breaks an iron rule of the wizarding world. As Dumbledore said, there is no spell or potion that can bring the dead back to life, not even the Philosopher's Stone.

Cyrus created a body through the Philosopher's Stone, but this is fundamentally different from resurrecting a person.

The Philosopher's Stone only creates a "living" and "vital" body. In the final analysis, it is still a material transformation. However, compared with other alchemy, the magic power of the Philosopher's Stone has reached the limit of the category of alchemy.

But the Resurrection Stone not only creates a body, but also summons the souls of the dead. Normally, the souls of the dead who have not become ghosts will dissipate directly, but the Resurrection Stone can bring them back to the world.

Even if those souls have defects after returning, it is still an incomparable miracle.

In addition, the Resurrection Stone has another special feature - among the three Deathly Hallows, it is the only one engraved with the Peverell emblem.

Cyrus took the resurrection stone from the ring. As for the ring itself, it was of no use to him. He was considering whether to destroy it.

After all, Voldemort was also his enemy.

Cyrus didn't believe that if Voldemort knew that he had a "Horcrux" that was resurrected but had lost control of it, he would not regard himself as a thorn in his side.

Let’s put it this way, the conflict between him and Dumbledore might still be reconciled, but as long as Voldemort learns of Cyrus’s existence, he will definitely find ways to get rid of this “fake”.

Moreover, Cyrus thought that Voldemort might have known of his existence. After all, the Ministry of Magic had already spread the wanted poster of Tom Riddle throughout the UK.

Although Voldemort is now in the dark jungle of Albania, Cyrus believes that Dumbledore will definitely tell Voldemort about his resurrection in order to test him. As for what action Voldemort will take, Cyrus does not know.

"I can't use the Resurrection Stone yet, but it's a safety precaution. As for the other two Deathly Hallows—"

Cyrus recalled that not long ago he had planned to take Harry's Invisibility Cloak and escape from Hogwarts, but Dumbledore saw through his plan and ultimately failed to take the Invisibility Cloak with him.

It all seems like just a coincidence, but considering that neither Dumbledore nor Grindelwald had ever possessed the three Deathly Hallows at the same time before, it doesn't seem like a coincidence.

It was as if someone in fate was preventing them from collecting all the Deathly Hallows.

(End of this chapter)


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