Following Manasseh's eloquent talk, Zhang Qiu and Penello finally understood the whereabouts of the Hufflepuff Gold Cup.

Manasseh told them that in fact, Hufflepuff's golden cup has always been an heirloom of the Smith family, which is why they dare to call themselves descendants of Hufflepuff.

As the person who inherited most of the Smith family's inheritance, Hepzibah Smith naturally inherited Hufflepuff's gold cup and kept it at home.

However, this family heirloom unexpectedly disappeared after the death of Hepzibah Smith in 1946.

According to the original investigation by the Ministry of Magic, Hepzibah Smith was accidentally poisoned by an old and dim-eyed house elf.

When the house elves were convicted, Hepzibah's family discovered that Hepzibah Smith's most valuable treasure, Hufflepuff's golden cup, had been lost.

Moreover, what was lost at the same time was another equally precious collection, Slytherin's pendant. This news made Zhang Qiu and Penello particularly excited, because this was also the target they were looking for.

Hepzibah Smith paid a high price for the collection at Borgin & Burke's antique shop, and Burke bought it from a shabby woman - in fact, this woman was Voldemort's mother. She ran away from home and stole Slytherin's pendant in order to be with Riddle Sr., who was a Muggle. However, Riddle Slytherin eventually discovered her identity as a witch and abandoned her.

Falling into poverty, she had to sell her belongings, and Slytherin's pendant was one of them.

It took the Smith family some time to determine this, because Hepzibah had many secret hiding places and always kept a close eye on her collection.

"So, Hufflepuff’s golden cup just disappeared?"Zhang Qiu was a little disappointed, because this meant that their clues were broken again.

However, Penello was keenly aware of something.

"Lady Manasseh, do you think Lady Hepzibah's death is related to the Dark Lord?"She cautiously stated her judgment.

"That's right... at least that's what I think - if your information is correct, because, the man named Tom Riddle, I have met him"

"Have you ever met...the Dark Lord in his youth?"Zhang Qiu and Penello realized that they seemed to have discovered some incredible news.

"Ah, yes, I did see that man, right in this house, with my sister. At that time, he appears to have been a clerk at the Borgin-Bock antique store. If Hufflepuff's golden cup is really related to the Dark Lord, then it is very likely that he killed my sister and took the golden cup."

However, to their disappointment, Manasseh seemed to have only seen the young Dark Lord once, and his understanding of the incident was limited to this.

Therefore, the two girls still could not make a judgment whether this was really the case.

Until , Ye Ting, Hermione and Furong brought back the Resurrection Stone.

Through the Resurrection Stone, they could temporarily resurrect key witnesses and understand everything that happened 49 years ago.

So, they visited Manasseh again, This time, they managed to get Manasseh to resurrect her sister, Hepzibah herself.

However, Hepzibah also seemed to think that she was accidentally poisoned by her own house elves, but from her mouth, the two But a girl learned more accurate information at that time.

While working at Borgin-Bock, Tom Riddle and Hepzibah became good friends. She was very obsessed with Riddle, a handsome young man, and Tom himself also fell in love with Hepzibah. Puzba was very friendly and flattered her to make her happy.

So for a long time, Hepziba did not notice the dark and greedy nature of Riddle.

Once, Riddle went to visit Hepziba at the order of Mr. Bock. Ziba, ostensibly to negotiate with her about selling goblin-made armor. But during this visit, Hepzibah flippantly showed Tom his two most precious treasures: Hufflepuff's cups. and Slytherin's locket.

When Tom held the locket into her hands, she caught a glimpse of the greedy red light flashing in Tom's eyes, and she did have a bad premonition at that time.

Two days later , she herself died inexplicably.

All this was confirmed by the resurrected house elf Hao Qi. In addition, Hao Qi also mentioned that shortly after Hepzibah's death,"Bogin Bork's The clerk, the young man who often visited Hepzibah and pleased her in that way, had resigned and disappeared.

His boss had no idea where he was, and he was as surprised as anyone.

Tom Riddle in a long Disappeared in time.

Thinking back to what they learned when they exchanged information with Ye Ting and the others, about Voldemort modifying the memory of his uncle, Morfin Gaunt, making him think that he killed the Riddle family and took the blame for Voldemort himself. Means, Penello and Zhang Qiu immediately came to the conclusion.

It was Voldemort who poisoned Hepzibah in order to steal Hufflepuff's gold cup and Slytherin's locket, and he used the same The method modified Hao Qi's memory and made the poor house elf take the blame.

Although this is a bit difficult for ordinary people to understand, it is indeed something Voldemort can do.

After all, this arrogant Slytherin The heir of Slytherin has always regarded Slytherin's locket as his own, and historical antiques such as Hufflepuff's gold cup are also very attractive to him. In order to obtain these, Voldemort even He did not hesitate to put down his figure and sell his looks to please an old, fat woman who felt good about herself.

Ye Ting even maliciously thought that maybe in order to make Hepzibah truly trust him, Voldemort had had a closer relationship with her. relationship.

Even Penello and Zhang Qiu felt that this experience was a dark history that Voldemort himself was absolutely unwilling to mention again.

However, the whereabouts of the Hufflepuff Gold Cup seems to have ended here.

No one knows where Voldemort will hide the cup after that.

However, Ye Ting put forward a conjecture that seemed very reasonable (spoiler)

"Gringotts?"In the living room of Ye Ting's house, Penello stared at Ye Ting, as if to judge whether he was joking.

"Yes, when it comes to hiding treasures, what better place than Gringotts? Ye Ting said matter-of-factly

"But...but the Dark Lord doesn't have his own treasury in Gringotts, right? He was born in an orphanage, and he's obviously not as good at making money as you are."Hermione pointed out keenly.

"That's right," Ye Ting smiled slightly,"But who said the Dark Lord must hide the treasure in his vault? Have you forgotten that diary?"

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It was supposed to be the 6th update yesterday, sorry it was changed to today

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