Chapter 230 Christmas morning, leaving school, the resurrection stone
The next day, Aiden woke up from his bed and started opening his Christmas presents.
Dumbledore's candy, Professor McGonagall's knitted doll, Professor Sprout's distilled water, and Professor Snape's brain stimulant.
One detail must be mentioned here, since Aiden sent the Potter family's special shampoo to Professor St. in the first grade.
Every Christmas, Professor Snape would thoughtfully prepare a brain stimulant for Aiden.
After collecting everyone's gifts, Aiden stretched, washed up, and walked out of the castle.
Outside the castle, heavy snow surrounded the entire Hogwarts, and Karkaroff walked past Aiden in a hurry.
Teacher Si was searching the bushes to see if there were any students who had partied too hard the night before and were sleeping in the haystack.
"Severus!" Karkaroff rushed over and grabbed Severus.
"What's wrong?" Professor Snape raised his eyebrows.
Karkaroff lifted up the sleeve of his hand, revealing a black symbol.
"He, he is calling me, don't tell me you didn't notice." Karkaroff looked at him seriously.
"This... has nothing to do with me!" The Sijiao was immersed in searching the bushes and ignored him.
Karkaroff was so angry that he was shaking. After a while, seeing Snape's unyielding attitude, Karkaroff turned around and left.
Harry walked over and happened to see Aiden eavesdropping.
Just as I was about to say hello, Hagrid and Maxim also came out.
Aiden grabbed him and went invisible.
Hagrid was impulsive, Hagrid went up, Hagrid revealed his identity as a half-giant, and Hagrid failed.
Aiden was dubbing Hagrid, and Harry couldn't help but laugh.
"Okay, where are you going?" Aiden turned around and said.
"Actually, I want to go find Hermione and apologize." Harry said dejectedly.
"So, where did you go wrong?" Aiden asked.
"I...it's always right to apologize first." Harry raised his head to show that he was responsible.
"Tsk tsk, boy, you're too young." Aiden shook his head maturely.
"How dare you say that to others?" the system said.
"Shut up!" Aiden retorted.
"Huh?" A question mark appeared above Harry's head.
"I'm not talking about you..." Just when Aiden was about to say something.
His virtual personality sent him a message, and through the sea of consciousness, his eyes fell on Peter Pettigrew and found that he was heading alone to the ruins of the Gaunt family.
"Well, I won't talk to you anymore. I have to go find Dumbledore."
Aiden dismissed Harry casually, took out his wand and waved it, and his whole body turned into a silver-white butterfly and disappeared into the air.
Silver butterflies gathered in the principal's office.
"Aiden, please at least knock on the door." Dumbledore said to the boy in front of him.
"It's urgent. Come with me to Gaunt's old house." Aiden hurriedly pulled Dumbledore out of the school.
At the old Gaunt house, Peter Pettigrew accepted the order from his master and went here to retrieve some important things.
He pushed the door open carefully. The formerly magnificent manor had become desolate due to the extinction of the Gaunt family.
"Snap!" A crisp sound of finger snaps echoed, and Peter Pettigrew's pupils rolled up, leaving only the whites of his eyes.
"What's going on?" Dumbledore asked Peter in confusion.
"Professor, he has lived with me for thirteen years. How could I not leave something on him?"
Aiden pushed Peter gently and he fell down stiffly.
"So what is his purpose here?" Dumbledore frowned.
“Who else could it be but his master? Voldemort must have sensed that too many Horcruxes had been destroyed, so he sent Peter to retrieve his Horcruxes.
Because this was one of the few servants he could find in a short period of time, Voldemort told Peter the news, and that’s how I got the news.” Aiden explained.
"I see." Dumbledore nodded.
"Then let's go get Tom's Horcrux first." Dumbledore stroked his beard and walked in first.
Walking into the manor, bricks and tiles were scattered on the ground, and the portraits on the walls seemed to be damaged due to lack of care.
Dumbledore placed the Elder Wand in his palm and cast a spell, and the wand began to spin like a compass.
Dumbledore took Aiden through several rooms and finally came to a stone door.
The door was cast with a powerful sealing magic, and from time to time there was a flickering cursed light on it.
"Let me do this," Aiden said.
He reached into the air with his right hand and a staff emerged, gleaming with the light of Zoltraak.
A huge beam of light penetrated the stone gate, destroying it and the room behind it.
When the smoke cleared, a stone platform remained intact, but the room had turned into a big hole.
"Your control has become more precise. You can now destroy targets in a large area without damaging objects in the middle," Dumbledore praised.
He took a few steps forward, and suddenly a stone came into his sight.
The temptation magic of the Horcrux took effect, Dumbledore's desire was infinitely magnified, and he rushed towards the ring like a madman.
At the moment his finger was about to touch the ring, a thin beam of light hit the ring.
The resulting tiny explosion blew the ring away.
"Professor, it's not wise to be so impatient." Aiden pointed his staff at Dumbledore.
The atmosphere in the field suddenly became tense, as if the fight between the two was about to begin.
Dumbledore waved his wand, and several vines flew out, trying to tie up Aiden.
Aiden Apparated and moved directly to the ring, and the vines missed.
Dumbledore also Apparated over, and Aiden locked his dragon eyes on him and launched a mind deprivation attack on Dumbledore.
Dumbledore was frightened by the sudden dragon's might, and his hand reaching for the ring froze in mid-air.
Seeing this, Aiden hurriedly wrapped the ring with a special cloth, and Dumbledore finally came to his senses.
"I'm sorry, Aiden, for a moment I felt like I wasn't myself." Dumbledore lowered his head.
"You are not being honest. You are not telling the truth. You were the one who recognized the Resurrection Stone first." Aiden crossed his arms.
"How come you..." Dumbledore frowned.
"It's easier to see into a person's heart when their emotions are volatile," Aiden explained.
"Okay, leave this thing with me for safekeeping for the time being." With a wave of his hand, Aiden took down the Resurrection Stone.
Then he went to the Gaunt family cemetery and took out a little bit of Merope Gaunt's remains and put them in Peter's pocket.
"When you wake up, you will forget everything, and only remember that a big hole was blown out of a special stone door." Aiden ordered Peter.
I watched the dazed Peter get up, turn into a mouse and disappear into the night.
'Hmph, struggle as hard as you can, Senior Tom.'
Aiden lowered his hand gently, as if a large net was being pulled by him and started to move.
