Back at the castle, the sound of footsteps echoed clearly and loudly in the corridors, and as he moved forward, flames suddenly rose from the stone basins on both sides. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info walked into the study, the stove was already much weaker, and could only illuminate a few chairs around it. The books on the walls, neatly arranged on the shelves, stretched to the ceiling, and the floor between the doorway and the desk was covered with a heavy carpet.

His eyes swept over the bookshelf and saw a gap in the shelf to the right of the stove. Turning to the desk in confusion, beside an oil lamp, there was a pile of furry things.

Medium-length brown curls slid down her shoulders into the air, and Hermione pressed an old yellowed book under her arm. Crookshank jumped onto the table, its face flattened, as if it had once rushed headlong against a wall. Eyes swept over Phoenix, hairy head leaned in, wet tongue pressed against Hermione's cheek. Seeing that she didn't react, he shook his fat, flown tail like a bottle brush, jumped down and disappeared.

"Hermione—Hermione—" Phoenix leaned over and called softly, "wake up." ”

Hermione's shoulders twitched a few times and she opened her eyes.

"You're back. ”

"Why didn't you sleep?" Phoenix wrapped her into his arms and sat down, "Cutting-edge Dark Arts Revealed, I'm still wondering who took it." ”

"Can't sleep, you don't think it's night—" Hermione curled up in his arms, pillowed Phoenix's arm, with a thoughtful expression, "The castle looks—weird—"

"No, maybe it's some strange ghost. He turned his head and slowly scanned the room, and said seriously.

"Maybe I'm too careful. The book wailed in pain, and Hermione reached for it and closed it, saying impatiently, "Shut up!"

"About Horcruxes," Hermione said, "the more I read it, the more terrifying it became, and I couldn't believe he had made a lot of them." The book warns that splitting your soul will make your soul very unstable, and that would be just making a Horcrux. There's a short paragraph on the title page that says that making a Horcrux is actually hastening death, what does it mean?"

"It must have been written by someone who studied Horcruxes, and there is such a statement. "Phoenix casually put the plan on the table and spread it out on the chair," some scholars believe that splitting souls leads to certain causal cycles that ultimately lead to the death of the maker. Roughly speaking, it seems to make sense, because since ancient times, no one has been immortalized through Horcruxes. ”

Phoenix pinched the bridge of his nose, "It's complicated, it involves prophecy, the relationship between the soul and the body—advanced knowledge, but it's not our immediate trouble. ”

"How?"

"Did you read to the end?"

"The way to destroy Horcruxes, I read. Hermione said shrewdly, "The book reminds dark wizards that they must make the spells on their Horcruxes very powerful. From what I've read, your approach to Riddle's journal is one of the few infallible ways to destroy Horcruxes. ”

"Yes, further along?" Phoenix continued, encouragingly, closing her eyes.

"What about Horcrux theory?" Hermione guessed again, and Phoenix nodded in satisfaction.

"As long as the magic container is intact, the soul fragments inside it can fly in and out of the body of someone approaching the container. This kind of emotional proximity will have different effects depending on different people, but long-term close contact with the Horcrux will eventually be controlled by the soul in it. ”

"Very well," Phoenix complimented, "the trouble is that a Horcrux has been bought and disappeared, do you know what that means?"

Hermione's face turned pale, and with her intelligence, she thought of it immediately.

"Are you sure?" she shifted positions and sat on Phoenix's lap, her voice shaky a little.

"Of course, I've got people on track. Hopefully it's timely, otherwise we're likely to face two Voldemorts, which is not good. ”

"Can't Voldemort himself feel it? I mean his Horcruxes - would he sense it if he was in that state?"

"No, I personally think. After the soul splits, it can be seen as twins, and there will be some kind of induction between them. The longer it can be split, the weaker this induction becomes, plus the distance limit. Voldemort would not have known that one of his Horcruxes was metamorphosing into a full life. ”

Phoenix said in disgust.

"The consequences of indiscriminate attempts at experimental magic. You have to know how much of an impact it will have on the situation once that happens. ”

With great difficulty, he got up and threw the book towards the fire, which arced through the air and flew into the shelf.

"Well, the two Voldemorts would be different, since they were two separate beings. Hermione spoke slowly, as if well thought out.

He touched his chin, his short, prickly beard tied into his hand.

"It's hard to say that this hasn't happened in history. Perhaps, he will go into hiding. It is obviously not a good thing to let Voldemort himself know. ”

"He might reunite that soul—"

Hermione made a look of surprise.

"Can you reunite two separate beings? And the book says that the way to reunite souls is painful, and there is a note that it seems that this kind of pain can destroy people. ”

"Then maybe kill him," Phoenix hesitated, unsure, "Voldemort doesn't know that his Horcruxes are being destroyed by us step by step, and with multiple Horcruxes, he can afford to lose one or two. ”

"But we still have an advantage, Voldemort doesn't know what we're doing, what our plans are, I'm still optimistic about the trouble we're in. Phoenix picked up the file and shook it in front of her eyes, "The plan is largely complete, the details are filled in by Moody's himself, and the part I am responsible for is not written." ”

Hermione opened the file, only a few thin sheets of paper. Phoenix's head rested on Hermione's shoulder, and the silk pajamas were very smooth, and the smell of the body lingered near the wings of his nose.

"It's too rudimentary. ”

"Not every plan needs to be subtle, and as you can see, Professor Snape will hand it over to Voldemort to continue to gain his trust. A plan to be leaked is as detailed as writing, and wizards don't have a habit of doing so. ”

"You trust Snape too, why?" Hermione looked at the papers.

"We'll talk about that then," Phoenix dodged the question. He took out his pocket watch and glanced at it, "Let's go to bed, it's late, it's just a precautionary plan, and it's too late to see tomorrow." ”

"Okay," Hermione stood up and beckoned to the shadows, a ginger shadow that quickly swooped into her arms, "Oh, by the way, Watson said you should take a look at the letter on the table." ”

She pointed to the envelope in the upper left corner.

Phoenix stood up, opened the envelope, and walked over to the fire as he read.

"Wow, that's incredible," Phoenix laughed, "Andre is getting married." ”

"That cousin you're in Durmstran?" asked Hermione, grooming Crookshank's hair.

"Yes, get married next week—" The letter floated in the air, and as soon as they left the study, the hallway lit up, "you may ask your parents if they would like to attend, the woman's father is a doctor, and he is a fellow with your parents." André thinks that if your parents can come, it will be a good place to relax her father, who seems to have only recently learned about magic. ”

"Where?"

"Germany. (To be continued.) )