HP: White Lord of Slytherin

Chapter 292 Changed Everything

At the beginning of the new semester, just after the afternoon class ended, Hermione quickly came to Gloria.

"Leah, there's something we don't understand, and we want to ask you about it."

"I'm sorry to interrupt your sweet time." Harry looked at Draco apologetically, "It's just a small problem. It won't take too long."

Gloria turned around and gave him a look that said "go back and wait for me", and Hermione had already put her arm around her.

Before Draco could say anything, Ron said, "Thank you!"

The group walked all the way to an empty classroom. Harry even took out the Marauder's Map and made sure that there was no one around before stopping there.

"What's the matter?" Gloria stared at them in confusion.

Hermione panted slightly, "There is something Harry mentioned to me yesterday. I looked in many books but couldn't find it. I was planning to go to the restricted section, but I remembered that your family knows a lot about the dark arts, so I thought of asking you."

Gloria waited patiently for what was to come.

"Do you know about Horcruxes?" Harry asked seriously. "Principal Dumbledore gave me a lesson. I read about the parents of the mysterious man and what he did when he was a teenager. When I saw Professor Slughorn's tampered memory, he mentioned a word, Horcrux."

It seems that Headmaster Dumbledore is letting him understand these things step by step, and he didn't tell him about the Horcruxes at the beginning.

"I know." Gloria simply helped them answer, "A Horcrux is a complete soul split, and one of the pieces is placed on an object. This object can be anything. As long as the object exists, the person who made the Horcrux will not die."

Hermione covered her mouth in surprise, and Ron's lips trembled.

The concept of not being able to die is too terrifying. No matter whether you are a Muggle or a wizard, no matter what your social status is, you cannot escape death. All wizards can do is prolong their lifespan. Muggles also pursue immortality, but no one has been able to truly achieve it so far.

Hermione said with a pale face: "It could be anything. If we can't find it, then that person will never die."

"That's the theory," Gloria replied. "It was because of the Horcrux that he didn't really die when he dealt with Harry. He was in a state of half-death."

Ron finally came to his senses. "Then the existence of Horcruxes means that there are still many dark wizards alive..."

Gloria said helplessly: "It is very difficult to make a Horcrux. It requires the maker to be cruel and indifferent. Besides, splitting the soul is not a good thing. Although some dark wizards pursue fame and fortune, they still value their own souls. In my opinion, even if a Horcrux is made, it will not give you eternal life."

After all, Horcruxes can be destroyed, and even if an object is blessed with magic, it cannot withstand the erosion of time and will eventually turn into dust.

Knowing that Voldemort had such a tricky thing to save his life, Harry's face was heavy, "The world is so big, where can I find a Horcrux?"

"Fortunately, we have found some of the Horcruxes." Gloria said: "The diary in the second grade should be the first Horcrux he made."

Hermione was shocked and said, "That diary can deceive people, and you said it is part of a Horcrux."

"Yes, he is very afraid of death, so he must have made more than one. In addition to the diary, there is also..." Gloria took out the locket from under her collar, "Slytherin's locket."

Harry asked, "It wasn't destroyed?"

"I transferred the residual soul inside to other objects. Now the locket is clean." He shook the locket.

"Merlin—" Ron exclaimed, "I bet my dad doesn't even know about this kind of thing. It's so evil."

He didn't know about Horcruxes before, but he knew clearly how evil it was to split the soul.

Gloria did not tell Voldemort how many Horcruxes he had. Since Dumbledore had made the arrangements, she would not disrupt it.

"There is another ring," said Harry. "The ancestral ring that Headmaster Dumbledore found in the Gaunt family last summer has been destroyed."

He thought Gloria didn't know this.

"We only know of three of them now. Fortunately, they have all been destroyed. That person's chances of winning are much reduced."

Gloria said something in serpentine to the locket, and when she opened it, the letter written by Regulus was inside.

"In fact, my father was the first person to discover the Horcruxes." Gloria was not reluctant to share this with them, "So I want to destroy all the Horcruxes."

Hermione took the letter and Ron leaned over to read it.

"You knew that?" Harry asked.

"Well." Gloria explained, "It's not a good idea to tell this too early. Headmaster Dumbledore also hopes that you will know it when you grow up to a certain age."

Hermione covered her mouth, "Is this why your father died?"

When she mentioned the reason for her father's death, Gloria felt sad for a moment, but she quickly adjusted herself, "Yes, he replaced it as soon as he found it. He thought he only had this one Horcrux."

Hermione's tears were already falling and Ron had a complicated expression.

Harry stared at the letter in silence for a while, then said, "Your father was a hero. No wonder Sirius felt sad when he mentioned him."

Before knowing the truth, Sirius and his brother always believed that Regulus was a coward who defected to Voldemort, then wanted to withdraw and was killed.

After that, I drank a lot of alcohol and was depressed for several days.

At the time, Harry didn't know what Regulus had done, Sirius only said that his brother was a hero.

Ron folded the letter himself and handed it back to Gloria. "I used to think that all wizards in Slytherin were bad. You were the first person to break my impression, but your father is even more amazing. There are good and bad people in every house."

Gloria put the letter back into the locket and tucked it back into her collar. "I think all Hufflepuffs are good wizards."

At least none of the annoying people she met were from Hufflepuff House.

Hermione hugged her with red eyes, "Leah, you and your father are like the light shining in the darkness. Even if you are in the darkness, you must move towards the light."

Harry immediately thought of the end-of-year exams in his third year and Professor Trelawney's prediction.

When I think about it carefully, I always feel that everything Gloria intervened in has had a good result.

The second grade easily took away the snake in the secret room, so he didn't have to face such a huge snake.

The third grade caught Pettigrew to absolve Sirius of the crime, otherwise the rat would have escaped and Sirius would still be hiding.

In the fourth grade, he confused the Goblet of Fire and became a warrior. Despite the interference of Barty Jr., he still found the transferred him and fought against Voldemort together.

In the fifth year, he drove Umbridge away and participated in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries together. He was also the snake in the Chamber of Secrets that blocked the Killing Curse for Sirius. If the Killing Curse had hit his godfather, Harry couldn't imagine how devastated and sad he would be.

After learning about the Horcruxes this year, Gloria has destroyed the diary and the remaining soul in the locket.

"Leah, you changed everything." Harry said this unconsciously.