"It's worth mentioning," Harry placed the real Gryffindor's Holy Sword on the table, poking the fake sword at the Hufflepuff Golden Cup, "this Golden Cup has a very strong black magic curse—"
At this moment, Dumbledore had completed his examination of the cup, sighed, and said, "If nothing unexpected happens, this thing should also belong to Voldemort's Soul Artifact."
Harry frowned, expressing with some distaste, "Goodness, he really is disgusting... feels like a dog marking its territory everywhere..."
Meanwhile, far at the edge of the Forbidden Forest, Little Sirius suddenly sneezed twice while eating a big spider raw.
Feels like someone just cursed me?
He shook his head, forgetting the inappropriate thought, and continued devouring the big spider with his head down.
"I agree with you." Cassandra wrinkled her nose and said, "But since he collected the counterfeit Gryffindor's Holy Sword and Hufflepuff Golden Cup, does it mean the remaining two relics of the four giants are also in his hands? Made into a Soul Artifact?"
Harry suddenly remembered seeing the memory belonging to Moffin Gaunt earlier.
He spoke, "It's very likely, I remember previously watching Moffin Gaunt's memory with Principal Dumbledore, he had mentioned that Melop Gaunt, Voldemort's mother, took the Slytherin Pendant Box inherited from her family, then later sold it cheaply to Mr. Bokin's shop... According to Voldemort's nature, he likely retrieved his mother's relic or... may also turn it into a Soul Artifact."
"He's certainly a good son, isn't he?" Cassandra said sarcastically.
"How about you?" Vivi suddenly leaned close to Harry's ear and whispered, "Are you a good child?"
Harry's ear felt itchy from the fragrant orchid-like breath, and the strands brushing his face caused it to instantly turn red.
"We're discussing serious matters, don't mess around!" Harry said, squirming.
While stealing a glance at Cassandra, he noticed she was also watching him.
Upon noticing Harry's gaze, Cassandra made a gagging motion.
The meaning was simple, clearly indicating—"I'm gonna be sick."
"Then there's another question, which is, where are the Slytherin Pendant and Ravenclaw's Crown?" Harry quickly changed the topic, "Since we have a preliminary guess, our next step is to find these two items if they are made into Soul Artifacts by Voldemort, we must destroy them..."
"Those are invaluable relics, you reckless little giant." Cassandra said from the side, "We aren't in a hurry to eliminate the Soul Artifacts. On the contrary, we should preserve the founder's relics, understand?"
"She is right, Harry." Dumbledore said, "The founder's relics hold significant importance for Hogwarts. If given a choice, we would opt to preserve them rather than destroy them hastily."
"Then how should we remove the residual soul inflicted by Voldemort?" Newt suddenly asked, "Harry, what method did you use to destroy the Soul Artifact last year?"
Harry turned his head.
"Harry?" Newt raised his voice a bit, assuming Harry hadn't heard him.
"I used... Avada Kedavra." Harry cleared his throat and said, "And Ancient Magic..."
People around looked at Harry, leaning back with respect.
Heavens, is there really such a method?
"I feel like we should find some other ways, don't you agree?" Harry shifted the topic, "I think besides these two methods, there must be other ways."
"There's also Fiery Fire." Cassandra suddenly said, "I read a description about Soul Artifacts in a family-collected book, it mentioned that if one wants to destroy a Soul Artifact, they could use the Fiery Fire Spell."
As one of the strongest dark magics, Fiery Fire is a magic fire that grows increasingly stronger, morphing into monster shapes that relentlessly pursue anything that can burn—not even the hard-to-destroy Soul Artifacts can withstand its blaze.
However, in this world, nothing is truly indestructible, claimed to be indestructible and unbreakable, there will always be a cunning angle to attack them.
"Aside from these?" Dumbledore looked at the Golden Cup, "I think there might be other methods to destroy the soul fragments on it without destroying the object itself."
"It seems only Avada Kedavra remains." Newt said softly, "Aside from that, I can't think of any other good methods."
"And what about you, Mr. Leme?" Harry looked back at Mr. Leme who was still dazing at the crystal ball, "As a legendary Alchemist, you surely have considerable understanding of Soul Artifacts—do you have any good methods to destroy a Soul Artifact?"
"Leave it to me." Mr. Leme put down the crystal ball, "By tomorrow at the latest, I will return you a perfectly intact Hufflepuff Golden Cup with no foreign substances on it."
"Do you have a good idea?" Newt, like a curious explorer, asked eagerly.
"Ah, that's my secret, Newt." Mr. Leme tucked the crystal ball away somewhere, keeping it hidden.
Since Mr. Leme had already guaranteed, everyone chose to trust him, after all, no one else had a better solution besides him.