Chapter 166: That Family Affection
Xie An didn't know that his unintentional actions touched Neville, and this time he met Neville again, and there was less vigilance and strangeness between the two, and more trust and expectation. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Shea said, "I see, what is your mother's illness, is she still in St. Mungo's Hospital?" Xie An did not know about Neville's mother's illness, Neville's mother was tormented by Bellatrix Lestrange and other Death Eaters and lost her mind, and now she is crazy. This disease is very difficult to cure even in the wizarding world, and until now, with the entire power of the Longbottom family, there is no way to cure such a madness.
"My mom, and my dad, they were driven mad by the Death Eaters with an unforgivable spell. Neville struggled to get things out. Few people knew about it, and Neville and the Longbottom family didn't want it to be known to more wizards. Longbottom has always kept this matter his biggest secret.
Longbottom wished he could become a pharmacist, even though he wasn't very smart since he was a child. Little Neville, who knew that his parents were sick since he was a child, was determined to become a smart therapist to cure his parents. After entering Hogwarts School, Longbottom worked hard to learn about potions and herbology, but his limited talent, combined with Professor Severus Snape's harm to Longbottom, made the teenager wonder if he could become a qualified healer many times.
The herbalist professor encouraged Longbottom, saying that he was highly gifted in herbalism, and that if he could not become a healer, he could at least become a pharmacist, and perhaps he could invent a new medicine to heal his parents in the same way he invented the wolf venom.
Xie An never knew this, and Longbottom told him about it, which caught Xie An a little off guard, he didn't know what expression to show, and was a little helpless.
The Doomsday Warrior, who guards the parting of life and death, has no way to understand this long-term torture and pain, and Xie An, who has been hovering on the verge of death, will not understand how tortured this long-term pain is for Neville.
"Son, what happened to your mom and dad is really uncomfortable, maybe you can tell us in detail, maybe Andrew can help you figure it out. Queen Anne said to Neville.
As the mother of Queen Anne, Elizabeth I is her only daughter and bloodline, but unfortunately Queen Anne has not taken care of Eliza for long, and she has been banished to the fault line of time. A sense of guilt for her daughter has always existed in Queen Anne's heart.
Elizabeth I is one of the most famous queens in English history, but her life was full of setbacks. At a time when Elizabeth I needed her mother and father the most, Empress Anne was banished, and her cruel father directly abandoned his daughter. Growing up in such an environment, Elizabeth I eventually remained unmarried, and until her death, Muggles still felt sorry for Elizabeth I.
Empress Anne knew that Elizabeth I had not found her true love. She may have gotten a terrible impression of marriage from the tragedy of her parents. None of this mattered, Queen Anne was sure that her daughter, Elizabeth I, was a witch with some great talents, but the great Empress never showed anything unusual in front of anyone.
Queen Anne didn't know why her daughter didn't choose to follow the path of witches, or why her daughter chose to live and die like ordinary Muggles. These things have always been a problem in Queen Anne's heart. Seeing a young wizard grieving for her parents, Queen Anne was moved with compassion.
Neville glanced at Queen Anne with some surprise, this lady was peerless and luxurious, and she was looking at her kindly at this time, Neville said with some nervousness: "They are tormented by the heart-digging spell and go crazy. Doctors at St. Mungo's Hospital said there was no cure for the disease, it could only be left to luck. Neville had been disappointed so many times that he didn't believe he could heal his parents, but for some reason, this kind and kind lady seemed to be trustworthy.
"Neville, do you have time now, why don't we go see your mom and dad together? Xie An heard Queen Anne's words, thought about it, and already knew the queen's wishes.
Neville nodded and said, "I was about to take these potions to St. Mungo's Hospital, where the doctor said they would help Mom and Dad stay awake." This lucidity only meant not being so hysterical, in fact, Neville knew that his parents were not going crazy and hurting themselves because the doctor had been using some sedative potions on his parents.
Long-term use of this potion is not good for the wizard's body, and can even cause abnormalities in the magic power in the wizard's body, but in order to protect Neville's parents from harming themselves, Neville can only agree to the doctor's method.
The three of them said they would go, and they walked out of Diagon Alley the same way, and Xie An motioned for Neville to get into the sports car together. It was Neville's first time in a Muggle car, and he was petting it with some curiosity.
"Can a Muggle car walk on its own, and doesn't need any magic to drive it?" Neville and Shea sat side by side in the front, Shay Ann as the driver, and Queen Anne sat alone in the back.
"Well, these cars are powered by burning something called gasoline. The car started slowly, and according to Xie An's image, it drove to St. Mungo's Hospital.
"Take advantage of this time, Neville, can you elaborate on your parents?" Xie An thought, he had just thrown the car there and used Floo powder to go to St. Mungo's Hospital.
"Well, on the night Harry Potter defeated the Dark Lord, some of the remnants of the Death Eaters captured my parents, and they tried to find out the whereabouts of the Dark Lord, but Mom and Dad didn't know the whereabouts of the Dark Lord, and the Death Eaters went crazy, and that crazy woman Bellatrix Lestrange completely lost her mind, and she tortured my parents desperately, hurting them with a heart-piercing spell. They were also former classmates at Hogwarts School, Bellatrix Lestrange... I'm going to be, mad womanβ" Neville said through gritted teeth.
"So, did your parents get hurt because of the Heart-Piercing Spell and not any other spell?" asked Queen Anne.
Neville didn't look back at the Queen sitting in the back, but nodded directly.
"If it's just that torture spell, there's hope. Queen Anne said. The so-called unforgivable spells are just the current classification of wizards. In ancient times, most of the so-called forbidden spells were war spells that could be exterminated.
Wizards used to prosper for a while, but in the end, the population of wizards did not show explosive growth, you know, there are not many wizard families like Weasley who can have several children in a family, but in the end, the population of wizards not only did not increase, but continued to decrease, until now, the number of wizards is still in a precarious situation.
Since the time of Queen Anne, however, the wizarding population has not increased for hundreds of years, which in itself is a terrible curse. If there's any reason for this, it's those war-level spells that are the most terrifying.
Some say that the number of wizards has not increased because the more powerful the species, the more difficult it is to reproduce, while others say that the solitude of wizards themselves determines that many wizards do not give birth to offspring in their lifetimes.
The real reason has not been clarified until now. Xie An didn't pay attention to this either. However, as the leader of a sect of witches, Queen Anne knew this very well. You know, for a powerful single creature like a wizard, numerical superiority means victory.
The most common theory is that wizards have mastered too many killing spells, and too much wizard bloodline is wasted on meaningless wars. In such a situation, some terrible, unimaginable extinction spells were gradually sealed and forgotten. With the passage of time, even some battle spells were completely banned, and in the Merlin era, in order to prevent wizards who had mastered powerful spells from killing each other, Merlin tried his best to completely cut off those powerful inheritances, so that the so-called powerful spell curse cut off the opportunity for wizards to learn spells freely.
In this way, at this time, the terrible spells mastered by wizards were pitiful, a single life-seeking spell could already be called the most terrible spell, and war spells like Xie An showed that day had almost disappeared from the wizarding world.
If Xie An hadn't obtained the legacy of the Guardian of Hogwarts School, Xie An would not have touched that threshold by now.
Hearing Queen Anne's words, Neville didn't take it to heart, although the lady gave Neville a good image, but she probably didn't know how much effort the Longbottom family had put into finding a way to cure the Longbottoms.
Neville shook his head slightly, staring out the window. Muggles are hurrying home from work, and who knows what the world is going on and why there are madmen like the Death Eaters. Why is there such a terrible monster as the Dark Lord.
Queen Anne didn't say much, and Xie An said, "Neville, although the torture spells can cause terrible damage to wizards, those spells are not spells that directly harm wizards' souls after all. Moreover, my sister is very good at these healing spells, and may indeed cure your parents. β
Shea's comfort gave Neville a hint of warmth, but it didn't give him any hope. He's been disappointed too many times. If it weren't for the best efforts to heal the Longbottoms, the Longbottoms would not have been in the predicament they are in today.
Xie An didn't say much, but said to Queen Anne: "If we directly make the car invisible, we won't let the detection magic of the Ministry of Magic detect it." β
"I don't know, but it doesn't matter, I haven't seen the Ministry of Magic's detection methods, but if someone confirms, I think I can handle it. Queen Anne replied.
Xie Anke didn't have the patience to wait for any traffic lights, as a wizard, he had many ways to make his sports car fly.
The sports car slowly disappeared in the traffic jam, and the Muggles around them seemed to see nothing, continuing to chat, honking their horns, cursing in a low voice, and there was a ripple in the air, and the sports car had already soared into the sky, quickly flying towards St. Mungo's Hospital.
It took less than ten minutes for the car to land in a remote alley, Xie An waved his wand, the car drove automatically, found a parking space, and the three got out of the car.
"It's still convenient to use a magic wand to control the car directly with your mind, without pretending to hold the steering wheel. Xie An couldn't help but complain.
The trio entered St. Mungo's Hospital through the visitor passage. Neville's parents are in the inpatient ward, psychiatric department, and the wizards here are mostly wizards with unclear heads, some wizards have forgotten everything about themselves, including who they are, and some wizards have always thought that they were actually a teapot, and if Professor Lockhart was still alive, then he should have a bed here.
Neville was familiar with the roads and quickly led the two to his parents' hospital room. The room looked a little old, but it was in a good setting, there were four beds in it, but only two were occupied, Neville's parents. The windows were now closed, and they were carved with magic patterns, as if to prevent these unclear wizards from destroying it. The walls of these wards were also carved with runes, and there was no light at this time, and it seemed that these runes were very old.
The last time I saw Neville's grandmother, the stereotypical witch was sitting on an empty bed, peeling apples, a middle-aged wizard was sitting on a small stool, quietly looking at the stereotypical witch, as if waiting for the witch to feed him apples, and the middle-aged witch that Xie An met last time was standing on the other wall, as if she was talking to a poster on the wall.
"Grandma, I'm back!" Neville said to the stereotypical old witch, put things on the table, walked over to the middle-aged witch, and gently pulled the middle-aged witch back to the bed.
The serious witch looked up at Neville, then spotted Shea and Queen Anne. Xie An wore ordinary Muggle clothes, a black jacket and sky blue jeans, and Queen Anne wore a white sweater and blue jeans, both of them dressed like Muggles. When I crossed the passage, I was questioned by the security guard. After confirming the identities of the two as wizards, they were allowed to enter.
"Neville, who are these two? You're the boy that day!" The old witch wasn't confused at all, she had a good memory compared to her grandson, even though she had only glanced at Xie An from a distance that day, and she already remembered Neville's classmate clearly.
"Oh, grandma, this is my classmate, Andrew Lee, and that one is his sister, Anne Lee. Of course, Xie An couldn't introduce Queen Anne's true identity to Neville, so she temporarily arranged for Queen Anne to be called Anne Lee.
"My sister is a wonderful therapist and she wanted to come and see Neville's parents to see if she could help. Xie An explained briefly.
The old witch frowned, wanting to say something, and finally sighed when she saw Neville taking care of her mother very seriously.
Throne Anne nodded slightly to the old witch, then walked over to Neville's parents. Queen Anne didn't use her wand, and starry shards of light appeared in her hands, which quickly melted into Neville's mother's body.
"Look, look, what's that, so beautiful! Mommy, Mommy, look, are those things shooting stars?" Neville's father was obviously completely insane, he took the old witch's hand like a child of a few years old, hid behind the old witch, and only after seeing Queen Anne's magic did he show his head curiously and scream excitedly.
Neville's grandmother looked at the scene in front of her in amazement, no wizard had ever been able to use magic like this, not even Dumbledore, not even Lemay! The magic seemed to burst out directly from the wizard's body, so natural and smooth, gorgeous and splendid, thinking of some ancient legends in the family, those dusty records, Neville's grandmother's whole body trembled!