Chapter 232: Gormlaith Gaunt's Defeat

At 10 o'clock, in the headmaster's office on the eighth floor of Hogwarts, Tom Riddle showed his true expression for the first time as Dumbledore finished speaking.

It was a curious expression with a little sense of competition.

"Harry Potter? Potter's family? He is a professor at Hogwarts?" Riddle couldn't help asking.

"He, he is still recognized by the magic world as the person who defeated your main body."

"After your main body was defeated, only a few Death Eaters still followed you."

"But they all went to Azkaban, and the rest claimed to be under the Imperius Curse." Dumbledore teased, and Riddle didn't care about his tone at all.

"Lucius must be among those who claim to have been cursed by the Imperius Curse. He is a speculator like his father."

"But it doesn't matter. Is Harry Potter in Hogwarts? I want to meet him. Is he James Potter's father?" In Riddle's imagination, Harry Potter's appearance has become a white-bearded old man, the father of James Potter, the Gryffindor celebrity when he was wreaking havoc outside.

"No, he is just a baby. James and Lily are his parents. After your main body killed his parents, you tried to kill him but failed."

"In the end, you only left him with an indelible scar. Then he lost his body and was even worse than the humblest wandering soul." Dumbledore said with a little sadness.

"How did a baby, without any special magical spells, defeat the greatest wizard of all time? How did he escape unscathed, leaving only a scar, while Voldemort's power was destroyed?"

"And Lily? She was the lover of Severus' child, right? How did she get together with James Potter? Did I stand up for my servant and then fail ridiculously?" Riddle looked incredulous, and he firmly believed that Dumbledore must have done something about it.

"It's the power of love. You have never understood the power of contempt." Dumbledore sighed, "It appears when a wizard who would not have died voluntarily dies for the one he loves."

"Lily would not have died. Severus once begged you to spare her life, and obviously you agreed. In the end, Lily blocked the fatal magic for his child, and because the oldest magic of love took effect, the spell you cast rebounded on you." Dumbledore said.

He acted very serious. He hoped that Tom Riddle, who still had a conscience, could recognize the power of love, and even be infected by it and walk on the right path.

In his imagination, this part of Riddle's soul was the main body, destroying other souls.

In the end, Harry, as Riddle's Horcrux, checked and balanced each other with him, lived for a long time, and retained a part of the power for the British wizarding world.

The emergence of the mysterious American wizard and the rapid development of Muggles made him deeply wary, which was why he helped this part of Tom who still had a conscience to be independent.

"So, I really died to help Snape?" Riddle did not hear Dumbledore's introduction to the power of love, but noticed another message in Dumbledore's words.

"You can say that." Dumbledore said, "The power of love should be what you should know most. Your middle name is Gaunt, the Gaunt of Slytherin."

Riddle still looked disdainful, but he pricked up his ears again.

"Love is the most mysterious branch of all magic and is very difficult to understand. The people in the Ministry of Magic also believe that love is the most difficult and powerful magic, so there is a room in the Department of Mysteries that has been studying it."

"The power of love can be traced back to the history of the magic world. The only documented record of it is in the 17th century, when the great Irish witch Isolt Sayer was defeated by Gormlaith Gaunt after she established Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in America."

"You know, Gormlaith Gaunt is the strongest descendant of the Gaunt family, Slytherin, in hundreds of years of history except for you." Dumbledore was interrupted by Riddle unceremoniously when he said this.

"You are wrong. Isolt Sayer is also a descendant of Slytherin, and Gormlaith is her aunt."

"Gormlaith is not that powerful. Her so-called power is because she went to Hogwarts, while other Gaunts are uneducated and don't even go to school."

"She was famous at the time because she stole Slytherin's wand."

"Dumbledore, let me tell you this story."

"Her downfall was more due to family affection. She still loved the descendants of her nephew."

"Isolt's father was William Sayer, an Irish pure-blood wizard and a descendant of Animagus Morrigan."

"William Sayer and Gormlaith's sister Leona gave birth to Isolt. Because the two of them were willing to help Muggle neighbors and use magic to treat them and their livestock, Gormlaith was very dissatisfied."

"In the end, Gormlaith set a fire to burn her "deviant" sister and her sister's husband to death, "saved" Isolt, and tried to train her to be a pure-blood supremacist like herself."

"Later, Isolt ran away from home and came to America, married a local Muggle, James Stewart, and adopted two children with wizarding talents-Chadwick and Webb Butt. She also rescued He got a Pukki (a distant relative of European fairies who can use powerful magic, is short, gray-skinned, and has long ears.), because Pukki hates wizards and humans and does not want to reveal his name. She called it William, after her father."

"After Isolt gave birth to her twin daughters, Gormlaith finally found Isolt. Gormlaith was ready to repeat her old tricks again and kill her aunt and nephew's Muggle husband. Adoption Their twin daughters."

"It has to be said that Gormlaith still has a few brushes. She first cast a very powerful curse outside, making Isolt and James fall into a deep sleep. She also carefully used Parseltongue to make Isolt lose her wand. effectiveness.”

"But Chadwick and Webber Butt were not hypnotized because they were not known by Gormlaith."

"Then Chadwick and Webber Butt also detected the magic cast by the Parseltongue through their hydra-horned wands and alerted their master."

"And because their wand cores are made of the same material (the horn of the same long-horned water snake), their magic power can be increased tenfold when they jointly deal with enemies. In addition, Gormlaith thought they were the children of her aunt and nephew. , thinking that they were too good to kill, which allowed them to delay until the cry of Isolt’s twin daughters woke her up.”

"Yet even so, Gormlaith gained the upper hand, and at last Isolt called out her father's name in despair, and the Pukechi appeared and shot Gormlaith through the heart with a poisonous arrow."

"Eventually William Pukki and his family moved into Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and became the school's personal guard and keeper of order."

"This is the truth of that story. There is no love, but love is the real reason for Gormlaith's downfall." Riddle said disdainfully.