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"Hey, pay attention, we have guests arriving." Tata said dissatisfiedly.
The kettle suddenly stopped, and the long nozzle slightly bent, as if to apologize...
A kettle apologizing?
Kyle felt as if hundreds of Moon Crazy Beasts were galloping through his heart... He really had met Merlin!
But when I thought of the owner of this place, everything seemed to make sense.
"Don't worry about it, this reckless guy." Tata continued walking forward.
Along the way, Kyle also saw a pair of scissors that were trimming dead branches, a fountain that took the initiative to bathe birds, and a refrigerator that was chased around by a cat.
Kyle felt that he had to apologize to Mr. Weasley... Nico's house really had a running refrigerator, and that refrigerator was throwing ice cubes out while running, trying to scare away the kneazle.
Wow, it’s so lively.
Kyle followed Tata up a flight of stairs, where Nicolas Flamel was standing with a smile on his face, and next to him was a witch with equally white hair.
That was his wife, Perenelle, also over six hundred years old.
"Long time no see, kid." Nico patted Kyle's shoulder enthusiastically...
"Click..."
Hearing the crisp sound next to his ear, Kyle thought for a moment that he was trying to scam him.
"Be careful, this is the third time this year." Perenel tapped his wrist gently.
"I will." Nico said with a smile, and then led Kyle into the room.
To Kyle's surprise, there were only three of them in the huge room.
He had thought he would see some familiar faces, such as MacPhail, whom he had met in Paris before, or Maxime, the headmaster of Beauxbatons who was trying to poach someone from the school...
"Don't be surprised." Nico seemed to see his confusion, "Before, a few friends wanted to celebrate Christmas together, but I don't think it's necessary.
"In my opinion, those so-called holidays are no different from ordinary days."
Having lived for more than six hundred years, Nico has experienced a lot, so in his eyes, no day is special, all days are the same.
The old man walked slowly forward, and Kyle followed him into a spacious room.
The chair that was originally in the corner immediately moved to the table, and the teapot on the table also took the initiative to pour a cup of hot black tea.
"What a coincidence! I was about to invite you here a few days ago when I received the letter you asked Albus to send."
Nico sat in the armchair and said with a smile: "I have to say, you really gave me a big problem..."
"What?" Kyle was a little confused.
"This..." Nico handed Kyle a golden pocket watch with five hands, "Last year, Albus came here and asked me to fix it no matter what.
"The last time he acted that nervous was when he came to me to borrow the Philosopher's Stone a hundred years ago."
"Is this Slytherin's time turner?" Kyle took the pocket watch carefully, and an expression of surprise immediately appeared on his face.
When I saw it last year, this time converter looked like it was made of sand and would break at the touch of a finger, but now it is intact and I can fiddle with it in my hand without any problem.
"You fixed it?" Kyle asked in surprise.
As expected of Nicolas Flamel, he could even repair this shattered antique.
"not at all."
Nico shook his head. "I only repaired its shell, but the most important magic rune of this time converter has been destroyed. It was a product from a thousand years ago and is very different from the current runes. I can only find a small part of the information, so it is too difficult to repair it."
Although Nico was complaining, he was smiling while speaking and was obviously enjoying it.
"Isn't this why you wanted to invite me here?" Kyle returned the time-turner to him.
"Yes, I need your help." Nico said, "I want to know what you experienced during the time you went back in time, especially the beginning and the end. The more detailed the better.
"This helps me figure out the composition of those symbols."
"No problem." Kyle nodded.
……
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 396: A Potion Worth Three Hundred Galleons
Over the next two hours, Kyle described in detail what had happened in the secret room the previous year.
Nico didn't care about the process, but when it came to the beginning and the end, he asked a lot of details, including Kyle's feelings when time went backwards, whether there were any special phenomena around, and even the changes in the environment.
Even Kyle himself didn't notice some of these problems. He was busy communicating and studying with Riddle at the time, so he didn't have the time to pay attention to whether the secret room was cold or hot.
Two hours later, Kyle, feeling thirsty, picked up the cup on the table and drank the cold tea in it.
During this time, he also suggested using the Pensieve so that Nicolas Flamel could see for himself.
As the home of a famous alchemist, there is no shortage of things like Pensieves, and even if there isn't one, he can probably make one on the spot.
But Nicolas Flamel shook his head.
"I must tell you, kid, that retrieving memories is not an easy task. Only wizards who are proficient in memory spells can do it."
"And there is another point..." He continued: "If I am not mistaken, you should have learned the brain block a long time ago."
Kyle nodded.
Occlumency was the spell that took him the longest to learn, and he had never stopped studying it over the years, especially after being reminded by Rowena Ravenclaw.
"There's nothing we can do about it."
Nico said, "For those wizards who have learned Occlumency, their memories cannot be retrieved by anyone except themselves, not by me or Albus."
"Actually, I can give it a try..." Kyle said, "There was once a professor at Hogwarts who was a master of memory spells. He gave me a notebook that recorded all his experiences with memory spells. I learned a lot from it."
"Oh, is there a Memory Charm Master at Hogwarts?"
Nicolas Flamel looked a little surprised, "Albus has a really good eye. I have to admit that Beauxbatons is indeed not as good as Hogwarts in terms of the choice of professors."
"Maybe... that's the case..." Kyle laughed dryly twice and was too embarrassed to tell the specific current situation of the Memory Spell Master.
A young professor who is actually a liar not only lost his memory but was also sent to St. Mungo's... It's really embarrassing to talk about this.
It's just a misunderstanding, the reaction is not important.
Kyle quickly changed the subject and said, "I can try..."
"No, still not!"
He was interrupted before he could finish his words.
"Perhaps you would like to say that you have made great progress in memory charms after reading the notes, but I cannot take the risk..."
Nicolas Flamel pointed to his forehead and said seriously: "Your brain is more valuable than what I want to know, so... No!
"And there's no need for that. From your description just now, I basically understand the situation."
Nicolas Flamel waved his hand, and the surrounding blue lake-colored reliefs and shelves disappeared instantly, replaced by a wall covered with various magic symbols.
Under his command, magic runes lit up one after another, flashing like stars.
Nico murmured to himself: "Unlike the existing time converter, the way it ends does not seem to match the original time point. Instead, it seems to be more like completing a necessary condition. In this case, these will not be used..."
He waved his hand again, and some of the magic runes on the wall dimmed, but more magic runes lit up, and together with the original ones, there were almost several hundred of them.
Nicolas Flamel kept changing the positions of the magic runes, arranging them into different combinations of symbols, and then superimposing these symbols together to form new shapes.
Kyle didn't disturb him and just watched quietly from the side.
To be honest, he couldn't understand any of Nico's operations, so he could only try to remember them all.
But after ten minutes, Kyle gave up.
There's no point. There are hundreds of different combinations of magic runes. It's almost impossible to remember them all.
Kyle also discovered that Nico seemed to be just making some attempts. In other words, he was just making a draft, not the final answer.
However, what Kyle didn't expect was that Nico spent an entire night writing the draft.
By the time he stopped what he was doing and all the magic runes had dimmed, it was already the next morning.
After reading advanced magic words all night, Kyle felt dizzy and dazed.
Nico, on the other hand, looked more energetic than yesterday.
"It's incredible..."
"Sorry Kyle, I forgot you were still here..."
After noticing Kyle's abnormality, he clapped his hands and asked the house-elf Tata to bring a bottle of light red potion.
"Drink it, it's good for you."
Kyle took the potion and took a big sip.
The next second, the previous feeling of dizziness disappeared.
"what is this?"
"A brain-stimulating potion I made myself." Nico said, "I drink some whenever I need those memories from hundreds of years ago. It's very useful."
Kyle nodded, and couldn't help asking: "Is it troublesome to make this potion?"
"It's not a hassle at all, it's very simple."
"If you like..."
Nico smiled and tapped the table with his finger, and a piece of parchment suddenly appeared in front of Kyle.
"Consider this my Christmas present to you."
"Thanks, Nico." Kyle quickly picked up the parchment.
This brain stimulant is indeed useful. Although he didn't really need it when he was at Hogwarts, he could give it to others.
It just so happened that Kanna had recently begun to study ancient runes in depth, and this was exactly what she needed.
And Cedric, Cho, the Weasley brothers, they can all be used too...
Kyle glanced at the parchment, and then the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching.