Patriarchs judge the guilty.

Poor Fred kept thinking about this sentence in his head as he was led to the place called 'The Mermaid Hole'.

The ancestor refers to the ancestor of the mermaid, right? Fred's head was spinning fast, repeating all the **** he'd done over and over in his head - I shouldn't have committed any crime.

Hiding Percy's socks, sneaking the biting teacup that Dad had seized, the dung egg deal on the Muggle school bus, the sneaky deal that Fred remembered, and then the screeching alarm bell rang in his ear , to help a wanted man escape from the police - although it turns out that she was indeed a woman worthy of help...

Oh, and the dragons of Gringotts, the fireworks in the sky, that's a big deal...like a hot spring hotel adventure, but that shouldn't be considered a crime... eh?

Fred's cold sweat melted into the lake water. After thinking about it carefully, his experience was really rich. He glanced at Tatum, who was holding him next to him, and tried to talk, "Mermaid warriors, what kind of people are you in your mermaid clan? Will sin go into this mermaid hole?" Of course, the mouth was still a bunch of bubbles.

Tatum glanced at Fred, "Human cub, I offered to let you enter the Mermaid Cave to help you, because I don't think the peace agreement with Hogwarts should be torn up, you don't need to worry about your own safety, Only the truly unforgivable people will be punished by the mermaid hole, not a child like you."

Fred touched his head, "Then who is the real unforgivable person?"

Tatum really thought about it for a while, "We really don't know this, but I still remember that the last time I didn't pass the test was Kathu who stole the neighbor's egg, and he ran out of the mermaid hole in a daze. , died not long after."

"Okay, we're here!" Tatum patted Fred on the shoulder, not noticing Fred's sloppy eyes, he pointed to a huge black cave at the bottom of the lake, "This is the mermaid cave, go , be brave and don't be afraid."

How can this not be afraid? Fred still remembered in his head that the effective time of the gillsweed was running out, and he couldn't delay any longer, so he bit his head and swam into the cave in panic, not knowing what was waiting for him ahead.

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"Where is the person you caught?"

The mermaid lady Seilia heard someone questioning herself in the chaos, and she found that her eyes were blindfolded and her tail was tied to something.

She began to struggle, not knowing how she became like this, "Thorn," she felt her fish tail was cut open, and the blood kept dissipating in the lake water, and the voice rang again, " Tell me, where did the person you captured go?"

"If you don't talk about it, we'll eat you like a grilled fish!" This was another full-bodied male voice, sounding indignant, but obviously lacking in momentum, at least in Seilia's ears.

Ceilia's mouth was tightly closed, and then she felt someone close to her, and that person had a disgusting smell of licorice.

"I'm learning to cook..." The terrifying female voice started to say something strange against her ear, "I've eaten a lot of delicious food recently, so let me tell you more about it?"

Ceilia began to shake her head, but to no avail.

"I've eaten stewed mermaid with candied dates, crispy eel in Black Lake, fried mermaid with pancakes, oh, these are daily side dishes, as well as boiled mermaid with spring onion, mermaid in pot stickers, and mermaid with boiling pot. I think it's delicious when you hear the name, right? I also want to try braised mermaid, steamed mermaid, and sweet and sour mermaid... If I want to talk about this sweet and sour mermaid, I have to start with peeling and marinating the mermaid for seven hours, and then scalding it with boiling water..."

"I said! Stop reading—" Ceilia was ready to speak when she heard the pancake frying the mermaid, "that man went to the mermaid cave! Follow the path behind the statue in the square—it was Tatum who took him Go! Don't eat me!"

"Hum hum hum," Anna let out a few smirks, winked at George, and then smashed Seilia with a fist. The appearance of the black lake mermaid really made people think of pity and cherish jade.

The two quickly left Seilia's stone dwelling, picked up the water weeds in her yard to cover their figure, and swam to the statue in the square.

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At this time, Fred had already swam a certain distance with the stone in the cave. It was pitch black all around him, and he couldn't see his fingers. Fred began to doubt whether he should move on. He didn't know what the trial was about. When it's done, Tatum didn't say much.

"Fred," Fred suddenly heard a familiar voice calling his name.

Fred was stunned for a moment, then excitedly shouted, "George! Hey! I'm here!" But after a long time there was no response, and just as he was about to swim towards the place where the sound came, he See not far away suddenly light up.

George was standing there, but it didn't look like he had eaten the gills. Fred suddenly felt a little strange, "George?"

Strange George came over to Fred, wearing a white lab robe, like the ones worn by the researchers in the Department of Mysteries, with a sweater underneath, the kind that Mommy sometimes knits for them at Christmas. sweater with the letter F knitted on it.

Why F? Fred was a little confused, George is pretending to be me?

As George got closer, Fred realized that this was not the George he was familiar with. The George in front of him was much taller, unshaven, and looked many years older. Fred did not dare to speak for a while, and he forgot Dodging, watching George pass through him, a flash of light flashed, George walked into the distance, Fred still stood there dumbly holding on to the rock.

The surrounding scenery changed, and Fred found himself suddenly in his own backyard, a place he could no longer be familiar with.

Fred turned to look in the direction where George was walking just now. It turned out to be a small vegetable patch with a lot of strange plants. Ginny's favorite thing to do when she was a child was to pull out the things in it, no matter what it was. - But now, there is no vegetable field, replaced by a tombstone.

Whose tombstone is it?

Fred followed behind George, and he called George a few more times, but George ignored him completely. He wondered in his heart, did George become deaf when he grew up? Fred had noticed that George was missing an ear.

"Harry!?" Fred called out, noticing another familiar face, but he was ignored.

Harry, who was wearing a suit, had experienced a lot of vicissitudes. Standing not far away, he was talking to the woman beside him. Fred looked closely. The more the woman looked, the more familiar she became—

oops! Isn't that Ginny! His red hair was pulled up high, and he had the serious expression on his face when his mother taught people.

A female voice hurriedly sounded.

"We're late, Ron can't find his tie, I just put it away for him in the drawer yesterday, he took it out and looked at it and then it's gone, he's always so lost, I don't know how Be a role model for your kids..." The grown-up Hermione walked past a stunned Fred.

Wearing a black trench coat and black high heels, she walked quickly to Ginny's side and continued to complain about Ron, without stopping for a moment.

Ron followed behind Hermione, tossing his tie and slowly moving to Harry's side, looked at Hermione helplessly, then looked at Harry again, and sighed with a smile, "She's still the same as before. ."

Harry nodded, patted Ron's shoulder understandingly, and said nothing, the two fell silent in tacit understanding.

Fred began to look for himself. He felt that what he saw was very absurd, especially the fact that George was wearing a research suit. Don't you know George's IQ? He looked around with wide eyes. He saw Lee Jordan standing in the corner smoking a cigarette, and even Luna squatting on the ground picking up things, but he couldn't find his grown-up self after searching for a long time.

Just when he was starting to get bored, a woman in a black suit came over. Fred almost didn't recognize her, and after watching it for a long time, he felt a little like his classmate, the girl named Angelina.

Angelina walked up to George and handed him a bouquet of white flowers, which George took silently.

When Fred clapped his hands, he finally understood why this George looked so strange—he had no expression on his face, like a puppet.

It didn't look like George at all, and Fred didn't think George was fit for such a serious occasion at all.

"It's all there," a hoarse voice came out of George's throat, and he looked around, his eyes on Harry for a moment, and Harry nodded to him.

"Then let's start."

Are you ready? Fred was taken aback.

Wait, are there still fewer people?

Fred frowned, "Where's Anna?" When he thought about a possibility, his heart began to beat wildly, and with anxiety, he bypassed George and gathered his courage to look at the tombstone.

Fortunately, it's not Anna's tombstone, Fred thought so, then reacted for a while, rubbed his eyes and looked at the tombstone again.

'Fred Weasley, 1978-1998, he brought us hope, warmth, and countless joys, and now he's on vacation and traveling with angels. '

Fred was silent for a moment, "Huh?" He frowned and said in a bad tone, "Who wrote this epitaph? There are too many words, and it doesn't suit me at all..."

"It's a big joke," Fred began to move, looking irritated. "It's all fake," he muttered, and no one could hear him, so he told himself, "These are all trials in the Mermaid Cave. I have seen them on TV. I know that these trials are all illusions that test people's minds."

Fred kept walking forward, "This fantasy is so unreasonable, George is so serious, how could Ron be taller than Harry? Hermione's hair is so soft that Ginny even wears it. On high heels? How old is she now, and Anna, why didn't she show up?"

The more Fred spoke, the more angry he became, and his voice began to echo. As the echo became louder, the scene in front of him also rippled, and the Burrow scenery that Fred was familiar with gradually disappeared.

It was all dark again, and Fred found himself ashore at some point, and was now walking down a wet passageway full of water vapor.

"Is it really unreasonable?" A deep voice sounded, and then a candle lit up and floated in the air.

The faint light made Fred see what was in front of him, it was a statue, a very delicate lion statue, "But this is your destiny, predictable destiny, unchangeable destiny - don't believe it, I have seen it. A lot of people's future."

"That's even more unreasonable," the twelve-year-old Fred put on his hips and looked viciously at the lion statue in front of him, his tone was poor, "If I commit suicide now, then your so-called unchangeable fate will not be Has it changed - when you told me about my fate, things started to change!"

"You stupid bear statue!" Fred said in anger that the lion statue was a bear.

The lion statue repeated the words 'unchangeable', and Fred rolled his eyes, "How can you be more shameless than Ron, and become a repeater if you can't say it?"

The statue finally stopped repeating, and suddenly asked a very strange question to Fred, "Who is Anna Lawrence?"

"Why are you asking this?" Fred took two steps back.

"You shouldn't know her."

"You don't care who I know!" It was Fred who was in the middle of his second year shouting.

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