Chapter 39： Knott's Gift

Schelling left Ravenclaw's secret room and returned to the long-lost Slytherin common room.

It happened that the friends were all there, discussing the events of the last two weeks.

"Hi, everyone," Schelling said hello, and sat casually between Daphne and Meredith, "What happened recently?"

Draco smiled and said, "What else? Since Dingo's incident, Gryffindor's little ghosts have died down and dare not come out. I heard that-Potter seems to have lost something. A terrific item that hit him so hard, I don't know if it was something his Muggle relative left him..."

Xie Lin naturally knew what he was referring to. The invisible cloak was in his hands. He smiled without saying a word, turned his head to look at Blaise, "Brace, how is your mother's place? Are you still going to pursue Hagrid?"

Brace heard this, and Zou raised his eyebrows, "Mom said it's just that...it's weird...it's not like her mother's character..."

Draco interrupted and said, "That's right! Now the students already know that Lupin is a werewolf! As far as I can see, if I can take this opportunity to kick the old white beard from Hogwarts in one fell swoop, then Perfect!"

Schelling shook his head, "Brother, you think things are too simple. The school board is almost all Dumbledore's people, and there are many places Fudge needs to rely on Dumbledore now, and he will not agree, but- —"

He sneered, "This is just the beginning. Because Dumbledore hired a werewolf, Fudge has been questioned and attacked by the masses. The relationship between him and Dumbledore has been cracked. I dare to say that Fudge will be given a few more years. I dared to turn his face with Dumbledore."

"Where have you been recently? I feel like you have changed a lot recently." Pansy didn't care about these things, and looked up and down Schelling.

"Huh? What's the change? I'm just the same, staying in the bedroom and reading." Xie Lin smiled disapprovingly.

"No, no, it's definitely not the reason. I feel you are more confident and handsome." Audrey Runcorn stared at Schelling while propping his chin with both hands.

Daphne and Meredith snorted at the same time, and at the same time they moved closer to Schelling, as if they wanted to squeeze the body into Schelling's body.

Xie Lin said with a dry smile: "You guys think too much, I just stay in the house for two weeks, what can be changed?"

Schelling suddenly realized that after receiving Ravenclaw’s inheritance, his level of magic power has not changed on the surface, but his level of knowledge has far surpassed most wizards in the wizarding world, and he has a lot of inaction in his hands. Known stunts and killer skills, which gave him confidence.

Even Voldemort and Dumbledore, their knowledge reserves are probably the same. Perhaps Schelling is slightly inferior because of his age, but it is no longer a distance that can only be looked up!

What subsequently changed was his mentality. Yes, he no longer regarded himself as an ordinary student. Instead, he took a solid step towards the road to the strong. He already had the consciousness of the strong. The self-confidence of the strong!

This kind of self-confidence is directly reflected in his temperament, like a sharp blade that is just showing off!

At this time, Knott, who has been taciturn, spoke: "Schelling, my father said, I want to establish communication with you in alchemy, and even establish a business relationship with you. What do you think?"

The Nott family and the Bork family are tied for the two major alchemy families in the UK, and their alchemy is very profound. However, when Schelling was attacked by Gemma Farley, the Knot family chose to stand on the side of the Lestrange family, so the relationship with the Malfoy family was a bit awkward.

Theodore Knott was born in a single-parent family. His mother died when he was very young, leaving him alone with his elderly father. This created his quiet, low-key, unsocial character. His father Old Nott was the first follower of Voldemort, and he was more than ten years older than Lucius (Lucius was born in 1953, and Nott had joined the Death Eaters in 1965).

(Note: Theodore Knott’s family background is official, from Rowling’s manuscript)

(Note: Voldemort’s first followers were Antonin Dolohov, the old Mursiber, the old Rochelle, and the old Knot; the old Knot and Antonin are the only two remaining ones)

The Nott family and the Malfoy family have always had no grievances, and there are still a lot of business contacts. Before standing with the Lestrange family, it was purely that the old Nott didn't want to see the Malfoy family grow bigger.

I thought it was a good game of chess, but I didn’t expect it to be less than a month later. Various news came one after another-Schelling became the youth representative of the European Wizards’ Federation in the Middle Ages, and Sir Merlin announced the award of the third level. Medal, rumors that the Ministry of Magic is even wooing him to join Wisengamao, gaining the power to influence faculty recruitment in Hogwarts, and even Lucius returning to the Hogwarts power class, inventing the well-known anti-stun bracelet , I heard from my son that I got the attention of Professor Bok and learned the technology of the vanishing cabinet...

After Voldemort lost power, the old Knott could escape safely like the Malfoy family, the Avery family, and the Carlo family. Obviously, he was not a stupid man. Yes, he intends to change his course and camp.

Lestrange is the twilight of the past. Although the Selwyn family and the Roll family are not weak, they are obviously inferior to Malfoy's vigorous edge at the moment! There is no need to hesitate how to choose. Fortunately, his son seemed to get along well with the Malfoy Twins at school, which gave him a breakthrough.

Old Knott’s attitude did not surprise Schelling. In fact, Knott’s thoughts about Schelling were clear.

Schelling said indifferently: "Theo (Theodore's nickname), for your face, there is nothing wrong with the exchange and cooperation, but should you show some sincerity?" Schelling doesn't mind accepting the Knot family as allies. , After all, where is the roots of the Knott family? Their secret alchemy may be useful to Schelling.

But if you want such a sentence to wipe out the previous thing, of course it's not such a cheap thing.

(Note: Friends generally like to use nicknames. For example, in the Wesley family, Ronald is called Ron, Ginny Fla is called Ginny, Charles is called Charlie, and William is called Bill, fan fiction If Li appears as William, he must not understand British culture)

Nott had been prepared for a long time. He took out a simple black chisel and a white jade gourd with the finest jade color from his pocket.

"My father asked me to forward this to you, and he said it will satisfy you-this chisel is made of black dragon spar, and the black dragon blood in Hebudi has been poured on it for many years by special means, and it is 30 years old. The work completed only 1 year ago has devoted a lot of my family's efforts. It is said that using a chisel to engrave the Gurunis talisman can get twice the result with half the effort, and it will definitely add more wings to your alchemy."

"This white jade gourd was purchased by my grandfather from a traveling merchant in the Far East. It is actually a sealing device that can seal a magical animal inside. This is not just a simple space magic—"

"The white jade gourd is also engraved with magic conversion magic. The person who holds the white jade gourd can use the gourd to use the magical animal's abilities. If you seal a fire dragon inside, then you can spray the dragon's breath from the gourd mouth at any time; suppose it is sealed It’s an invisible beast, so you can make yourself invisible... It’s important to note that once a magical animal is sealed, it cannot be released. If you want to replace the magical animal inside, you must chant a spell to kill the original sealed beast. You can catch new magical animals."

Wow! It sounds really good, and Schelling is very satisfied, but naturally disrespectful. As a result, Xie Lin accepted two gifts under the envious eyes of everyone.

[Black Dragon Chisel Obtained! White jade gourd obtained! 】

["Allies" Nott Family Acquired! 】

Daphne, Meredith, and Pansy are okay. The three girls have a close relationship with the Malfoy Gemini. The remaining little snakes, such as Millison Bosid, Tracy Davis, and Odd Li Runcorn couldn't help showing a thoughtful look at Nott's behavior.

Milison was born in the sacred 28 pure-blood family, but his family power ranks in the last among them, plus Millison's appearance and body-uh, how do you say? It is only suitable for professional tank drivers, so contact with Schelling of the Appearance Association has been extremely rare during these three semesters.

Tracey is from a mixed-race family. In Slytherin, she has always been Pansy's little follower, and her presence has not been high. Her appearance is not bad, but in the past three semesters, no matter how she tries, she can't break the close defense of Daphne and Meredith next to Schelling.

The Runcorn family from Audrey is not a small family. Although the historical background is not enough to be included in the sacred 28 pure-blood families, the current head of the family, that is, Audrey’s father-Albert Runcorn En in the Ministry of Magic is a figure with hands and eyes open to the sky.

In the original book, after the magic tribe came under the control of Voldemort, he was the fastest rising character. When Ha used the compound decoction to impersonate him, all the colleagues in the Ministry were afraid of him, even the Death Eater Cobain Yax Both Leigh and the puppet minister Pius Sinknis maintained respect for him in words, which is rare among non-Death Eaters, showing how his power has reached.

Of course, Xie Lin didn't know what they were thinking, and didn't care at all. He just wanted to go back to the bedroom and sleep for a while.

Back to the dormitory, Xie Lin slept beautifully. He hadn't closed his eyes for two weeks...

The next day, there are two days left for summer vacation.

Schelling began to pack his luggage, Ravenclaw's collection must be taken away, and he plans to complete the remaining unread parts during the summer vacation. In addition, he would also organize and take away the black magic books he harvested from the Black family secret room.

While looking through these dark magic books, Schelling got a big surprise. He actually found the "Cutting-edge Dark Magic Unveiling" by Egbertthe, the great evil!

(Note: The official does not match the author for "The Secret of Cutting-edge Black Magic", this setting is made up by the author)

This book can be said to be the beginning of Voldemort's production of Horcruxes. It is said that there are only three books in the world, and there is a prohibition on it that cannot be copied or copied. One of the books was originally stored in the restricted area of ​​the Hogwarts Library, but was later hidden by Dumbledore in the principal's office because of Voldemort's accident. It was unexpected that the Black family also had one.

Schelling couldn’t help but think that perhaps Sirius’ younger brother Regulus Black relied on this book to figure out Voldemort’s greatest secret.

["The Secret of Cutting-edge Black Magic" obtained! 】

The book "The Secret of Cutting-edge Black Magic" records many extremely evil taboo black magic. Horcrux is just one of them, and it may not even be the most evil.

The first black magic introduced is the Horcrux. At the top of the page is a portrait of a man with a hideous and distorted expression. His soul is being separated out. He seems to be suffering great pain, but there is cruelty on the corner of his mouth Smile. The book introduces the sources, principles and production methods of Horcruxes, etc. There are also many test records and points that need to be paid attention to at each step.

The first step in making a Horcrux is to split the soul, relying on killing to split the soul. Then, through a series of very complicated steps, the divided soul is separated from the main soul.

According to the label at the bottom of the book, Xie Lin learned that although killing is the easiest way to divide the soul, it does not mean that the soul can be divided once with one murder. The power needed to split the soul is very powerful, and this power comes from evil and cruel things. The key is not in killing, but in whether it is evil enough.

This is why Voldemort could make so many Horcruxes, but Snape didn't split the soul when he killed Dumbledore. At that time, Dumbledore's lifespan was barely left, and Snape's killing of Dumbledore was not a murder at all, it was more like a relief for the latter.

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Astoria-Tori Tori

Theo-Theo

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Kang Zhili-Kang Con

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