After a pause, Dumbledore continued.

"From what I've been able to uncover, Voldemort's grandfather came back from Azkaban, and he wasn't even more shocked to see his daughter, and—he probably never learned how to get food for himself. Azkaban Broke Marvolo's body, he didn't live to see Morfin go back to that cabin."

"He starved to death? That's a wizard!" Tonks screamed. "He can survive even robbing. Maybe it's illegal, but he's going to die..."

"You can't expect everyone to be Auror-trained, or have immunity from Auror mission crimes. He'll face the Dementors again if he goes robbery, and I guess he'd rather die." Lockhart shrugged Shrug.

"Yeah, that's right," said Dumbledore, "the wizarding laws are a little bit rigid now...then we'll have to do some more guesswork, but I don't think it's hard to deduce what happened later. Voldemort's parents eloped and married a few days ago. Months later, Tom Riddle was back at the big mansion in Little Hangleton without his wife. Neighbors were rumoured that he insisted he had been 'deceived' and 'blinded' now. I think he must mean that he was under magic, and now the magic has been lifted, but I am sure he would not dare to use such words, lest others see him as a lunatic. However, the villagers listened to him , guess Merope lied to Tom Riddle, pretended she was going to have a baby for him, and forced him to marry her."

"But she did give birth to his child."

"Yeah, but that was a year after they were married. She was pregnant when Tom Riddle left her."

"Muggles have no resistance to aphrodisiacs." Lockhart checked the information, "Theoretically, it can be used all the time."

"It's just guesswork again," said Dumbledore. "I don't think Merope loves her husband so much that she can't bear to keep him in her hands by magic. I think she does A decision was made to stop giving him aphrodisiacs. Maybe she was so obsessed with her love that she believed that her husband would fall in love with her in return. Maybe she thought her husband would stay for the sake of the children. If so Thus, both of her plans were lost. Tom Riddle left her, never saw her again, and didn't bother to find out what happened to his son."

The sky outside was already inky black, and the lights in Dumbledore's office seemed to be brighter than before.

"Ah, it's getting late, I think I'll be here tonight." Dumbledore said after a while, "In two days, I'll show Harry this memory first, and then you can come and watch the next one."

"Okay, then we're going back."

"Gildrow." Dumbledore stopped Lockhart, "Wait a minute."

"What's the matter, Mr. Principal?" Lockhart went to the door and turned around.

"It's nothing, just chat," Dumbledore said with a smile on his face. "It can be seen that the girls in the school like you very much, and some of them are even daring to use aphrodisiacs on you."

"...I will pay attention to my diet, Mr. Principal." Lockhart was speechless.

"Actually, it's completely understandable that the girls like you. After all, you are such a young and promising guy." Dumbledore seemed to say casually, "Over 30? This is still a young man in the wizarding world, right? ."

"Thirty-three, Mr. Headmaster," Lockhart replied, not knowing what Dumbledore was going to say.

"Ah, thirty-three, a very good grade, isn't it, just out of the whimsy and naive of young, and not considered middle-aged." Dumbledore paused, "It's good."

"Ah, it's very good, I cherish the time now, Mr. Principal." Lockhart reluctantly coped.

"You're a great kid, you're young, it's normal to mess around with flowers, but you must be restrained, Gilderoy." Dumbledore seemed to think that was enough, "Go back and take care of everything."

Lockhart walked out of the principal's office in a confused manner. Did the principal say those words just for casual chatting, or did he want to remind himself of something? He thought he was very restrained in school. As for Hermione, he didn't use any real guns, and even Mrs. Weasley didn't know, how could Dumbledore notice anything.

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Before he knew it, Lockhart had already walked near Snape's office. Since he was here, let's go over and take a look. The gift he brought for him hadn't been delivered yet, so he knocked on the door of Snape's office.

"Gidro, I'm going to find you. I'm going to do an experiment, which may require the use of the Philosopher's Stone." Snape raised his head from the busy work in his hand and said, "A bold experiment."

"Ah... ok, no problem." Lockhart took out the Philosopher's Stone and took out a few books, "Severus, these are some herbal books I brought from China, which are already in English, you If you're bored, you can watch it."

"Yes." Snape didn't look at the pile of gifts, but rummaged through the cabinet to find a paper package.

"Has the research on the Philosopher's Stone progressed?" Lockhart put his things in the corner of the table and sat on the humble chair, "Where does the unicorn blood without the power of the curse come from?"

"Other aspects have been roughly figured out," Snape shook his head and sat down again, "but I still don't know where the unicorn blood without the power of the curse came from..."

"So I'm going to try it with ordinary unicorn blood."

"What? That's too dangerous!" Lockhart was shocked. "The curse of unicorn blood is not some ethereal legend, don't take risks!"

"With the magic stone, any curse that acts on the body can consume some magic power to clear it."

"Can……"

"Needless to say, just watch here, help me if something happens." Snape took out the magic stone he made himself, a gray stone, from the paper bag.

"You don't even have the same color! Can you do that?" Lockhart was still trying to dissuade Snape.

"Many materials of the Philosopher's Stone are to make the conversion efficiency of magic power-vital force higher, and better materials are selected, but I just did experiments, so I used a lot of substitutes. If all raw materials are used, it may be my life. Not all collected. I'm sure it's a workable Philosopher's Stone."

"Well then, be careful." Lockhart had to step aside.

Snape took out a silver knife and cut a wound on his hand. After a few seconds, blood began to trickle out of the wound, and then Snape took hold of the self-made Philosopher's Stone and poured magic into it.

The wound recovered quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye. Although there was no magical sight of blood flowing back into it, the wound was completely healed after a few seconds, and a little blood was still flowing down, but the opening was Restored to a clean state with no visible traces at all. In terms of healing effects, the Philosopher's Stone is better than all healing magic and potions.

"How is it? Are you cursed?" Lockhart asked nervously.

Snape's face changed and he looked at Lockhart blankly.

"Quickly dispel the curse with the Philosopher's Stone!" Lockhart grabbed the genuine Philosopher's Stone on the table and handed it to Snape.

"Don't be nervous, Gilderoy." Snape slowed down, although he said so, he quickly took the Philosopher's Stone and injected magic power into it. "The curse didn't strike so quickly."

"What does the unicorn's curse look like?"

"According to some classics, using the blood of unicorns to prolong life will turn that person into a 'vampire'. Only by constantly sucking blood with magical powers can delay the onset of the curse." Snape used the Philosopher's Stone To dispel the curse, "According to my feeling just now, I can only guess that the blood of the unicorn will uncontrollably transform the magic power in the human body into the vitality. Using the real magic stone, or the magic stone without the power of the curse Unicorn blood makes this transformation manageable."

"Sounds like that." Lockhart nodded. "No wonder vampires in legends are always young. It turns out that they can't help themselves."

"When the magic in the body, plus the magic in the blood is not enough to pay for this transformation, the vampire's life has come to an end." Snape explained, "Actually I am very skeptical about whether it is possible to use blood to absorb other people's magic. Transforming it into oneself violates the most basic law of untransferable magic power. It is very likely that vampires only take this behavior as a form of self-comfort, but in fact, it is the magic within their own body that is continuously transformed into vitality."

"I've never heard of a vampire dying quietly." Lockhart smiled, "Ninety-nine percent of vampires are killed by other wizards immediately after exposure, and the remaining 100 One part, either well hidden or so powerful that the other wizards need a little time to figure out what to do with him."

"That's it..." Snape nodded in agreement, "Gidero, about the unicorn blood without the curse, maybe Hagrid has some ideas. I heard that the unicorns in the Forbidden Forest have a good relationship with Hagrid. But you know, I don't have a good relationship with him..."

"I'll take the time to ask, but don't get your hopes up, I've never heard of such a thing. If there is really any way to mass-produce unicorn blood without the curse, it must be within a hundred years. Biggest news."

"This kind of thing..." Snape became annoyed after thinking about it, and tapped his fingers on the table without being irritable, "How did Nicole Lemay do it, can you find a way to get his diary or something? s things?"

"You can try, but I guess they've all been destroyed," Lockhart said unconvincingly. "Just repairing the wound, and how much magic power did it take to dispel that curse?"

"It's not worth mentioning, the wound is too small, and the curse didn't work at all."

"I have another question. What's the practical significance of half-made magic stones after mass production?" Lockhart complained, "Can such a magical thing only be used to make people linger, or as a healing item?"

"There's another use, I'm just guessing..." Snape picked up a small notebook on the table and showed it to Lockhart, "It records a lot of powerful spells that need to be cast at the cost of life~lightnovelpub.net~ Commonly known as the Forbidden Spell. Maybe... when casting this kind of spell, the magic stone of the body is used to quickly convert the physical magic into vitality, and multiple Forbidden spells can be cast."

Lockhart stared blankly at the small book for a while before speaking. "It's a whimsical idea, but it seems possible. What if people die immediately after casting the forbidden spell?"

"It won't be like this. After all, the principle of the forbidden spell is to mix life force and magic power. The life force may be lost quickly, but no matter how fast the loss is, it will take a process." Snape touched his chin, and the conversation almost started from beginning to end. All the tails are guesses, but guessing based on data and experimental results is also a very interesting thinking game.

"I understand, as long as the magic stone can be activated during the period of time when the vitality is lost, the person can still be alive after casting the forbidden curse, but he may become a crippled person." Lockhart shook his head, "But it's good after all. It's better to die than live, isn't it?"

"As long as I can kill him... I'm willing to choose death!" Snape said through gritted teeth.

"You-Know-Who?" Lockhart looked at Snape uneasily. "For a woman who has been dead for more than ten years, regardless of her own life? I can't understand your thoughts at all, can't I just start a new life."

"Why do you always know everything!" Snape stood up angrily. "Did Dumbledore tell you!"

"I spent four years at Hogwarts with you when I was a student, Severus," Lockhart had to lie quickly, "I've already seen that you liked that senior named Lily. Kill the mysterious man."

"Enough!" Snape's expression suddenly turned grim, "Go back when you're all right! Don't teach me here!"

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