Chapter 490
Chapter 490 Kreacher’s Answer, Regulus!!
The pendant box looks ordinary and doesn’t have the seductive magic of other Horcruxes.
When Kreacher reluctantly delivers the locket to Peter, it also attracts the attention of Dumbledore and Sirius.
Peter fumbled with the locket and handed it to Dumbledore boredly, which was just a symbol of Slytherin and didn’t have much practical significance.
“Dumbledore, what the hell is going on?”
Sirius saw Dumbledore very seriously take the locket over, as if holding a very important object, or could not help asking, “What is this pendant box?” Why is it in Kreacher’s hands? And what does it have to do with my brother? ”
“That’s exactly what I wondered,” said Dumbledore, who looked at Peter and then at Kreacher, who was full of grief, and asked, “Kreacher, can you tell me why your master, Regulus, asked you to break the pendant box?” What about himself? ”
Kreacher was devastated, tears streaming down his face, his eyes fixed on the pendant box in Dumbledore’s hand, just wailing.
“Kreacher, answer Dumbledore’s words!” What the hell did my brother do? ”
Sirius gave a stern order.
Kreacher seemed to be choked by the neck, and he gasped and said, “When the master Sirius left, he broke up with Black, which is really gratifying to get rid of, because he is a bad boy, always unruly, and broke the heart of the hostess.” But the master, Regulus, was very cultured, and he knew what the situation of the Black family meant and his noble pure-blood lineage. He initially idolized the Dark Lord because he had wizards no longer hide, but in turn rule Muggles and Muggle-born people. At the age of 16, the master Regulus joined the Dark Lord’s group. He was so proud, so proud. Then one day, a year after he joined, the owner Regulus went downstairs to the kitchen to see Kreacher. The host Regulus has always loved Kreacher. The host Regulus said… He said… The Dark Lord needs a house-elf. Regulus, the host, offered to recommend Kreacher. It was an honor, said the master, Regulus, an honor that belonged to him and Kreacher. Kreacher must do whatever the Black Barbarian King commands… Then go back home. ”
Kreacher seemed to think of something frightening, his body trembled with fear, and his voice whimpered, “So Kreacher went to the Dark Lord.” The Dark Lord didn’t tell Kreacher what to do, but simply took Kreacher to a cave by the sea. Deep in the cave is a cave with a large black lake in it. There’s a boat there… The Dark Lord took Kreacher on a boat to a small island…”
Kreacher’s mulberry became hoarse, his eyes showing a look of fear, “There is a stone basin on the island filled with potions, and the Dark Lord asked Kreacher to drink it… It…”
Shaking from head to toe, “Kreacher drank, and when he drank, he saw something terrible… Kreacher’s body seemed to be on fire, Kreacher cried out for his master Regulus to save him, crying that the hostess could appear, but the Dark Lord just laughed… He had Kreacher drink all the potions and put them in the locket… He filled the basin with more potions. Then the Dark Lord rowed the boat away and left Kreacher alone on the island. Kreacher needed water, so he slowly climbed to the edge of the island and drank water from the black lake… Lots of hands… The hand of a dead man, coming out of the water, pulled Kreacher under the water…”
“How did you escape?”
Sirius asked in surprise, “The Dark Lord can’t allow a house elf to come back alive, especially after you see his secret.” ”
Kreacher lifted the ugly head, looked at Sirius with his big, cloudy eyes, and then replied, “Master Regulus let Kreacher come back!” ”
“I know… But how did you get back? How did you escape from the corpses in which lakes? ”
Sirius asked.
Kreacher did not seem to understand Sirius’s words, and replied repeatedly: “Master Regulus asked Kreacher to return.” ”
“I know, back yes.”
“Obviously, it’s phantom-shifting back, right?” Kreacher. ”
Dumbledore said more than a little.
Kreacher nodded.
“But this is impossible, Dumbledore, and Kreacher also said, that even the Dark Lord had left by row, and it was obvious that there was no apparition in that cave.”
Sirius said very puzzled.
“Sirius, obviously you made the same mistake as Voldemort, you both ignored the magic of the house-elves, and their methods are different from ours.”
Dumbledore smiled and said, looking at Kreacher in front of him in amazement, “If you can be careful when you go to school, you will find that the house-elves in the castle are all free phantom shapeshifters, but we can’t.” ”
“The highest law of a house-elf is to obey the master’s orders,” Kreacher straightened up and said firmly, “the master let Kreacher go home, so Kreacher is back!” ”
“Yes, you did what you were supposed to do, didn’t you?”
Dumbledore said gently, “You didn’t disobey the order at all! ”
Kreacher shook his head, his body not shaking as fast as before.
“What happened after you got home?” What did Regulus do? ”
Sirius quickly asked if he had come to care as much about Reguchins as he did now.
“The master, Regulus, was very worried, very worried,” Kreacher said dumbly, “and he told Kreacher not to stay in the house and not to go out. And then. After a while… One night the master Regulus returns, and he finds Kreacher, whose spirit seems to be in a state of confusion, and asks Kreacher to take him to the cave where Kreacher once went with the Dark Lord…”
Sirius frowned, glanced at the house-elf, and said coldly, “He let you drink the poison?” ”
Kreacher glared at Sirius and wept even more bitterly than before, “Lord… Regulus, the master, took out from his pocket a pendant box similar to the Dark Lord’s, “huge tears dripping on the floor one by one,” he told Kreacher to take it and replace the pendant once the stone basin was empty. ”
“Oh no! Regulus “Sirius had a bad premonition, and his eyes showed a look of grief and shock.
“He also ordered… Kreacher leaves… He, and confessed to Kreacher to go home… Not allowed to tell the hostess what he did… Also destroy the Dark Lord’s locket. He drank it: With all the poison, Klee switched off the box… Looking at the host… Regulus was… Dragged into the water…”
Kreacher’s heartbroken howling man…
