[HP] Aunt of the Savior

What Ludwig took out was a brown-red metal card with a mark embedded in gold thread, which was triangular in shape with a circle inside and a vertical line in the middle, which looked like a cat's eye. .

In the era before Jody and Snape were born, this mark once shocked the whole of Europe.Just as the name Voldemort is rarely mentioned by British wizards, wizards in Europe fear the mark, and those who wear it.But now, most wizards have no memory of this mark. In fact, even Snape couldn't remember its meaning for a while.If he hadn't been sitting next to Jody, who was more familiar with the history of magic than most wizards, then today's conversation might have come to an end.

But Jody took a breath the moment he saw the triangle mark on the card, and exclaimed in surprise: "... Grindelwald's mark!?"

Snape frowned at what Jody had revealed to him in this way.When there is a dark lord hiding in a corner of the world who is still alive and ready to make a comeback at any time, receiving a card from another dark lord is not a happy thing no matter how you think about it, even if the dark lord is already in the world. The same goes for Nurmengard, which has been locked up for decades.

And for Jody, the presence of this marker completely opened the floodgates of her memory.The childhood memories that had been almost completely forgotten by her gradually began to recover with this triangle mark.

"Glad you're at least qualified to continue the conversation." Ludwig seemed satisfied that Jody recognized the mark.The reason why he said it seemed was because the expression on his face remained unchanged.He just nodded and said. "Then I think we can go on talking..."

"I remember, you just said that you are Madam Bastard's agent?" Snape asked suspiciously.He believes that after so many years of Grindelwald's failure, no one will use a card with his mark on it to pretend to be a tiger, unless the other party is indeed related to Grindelwald.

"Yes, I work for Madam Bastad." But Ludwig answered Snape's question literally, and he nodded, "So I just do what Madam Bastad asked. Talk to you guys. If you know this card and what it means, then you can get what you want—as long as you're willing to make some cooperation with us."

"Cooperation?"

"Yes, Madam Bastard said you wanted some information, about a wand, and she happened to know it. If you want that information, then there's going to be a bit of an exchange."

Now, Jody and Snape were finally able to confirm that the reason the other was here was because of their trip to Germany last summer.

Before doing something against Gregorovich, Jody didn't think about whether a wizard like Gregorovich, who is mediocre but can make wands, would have an unknown way to protect herself, but she never thought about this The person protecting Gregorovich would be Grindelwald, who has been silent for many years, not to mention that they acted so cautiously, and the other party found out their true identities.

But in doing so, Jody also recalled some vague memories of her childhood, the boy in those old photographs on Miss Bagshot's fireplace in Godric's Hollow, and the one they saw when they were in Germany. The teenagers in memory were suddenly connected together by this brown-red card.

"I want to know, what kind of cooperation does Madam want us to achieve?" Snape said tentatively. "And how can we be sure that what Madam knows is exactly what we want to ask?"

"If you agree to this exchange, we can continue to talk about other things." Whether it was making a request or answering a question, Ludwig's voice did not fluctuate from beginning to end.He answered Snape's temptation very directly, without any hesitation or consideration.

Jody suddenly understood why the mysterious Mrs. Bastard let this man who seemed not good at communicating with her be her agent, because you have no negotiation or bargaining with him at all when communicating with such a person possible.He faithfully acted as a sounding board, and his straightforward attitude was even more surprising, especially for the Slytherins who are always used to roundabouts and reservations, this is simply an unbelievably direct conversation.

"I hope we can think about it before making a decision." Snape and Jody exchanged glances before replying.

"Of course." Ludwig nodded expressionlessly. "I will temporarily stay at the Leaky Cauldron for a while. If the two of you think about it, you can send me a letter to meet at any time."

Although Varnet's Restaurant is a well-known restaurant in Diagon Alley, and the food it serves is also known for its delicious food, but for this dinner, both Jody and Snape were a bit overwhelmed.

Once back at Laurel Cottage, Jody told Snape what he thought. "I remembered where I'd seen the blond boy stealing from Gregorovich's memory. I'd seen pictures of that boy when I was a kid, in Godric's Hollow, my neighbor Bathilda Bagshot Mademoiselle—she's the author of A History of Magic."

Jody once asked Bathilda who was in the picture when she was a guest at the Bagshot's house when she was a child, and Bathilda told Jody that it was a picture of her grandnephew Gellert Grindelwald.But it wasn't until a long time later, when she was reading a book, that she realized what kind of person the handsome boy in that photo became. "At that time, I regretted asking about the photo, because Bathilda had a strange look when he mentioned Grindelwald's name, and I thought I might have asked something embarrassing to the other party, and then I slowly came to terms with it. Forget about that. But I remember, that picture of Grindelwald, who's been drawing this mark with his wand on the wall—"

As Jody said, he raised the brown-red card to his eyes again, and looked at it thoughtfully.In fact, this is just an ordinary card, without any magic, at most it is beautifully made.

"So... the blond boy who stole the Elder Wand is the young Grindelwald?" Snape found this answer not too difficult to accept.As he'd first thought, it wasn't just some blond boy who could steal such a precious Elder Wand from a wandmaker.That was definitely a genius, and now it seems that his guess was correct at the time.

Regardless of Grindelwald's reputation, he is indeed a genius wizard. At his strongest, his influence may be greater than that of Voldemort, although his followers seem to have disappeared because of his failure.But those people couldn't just disappear... Thinking about Mrs. Bastard's special status and influence in Europe, Snape felt that he had already found those people.

"Severus, do you know what this symbol means?" Jody asked in a low voice, looking at the triangular symbol on the card, but she continued quickly, as if she had no intention of asking Snape to answer the question. question. "This is... the mark that represents the Deathly Hallows, although in recent years, few people believe this. Now I understand why Grindelwald used this mark as his logo..."

"Deathly Hallows?" Of course Snape knew the name. "It's the method you plan to use to revive Lily and the others, I remember you told me so."

"Yes." Jody slid his finger over the triangle on the card: "The Invisibility Cloak," then traced the circle inside, "The Resurrection Stone," and finally the vertical line in the middle: "The Elder Wand. That's three." The three Deathly Hallows mentioned in Brother's Tale, but few people really believe that the three things represented in this symbol are real. But, I know, they are real."

"I've always wanted to ask you." Snape stared at Jody with unnatural pain in his expression, but he restrained himself very well, acting rational and calm. "Joe, why do you believe that the Deathly Hallows are real?"

This was a question that Snape had been unwilling to face deep down.At the beginning, Jody said that she had a chance to revive James Potter and Lily, so he stayed in Hogwarts willingly, searched all the books he could find, and even read from the ridiculous "Peter the Poet". I read the so-called "The Legend of the Three Brothers" in "The Story of Beans" to understand what Jody called the Deathly Hallows.But the more he knew, the less confident he was in Jody's resurrection plan.

The only thing he's found so far that can help resurrect the dead is a potion that can recreate a human body, and it's a terrible potion.But he collected all the materials—the materials were not easy to find, some were even contraband, but he collected them all anyway, just so that one day they could at least try something.

He has been evading this question for years.But now, when this mark suddenly appeared in front of him, he found that he couldn't bear it anymore.Maybe it was because they had grown closer and more open in the last few years, and it was becoming harder for him to tolerate the worst betrayal he had hidden from Jody.

Facing Snape's question, Jody was obviously taken aback.She didn't seem to expect that Snape would ask this question directly at this time: "Because... I have the Deathly Hallows in my hand. The legendary three Peverell brothers, I think they are probably the Potter family ancestors."

"You mean...the invisibility cloak of the Potter family?" Snape immediately remembered the magical invisibility cloak.In fact, he once had some doubts about the magical invisibility cloak. Its effect is too perfect, and after such a long time, the invisibility effect has not weakened in the slightest. Magical invisibility cloaks are quite different.

"Yes." Jody wasn't surprised that Snape would guess the value of the Invisibility Cloak. "I paid special attention when I bought another invisibility cloak, they are not the same at all."

"But, so what if you have an invisibility cloak? Even if you have the resurrection stone, you can't really bring people back to life, just like in that fairy tale." Jody was in Snape's tone. Be careful not to ignore it.He stared at her stubbornly, lest his words puncture the hope in her heart, but he couldn't restrain himself from remaining silent when talking about the Deathly Hallows.

"Oh, Severus." However, what Snape was worried about didn't happen, and Jody was not disappointed or overwhelmed by it, but smiled instead. "Yes, the legendary resurrection stone can't really resurrect people, but that's because the person who got the resurrection stone used the wrong method. I know you want to ask me why I said that, it's because..." She After a pause, "...I do have a resurrection stone."