Volume 4: The Sea and the Ship Heading North Chapter 244 The Tip of the Iceberg
The rocket explosion brought great shock to the students of Hogwarts.
Not only because they encountered such danger, but also when they learned that the rocket itself was a pure Muggle product, the idea that "magic is superior to Muggles (science)" that had always existed in their minds when they were brought into the wizarding world was shaken at this time.
If it was magic, how many people would be needed to cast the explosion spell together to achieve an explosion of this magnitude?
Is causing this explosion the ultimate purpose of creating that rocket?
Are there any products in the Muggle world that are even more terrifying than this?
This question made many young wizards who were brought from the ordinary world to this magical world since childhood ponder. They were thinking that they had only lived in the ordinary world for 11 years before, and since then they had not had any exchanges or communication with the society that only existed in their memories.
Perhaps, the people or things that seem ordinary to them are actually no longer ordinary?
And when they were discussing the experiences of Neville and Hermione, this idea came to their minds.
Jon also stared at a letter.
A letter from Dumbledore himself, delivered to him by Fawkes.
The letter described in detail everything that happened on the night that John took the contract out of the tower and when Dumbledore led the wizards of the Wizarding Horizon to attack the reformatory. It especially focused on the unusual changes that had taken place in Voldemort, and wrote down everything he said in full in the letter.
Judging from what Dumbledore recorded , the time at that time and the meaning expressed by Voldemort, the changes that occurred to him were 100% caused by John!
The strange changes that seemed like he couldn't control his body were obviously just as what Sir Stoke had told him at the end, a sign that isolation had been broken and two souls were fighting for the right to speak in one body.
To be honest, John had no idea that the timing of tearing up the contract was so perfect, which was when Dumbledore and Voldemort were having the final showdown.
Originally, he was just feeling sad for the death of the knight, and wanted to use this contract to make it clear to Voldemort, to let him know that what he did was not without cost, and that since a life was lost because of him, there must be consequences.
The safest approach would have been for him to hold on to the contract until the next time he contacted Dumbledore, then hand it over to him and let Dumbledore decide how to deal with it.
As it turned out, he guessed it right by accident.
Rather than the explanation that he and Dumbledore were just lucky, John would rather believe that this was retribution for Voldemort.
He repeatedly read what Dumbledore wrote in the letter, wondering what kind of situation Voldemort was in now.
According to Sir Stocker, and judging by the scene after the contract was torn up, there must be two independent souls in him.
Moreover, Sir Stoker expressed with absolute certainty that he could feel that these two souls were Voldemort himself.
It's just that the consciousnesses are in conflict, coexisting in one body, and neither side is willing to give up control of the body.
Of these two consciousnesses, one must be Voldemort's own original soul, but where did the other one come from?
Jon gently rubbed the slightly rough surface of the parchment, thinking about this question.
The most reasonable answer at hand is that this other person is also Voldemort, but he has a different consciousness from the original Voldemort and comes from the Horcrux.
After all, in the history of magic, there are very few wizards who are trying to create Horcruxes, let alone someone like Voldemort who created such a large number and collected them all in the end.
This is such a rare example that John even thinks it is an absolutely special case. After all, wizards who try to create Horcruxes must be people who fear death. After successfully splitting the soul, the Horcrux will also magnify the weaknesses in their souls, which makes it even more difficult for them to give up the immortality they have already achieved and become "ordinary people" who will experience birth, aging, sickness and death.
Voldemort has obviously figured this out now. He has taken back all the split souls in the Horcruxes. But can these originally split souls be perfectly reintegrated into his own consciousness?
If these split consciousnesses resist and believe that they are the true owners of the identity of "Voldemort", will they conflict and rebel against the original main soul when they merge?
But if they really resisted in this way, there would definitely be more than one split soul. Which Horcrux does the soul that is now fighting with Voldemort for the right to speak for his body belong to?
Or, in other words, when the Horcruxes were fused back into the main soul, an accident occurred, and the split souls jointly elected a consciousness that could represent all of them to fight against the main soul?
John thought about many secrets about Voldemort. These secrets seemed to have been uncovered by him as the tip of an iceberg. But after seeing this part of the information, people became more curious and terrified about the huge part hidden under the iceberg.
He tore up the contract, which was equivalent to breaking the barrier between the two souls in Voldemort's body. What would happen next?
Two souls fight for this unique identity and right to speak, and eventually die together?
This is the most ideal idea, but also the least likely one. John vaguely feels that the most realistic situation should be that one soul eats up another soul, making Voldemort, whose original strength was unstable, even more powerful!
According to the information obtained from Sir Stoke, the magic contract that was supposed to be used to treat the blood-cursed orcs cannot fundamentally solve the problem of two souls coexisting in one body.
Voldemort only used this contract as a temporary means of isolation, and he must be looking for other ways to completely solve this problem.
Did he find this method?
Or is it being planned now?
A series of questions filled Jon's mind, making him feel that although the current situation was indeed a rare good situation for them, the future was still full of unknowns and dangers.
There are still many things that need to be resolved, and the journey of the Hogwarts has not yet ended. The good news about Dumbledore can only bring some spiritual encouragement to John, but it cannot make him relax or unwind at all.
Jon really wanted to find time to have a Floo interview with Dumbledore, and Dumbledore obviously had arrangements for this.
The next morning after Fawkes brought the letter, he contacted Dumbledore in Lyon, France, in the fireplace of the Hogwarts.
