Volume 8: In this Hogwarts without the Dark Lord Chapter 510 Regulus
Coming to the glass cabinet on the second floor that Jon mentioned, Sirius easily found the locket.
This thing has been here for a long time, and next to it is a medal of the Order of Merlin - bought by one of Sirius' ancestors with donations.
But when he got the locket, he did not hand it to Jon directly. Instead, he frowned and looked at it carefully, then turned around and asked.
"Of course I have no doubts about Dumbledore, but I am sure that you are not from the Black family. Then how do you know about this locket?"
Jon had certainly anticipated this.
Even if Sirius disliked his home, he was now the only owner here, so he would inevitably have questions about why Jon knew all this.
"According to the agreement with Professor Dumbledore, my origins need to be kept secret for the time being. As for what this locket is. I wonder why you don't ask the person who brought it back?"
Sirius looked a little unfriendly. He felt that Jon, this weird little boy, was playing him for a fool.
"If I knew who brought it back, do you think I would still be asking you this?"
"If you can't find someone to bring it back here now, do you think I'd let you ask?"
The air suddenly fell into silence, and Sirius suddenly turned his gaze to the house-elf who was still hiding behind the stair railing and was as old as a rotten orange.
The moment the house-elf's eyes met his, it disappeared from the spot the next second and actually ran away!
But Sirius just shouted loudly.
"Kreacher!"
There was a "pop" sound and Kreacher came back. Although his face was still full of reluctance and resistance, he still could not disobey Sirius's order.
Sirius ignored . Ever since he left this family, he no longer had any feelings for anyone in this family.
And ever since the death of James Potter, his best friend, he has become like an enemy to the entire Black family.
"Why didn't you ever tell me about this locket!"
He questioned harshly.
Kreacher avoided his gaze and stammered his answer.
"Sirius, Master Sirius never asked Kreacher..."
Sirius grabbed the rags off his body and stared at him intently.
"Then I'm going to ask you now! Who asked you to bring this box back?"
"Yes, yes...it's Master Regulus!"
Kreacher, who couldn't refuse Sirius, also screamed loudly.
After hearing the name, Sirius paused, a sneer appeared on his face unconsciously, and he loosened his grip on Kreacher's hand and looked at the snake relief on the locket.
"So he asked you to bring it back. This is only natural. His master would trust him and let him keep something precious."
Kreacher, who was released, listened to Sirius's ridicule with a hidden and disdainful disgust on his face, but this expression was concealed by his still respectful attitude, as if he didn't care at all about what to say.
The locket was thrown into Jon's hands by Sirius. After learning the origin of the thing, he seemed to have no interest in it at all.
Jon had been watching the interaction between the master and servant in silence, and only spoke after receiving the locket.
"Perhaps things are not what you think, Mr. Black."
In the previous world, Jon always called him by his first name, but here their relationship was not that close.
"Perhaps this is something very important to Voldemort, and your brother discovered it and stole it from Voldemort?"
Sirius laughed, as if he had heard some funny joke.
"Just do what Dumbledore has given you. Do you know more about the Black family than I do?"
Jon didn't argue with him much, and it wasn't Sirius' fault, because the inherent impression his family had left on him was not so easy to change.
Even in the original world, regarding the matter of Regulus and the locket, John still had to find Kreacher and ask Sirius about it in subtle ways for a long time before he truly believed the fact.
That day, he found the cave where Voldemort had hidden the locket, and sat there alone all night.
"Why don't you ask the house elf about this question? You are her master now. If you ask her, she will definitely not lie to you, right?"
After saying this, John left 12 Grimmauld Place without looking back.
He was in no mood to get involved in the Black family affairs, but he also didn't want Regulus, a man who had come to the right path, to be misunderstood and despised by others, especially his own family, so he didn't mind telling these secrets that Kreacher would probably never reveal if Sirius didn't ask.
After Jon left, Sirius was still thinking about the words he left behind. Finally, he looked back at Kreacher who still had his head down and didn't even look at him.
"You were in on it when you got that box, weren't you!"
Faced with Sirius' question, even if Kreacher rejected it in his heart, he had no choice but to answer.
"Yes, it is."
"Then tell me exactly what that woman's good son did for his master!"
Kreacher had no way to refuse. A house-elf never had the power to refuse in front of his master, even if he hated his master so much.
So he told the whole story from the beginning, from the time Voldemort took him to hide the locket to the time Regulus returned to the cave with him.
After hearing all these things, Sirius remained silent.
He knew Kreacher couldn't have lied to him, these things were all true.
The younger brother who had always been a purely selfish pure-blood supporter in his eyes actually turned over a new leaf in the end, and even sacrificed himself for it, bringing out the locket that was obviously extremely important to Voldemort.
Sirius didn't know what emotion he was feeling at the moment. He just felt like something was blocking his chest. The memories of his brother in his mind were so vague .
After a long while, he spoke again in a hoarse voice.
"Take me to the cave you went to with him."
