Harry Potter’s Defense Professor

"Kreache couldn't leave a trace on it," said the elf sadly. "Kreece tried every way, every way, but none, none of them worked... There's so much power on the box. The magic of the magic, Kreicher believes it can only be destroyed from the inside, but it won't open...Kreicher punishes himself, try again, punishes himself, try again.Kreicher failed to carry out the order, Kreacher Can't destroy the locket! The mistress is mad with grief, because Master Regulus is missing, and Kreacher can't tell her what happened, can't, because Master Regulus forbids—forbids him to— The family talked about the rock—things in the cave..."

"It's obvious, it's a pity that your brother didn't join the Order of the Phoenix, Sirius." Moody also said to Sirius in a rare emotional tone, "Now what we have to do is to find a way to destroy this thing."

"You must destroy it!" Crachet jumped up and hugged Moody's new leg. Moody threw it angrily a few times, but didn't shake it until Sirius ordered it to leave. Moody rescued.

"Well, maybe we can get this done before we deal with the Dementors?" Moody took the item from Sirius, looking at the locket in his hand expectantly, "This thing doesn't look like anything. Good stuff, I guess if you wear it for a long time, it will affect people's minds."

"That's right, it's better to leave it alone." Lockhart nodded, not expecting Moody to even guess this. "But I think it's just that a murderer like you is affected or not."

Moody raised his cane fiercely to knock on Lockhart, which made him shrink his head: "Little Gilderoy, you are impatient, dare to laugh at Lao Tzu!"

"Okay, okay, take this thing to Dumbledore to see, and then pick a day to destroy him together." Arthur quickly smoothed the game.

"Maybe, but I guess it's not that simple. This is something of Slytherin. It must be different from the Horcrux made by the Dark Lord himself. The spells on it must be more powerful." Snape said coldly, "My advice is to ask Dumbledore first and let him decide."

"Severus is right, so let's do this first. Let's go back to each house and find each mother, and wait for the announcement of the dementor." Moody nodded and announced the end of the meeting.

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Moody followed Lockhart and Snape to Dumbledore's office and told him all about it.

"My God, in order to get that fake Horcrux, I summoned three elves in a row to drink the liquid inside." Dumbledore couldn't hide the surprise on his face, "When I found out that it was fake When I was there, you didn't know how I was feeling at the time, it was so good..."

"Well, let's see how this Horcrux is destroyed." Moody interrupted Dumbledore's lyric.

Dumbledore nodded with a smile, took the locket from Moody's hand, put it on the desk, and observed it carefully... The other three were standing or sitting quietly, waiting for Dumbledore's conclusion.

After a long while, Dumbledore raised his head, his face full of helplessness: "Obviously, this thing is fundamentally different from the Horcrux we encountered before..."

"The essential difference?" Snape sneered. "You said directly, is there a difference between what you can destroy and what you can't do?"

"It seems to say so." Dumbledore didn't care about Snape's sarcasm, "This is something of Slytherin, one of the four founders of Hogwarts."

"So, as the headmaster of Hogwarts, you don't want to destroy it?" Moody looked at Dumbledore inexplicably. "What's the essential difference?"

"The difference is that before, we were only fighting against Voldemort alone, but now we are fighting against Voldemort and Salazar Slytherin, two great wizards."

"Salazar Slytherin is not a god either, so why not add him!" Lockhart said indifferently.

"It's true that Salazar Slytherin is not a god, but he is definitely stronger than me..." Dumbledore stretched out his index finger and shook it, "This locket, even without Voldemort's hand, is definitely not our Jane It's easy to destroy."

"What is Salazar Slytherin doing with so much protection magic on a locket?" Lockhart said irritably, realizing that this thing was not easy to deal with. "What else can I do besides pretending to be coercive? It was also used by future generations in crooked ways."

"Hey, little Gilderoy, pretending to be the opposite sex is the same primitive urge that everyone has." Moody couldn't stand it any longer, "If you can have a magical repairman like Salazar Slytherin. For, I don't know what to pretend to be."

"I..." Lockhart really didn't want to talk to Moody, and he always exposed people at once, more poisonous than Snape. "I won't leave a thing to be used as a Horcrux!"

"Hopefully." Moody rolled his eyes with the magic eye.

"I think now we're talking about how to destroy the Horcruxes instead of..." Snape said softly and somberly, "how to pretend."

Lockhart didn't want to discuss this issue anymore. He pretended to have his own preferences and methods, and it would be boring to discuss it: "Mr. Principal, we don't have to destroy it, just let the soul inside be lost and the mysterious man be resurrected. It will do.”

"Do not destroy it, but destroy the soul inside?" Dumbledore looked at Lockhart in surprise, "How to do it?"

Lockhart also stood up, walked to the desk, picked up the locket, and took a closer look. It is absolutely impossible to open it. Only Parseltongue can do it. He doesn't know if there is any protection magic like the outside world, but even if there is, it will never be as strong as the outer shell.

Lockhart took out the soul-collecting talisman that he got from Pan-chan: "I got it by accident. It is said that it can deal with souls, but I don't know how to use it."

Dumbledore took the leather enchantment with a strange look, put on his glasses and looked at it for a while. "I don't understand the principle, but it seems that it can indeed deal with the soul. The specific method of use... directly touch the soul?"

"That's useless." Snape concluded, "If you can directly touch the soul inside, there are many ways to destroy it. Souls are very fragile things."

Lockhart shrugged, reached for the talisman again, and put it away. "Isn't this Slytherin's locket, maybe there is a way to get it open? Slytherin's own way."

"You mean Parseltongue?" Although Dumbledore was quite old, his brain was still responsive.

"It's possible, isn't Parseltongue unique to Slytherin, and You-Know-Who is also a descendant of Slytherin..." Lockhart did not dare to say too much, and said in an uncertain tone, "and Harry Parseltongue too, maybe we can let him try?"

"Good idea." Dumbledore nodded and put the locket away, "We can get Harry to try it out after a while. Alastor, have you arranged the Dementor thing? "

"Okay, wait for the notice, this time we will kill a big accomplice of the Death Eaters."

"That's very good. If this operation is successful, the pressure on the Ministry of Magic and the Muggle government will be less." Dumbledore nodded with satisfaction, looking at the three through half-moon glasses: "If there is nothing else, You can go back to rest."