Chapter 263: Black Lake Crisis (2)
If I need a room full of gold gallons, will the Room of Requirement become a room full of gold?If I want to find three Deathly Hallows directly, can the Room of Requirement help me prepare three Deathly Hallows? If I want to turn the Room of Requirement into a secret room for Salazar Slytherin's legacy, will it conjure a basilisk for me to practice snake language? If I wish I could hide the Philosopher's Stone in a place where no one can find it, would the Room of Requirement be safer than the mechanism jointly designed by the four Deans?
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Hogwarts Castle is full of secrets, but it's not the divine realm that grants all wishes. The castle's former owner is still petrified and placed in the inner corner of the castle, ready to fight for the castle in the future. Since the four founders decided to establish this school of witchcraft and wizardry at Hogwarts Castle, countless magical geniuses have lived and studied here, leaving their most naΓ―ve and imaginative years here. Not only will they become powerful wizards in the future, which is recorded in the History of Magic, but they also leave many traces at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, in addition to the trophies in the Hall of Honor, and magical miracles such as the Room of Requirement.
Principal Dumbledore pushed open the small wooden door, this wooden door looked a little too short, Dumbledore's tall figure had to bow slightly to squeeze in, strangely, there seemed to be a lot of space behind the wooden door, it was dark inside, Dumbledore entered it alone, and later, the wooden door was gone.
The mermaid siren swam to the edge of the tribe alone, some of the merfolk have grazed back, the mermaid tribe relies on grazing fish to feed themselves, of course, some good algae is also very delicious, but the mermaid has not been able to work out a way to steadily grow algae at the bottom of the lake, some mermaids have formed partners, they take their children, drive a group of big silver fish, back to the tribe's fish circle, the child happily swims around the fish, from time to time makes a sharp whisper, his parents look at it kindly.
The siren, who has been an orphan since he was a child, looked at it with envy, and the longing for his biological parents in his heart reached an unprecedented level. Before a child grows up, his parents are his everything, maybe a toy, maybe a happy outing, can become the child's happiest memory. But as time goes by, the desire for a better world in the outside world gradually replaces the attachment to their parents, and even some children begin to fall into the devil's path, as creditors, always wanting to get more from their parents.
Those orphans who have lost their parents since childhood, who can ask for their parents' care?
"Siren, what are you doing here, didn't Dad tell you to help find the three escaped wizards? Are you lazy again?" a sturdy fish-man nudged the siren, and the siren came back to his senses from his fantasy.
"I've been helping them find them for almost a day nowhere, and still haven't found anything. Seeing that it was the eldest son of her father-in-law, the siren replied lukewarmly. The stepfather had three wives and several children, and these children were not good for the sirens, and the sirens did not have a good relationship with them. Fortunately, the sirens are extremely talented, and their magic power is the strongest in the tribe, and although she is not very old, no one dares to bully her.
In addition to this obnoxious rude and brutal big man, there is also a petite, pretending little female fish-man who speaks and is also very annoying.
"Hmph, what Dad ordered, you were lazy before you finished it, I really don't know who you learned it from. β
Siren's face turned red, but she didn't get angry, she had taught her several brothers and sisters who were neither father nor mother good before, and the stepfather looked very angry that time, although the siren felt that he was very wronged, obviously they had been bullying him, but the stepfather would only believe the words of the little female fishman. The stepfather's eyes looked at him angrily without saying a word, and the sirens did not want to remember it until now.
Seeing that there was no way to stay any longer, the siren wagged his tail and slowly swam out of the tribe. In the middle of the Black Lake, the merfolk tribe has been swimming in the direction of the undercurrent, passing through a maze of algae to reach a ruin.
The sirens followed the undercurrent in the darkness, swimming aimlessly. As she grew older, she became more and more eager to leave the tribe and go further afield. Once she ventured through the algae maze and swam to the shore of the Black Lagoon, where she met a white-bearded wizard who secretly looked underwater at the wizard standing on the shore, and the wizard seemed to be studying something seriously.
"Mermaid, have you watched me for so long, is there something wrong?" The wizard actually spoke the language of the mermaid, which made the discovered siren not flee immediately, but mustered up the courage and surfaced: "Are you a wizard?"
"Of course, what, don't I look like it?"
"No, I've never seen a real wizard, this is the first time. β
"I see, I'm a wizard named Albus Dundondo, what about you, young mermaid?"
"I, my name is the Siren. β
"It's a siren, do you live in this lake?"
The siren nodded.
"Do you know any of the larger ruins under the lake?"
The siren shook his head, "No? β
"What do you mean by ruins, I don't understand the word?" Siren has lived in the merfolk tribe since she was a child, and she has only seen the buildings of the tribe, how does she know what ruins are.
Deng Liduo was slightly stunned and said with a smile: "It's a lot of houses that no one lives in." β
"We don't have one in our tribe, but I've heard that not far ahead, there is a big ruin, and there are a lot of big houses that no one lives in, but the old people of the tribe don't allow us to go there to play, and I've heard that it will make people crazy. β
"I see, can you show me where it is?" Dumbledore continued.
"I don't know, it's the first time I've left home, and I don't know how to go back now. The siren said innocently.
"Well, I've heard of your tribe, it should be in that direction, you can keep swimming that way, try to swim on the surface of the water, so you can avoid the algae maze and get back to your home faster. β
The first encounter with Dumbledore was a complete coincidence, and the encounter with the first legendary wizard excited the sirens for several days, and after returning to the tribe safely, the sirens immediately began to plan their next outing. In this way, he and Dundedo met dozens of times one after another, which lasted for nearly ten years. The siren has also changed from a childlike mermaid to a young and beautiful mermaid in the eyes of other mermaids.
As the relationship between the two becomes more and more father-daughter, the sirens finally muster up the courage to help Dumbledore infiltrate the ruins and discover their secrets.
"Professor Dumbledore, you've been studying the ruins for the past few years, but you've never dived in, at most you've only looked at them from afar underwater, what's the use of that?" asked the siren at one point.
"Siren, you don't understand, those ruins are not ordinary ruins, but portals to an extremely important place. Although it seemed that the buildings were in ruins and there was no danger, in fact, every building, even every stone, was carved with magic patterns. As long as someone who doesn't understand the secret approaches, the only consequence is to be directly driven crazy or killed by the Demon Pattern Formation. I am looking closely now, just to find out the pattern and find a safe path. You must not be reckless and take on the challenge lightly. Dumbledore said solemnly. He took pity on the child, who looked a million different from his sister, but occasionally Dumbledore would see Ariana Dumbledore in this young mermaid.
"Okay, Professor, what now, you're going to keep watching like this?"
Dumbledore smiled and didn't answer.
These were years ago, and Dumbledore has been in little contact with the sirens lately, he's just too busy. The constant witchcraft terrorist attacks have almost upended magical Britain, and both the Wizengamot and the Ministry of Magic need the help of geniuses like Dumbledore. Even more unfortunate, with the Death Eaters active and Voldemort resurrected, Dumbledore felt that his strength alone was far from enough, and at this time he had already considered whether to reactivate the Phoenix Society.
Without Professor Dumbledore to speak with, the adolescent sirens felt lonely like never before. It wasn't until last night that she suddenly sensed that Dumbledore was calling her, and she walked through the Algae Maze with ease to meet her magic mentor, Professor Dumbledore.
The professor begged the sirens to help him get the children out, a big betrayal of the tribe that there was no turning back. But the headmaster had already thought about a way out for her. "You're not happy in the Horde, and when you're done, you can come back with those three kids, and then you can be the first mermaid student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, what do you think? β
The Sirens didn't think about it for long, and until now, the Sirens still felt a gap between themselves and the merfolk tribe, and although the merfolk's kind people were trustworthy, the Sirens were not happy.
She agreed to Dumbledore's request, and with a few good spells taught by Dumbledore, she stealthily entered the place where the three students were being held, and used a drowsy charm to put the guarded mermaid to sleep.
Originally, it was about to complete the task, but when the siren was about to leave, the tribe panicked, and the tribe Moteng, who had not awakened for a long time, found that the three wizards were missing, and the tribal Moteng ordered the entire tribe to be blocked, and the siren had no choice but to find a place to hide the three of them first. In his frustration, the siren remembered the nursery where he had lived as a baby, now abandoned and hiding.
After hiding the three of them, the sirens who were afraid of being found abnormal, so they could only hurry back to their residences, and happened to meet the young men of the tribe led by their father-in-law to search.
Things have come to this point, the siren has already betrayed the entire tribe, and she has no choice but to give up temporarily.
At this time, she left the tribe in order to tell Dumbledore about her predicament, hoping to find a solution. The merfolk may not be able to fight the wizard on the shore, but when they are in the water, the wizard is no match for the mermaid at all.
Today, the water of the Black Lake seems to be colder than usual, and when passing through the familiar algae maze, the siren always feels as if something is following her, and she can't help but use stealth magic, hiding behind a piece of algae that is more than ten meters high, waiting for her life to appear, but after half an hour, no mermaid appeared.
Out of caution, the siren did not lift her invisibility, and she seemed to melt into the dark waters of the lake, swimming slowly towards the shore.
Dressed in gray wizard robes and wearing a tasseled wizard's hat, Dumbledore paced back and forth on the shore, Amelia Bones was now engrossed in looking at the parchment scroll in his hand, and a dozen Aurors looked around warily.
"Albus, are the three warriors sure they were detained by the Mermaid Tribe?"
"Amelia, the matter has been decided, I have a little friend among the merfolk, and she saw with her own eyes that the Horde's Moteng captured three little wizards. β
Amelia frowned again, "If it's a matter of the entire tribe, relying on a few of our people, there is no way to forcibly rescue them, the three warriors have been underwater for a long time, nothing will happen, right?"
"I'm also wondering about that. Unfortunately, the Horde Morten was very cautious, and he also revised the memories of Hermione Granger and Penelope Crivat, neither of whom could remember anything about the Horde. Strangely enough, instead of holding Hermione and Penelope hostage, he only took the other three. β
In fact, according to the meaning of the mermaid Moteng, Cedric Diggory and the three who were later captured, he was not ready to detain them, but the powerful wizard who suddenly appeared modified Moteng's plan, and Moteng had to modify his plan.
Just as the mermaid was thinking about how to help Cedric Diggory win the title, he suddenly felt the magic of his detention of the three raise an alarm.
It's a pity that he still came a step late, and the three hostages have all disappeared.
The mysterious darkness had long since left, and Moteng angrily ordered all the merfolk to go out and find the three escaped wizards. In a moment's carelessness, he didn't leave a mark on the three wizards, and Mo Teng couldn't find the location of the three wizards. Fortunately, when his magic was touched, he found the anomaly, and the three wizards should not have run far. At this time, the entire water area is closed, and those three wizards will not be able to escape without gill grass.
It's a pity that I didn't expect that there would be a merfolk willing to help the wizard among the mermaids, and this huge pursuit was doomed to fail.