Chapter 103: Finding the Key to Vault No. 12
"You suspect I'm a fake?" Dawlish's tone seemed to think Moody was a bit absurd and ridiculous, "I think you are really crazy. Do you think anyone can get rid of me in such a short time? Unless the person we arrested is called Dumbledore or the mysterious man!"
"Humph, why did you act on your own?" Moody snorted coldly. He really didn't find anything wrong. The Dawlish in front of him seemed to be right. But this doesn't mean that he has no dissatisfaction.
"I just don't want to miss the opportunity. I saw a python. It ran away as soon as it saw me. I'm worried that it's Riddle's spy." Dawlish waved his hand, and a python as thick as a thigh floated out. Moody took a look and didn't find anything different.
"Obviously you are wrong!" Moody's tone was very aggressive, and he was obviously still dissatisfied with Dawlish's unauthorized action. After he finished speaking, he walked to the other side and started his own investigation. It seemed that he didn't even have the interest to look at Dawlish again.
"Don't mind, he's like that." Tonks took the initiative to come up, poked Dawlish with her elbow, and then asked, "What should we do with this snake?"
"It's useless, just let it go." Dawlish lifted the magic of the floating spell, and the python fell to the ground, immediately coiled up in fear, and its body was stiff.
"Continue to look for other clues." Dawlish patted Tonks' shoulder and encouraged.
Tonks nodded woodenly, and suddenly her eyes stopped at Dawlish's wrist: "Hey, did you wear this bracelet when you came?"
"I've been wearing it for a long time. I made it myself. It can prevent some not-so-strong black magic." Dawlish pulled his sleeves to cover the winding silver snake bracelet on his wrist, and said calmly.
"Oh." Tonks didn't doubt it at all, but paid attention to the sculptures and fountains in the courtyard with interest, "The wings of this sculpture look very delicate."
Dawlish pinched the wrist of his left hand with his right hand, watched others busy themselves, and slightly raised the corners of his mouth.
At this moment, Dawlish is no longer Dawlish.
After Cyrus tricked Dawlish into the depths of the woods, he turned into his appearance. The real Dawlish is actually the snake just now. As for Nagini, it is now on his wrist!
Since Cyrus completed the Transfiguration of Imagomagus, his understanding of Transfiguration has reached another level. In addition, the magic wand made of thunderbird feathers as the core has a very significant improvement in Transfiguration.
All these things make Cyrus confident that he can deceive Moody's magic eyes.
Of course, even if he really can't hide from those eyes, Cyrus is not completely helpless.
In the end, there are only four opponents, and the strongest Moody is still inconvenient to walk, so it doesn't take much effort for Cyrus to deal with them. It's just that Cyrus doesn't want to attract too much attention.
His current goal is to sneak into the Ministry of Magic. Not long ago, after he got the Resurrection Stone, he contacted Malfoy again. He planned to ask about the No. 12 vault and find out who the owner of the earliest batch of vaults in Gringotts was.
Cyrus actually didn't know much about the plot of "Legacy". He did buy the game, but because the plot was a bit too bland and boring, he didn't continue to play it. Instead, he watched some videos and got a general idea.
And according to his investigation, during the tenure of a certain unpopular headmaster, there seemed to be no record of a fifth-year transfer student attending Hogwarts. However, some other game characters seemed to match history.
This information made Cyrus a little confused, but anyway, the concept of ancient magic did exist, and the most powerful evidence was Lily Potter. As for whether there were any secrets of ancient magic in the No. 12 vault, Cyrus planned to go and see it himself.
After contacting Malfoy, Cyrus even returned to Azkaban once and found the Death Eater Rookwood, but this Death Eater knew nothing about the location of the key to Vault No. 12, and had never heard of ancient magic.
In the end, Cyrus could only rely on his own and Malfoy's guesses, thinking that the key to Vault No. 12 was likely to be hidden inside the Ministry of Magic.
It was obviously not advisable to break into the Ministry of Magic directly. He could not care about the Aurors, but Dumbledore was not dead yet!
Cyrus had to take a detour and get an identity to sneak into the Ministry of Magic first.
Otherwise, even if Moody could find some clues, he would not be able to find the traces of magic left in the Gaunt old house. Not to mention that Cyrus could not deliberately leave his name for Frank to reveal.
If he wanted to hide, no one in the whole town would remember that he had appeared here.
In the end, Moody and his team naturally found nothing.
But none of them left. When the sun was about to set, an old man in a gray robe with a beard that reached his belt suddenly appeared on the hillside.
It was Dumbledore.
Facing Dumbledore again, Cyrus still felt a lot of pressure.
"Albus." Moody limped over to greet him, "Is the school okay? Excuse me, you'd better be careful of Sirius, he is more dangerous than ordinary Death Eaters!"
"On the contrary, I think Tom Riddle is more dangerous."
As Dumbledore spoke, he stretched his neck to look at the greatly changed Riddle Mansion. He immediately sighed with emotion: "I have to say that Riddle's aesthetics is much better than before. I'm glad that he no longer likes the dark side." environment.”
"I don't know where the sight is darker than Hogwarts Castle." Cyrus complained unwillingly, "If you catch Tom Riddle, I think you can send him back to Az Before Caban, let him help you design the castle.”
"That's a good idea, Delis." Dumbledore nodded, as if he was really thinking about it. "Alastor, have you discovered anything?"
"Four miles away, there is an abandoned house of the Gaunt family, and there are strong traces of magic there." Moody said, "It is certain that Riddle stayed here and did something, but the current traces But couldn’t find it.”
"I'm very interested in what he did!" Dumbledore said forcefully, "Just in case, I want to make sure that there shouldn't be any tragedy nearby, right?"
"No, why do you ask that?"
"Nothing, just a little worry about an absconding criminal." Dumbledore pondered for a moment, "Since he didn't leave anything behind, it means he must have taken something away. It seems we are still late. ”
Moody had long been used to Dumbledore's nagging.
The old guy kept his secrets only to himself.
"Did you find anything else?"
"Delix found a snake." Tonks said quickly.
"The snake is no different," Moody said.
However, Dumbledore was unwilling to let go of the possibility, and, most importantly, he could also speak parselang!
So he immediately said to Cyrus: "Can you bring it to me to see?"
Show it to Dumbledore?
Although things like memory can be modified, it is not difficult for a powerful wizard to find traces of modification. Just like Dumbledore could easily see through Slughorn's manipulation of his own memory; Voldemort could also dig out the damaged memories of a wizard who had been cast the Oblivion Curse many times.
If Cyrus had known that Dumbledore would come, he would never have brought Delis, who had turned into a snake.
But now, he actually doesn't have much pressure.
"Can."
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