Late at night.

Harry stood on a country road, flanked on either side by tall, tangled hedges of bushes, with the darkness of night overhead.

Nagini, the serpent who had just decided to be loyal to Harry, slid through the grass and followed him a few meters away.

A wooden signpost sticks out of the thorn bush on the left side of the path, and Harry walks under it.

The sign was a few years old, the wooden sign was rotten and the handwriting was blurred, but I could still make out two pointing arrows, pointing to two forks in the road.

One of them pointed to the direction in which they had appeared, and under the arrow pointing to the way they came had the words "Little Hangleston - One Mile" written in peeling handwriting, and the other arrow read "Big Hangleston - Five Miles".

Harry's image is a ghost, shuttling through the wilderness.

There was nothing else to be seen, only the tall hedges on either side stood silently like shadows and ghosts.

He was missing from a gap in the woods.

Harry stepped across a narrow dirt path, and the hedges on either side were taller and thicker than the ones they had just passed.

The dirt road is winding, potholed, and rocky, and steep descending as if it led to a small patch of pitch-black woods below.

In a few moments, the dirt road was connected to the low forest.

It's already on the edge of the town of Greater Hangleton.

A small house half-hidden in the midst of a tangled grove of trees was in the woods, which blocked all light and the valley below.

This house is much more dilapidated and abandoned than Riddle House.

Although Riddle House is full of greenery, anyone can see the grandeur of the past.

And this house, which is small and dirty, is not as good as the house where the homeless live.

The walls of the dilapidated house were covered with moss, many of the tiles on the roof had fallen off, and in many places the rafters (chuan) wood were exposed.

The house was surrounded by dense nettles, high nettles all the way to the windows, which were very small and covered with a thick layer of aged dirt.

The most unique thing is that a dead snake that has turned into a dried corpse is nailed to the wooden door, and if you don't know the details, you will think that it is a well rope.

Harry stood in front of the door.

A rusty lock on top fell off automatically, and the door slowly opened.

"Squeak...... Bang Dang ......"

Because of its disrepair, the small door fell straight down and smashed into the house, stirring up smoke and dust.

Harry stepped into the little dark house.

The serpent Nagini followed, swam into the house, and when he walked to the corpse of the dry snake, Nagini avoided it in disgust.

The house appears to have three small rooms, with the large room in the middle serving as a kitchen and living room, and two doors leading to the other rooms.

Harry waved his wand.

A fire ignited in the living room, illuminating a dirty armchair next to it.

The stone walls of the house were a dirty gray, with a saucepan on the soot-covered stove and a pile of filthy pots and pots on the shelves next to it.

Perhaps, the girl named Merope was standing here many years ago, looking at a Muggle noble young master who was riding by.

Harry frowned dissatisfied, for he didn't know what was in the stove, but it was a flame with thick black smoke and a strange smell.

Harry waved his wand again, and the stove went out.

"Fluorescent flickering. ”

A bright light floated on the roof, and the room was bright and airy.

Harry stood in the middle of the room and closed his eyes.

Spiritual power enveloped the small house, searching over and over again.

Suddenly, Harry opened his eyes.

He strode over to a corner, and at a wooden floor, a small hole had rotted.

The hole was covered with dust and cobwebs.

Harry beckoned.

An ugly black gemstone ring defied the rules of physics and slowly floated up from below.

The black gem has a figure on it, a vertical line, a circle on the vertical line, and a triangle around the vertical line and the circle. It looks like a triangular eye, with a vertical line in the middle of the pupil.

This was the last Horcrux Voldemort had hidden, Marvolo Gaunt's ring.

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Actually, the name of this ring should not be called this, it should be called Peverell's ring.

Because this ring goes back to the rumored Peverell family, the oldest pure-blood family in the wizarding world.

Slytherin, on the other hand, is a branch of the Peverell family.

Master this ring.

After that, it naturally became one of the heirlooms of the Slytherin family.

The Slytherin family passed down again, and the branches became fewer and fewer, and finally only Marvolo Gaunt, the heir of the Slytherin family, remained, and the ring naturally became his heart, and he looked at it more heavily than his son and his daughter.

Harry is now in Marvolo Gaunt's house, and Riddle House, where he has just stayed.

It can be said that the fundamental reason for the many disasters in the wizarding world is the relationship between these two houses.

It all started when Merope Gaunt, the waste daughter who annoyed Marvolo Gaunt, fell in love with the Muggle Tom Riddle in the village.

After Marvolo Gaunt and his crazy eldest son, Morfin, were both arrested and imprisoned for attacking Muggles and the Ministry of Magic Aurors, Merope Gaunt, who had always been cowardly, liberated her nature and had the audacity to use some magic to confuse her beloved Muggle Tom Riddle and elope together.

Even if Merope Gaunt's magic is weak, no different from a Squib, it is still easy to deal with a mere Muggle.

But if things continue to develop like this, maybe there won't be so many things to come.

Merope Gaunt and Tom Riddle will live a loving life, and their child, Tom Riddle Jr., will have a happy childhood and enter Hogwarts.

With his magical talent, it is easy to become a powerful magician, and even if he still has political talent, it is not impossible for him to become the Minister of Magic in the future.

However, it was all ruined by Merope Gaunt's own hands.

She loves Tom Riddle to the point of obsession, and she doesn't even see through Tom Riddle's love for her, which comes on the premise that she uses magic to control Tom Riddle.

When she became pregnant with Tom Riddle's child, she was reluctant to continue this false love.

She naively thought that even if she was full of fantasies, Tom Riddle would continue to love me, even if she stopped using magic.

Oh, woman......

A woman who is carried away by love.

At first glance, it was because Muggles had too much Valentine's Day, lost their minds, and lost their eyes.

So Valentine's Day is really not a good thing.

(｀?? ω????)

And then...... And then there is no more......

Tom Riddle, who came to his senses, learned that Merope Gaunt was a terrible and vicious witch, and he fled back to Little Hangleton, not daring to tell anyone about it.

The lonely Merope Gaunt gave birth to the future archboss Voldemort in the orphanage, and soon died.

When Voldemort grew up, he learned the truth through investigation.

So at the age of sixteen, he killed the Riddle family first, and killed the old Tom Riddle who had cruelly abandoned him and his mother.

Then, he returned to his grandfather's residence, the old Gaunt mansion, killed his grandfather, snatched the ring and turned it into a Horcrux, and finally framed it all on his uncle Morfin.

Kill your father!

Kill grandma and preach!

Kill your grandfather and preach!

Young Voldemort never looked back.

And this Horcrux ring was randomly placed by him in the old mansion of Gaunt, which was in ruins.

It may be that the place he thinks is the safest place to be, and that ruins are no longer cared for because of the bad deeds of their owners.

Voldemort was confident that no one would know about his relationship with the Gaunts, the Riddles, or even the Slytherins, so he was relieved to "discard" one of his Horcruxes in the ruins.

I have to say that this is really the best Horcrux he has hidden.

Dumbledore really didn't know anything about any of this.

Only Harry, who knows everything, knows all about this.

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