Chapter 253 World Famous Painting: Voldemort in Knockturn Alley

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It's a name that belongs entirely to Hogwarts.

Dumbledore's eyes flashed, and he immediately understood what this meant. It must be referring to the Room of Requirement located on the eighth floor of Hogwarts Castle.

Just when Dumbledore was about to rush over to take a look at the Mirror of Erised, the phoenix on Grindelwald's shoulder suddenly opened its mouth and spurted out a burst of flames, drowning the mirror in a sea of ​​fire!

This magic mirror is extremely vulnerable to the Phoenix's attack!

This scene happened so suddenly that even Grindelwald had no time to stop it, or he couldn't stop it!

What the hell is this phoenix doing?

Grindelwald could only turn around helplessly, with a little apology and surprise on his face: "Can the Phoenix... also see something from the Mirror of Erised?"

"Um…"

Dumbledore's expression was subtle.

When the old man saw that the Mirror of Erised was destroyed, he was inevitably a little suspicious. Maybe the clue was not left by Snape, but by Grindelwald, who wanted to deliberately guide him to the Room of Requirement?

never mind.

Now the only option is to go to the Room of Requirement.

The eighth floor of Hogwarts. .

Voldemort opened the door to the Room of Requirement.

The Dark Lord was very proud that he knew the information about this mysterious house. He laughed hoarsely and said: "Let's go and see the secrets here... I once left a secret passage leading to Knockturn Alley here, but No one knows what it really looks like, it will send everything inside to the other side through the tunnel..."

Following Voldemort's call, a cabinet appeared in the Room of Requirement. This cabinet looked very ordinary, nothing special at all.

Snape's eyes flickered, as if he was not surprised by the appearance of this cabinet, but he still echoed softly: "I seem to have seen it somewhere..."

"Bojin Bock's."

The smile on Voldemort's lips was very proud, and he snorted softly: "I left a similar disappearing cabinet in that store. After I became the Dark Lord, Mr. Borkin collected all the things I left behind..."

Bockin Bock Store.

This is a magic shop located in Knockturn Alley, London.

The entire magical world knows that all those in Diagon Alley are doing serious business; and those in Diagon Alley are naturally those who are not doing serious business.

The Borkin Burke Store is a store that specializes in selling and acquiring dark magic items. That store was also the place where Voldemort worked after graduating...

When Voldemort graduated that year, after his application to stay in school to teach was rejected, he had no choice but to go out and find a job. He went to that store and worked as a clerk.

I have to say that the work there was very useful. Voldemort received many strange black magic items there, and also secretly learned many evil curse methods...

same.

Mr. Borgin, the owner of the Borkin Bock store, is a wizard who likes to collect dark magic items. Perhaps he never expected that his clerk would become the Dark Lord...

However, when Voldemort became the Dark Lord, the dark magic items he made or left behind in that shop immediately became of very high value. Naturally, Mr. Borkin would not throw away the items left behind by the Dark Lord.

in.

Including a strange cabinet.

In fact, they are a set of disappearing cabinets in pairs.

There is a cabinet in the Room of Requirement in Hogwarts, and there is another cabinet in Borgin Bock's shop. There is a direct connecting passage in the two cabinets, which can be directly connected regardless of any defensive barriers.

Now.

The disappearing cabinet in front of him became an important tool for Voldemort to leave Hogwarts quietly. He could leave directly from here without alerting Dumbledore.

Voldemort opened the cabinet door and slowly walked into the cabinet. He looked at Snape who was standing outside the cabinet: "Severus, I'm waiting for you in Borgin Bock's."

"I'll be there soon."

Snape lowered his head seriously.

Voldemort nodded with satisfaction and closed the cabinet door calmly.

After a while, when Snape reopened the cabinet door, Voldemort inside had disappeared without a trace. He had obviously left through the passage of the disappearing cabinet.

However, Snape did not leave directly.

Snape glanced at the Vanishing Cabinet, then at the Room of Requirement, and suddenly raised his finger!

A ball of fiery red flame floated on his fingertips!

This is a fire spell.

This caster is able to make this flame incredibly powerful, enough to cause serious damage to anyone who steps into the house!

"Fire is blazing!"

Snape stretched out his fingers and let the flames on his fingertips fall to the ground before he walked into the vanishing cabinet without changing his expression.

"Headmaster Dumbledore..."

"I hope you will recall the danger of the second generation of the Dark Lord..."

Snape's eyes lit up slightly. When he entered the vanishing cabinet and left, the flame slowly fell to the ground!

The moment the flame hit the ground, it suddenly triggered a violent explosion, and endless flames quickly began to burn crazily in the Room of Requirement!

In fact.

Someone's fire spell is pretty powerful.

When Dumbledore and Grindelwald arrived, they hurriedly opened the door to the Room of Requirement, and a ball of flames rushed towards them. The scorching fire rushed out in the blink of an eye!

"careful!"

Grindelwald raised his wand, and an armor spell of concentrated magic was quickly generated, blocking the invasion of the flames in the Room of Requirement!

"Tom..."

Dumbledore narrowed his eyes, looking at the blazing flames in the Room of Requirement, and he suddenly raised his Elder Wand!

The most powerful wand in the world!

The Elder Wand activated the magic power in Dumbledore's hand, quickly gathering together the scorching flames coming from the Room of Requirement!

All flames…

All gathered together into a tiny flame!

Dumbledore looked at the tiny flame on the tip of the Elder Wand, his expression so ugly that he almost shed tears: "Tom...has become stronger..."

This is not a fire curse.

Just the most common fire spell.

However, this ordinary fire spell, with the power it explodes here, is enough to break through the Room of Requirement and cause big trouble to the entire Hogwarts!

"Maybe it's just convenient?"

Grindelwald found a rather reluctant excuse. He looked at the burnt-black and dilapidated room: "There are no traces of him left..."

Obviously.

There are no traces of Voldemort left here.

The only thing left here is the flame that only Voldemort can use.

Dumbledore took a deep breath, glanced at the empty and blackened Room of Requirement, and whispered his request.

"Cleaned up."

The whole room became clean again.

Dumbledore tightened his wand and thought for a moment. Voldemort must have come to the Room of Requirement because there is a passage to the outside world!

here…

It allows Voldemort to leave without alerting anyone!

Dumbledore looked at the empty house and calmly made his request to the Room of Requirement: "I want to leave Hogwarts."

Just like its name.

The Room of Requirement can grant any wish it can grant.

As Dumbledore's voice fell, a dilapidated cabinet suddenly appeared in the room, with burnt black marks from the flames...

In addition to this cabinet, a portrait also appeared. This portrait turned out to be that of Dumbledore's sister Ariana!

Room of Requirement…

There are actually two ways to leave Hogwarts!

The secret passage hidden in this portrait seems to lead to a place that Dumbledore and Grindelwald know very well, and it must lead to the Pig's Head Bar.

after all…

Except for them, no one would pay attention to Ariana Dumbledore.

That cabinet…

Apparently it was what Voldemort used.

Sadly, the cabinet appears to have been damaged.

"It was burned out."

After Grindelwald checked for a few seconds, he immediately gave his answer: "But it can be repaired, there should be no big problem..."

"..."

Dumbledore nodded slowly.

Perhaps it would be difficult for them to catch Voldemort tonight, because the time spent repairing the cabinet would be enough for Voldemort to find a place to hide.

certainly.

It was absolutely impossible for Dumbledore to give up the pursuit.

Even Dumbledore was still thinking that even if he couldn't find Voldemort, he could still find out where the passage connected to this cabinet was... Maybe the other end of this cabinet passage was a subordinate whom Voldemort trusted.

the other side.

Bockin Bock Store.

The shop was still open when Voldemort showed up.

For a shop that sells and acquires dark magic items, night is their favorite opening time, as many dark wizards believe that night is enough to cover their sins.

Mr. Bojin, the owner of Bojinbok store, stood at the counter, holding a magnifying glass with a smile on his face and playing with the dark magic item he had just received.

to be honest.

His business has been good recently.

Because the Ministry of Magic has been tracking down dark magic items, many wizarding families have to frequently sell him some increasingly important dark magic items in order to avoid trouble.

Squeak.

A cabinet door placed in the store suddenly opened.

When Mr. Borgin raised his head in surprise, he saw a very scary and ferocious-looking man coming out with no hair and a bare head!

This person looks somewhat familiar...

This made Mr. Bojin freeze in place involuntarily!

Mr. Borgin looked at his appearance and almost instantly remembered those dark years, because this face appeared in the Daily Prophet many times, and even appeared in the nightmares of many wizards!

Voldemort!

How could it be Voldemort!

"Good evening, Mr. Borgin."

Voldemort looked at his former boss, grinned and greeted him, and even bowed gracefully to perform the wizard's etiquette.

"How could you..."

Mr. Borkin looked at Voldemort almost in disbelief.

The entire wizarding world knew that Voldemort was dead a long time ago. Many people thought that Voldemort would be resurrected sooner or later, but Mr. Borkin never thought that he would see him!

to be honest.

Mr. Borkin had always avoided contact with Voldemort.

The people in Knockturn Alley are not good people...

A wizard who sells black magic items is mostly not for fun, but for unimaginable huge profits. Mr. Borkin's character is extremely greedy and insidious.

This boss had spent some time with the young Lord Voldemort, and actually had some vanity that Voldemort had once been his clerk. A Dark Lord once worked in his store. What an honor it was!

to this end…

Many wizards would respectfully refer to him as Mr. Borgin.

However, in fact, Mr. Borkin knew very well that Voldemort was a very free and powerful wizard in Borkin's Bock store. He just wanted to use Borkin's Bock store to communicate and learn from those dark wizards...

At that time, Mr. Borgin knew what kind of person Voldemort was, a person who embraced darkness and evil more than any dark wizard...

therefore…

Mr. Borkin also feared Voldemort more than anyone else.

Although the current Voldemort seems polite, Mr. Borkin knows the terror of this man. This is a Dark Lord who does not follow the rules and may kill people at any time!

"It seems that Mr. Borgin received a lot of good things..."

Voldemort grinned, slowly walked to the counter, reached out and picked up several magic items on it, and even flipped through a book of dark magic.

"This is…"

Mr. Borkin did not dare to look up at him.

"No need to introduce me."

Voldemort waved his hand to signal him not to speak. He looked down at the magic items, the smile on his lips became stronger and stronger, and said in a hoarse voice: "Many of the things here are small toys made by me, and some of them were given to me. Subordinates..."

He had long been indifferent to the items on the counter or the magical knowledge. The only thing that made Voldemort angry was that the presence of these things here represented the betrayal of some Death Eaters.

"You got a good harvest. I really didn't expect them to sell all these things to you. It seems that many people are eager to get rid of their relationship with me..."

"..."

Mr. Borkin was startled.

A feeling that something bad was going on suddenly came to my mind!

Even though Voldemort was still smiling, Mr. Borkin could still feel the suppressed anger beneath Voldemort's smile. Who could allow his subordinates to betray him!

Just when the owner of the dark magic shop wanted to turn around and run away and go to the back door, Voldemort suddenly raised his wand, and a green light flashed across the shop!

"Avada Kedavra!"

As the death curse flashed from Voldemort's wand, the shop owner, who was respected by dark wizards, fell to the ground and seemed to have lost his voice.

When Voldemort killed him, the cabinet door in the store reopened, and Snape slowly walked out. He looked in surprise at Voldemort, who was still reading books by the counter, and a man dead on the ground...

this…

what's the situation?

The shop owner lying on the ground, and Voldemort guarding a pile of magic items and flipping through books at the counter, why did it look a bit like Voldemort was robbing and killing people?