296 review, crown, staircase

296 review, crown, staircase

"Meadows...Professor?"

After seeing Meadows frowning and looking at him, Snape quickly added the latter title.

He didn't dare to offend Meadows casually, not to mention that he also heard that it was Meadows who bought time for them in front of Voldemort, which gave Karan the power to rescue them.

At this time, Karan had already made hot tea, poured a cup from the air, and handed it to Snape.

But before he could take a sip, Snape pulled him aside and leaned against the door far away from the sofa.

"Hot, hot," Karan covered his lips and asked angrily, "What are you doing?"

"I still want to ask you!" Snape asked in a low voice: "What is going on? Why did Professor Meadows show up at your house?"

"Could it be that the principal arranged it because you don't have a guardian, so he did this deliberately to protect you?"

The more he talked, the more confused he became, and finally his eyes widened.

"Professor Meadows won't be living directly with you, right? No, I have to tell Lily quickly..."

Seeing that Snape was about to take the opportunity to escape, Karan quickly grabbed him.

"Why are you running?" he asked.

"Besides, what does this have to do with Lily?"

"Of course it's to make her be careful," Snape whispered, "so that one day she suddenly bumps into Meadows and accidentally makes any rash move, and is severely punished."

As he spoke, he used the palm of his hand to hook his back. The place where he had fallen still seemed to be aching.

"It's Professor Meadows."

An inexplicable voice suddenly sounded, and Snape was stunned for a moment. He kept gesturing to Karan in front of him, but he didn't dare to look back.

Karan simply turned Snape's body forcefully. Snape looked at Meadows who was looking at him in a panic, and said with a pale face: "Of course, Professor."

Meadows then took his eyes away from him, but soon placed them on Karan, and asked the question again with dissatisfaction.

"So, this is the helper you found? Huh?"

Unlike Snape who was getting more and more panicked, Karan just replied calmly: "In the face of a curse that has existed for thousands of years, I believe that whether they are wizards with powerful magic or students, their starting point is the same. .”

"It's like trying to find the inventor of the Patronus Charm - you have to start over."

"After all, this is the magic that has broken the inheritance, and it is an unknown path."

Meadows lowered his head and looked at Karan, his eyes full of weirdness, and his expression looked more like he was being played.

"What a joke."

She stared at Snape suspiciously, then glanced at Callan.

"A sophomore? That's ridiculous."

"You're totally wasting my time."

Karan replied casually: "You have plenty of time to waste anyway. Don't forget, I was there when the principal told you. In order to avoid dangers like Egypt from happening again, the most he can do is allow you to stay in Hog." Maude Village, no matter how far away it is, it won’t work.”

Meadows stared at Karan, and she suddenly said viciously: "I shouldn't have been tricked back by you!"

Karan just controlled the teapot to float over, poured her a cup of tea, and then made a gesture of inviting her.

"It's all Dean Pomona's fault."

Meadows seemed to suddenly open up the conversation and said: "If it weren't for her strong request, I would not have been grounded by the principal. I dare say that she must have guessed something, and even the answer was different from my original one. The idea is very close, otherwise her reaction wouldn’t be so big.”

Meadows slowly sat back on the sofa, and Kahlan took Snape to sit opposite her.

Snape put his legs together, unconsciously showing his obedience, with a confused expression on his face.

Meadows continued: "Although I occasionally didn't obey the principal's arrangements, I had to listen to the dean. She was always very good to me... and she was also my later guardian."

When he said this, Meadows sighed softly.

"I will probably be your guardian in the future." She looked at Karan and said, "You should know that the school will not leave people like us alone. There are some things that need to be done by guardians, which are usually done by the respective colleges. Dean, and Dean Pomona is always the most willing to help her students.”

Karan nodded slightly. He was currently without a guardian. From what Meadows said, he must have had a pass to Hogsmeade by the time he reached the third grade. approve.

However, he had just helped Hufflepuff win one hundred house points, so it wasn't too difficult to think about.

Snape remained silent. He gently tugged on Callan's sleeve and asked him with his eyes what was going on.

Karan then explained: "Professor Meadows... didn't live with me, and the principal didn't make any deliberate arrangements. She is currently living at the Three Broomsticks, and I just called her here. "

"As for the purpose..."

He glanced at Meadows.

Meadows looked at Snape, making him feel terrified.

But just after a while, Meadows suddenly rolled up his sleeves in front of him, causing Snape to think that this was a preparatory move by the other party to teach him a lesson in advance, and he was so frightened that he quickly leaned back.

But in the next second, Snape suddenly froze.

He stared straight at the dim mark on Meadows' arm, his head unconsciously leaning over, his eyes as if possessed.

"Dark magic..." he murmured.

"It's actually ancient magic..."

After seeing Snape's appearance, Meadows and Karan looked at each other silently, and then Karan asked: "How did you recognize that this is ancient magic?"

"Because of this tangible mark." Snape continued in a low voice: "Only ancient magic can be so obvious. It is not so cautious and can be traced, but it contains great power."

"Today's black magic is no longer like this. For example, the three unforgivable curses will only cause manipulation, pain, and death, but they will not leave such obvious magic marks. This has long been abandoned. Method. Just like the long and convoluted spells of ancient magic, but were defeated by a simple disarming spell."

Snape's tone became more and more strange, and Meadows' eyes gradually became more and more suspicious as he stared at him. This was not something a second-year student should know.

Snape didn't notice this. He just heard Karan continue to ask himself: "Where did you know these things? I have obviously read the magic books in your home. Do you have any secrets?" Tibetan?"

"How is it possible?" Snape sarcastically said unconsciously: "I never thought that I would meet such a weirdo like you. At that time, I wanted to show you all the books on black magic. How could it be possible? Do you have any secrets?"

"It's in the school library." He continued in a low voice: "While you were reading those books on transfiguration, I would always have books that I wanted to borrow, but I just didn't let you find out."

The effect of the obsessed state was even comparable to the most powerful Veritaserum, and Snape truthfully told the truth.

"One of the books mentioned this type of magic. The book said that the best way to study it is to figure out the meaning of these marks, but this is also the worst way."

"Why?" Meadows asked suddenly.

Snape was still staring at the marks, and he replied: "Because the inheritance is broken, unless you are lucky enough to discover more existences related to this kind of magic, doing so is just a waste of time."

"But there is still a way to figure out what this kind of magic is used for."

This time, before the two of them could ask questions, Snape continued.

"This method is roughly similar to creating a spell, but the premise is that you must have some knowledge of the spell, such as... the person who was cast the spell."

"It's a pity that I can only go to the general area of ​​the library. If I could enter the restricted book area at will, I might be able to find more..."

There was a bit of regret in his tone.

These words are even more weird coming from a second-year student.

At this time, Meadows asked again: "Where is that book you read?"

Snape replied in a low voice: "On the bookshelf, row 17, column 25, "The Origins of Dark Arts", No. 30, page 13, line [-]..."

The dim mark in front of him was suddenly covered by his sleeve again, and Snape suddenly came back to his senses.

After being stunned for a moment, he looked at the two people with strange eyes, and his expression became a little panicked unconsciously.

"I..." He faltered, unable to speak.

Meadows glanced at Snape one last time, then at Callan.

"What kind of guys are you looking for..."

In whispers, Meadows led Antioch out of the house and back into the snow.

"She should be rushing to the library." Karan smiled and patted Snape on the shoulder.

Snape opened his mouth, curiosity finally outweighing any confusion.

"What does that magic mark represent?" he asked.

"It's love, Snape."

After a brief silence, Karan whispered: "It's love."

This is the first time Karan has seen black magic that can replace love.

He remembered that there was a room in the Department of Mysteries. That room was always locked. There was a kind of power stored in it. It was perhaps the most mysterious of many subjects. Even the blade inserted into the gap would be easily melted.

That was a power Voldemort never had - love.

Although judging from Antioch's original performance, it no longer needs this power to urge itself to connect with Meadows, and is even willing to take the initiative to treat Meadows as its closest master.

But the power of the magic mark affected Meadows.

Judging from what Callan saw at the time, Dumbledore seemed more willing to see this scene. It was he who took the initiative to urge Meadows to connect the magic mark with Antioch.

Perhaps before this, Meadows also didn’t quite understand the power of love.

It's like he is himself, even vaguely rejecting it.

The rest of the time was spent playing wizard chess, with the brand new chess pieces being Snape's early Christmas gift to Callan.

After his disastrous defeat in the Gobstone duel last Christmas, Snape will no longer play Gobstone with Callan because he needs to always be wary of the opponent's [bad and despicable] wandless magic cheating methods.

At the same time, the two of them were silently waiting for news from Meadows, wanting to see what she had gained.

"Ancient magic..."

After ordering the chess piece to move forward a few steps, Snape asked in a low voice: "Is that the curse that Meadows contracted in Egypt?"

Karan quietly used wandless magic to move the chess piece, but was soon exposed by the chess piece itself (How did I end up here? Hey! I asked for a timeout!).

Snape sneered at Karan, who shamelessly moved the chess piece back to its original position and nodded nonchalantly.

"Yes, that's the trouble that Meadows got into." He said: "But I guess that there are more than this. It's just that this curse really stumped her."

"It's strange." Snape couldn't help but murmured: "A late bloomer can actually fall into the trap of the curse. She is obviously so powerful."

Karan thought of Antioch, the once comatose phoenix chick. If he hadn't saved it, Meadows wouldn't have gotten into trouble.

From this point of view, it’s not like she doesn’t understand love at all, which is very similar to Karan himself.

It's just that the people who influenced Meadows were Dean Pomona and Dumbledore, while the people Callan met were Mr. Anthony and the group of children in Anthony's House.

The wizard chess duel was still going on, but Meadows did not come back until evening came. It seemed that she might have to spend a lot of time secretly studying the curse.

Callan declined Snape's invitation to dinner at his home, but still agreed to attend the Christmas dinner at his home tomorrow.

It was said that there were only three people attending the dinner, Mrs. Prince, Snape, and the invited Callan.

After Snape left, Callan was the only one left in the house.

He let Weier fly at will, leaving a gap in the window for it, and then walked into the study alone, and the door automatically closed behind him.

In front of the desk, Karan sat quietly on the sofa chair. A magic coin floated out from his pocket, and the pattern of Ravenclaw's diadem appeared on it again.

Even before the start of school, Karan had related doubts - since Myrtle is not dead, could this possibly affect Voldemort's original Horcrux plan.

Now, everything has an answer.

The treasure that Voldemort took away from the Chamber of Secrets - the parchment - was probably the reason why he really learned how to make Horcruxes, and knew what the spell was to make Horcruxes - this was even Slughorn A secret that even the professors don’t know about because it’s so evil.

Before this, Voldemort had been hesitant and had not even produced any Horcruxes.

In this way, the diadem's inexplicable appearance in the Room of Requirement seems suspicious.

But that was the Room of Requirement. In fact, not many people in the school knew about this special room. Most of them just used it as a specific room and did not really explore the secrets of the house in depth.

Except for one person.

Albus Dumbledore.

Because when little Harry was in seventh grade, the Room of Requirement was able to lead to the Pig's Head Bar. It just happened that the entrance to the passage was hidden in Ariana's portrait.

Callan didn't think this was just a coincidence, he even thought it was just an escape route deliberately arranged by Dumbledore, just like the remaining secret passages in Hogwarts.

But in this way, only one person is left to bring the crown to Hogwarts.

That's Albus Dumbledore.

It was he who found the crown and took it to the school to hide it.

This was most likely the reason why he had inexplicably become more vigilant against Voldemort and suddenly became busy - this busyness even caused him to miss the time agreed with Voldemort when he was applying for a job, and returned to school later.

And the most important thing is that Karan clearly remembers that during the last semester, the crown was moved and the position changed slightly.

This is Ravenclaw's diadem...

Callan recalled Rowena Ravenclaw's relic.

Legend has it that Ravenclaw enchanted this diadem to increase the wearer's wisdom...

Karan narrowed his eyes slightly, and the moonlight shone on his face through the window, making him look a little uncertain.

He also remembered something else.

Although he took the initiative to hand over the hot potato in his hand - the parchment Marauder's Map to Dumbledore, he still explored Hogwarts Castle a little.

Especially the movable stairs connecting the various floors.

He counted all the stairs - 142.

This is a number with nothing special about it, but what is surprising is that the result of adding up the various digits is the magic number - seven.

Karan wanted to ignore this answer, but he couldn't do it anyway.

Because the builder of the stairs was none other than Rowena Ravenclaw.

Among the four founders, the one most famous for his wisdom.

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(I did not make up the number of stairs. This is the information on the Harry Potter Wiki. Although no one questions it, I would like to state again that I wrote this book with strict reference to the Harry Potter Wiki. The website, including the meaning of the wand wood in the previous article, and many storylines and plots, I will deliberately write to echo the original work, and use the familiar descendants to contrast the personalities of the parent generations. The original purpose is to arouse readers' emotions. I smiled knowingly and used this as a special easter egg, but found that few people could see it... It's really unpleasant to write about the family generation, but I still appreciate everyone's support, thank you!)