435 France’s doubts, another Callan

435 France’s doubts, another Callan

weekend.

In Hogsmeade, the door to the Three Broomsticks pub was pushed open again, and Callan, Lily, and Snape walked in one after another.

They found an empty table and sat down, ordered a glass of strawberry juice, lemonade and butterbeer respectively, and then stared at the table in a daze.

"Ugh."

Lily sighed softly, and she whispered: "It's a pity that Ariana can't come with us. She rarely goes out during the day."

There was no reply to the topic that was first raised. Neither Callan nor Snape spoke.

"I say--"

Lily knocked on the table dissatisfied and said: "What's wrong with you two? A stubborn one who refuses to say anything - yes, I'm talking about you, Karan - we finally came back alive, isn't this Is it worth celebrating?”

"And you, Sev."

Lily frowned and looked at the sullen Snape: "What's wrong with you? You can't blame me for sneaking into the Forbidden Forest, right? But what can I do? You don't know Ariana— "

At this time, the door of the Three Broomsticks was pushed open again, and James walked in first. He saw the dazzling red hair in the crowd at a glance: "Hey!"

"Hello, Lily."

James pushed his hair back and rushed to the table with sliding steps. He showed a big smile: "What a coincidence, you are also at the Three Broomsticks. Whatever you want to drink, I'll treat you!"

James was about to sit down, but a hand came in and blocked the only empty chair.

Snape was finally no longer unresponsive. He was even so angry that his expression became distorted: "There is no place for you here, Potter!"

James stared at Snape with evil eyes.

Snape glared back without fear.

Lily was stunned when she saw this scene: "You..."

Sirius walked slowly to James' side, and Remus sighed. He also walked over with the fearful and excited Peter, and the equally helpless Regulus followed behind them.

Karan was still staring straight at the table, nothing seemed to arouse his interest.

Just as the atmosphere was getting tense, the aggressive Miss Romesta placed a glass of strawberry juice on the table, making a banging sound.

"Are you trying to cause trouble here?" She asked with suspicious eyes.

James glanced at Snape one last time. He snorted disdainfully, turned around, and beckoned the other Marauders to go to another empty table.

Snape was still staring hard at James' back, his eyes so fierce that he seemed to want to eat him alive, so even Regulus, who wanted to persuade him, didn't dare to get close.

"Thank you, Romesta."

Lily said with grateful eyes.

"It's nothing." Romesta waved his hand indifferently: "But I still advise you to make a choice as soon as possible - but, to be honest, if I was as beautiful as you, I would definitely choose more. Observe for a while.”

"What are you talking about?" Lily blinked, looking a little confused.

Romesta glanced at Snape, whose face was red, and she smiled softly: "Nothing, lemonade, right? I'll get it for you soon."

Lily looked at her back in confusion, and then looked at Snape who was a little evasive in even more confusion. It wasn't until she turned her gaze to Karan who was staring blankly, with a straw in his mouth, that he finally stretched out a straw. The palm of his hand waved up and down in front of Karan's distracted gaze.

"Karan, Karan!"

Lily yelled twice in a row, and she asked angrily: "Did you hear me talking to you?"

Karan swallowed the juice in his mouth, stretched hard, and said lazily: "I heard it, but what can I do if I hear it? I guess the next campus life will not be too ordinary."

Lily looked at him confused: "What happened to each of you today?"

Snape quietly glanced at Callan, fearing that Callan would accidentally spill the beans.

Escape from the world of the altar seems like it happened yesterday.

After that, Lily, who survived the disaster, shared the entire experience with several people from the magic hunter, including Snape, who was in great mood swings today.

While listening, Snape was initially glad that Lily had returned safely. As for sneaking into the Forbidden Forest, he didn't pay much attention at all. He was just a little surprised that Lily would take the initiative to violate school rules. .

Until Lily revealed that the stag saved her life, and that stag was James' Animagus——

Snape's mentality completely exploded.

Now he can't wait to get up immediately and go find this overestimating guy for a life-and-death duel - either you die or I live!

As for Karan, who was always dazed, he had other things on his mind.

Lily thought she saw everything that happened, but in fact, after entering the suitcase, when she came out again, everyone had successfully returned to the original world.

In other words, Lily did not witness the stage of world destruction with her own eyes.

As for Karan, William, and Firenze, as soon as they successfully escaped, they agreed to keep the matter secret and no one could reveal it.

The first person to make the suggestion was Karan, and William and Firenze happened to have this idea, so the agreement was made smoothly.

William decided to venture into the world in the altar because of the prophecy of the horned water snake. The purpose was to find out the cause of the destruction and avoid the tragic ending predicted by the horned water snake.

(The doomed Ilvermorny and his friendship with Isolt Thayer.)

Firenze's purpose is similar to William's - he believes that he needs to stand with the wizard when necessary, so he wants to get clues in advance from the dangerous world divined by his third eye, so as to avoid the destruction of the world and the destruction of life. extinct.

But the problem is that neither William nor Firenze got any clues from that inexplicable world, nor did they figure out what led to the direction of the world.

This was a complete and utter failure.

That's why they came up with the idea of ​​keeping it secret, lest other interested people learn that there is such a threat lurking in the magical world and take advantage of it, causing the same mistakes to happen again.

It was obvious that both of them were wary of Voldemort.

Karan also has this worry, but he worries more than the two of them.

Like William and Firenze, Callan also failed to get any so-called clues - he didn't know who the wizard was who created the double protection of the barrier and the elderberry forest, nor did he know the origins of the inexplicable taboos. Where did it come from - he had never seen such a huge taboo.

But Karan also remembered another thing - in the memory of Potter Manor, the Taboo that Cadmus turned into saw Karan, Steve and Gaspard outside the memory screen. This also became the reason why they traveled to the world of Seven Hundred Horcruxes.

So, what would happen if a large group of taboos saw it in that illusory altar world?

Karan didn't know if there was any difference between this and the memory image, but he had been worried about it recently - he was afraid that when he woke up, Hogwarts Castle would be trampled to pieces by some giant creature.

"Ugh."

The helpless little wizard sighed, looking at Lily and Snape, one was confused and the other was secretly panicked.

"never mind!"

Feeling that she was being slighted, Lily turned her head and said angrily: "I'm going to find Mary. You two can continue to be the Riddler here!"

After saying this, Lily left the bar angrily.

Snape silently stretched out a hand to stop him, but was forced into a glass of lemonade——

Romesta looked at Snape with a hateful look: "Two Sickles, thank you for your patronage."

Snape hurriedly took out the silver coins from his pocket. He also returned the butterbeer that had not been served. Then Snape looked warily in the direction of the other table - James immediately looked in the direction of the other table after seeing Lily leave. He chased him out without any hesitation shown by Snape.

But Lily outside the window grabbed hold of Mary and Marin who happened to be passing by, and ran away with them quickly.

It is not so easy to change all the bad impressions in a short while, even with the help of life-saving grace.

James walked back into the bar as calmly as possible.

Snape looked at his back and immediately sneered.

But soon, Snape also became a little frustrated.

He moved and sat in Lily's original position, and asked in a casual tone: "Lily...did she say anything to you?"

Karan bit the straw in his mouth: "What did you say - oh -"

After glancing at James, who had his back turned to the two of them, Karan smiled maliciously and said, "What do you think Lily will say?"

"I didn't know!" Snape replied angrily.

"I don't know either." Karan then spread his hands: "How could Lily tell me such a thing? Whether it is her roommate, Ariana, or even Penny, they must be more suitable than me. "

"Besides, didn't you see the attitude Lily showed just now? What else can it mean besides rejection?"

"Don't worry, I will support you."

Karan said with a final wave of his hand, looking quite impressive.

Snape looked at him doubtfully: "How are you going to stand up to me?"

"Then there's no need to ask." Karan said with a smile: "Of course it will be when you are about to duel with James. Anyway, you can't find a better assistant than me."

Snape lowered his head and seemed to really consider the suggestion as he sipped his lemonade.

After drinking all the drinks in the cup, Snape returned to Gobstone's shop to help as usual, and Karan, who had nothing to do, also followed.

It happened that Mrs. Prince was going to Diagon Alley to buy some things. After a while, there were only two people left in the store.

Karan sat bored behind the counter and read the newspaper. Snape was introducing different types of Gobstone to several third-year students: "The gold chess pieces are more expensive. Did you bring that much money? Ordinary ones." Chess pieces need to be more suitable for beginners.”

The two Ravenclaw students finally chose a set that was slightly more expensive than the novice version. One of them said enviously when checking out: "It's great to live here. You can play with the latest Gobstone every day." .”

Snape shrugged while looking for change. It was indeed a nice place to live here.

"You're doing better and better now."

After the customer left, Karan said without raising his head. Those who didn't know thought he was the owner of this shop.

Snape was not so skillful from the beginning. At first, he didn't know how to entertain guests normally, and his cold face made many children turn around and run away in fear.It was not until later that he gradually learned how to contact other people - this Gobstone shop played a huge role in changing his temperament.

Snape didn't pay attention to Callan's teasing. He turned around and asked, "Is there any new news in the newspaper?"

"Really."

Karan spread out the newspaper, pointed to one of the articles and said: "It is said that someone found traces of Abraxas in France. I didn't expect that he could escape so far, and it happened to be France... ..”

"France?" Snape frowned in confusion.

Nick Flamel lives in France.

The most important thing is that Meadows lives there and does not leave.

Callan still remembers the brain of unknown origin that he and Meadows discovered before leaving during the Christmas vacation, and the secret message that Meadows later received from Dumbledore.

By the way, there is Mr. Newt - Callan remembered that Mr. Newt also secretly went to France during the Christmas vacation and brought back a few civet cats - this was what Steve told him on the train back to school. of.

Now, the newspapers say that Abraxas is very likely to have gone to France...

"It can't be because of the Philosopher's Stone, right?"

Snape immediately thought of this guess.

"It could be worse." Karan said with a heavy heart.

For some reason, another figure appeared in his mind - the Vivian who appeared out of nowhere in Beauxbatons School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

The whole incident is getting weirder and weirder.

But as Easter approaches, students' minds are quickly occupied by the upcoming exams, and they have no time to think about fugitives.

At the same time, the upcoming exams also meant that Remus transformed in school less and less often, until the last time.

At night, Karan wore an invisibility cloak and quietly walked into the Room of Requirement that had been opened in advance.After casting the humanoid restoration spell this time, Karan no longer needs to sneak out like this every month.

"It's a pity that we haven't developed a potion that can completely cure werewolves."

Karan sat on the sofa familiarly, his tone full of regret.

Remus quickly waved his hand and said, "No...it's nothing, it's really nothing! By the way, how did you do in the exam?"

"Fortunately." Karan said with his fingers: "The Transfiguration class is excellent, and so is Defense Against the Dark Arts. I thought Lucius would deliberately lower my score. As for the History of Magic - I can only say that this class is... As long as it’s an elective course——”

Before Karan could finish speaking, the room suddenly shook violently.

"An earthquake?" Remus asked in horror.

Karan turned to look at the wall at the other end of the room: "Don't worry, there should be guests coming - do you remember the blond girl you saw before? She should appear in a while, from there. On the wall facing-"

But Karan soon discovered that the situation seemed a little different this time - five seconds later, there was no deep passage on the wall, but the vibrations in the entire room became more intense, as if it was about to be completely overturned.

"Why hasn't that girl come yet?" Remus's face turned pale. His body swayed from side to side due to the violent vibration, and he could only hold on to the handle of the bedside to prevent him from falling.

"I don't know either..." Karan sat on the sofa that slid left and right in confusion, doubting the sturdiness of this room - he wouldn't be crushed to death by the collapsed Room of Requirement, right?

By the way, will the Room of Requirement really collapse?

It is undoubtedly a very stupid behavior to use life to verify this conjecture.

Karan immediately made up his mind: "Let's go out first and then talk!"

The two staggered to the door, opened it and walked out immediately.

Normally, in order to avoid mistakes, Karan secretly comes to the Room of Requirement before the full moon rises - at this time, most students are having dinner in the auditorium on the first floor, and no one will come at this time. Go to the end of the corridor on the eighth floor.

But this time is different.

Callan and Remus stared dumbly at the person who suddenly appeared outside the door.

That was another Karan, his clothes were in tatters, as if he had just returned from the battlefield.Moreover, this Karan was still gasping for air and seemed to have been running for a long time before arriving at the Room of Requirement.

In the unspeakable silence, the normal Karan decided to take the lead in solving this strange scene.

He said, "Hey, how does it feel to travel through time?"

"Terrible!" the tattered Karan said immediately. He walked to the empty wall, and after a few quick steps back and forth, the door leading to the unknown appeared.

"Go!"

The tattered Karan grasped the door handle. He turned to look at the normal Karan and said in a serious tone: "Go to the Forbidden Forest quickly and go to the altar!"

"Going right now!"

Then, he opened the door and ducked in.