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"Dialogue"
'Thoughts'
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Chapter 237: Dumbledore Finds Out
Dumbledore guided him to the bottom floor of the castle, and after opening a secret entrance, he revealed a set of stairs leading to a basent. "Only the current Headmaster is allowed in here… I hope you understand how vital this place is. Without it, there will be no Hogwarts."
"Rest at ease, Headmaster. I know what I'm doing. And it won't take long," said Jas.
With his assurances that nothing would be permanently broken, Dumbledore allowed him access to the 'Core'.
The stairs went on for a long while. The basent was deep in the bowels of the castle, and the room was extrely spacious, almost as much as the Great Hall itself, where the entire student body could comfortably have all their als.
Dumbledore snapped his fingers and hundreds of magical torches lit up, illuminating the entire room in a second.
Unlike the Great Hall, this massive chamber was almost empty. A colossal blue crystal hovered in the middle. It was shining with a soothing blue light as it rotated in place.
All around the floor of the chamber were white lines that shone with the sa light, albeit not as bright. These lines converged into the crystal before traveling in all directions, feeding magical energies where the castle needed them, as the power lines used by muggles.
If sothing happened to that crystal or one of those lines was broken, the castle would stop working properly until the issue was fixed.
Jas didn't stop to take the sights, as this was sothing he had already seen before in his previous life, and in any case, ti was too important to waste right now. Voldemort could arrive at his target location at any mont.
"You still haven't told what this 'last layer of defense' is. What did the Dark Lord do that requires you to co in here?" Dumbledore said as he stood in the chamber.
Jas stopped for a mont and said sothing that made the Headmaster's blood run cold. "Do you know what a horcrux is?"
At first, he didn't. This was an obscure piece of magic. But over his long life, he had studied all sorts of magical tos, and under the guidance of Nicolas Flal, so of those texts weren't exactly approved by the Ministry of Magic. One of those books was written by a mad wizard who experinted with ways to protect one's life and extend it beyond its natural ti by splitting the soul and storing it inside a container that would then be hidden away.
As long as this soul fragnt was safely stored, it would serve as an anchor, preventing the rest of the soul from leaving the mortal realm, allowing the possibility of a resurrection to take place.
An altered copy of this book was then brought to the forbidden section of the library by the previous Headmaster. It didn't go into details, but it did ntion the existence of this particular thod.
Dumbledore's eyes moved to Jas. "You don't an that he... he made one of those things?" This was terrible news. Because if they didn't know where the horcrux was, they could never completely defeat Voldemort.
It was then that Jas took sothing from one of his pockets and enlarged it before placing it on the floor.
Dumbledore watched Jas as he opened the briefcase and went inside it, wondering what he was doing now.
"I couldn't shrink the object itself, but as long as it's inside a dinsional container, there are no issues," the voice of Jas could be heard from inside the briefcase.
"I didn't know you had a dinsional case… those are hard to get," Dumbledore comnted. "But is that what you are storing in th—?" The words died in his mouth when he saw Jas coming out with sothing in his hands.
It was a beautiful silver diadem with a large blue stone at its center, and it was being held on top of a wooden display with weird markings on its surface.
What Dumbledore found most shocking was that he recognized this particular diadem, as he had seen depictions of this jewel in many books. It was a very important relic that belonged to one of the founders of this school. "The Ravenclaw Diadem! But how… where did you get this?!"
"I found it hidden inside the Room of Requirent, but that is not the important part. Don't you feel sothing else?" Jas asked.
"Now that you ntioned it…" Dumbledore frowned. He could indeed feel sothing unpleasant being emitted by the diadem, and the closer he got, the stronger this feeling beca. Right as his hand was about to touch it, he could even hear voices in his ear, but could not decipher what they were trying to convey.
Jas grasped the old wizard's hand before it made direct contact.
"Don't touch it… that could be dangerous." Jas had the diadem mounted in a special display that should contain the dark nature of the object, but it was still a bad idea to touch it. "Unfortunately for Rowena Ravenclaw, soone else got their fingers in this relic before ."
"But… what do you—" It was then that Dumbledore finally realized what had happened to the precious diadem. "A horcrux?!"
"Exactly." Jas walked closer to the crystal and placed the object on the floor.
"Did Voldemort find the Ravenclaw Diadem and turn it into a horcrux?" Dumbledore looked horrified by the magnitude of the offense. Anything can be turned into a soul container, but this person chose an extrely precious object for Hogwarts history.
"If only you knew..." Jas would rather not inform the Headmaster that this was not the only Hogwarts relic defiled by that man.
"Then we must destroy it! I know of a few thods that could work," Dumbledore said with urgency.
"If I wanted to destroy it, I would have done so a long ti ago, when I found it."
"Why didn't you... wait, he didn't make more than one, didn't he?" Dumbledore sounded horrified at the idea.
"Yes, he definitely made more. And I have no idea how many or where they are. However…" He pointed at the diadem. "This one will help take care of that problem. Which is why we are here…"
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