318 The grown-up Phoenix and Helena

318 The grown-up Phoenix and Helena

Several people found Meadows in Mr. Newt's office. When they arrived, Mr. Newt was sitting behind the desk, Antioch was held in his hand, and the little blue phoenix was still there. He chirped at them a few times in a friendly manner.

Meadows was also in the room. She frowned and looked not in a good mood.

Mr. Newt knew that several people had participated in the secret room incident and also knew the origin of Antioch, so after seeing that Meadows did not stop him, he nodded and agreed to let them in.

"What's wrong with Antioch?" Callan walked over and asked softly.

Meadows shook his head slightly: "It never grows up, no matter how much food it eats."

Karan blinked, and he immediately realized the seriousness of the problem - Antioch could no longer achieve nirvana and could only maintain the appearance of a fledgling. The most important point is that a young fledgling is not as powerful as an adult phoenix. , if Antioch cannot continue to grow, then it will be impossible for it to cast Disapparation that ignores counter-spells.

Not so good.

Snape bravely asked: "Could this be related to the curse mark?"

It is precisely because of the cursed mark on Meadows that she establishes a connection with Antioch.

After listening to Snape's question, Meadows's expression suddenly became much colder - it seemed that she had already had this suspicion, but she just didn't want to really implicate Antioch because of herself.

At this time, Mr. Newt suddenly said: "It may also be because it is a blue phoenix, which is unprecedented. Sorry, Dorcas, I don't know what this is about. The only good news is At least Antioch doesn't look abnormal, it's alive and well - except that it can't continue to grow."

This sounds like a moderately good news. Compared with before, Antioch is no longer just sleeping.

"Go to Dumbledore." Mr. Newt continued: "He has a phoenix - Fawkes. As the owner of the phoenix, he may have better opinions."

Several people walked out of the office after saying goodbye, except for Steve who quietly stayed behind. It seemed that he hadn't given up Mr. Newt's suitcase yet.

But Meadows was not in a hurry to find Dumbledore. She found an empty classroom with ease and brought Karan in.Snape hesitated for a moment, and after seeing that Meadows did not stop him, he followed silently.

In the silent classroom, Meadows and Callan looked at each other silently.At this moment, Snape suddenly felt that he seemed a little redundant. The two people in front of him obviously had a tacit understanding that they had something to talk about, but he was really curious about the progress of Meadows' research on curse marks, so he insisted on not leaving. .

At the same time, Karan inexplicably felt that Meadows had changed a lot during this period, perhaps because of Antioch, or perhaps because of the curse mark. In short, at least Meadows no longer looked like before. Instead of being aggressive like that, he became much more restrained and softer.

Judging from the look in Meadows's eyes, she also meant the same thing - Karan had also changed a lot during this time.

The same changes appeared in both of them, and all of this was because of the most powerful magic - [Love].

But now is not the right time to reminisce, and the two of them have nothing to reminisce about. Their previous relationship was not pleasant.

"The problem in Antioch is probably very difficult to solve. Now I won't be able to arrive in time like I did in the secret room." Meadows warned in a rare tone: "No matter what you plan to do, in the Remember to be more careful without me as your helper."

This can be regarded as an unwritten tacit understanding between the two - just like when they were in the Chamber of Secrets, they both knew that each other had something to hide from Dumbledore, so they would ask each other for help.But even if he asked for help, Karan would not hand over the elder wand.

But this time, Meadows didn't mention the wand again. This had nothing to do with whether Snape was present or not - Karan could see that Meadows had really changed because of Antioch.

Karan did not deny that he did have some small thoughts. He did not need to pretend in front of Meadows, so he nodded and said: "I will."

Meadows then started asking about other things.

"Do you all know what happened in Hogsmeade some time ago?"

Snape's face suddenly became much more nervous. Meadows glanced at him. Even though she didn't use the wand to cast Legilimency, she couldn't help but asked suspiciously: "You shouldn't be there too, right?"

Karan glared at Snape, while Meadows stared at Karan solemnly.

"What on earth did you do?" she asked.

Karan did not answer the question. He asked: "What happened to the village?"

Meadows was silent for a while: "The patrols of the Aurors have become much more frequent. I can often see Kingsley walking around with his two deputies on the street. It is said that the Ministry of Magic even appeared. Different voices - there are calls to replace the Aurors with Dementors."

At this moment, Snape's face became a little pale in addition to being nervous - no one likes dementors, and those who like them are not normal people.

Callan's face was also not good-looking. He remembered that the next Minister of Magic, Harold Mincham, was a hard-liner, and he also liked to use dementors. He was stationed in Azkaban during his tenure. More Dementors, but that would do nothing to stop Voldemort's rise.

"But you don't have to worry about this for the time being." Meadows continued to add: "Minister Eugenia Jenkins suppressed these voices, but Principal Dumbledore doesn't like those disgusting guys either. .”

The faces of the two of them looked much better now - although Principal Dumbledore did not serve in the Ministry of Magic, he had a huge reputation in this period, and no one would be reckless and not consider his opinions at all.

"What about the curse mark?" Under Snape's expectant gaze, Karan finally asked; "Have you invented any spell now?"

Meadows silently stared at Antioch standing on her shoulder, and she said softly: "Inventing spells is not an easy task, but I did make a lot of progress - Principal Dumbledore was right, Although this is a curse, it can also replace some mysterious magic - [love]."

"This is what I found."

But after hearing these words, Snape showed a confused expression: "Love? But shouldn't those marks be black magic?"

"Yes," the speaker turned into Karan: "This is indeed black magic, because those marks are forcibly establishing a connection, which is somewhat similar to a love potion - forcing one party to be obsessed with the other party, but it is obvious that this It can’t be real [love].”

Meadows looked Karan up and down, as if he didn't expect him to know about love potions at such a young age.

Meadows then added: "But there are some differences between me and Antioch. Before the imprint was connected to it, it was already willing to regard me as its owner. These curse imprints just played an icing on the cake." .”

This is also what Karan thinks, because it is impossible for false [love] to make Meadows suddenly change so much.She is an extremely rare late bloomer, and it is difficult for anything to really succeed in changing her.

But after that, Meadows's voice gradually became lower: "However, Antioch can no longer continue to grow. If it is really affected by the curse mark... wait and see. For a while, it was hard to say that it wouldn't have had some adverse effect on it, and it was all my fault."

Antioch gently rubbed Meadows' cheek with his head, as if to comfort him.

The conversation was about to end. Snape had a doubtful expression on his face. He still couldn't understand why [love] was connected to dark magic, and he was even less sure whether this so-called [love] existed.

Karan was lowering his head and thinking. He finally discovered that Meadows had been busy studying the curse mark on his body during this period of time and had not participated in the werewolf incident at Professor Kettleburn's house.

And Meadows took one last look at Callan before leaving.

"I heard there were many werewolves in the village that night."

This is a clear warning. Meadows obviously knows that there is something fishy between these two people, and as a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor last year, she knows very well how terrible the threat of werewolves is.

"I don't want to see two little werewolves next time."

After saying his last words, Meadows walked out of the classroom.

"What does she mean?" Snape asked confused.

However, Karan smiled easily as he stared at the closed classroom door.

"It means that she has no time to talk to us and will not tell Principal Dumbledore about this matter. Otherwise, once the principal learns about this matter, how long do you think he will lock us up?"

Snape shook his head, he couldn't imagine the consequences of being exposed.

Karan murmured softly: "At least...he will definitely imprison us until we really become werewolves."

"The principal won't let us have any chance to come into contact with werewolves, so naturally we won't become two little werewolves."

Snape thought for a long time before he understood.

Then, while lamenting the way Callan and Meadows talked in a roundabout way, he left the classroom alone again, but this time he did not return to the potion preparation room, but went to the library - he wanted to Find out what the magic of love is. He has never seen this in the black magic books he has read in the past.

Callan planned to go to Mr. Newt's office to take a look. He didn't know whether Steve succeeded or was kicked out by Mr. Newt again.

Occasionally, students passed by in groups of three or three in the silent corridor. While Karan was observing the moving stairs, he noticed a pale white shadow standing in front of him. She was beautiful, but looked a little arrogant. She was silently staring at the wall. A portrait of a flying eagle, which is also the representative animal of Ravenclaw House.

The opponent is the ghost of Ravenclaw House—Ms. Gray, also known as Helena Ravenclaw.

Although he had no hope of asking about the crown, after thinking for a while, Karan took the initiative to walk over.

"It's a beautiful painting," he said.

Helena glanced sideways at him.

"You have found the wrong person to strike up a conversation with." She said coldly, her tone not enthusiastic at all: "There are many female students in this castle who admire you, and they should be your targets."

Karan didn't expect the other party's tone to be so aggressive, which made his face suddenly look a little embarrassed.But when I think about Helena's lukewarm attitude towards the future savior, Harry, and Karan's current reputation is quite different from Harry...

But to Karan's surprise, Helena did not turn around and float away, but continued to stay where she was. It seemed that the other party did not hate her as much as she thought.

At this time, a feeling like being poured by ice water spread throughout Karan's body. The fat monk appeared out of nowhere. He covered most of Karan's body and smiled friendly at him.

"Long time no see, the fat monk's favorite student."

Karan quietly moved two steps to the side, which put him directly between the two ghosts.

"Long time no see, Cardinal Hufflepuff," he said.

When he heard the familiar name again, the fat monk smiled with satisfaction.

"So what are we doing?" he said cheerfully: "Looking at the portraits of Hogwarts? I dare say it will take us a whole day. Maybe we should set a special day to do this. What do you think about that, Ms. Grey?"

Helena's attitude towards the fat monk was much better than Karan's.

"Remember the glorious history of Hogwarts?" She whispered: "Sounds good, at least it is better than the annual meeting to decide whether Peeves can attend the banquet. I will consider attending this time. "

No one can say anything about ghosts, but Karan seems to understand the reason why Helena did not leave directly - this is obviously the result of the fat monk. As the ghost of Hufflepuff's college, his character is very scary. And Callan remembered that the relationship between the founders Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff was very good, which was the only friendship comparable to the friendship between Gryffindor and Slytherin before the break.

In general, it was the fat monk who said a lot of good things to Karan.

Karan smiled gratefully at the other party, and the fat monk winked in response.After chatting for a while, Fatius slowly drifted away, leaving the free time for Karan.

Helena still didn't take the initiative to speak, but Karan knew that the opportunity had finally come, so he asked aloud: "Madam, I want to know——"

Before he could finish speaking, Helena snorted contemptuously.

"The crown of Ravenclaw?" She seemed to have been waiting for this moment: "Is this your purpose of approaching the fat monk and me? You are not the first student to covet the crown, nor the first to try to pass the school. The person who has achieved the goal of the ghost has already done this before you. The fat monk is too kind. He should really wipe his eyes so that he can see clearly the childish and ridiculous ambitions of you students."

Karan was scolded for no reason, but he wasn't very angry. Instead, he admired the seniors at Hogwarts - would anyone really think of this method of getting close to ghosts?How did they do that?By tasting those fermented foods and pretending to enjoy them?

"Wait!" Seeing that Helena was really about to leave, Karan quickly reached out to stop her and said, "I have no intention of asking about the crown."

Helena laughed disdainfully, this move might as well get closer to a ghost.

"I'm serious!" Karan suddenly said angrily: "I'm a Hufflepuff and I'm not interested in anything from Ravenclaw Academy. What do you think I am?"

Karan's firm tone actually made Helena look at him twice.

Then Karan continued to add: "And in the first half of the semester, all three houses got extra points, and only Ravenclaw got nothing. Do you really think I will please Ravenclaw for the crown?"

Helena's expression finally stopped being disdainful, she started to get angry!

Because of the extra three hundred points, the fat monk was very proud in front of the ghosts of other colleges. He pretended to check the huge hourglass that recorded the scores of the colleges all day long, and then deliberately said something like "good" or "bad" He was overtaken at one o'clock" and other words, which made Bloody Barrow stare at him colder and colder. Nick also became angry. If it weren't for the fact that there was still a trace of skin between his head and neck, he wouldn't have known what happened. How many times did he throw his head at the fat monk in anger.

Among them, the one who is in the worst mood is Ms. Gray of Ravenclaw. She may not care about many things, but she cannot turn a blind eye to the honor of Ravenclaw House.

"So you really did it on purpose?" She glared at Karan and asked, "You didn't bring the Ravenclaw students with you on purpose?"

"That's not true." Karan explained: "Besides, who would be willing to actually enter the secret room? We almost died there."

Helena realized that she had said the wrong thing, she would not blush, but her transparent cheeks seemed to become less transparent.

Karan did not continue to struggle with this matter. He took the opportunity to continue: "I didn't want to ask about the crown. It's true. I just wanted to ask about the stairs in the castle."

After he said these words, Helena's expression suddenly became a little unpredictable - it seemed that Karan was not the first person to ask this question.

"What do you ask for stairs?" she said.

Karan pursed his lips and said seriously: "Because I am interested in the secrets in Hogwarts Castle, and I remember that Ms. Ravenclaw also built these stairs."

Helena raised her pretty eyebrows.

"You are also not the first student to ask this question." She said: "Pandora once asked me this matter. Before her...someone also asked this question."

"Give up." She suddenly said: "For the sake of the fat monk, I can give you a reminder - no matter what you want to do, give up as soon as possible."

"Although I don't know what your purpose is, at least I have seen the consequences with my own eyes."

She turned around and floated away, leaving no chance for Karan to stay, leaving only her soft words.

"That's an incredibly high price to pay."

"Even if I'm alive, I still feel so miserable."