Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

The Elder Wand is the least emotional, the most calm and cruel wand, and only considers the ability of the user.

Other wands will have a certain degree of loyalty to a person, so even if you are defeated, as long as you still hold that wand, that wand will still serve you, and they will not give up the owner of the wand so easily.

This quality is especially evident in wands made of unicorn hair, which remain loyal to their owners.

If a wand is allowed to choose a capable person, they will prefer the master the wand chooses.

However, the Elder Wand is only loyal to power, it is completely emotionless.

It goes with power, so if you win the original wielder, you win the wand.

This is one of the characteristics of the Elder Wand, and it is also reflected in Ivan's wand, even more domineering.

For two years, Ivan found that no one but himself could control and use his wand.

Unable to cast even the simplest spells with it, the wand resisted other users.

The most obvious example is that Peter Pettigrew once tried to kill him with Aven's wand.

But Aiwen could see clearly that Peter's Killing Curse had lost its effect. When he wanted to continue using this magic, he suddenly dropped his wand and turned to run away. Horror was written on his face, and he was obviously frightened by something. !

Something must have happened at that time, Peter Pettigrew must have felt some extremely powerful power from Ivan's wand.

The kind of power that could evoke the terrifying memories deep in his heart, that's why he turned around and ran away.

Ivan didn't know what that power was. In fact, he had never studied and understood his wand.

At certain times, especially when using advanced black magic involving soul power, he could clearly feel that there was something inside this magic wand, that something wanted to break through the limitation of the magic wand and come out from it...

This is really terrible. Ivan has never used the Elder Wand, but he doesn't think the tail feathers of thestrals will have this effect.

Of course, all this is still a mystery, and it is not impossible.

As Ollivander just said, wand science is the most complicated and mysterious branch of all magic.

It involves the origin of the wizard's magical power, and many theories have been summed up through generations of exploration.

This is also the main reason why excellent wand craftsmen are always passed down from generation to generation and have a history of thousands of years.

"This wand is the only thing handed down from my great-grandfather. Please believe me, my great-grandfather's achievements are something that every wandmaker can only look up to. He has done great things!" Ollivander Mr. carefully inspected the wand in his hand, and continued to speak softly, "Mr. Mason, this wand he left behind has been passed down from generation to generation until it met you..."

His right hand holding the wand was slightly lowered, and a silver half-moon glow emerged from the end of the wand.

"This wand has been well maintained, and its characteristics have not changed significantly!" Mr. Ollivander said, returning the wand to Ivan, "Remember, Mr. Mason, it is the wand that chooses the wizard, and there is always One day, you will understand my words. Please use this wand well, it will be your most powerful assistant."

Hearing his words, Ivan felt even more confused.

Mr. Ollivander did not comment on his wand like others did, saying nothing about its material and core.

He just looked at Ivan quietly, his milky white pupils gave a creepy feeling.

Then he turned to Dumbledore and nodded.

"Thank you, Garrick!" Dumbledore stood up at the referee table, and said to Ivan and the four of them and the warriors, "Now you can go back to class, maybe it's more convenient to go directly to dinner, anyway, they will soon get out of class is about to end!"

"What, it's finally over?!" Bagman also stood up, and he had been drowsy while Mr. Ollivander examined his wand, but now he became extremely excited, "Take a picture, Dumbledore, Take a picture! The referees and the Warriors come for a group photo, and the four kids can come too, what do you think, Rita?"

"Okay, let's take a group photo first!" Rita Skeeter said, her eyes fell on Ivan and Harry, "Maybe later, I will take a few single photos."

It took a long time to take pictures.No matter where Madam Maxim stood, she blocked others.

And the room was too small for the photographer to stand far enough to bring her into the shot.

In the end, she had to sit down and the others stood around her.

Karkaroff kept running his fingers around his goatee, trying to curl it.

Krum hides evasively behind everyone, as if he is not used to taking pictures.

After the group photo shoot, Rita Skeeter also insisted on taking individual photos of everyone.

Seeing what she meant, she wanted to take a few separate photos of Ivan and Harry.

Ivan ignored her and pulled Harry and Hermione out of the room.

Chapter 570 The First Communication with the Mermaid

The report on the Triwizard Tournament and the content of this interview in the "Hogwarts Wizarding News" was printed and published the day after the interview.

This report caused a great sensation and repercussions in the magic world.

Aside from the vampire hunt, which still hasn't made much progress, the Triwizard Tournament is the hottest topic in the wizarding world right now.

Wizards all want to know who the warriors of the three magic schools are and their basic situation.

Also, the specific reason why there is an extra warrior, and the content of the competition, etc.

Ivan and Hermione's reports were timely, and the detailed content also satisfied everyone's desire to explore, and the sales volume was very good.

That's no surprise, but it's odd that the Rita Skeeter report has been slow to come out.

She and the "Daily Prophet" didn't seem to be in a hurry. Obviously, their concerns were not the same as the reports of Ivan and Hermione.

They seemed to be planning to wait until the heat of the report in the "Hogwarts Wizarding News" passed before publishing their own report.

For the next two weeks, school life returned to its usual calm.

Hufflepuff and Slytherin seem to be finally tired of the endless hostility with Gryffindor. Although they are not very friendly, they have been able to communicate with other people normally, and only when facing Ron, they will show There is obvious hostility and endless ridicule.

Gabriel became more and more familiar with everyone and became a part of Gryffindor.

Ron finally recovered from the excitement of becoming a warrior and began to think about how to face the first project.

He finally started to feel a little scared that he had to complete an unknown, dangerous, and extremely difficult magic activity in front of everyone in the school. With the help of Ivan, Harry, and Hermione, he made up for it a lot. Magic lore and spells.

These things are too low-level. Ron has left behind a lot of homework and needs to learn a lot.

Even so, Aiwen couldn't see how learning these low-level spells would be of any help when dealing with fire dragons.

And Ron didn't study too hard, spending a lot of energy on other things.Although he began to pay attention to this matter, in general, he still didn't realize the seriousness of the incident, and he never thought that the first project content would be a fire dragon!

In addition to occasionally guiding Ron, Ivan's mermaid language has finally started.

At least, that's what he thought. He memorized most of the words he saw in the book.

On the second weekend, he planned to go to the lake to try to communicate with the mermaids and test his learning results.

If you're lucky, you might get intel about the key to the Big Four's secret treasure.

Unlike the lake near the Moon Temple of the Centaur Tribe, the lake in front of the school castle is wider and deeper.

Ai Wen came to the bottom of the lake after a quick dive for 5 minutes in a dark and hazy strange scenery.

There were thickets of rippling, tangled black weeds, and wide flat expanses of sand strewn with shiny pebbles.

Going forward, you may encounter schools of fish and giant squid at any time.

In the middle of the lake, he also saw many remains of mermaids.

For example, a large rock standing upright in a murky lake, with many mermaids painted on it, holding spears in their hands, chasing something that looks like a giant squid or a strangely shaped stone statue.

After some exploration, Aiwen found the mermaid tribe in the deepest depression in the center of the lake.

It was a huge village with many rough stone dwellings speckled with algae.

When Aiwen approached, in those dark windows, some faces suddenly appeared and peeped at him, all of them were mermaids.

This scene is enough to make one's hair stand on end. In the deepest part of the dark water, Aiwen was instantly surrounded by mermaids drilled from all directions.

Unlike the blond mermaids in fairy tales, their skin is iron gray, their dark green hair is long and disheveled, and they have malicious smiles on their faces, as if they were monsters that emerged from the abyss .

Their eyes were yellow, their broken teeth were yellow, and around their necks were pebbles strung on thick ropes.

These mermaids slapped the lake water with their thick and powerful silver tails.

After seeing Aiwen, they didn't say anything, and directly attacked with the spears in their hands.

After a brief contact, Aiwen could communicate with them calmly.

Of course, he did this not with a language he had just learned, but with magic.

This is actually not very difficult. Although the mermaids looked fierce, after seeing the light from the wand in Ivan's hand, they immediately turned their heads and fled around, drilling back into the stone dwellings.

Ivan has never seen such a timid creature before, and they stared at Ivan's wand with pairs of yellow eyes on their faces, looking terrified.

Despite their numbers, Alvin was alone.

From the look on their faces, it was clear that, like the giant squid, they knew nothing about magic and remained in awe.

Aiwen used magic to control a mermaid closest to him, this is a very strong guy.

He stared at those big yellow eyes, staring at Ivan and the wand in his hand in horror, his body was shaking constantly.

The subsequent communication was also not smooth, and it was not a pleasant thing to keep spitting out bubbles from the mouth in the water.

Judging from the expression of the guy opposite, Ivan doubted whether he could understand what he was talking about.

After about a few seconds, he spat out a lot of bubbles at Ivan tremblingly.

This time, Aiwen can be sure that he must not understand what the other party said, he can only recognize a few words.

Just when he was about to make a further attempt, the mermaid under his control couldn't stand the stimulation and simply passed out.

Aiwen smiled bitterly, not expecting such a result.

Looking around, the dark stone dwellings are like haunted houses, and there are no traces of those mermaids anymore.

He finally had to give up this failed communication, leave the dark and cold lake, and return to the castle.

It will definitely not work if this continues. This failed communication experience told Ai Wen that some gifts should be prepared for these timid mermaids.

Perhaps, this will make them feel their kindness.

From the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", we can know that the earliest mermaids appeared in ancient Greece.

They live in warmer waters, have a handsome appearance and a more powerful ability to use magic.

After thousands of years of development, mermaids can now be found all over the world, with various appearances.

Depending on where they live, their appearance and abilities vary.

To put it simply, these mermaids who settled in the lake in front of Hogwarts Castle are a group of ugly creatures without magic.

They may have strong physical strength, but they have nothing to do with the mermaids that frequently appear in many legends and myths.

Love of music is probably the only hobby they have inherited from their distant ancestors.

Aiwen decided to prepare some human classic music for them the next time he came, which might work.

Chapter 571 Horrible report

In the following week, Ivan asked Professor Lupine to help him select a lot of classic music songs.

He instilled them in beautiful shellworks, ready to take them under the water and give them to the mermaids.

In the midst of being busy, time soon entered November, and Rita Skeeter's article about the Triwizard Tournament was finally published.

With the publication of this report, Ivan's peaceful life was immediately broken.

Rita Skeeter is indeed a master of rumor making. Her article is not so much a report on the situation of the Tournament, but rather an embellished description of the personal lives of Ivan and Harry.

Since Ivan did not accept his interview at the time, the report still focused on Harry.

A large amount of the first page of the newspaper was occupied by a photo of Alvin and Harry standing together, which she secretly took.

The whole article, to be continued in the second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh, and No.12 editions, is about them both, with Ron's name occasionally interspersed in it, Fleur and Krum being Crowded on the last line of the article and misspelled.

As for Cedric, there was no mention of it in the whole report, as if there was no such person at all.

In Harry's words, the report brought him a burning, uncomfortable sense of shame.

Rita Skeeter wrote that Harry said a lot of terrible things that Harry never said.

For example: I think my parents gave me the strength and courage to persevere until today.

I know that if they could see me now, they would be very proud of me.

Yes, I still cry for them sometimes at night, and I don't feel ashamed to admit it.

Not only does Rita Skeeter turn Harry's hesitations into many disgusting tirades, but she also asks what other people think of him: Harry finally found his first love at Hogwarts, he Harry's close friend Colin Creevey said Harry was inseparable from a girl named Hermione Granger.

Miss Granger was stunningly beautiful, Muggle-born, and like Harry, she was one of the school's top students.

Then the topic changed, and Rita Skeeter followed up and wrote: According to our reporter's in-depth investigation, Miss Granger seems to be in a ambiguous relationship with another famous Hogwarts boy, Evan Mason. Unknown ambiguous relationship.