Chapter 718 Poor Merope

Time soon came to October. With the help of the good man Slughorn, Fich held a birthday party for Hermione and Professor McGonagall.

On Professor McGonagall's birthday, he also called several other professors, including Dumbledore.

"Bring Harry to my place this Friday night." At the party, Dumbledore whispered to Fich, "I have a new story for you."

"Great!"

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Although Fich's campus life has been rich and colorful recently with Slughorn's party, the Cat Club's gathering, and the acquaintance of two little Chimeras, the cats are still full of interest in new things.

"By the way, Albus."

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After cheering, Fich reached out and tugged at the corner of Dumbledore's clothes, tilted his head and asked, "Can you bring Ron this time?"

"Mr. Weasley..." Dumbledore raised his eyebrows, "Of course you can, but can I ask why?" He asked curiously.

"Ron seems unhappy recently. Hermione said it was because Harry and I didn't play with him...Neville and the others didn't react at all..."

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Mao Mao answered half-heartedly.

In fact, it was mainly because Ron had been unlucky recently...

The Slug Club didn't have a place for him, and Dumbledore didn't take him either. What's worse, in the Quidditch trials, Ron's goalkeeper position was taken away by Cormac McLaggen, a seventh-year player.

Although he got the position of batsman later, Ron had trained with the team for so long and played as a regular player for a year, but was replaced by someone else in the most familiar position. This was really embarrassing, and Ron himself was a guy who wanted to save face.

This led to Ron's bad mood in the past month, and Fish heard his self-pitying muttering more than once. But when Fish and Harry wanted to take Ron to the Slug Club's banquet, he was decisively rejected.

So after asking Hermione, Maomao came to ask Dumbledore at her suggestion... Although Maomao still couldn't understand why Ron was unhappy.

Compared with the still confused Fish, Dumbledore understood what was going on the moment Maomao answered. He smiled and said, "Then bring him here, but remember to keep it a secret."

"Okay, meow!"

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Maomao nodded, and then ran away to continue eating.

The day after celebrating Professor McGonagall's birthday, Fish told Ron the news, and he seemed very moved.

"This, this... Thank you so much, Fish!" Ron thanked helplessly.

At the same time, his face flushed red, and he felt ashamed of his previous situation like a grudge.

Harry on the side also scratched his hair embarrassedly. Originally, this kind of thing should be asked by him, Ron's best friend.

As a result, he was only concerned with asking Slughorn about his mother, and coupled with the impact of Snape's incident, he neglected his friend's feelings.

In Ron's gratitude, time quickly came to Friday.

Harry covered himself and Ron with the invisibility cloak, but Firth and Hermione naturally didn't need it. Even if they didn't use the cat form, they could still move freely in Hogwarts after curfew...

But in order to save some face for Professor McGonagall, Firth basically traveled at night in the cat form.

With Firth, it was as smooth as ever from the Gryffindor dormitory to the headmaster's office. When the four people pushed open the glittering oak door, Dumbledore had already been sitting behind the desk waiting for them.

"Ha! Here comes another one!" Phineas mocked in dissatisfaction in the portrait: "You might as well post the password of the principal's office directly on the bulletin board!"

"Do you have any objection to Fish bringing his friends to play?!"

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Before Dumbledore could speak, the cat ran to the portrait of Phineas and yelled.

Then Phineas stopped talking. He would not argue with the cat foolishly.

"Don't worry, Mr. Weasley. You were allowed to bring Fish with you after my consent." Dumbledore said to Ron with a smile, who looked embarrassed.

After a simple greeting, Dumbledore took out his Pensieve and a small bottle of new memory again.

Ron looked at the stone basin filled with silver material curiously... Although he had heard Harry mention it many times, it was the first time he actually saw it.

However, Hermione and Fish noticed that the broken vanishing cabinet had disappeared at this time. It seemed that it was put away by Dumbledore.

"The last time we saw Voldemort's mother, the poor witch Merope, she escaped from the Gaunt family shortly after her father and brother were captured by the Ministry of Magic, and eloped with the handsome Muggle Tom Riddle..."

Dumbledore did not immediately pour the memory into the Pensieve, but talked about what happened after the previous memory.

"Riddle had no reason to elope with her, so...did she use a love potion? Or the Imperius Curse?" Hermione asked sharply.

"I personally prefer the former." Dumbledore nodded and sighed: "However, a few months after they eloped and got married, Tom Riddle returned to the big house in Little Hangleton, but he didn't bring him with him His wife. Rumors spread among the neighbors that he insisted that he had been 'cheated' and 'hoodwinked'..."

"What happened?" Harry asked, "Did the love potion wear off?"

"This can only be based on speculation." Dumbledore said: "I think that Merope loves her husband deeply, and she cannot bear to continue to control him by magical means. Perhaps, she is because She was so obsessed with her that she believed that her husband would fall in love with her in turn. She thought that her husband would stay for the sake of their children... But obviously, Riddle did not do this. He decisively ran away from Merope. She and her unborn child remained in London."

"How did you know she was in London, Professor?" Harry asked again.

"Because of the evidence provided by Caractacus Bork." Dumbledore said: "He and Mr. Borkin opened a magic shop called Borkin-Bock in Knockturn Alley."

Harry let out a soft "Ah", and he remembered the shop where he met Malfoy and his son in Knockturn Alley. The owner was called Mr. Borgin.

Dumbledore glanced at Harry who suddenly understood, and didn't ask any more questions, because he already knew about Harry's mistake in Knockturn Alley.

He withdrew his gaze, opened the glass bottle containing Mr. Bock's memory, poured the silver substance inside into the pensieve, and at the same time stopped a certain little fur cat that was eager to try.

"Don't worry, Fei Xu, this memory is only for a short time, so there is no need to enter it directly."

Maomao curled his lips and sat back down again.

He had experienced the mode of watching live without entering the memory before, it was a bit like watching TV.

I saw Dumbledore shaking the contents of the Pensieve, just like a gold digger sifting for gold. A little old man emerged from the constantly rotating silver-white objects. He slowly rotated in the Pensieve, so pale. Like a ghost, but with more texture than a ghost.

The content of the memory is very simple, it is the little old man telling how the impoverished and pregnant Merope came to him to sell Slytherin's locket.

"He only gave her ten galleons?" Harry said angrily.

"Ten galleons is a lot..." Ron muttered quietly...even he knew that this amount of money was nothing compared to Slytherin's locket.

Only Hermione caught the point, "You found it?! Slytherin's locket?!"

But she still remembered Dumbledore's speculation last time that Voldemort might have made it into a Horcrux.

"Unfortunately, no." Dumbledore shook his head and said, "I only got a few useless clues... It eventually fell into the hands of Voldemort, but this also confirmed our previous guess... It's most likely a Horcrux."

He raised his wand and lightly tapped the edge of the pensieve. After the silver substance in the basin rolled a few times, he said: "This time, we are going to enter my memory. I think you will find that it is not only the details Vivid and accurate. You come first, Fei Xu..."

Maomao, who had been impatient for a long time, immediately held up the table and plunged into the pensieve.

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