demon hunter at hogwarts

The weather is getting colder and colder, and fireplaces are lit in the classrooms for warmth. The warm flames burn slowly, making the students always seem drowsy.

"When you are near a lake or river and suddenly see strange but lush broad-leaf cattails, it means you should be careful." In the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Regulus was trying to create a sense of tension. atmosphere.

It is said that this makes it easier for students to concentrate instead of simply falling asleep. This is a little secret taught to him by Slughorn. The old Potions professor was very good at stimulating the curiosity of young wizards.

This approach worked well. Most of the students were listening carefully, except for one person.

It was a skinny Hufflepuff boy with dark skin. He seemed to be looking down at the extracurricular books hidden in the drawer, mumbling something, and not paying attention to the crazy hints of the classmates next to him.

"Mr. Scamander, please tell me, what are you doing now?" Regulus walked up to him and lowered his head and asked.

"I'm reading this book, sir. It says that there is a species called the scimitar-horned snorkel in the world. They live in the mountains of Sweden..." Rolf Scamander answered the question as if it were normal. , raised the magazine in his hand, and explained to Regulus seriously, "I think this is unreasonable. Swedish Brachyrhinosaurus usually lives in the mountainous areas of Sweden, and it is well known that Brachyrhinosaurus will not allow it. Other creatures appear in your territory..."

Regulus took the magazine and it read "The Quibbler" clearly on the cover.

"It's a reasonable guess, but it has nothing to do with the content of our class. The question we should focus on is, why should we be careful about the lush broad-leaf cattail grass?" Regulus stared at Rolf and asked.

The classmates all looked like they were watching the show, but Rolf was not moved at all. He answered in a flat tone as if he was reciting the text: "Because that's probably the mane of a water monster that lures careless people to ride on it." Get on its back, then dive into the bottom of a river or lake, devour the person, and then float the person's internal organs to the surface."

Before Regulus said "Correct answer", he heard Rolf continue: "My grandfather's book said this, but I think he exaggerated a bit... because the horse-shaped water monster is not dangerous, I have one at home and I have been riding it around since I was a child..."

The whole class looked at Rolf with admiration.

"That's enough." The corners of Regulus's mouth twitched, and his face looked strange, interrupting Rolf's speech.

At this moment, he deeply understood Professor McGonagall's mood when facing James Potter and Sirius in class.

"Mr. Scamander's answer is basically correct. Hufflepuff adds three points. The way to deal with the equestrian water monster is very simple. Just use a placement spell to put a bridle on its head." Regulus motioned to Rohr. The husband sat down and said, "But you can't think that you really make friends with it, because it will hold a grudge against it. Some wizards tried to take off the horse's bridle and then pet the horse-shaped water monster. The result was that it was bitten off. Got a hand."

The students began to take notes one after another.

"Hufflepuff will deduct five points for reading extracurricular books in class. Mr. Scamander, this book will be left with me first." Regulus stuffed "The Quibbler" into his briefcase, " In addition, it is illegal to keep Equus without permission. I hope your family has reported it to the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures of the Ministry of Magic."

There was laughter in the classroom, and Rolf blushed and smiled sheepishly.

Students of this grade have already learned placement spells. The difficulty lies in how to accurately hit a horse's head that is constantly moving and trying to bite off a person's head and arms.

It is obviously not realistic to catch a live horse-shaped water monster for practice.

Regulus also rejected Rolf's offer to lend the family's kelpie to the school.

In the second half of the class, Regulus used the transformation technique to create the head of a horse-shaped water monster, manipulated it to move back and forth, and asked the students to try to put a bridle on it. Basically, the teaching purpose was achieved.

Even Rolf admitted that the real kelpie was not that flexible.

After class, a disheveled owl hurried into the classroom and dropped a note to Regulus.

The note was brief:

"I'll see you in your office at ten o'clock on Saturday. Please be there."

Judging from the way the letters were written, this note was written by Sirius, but the handwriting looked very sloppy, and it was obvious that the note was written in a hurry.

In his impression, Sirius was not very serious most of the time. If he became serious, it usually meant that nothing good had happened.

Sure enough, when the appointed time came, Sirius' face lit up in the fire, looking very serious, completely different from the last time he joked about the Marauder's Map.

"What happened? You look worried."

"Some time ago, Newt invited us to his house to see his cute little pets... Can you believe it? The basement of his house used a traceless stretching spell, and there was a horse-shaped water monster in it..." Sirius Opened up the conversation.

"Let's talk about the important point." When mentioning the horse-shaped water monster, Regulus thought of the experience in the previous class when he tried to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys, but he ran into the expert's gun.

"Harry accidentally discovered that he could talk to runes," Sirius said seriously. "Newt was scared."

Regulus's brows knitted together.

"This is a rare ability. Have you... checked the life experience of your godson?"

"James told me that they started by selling potions, and I don't know much about anything else." Sirius was a little embarrassed, but quickly adjusted his mood and said, "But here's the problem, if this is The ability inherited from his ancestors is easy to say, but if... it is caused by other factors, it will be troublesome."

Regulus was silent.

Is this so-called other factor the reason why Voldemort values ​​Harry Potter so much and must kill him?

Sirius said with a bit of pleading: "I have to ask you to help me with this. Harry and I live together, and he will definitely feel uneasy if he finds out that I am investigating these things."

"Aren't you afraid that he will hear you when you say these words?"

"Oh, Molly invited him to spend the weekend at her house, so I had time to talk to you about this."

"Molly? Who is that?"

"Sister of Gideon and Fabian Prewett, married to Arthur Weasley." Sirius explained.

Regulus was no stranger to the names of the Prewett brothers.

These two wizards were powerful wizards and were a thorn in the side of Voldemort and the Death Eaters back then, causing a lot of trouble for the Death Eaters' operations.Voldemort wanted to send people to get rid of them more than once.

"How are the two brothers doing now?" Regulus asked, "I haven't heard any news about them during this time."

"Alas... he died a long time ago. He was ambushed by Dolohov and four people. Now it seems that it is very likely that the traitor Peter betrayed their route of action." Sirius said bitterly, "We We only had time to find their mutilated bodies.”

"Sorry to hear that," Regulus said softly.

The ambush operation was carried out personally by Antonin Dolohov, the top master among the Death Eaters, and he also brought four helpers to defeat the more numerous. This shows how seriously the Prewett brothers were taken.

"In short, Harry hasn't thought too much about it yet, because I can communicate with dogs and make Antalis obey. He temporarily believes that this is a skill that every wizard has." Sirius spoke faster, " But we’d better get this figured out quickly, Parseltongue isn’t a good sign.”

"Does Dumbledore know?" Regulus asked suddenly.

"I haven't told him yet... I don't think it's necessary to let Dumbledore know everything. He has to take care of so many things." Sirius hesitated and replied.

"But it's not a trivial matter, if it's really because of...what you call other factors." Regulus said seriously.

"I understand."

Since this conversation, Regulus spent much less time in the Room of Requirement and spent more time in the library, looking up history books and biographies.

Since Lily Potter was born as a Muggle, it was almost impossible to have an ancestor who could speak Parseltongue, so Regulus focused on the bloodline of James Potter.

Although the Potter family is an ancient wizarding family, the name of the Potter family does not exist among the "28 Holy Families" in the wizarding world.

This is because "Potter" is an unusual Muggle surname, and based on this, the people who originally compiled the list of pure-blood wizards speculated that the Potter family accidentally mutated from mixed bloodlines.

This subjective behavior made Regulus' investigation work somewhat difficult, because the wizarding world had never paid much attention to mixed-blood families, and the records about them were not as detailed as those of pure-blood families.

According to Sirius, James Potter's father, named Fleamont, used to run a shampoo company.

From here, Regulus began his investigation.

But this route was cut off when it reached Ralston Potter, a member of the Wizengamot in the seventeenth century.

Perhaps because Ralston Potter supported the Statute of Secrecy and opposed the war between wizards and Muggles, he was hated by some radicals at the time, and his information is incomplete.

Judging from the information on these Potter ancestors, there is no record of anyone being a Parseltongue.

The further back we go, the more elusive the historical truth becomes.

After a lot of research, Regulus came to the most likely conclusion, that is, the origin of the Potter family came from the famous wizard of the twelfth century, Linfred of Stinchcombe.

Over time, his nickname "Potterer" was shortened to "Potter" through word of mouth.

According to records, Linfred had as many as seven sons, each of whom inherited a large amount of his wealth. The eldest son, Hadwin, married the witch Iolanth Peverell from Godric's Hollow. .

Considering that Harry Potter's family once lived in Godric's Hollow, Regulus guessed that Iolanth of the Peverell family might be Harry's ancestor.

However, there is very little introduction about the Peverell family in history books.

Finally, Regulus decided to go to Godric's Hollow for an on-the-spot investigation.

Entering December, the valley is no longer lush and green, but is covered with white snow and shrouded in silver.

Once again, he came to the center of the small square and watched quietly as the obelisk turned into a statue of the Potter family. Regulus discovered that many of the Muggle shops around the square were closed, and there was only a wizard bar. Still open for business.

Perhaps before Halloween, in order to avoid casualties caused by the conflict, Dumbledore used various means to "persuade" these Muggles to move away from their ancestral land.

The church was still lit with lights, and for a long time, one or two believers would come in and out.

There were a few devoutly praying believers inside, but none of them paid attention to the cloaked Regulus walking through the hall.

Arriving at the cemetery, he first found the graves of James Potter and Lily based on his memory.

The white marble tombstone has been covered with snowflakes, and the flowers Regulus placed here a few months ago have long since disappeared.

Using this tombstone as his starting point, he began to look for clues.

In addition to several ancestors of the Potter family, Regulus also discovered the surnames of many other pure-blood wizards, some of whose descendants were even his former classmates or current students.

The other part simply cut off the inheritance completely at a certain point in time.

For example, the main target he was looking for this time was the Peverell family.

Regulus was sad to find that after the sixteenth century, no members of the Peverell family could be found.

Just as he was about to turn his attention to the older-looking tombstones that were more than 500 years old, a dark granite tombstone mottled with ice and moss attracted all his attention.

There are four lines of words engraved on the tombstone:

candela dumbledore

1851-1899

and daughter Ariana

Where the treasure is, there is the heart

This last name is so familiar.

Regulus recalled the last time he and Dumbledore came here together, and vaguely remembered that the old headmaster had hesitated for a moment in front of a tombstone.

I didn't pay much attention at the time, just thinking that Dumbledore was recalling the location of the Potters' tombstones.

"Maybe this is your treasure." Regulus gently placed a bouquet of flowers in front of the tombstone, and silently left the granite tomb without disturbing them again.

After accidentally touching Dumbledore's secret, he felt a little complicated.

However, he still remembered the purpose of his trip and quickly refocused his attention to find his target.

Finally, after 10 minutes, Regulus discovered a broken tombstone covered with moss, with a few lines of words vaguely engraved on it, but due to severe weathering, the writing was almost impossible to read.

According to his experience, this stone tablet is at least 600 years old.

"Reveal your true form!" Regulus pointed his wand at the stone tablet and muttered softly.

Two lines of illusory text immediately appeared on the surface of the stone tablet:

Ignotus Peverell

生于1214年7月12日，逝于1291年5月18日

In the middle of the two lines of text, there is a triangle mark, with a straight line passing through the circle and located inside the triangle.

"Ignotus Peverell...has found you." Regulus lifted the spell, and the name on the stone tablet became unreadable again.

He vaguely felt that the triangular mark looked familiar, and he must have seen it somewhere.