Chapter 197: The Mysterious Box (Part 1)

"My dorm?" Jon was stunned.

Wait, shouldn't this identity be Dumbledore's creation with the Confusion Charm...... Could it be that everything about this Patrick exists, not just the identity, but also the dormitory and the luggage left behind at school......

Or is there really a Patrick who Dumbledore killed and then allowed himself to take his place?

Jon, who was a little scrupulous and frightened, quickly ruled out this possibility in his heart. Dumbledore was not one of those people by any measure.

So what the hell is going on -

There was a lot of activity in his heart, but Jon's face seemed calm...... He nodded unhurriedly at the old man.

Following behind the obscene old man, Professor Vance, Jon re-entered the hallway.

Jon has never let his guard down against this strangely behaved "headmaster...... Although he didn't know why the other party had changed his attitude towards himself 180 degrees after seeing the iron ring.

In the corridors of Durmstrang Castle, it seems that the number of students is much smaller now, and it is likely that most of the students are already in class.

The old man walked ahead and suddenly turned around.

Jon paused a little warily.

"He ......," Professor Vance said in a hoarse voice, "is he okay?"

"He?" Jon frowned, what was Dumbled's point?

No matter how heavy Dumbledore's taste is, he shouldn't be able to look down on such a sloppy lewd man......

"Great!" Jon replied faintly, "two pounds of candy in one meal." ”

The old man seemed stunned...... He opened his mouth, but said nothing.

"Come with me!"

......

All the way to the fourth floor of Durmstrang Castle.

On the way, I met several characters dressed as teachers...... However, instead of greeting Professor Vance, they passed by coldly as if they didn't know each other.

It looks like after Karkaroff ran away, Durmstrang was not at peace internally?

At least a large part of the teachers and students do not recognize the identity of the new principal of this obscene old man!

Jon made up his mind to get out of here as soon as possible, lest the others misunderstand his relationship with the old man and get caught up in Durmstrang's maelstrom.

They eventually reached the hallway on the fourth floor, where there seemed to be hundreds of kennels.

It's actually quite vivid to say that it's a kennel...... Every one or two yards in the hallway there were small doors, densely packed with doors, the kind of narrow doors that had to be bent down to barely squeeze in.

You can imagine how cramped it is inside.

"Is this here?" Professor Vance said, glancing at the parchment in his hand, then pointing to a small, yellowed door.

"Okay. Jon nodded, then bent down and squeezed in.

"I'm not going in to bother!" came Professor Vance's voice behind him.

......

Pushing open the yellowed iron door, the inside was actually much more spacious than expected, a few points larger than the Hogwarts dormitory.

Jon somewhat understood why Krum was telling Hermione that Durmstrang was bigger than Hogwarts...... If every room in this castle was under the Spatial Expansion Charm, that would be true.

The smell of the room is strong, the walls are the same as the iron doors, a pale yellow with a sense of history, and the wooden tables and bookshelves are rotten......

It was covered in a thick layer of dust, and when Jon stepped into the room, he left a trail of deep footprints on the floor.

It is clear that this "dormitory" has been uninhabited for a long time.

Maybe more than a few years.

What the hell is the old man who looks rather mysterious, and the headmaster-to-be, who respects him, that he wants to take from here?

Jon pulled out his wand, looked around cautiously, and began to search.

After all, everything was full of oddities during Durmstrang's trip.

There were only a few rat-bitten, Durmstrong school uniforms in the closet, a few yellowed textbooks on the shelves, and a rusty crucible on the table......

Jon took out his wand and checked it, and it was all normal, nothing out of the ordinary.

So what exactly is it......

Jon continued his search, and after a few minutes, he saw a familiar sign on the wall on the other side of the bookshelf:

Mark of the Deathly Hallows.

It's not so much the mark of the Deathly Hallows as it is the mark of Grindelwald.

I've seen the same thing in Professor Vance's office before.

When I think of Professor Vance's strange expression when he sees his ringβ€”

Jon frowned, he seemed to have guessed something.

Gently, he took off the iron ring in his hand, and Jon Hart returned to his original form...... At the same time, he affixed the iron ring to the mark of the "Deathly Hallows" on the wall.

There seemed to be a pull on the back of his navel, and Jon felt as if he had grabbed a portkey.

The surrounding scene turned dark until ......

......

Jon Hart reopened his eyes.

"Lumos Maximum!"

With a dazzling glow from the end of his wand, Jon found it pitch black overhead, and he couldn't see anything.

No...... It's not just pitch black......

Jon felt his breathing quicken.

Because it's not just pitch black...... Rather, a pitch-black curtain covered him.

It looked like a black cloak, perhaps only half an inch thick...... Like an invisible black shadow, looming over Jon's side.

Jon recognized it, it was a magical animal...... A very scary magical animal.

Voldemort bats!

Very rare, usually only found in the tropics, they are large but thin, and can be a little thicker after killing a victim, but they are extremely dangerous, and Newt Scamander rates them as 5X on par with basilisk and fire dragon in the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

The Voldemort bat has a relatively long lifespan, and its size grows larger as it ages.

The one on top of his head, it looks like it can cover the entire castle of Durmstran.

The method of hunting and killing prey is to use its huge body and take advantage of the prey's distraction to completely cover it until it suffocates to death, and finally turns into a part of the body of the voldemort bat without leaving any traces.

The victim rarely has the opportunity to use magic against it.

There's only one magic way to deal with Voldemort, and the Patronus Charm is the only spell known to banish them!

"Expecto patronum!" Jon shouted without hesitation.

With a flicker of silver light, the Patronus appeared beside Jon.

The little iron-eating beast was suspended in the air, looking at the behemoth around it with a solemn expression...... It didn't make the usual croaking sound, but leaned against Jon, its whole body curled up in a ball.

Voldemort didn't attack, in fact if it did, Jon might have been completely covered by his wand before he could raise his wand.

Voldemort's massive body began to fly off into the distance, and its back swing fluttered towards Jon as if to signal Jon to follow.

Jon pondered for a moment, then motioned for the Iron Eater to follow behind it.

......

It was as if they were walking in a space completely devoid of darkness.

Except for the light emanating from the Patronus and the end of the wand, there was no light source in sight.

However, the huge Voldemort Bat is still quite conspicuous, and Jon will be difficult to lose such a large target.

I don't know how long I walked in this dark space, but there was a silver-white thing in front of me, quite conspicuous.

It was a lump of iron covered in spikes, sharp horns, and twisted metal, and it looked like a chair, though it was hard to imagine anyone sitting on it.

On top of the iron bump, there is a small box.

The box is so small that you can grasp it all with one hand...... Around it, there is a quaint glow.

PS: Voldemort Lethifold and Voldemort, there is no connection between the two except for the Chinese translation.

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