When Phyllis saw Karkaroff again the next day, he was still a little languid, and the damage to his soul was difficult to heal, and the headmaster estimated that it would take two or three months of recuperation to fully recover. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Anyway, after a night of recuperation, he was somewhat refreshed and was able to continue negotiations with Phyllis.

After fully demonstrating her strength, the negotiations went well, and Phyllis promised Karkaroff that he would give him shelter if he was hunted by Voldemort, giving him a safe place to hide, and in return, Karkaroff would bring some valuable magical materials from Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for Phyllis to consult.

Although Phyllis tried her best to persuade him to give things to himself first, he was really running for his life at that time, so what else could he take. But Karkaroff was a very suspicious person, and he insisted on waiting until Voldemort really wanted to kill him before giving her the dark magic information that Phyllis was bent on her, this was an important bargaining chip in his hand, and he must not let go first, who knows what this Miss Kate can do.

Phyllis leaned back in her chair with some impatience and said, "Mr. Karkaroff, you are very insincere about this deal. ”

"What does that mean?" Karkaroff pretended to be puzzled and said, "Is there anything wrong with you agreeing to give me shelter, and I promised to give you the information you want?" Don't you have to pay in advance, this is not the reason for doing business? ”

Phyllis took a deep breath, softened her tone, and said: "Of course I won't let you pay in advance, paying with one hand and delivering the goods with the other hand is the basic principle of doing business, and I won't violate it, but you must know that it is not easy to prepare a safe place for you to live from the persecution of Voldemort and the Death Eaters, if we reach an agreement, I will start preparing when I go back, so should you also give a little deposit, so as to calm my heart, if you don't have to use the place I worked so hard to prepare, Didn't I lose a lot? ”

Karkaroff confronted Phyllis, and in the end he was defeated, after all, the situation was not in his favor, and he was now asking for help. What a difficult woman, Karkaroff grumbled in his heart and asked: "So what do you want?" ”

Phyllis said: "This is the last time to prepare before the outbreak of war, I hope to improve my strength as much as possible, so that it will be good for you and me, so I hope to get some notes, notes on the dark arts, I know that Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has a deep study in this area, and there are many related research notes, this little thing must not be worth mentioning to you as the principal, right?" ”

Karkaroff shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Of course, there are many schools of notes about dark arts, but there are not many that can get into Miss Kate's eyes. ”

"Not much?" Phyllis asked rhetorically, with a smile on her face.

"Uh......" Karkaroff was speechless for a while, "not much" means that his ability to pay is limited, even if Phyllis gives him shelter, he can't get many good things, but to say that he has a lot of valuable dark magic notes here, so why don't you take out a few books as a deposit? This really shows that he is very insincere.

Although it was very distressing, but now there must be some blood, Karkaroff gritted his teeth and said, "Three, I will give you three dark magic notes with enough research value." ”

Phyllis said cheerfully, "Yes, but I have to pick these three." ”

Karkaroff still felt a little unsafe, and said, "From now on, until the Dark Lord actually returns, I will not pay any additional deposits." ”

"Of course, believe me, Mr. Karkaroff, I'm not an insatiable person, I just want to improve my strength as soon as possible so that I can protect myself in the coming war," Phyllis said. ”

Karkaroff glanced at Phyllis, although he was a little suspicious, he still chose to believe it, after all, she was his best choice at the moment.

Karkaroff asked Phyllis to wait in the office for a while, and he went to the school library to pick out a few dark magic notes for her, these are the school's treasures, and they are not something that anyone can take away. Of course, this also means that even if Karkaroff takes it, no one will find out for a while, and Karkaroff didn't say that he would give the notes to Phyllis, he just asked her to borrow them and return them when the time comes.

Karkaroff only took out five copies, saying that he could only take out so much at the moment, and Phyllis didn't care, so he chose three of the five books that looked the oldest. It's not that the oldest is the best, but as far as the dark arts go, the oldest is indeed the best for Phyllis.

In ancient times, it was extremely dangerous to study magic, this mysterious power was like a brutal and powerful beast, which was not at all controllable by humans, and if you were not careful, you would be counterattacked, and the result of counterattack was often only one, the body was broken and the soul died, but magic at that time was indeed very powerful, and it often required extreme will to support. Phyllis is not lacking in delicate manipulation, there are several powerful consciousnesses in her soul, so many consciousnesses are enough to deal with all the accidents that arise during the casting process, and there is no problem with extreme will, there is a sea of blood full of despair and resentment on her nails, and on her chest hangs a saint's heart containing the power of pure holy light, she can switch between different wills and emotions at will. The only thing Phyllis needs is to be strong, strong enough to stand up to Voldemort and Dumbledore, so that she can really join the chess game, instead of being between the chess player and the chess piece like she is now. In comparison, the magic that has matured now is not very suitable for her, with the improvement of wizards from generation to generation, magic has become so brutal as before, it has become docile and well-behaved, and even eleven or twelve-year-old children can start learning, but the price paid is that modern magic is much weaker than ancient magic in terms of power, which is why many people read the previous notes and feel that the wizarding world seems to be inferior to the generation, they don't think that even if the previous magic is handed down, few people can master it.

Karkaroff is not surprised by Phyllis's choice, she is not the only one who knows this, many wizards know that ancient magic is more powerful, for those talented wizards, if they want to get further improvement, they will delve into ancient magic, such as Voldemort, such as Dumbledore, some of the magic they use belongs to ancient magic, but they have improved it to make it more suitable for themselves. In Karkaroff's opinion, Phyllis is also a gifted wizard, and it is not surprising that she wants to learn some ancient magic, but he feels that Phyllis's steps are a bit big, is it appropriate to study the most primitive and ancient magic from the beginning? Wouldn't it be too dangerous? Of course, these doubts could only remain in his heart, and in any way he had no right to interfere with Phyllis's actions, and according to the nature of this proud woman, she would not follow her own advice.

After receiving three notebooks, Phyllis's trip is over and she can return to Hogwarts. Karkaroff was still sincere in this regard, these three notebooks were not the same as the one she had obtained before, and they contained many powerful, ancient, and complete magical experiments and magic spells, which were enough for her to study for a while.

Before returning to Hogwarts Castle, Phyllis first went to Hogsmeade Village, far from the village and close to the Forbidden Forest, there was an exclusive courtyard, a low rammed-earth fence, and inside were three low bungalows, which seemed to have been abandoned for a long time, and through the locked door, you could see that it was full of wild grass and withered yellow.

Phyllis drew her wand, tapped the rusted lock, and uttered a spell as the rusty wire fell. The man had told her this spell by the owner of the little courtyard, and as soon as she had returned to England, she had received a letter from an owl asking her to meet here, and that he had prepared a place for herself. Although it was a little strange to receive a letter from this person at this time, Phyllis did not refuse, this person was also a key link in the whole situation, and he found that he also had important things to discuss, but it was a little strange that he said in the letter that he would only come over tomorrow. I don't know what Phyllis thinks, she didn't choose to go to Hogwarts, but planned to stay here for one night.

Wading through the knee-high weeds, pushing open the door of the room, the inside was completely different, very well decorated, with all the furniture, Phyllis said to Amy, who was carrying a large suitcase behind her, "Yes, you can still live here, clean up and we'll live here tonight." ”

Amy agreed, looked at the sky, she knew what her master meant, "clean up" is to replace all the things here, and then clean the room thoroughly, fortunately this place is already very close to Hogwarts Castle, she can go directly to the castle to get anything missing, and it is only noon, it should not delay the master's rest at night.

Throw this place to Amy, and Phyllis walked out, although it was the Christmas holiday, she didn't have an easy time at all, not only did she run around Europe, but she also had to fight with those old fritters, now take advantage of the time to relax.

Phyllis came to Hogsmeade Village, and to her disappointment, perhaps because it was the Christmas holiday, most of the shops in the village were not open, and the roads were deserted, and there were no people, but fortunately, the Three Broomsticks Bar was still open, and she finally had a place to go.

Approaching the Three Broomsticks Bar, Phyllis saw that Ms. Rose Motta was tidying up, and when she heard someone come in, Ms. Rose Motta said without looking back, "The door hasn't opened yet!" ”

"Haven't opened yet?" Phyllis said disappointedly.

Miss Rossmotta turned around and saw that it was Phyllis, she knew that this was a professor at Hogwarts School, and had been to her shop a few times, and seeing her disappointment, Lady Rosemarta said, "It's only butterbeer now, if you order anything else, you really don't." ”

Phyllis laughed again and said, "Alright, just have a butterbeer." ”

Ms. Rosmota dusted her hands and said, "Okay, bring your cup." "There will always be all kinds of customers when opening a store, for example, this Miss Kate, who has a serious habit of cleanliness, and uses her own cutlery and cups wherever she eats, at first Ms. Rossmorta is indeed a little unhappy, but gradually she gets used to it, anyway, this Miss Kate will not accommodate herself for others, so only others will accommodate her.

Phyllis took out her cup and put it on the counter and said, "Thank you." ”

Ms. Rossmotta waved her hand and didn't speak, just took her a butterbeer from the barrel behind the counter.

Phyllis sipped a delicious butterbeer and asked, "Why are you here so early, isn't it still a holiday?" There wasn't much on the street. ”

Ms. Rossmorta said as she cleaned up the counter, "Anyway, it's okay to be at home, so I came early." I don't know what I remembered, my voice trembled a little when she said this, and she looked restless.

Phyllis gave her a strange look, didn't ask anything, just slowly drank her beer, enjoying this short period of leisure.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly Phyllis heard Ms. Rosmota in the back kitchen scolding: "Damn cat, come to steal again." ”

Seeing Lady Rosmota come out in a rage, Phyllis asked, "What's wrong, lost something?" ”

Lady Rosmota took out a glass and poured herself a glass of wine, took a big sip, and said, "I don't know where a wild cat came from, and it stole everything from here, and all the shops around it were stolen by him." ”

Phyllis smiled and said, "It's just a wild cat, you still can't catch it?" ”

"Don't say it, we really thought of a lot of ways, set up cat traps, set traps, and even put poison, but it didn't work, the cat was so cunning that he couldn't catch it in any way, and Mr. Froome of Duke Honey's candy store next door didn't even sleep for several nights, just to catch the cunning cat, but in the end he only saw a back, and didn't even catch a single hair." ”

Phyllis said, "See the back? He's already seen the cat? ”

"Yes," said Ms. Rossmorta, "he saw it, it was a big ginger cat, but he saw it but didn't catch it, and although it was not good to speak ill of people behind his back, I have to say that Mr. Froome was really ...... He's a wizard who actually let a cat run away from his hands. He shook his head as he spoke, seemingly helpless and unwilling.

A big ginger cat? Phyllis seemed to think of something, the corners of her mouth curled slightly, and said, "Maybe it's really an unusual cat." ”

Lady Rosmota snorted and said, "It's just a wild cat, how unusual can it be?" ”

Phyllis smiled, didn't speak, just drank the last sip of her beer and left. (To be continued.) )