The Room

The dense branches of the ancient trees cast a cool, heavy darkness, and Allen stepped out from the shadows. He had come straight from the Granger home to the entrance of the Gaunt Shack in Great Hangleton, then casually picked up a small stone from the ground.

At the place where he had first found the Resurrection Stone, Allen took out the Gaunt Ring, from which the Resurrection Stone had already been pried away. Although the Resurrection Stone that had once been set into this Horcrux Voldemort had created was now in Luna's hands, the ring setting that served as the Horcrux still protected Voldemort's shattered soul and had not been destroyed.

Dark power, flickering with blue light, flowed from Allen's hand and slowly brushed over the ring and the small stone he had just picked up. It wound around, layer after layer, over the place on the Gaunt Ring where the Resurrection Stone had originally been, flashing as it did, until at last it turned into a black, diamond-shaped stone.

The stone looked almost exactly like the Resurrection Stone, yet it was not the same. The curse belonging to Voldemort that had originally been on the Gaunt Ring could have been completely erased with ease by Allen, who had already mastered the power of death—but Allen did not do that.

Allen merely absorbed a small portion of the curse's energy, slowing the rate at which it could actually corrode its victim, while immediately adding another trap designed to tempt the heart. Anyone who saw the ring would have the most secret thoughts in their heart passively stirred, making them desperately want to put it on. Allen knew Dumbledore's deep yearning for the family he had lost, and on top of that, Allen was already quite familiar with the devil's