The two of them loosened their hands after holding each other all the way until they reached the boys' room. No matter how reluctant he was, Sirius knew he had to go back. He was taking advantage of Xia's low mood late at night, and it would be even more improper if her family knew about it. He already owed Xia a perfect confession, and he didn't want to confess that their relationship was also imperfect, but it shouldn't be on a night like this.

"You should go back to sleep first. Ander is here to see me. Let's..."

The hurried footsteps were getting closer and closer. Before Xia finished her words, Sirius nodded in understanding. He whispered in Xia's ear: "I hope Miss Sylvia will not forget what happened tonight tomorrow. Good night."

The warm breath sprinkled on Xia's neck, and she was stimulated and shivered all over. When she came to her senses, Sirius had disappeared from her sight. She saw Ander's figure appearing at the corner from the corner of her eyes. Xia hurried to the other side of the corridor, pretending that she just happened to walk here and happened to meet Ander.

"Andre! You're out!"

"Why are you here?" Ander was curious, but that was not the point. "Is your hand okay? Why did you cut yourself? I really don't understand! If I have to cut myself to get to that room, I might as well not go in."

"But you can get a more comprehensive explanation from Lillian."

Ander nodded reluctantly. What Xia said was true, and he could indeed learn these things from her, but he was afraid that she was just as shocked as himself and could not give a clear explanation.

Ender lowered his head and thought: Unicorn's blood can prolong life and bring back the dead, which is an extreme temptation for most people. It is because of the fear of being cursed that not many people risk killing unicorns. But there will always be exceptions. According to the current situation, only Voldemort knows that such a thing has happened. If other people in the wizarding world find out... You know, Voldemort is not the only dark wizard.

But Ender couldn't figure out how Voldemort knew that Sia had unicorn blood. How could he know something that even her parents and Sia herself didn't know? There must be something they didn't know. The Death Eaters could lock on to the target so directly, maybe they had already made preparations... preparations? Ender suddenly recalled that Sia's magic power was drained away at Hogwarts. It was the Death Eaters who did it. Did it start from that time?

At that time, due to the lack of direct evidence, the Aurors could not catch the exact person. Even if the Hopes and Priests put pressure on the Ministry of Magic, the most they could do was to send personnel to search the suspect's manor. In addition, many people in the Ministry of Magic secretly supported Voldemort's point of view. Even if they did not clearly take sides, it did make things much more difficult. The Minister could not even convict directly.

The scales must be kept balanced, and the forces of all parties must check and balance each other. Even if the minister wants to resist, he cannot do so openly. The current situation is that half of the people support Voldemort and half of the people remain neutral or oppose him. Most of the half-blood and Muggle wizards choose to protect themselves for fear of implicating themselves and their families. This has also led to Voldemort's forces gradually revealing their ambitions and they have no way to completely resist him.

At first everyone thought it was just a minor incident. After all, the superiority of pure-blood families has existed for a long time. No one expected it to develop into what it is now. Maybe it was indeed Voldemort's men who created the chaos in the beginning, but there is no guarantee now. There is always a shortage of people who like to join in the fun and people who like to stir up trouble in this world. They may not support Voldemort's ideas, but that doesn't mean they don't like to see chaos. Turbulence is most likely to arouse the public's evil thoughts.

This indirectly hindered the Aurors' efforts to capture Death Eaters. Eight out of ten times, they were deliberately joining in the fun, and the remaining two times were just the wrong people or they used Galleons to avoid prison. Ender dared to swear that there were no more than ten Death Eaters in Azkaban, and this was definitely an unimportant part that was pushed out to take the blame.

The brother and sister walked tacitly to the children's room where they lived when they were children, sat on their favorite mat when they were young and looked at the surrounding environment. It was exactly the same as they remembered. The childlike graffiti, the stars and the moon hanging in the sky, and the familiar toy wooden horse made them relax a lot.

"I wonder if the drain of your magic power at that time was related to this incident?"

Ender's words reminded Xia that Nott's original intention of draining her magic power was to remove the curse of the Greengrass family. His behavior was selfish and there was a possibility that he was exploring the way for Voldemort, but he failed. For a wizard, the most special thing is magic. Since magic is not what Nott wants, he and the people behind him must have realized that there is another special thing in her.

But how did they know that the special thing was blood? How did they know it was hers in the first place? And Nott's goal was to remove the curse, and didn't Voldemort want immortality? What's the connection between removing the curse and immortality? In the original book, Voldemort would rather bear the cost of being cursed than hunt a unicorn to prolong his life. If he wasn't afraid of the curse then, why is he afraid now?

What exactly connects the removal of the curse to eternal life?

Xia told Ander her guess, and Ander said, "It must be that Voldemort did something to make him bear a curse or something similar to a curse."

Something that Voldemort did? That could only be... Horcruxes!

Okay, okay, now it's explained clearly! Making Horcruxes will make a person's soul extremely unstable. Voldemort must have discovered this, so he wanted to try to use the blood of unicorns to resist those effects, but didn't he know that he would be cursed? And Nott, is he trying to use one curse to break another curse?

Xia: My head suddenly feels itchy. Is it because my hair is falling out or because I have grown a brain?

"Well, maybe that's the adults' business." Xia said. She didn't plan to tell Ender about the Horcrux now. This matter was really too unbelievable and too evil.

"I've grown up."

Ender was not happy with the statement, but Thea shook a finger at him. "We are the same age, Ender. You know we are only in the third grade."

"Yes, we are only in the third grade, but we can do a lot of things! I want to be an adult who can take care of things on my own. I don't want to be a child who can only wait for things to happen and can do nothing about it."

"I don't want to either, but the adults will say we can't do it, they won't allow it. So..."

"We'll do it secretly!"

"Yes."

Ander knew that Xia would not wait obediently, and lo and behold, it turned out to be true.

"But we still have to tell the adults."

"I know, I know." Ander said perfunctorily.

"Oh my god, I still have to say, Ender, you are a genius!"

"It's just so-so." Ender said modestly, "After all, I already knew I was a genius."

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