Chapter 400: What Harry Saw (Part I)
The next day, Harry told Darren and the others in detail about his visit to Dumbledore the previous night, even about his encounter with Professor Trelawney, and then the sight he had seen in the meditation basin, Bob Ogden, the former captain of the Magical Law Enforcement Team, about the Gunter family......
"On a country road, flanked on either side by high, tangled hedges of bushes, with the summer sky overhead, clear and blue like forget-me-nots, Ogden, a stocky man with a pair of glasses with very thick lenses, his eyes reduced to two dots, like a mole's eyes, wearing a striped swimsuit, a tuxedo coat over it, and shoe covers on his feet, walked briskly, with Professor Dumbledore and I following him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
"After a while, we found a valley with a village in the middle, and on the hillside opposite the valley there was a very imposing mansion surrounded by a large green meadow, but that was not Ogden's goal, for he turned into a path. ā
We followed him to a narrow dirt road, on either side of which the hedges were taller and thicker than those we had just passed, and that the dirt road was winding, potholed, and full of rocks, and that it had not gone far before the dirt road joined the grove, and Ogden stopped and drew his wand. ā
"After a few seconds I saw a house half-hidden in the midst of a tangled grove of trees, with trees blocking the light, the walls covered with moss, many tiles on the roof had fallen off, and here or there the rafters were exposed, and around the house there were dense nettles, and the nettles were high up to the windows, which were very small and covered with thick old dirt. ā
At this time, Ogden slowed down, and then he stopped, because there was a dead snake nailed to the front door of the house, and there was a rustle, followed by a click, and a man in tattered clothes jumped from a nearby tree and landed in front of Ogden, and he quickly retreated, only to step on the back hem of his coat, and almost fell. ā
"'You're not welcome. Said the man who had jumped down from the tree, his thick hair tangled in thick dirt that he could no longer distinguish his original color, a few teeth missing from his mouth, two small black eyes staring in two opposite directions, a wand in one hand and a bloody knife in the other, his name was Morfin Gaunt. ā
"Gaunt?" Someone finally remembered the Voldemort materials that Darren had put together for Rita.
"He's Voldemort's uncle. ā
Hey, the bear kid is really brainless......
"Ogden replied, 'Well, good morning, I'm ...... the Ministry of Magic,' but Muffin interrupted him, repeating what he had just said, 'You're not welcome. Professor Dumbledore reminded me that I realized that the man was speaking in a parseltongue, which I could understand, but to Ogdon it was probably just a meaningless hiss, and he certainly couldn't react. ā
So, with a knife in one hand and a wand in the other, Morfin approached the other man step by step, 'Hey, don't you ......' Ogden was about to speak, but with a loud 'bang', he fell to the ground, pinched his nose with his hand, and a disgusting yellow, slimy thing poured out from between his fingers. ā
An old man came out of the wooden house, slightly shorter than Mofin earlier, with a strange appearance and disproportionate appearance: broad shoulders, long arms, bright brown eyes, short, stiff hair, and a wrinkled face, who looked like a fierce old monkey. ā
"So, who is this person?"
"Marvolo Gaunt, Voldemort's maternal grandfather. ā
"Marvolo walked over and stood next to Mofin when he saw Ogden fall to the ground, Mofin burst out laughing with joy, and after asking Ogden about his identity, Marvolo started talking to him, but suddenly, Marvolo asked, 'Are you a pureblood?' and Ogden replied, 'It's not about today's conversation'. ā
"Ogden asked Marvolo,"
Reluctantly, at Ogden's insistence, Marvolo let him into the house, which had three small rooms, the middle of which doubled as a kitchen and living room, and two doors that led to the others, where Morfin was already sitting in a dirty armchair by the smoky fire, fiddling with a small viper, hissing and humming in a Parseltongue accent. ā
Professor Dumbledore and I went inside, and it wasn't until there was the sound of slow footsteps in the corner by the open window that I realized that there was another person in the room, a girl, wearing a tattered gray dress the same color as the dirty stone wall behind her, with straight hair dull, a pale face, a plain appearance, and a very sad expression, her eyes glaring in the opposite direction like her brother's. ā
"Is she supposed to be ......?"
"Her name is Merope, Melop Gaunt," Harry said earnestly, "and she's ...... Voldemort's mother. ā
"Merlin!"
"'Good morning. Ogden greeted her, but Merope did not answer, gave Marvolo a panicked look, and quickly turned his back and continued to fiddle with the pots and pots on the shelves. ā
"Ogden then said to Marvolo, 'We have reason to believe that Morfin had cast a spell in front of a Muggle late last night, when there was a 'clang' and Merlop knocked a jar to the ground. ā
"'Pick it up!' Marvolo yelled at her, calling her a 'fool' and a 'big bale of waste'. ā
"It's so damnable!"
"Yes, I thought so too, and even Ogden said in a tone of consternation, 'Please don't do this,' and by this time Merope had picked up the jar, but all of a sudden, her face was red and white. As soon as her hand loosened, the jar fell to the ground again, and she shuddered her wand from her pocket, pointed at it, and whispered a spell in a panic, but the jar flew out of her feet and hit the opposite wall, and cracked in half, which I thought must not have happened to her. ā
"In the room, Muffin let out a maniacal laugh, and Marvolo screamed, 'Fix it, you fool, fix it!'"
Merope stumbled to the other end of the room, but before she could raise her wand, Ogden had already pointed at it with his own wand and repaired the jar with a repair charm. ā