Chapter 91: Genealogy
For a long time after that, Voldemort was discussed throughout the European wizarding world. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info As for who is more terrifying Voldemort or Grindelwald, European wizards have very different opinions from native British wizards.
Although Voldemort killed Dumbledore, Dumbledore was too old to be a great wizard at his prime. His extreme ideas were destined to be difficult to sweep the continent like Grindelwald. The popular discussion also stopped at discussion, as well as some support for the British Provisional Ministry of Magic.
The purpose of the existence of the Ministry of Magic and other similar institutions is to ensure the enforcement of the law of secrecy, which is very resource-intensive. Countries don't have the extra effort, resources, and time to help their companions thousands of miles away, and it's okay for a day or two, but it's all in chaos in a few weeks.
Hermione and Harry had successfully passed the Phantom Shifting exam, and now they were doing some sparring training occasionally, each doing their own thing. The wizard with the locket was still on his journey around the world. Currently in Sweden, visiting the Hydrobiological Research Council.
They had done all the preparations, and when Phoenix had his birthday next week, they immediately caught up with Elias Stoney. The investigation into him was really clueless, and no such person was found in any of the school's graduation lists, and Watson thought he must be in disguise.
In their free time, in fact, most of the time, the three of them get together to discuss how to get the locket. They were the first to veto peace talks, which would have been almost impossible. Story has been around long enough that even if he is an adult wizard, he will slowly be affected by the Horcruxes.
After a few fruitless discussions, they went back to their 'laid-back state'.
Phoenix could see that Harry was starting to get a little irritable and doing nothing all day. However, this exposed him to the entertainment of some orthodox wizarding families, with Quidditch leagues and symphony concerts in or around Switzerland every weekend, and Phoenix and Hermione taking care of the plants in the garden.
Today Phoenix took them on a formal tour of the entire castle, having been busy learning about apparition and preparing the essentials.
They walked down a long corridor, and occasionally a procession of armor passed them.
"From here, there were a lot of interesting rooms. Phoenix nodded and walked ahead, "There's a room that you might be interested in." ”
They came to the door of a room with a hidden door.
"This is the Genealogy House," he said, pushing open the door, "and almost almost all the prestigious wizarding families can be found here." ”
"The book?" asked Harry.
The whole room was exceptionally tidy without any frills. In the center of the empty room, there was a small lectern on which a large book was placed.
Phoenix nodded, waving his wand. The dazzling sunlight disappeared, and the white tulle curtains that had been fluttering in the wind became transparent, and the whole room was darkened.
There was a burst of light from the book, and the surroundings brightened, and before their eyes appeared a huge ancient tree, which looked like a god, with glittering golden threads, and they clearly saw a family tree with branches and branches, all the way back to 300 B.C. On the top of the tapestry are several large letters: noble and ancient Peverell family.
"It's not the oldest, most complete genealogy. Some families in Asia and Africa keep genealogies dating back more than 1000 BC. Phoenix began to zoom in with his hands so they could see the names.
"So many?" Hermione's eyes blinked, staring at the names that were gradually becoming clearer, "I think there must be many other families." ”
"You're so smart," Phoenix praised, "and a lot of the famous families with whom we are related by marriage are here." ”
The roots of the tree-like family tree are the beginning, with only one Peverell surname without a first name, and three names extending upwards.
"Nobody knows his name - we only know that he was born near the Black Sea today, and we don't know why he ended up in Britain. "Three names go up to ten, like a sapling that takes root and sprouts, and begins to thrive.
Until the Middle Ages, suddenly many names had no descendants, and only a few names continued to stretch upwards. It's like a big tree that has been cut down by the waist, and the lotus root is connected to the whole tree.
"What's going on?" asked Harry, cautiously, feeling that it was not a good thing that so many people had no offspring.
"Civil strife - a violent conflict broke out within us, and many people died in the conflict. "Phoenix passed by, and Hermione and Harry weren't going to look into it.
"However, there is someone here that you might be interested in. "Phoenix pulls out a name in one of the names of a line, Alice Peverell—her name is not golden, but dark green—and a double-strand gold thread connects Alice Peverell to Salazar Slytherin.
With a flick of his wand, the line grew rapidly. At the end of the moment, the last member of Slytherin, Sarah Slytherin, connected with a man named Gaunt, and then it stretched out in a rapid way, but this time they all knew what they would see.
The name is lonely at the cutting edge, Tom Marvolo Riddle.
"She's a traitor, quite serious," Phoenix made a gesture with his wand shooting at the tapestry, "turning into a dark green name, signifying that they were removed from the family." ”
"Because she's married to Slytherin?" asked Hermione, "because she's a pureblood?"
"No, it's not. She took something very important," Phoenix pulled out a resurrection stone ring, "This is our ancestral treasure, it's not an ornament, it's a powerful magical item. Thankfully, Voldemort didn't find out, and only regarded it as a mortal thing to show off his background. ”
Hermione and Harry looked at the ring closely, and in the center of the black gem, there was a figure that looked like a triangular eye, with a vertical line in the middle of the pupil, similar to the pattern on the shield carried by the armored knight in the castle.
Phoenix has a little bit to say about Peverell.
"In general, we are free to marry, because it is foolish to insist on pureblood. "Phoenix named a few names at random, and those families were basically the same, as long as a certain generation was a girl, or there were no descendants, the surname disappeared.
"This is especially true for gifted family members. In order to prevent them from eloping with their loved ones, we are quite loose in our control over those who can afford it. ”
"What about the incompetent?" asked Harry casually.
"Oh, that's not up to them, it's usually arranged for them within the family. "I can't afford to spend a lot of money on my family -- that's not going to work, everybody has to contribute." Since you're not good at magic, there's always the ability to get married. Unless you don't spend a penny from your family after you turn 17, then you're free. Believe me, no one will give up. Who doesn't want to live a life of clothes to reach out for food and open their mouths. ”