the lost castle

"You're not going to win... that wand will never, ever be yours—"

Damn Grindelwald!

Elderberry's wand of fate, after he killed Snape, still didn't exert its due power, Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald, Snape killed Dumbledore, and now all three are dead, why is this The most powerful wand still cast spells indistinguishable from his old yew wand?

Damn Merlin, he has already seen the vast black lake, he has seen the boy, he just needs to say another spell that is not a death spell, and then add a cutting spell to watch the savior bleed to death!

Voldemort saw Harry clutching the Weasleys' red hair before him as he plunged into the eerie darkness that seemed nothingness before complete, uncontrollable darkness enveloped him.

It's like death.

The Dark Lord tried his best to get rid of what he had conquered. This kind of blackness and coldness made his unstable mind become wild - the Muggle woman who liked to drink gin had been killed by him, and the orphanage no longer existed. up!He discarded the memories before the age of 16, appearance, name, everything!

"You're half-breed, no, even your mother is just a Squib."

In this complete darkness, the magic power of madness and riots disappeared without the slightest ripple.

"She stole the locket!!"

"Riddle? He eloped with the Gaunt daughter over the hill when he was young, and then came back alone saying he'd been lied to."

"You were born here, and your mother died in this orphanage!"

"Tom, you don't know what love is."

"Kill me, I'm glad to die! But my death won't bring what you're looking for... There's a lot you don't understand..."

"Lord, someone has broken into Gringotts! The Lestrange vault—"

Horcruxes, by the way, the cup, locket, and ring are all gone, but Nagini is still alive!

This darkness is by no means death!The Dark Lord cannot be defeated by death!

There was a gleam of light in the darkness, like a torn curtain, and the huge body of the silver-white boa constrictor appeared in the light. It slowly coiled up in the bubble of protective magic, and raised its head to make a pleasant hissing sound.The familiar scenery slowly spread out, the dark night outside Hogwarts castle, the fire and the chaotic crowd, it was about to move slowly to the steps and climb up to find its owner.Then there was a strange refraction of light on the entire outer wall of Hogwarts, like waves smashed by stones, and then the castle disappeared completely.The magic protective barrier outside the silver serpent suddenly shattered, and it fell heavily to the ground.

[Tom?]

First there was a flash of green light, and then the accurate "Shenfeng Wuying" cut off the head of the panicked python from behind.

[Nagini--]

The voice uttered in horror was so low that even Voldemort himself could not hear it. He couldn't grasp anything, he couldn't change everything around him, and he couldn't even control his body smoothly.The slender, blood-red pupils froze suddenly, and the pale, spider-like fingers stretched out but couldn't touch the bright red blood sprayed out from the severed cavity of the snake.

A hunched figure slowly retracted his wand and appeared in the night.

Dirty glasses, ragged robes, gray and dirty beard and hair.

Such a strange yet familiar person, seen before, the one at the Hogs Head in Hogsmeade - no!That look, that movement—Dumbledore?No no, Dumbledore lay rotting in the grave and Voldemort saw it with his own eyes, so who was this man, this man who killed Nagini?

Damn, Dumbledore knows everything about him, but he doesn't know about Dumbledore (of course the great Dark Lord wouldn't read a so-called biography written by a crazy reporter...)

The life force of the reptile is far stronger than that of the wizard. The silver python struggled and twitched in the pool of blood, but it was too far away. The wizard was too cunning and stood still. In the end, he was so desperate that he could not wait any longer. The severed head of the spell It opened suddenly, but the sharp fangs couldn't bite anything, and it collapsed.

That is the past.What emerges cannot be changed even if it has power comparable to that of Merlin.

The blood-stained body became more and more blurred, as if being engulfed in complete darkness.

death.

——The last Horcrux disappeared, he couldn't resist death anymore... No, Nagini, even if it wasn't a Horcrux, Nagini is dead, never again...

The darkness of utter nothingness is like falling into a bottomless abyss.

The emotions that had been abandoned for a long time began to surge, and Voldemort's already very unstable soul began to explode with chaotic magic power, which was too huge to be controlled, tearing the pale skin and showing horrible bloodstains.

It's not anger, it's pain, Nagini...

"I'm going to take on that boy myself."

his own voice.

"There have been too many mistakes when it comes to Harry Potter. Some of them are my own, and Potter is alive today more because of my mistakes than his successes!" (sic)

Is this how you have been swallowed by death?

[…Tom Marvolo Riddle…]

The hoarse voice penetrated the darkness and slowly emerged, and then, nothingness was shattered.

-

"Professor Dumbledore, you're saying that Voldemort can't actually kill me..."

The white wizard still smiled at Harry as before, but the distance of a table turned into a vertical picture frame, his fingers fumbled for something in his pocket, then stopped, looked deeply at the savior, restrained his smile and happiness, and just As if gazing at an ancient memory:

"Harry, forgive me..."

"Even when I just learned from Professor Snape that I was going to die—" Harry thought about his words and had to say vaguely, "I didn't resent you, no, resentment was not at that time...you Know what I'm talking about, anyway, in the face of Voldemort, I'm not even panicking now. Lots of people died who wouldn't have... and wouldn't have lost loved ones, Fred wouldn't have if I'd walked out sooner Die, and Lupine won't..."

The savior took a deep breath and calmed down his tone:

"You just told me that in the year of the Triwizard Tournament, he used my blood to resurrect in order to counteract my mother's protection spell, but the protection spell worked on us at the same time. Even if he used the death curse, it would only Can kill the piece of soul that belongs to him, and I..."

"As long as he lives, you will live!"

"But not now... the piece of soul is still there..." Harry put his hand on his forehead.

"Yes, you can't kill Voldemort now, because the last soul piece is in your soul, and he can't die if you live."

"...Then, I have to let the death curse he issued hit me before I have a chance to kill him."

"Yes, it's a dead end, it's the only way, but Merlin knows, we know, Harry, Voldemort doesn't know...you can't take out your wand, don't try to fight back, because—"

"The Elder Wand?"

"Harry, my boy, you are very clever."

"Voldemort killed the wrong man. It was Draco Malfoy, not Professor Snape, who took the right to use the Elder Wand from you... That night, before Snape arrived, Draco disarmed him with the Disarming Charm." I got your wand, and I snatched Draco's hawthorn wand half a month ago, the Elder Wand belongs to me, right, Professor Dumbledore."

"Well, then there's only one question left," said Dumbledore, smiling quietly, "Where is Voldemort now, isn't he?"

"You even know this?"

"Oh, Harry, don't look at me like that, Hogwarts would react like that, the Headmaster here, including me, would never guess. I won't deny my mistake, but as people always say , you can plan everything, but fate always plays tricks on you, Harry."

"Including Professor Snape's death?"

Harry didn't know why he said that so abruptly.

Wizard White looked at him quietly without making a sound.

Phineas Nigellus in the next picture frame raised his goatee and said loudly:

"No mistake, Dumbledore's death, Snape's death, everything."

"For the greatest good?" Harry suddenly hated himself for being infected by Ron, but he was satisfied to see Dumbledore's quiet and wise expression disappear, turning into a strangeness he had never seen before.

"Yes, you know," the White Wizard replied, but Harry knew he was answering what he hadn't asked.The part about Grindelwald.

"Enough, do you know why Snape is not the real owner of this office?" A headmaster with a red nose and a hearing aid couldn't help running over from his picture frame, "Dumbledore's meaning before he died , indeed made Snape the next headmaster of Hogwarts, and it was Severus Snape himself who refused to enter into a contract with Hogwarts! Because, he didn't want to stay here after he died! Just Like what you saw today!"

"……I……"

"Death is not loss, but the last way to gain."

A headmaster whose clothes were disheveled and stained with various potions, Harry almost never saw him speak, stared at him.He involuntarily glanced at the picture frame that was not too big and not conspicuous: William Sylvester, Headmaster of Hogwarts from 1029 to 1042.

"I'm glad you noticed the details, Sylvester, the first Hogwarts headmaster after the four founders, died under the curse of an Irish wizard in order to protect the students."

The savior moved his eyes away in embarrassment. Obviously, the headmaster, who was still as shabby as Aberforth after death, was young. The face under the messy hair in the portrait looked Not as old as Hermione's father.

"We always need to look for details, small details that we ignore. Because they can tell us all the secrets." Dumbledore motioned Harry to approach, as if the barrier and strangeness just now had never appeared, in fact there was no People know the White Wizard, as Aberforth once commented, the savior was thinking wildly, and he heard Dumbledore's voice seemed to come from far away——

"Everyone has forgotten something, Harry."

"What?" The savior replied reflexively.

"When you were in second grade, that basilisk."

"What happened to the basilisk?"

"After you were safe, it was very strange that no one thought of going there to dispose of the basilisk's body, not Severus, nor me, not even you, Harry, thinking of going back to the Chamber of Secrets again."

"...I don't understand you, Professor Dumbledore."

"We can see the clues of some things before they happen. For example, I believe you can rescue the Hippogriff that night."

"what."

"Because I saw the lovely Buckbeak missing in the afternoon, so—" Dumbledore smiled and began to eat the pile of cockroaches he found in his pocket.

"Voldemort is-"

"Ah, that's it."

-

Voldemort lay at the end of a stone chamber, dimly lit, with stone serpents coiled around towering stone pillars, rising and disappearing into the dark ceiling.Because of the heavy blow from the fall, he stared at the familiar everything in front of him in a daze, and then immediately drew out his wand, staring vigilantly at the deepest part of the darkness.

[Tom Marvolo Riddle...]

The deep voice came from the place where the blood smell was the thickest.

[Basilisk? ] (Basilisk) Voldemort did not lower the Elder Wand.

He entered the secret room for the first time when he was 16 years old, because he clearly understood what kind of terrifying creature the basilisk is, so he did not hesitate to cast a strong confusion spell on it immediately after awakening it, so that it would only follow the orders of the basilisk in a daze , and now it's clear that the basilisk somehow knows its own name.

[Iris. ]

[what? ]

Wait, the Basilisk should have died in the second year of the Savior, Voldemort was more cautious.

[My name, Iris. ]

Voldemort had already seen that half of his body was not in the pool, and the other half was limp on the ground, with a bloody hole in his forehead.A basilisk lying there making a low, indistinct sound.

[The master wants to see you, you are his descendant. ]

Voldemort, who thought he had never had anything to do with the word stupid, was completely confused because he didn't understand what the basilisk was talking about.

[...Master said, if I am about to die, I will call this name...]

Voldemort, who considers himself the greatest Dark Lord, feels furious. This tone seems to be talking about how to call the house-elves to appear ==

[Harry Potter... that's the smell, he almost killed me just now, hiss~~Riddle.Now, the great savior should come to you. ]

After standing frozen for a long time, Voldemort finally threw a few restorative spells at the basilisk.

[...You won't lose to him this time, Riddle. ]

The Basilisk's voice was sharper and scarier than Nagini, [There was a result 1000 years ago, did Harry Potter think he could win with the help of the Hogwarts principals?Salazar Slytherin is my master.Nobody can beat Aerys! ]

The author has something to say:

In the original book, it was Neville who killed Nagini

The order of this article is different from the original text. The first time V major recited the death curse to Xiao Ha should be in the Forbidden Forest, and the second time it was in the castle, but I opened the golden finger, because the house elf was chanted the second time I took tableware to participate in the battle~~~I don’t want to wear so many~~~ But I can’t let Xiaoha lose the snake language function~~~

Finally, Mr. V and Mr. Ha, please bring your respective staff groups and go to the Middle Ages. Kick