"Kreacher, come here, I have something to ask you," Ye Ting ordered Kreacher in a serious tone.

Kreacher walked timidly in front of the three of them, his long nose wagging on his chest.

"I ask you, Regulus Black, did you ever bring back a golden locket?"

Hearing this, Kreacher, who was still timid at first, suddenly became excited. He trembled, staggered, closed his eyes, and just didn't speak.

Seeing his reaction, the three of them immediately understood that Kreacher seemed to what do you know

"Kreacher, do you remember what your master just said?" Fleur reminded sternly, with disgust in her eyes - she was still resentful of the house elves calling her bloodline.——"Are you going to disobey your master's orders?"

For house elves,"master's orders" are more effective than anything else. Kreacher gasped for air, his withered chest rose and fell sharply, then he opened his eyes and let out a blood-curdling scream.

"Locket! Master Regulus's locket, Master Regulus did bring back a locket... Kreacher made a mistake, Kreacher failed to carry out the master's order!"

The next moment, Kreacher rushed to the wall and kept banging his head against the wall. Hermione was startled by his actions, but she immediately pulled out her wand, and a pink ribbon sprayed out from the tip of the wand. Kreacher was tied tightly to stop his self-mutilation.

"Kreacher, I order you not to move! She said loudly,"You must first fulfill your master's orders and answer our questions. Before that, you are not allowed to do anything!""

The elf froze immediately. He lay straight on the cold stone floor, tears pouring out of his sunken eye sockets.

"Hermione, let him get up!" Fleur whispered.

Hermione pulled gently, and the force on one end of the ribbon made Kreacher stand up.

""Tell me about Regulus' locket," Ye Ting said,"Where did it come from?" What does Regulus have to do with it? Kreacher, tell me everything you know about the locket and Regulus' connection to it!"

Hermione loosened the ribbon in cooperation, and the elf immediately sat down, curled up into a ball, put his wet face between his knees, and began to rock back and forth. When he spoke, his voice was low and muffled, but in a quiet, You can hear it quite clearly in an echoing room.

"Master Sirius has escaped, and it would be better to be gone, for he is a bad boy, and his unruly behavior has broken my mistress' heart. But Master Regulus has self-respect, and he knows what the name Black and his pure blood mean. For many years, he often talked about the Dark Lord, who wanted wizards to stop hiding and come out to rule Muggles and their descendants... When Master Regulus was sixteen, he joined the Dark Lord's organization. , he is so proud, so proud, so happy to be able to serve……"

"A year later, one day, Master Regulus came to visit Kreacher in the kitchen. He said……"

The old elf shook faster

"……He said the Dark Lord wanted an elf"

"The Dark Lord wants an elf? Hermione asked, looking back at Fleur who was equally confused.

"Oh, yes," Kreacher said bitterly,"Master Regulus contributed to Kreacher. It was an honor, Master Regulus said, an honor for himself and for Kreacher. Kreacher had to do whatever the Dark Lord asked him to do... and then go back - home. Kreacher shook faster, his breathing turning into sobs.

"So Kreacher went to the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord did not tell Kreacher what to do, but took Kreacher to a cave by the sea. It was a big cave with a big black lake in it.……"

Hermione and Fleur immediately thought of the cave they had been to before, and everything clicked.

"……there is a boat……"

Of course there was a ship, they knew that ship, the ghostly green boat, so that was how Voldemort tested the protection of the Horcruxes: with the help of an insignificant being, a house elf……

"There is a stone basin on the island filled with magic potion. Black - The Dark Lord makes Kreacher drink……"

The elf was trembling all over

"Kreacher drank, and saw many horrific scenes while drinking... Kreacher's internal organs were on fire... Kreacher called Master Regulus to save him, and called the mistress, but the Dark Lord just laughed... He forced Kreacher to drink up all the potion... He threw a locket into the empty basin... and then filled the basin with potion."

"Then the Dark Lord got on the boat and left, leaving Kreacher on the island……"

The three of them looked at each other, and the two girls finally understood the effect of the potion. Fortunately, they transformed the Inferi at that time.

"Kreacher needed water. He climbed to the edge of the island to drink from the black lake... Many hands, dead hands, stretched out from the water and dragged Kreacher down.……"

"How did you escape?"Hermione asked.

After that experience, she discovered that Muggle weapons were very useful against the Inferi, but Kreacher was just a house elf. Kreacher raised his ugly head and used his blood-congested big Looking at the three people

"Master Regulus said he wanted Kreacher to come home."He said

"I know - but how did you get rid of the Inferi?"Fu Rong also asked again.

"Master Regulus said he wanted Kreacher to come home. Kreacher repeated

"I know, but——"Fleur wanted to ask again, and Hermione spoke.

"Gee, it's obvious, isn't it,"He Apparated! Elves' magic is different from wizards' magic, it's like they can Apparate or Apparate at Hogwarts, but we can't." There was a moment of silence,

Fleur thought. This sentence. How could Voldemort make such a mistake?

Just as he was thinking of this, Hermione spoke again, her voice cold.

"Of course, the Dark Lord was dismissive of the behavior of house elves, like all pureblood wizards who treat elves as beasts... It would never occur to him that elves might possess magic that he did not possess."

"The highest law for a house elf is the master's command," Kreacher said singsongly."The master told Kreacher to go home, and Kreacher went home.……"

"So, you did what you were ordered to do, huh? Hermione asked gently,"No disobedience at all?""

Kreacher nodded and shook faster.

"So what happened after you came back? Fleur asked,"What did Regulus say after you told the master what happened?""

"Master Regulus was very worried, very worried. Kreacher hissed,"Regulus told Kreacher to hide and not leave the house.""Then... after a while... one night, Master Regulus came to the cupboard and found Kreacher. Master Regulus looked strange, not like his usual self. Kreacher could see what was going on in his mind. It was very chaotic... The young master asked Kreacher to take him to the cave, the same cave where Kreacher and the Dark Lord had been.……

"Did he make you drink the potion? Fleur asked in disgust.

Kreacher shook his head and burst into tears. Hermione covered her mouth: she seemed to have guessed something.

"Ray - Master Regulus took out a locket from his pocket, just like the Dark Lord's," Kreacher said, tears streaming down the sides of his long nose."He told Kreacher to hold it. After the stone basin is dry, change the locket……"

Kreacher's sobs became thick and harsh, and the three of them had to concentrate to understand his words.

"He ordered - Kreacher left - to leave him alone. He called Kreacher - to go home - not to say anything to the mistress - what he had done - but to destroy - the first locket. Then he drank—drank the potion—Kreacher replaced the locket—and watched...Master Regulus...being dragged underwater...and then……"

"Oh, Kreacher!"Hermione wailed. She cried and knelt beside the elf, trying to comfort him. The elf immediately stood up and shrank back with obvious disgust.

"The Mudblood touched Kreacher and Kreacher didn't allow it. What would the mistress say?"

Then, before anyone could retort, Kreacher suffered retribution. His nose became longer again, now hanging down to his waist, so he immediately fell silent and looked at them in fear.

"So, you brought the locket home," Ye Ting continued to ask, determined to understand the whole story,"Did you try to destroy it?"

"Kreacher couldn't leave a trace on it."The elf said sadly,"Kreacher tried all the methods, all the methods, but none of them succeeded... There are so many powerful magics on the box, and Kreacher believes that it can only be destroyed from the inside. But it wouldn't open... Kreacher punished himself and tried again, punished himself and tried again. Kreacher failed to carry out the order, Kreacher could not destroy the locket! The mistress went crazy with grief, because Master Regulus was missing, and Kreacher couldn't tell her what had happened. He couldn't, because Master Regulus forbade him from talking about the cave to his family. things inside……"

Kreacher burst into tears. Hermione looked at Kreacher with tears streaming down her face, but she didn't dare to touch him again. Even Fleur, who had no good feelings for Kreacher, looked a little sad.

Ye Ting stepped forward and hugged Hermione, hugging her and finally getting the girl to stop crying.

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