322 map, basilisk, coquetry

322 map, basilisk, coquetry

It is not easy to find the correct wand gesture. The main reason is that there are too many stairs - 142 in total, which can form countless wand gestures, and among these countless wand gestures But there is only one correct answer, and the rest are all wrong answers.

Among these wrong answers, some of the wand gestures are invalid, while others can really play an unknown role - for example, Pandora once demonstrated the disembodiment in front of Karan, and she successfully transformed two snowballs. Switched positions.

But Karan did not easily try every wand gesture one by one, because he still remembered Helena's advice - [That is an extremely high price. 】

[Even if I am alive, I still feel miserable. 】

Helena obviously knew some secrets, and she also said that before Karan and Pandora, someone had asked her about the stairs.

The only person Callan could think of for this was Albus Dumbledore.

Dumbledore had used the diadem, and paid an unknown and high price for it.

Karan didn't know what the price actually meant, but he remembered another thing - the future Pandora died unfortunately while testing the curse, right in front of her daughter Luna.

It was hard for Karan not to suspect that this might be because Pandora used the wrong crown wand gesture. Under the threat of death, he did not dare to try randomly. For this reason, he also warned the other people not to mess around.

Moreover, Karan also specifically found an opportunity to warn Pandora, asking her to stop looking for inspiration for inventing magic spells on the moving stairs in the castle. It is best not to think about inventing magic spells at all.

The reason why Callan would do this is simple - just like he would try to resolve the conflict between Lily, Petunia and Snape in the abandoned playground - because he met these people, and he started to rise. He didn't want the regret to happen again.

At least let the future little Luna change from the father she originally expected to see to a father and mother when she returns home from vacation.

After listening to Karan's words that were full of warnings, Pandora stared at Karan closely, while little Lovegood looked at her with some worry.

During Callan's persuasion, he cited a lot of examples of accidental deaths of curse experimenters. Not only was Lovegood shocked, but Callan, who had just seen these contents, was also shocked.

Sure enough, he still underestimated the madness of wizards. Those magic experimenters wanted to do whatever they wanted - to turn their pets into humans, but they turned into hideous monsters; they tried to fly alone, but they couldn't. Both arms turned into wings, making it impossible for him to hold the wand, and the wings were not enough to allow him to fly. In addition, Karan even felt that accidental death was a good outcome, and there were many twists. The horrific pictures made him sick to his stomach when he saw them. After thinking about it for a long time, he decided not to take out those pictures, lest he would destroy the little Pandora too badly.

Seeing that Pandora had no reaction, Little Lovegood couldn't sit still. He usually just likes to look for some strange things (although due to wrong perceptions, he found some strange and dangerous things), such as the moon frog. , a big-mouthed colorful ball fish, but he never thought that what Pandora did was so dangerous, and he didn't want his only good friend in the academy to be really hurt.

"Ahem," he coughed twice deliberately, running his palms along his blond hair uneasily, and kept glancing at Karan: "Is everything you said true?"

Karan successfully received the signal and said seriously: "Of course it's true. If you don't believe it, you can go to the library and check it out."

Little Lovegood was a little touched. He didn't have many friends. Many people laughed at his vain ideas, and he received even less care.

Pandora looked left and right at the two guys who were singing along, and she blinked her silver-blue eyes smartly. At this moment, Karan thought he was seeing the weird Luna herself.

"Do you have any clues?" Pandora suddenly asked: "Clues related to the moving stairs?"

Karan shook his head quickly and said, "Of course not."

"Then how do you know these stairs are dangerous?" Pandora asked: "How could Ravenclaw harm students who pursue knowledge?"

Karan had nothing to say, he turned around and left with a dull look on his face.

He didn't expect Pandora to be so clever, and the spell Pandora invented so far was indeed harmless.

But Pandora caught him.

"How about you take me with you to study the stairs?" she asked enthusiastically, seeming to have confirmed the fact that Karan had obtained the clue.

"Just let me join your group... By the way, does your small group have a name?"

Karan stared at the jumping Pandora with strange eyes. He shook his head and said, "Not yet."

"Then you have to hurry up." Pandora said, "Don't let others take advantage of your good name."

Karan nodded quickly, and ran away while Pandora didn't mention the stairs again. When he took the time to look back, he found that Pandora was whispering something to little Lovegood.

"Why do you look so ugly?" Steve asked curiously in the potion preparation room, and Wolf also looked up at him.

"It's nothing." Karan suppressed his desire to advise Pandora again, and asked: "How is it? Is there any progress?"

"Not yet." Gaspard said without raising his head in front of the long table. The Marauder's Map was spread out in front of him. He was the one who was most interested in this parchment and read it every night before going to bed. Just look at it twice before you fall asleep.

"The wand gesture must be a line connected together, but I have never found such a sign on the stairs until now. There is always a break between them."

Gaspard's words are also something that gives Karan a headache. The movement of the stairs is indeed regular, but overall it is not like this. They move at different speeds. I don't know how long it will take to see it. To the point where the actual wand gesture appears.

Even if it appeared, they would not be able to tell the truth from the false.

But several people at least had one guess - that is, the real wand gesture must include all 142 stairs - because the sum of the various digits of this number is originally a magical number [7].

"It seems we can only continue to wait." Karan said helplessly: "Wait until all the stairs are connected."

Steve whispered: "I just don't know how long it will take. What if they never connect?"

Karan was inexplicably silent.

If this was really the case, then he would really have no choice but to find Ariana - an Obscurus who had lived for an unknown length of time.

The danger involved can be imagined. Even though the other party had saved several of her people in Hogsmeade, Ariana was still an uncontrollable Obscurus, but Karan could never give up the hope of resurrection.

"By the way, there is one more thing." Gaspard finally raised his head and asked Karan: "You should understand how different this parchment is, right? You have broken through the protection of Hogwarts. Magic easily drew a map on it."

As he spoke, he pushed up his glasses in disgust: "Of course, I reserve my opinion on whether these simple black lines are maps."

Of course, Karan knew how rare this was. If it were anyone else, he would have ignored it long ago, but Gaspard was different. He was a future inventor.

Karan immediately asked: "Is this parchment considered an alchemical item?"

He had long wanted to know the origin of this parchment.

But Gespard did not give a definite answer: "I can't be sure yet. There is only one piece of parchment, and I don't want to accidentally destroy it because of some experiments. Unless... you can provide more Useful information, otherwise we can’t do anything.”

more information?

Karan thought for a while, and he definitely couldn't say that the Marauder's Map came from the ruins of the Forbidden Lake - especially before he figured out what was hidden behind the stone door of the ruins.

But he had another excuse.

"Slytherin." Karan finally said: "Salazar Slytherin, this parchment should be his."

Karan also told about another piece of parchment he saw in the stone basin filled with poison in the secret room, and attributed the reason he learned to the connection between the two parchments.

Salazar Slytherin?

Steve was stunned for a moment, but the interest in Gespard's eyes became even more intense: "It's actually a relic of the founder..."

His glasses began to flash with excitement, and Wolf quickly turned his head away and covered his eyes with his tail.

Karan clearly felt that Gaspard was increasingly disgusted with the black lines he had drawn. In his opinion, this was a complete defilement!Even if the original owner was Slytherin, he was still a founder after all!

"Okay, okay." Karan said helplessly: "Do you have any ideas now?"

Unexpectedly, Gaspard nodded, but he did nothing.

"Perhaps I at least know what this parchment is made of." Gespar said surprisingly.

"Slytherin's unique pet - the basilisk's molted skin!"

Steve jumped down at once. He recalled the terrifying experience in the secret room - the cobwebs turned from stones were covered with basilisks. This made him take a few steps back, trying to get out of the way. The parchment in Spade's hand was as far away as possible.

"How disgusting." He said with an ugly face.

Gaspard dismissed it, and continued to explain: "And it must be the shedding of a basilisk that has lived for a long time, because only in this way can it have enough magic power."

Karan was surprised and wondered: "But we still can't figure out why this parchment can break through the defensive magic of Hogwarts. What is the connection between the basilisk and the castle?"

"It can't be because of the Chamber of Secrets, right?" Steve shouted: "It was completely burned by the fire, and even the statue of Slytherin himself collapsed."

This time, Gespard expressed his agreement: "I think so too, and the secret room is not within the scope of the castle. It is far underground. In addition, it has not been discovered for so many centuries, so it must be There’s not much of a connection to the castle.”

Karan also believes that the connection between the two is just a secret passage, which is not enough to affect the entire castle.

"Hey!" He suddenly screamed strangely: "My heart hurts so much!"

Steve and Gaspard looked at him in confusion, and Karan continued to feel distressed: "So many basilisks, all gone!"

Especially the thousand-year-old basilisk that he trampled to death with the shrinking potion. Not only did it not retain its fangs, but even the scales on its body had long since perished in the flames.The rest of the basilisks were similar. They had all died in the duel between Meadows and Voldemort. Not a single one was left. They were all reduced to ashes in the fierce fire.

Gaspard sighed regretfully. If he had known that he would have grabbed a handful when he was rescuing Karan, he would be able to tear off whatever he could.

Steve stared at the two of them with strange eyes. Although he didn't want to go back to the secret room no matter what, he still remembered——

"Haven't we already seen a complete molt?" He pointed at Gespard and said: "Just before we arrived in the secret room hall, the two of us stopped and looked at it for a while."

The expressions of Karan and Gaspard suddenly paused. They both turned their heads and stared at Steve with their eyes. Inexplicable light began to flash, covering up the brilliance of the candle above their heads.

Steve was so frightened that he jumped back a few steps, and then hurriedly hid behind Wolf, feeling that the eyes of the two men were a little scary.

Under his cautious eyes, Gaspard got into the magic tent with increasingly flashing glasses and the Marauder's Map.

When he reappeared, the lenses no longer flickered, and he said to Karan expressionlessly: "This time it is an accurate test. The material of the Marauder's Map is indeed similar to snakeskin."

I don’t know what method he used, but in Steve’s opinion, the Marauder’s Map was not damaged at all.

Karan narrowed his eyes slightly and nodded vigorously.

"Then as soon as possible." He expressed the same thought as Gaspard.

"Before the secret passage is completely sealed by the Prewett brothers, find a way to bring out the only remaining pair of molted skins!"

Steve trembled as he looked at the two people who were looking at each other fiercely, and he sighed in his heart.

[Lily, and Snape, why don’t you come over? ! 】

On the other side, little Lovegood continued to persuade Pandora.

"Let's forget about inventing the curse." Lovegood said with a wrinkled face: "It's better to go find the moon frogs, maybe a few will fall from the sky."

"Oops." Pandora said impatiently: "Xeno (Xenophilius Lovegood's nickname), I know Karan cares about me, but you can't believe everything, and it's not like today The best chance of finding moon frogs is at least until the full moon, when the moon is at its largest and roundest."

I don't know if there is any connection between looking up at the sky and waiting for the frog to fall and whether it is a full moon. Anyway, Lily and Snape, who were secretly following them, discussed it for a long time but could not figure out the reason.

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When Lily and Snape listened more and more strangely, Pandora looked back and immediately said hello to them.

Lovegood blinked at the side. He also recognized the two of them and knew that they were both Karan's good friends and had stayed together on the train before entering school. It was a pity that they did not enter his school. inside the box.

"Are you also interested in moon frogs?" Lovegood asked happily: "We can go together next time there is a full moon."

"Full moon?" Snape thought of Remus, the werewolf: "Let's forget it."

Lovegood looked a little frustrated after being rejected, and Lily gave Snape a hard look.

"Hello." Lily's tone was much better, and Lovegood immediately stared at her expectantly.

"Um...we can discuss the moon frog thing later." Lily said quickly: "We want to ask you what Karan said."

She and Snape were not as easy to fool as Steve, and they had no intention of joining Callan in studying the stairs as readily as Gaspard did - they were not crazy yet. Especially after hearing Karan's advice not to try rashly, the two became even more worried.

For this they almost wrote a new notebook - "Callan: From Hogwarts to St. Mungo's Hospital"

Snape originally wanted to replace [St. Mungo's Hospital] with [Fire Dragon Crematorium], but this proposal was rejected by Lily without hesitation.

In her opinion, even if Kahlan really entered Azkaban, it would be much better than death.

"Oh?" After hearing the two people's questions, Pandora immediately became interested: "Are you secretly investigating him or following him? Could it be that you two broke up?"

"No, no." Lily waved her hands quickly and said, "It's just that sometimes Karan..."

Snape added silently: "Like a madman——"

"It's too out of the ordinary!" Lily shouted to stop Snape from blurting out "madman" and glared at him again.

"Yes." Snape could only nod and said in a low voice, "He is so out of touch that people can't figure out what is going on in his mind."

Pandora giggled, and Lovegood was also amused by the sight.

There was nothing that Karan said that could not be revealed, and Pandora quickly told him all about his advice not to continue inventing magic spells.

"That's all?" Lily looked at Snape in confusion: "Karan is right. Inventing a curse is indeed very dangerous, and stopping Pandora seems like something he would do - at least he didn't do it all the time. Doing bad things.”

In order to avoid being stared at a few more times, Snape nodded silently, just silently cursing in his heart that when Karan was so kind, why did he let a few of him study some magic spell.

Pandora was still staring at the two of them. She took one of Lily's hands, shook it from side to side and said, "How about taking one of mine?"

"Take you?" Lily turned her head and met her silver-blue eyes: "What are I taking you for?"

"Of course it's to study the magic spell of the stairs." Pandora said, she shook harder and the long golden hair on her shoulders trembled.

"I know you must be researching Ravenclaw's legacy, right?"

She leaned closer and asked quietly. Lily tilted her head back subconsciously, but Pandora suddenly rushed forward and hugged Lily tightly.

"Take me with you." She continued regardless of Lily's push: "Aren't you secretly investigating Karan? I can help you too."

Lily stopped moving. She thought about the silent agreement between Steve and Guspard before setting off from Hogsmeade that day. There were indeed fewer and fewer people on her side, even Snake. Pudu is suspected of being assimilated by Karan.

And she was the only girl in their small group. Although Lily didn't say it, she would always feel a little aggrieved when she was isolated and helpless.

"Are you willing to help me?" Lily asked doubtfully. She was not very familiar with Pandora. On the contrary, Karan communicated more with Pandora and Lovegood.

"Of course." Pandora immediately hugged her tighter, as if she was afraid that Lily would run away: "As long as you let me join you, I will promise you anything."

Lily finally stopped pushing Pandora, she let the other party hold her, narrowed her eyes and hesitated.

This idea is indeed good, and Xiangxiang girls are much cuter than boys. There are also Mary and Marin. They seem to be good, but Mary may not be good. She is too timid and is easily fooled by Karan's ideas. She was scared, but this might be much more useful than "Karan's Defense Technique", and it would also allow her to see Karan's true face.

As for Pandora, she was patiently waiting for Lily's answer. She was shorter than Lily, so she raised her head hard, staring at Lily with her silver-blue eyes. She was still swaying from side to side, and Lily followed suit. Shake and shake together.

Snape looked at this scene with a strange expression.

"What is Pandora doing?" he asked.

Lovegood's face looked even stranger than he did.

"It seems...acting like a spoiled child?"