When Jon mentioned the word "gift", Professor Horace-Slughorn's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly invited Jon into the room, even snubbing Mrs. Greengrass on the side.

"I've heard some rumors......" Slughorn said as he walked, "what did you kill by a mysterious man or something...... It's a rumor, right?"

"Of course, that's just some rumors from Professor Dumbledore......" Jon explained casually, "Aren't I still standing in front of you......"

"Yes, are you still a student at Hogwarts...... I mean, it would be a great honor if I had a student like you......" Slughorn said with some excitement.

"Not anymore. Jon shook his head.

"Oh?" Slughorn looked at him in surprise, "fired?"

"Almost......"

"It's okay...... Every student who has been expelled from Hogwarts is not an ordinary person...... And Professor Dumbledore must have his own reasons for thinking so highly of you......" Professor Slughorn reassured, as if he was afraid that Jon would be poked in the sore spot and fled.

Mrs. Greengrass walked quietly behind them and entered the cottage as well.

......

The inside of the house is not the same chaotic and messy as in the original book in the previous life...... After all, Voldemort is now on the run, and the Death Eaters are all on the run, and Slughorn doesn't have the same fear of being captured by Voldemort or the Death Eaters as he did in his previous life.

"It's still easy to hack into a Muggle home, once you get the hang of it...... They don't use speculums, they use those ridiculous burglar alarms...... All you have to do is cast a Freezing Charm on it, and you just don't let the neighbors see it when you bring the piano in......" Slughorn said as he chattered there.

Jon wasn't interested in how to hack into Muggle homes. And for this reason, his perception of the short and fat old man in front of him is also very average...... If it weren't for something to ask him for.

Soon, Jon and Mrs. Greengrass were both seated on the couch in the living room.

"Would you like a drink?" Slughorn walked over to the sideboard.

"No need!" Jon shook his head, then he opened his suitcase and began rummaging through it......

Slughorn poured himself a glass of wine as he squinted at Jon with a wistful look in his eyes.

Soon, Jon had turned over what he wanted...... A rather delicate locket made of gold with a snake painted on it, forming an "S" shaped emblem.

"This is the ...... I accidentally got some time ago," Jon said with a smile, "I saw an S on it, and wondered if it was the Slughorn family emblem...... That's why I brought it here, and if it happened to be something abandoned by the Slughorn family, it would be good to return it to its original owner, and give it to you as a gift to the professor!"

As he spoke, Jon showed the locket to Professor Slughorn and Mrs. Greengrass.

When Horace-Slughorn saw the locket, he froze there, his eyes fixed on it, unwilling to take a step. Trembling, he reached out and touched the locket gently.

Diana Greengrass's face was also full of surprise, she glanced at the locket box and then at Jon, her face full of incredulity.

......

There is no doubt that the locket in Jon's hand was one of Voldemort's destroyed Horcruxes.

The goods are genuine, Tong Su is not deceitful, and it is not a fake!

Since the Horcrux was only split by Dumbledore with Gryffindor's sword, it only suffered some physical damage...... So with a spell, you can completely restore its appearance to its original appearance.

Of course, the traces of the destruction of the interior by the dark magic and Voldemort's soul will definitely not be restored in a short time...... But those traces are all inside the locket. As long as Jon didn't open the locket and hold it firmly in his hand, Slughorn wouldn't be able to see the clue.

Both Professor Slughorn and Mrs. Greengrass easily recognized that it was not the Slughorn mark, but the Salazar Slytherin mark.

So, although Slughorn wanted to nod his head immediately, "This is what our family abandoned, you give it to me"...... He certainly couldn't be so thick-skinned.

"It's not a sign of the Slughorns...... But...... It's Salazar Slytherin's emblem, a Slytherin relic!" Slughorn seemed to spit out the words with a great deal of effort.

"Oh, really?" said Jon, too, trying to pretend to be shocked.

"Jon, where did you get it?" asked Mrs. Greengrass, who seemed to have guessed a clue, too.

"Where did you get it?" Jon explained, "I got it from a stupid boy named Tom Gaunt, who looked so naïve that I thought he stole it...... So I bought it from him for ten nats!"

"Oh, the Gaunt family......" Slughorn had a look on his face, looking like he might faint at any moment.

"Since it's a Slytherin relic, is it valuable?" Jon asked, curious.

"If it's genuine, it's worth at least fifty thousand Galleons......" said Mrs. Greengrass calmly.

"That's probably a fake!" Jon casually slipped it into his pocket with a nonchalant expression, "How could a stinky boy with such a strange name as 'Tom Gaunt' come up with a treasure worth fifty thousand Galleons!"

He deliberately repeated the surname "Gaunt" again.

......

Horace-Slughorn's hands trembled......

As a picky and seasoned collector, he can tell the ...... The locket could not have been a fake, and if it did come from a kid named "Tom Gaunt", it was most likely genuine, as the Gaunt family was the only remaining Slytherin descendants.

Just as he looked greedily into Jon Hart's pocket—

Jon also turned to look at him, and asked with a relaxed expression, "By the way, Professor Slughorn...... You seem to be interested in this locket, don't you?"

PS: For the alliance leader, "the name here can be given twelve words" plus more (first symbolically add a chapter.,The others owe first.,I feel like I've owe a lot of chapters.,Slowly.、Don't hurry...... ）

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