434 The initial confession, the final destruction

434 The initial confession, the final destruction

"Is this the magic stone?!"

James, who returned to his human form after learning that the principal's secret room could block the curse, screamed.

Sirius also transformed from a big black dog into a human form, but he didn't pay much attention to the magic stone. Instead, he asked with some disgust: "Padfoot? Is this the best name you can come up with? It seems like Creativity is not always linked to performance.”

Lily didn't know how to face the two of them at first, but after hearing these words, she subconsciously showed an angry expression.

Instead, James exaggeratedly said loudly: "Don't be like this, man. I think the prongs sound pretty good - besides, hello, Lily, I didn't know you were on weekends -"

"Ahem!" Karan coughed hard twice to prevent the atmosphere in the room from continuing to be awkward. He then changed the subject and said to William who was stunned because of James: "If this is really the Sorcerer's Stone If so, then it’s up to me to break the protective magic - maybe I can be more certain in doing so."

"This is indeed magic - what did you say?!" William finally realized what he heard. He widened his eyes and repeated to Karan: "What did you just say?!"

"I said -" Karan straightened his back and faced everyone's surprised gazes frankly: "Give me the magic stone, I know what to do."

Karan has no doubt about the authenticity of the Philosopher's Stone - in the world of Seven Hundred Horcruxes, he already knows about the encounter between William and Mr. Flamel when they were young.In this helpless situation, it was natural for William to think of asking Flamel for help.Unfortunately, it seems that Mr. Flamel did not survive, leaving only the magic stone, so it was found by William.

And Karan happened to know how to use this magic stone with all his strength - also in the world of Seven Hundred Horcruxes, Mr. Flamel taught Karan the [Consumption Curse] to help him destroy the magic stone.Later, Karan also used the [Consumption Spell] to make the destroyed snakewood alive again, thus briefly saving Credence and Dumbledore.

And among the people present, Karan is confident that with the help of the magic stone, he is the wizard who can cast the most powerful spell - the only pity is that there is only one magic stone, and due to the restriction of the crown Because of this, Karan only had one chance to fully cast the advanced spell.

"are you serious?"

Upon hearing these words, James immediately looked at Callan in surprise, and Sirius also had an expression of disbelief on his face.

The expressions on the faces of the three girls were similar to theirs. Steve also quietly tugged on Karan's sleeve: "Don't be brave. Besides, haven't we made a lot of money with magic thread?"

Karan rolled his eyes at Steve and ignored him.

This kid must have thought of him as a bad wizard with ulterior motives.

Firenze did not speak, nor did he put forward any ideas because of Karan's actions. He left the chance of decision to William and was looking at the other party with a melancholy expression.

Among these people, William had the weirdest reaction.

He did not ask Karan any more, but instead inexplicably shifted his gaze to Lesa who entered the secret room together - the long-horned water snake who had always followed him.

Lesa looked at Karan intently, and it spat out the letter and hissed several times.

"What is it talking about?" Karan immediately asked Steve curiously.

Steve shook his head in confusion: "Didn't I tell you before - I don't know Parseltongue."

But William seemed to understand Lesa's words - he thought for a few seconds, and then actually threw the magic stone to Karan!

"Hopefully this doesn't kill us."

He said with a weird expression, as if even he didn't expect that he would do this.

Everyone was stunned by William's decision.

However, William didn't give them much time to think. He quickly urged: "Except for me, Lesa, and Karan, you little brats, hurry up and get into Steve's suitcase. Firenze I will lead you to the altar - this is the safest method and will prevent you from being held back. After Firenze reconstructs the altar, Lesa will soon take us and leave this damn world with you. "

"Okay, move faster!"

William's tone was very rude, and with his push, everyone only had time to say goodbye to Karan briefly before walking into the open suitcase one by one, and Wolf was no exception.

With a click, William handed the fastened suitcase to Firenze.

Firenze carefully held the suitcase in his arms, nodded and said, "You can do it again in 10 minutes."

"Take care, kid."

Then he left the principal's office and disappeared at the end of the stairs in the blink of an eye.

After rushing out of Hogwarts Castle, Firenze took the time to rush towards the altar.His figure disappeared into the dark and dense woods, like the last knight.

At the same time, everyone in the suitcase was noisy.

"I remember...students are not allowed to bring this kind of special suitcase to school, right?" Ariana looked at Steve, and then focused on Wolf: "There are also months Wolf—does this count as stealing the school’s property?”

"Do you know Wolf?" Steve exclaimed, his face turning red under Ariana's tight pressure: "How can the magizoologist...how can it be called stealing? ! If you don’t believe it, ask Karan, it’s obviously Wolf who came with us voluntarily!”

"Really?" Ariana's eyes became more suspicious.

"Oh, don't be like this." Lily helplessly spoke for Steve: "He takes good care of Wolf, which is much better than letting him live alone in the Forbidden Forest."

Saoirse also squatted down and rubbed Wolf's head. She seemed to like Moon Wolf's soft touch. She also took out a gold cup and mixed a cup of sugar water for him to drink. While holding the cup, she whispered: "Moon Wolf? Me I have heard of this kind of animal, and sometimes I feel that we are quite similar... destined to a tragic fate."

"What are you talking about?" Lily asked, blinking.

"I'm-" Saoirse smiled mysteriously, and she said as if she was deliberately angry with Lily: "I won't tell you!"

Lily was really pissed off. She stared at Saoirse angrily, pouted at her back when she wasn't paying attention, and muttered: "What an inexplicable Slytherin..." ....”

At this time, James and Sirius finally came back after visiting the area outside work.James was still saying loudly: "This suitcase looks really good. We predators should also have one. We can catch some animals from the Forbidden Forest and raise them - of course, it might also be able to help our little furry animal." busy."

He didn't hide his voice at all, as if he was deliberately attracting someone's attention. He silently hoped that the other person would ask him about topics such as what a predator was, and he also pretended to be cool and leaned on the workbench. .

Sirius grinned silently.

However, Lily ignored them at all, and she even took Ariana's hand and walked away.

"Hey!"

James couldn't bear it any longer. He rushed over with a sliding step and stopped firmly in front of the two of them.

"Well...I didn't expect you guys to be friends."

He looked at Ariana and Lily and said.

Sirius shook his head sadly.

Steve looked at this scene with confusion: "What is he doing?"

Sirius glanced at him lightly: "What else could I do? Of course I'm dating a girl."

"Oh!" Steve suddenly realized, and he also showed a pityful expression: "Then this opening statement is not very good - the first sentence that was finally spoken, how could it not be about cute magical animals?"

Sirius stared at Steve with strange eyes, and he took two steps to the side without leaving any trace.

Lily looked at James with a big smile on his face, but the expression on her own face seemed a little contradictory - a little resistant, but a little confused in her eyes.

"what are you going to do?"

She asked the same question as Steve, but her tone was a little stiff.

"I just wanted to ask-"

James spread his hands exaggeratedly, and the expression on his face looked a little funny, but it seemed to be because of a faint nervousness and excitement: "If we can go back alive, next weekend...well... .....Maybe we can go together...well...you know."

"Alas--"

"Alas--"

Two long sounds came from Sirius and Steve who came up again at some point.

"Has he been so inexperienced before?" Steve smacked his lips and said, "He can't even speak completely."

Sirius crossed his arms and chuckled disdainfully: "I didn't expect James to behave so badly. I thought he had been prepared in advance - I am really disappointed."

Although James didn't express what he meant clearly at all, Lily understood what he wanted to say.

Under James's slightly trembling smile, Lily frowned and said, "If you are because of what happened in the Forbidden Forest before—"

"stop!"

Before Lily could finish her words, James suddenly interrupted: "I think there may be some misunderstanding between us."

"Yes, I saved your life by accident, but to be honest, I think almost every Gryffindor - well..."

He glanced at Sirius and suddenly corrected him as if he was trying hard: "In other words, it's what most Gryffindors would do (Sirius: Huh.). Maybe this gave you some wrong perceptions. ——For example, I’m blackmailing you into going on a date with me... um... (whispering) or something - but!”

James suddenly shouted with all his strength, which startled Lily.

"I'm sorry - but, you don't have to think like this at all. What I want to say is... Well, in short, what I want to say is..."

His mouth suddenly stopped and his mind went blank. He had no idea what to say next.

Lily stared at him blankly, and Ariana secretly clenched her fists, thinking that maybe she should punch the little boy.

James took two hard breaths.

"It's because of your eyes."

He said with a blush, looking less confident for the first time.

"When I gradually fell into unconsciousness, all I could think about was your eyes."

"so--"

He suddenly waved his hand vigorously, which startled Lily again.

"Okay next time! Don't rush to answer, I'll ask you again next time!"

After saying this, James ran outside the workshop like a gust of wind.

Lily stood there with a blank expression, and Ariana frowned dissatisfied.

Sirius and Steve looked at James' back in disbelief.

At this time, Saoirse, who was conjuring the second cup of sugar water, suddenly laughed:

"This is much more useful than any experience."

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Karan was not able to witness James' disguised confession with his own eyes. It was completely different from what he imagined - it was not like the rogue behavior in the fifth grade in the original timeline, but like a completely innocent boy. boy.

But even if he saw it, he probably wouldn't have the heart to think about it.

At this time, Karan was staying silently in the principal's secret room with William and Lesa. He read the ineffective Book of Access and the Pen of Acceptance several times, and finally couldn't help but focus on William.

"What are you looking at, kid?" William asked impatiently.

Karan frowned and stared at William. As soon as he came up, he asked: "What did Lesa just say to you? Is it a prophecy?"

William stared directly at Callan.

After looking at each other in silence for a while, he curled his lips and said, "I knew I couldn't hide this kind of thing from you."

Not long after returning from the world of Seven Hundred Horcruxes, Karan found Leisa and also attracted William by guessing that Leisa was a long-horned water snake that lived in the same era as Isolt.

The long-horned water snake's ability to live so long must be related to the elixir of life, and William just happened to be able to obtain the elixir of life.

It seems that after Isolt's death, William found this special long-horned water snake and learned the language of Parseltongue from it.

As for the prophecy in Karan's mouth - this is also his guess, because the horned water snake had made a prophecy related to Isolt - "Your family is doomed, and you can only let me become a member of your family." Only molecules will make a difference."

Later, Isolt scraped off part of the horn of the horned water snake to make a wand and gave it to her adopted son Chadwick, which allowed her to survive the hunt of [Gormlai Gaunt].

The horned water snake has the power of prophecy.

If Karan guessed correctly, the horned water snake had just made a prophecy related to Karan, so William would feel free to hand over the magic stone to Karan.

"You guessed it right." William admitted this.

But Karan did not intend to let go of this rare opportunity. He continued to ask: "Is this the reason why you came to Hogwarts? - [Because the horned water snake made a prophecy related to Hogwarts?" ]"

After a brief silence, William finally did not deny this: "You are not wrong about this either."

"Yes, it's because of Lesa that I came to Hogwarts."

Perhaps because of the unknown fate that followed, William decided not to hide it anymore. He simply said what Lesa had predicted: "[Danger is approaching, whether it is Ilvermorny, or you and Isolt... The friendship between Thayer will be doomed. And the only hope lies in the distant Hogwarts.】"

"This is also the reason why I took the risk and chose to enter the altar - thinking that I might be able to discover what the so-called risk is in advance, and then find a way to contain it earlier - as a result, you have seen that even I can't protect myself."

Karan finally understood - no wonder William chose to leave the United States. There were not many things he really cared about, but Lesa's prophecy just caught his sore spot - Isolt Thayer, and Isolt... Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry left behind by Thayer.

"This prophecy..."

Karan turned to look at the quiet horned water snake: "It sounds like something is wrong - how could the friendship between you and Isolt Thayer be doomed?"

William shook his head impatiently, obviously confused by this for a long time: "If I knew, I wouldn't have to come to Hogwarts!"

"Okay, the time is almost up." He said suddenly.

Karan no longer thought about the prophecy. He finally warned: "Don't forget to take me away for a while. I don't want to be left alone in such a bad world."

William nodded vigorously.

Afterwards, William and Lesa all left the principal's secret room. They stayed at the door and stared closely at Karan who was taking a deep breath.

Karan took out the elder wand and held the bright red magic stone tightly in one hand.

"Don't let me down, bad boy..."

The elderberry stayed motionless in Karan's palm.

He slowly raised his wand and pointed it at the wall above his head.

The magic stone suddenly bloomed with a burst of dazzling red light, followed by Karan's muffled groan in his throat, and the dazzling light from the tip of the wand.

This light was amplified countless times with the help of the principal's secret room, and its power was faintly out of Karan's control, causing the wand body to shake slightly——

Finally, Karan shouted at the top of his lungs: "Thunderbolt!"

The magic spell that I had never seen before was shot out all at once, so fast that I could hardly see it.The wall above the head was easily penetrated by the curse, without even causing the curse's explosive reaction!

But the changes that followed immediately symbolized the extraordinary nature of this curse - even at such a long distance, Karan could faintly hear the sound of wind coming from the Forbidden Forest, and what was even more obvious was the swaying under his feet - The shielding curse of the secret room has failed, and the whole castle seems to have suddenly come to life. Countless horrors are gradually awakening. The white walls slowly take shape, condensing into the shape of branches that have been seen in the woods, facing the fallen backwards. Karan stretched out little by little——

"go!"

The frightened William grabbed Karan's immobile body and jumped onto Lesa's back with him.

The gem on the long-horned water snake's forehead shone with light. It smashed open the deforming wall and flew deep into the forbidden forest without hesitation!

The strong wind slapped Karan's cheek, quickly drying up the cold sweat, but it was immediately covered with more sweat.

William held Karan's body tightly and let him lie face up on the cold scales, while William himself was frowning and staring in the direction of the Forbidden Forest - it was not only Hogwarts Castle that came alive, but also pieces of it. The elder trees also came to life, and the branches all over the sky hung down from the dark sky, forming a tight interception.

William remained unmoved and just let Lesa dash forward in the air.

Karan couldn't see what was happening in the Forbidden Forest.

He was looking directly at the dark sky, turning his eyes hard to the flash of light disappearing into the night!

Then, one second, two seconds, three seconds——

boom! ! !

An explosion far beyond imagination came from the distant sky, and the violent shock wave caused all the branches hanging in the sky to fly away!

"Good job, little-"

The subconscious praise was forced back into his throat. William turned around and Karan's eyes widened together. They were full of fear!

Just as the night was being washed away, countless rays of light poured down.A hole seemed to have been opened in the sky, and the edges of the irregular patterns were illuminated by firelight - all of them were shielded by the canopy of towering elder trees, which shrouded the planet in darkness forever.

Now, a hole has been opened in the darkness, but at the edge where the firelight is spread, a deeper darkness breaks in!

It’s hard to imagine what a huge body it is - the dark palms visible to the naked eye are tightly grasping the edge of the broken hole, followed by the second and third ones. It seems that something isolated is trying to climb in. , get into this protected world!

Gradually, a black ball slowly rose from the edge. After being frightened for a while, Karan realized that it turned out to be the head of a taboo!

The face without facial features looked directly at the world that had not yet been completely infected. The huge head turned slowly. The taboo seemed to have quickly noticed Karan and William who were still alive and escaped - its body was squeezed out of its mouth. More parts came in, first the upper body, and then suddenly fell down, crushing the swaying Hogwarts Castle to pieces.

But right behind it, there are more huge taboos, they are vying to get in, their faces are obviously without facial features, but they show anxiety and impatient emotions.

The curse of magic comes from the reflection of countless taboos.

But now, the barrier and elder trees that could serve as protection were all broken.

Nothing can stop them anymore.

"Quick! Quickly!"

Firenze, who was clutching the suitcase tightly, waved at them vigorously from the ground.At his feet was the reconstructed altar and the burning herbs that Firenze had worked so hard to collect.

Dust gradually began to rise on the altar, as if there were thousands of centaurs running through the smoke, making huge sounds of horse hooves.

Lesa rolled up Firenze's body with her tail, and it rushed towards the altar with everyone on it, disappearing in the rushing smoke!

The next second, a dark foot suddenly fell down, trampling the altar to pieces.

The final destruction has arrived.