It has been a week since Colin Creevey was attacked.
Everyone finally stopped forgetting things, especially wizards born in Muggle families. They are especially careful about matters concerning their lives, for fear that they will become the next Colin Creevey.
Of course, there are always exceptions.
Albert has been very busy recently, preparing to make his first contact with Tom Riddle's diary. Because of Quirrell's previous experience, Albert did not dare to be so arrogant as to think that he could control everything.
Quirrell completely underestimated Voldemort and thought he could control him, which led to his fate.
Albert did not dare to underestimate Voldemort at all, even though Tom in the diary was just a young wizard.
After he had made all the preparations, Albert took out the box containing Tom Riddle from the Room of Requirement to study it.
At this moment, Albert was making preparations for the research. He would not let Riddle know his true identity. God knows whether he could sense the specific situation outside the diary.
After all, at the end of the novel, Riddle ran out of the diary.
Albert threw the Lockhart hair he had collected earlier into a small cup of a compound potion as thick as syrup. When the hair came into contact with the potion, it immediately hissed and bubbles came out.
After a few seconds, the potion turned a dark blond color like Lockhart's hair.
"I really hope this stuff tastes better." Albert muttered. Although he had no expectations for it, he still drank all the compound potion in the cup in one breath.
The taste of the compound potion was hard to describe, a bit like overcooked cabbage, making Albert want to vomit.
“Damn it!”
Albert coughed twice. He could feel that the effect of the compound potion was taking effect.
After the compound medicine entered the stomach, a terrible burning sensation quickly spread from the stomach to the whole body, reaching the fingers, toes and even every part of the body.
I could feel my internal organs churning. If I hadn't taken the compound medicine, I would even wonder if I had some serious illness and would have died on the spot at any time.
Recommendation: People with serious illnesses should not use compound medicines to avoid getting sick during the process.
Albert's consciousness was still strong. At least after taking the compound potion, he was able to control the feather pen next to him to record his feelings after taking the compound potion in his diary.
Albert stood in front of the dressing mirror and looked up at himself in the mirror. Due to the effect of the potion, he was gasping for breath, and his facial features were squirming and deforming like hot wax, looking extremely weird and creepy.
It was a terrible feeling, as if the skin all over my body was melting like hot wax.
I watched my hands begin to grow bigger, my fingers become thicker, and my entire body swelled up due to the effects of the medicine.
Fortunately, Albert had already changed into a new robe in advance, so the clothes were not torn by the deformation of the compound potion.
The transformation lasted only a few seconds. It came suddenly and went away just as quickly.
Standing in front of the dressing mirror? The person panting was no longer Albert, but Lockhart, who was dressed a little sloppily.
Everything stopped.
"I really don't know how little Claude has been taking compound medicine for more than half a year." Albert took a deep breath and looked at his current body. He still felt a little uncomfortable.
"As expected, wizards' endurance is extremely abnormal." He muttered, and after tidying up his clothes a little, he began to check the records of taking the compound potion just now, and wrote down some personal experiences in it.
After Albert finished writing, he walked towards the box where the diary was placed. It was a box made of dragon leather, which could effectively isolate magic.
There is also a wooden box inside the dragon leather box. It is made of a guardian tree. Albert cast a strong protective magic on it. It can effectively block out black magic. Even a secret detector cannot detect any traces of black magic inside.
As for whether these protections can effectively block the penetration of Horcruxes, Albert actually doesn't know? But even with these protections, he wouldn't want to carry a Horcrux with him.
The third layer is a box made by Nicolas Flamel. After Albert opened the box, he used magic to control the gloves and took the diary out of the metal box.
Of course he would not touch the Horcrux directly with his hands? Even if he wore dragon leather gloves? Albert did not want to touch the Horcrux directly to avoid being affected by it.
Although doing so would not result in him being controlled by the Horcrux, Albert still did not want to take the risk.
After placing Tom Riddle's diary on the table, Albert took out the various models of dark magic detectors purchased by the house elves.
First was the looking glass, a dark magic detector that looked like a glass gyroscope. When Albert placed it next to the diary, it did not glow or spin, which meant that there were no suspicious people around.
The looking glass did not react to the Horcrux.
The feather pen wrote this sentence in the diary.
Sure enough, Tom Riddle's Horcrux cannot be considered a human, so the looking glass did not react. This also verified why the human-marking spell had no effect on Tom.
Next, Albert took a thin golden rod detector and poked Tom's diary. The honesty detector produced a certain attraction without touching the diary, and the tip emitted a faint light.
The honesty detector reacted, proving that the diary was indeed enchanted.
Then there is the secret detector. Different from the honest detector used to detect hidden spells and concealed magical objects, the secret detector is an auxiliary tool used by the Ministry of Magic to detect dark magic items. As long as the secret detector touches the dark magic items, it will immediately emit a buzzing alarm.
The secret detector responded, proving that the item in the diary was indeed a dark magic item.
Routine testing has been performed on Tom's diary, and it is currently unknown whether the Tom Riddle in the diary is able to peek into the outside world.
At the end of the novel, Riddle is powerful enough to appear outside the diary and even use the wand like a physical entity. He doesn't know what the Riddle in the diary is like now, but he has to be on guard.
Next, he began to drip ink onto the diary. The ink shone brightly on the diary for a second, and then seemed to be absorbed into the paper and disappeared without a trace.
Albert was not in a hurry to write in the diary, but continued to drip water on the page.
However, this time, it was just an ordinary drop of water, and the drop was not absorbed by the diary, but instead wet the diary
Riddle's diary was actually wet by water. Does that mean it can be ignited by flames
Albert began to try to control the gloves to tear a page from the diary, but failed. Even when he used the cutting spell in the end, he could not damage the diary.
Sure enough, just as he remembered, the Horcrux was protected by very powerful magic and could not be destroyed at will.
But... why did the diary get wet
Isn't this unreasonable
Can I soak the diary and then tear out the pages
After thinking about it, Albert wrote down the idea and planned to test it another day.
He now left one page of his diary exposed, looking like a prisoner about to be beheaded.
"The flames are blazing."
Albert raised his wand and tried to burn the page. The flames burst into flames but soon went out without causing any damage to the diary.
Next, I tried using ordinary flames, but still failed.
Fire cannot harm Horcruxes. (Think of Fiendfyre.)
After a simple test, there was still no sign of Tom Riddle.
Perhaps, you can consider using the threat of "throwing the diary into the cesspool" to see if you can force him out.
"He wrote this in his experimental diary, but the line was quickly deleted. "Forget it. After all, we still have to try to communicate with Tom. It would be bad if it stinks."
"Hello, Tom."
The quill wrote as Albert wished.
The line of text flashed on the paper and was absorbed without leaving any trace.
However, the diary showed no other reaction.
"Ouch! Are you already wary of me?" Albert narrowed his eyes and said, "This won't do."