"Actually, I know he tried, five years ago," Dumbledore said, "but for a few reasons, I think that for Voldemort a Philosopher's Stone is less powerful than a Horcrux. ”

"Less than a Horcrux?"

"Because when the Philosopher's Stone, that is, the elixir of life really begins to prolong life, it must be taken on time, throughout life, if the person wants to gain eternal life. As a result, Voldemort will be forced to rely entirely on the elixir, and if it runs out, or becomes tainted, or the Philosopher's Stone is stolen, he will die like everyone else. Fan Lin said that he had a magic stone, and fortunately, he didn't need to make any elixirs or anything like that.

He didn't want to be like Nicolame, it felt like he was leaking air, and there was no way to replenish it, because of the limitations of life forms, if he didn't evolve in essence, he would always be like a dam bursting his banks, and the rift would continue to expand.

When the time comes, the efficacy of the elixir will become smaller and smaller, and Van Lin is very skeptical, what will happen to Nicolemel if he uses the elixir now?

A new infusion of vitality has created an even bigger leak?

The container itself is no longer supportable.

"Oh yes, that's right, if you had seen Nicol Lemay in person, there would have been no such problems, maybe nothing in the first two hundred years, but ...... Remember, Voldemort liked to go it alone. I'm sure he'll find a way to keep life alive, even with an intolerable elixir. Of course, he was ready to drink it, if it could bring him a terrible part of the life that disappeared after attacking you, but only to gain the body. After this, I'm sure he still wants to continue to rely on his Horcruxes, and if it's just to take on human form, he won't need anything else. He's an ordinary guy again, you see...... Or closer to eternal life than anyone can do. ”

Harry couldn't stop nodding, if Voldemort wasn't immortal, at least, Harry hadn't seen that ghost come back from the dead, and if it was that simple, then Cedric wouldn't have to go through that kind of pain.

Thankfully, none of the people Harry knew had died so far.

Dumbledore didn't stop, though.

"But now, Harry, there is some warning in this news, you have succeeded in obtaining this vital memory for me, and we have come closer to Voldemort's secret before anyone else. Wouldn't it be better for him to say, 'Wouldn't it be better to divide your soul into many pieces in order to make yourself strong?, I mean, for example, 7 is the most magical number, isn't it?' 7 isn't the most magical number?' yes, I think it was very appealing to Voldemort to divide the soul into seven pieces, and that's what Van Lin and I were talking about in the previous time, and the point is, we couldn't be sure what Voldemort would use to make Horcruxes, and how many Horcruxes he would make. ”

"He made 7 horruxes?" Harry was amazed, as several of the portraits on the walls were furious and made similar noises. "But they may be anywhere in the world—hidden—buried, or invisible—"

"I'm glad to see you recognize this vast number of problems," Dumbledore said calmly. "But first, no, Harry, not seven Horcruxes, there was one. The seventh part of his soul still resides in his regenerate body. This part of him lived on strange objects during his wandering years, without which he would not have himself at all. In his body was the seventh piece of soul - the last piece that those who wished to kill Voldemort must destroy. ”

Van Lin looked up at Dumbledore, then at Harry, and Dumbledore's face was calm.

There were seven Horcruxes, and then the subject's soul was hidden in Voldemort's current body.

It can be said that if nothing else, Voldemort would need to die eight times before he can really disappear.

"But there are still six ......," said Harry, with some disappointment, "how can we find them?"

"You forgot...... You've destroyed one, I've destroyed the other, and, of course, there's Van Lin, who has destroyed two. ”

"Wait, you mean, four have already been destroyed?" said Harry, surprised, "but all I know is the journal and the Slytherin locket. ”

Dumbledore suddenly raised his hand, he was not in very good shape, at least Van Lin could not see any blood on Dumbledore's hands.

"This is the ring, Harry. Voldemort's ring. It has a very terrible curse on it. This shouldn't happen...... Forgive me, I lacked some of the necessary humility...... For my great ability, but thankfully, I survived, and Van Lin saved me from Gaunt's hut. ”

"Believe that you would have made it out alive without me. Van Lin said.

"Oh no, that curse is terrible...... Tom may be disappointed, though, that the ring is no longer a Horcrux. ”

"But how did you find it?"

"Oh, as you know by now, many years ago I made some deals to find out as much as I could about Voldemort's past life. I traveled everywhere and visited some of the places he had been. I hesitated across the street from the bankrupt Gaunt's house where the ring was hidden. It was as if Voldemort had succeeded in sealing a piece of his soul inside, and he never wanted to carry it with him again. He hid it, protected it with a lot of powerful magic, and put it in the hut where his ancestors once lived, and perhaps he never imagined that I might one day take trouble to visit the ruins, and that I could find incredible hiding places. ”

"In any case, we can't celebrate us too early. You ruined the diary and I ruined the ring, but if our inference about the 7 soul abilities is correct, there are still two Horcruxes. ”

"But what else?" asked Harry, "Slytherin's locket, Tom Riddle's journal, Marvolo's ring...... Another ......"

"In my hands, those two, to be exact. Van Lin said, pulling out the Slytherin locket and the jewel-shattered Ravenclaw crown from the space.

Van Lin has been trying to repair the Ravenclaw crown, but in fact, after all the magic related to Horcruxes has been eliminated, the Ravenclaw crown has not been restored to its original appearance.

It can be said that Van Lin destroyed her core and wanted to repair it, and for this she needed to find a pure gem of wisdom, but put it in this ......

"The Ravenclaw tiara, you've seen, is the alchemical product I've been tinkering with in the lab. ”

"How did you find her, hasn't she been lost for a long time, Helena......"

"In the Room of Responsiveness. "I forgot exactly when I needed a lab, and then the Room of Requirement showed up, and when I was packing up, I finally found it." ”

"A magical experience. Dumbledore said, "However, it saves us a lot of trouble, and we have less to look for." ”

"Could they be anything, though?" Harry asked. "They could be uh, maybe in tin, or, don't know, empty bottles..."

"You're going astray, Harry, surely a normal object, easily overlooked. But would Voldemort guard his precious soul with tin or an old potion bottle? Voldemort loved to collect collectibles, and his preferred objects had powerful uncanny provenances, his pride, his beliefs, his superiority, and he was determined to find a surprising place for himself with an uncanny origin to carve these things, suggesting that the Horcruxes Voldemort had chosen were objects of value that would be helpful to honor. ”

"But the diary wasn't that special. ”

"The diary, as you say it yourself, is evidence that he is the heir of Slytherin. I'm sure Voldemort considered its amazing importance. ”

"And what about the other Horcruxes?" Harry said. "Do you think you know what they are, Professor?"

"I'm just guessing," Dumbledore said. "For the reasons I have stated, I am convinced that Voldemort would use something of great nobility. That's why I searched Voldemort's past to see if I could find any clues that such ancient treasures had disappeared around him. ”

Harry exclaimed. "Huffpuff's cup!"

"Yes. Dumbledore said with a smile. "I can use ...... Or maybe not quite right, but I can bet with everything I have in the future that Hufflepuff's gold cups are Horcruxes, and Voldemort found them. The one left...... Again, I'll assume that he only made six copies, so it's hard to guess, but I venture to guess that once he's settled the Hefpuff and Slytherin treasures, he's on the lookout for the ones that belong to Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. ”

Then he deceived Helena. "The ghost of Ravenclaw, she's the daughter of Ravenclaw." ”

"Ravenclaw's daughter?" Harry grew his mouth, he had never heard of anything like it.

"In fact, it's a bit of a bloody love story, about Barrow the Bloody and Helena. Van Lin said briefly, "So, Voldemort found this." ”

"But it is certain that there are already the relics of the three founders, so naturally Tom will have his eyes on Gryffindor, but, I can assure you, there is nothing wrong with Gryffindor. ”

Dumbledore pointed his blue-white finger at the wall behind him, where a ruby sword lay silently in a glass box.

"You think that's the real reason why he wants to go back to Hogwarts, Professor?" said Harry, "to find out something from some other founder?"

"Exactly," Dumbledore said, "but unfortunately it doesn't give us any advantage, because he's given up, or I believe he's given up, and turned to something else without having a chance to search the school." I can't keep saying that he never fulfilled his ambition to be a four-founder. But he did get three...... That's the best we can do at the moment. ”

"Destroy him. "We've done that, but in fact, we don't have a clue about the sixth soul lock, the Horcrux, which is why we need Slahhorn's memory, which is important." ”

"But...... I think I know what the sixth soul lock is. I'll admit I was once curious about the snake, Nagini, and I wonder what you think about that?"

"The snake?" Harry was shocked. "Can you use animals as soul locks?"

"yes, it was a mistake," Dumbledore said. "Because it's a great adventure to put a part of your soul on something that thinks and acts. Either way, if I'm right, Voldemort was at least one of the six soul locks he was away from his goal of making six soul locks when he broke into your parents' house and tried to kill you. He was going to make a soul lock with a murder of special significance. You are the target of the murder. He believes that by killing you, the danger described in the prophecy will be removed. He believed that it would make him invincible. I'm sure he's going to use your death to make his last soul lock. As we know, he failed. Years later, he used Nagini to kill an old Muggle, perhaps by accident that he had turned it into his last soul lock. It lurks in the Chamber of Secrets, enhancing Voldemort's mystery, and I don't think he loves it more than anything else, no doubt he just wants to keep it around, and it seems that he can control it in an extraordinary way, far more than a normal parseltongue, and I suspect that he has a soul connection to Nagini, and that Harry is the snake's point of view every time...... What's wrong, Van Lin?"

Dumbledore suddenly looked up at Van Lin, who interrupted his analysis with a cough.

"Actually, that's what I thought at first, Professor......" Van Lin said, shaking his head, "but actually, Nagini had already been killed by me, and I killed him on the night Voldemort was resurrected, after seeing Harry away. ”

"What?" said Dumbledore, somewhat shocked, "how did you ......?"

"Fire Curse ......," Fan Lin said, "I found that the Fire Charm is very restrained from Horcruxes, because whether it is the material of the Horcrux itself, or the soul fragments inside, these are very consistent with the characteristics of the Fire Curse. ”

"Nothing burns......," Dumbledore paused, "a genius idea, I've been struggling with how to destroy Horcruxes, but you said you killed Nagini?"

"Yes, before I leave. Van Lin said.

"My fiery spell hit Nagini, which made Voldemort miserable, but, for sure, Voldemort wasn't as bad as I thought, I've destroyed Horcruxes, whether it's a Slytherin locket, or a diary, or a Ravenclaw crown, it doesn't feel the same, Nagini isn't a Horcrux, Professor. ”

"This ......"

"But I possess it...... I mean, Nagini's body...... If he's not a Horcrux......"

"I think it might be another body of Voldemort. "When you were in the Albanian forest, Harry, you heard that his broken soul could not constitute a ghost at all, and that Voldemort had to possess something to keep it on, and Nagini should be the most successful choice, and there were very few snakes that could carry Voldemort's soul...... Or was Nagini Voldemort's pet before that?"

Van Lin really didn't know exactly when Nagini existed.

In any case, Nagini once served as a carrier of Voldemort's main soul, so Nagini left a strong aura belonging to Voldemort in his soul, which is why Nagini was mistaken for one of the Horcruxes. ”