Soul of reincarnation

Chapter 28 HP

"Maybe you're right," Lance murmured in a low voice, "but the mark of the black magic has not disappeared, which also indicates that the extraordinary lord is likely to return again, and the Ministry of Magic has no tolerance for Death Eaters." With such a ruthless attitude, the Death Eaters have no room to betray that Lord. Even if they want to betray, who else can they turn to? The Ministry of Magic or Dumbledore? No one will accept the surrender of the Death Eaters now. Therefore, if When that lord comes back again, the Death Eaters will continue to surround him. How is that different from the previous situation? A spy like me will continue to work in the Ministry of Magic. If that lord returns, for the sake of To keep our father and son's life in his hands, I still can't refuse his call. Even if I believe that prophecy, knowing that he may eventually lose to a child, but before he really fails and dies, it's meaningless to talk about it."

Ethan nodded in agreement.Anyway, Lance's identity as a Death Eater will not be exposed, at least not until the Dark Lord is resurrected, which is enough to reassure Ethan for a while.

Lance has a glamorous resume in the Ministry of Magic. When various attacks and wars occurred outside, he worked seriously in the Ministry of Magic as usual and was not involved in any conflicts.

In addition to the divorce, no one believed that Ovelia would dare to divorce a Death Eater husband, and no one believed that an evil Death Eater would easily let go of the woman who abandoned him and remarried.

This also proved Lance's innocence from the side.

As for what to do in the future, let's take a step at a time.

After Ethan completed his magic enlightenment, Lance allowed him to find interesting books to read in the study.Of course, those forbidden books Lance had cast forbidden magic on.

Ethan is very interested in magic, but not interested in books like Charms, Potions, Transfiguration or Defense Against the Dark Arts.Sooner or later, it will be learned at Hogwarts. What's the point of learning in advance?What he was really interested in was alchemy.

For example, the magic stone that can turn stones into gold and increase lifespan, the door key that can take people to a specific place, the double-sided mirror that is equivalent to video calls, the magic tent that has been expanded in space, and so on.

So Ethan has been studying how to make these magic tools before he got the wand.

Lance has not been promoted in the Ministry of Magic in recent years.Because of the Dark Lord, the members of the Ministry of Magic who were born in Slytherin were all subject to some kind of implicit exclusion.Even if they are not well-known Death Eaters like the Malfoy family, they still receive strange eyes. It is difficult to obtain continuous promotions by virtue of merit and noble status as before.

Others, such as wizards such as Fudge, who claims to be a commoner, seized the opportunity to gain the trust of the people who suffered from the war and the opportunity to be promoted quickly. Barty Crouch's loss of power made him the Minister of Magic.

Barty Crouch himself is the vanguard against the Dark Lord, with an upright and firm character, and possesses the status of a magical nobleman.Originally, when the Dark Lord failed and caused a large number of nobles to lose power, he was the best spokesperson for the nobles in the magic world.He is the most trusted official of the magic nobles by the common people, and also the most suitable candidate for the new Minister of Magic.

Unfortunately, his son was publicly exposed as a Death Eater, causing Barty Crouch to lose all the political capital he had accumulated in the war against the Dark Lord.He himself lost the trust of most of the people because of his Death Eater son.People thought he had a son who had become a Death Eater, and he wasn't very clean himself.

The nobles lost their best respite, and the commoner wizards stepped onto the political stage.

This has been called by some a victory of the common people over the nobles.

It also makes pure-blood wizards like the Weasley family who really don't care about bloodlines and most half-blood wizards and Muggle wizards happy, thinking that the world has changed after all, and the theory of bloodlines no longer exists.

But in fact, these civilians in the upper ranks are still pure blood.

It's just that the aristocratic forces are retreating, and the civilian forces are advancing.

The pedigree discrimination in the Ministry of Magic still exists, but it has changed from a blatant one to an implicit and unspoken rule.

On the bright side, the Ministry of Magic publicly declared that it treats half-bloods and Muggle wizards equally, but this is just a "politically correct" statement.It's actually just a catchphrase chanted by certain politicians and Ministry employees.In their hearts, they still feel that they are superior to others.

The half-breeds and Muggles working in the Ministry of Magic are still at the bottom, and it is difficult for them to have the chance to be promoted to officials.

This is a bad habit for thousands of years. With the closed and slow development of the magic world, it is difficult to quickly eliminate this concept.

When Ethan went to school at Hogwarts, according to family tradition, he was assigned to Slytherin College.Because the Dark Lord has disappeared for six or seven years, the vigilance and hostility of the people around Slytherin House have gradually faded.The Slytherins were also relieved.

Coupled with the fact that Slytherin College has a strong dean Snape, at least it ensures that the students of Slytherin College will not be bullied at Hogwarts.

In addition, under the huge pressure and prejudice from the outside world, the originally arrogant nobles had to hold together to keep warm, so Slytherin became the most united house.

In this way, with Ethan's temperament that doesn't like to fight, he can still live a decent life by not caring about other things.

Ethan was in the same class as Hufflepuff's Cedric Diggory. Calculating the time, if things didn't change, he would still be a year away from graduating from Hogwarts when the Dark Lord came back to life.

Before Ethan came to Hogwarts, he had his own plan.

To save Lance's life and reputation, the only way to make the Dark Lord fail as soon as possible.As in the original plot, after the resurrection of the Dark Lord, it dragged on for another three years. During these three years, the Dark Lord was simply calling the wind and rain in the wizarding and Muggle world, and finally he was in Harry Potter and Hogwarts. With the efforts of the students, it finally disappeared completely.This is too slow.

These three years were too dangerous for Lance.Either life is in danger, or the position of the Death Eaters is easily exposed.

When the Dark Lord takes control of the Ministry of Magic, Lance, as a senior official of the Ministry of Magic, may become his minion to control the Ministry of Magic. At that time, who would not know that Lance is a Death Eater.

Then when the Dark Lord disappeared completely, his life would still be in danger, and he might be imprisoned in Azkaban.

Ethan decides to find as many Horcruxes as possible and destroy them.

If by the time the Dark Lord is resurrected, only the Dark Lord himself and Harry Potter are left in this world, then the decisive battle can be fought directly.

If all of Ethan's plans go well, then when the Dark Lord is resurrected, he can die completely.

Before collecting the Horcruxes, Ethan must first ensure that he can destroy the Horcruxes, otherwise what's the point of holding the Horcruxes in his hand?

What can destroy a Horcrux?

The fangs of the basilisk.

Ethan doesn't know the language of the basilisk, nor does he have the courage to fight the basilisk.

But he has artifacts and puppet fortresses.

His idea is to find the basilisk and refine the basilisk into a puppet.The golem will possess the poison of the basilisk, as well as the ability of the basilisk to kill with its eyes.

If his idea can come true, then he will really have a way to deal with Horcruxes, and he will really start collecting Horcruxes.Otherwise, even if he knew where those Horcruxes were, it would be pointless.

During his rest time, he often stayed in Slytherin's underground dormitory, which was closer to the secret room underground, and it was easier to find the basilisk through the puppet particles.

A week later, the golem particles found the basilisk.It took another month, and the basilisk was refined into a palm-sized puppet by the puppet particles.Along the sewer, through the bathroom of his dormitory, it came to Ethan's hands.

The puppet basilisk had been ordered by Ethan to close its eyes, so it would not harm others.

And Ethan finally mastered the big killer that could destroy the Horcrux.

Now, for Ethan, the easiest Horcrux to get is the "Ravenclaw's Crown" hidden in the Room of Requirement on the eighth floor of Hogwarts.

Ethan got it easily, and also took the damaged Vanishing Cabinet that could have let the Death Eaters into Hogwarts.

Ethan remembered that every time a Horcrux was destroyed, there was a lot of commotion.So he didn't dare to act in Hogwarts, but just hid the Horcrux in the trader's warehouse.

As for the disappearing cabinet, he bought another disappearing cabinet connected to it through the trader, and planned to study and repair them when he was free, as a recreational activity.

When he came home for the Christmas holiday, he and Lance had a happy Christmas.

Since Olivia remarried and had children, she has eased her attitude towards Lance and Ethan, as if she was no longer so sharp and paranoid because she finally obtained happiness.

Every birthday and holiday, she would send gifts to Ethan. After leaving the Kent family, she became a better mother.

This year is no exception, in addition to Ovelia's gift, Ethan also received a gift from his half-brother Alvin.

Lance didn't object to Ethan's association with the Ovelia family either.

Although he didn't understand why Ovelia was willing to be so friendly to the Kent family even though she suffered a big loss.He thought maybe that was why he and Ovelia didn't fit together, they were really different types of people.It's hard to even understand each other.

But of course Lance would like Ethan to have more connections, especially since Ovelia is still a trusted relative and friend of Ethan.

Lance has never planned to remarry. The Kent family has been passed down through the centuries, and they are all single-line, without a second son.Therefore, Lance has Ethan, a pure-blooded, healthy, smart, and full of magic heir, and he is already satisfied.

During the Christmas holiday, Ethan took the time to go to his private house and entered the secret room.

The secret room has powerful protective spells, anti-spells, isolation spells and other long-lasting spells and magic circles. Eliminating the Horcruxes here is Ethan's best choice.

Ethan vaguely remembered that every time the Horcrux was eliminated, the Dark Lord and Harry Potter could sense it, and sometimes even saw some fragments of the scene.Of course he didn't dare to show his face, but emptied everything in the secret room, only put the Horcrux and the puppet basilisk in the secret room, and retreated by himself.

Outside the secret room, command the puppet basilisk to bite Ravenclaw's crown. In the secret room, there was a sound like something hitting the wall and bouncing back to the ground.Ethan continued to command the puppet basilisk to bite again, but this time there was no movement.

Ethan then entered the secret room again.

Seeing that the crown was deformed and twisted, and there were traces of black magic, he knew that the Horcrux had been completely destroyed.

The puppet basilisk was checked again, and there was no damage.Ethan felt relieved.Return the golem basilisk to the golem fortress and the damaged crown to the warehouse.

After restoring the secret room to its original state, he returned to Kent's house and planned to destroy another Horcrux.

Another Horcrux that is easy to find is in the old house of Gaunt, the ancestral home of the Dark Lord's mother, where a soul-returning stone ring made into a Horcrux is stored.There was a powerful curse on this ring, and it was this curse that actually killed Headmaster Dumbledore.

Gaunt's old house is located in Little Hangleton, a quiet and closed town only four or five miles away from London.

Ethan bought a map and studied the itinerary.

Because he didn't want to attract attention, he wore a Muggle costume and took a taxi that had been booked all day.There are taxis everywhere, and taxis are the most unobtrusive vehicles.

Ethan used puppet particles to control the taxi driver and drove to the old Gaunt house in Little Hangleton.He didn't show up at all, but quietly released the puppet basilisk, looking for magic waves in Gaunt's old house.

Golem particles cannot sense magical fluctuations, but basilisks are magical creatures in life, so golem basilisks are sensitive to magical fluctuations.

An hour later, the puppet basilisk returned to Ethan's hands with the destroyed Horcrux and the soul-returning stone ring.Because he didn't know what the curse was, how dare Ethan touch the ring?Just put it back in the warehouse.

Ethan manipulated the driver to drive back to the Leaky Cauldron in London, used puppet particles to erase his memory of being manipulated, and took back the puppet particles.

After paying the driver to rent a car for a day, Ethan put on his cloak, entered the Leaky Cauldron, passed the fireplace, and returned to Kent's house.Lance hadn't come home yet, he had changed, no one knew he'd been out all day in Muggle attire.

All goes well with God's help.

But with the help of a divine tool, it can be regarded as a divine help.