A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 336 The Most Painful Punishment

Felix stared at the altar. Such a large statue, right in front of his eyes, decayed into pieces in a very short time, shattered into pieces, and then was blown into fine sand by the invisible wind, leaving nothing in the end.

Could it be because of the breath he blew?

Certainly not, Felix thought, this is too ridiculous, Haierbo's statue should be similar to those basilisk corpses I saw before, and it was also in a sealed state. I don't know how long it has passed, at least thousands of years, no, 2000 Years?

He thought about it seriously. The despicable Hai Erbo was active in ancient Greece, earlier than the four founders of Hogwarts, and when the Big Four rose, Hai Erbo had disappeared for hundreds of years.

For them, Haierbo is already a part of the legend - they only know that he is notorious, but they have never seen a real person.Even when they were young, they might have been frightened by their parents with Haierbo's evil reputation because they were disobedient.

Felix grinned, amused at the sudden thought.It is a fact that legends used to be children, but few people think of it like this. They are more inclined to think that legends are legends from the beginning.

Felix put aside this thought, became serious, and thought about the Horcrux issue very seriously.

That's right, Horcruxes.For him, the only attraction of horcruxes is the study of souls. Unfortunately, even though he has mastered the method of making horcruxes, he still knows very little about the realm of souls.

Not even the fur has been touched.

He thought of that book, Secrets of the Cutting-Edge of Dark Arts, which contained more magic than Horcruxes, but which was without a doubt the most sinister of them all.The reason for evil is not just the need to murder, but also to split the soul.

It is an act against nature to make a perfect soul incomplete, and it will definitely pay a very heavy price. This is clearly mentioned in the book. As for the price, it is not mentioned in the book, and Felix has no way of knowing know.

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When Hermione first came in, she was startled. It turned out that there were not only the two basilisks blocking the door, but also a large nest inside. They bumped into themselves, and then came to the professor, just in time to hear the professor mention the Horcrux.

She was startled, did the professor discover the fourth Horcrux of the mysterious man?Thinking about it carefully, it was wrong, because a person's name was mentioned earlier - Haierbo, and she quickly realized the meaning of the name Haierbo.

The despicable Haierbo, a famous dark wizard in ancient Greece, is one of the sources of many existing black magics. He invented many evil curses and black magics, the most famous of which is the Horcrux!Among other things, he is a Parseltongue and has discovered how basilisks hatch.

Could it be that they entered the place where Hai Erbo hid the Horcrux by mistake?

Just about to ask, the professor sighed and blew, and then the solid statue in front of him fell apart and turned into fly ash, even when she walked over, even the ash disappeared, as if everything was her illusion .

"Professor?" Hermione tilted her head and looked at Felix, who had been silent since just now.

Felix looked at her and said calmly, "It's nothing, just feeling a little emotional."

"You destroyed Hai Erbo's Horcrux?"

"Well, it has nothing to do with me. It was destroyed long ago. We just discovered this fact."

Hermione blinked and tried to analyze using her limited knowledge about Horcruxes. She first glanced at the others. The three of Keremy had just entered, and they were smacking their tongues at the corpse of the basilisk standing in front of them. The goblin Gonuk ... She couldn't see, maybe it was blocked by the basilisk.

So she asked in a low voice: "Professor, if the Horcrux is destroyed, what about Haierbo's main soul?"

Felix rolled his eyes. This is an interesting question. The function of the Horcrux is to split the soul and hide part of it in an object outside the body.In this way, even if the body is attacked or destroyed, it will not die, because there is still a part of the soul left unharmed.

But this is for the situation where the wizard died unexpectedly and the Horcrux was still alive. What if both of them had accidents?

Is it possible that Haierbo invented the method of making Horcruxes and successfully made the first Horcruxes, but before he had time to study how to restore his body, he died of an accident or simply died of old age? ...

This kind of speculation is not impossible. The reason why Haierbo is admired or hated by the latecomers is because he invented a lot of black magic creatively. Is it possible? Before him, no one has studied the recovery of the dead. The method of the flesh?

Felix followed this guess. Haierbo's main soul was immortal because of the existence of the horcrux, and he had been wandering around, but he couldn't find a good way to revive him. So he didn't know how many years, and the horcrux was also in a long time Decay, what will be waiting for Hai Erbo?
Will he perish directly, or continue to wander in a corner of this world, worse than the humblest wandering soul?

"I don't know," Felix answered Hermione's question, "maybe it would be nicer to die."

Hermione couldn't understand it for a while, and wanted to continue to ask, but she quickly realized the key point. Losing the Horcrux and leaving the main soul empty, there are only three possibilities, either dissipate, or linger like Voldemort, or successfully revive.

The first two are unknown, but the third possibility is extremely slim, because no trace of his activities has ever been discovered by later generations—this is actually quite inappropriate. If Haierbo is resurrected with the help of a horcrux, he has no reason to hide.

As for the remaining two possibilities, according to the professor's answer, 'maybe it would be happier to die', this refers to the ending of the main soul dissipating, but if not... just like Voldemort, wandering the world for thousands of years?
She suddenly shuddered, the most painful punishment in the world is nothing more than this?

"Little girl, get out of the way."

A voice said, causing Hermione to tremble in fright. She jumped aside and found that the goblin Gonuk was looking at the relief on the side wall of the altar. She lowered her head and saw that the goblin was holding a silver knife at some point , trying to pry the gems on the relief.

Gonuk successfully got a ruby. He breathed a sigh of relief, wiped it with his sleeve, and said greedily: "Ancient gems, I can smell the rich history, it is more precious than any of my collections, that is The weight of time!"

Hermione blinked, she felt that this sentence should be just a rhetorical device, similar to what Trelawney and Raffidin said, but she still asked curiously: "What did you see, Mr. Gonuk? I can see see?"

"No! Everything here is mine, no, Gringotts," he said gravely.

Felix smiled, "Miss Granger, if you like something, you can pick one or two as souvenirs."

The goblin looked at him viciously, but Felix took out an invitation letter from Gringotts and waved at him, and he instantly became sluggish like a deflated ball.

"What's wrong?" Hermione asked puzzled.

Keremi came over and said with a smile: "Professor Hap is an expert invited by Gringotts, so he will be paid. Gornuk is aware of this, so..." She made a heart-wrenching gesture towards Hermione , Hermione giggled.

But Hermione was just curious, and didn't have any ideas for her own. She had no interest in gems, so she went around and looked at the patterns on the altar—there were wizards on it, or they were appraising gems, or they were sitting majestically, or When writing at a desk, beside these wizards, there are always all kinds of gadgets, such as gems, magic wands, vials, and hourglasses.

She wanted to take a closer look, but the goblin followed her wherever she went, and finally got bored, so she ran to the corridor and the professor to read the runes left on the slate.

Felix is ​​recording the ancient magic on it, and Hermione is more interested in the stories told on the slate, but after knowing that the owner of the darkroom is Hai Erbo, she naturally understands that all these are fake, and Hai Erbo carefully wove them. scam.

But why did he do this?

Hermione tried to understand Haierbo's intentions. She had read many ancient wizards' magic handbooks from Felix, and she was not unfamiliar with their mentality, but Haierbo's actions made her extremely puzzled.

After thinking for a long time, she came up with two directions. One is that Hai Erbo hopes to lure talented wizards, trick them into the dark room, and use the internal magic to achieve ulterior secrets, such as holding a resurrection ceremony, but unfortunately, he waited in vain. for thousands of years.

And the other direction is the cover-up method reserved by Hai Erbo.He never thought that people could leave alive after knowing this place.And all the previous arrangements were for this purpose——

Put the hiding place of the Horcrux under the pyramid, and use the pharaoh's tomb to cover up the secret of the Horcrux, making it difficult for outsiders to find out.This is the first layer of protection.

The black mist and curses in the corridor are the second layer of protection. If the wizard who strays into this place is a little weaker, he may die in the black mist for no reason and be digested by the black mist. You know, Mr. Goblin is It was said that black mist is corrosive!

Even if a wizard successfully breaks through the black mist, there is still a third layer of protection, which is the temptation of ancient magic on the stone slab. He will think that he has broken into the heritage of a strict predecessor, not only will he not disclose the news to the outside world, but will Trying alone again and again to break the invisible curse.

Even if he successfully passes through these checkpoints, what awaits him in the end are a dozen basilisks. According to Hermione's guess, no matter how powerful a wizard is, he can't resist the attacks of more than a dozen basilisks at the same time, right?
"If this is the case, then Hai Erbo is too scary, and he deserves to be called the despicable Hai Erbo." Hermione muttered softly.

"What?" Felix asked.

"No." Hermione immediately shook her head, followed the professor's gaze, and looked at the rune sequence above.

Felix said gently: "I don't have time to guide you, but you can try to learn it. Do you understand what I mean, it's just the core runes, see which one you feel the most, maybe It is your second ancient magic."

Hermione nodded, excitedly trying one by one.The first ancient magic, she didn't know the core runes, so she gave up...

The second one means 'distortion'. She tried to outline the core runes and sub-core runes. The air in her hand seemed to twist, but she tried several times, but still failed.

She kept moving her position until the penultimate one, and Hermione's eyes lit up.Core runes—flame, sub-core runes, all of them!She also understands most of the remaining peripheral runes.

That's it.She had a strong premonition in her heart.

Hermione carefully outlined the runes in the air. She has the experience of learning lighting techniques. She knows the most basic operation process of ancient magic—the core runes are like magic symbols, and the sub-core runes determine the external characteristics and attributes of magic. Runes build and perfect complete magic.

Hermione sketched out the flame runes first, letting it switch between rune symbols and flames, then restored to ancient runes, and continued to outline the sub-core runes.

After a while, Hermione wiped her sweat and stopped.Covering a yawn with his hands, he decided to take a break.

Felix has finished recording the rune sequence on the slate, and the docile black lightning flashed between his fingers, but this image only passed in a flash. He put away his magic and said to Hermione with satisfaction: "Let's go out, they have already Waiting outside."

They walked out of the pyramid and returned to the tent camp. The goblin was so tired that he slumped in a chair and kept complaining that his knife was cracked, but no one sympathized with him. "Because you won't let us help," said Kremi. While making yourself a small glass of ice water.

She took a big gulp for herself, frowned, and then opened it up a little bit, and let out a long breath.

The others were also very relaxed, and they were lucky enough to come out of such a dangerous place.Faisal and Rahman immediately decided to ask for leave to watch the Quidditch World Cup.

Felix was also a little tired. He took off the basilisk skin cloak, took out a silver pocket watch, flipped off the cover lightly, and a Nixiu came out, stood in the palm of his hand, and kept yelling at Felix. , counted his crimes, and then pointed his ass at him.

"It's my fault," said Felix, smiling, feeling better all of a sudden.He took out a gold Galleon, touched and sniffed Varun's shoulder lightly, it seemed to smell a charming smell, turned his head a little bit, caught a glimpse of the golden light from the corner of his eye, and immediately snatched it up. After leaving the gold gallon, he stuffed it into his pocket, and patted Felix's finger with satisfaction.

Hermione stared at the little guy with wide eyes, "Professor, is this a sniff?"

"Well, mine, you can call her Valen." Felix said, touching its pink beak with his fingers, sniffing and ignoring it, looking left and right, poking his head.

Hermione took out the small locket that could control the temperature, shook it in front of its eyes, sniffed Varun, looked around, then immediately ran along the table and threw herself into Hermione's arms, stretched out her short hand to reach the small locket .

When Nixiu appeared, the goblin Gonuk immediately widened his eyes, covered his side pockets, and shouted in horror: "Take that little devil away, take it away!"

His scream caught Niffler's attention, and it poked its head out of Hermione's arms, staring at Goblin Gnuck with its small bright black eyes.

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(End of this chapter)