Chapter 097
Chapter 98 Kreacher’s Story
“Kreacher needed water. He slowly climbed to the edge of the island and drank from the black lake…Many hands, dead hands, stretched out from the water and pulled Kreacher underwater.……”
Klee recalled that experience intermittently.
“Those hands under the water should belong to the Inferi.” Sirius calmed down and started thinking. As a former backbone of the Order of the Phoenix, he had rich experience and wisdom.”It sounds like Voldemort has arranged enough insurance measures just for protection. That box.”
He looked at the locket in Ives’ hand and began to wonder what it contained. It was so important that Voldemort went to such trouble to hide it.
“How did you escape?”Cedric asked. In last year’s Defense Against the Dark Arts class, the third-year students happened to be taught about the dark creature called the Inferi by Snape. The
Inferi is a corpse resurrected by the magic of a dark wizard. It will become a terrifying creature. The puppet can also be used as an expendable servant by the dark wizard. If a person is facing the Inferi rather than a living person, the most obvious sign is its white and cloudy eyes.
Although the Inferi has no reason and can only be blind Attack the enemies in front of you. But under normal circumstances, dark wizards will make a large number of such puppets. In addition, it can almost only be destroyed by fire, which makes it difficult for wizards to encounter them in places where there are no combustibles. The army of the Inferi had no choice but to retreat strategically.
Cedric was curious about how Kreacher escaped from the hands of the Inferi.
Kreacher raised his ugly head and looked at Seth with his big, bloodshot eyes. Derek
“Master Regulus asked Kreacher to come back.”he replied
“I know…but how did you escape from those Inferi? Kreacher didn’t seem to understand the question, so he repeated it again,”Master Regulus asked Kreacher to come back.””
“Obviously, Kreacher should have escaped by apparating,” George said, holding his shoulders, as if he had seen through the truth.
“I don’t think Voldemort would forget to place an anti-Apparition spell there,” Sirius retorted with a frown. He didn’t think there would be no anti-Apparition spell in such a well-protected place.
“No,” Ives said suddenly, and everyone’s attention was attracted to him. He explained:”The anti-Apparition spell can only limit the disapparation of wizards.”
“Just like Hogwarts Castle, there are also anti-Apparition spells, but Professor Dumbledore’s phoenix and the house elves in the kitchen can disapparate at will in the castle.”
It took everyone a while to understand what Ives said. It was the first time they knew that house elves could break through the anti-Apparition curse.
In other words, they had never cared about house elves, even if they were all here. Anyone who has attended Hogwarts knows that house elves do chores such as cleaning in dormitories and placing luggage.
But they all subconsciously assume that house elves use their legs to do these tasks. Running, he slowly cleaned room after room. It can only be said that wizards are too arrogant and do not look down on lowly house elves at all. They have never cared about the difference between their magic and wizards’ magic.
Kreacher did not After paying attention to the silent crowd, he continued to tell his story in a long voice:”The highest la
w for a house elf is the order of his master. The master asked Kreacher to go home, so Kreacher came back.…”
“After returning, Kreacher told Master Regulus everything. Master Regulus was very worried, very worried, and told Kreacher to stay in the house and not go out.……”
Kreacher said in a hoarse voice:”Then, after a while… one night Master Regulus came to look for Kreacher in his cupboard. Kreacher could tell that Master Regulus was very strange, not like usual. Same, he seems to be mentally confused……”
“He asked Kreacher to take him to the cave, to the cave where Kreacher had been with the Dark Lord.……”Kreacher shook his head, his body never shaking so fast.
They set off.
One can clearly imagine the frightened old house-elf entering the cave together with the thin, dark wizard who once so closely resembled Sirius.
Kreacher knew how to open the hidden entrance to the cave and summon a boat; this time it was his beloved master who rowed him to the island where the poison-filled stone basin was.…
“Then he asked you to drink the poison and take out the locket? Sirius asked with a frown.
Kreacher shook his head, tears flowed from his dry eyes, and shouted:”No, Master Regulus did not do that!” Regulus…Master Regulus drank those potions himself……”
Sirius looked at Kreacher in disbelief. He never knew that his stupid brother who believed in the pure blood theory would do such a thing.
His understanding of him had been fixed since he was sixteen years old.
The old house elf shed tears and sobbed. He choked and said:”Thunder… Master Regulus took out a box similar to the Dark Lord’s from his pocket… He told Kreacher to take it with him. Once Stone When the pot is empty, replace the box……”
The sobs became louder and louder, forcing everyone to concentrate to hear what he was saying.
“He also ordered…Kreacher to leave…him. He also told Kreacher… to go home… not to tell the mistress… what he had done… and to destroy… the first box. He drank… all the poison… Klee cut off the box… and watched… Master Regulus… being dragged under the water… by……”
Everyone covered their mouths in shock and looked at Kreacher with tears streaming down his face.
Sirius’s eyes were red and he shouted at the top of his lungs:”Kreacher, why are you just watching? Why don’t you save him? Why don’t you save him?!”
“Master Regulus asked Kreacher to go home……”Kreacher’s eyes widened and he fell to the ground, hitting his forehead hard on the floor.”Master Regulus’s order is for Kreacher to go home.”……”
Obviously, he wanted to save Regulus in his heart, but the order from his master forced Kreacher to leave him and go home alone.
“That’s enough, stop! ordered Sirius, breathing heavily, struggling to accept the truth.
The elderly house elf lay on the floor, shaking, green snot clinging to his nose and pale forehead, fresh bruises from his punishment. The injury covered the previous marks, and more blood seeped out of the wound that had stopped bleeding.
Kreacher’s eyes were swollen, and his bloodshot eyes were filled with tears.
The young wizards had never seen such a pitiful situation, He Min had already taken out his handkerchief, gently wiped Kreacher’s tears, and then wiped away his blood.
“Thank you…thank you……”
Kreacher looked at the girl, all the disgust in his eyes disappeared, leaving only gratitude and respect.
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(End of this chapter)
