Chapter 2839 "Red Eye" (12)

  There is a kind of velvet growing on the rock wall. I don't know what happened to Van Helsing. He suddenly became nervous about these velvet and sniffed it carefully.

  For five full minutes, Van Helsing stood there looking at it, his face becoming more and more solemn, and then he turned to look at me and asked me to collect some soil to go back.

  I found that the soil here was shiny, as if there was some kind of mineral in it, and then we walked a little further, and we could already see Rice's castle.

   I shivered involuntarily, the castle was surrounded by elms, and bats were flying around, and when they hung upside down on the branches, they looked like pods.

   "Do you remember those ground bees?" Van Helsing asked me. "That's the problem."

  According to Van Helsing's guess, the ground bee collected the honey produced by the flowers of the velvet grass, and then the dog ate the ground bee. Ground bees only collect honey from fixed flowers. In order to make up for the lack of food, they also eat meat like wasps. The season for them to lay eggs and dig holes is usually around October, which happens to be the season when this velvet weed blooms.

   “The velvet nectar makes them hungry, high, non-toxic to dogs, and puts them in a good mood,” says Van Helsing.

  I think this grass is to dogs what catnip is to cats. Van Helsing doesn't think my analogy is too apt, but it barely hits the point.

We walked a little further until we saw a low wall, and Van Helsing took out a bunch of thin-looking biscuits from a small black bag, wrapped them in a handkerchief and crumbled them, and then he took out something that looked like putty , Stir the crushed biscuit into the middle of this stuff.

   I wondered about this, and Van Helsing told me that if he was going to ask the wolves questions, he had to feed them first.

   This bit of cake is obviously not enough to squeeze their teeth, but it will stimulate their appetite like an aperitif.

  At this point all the wolves started howling, just like last night when the moon was just rising, I think they were probably thinking about where to get a dinner.

  When Van Helsing was almost ready, I climbed up the low wall first, but the tentacles were as painful as needles.

  I quickly let go of my hands and saw that my hands were covered with blood. Then I looked up and saw who it was. The low wall was covered with broken glass, which is really disgusting.

  He bandaged my wound, and then we walked around the low wall for a while, and finally found a collapsed place, which can be entered without climbing over the wall.

"Before we do anything, I want to tell you something, drawn from the knowledge and experience of the ancients and those who have devoted themselves to the study of vampires. They do not die, whether staked in their hearts or poisoned arrows, They will all come back to life, and the best way is fire, but the temperature of the fire must be high enough so that their ashes will not be resurrected by magic."

  I remembered the hometown legend told by the Romanian first officer in the captain's diary, and nodded cautiously.

  "That thing, I don't know what it is, it seems to be able to produce flames to destroy them, please listen carefully, young man, when facing the unknown, soul and wisdom are our weapons." Van Helsing said.

   Then we entered the old manor empty-handed.

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   There is a Bakar Tower on the west side of the North Ford Swamp. According to legend, there was a wizard named Bakar in the Middle Ages. He was known as the "breathing dragon", so the fortification at the entrance of the swamp was named after him.

   After driving away the poachers, this place became the assembly point for the werewolf capture team. When Pomona came, he saw Barnaby standing behind his uncle and looking at the map with Snape.

  No werewolves appeared in the Screaming Shack last night, but the search team received news that the "Blackbacks" appeared in the ruins in the northeast of the swamp, and a villager picking mandrakes was almost attacked by them.

   Once appeared in the swamp waterways, it was the swamps that attacked Muggle ships, and they would attack any people or animals that invaded their territory.

  Strictly speaking, the place where the ruins of the fortress currently stands is already a Muggle community, but almost no Muggles go there anymore.

   "It's lunch time." Pomona said to everyone, and placed the picnic basket with the Space Expansion Charm on the dining table.

  She put out a load of goodies, enough for the squad and a growing teenager.

   Cecil and Snape also temporarily stopped looking at the map, but instead of eating with them, Snape asked Pomona to follow him.

   In fact, the swamp with running water is not smelly, and there is a lot of vegetation in it. In June, the swamp is full of flowers, and the cattle and sheep raised by the villagers are grazing leisurely by the river. The scenery is very beautiful.

   "What's this?" He took a plate of dessert from a picnic basket.

   "Kefi jelly," said Pomona. "I made it with plum brandy."

  He put the plate of dessert aside, pulled out a sandwich made of charcoal-grilled steak and cherry pie, and chewed it as if he had been hungry for a long time.

  Seeing how good his appetite was, Pomona also ate with him, looking at the beautiful scenery in front of him.

  Because Cole was making such a fuss, Dumbledore had to come forward and admit that he was not the one who hurt Barnaby.

  Maybe because the feeling of being wronged has been suppressed for too long. Cole even said in front of the teachers that if he wanted to teach Barnaby a lesson, he would not be sneaky and would do it in front of everyone.

After he finished speaking, he glanced at Snape meaningfully. Although Cole hadn't entered school when their generation graduated, the incident was so big back then, and Lily and James are still heroes now. When the adults missed those past events, the children also heard it. They were not ignorant of the events at that time.

   Anyway, Cole won't take responsibility for something he didn't do.

  In the end, Barnaby didn't show up either, but his uncle did. Because Cole uses non-maleficium, he does not need to bear any legal responsibility, but his kidnapping of his classmates needs to be investigated, unless Ben Cooper testifies that he was not kidnapped.

  Cooper's testimony plus Cole's "mentality is not normal", Cole can at most get a warning in school, and this matter is over.

The word maleficium often appears in the files of the Inquisition and in the books of wizard historians. It is not black magic (darkart) in the traditional sense, such as the portrait curse cast on Phoebe. This is harmful magic. Although this curse is reversible.

  Maleficium refers to malice. Many black magics have the purpose of harming. Over time, people use black magic to distinguish good from evil. People who practice black magic are evil.

  Intestinal opening curse can be used for medical treatment, and can also have a terrifying visual effect. The former is good intentions, while the latter is malicious. In the Latin dictionary, the word Maleficium can be understood as a crime, and it must bear the consequences.

There was a time when the Muggle world was affected by drought and frost, which caused famine and plague. Originally, Germany was not part of the Hogwarts enrollment range, but Durmstrang only recruited pure-blood families, resulting in many World born little wizards were not properly trained, resulting in many tragedies.

So for a while, the teachers of Hogwarts would go to the Muggle world to find qualified children and bring them to the magic school. There was a witch among them, she had extraordinary talents, but her hometown suffered a drought, see The wizard who saw the disaster victims had good intentions and rained them a lot, and then took the girl away. The girl was sorted into Ravenclaw.

   Later, when the girl grew up, she was still benevolent. She hoped that her power could reduce suffering for the world, and even end suffering.

She was immersed in this hallucination. That period was the worst period of witchcraft persecution. Among the historical materials that can be found in 1582, only a storm fell in Hesse in August of that year, which destroyed the grain and vines. , followed by a series of fire incidents, 10 women were burned to death.

  Albus also had the ambition to reorganize the world when he was young, so he became friends with Grindelwald who had the same dream, but this is actually a kind of poison. What kind of person to be is not his ability, but his choice. Albus gave up that dream and chose to be a different person from Grindelwald.

   A person who has only joy and no pain is problematic, the pain that accompanies hunger reminds us to eat.

  With the satisfaction brought by eating, if there is no pain, then people will die from eating too much.

  The reason why the wolf represents greed is because both dogs and wolves lack restraint for food. When the stomach is full, the brain center does not have this feeling yet, and it may vomit in light, or die in severe cases.

  Pain lets us know to stop. Doing things that violate our conscience will also bring pain. If there is no feeling of pain and only chasing pleasure, we don’t know how terrible things people can do.

  Paul who caused pain to these children is still laughing, and the clown is going around blowing up and hurting so many people, still laughing.

  Pain will also remind people not to touch things that have caused him pain before, so that people can avoid danger.

   "I'm done eating, and I'll be ready to go later," Snape said.

  Pomona glanced at his half-eaten sandwich, and before he had time to say anything, he and Cecil continued to study the map.

   "I don't even eat dessert." Pomona pouted, and ate the plate of custard jelly he put aside.

  She puts regular plum wine, not the laugh-out-loud brandy that Albus brought back from abroad.

  It is really "Once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of well ropes".

  (end of this chapter)