"Albus! Why the carnival? Professor McGonagall asked worriedly.

"To minimize the effects of the Dementors on the children." Dumbledore glanced at Catherine, intentionally or unintentionally, before he began to arrange his work, "Now I have to take Sirius and Peter to the Ministry of Magic......"

"I'll go with you." Lupin raised his hand without waiting for Dumbledore to finish.

"It's not just you, Madam Pomfrey is going with you." Dumbledore smiled for a moment, and then solemnly told the four headmasters, "The school will entrust the four of you, and you can discuss and solve anything, although the Dementors should not be trying to attack the castle, but if it does happen, then—" He hesitated for a moment before adding, "Find Catherine." ”

"What?" Snape exclaimed, and the others couldn't help but look at the red-haired girl.

"Her snake language is capable of activating Hogwarts' ultimate defenses." Dumbledore explained with a smile, but no one who heard it believed that Harry could also speak snakes, so why did he have to look for Catherine? And if Hogwarts' ultimate defense could have been activated by Serpent Whisper alone, it would have been occupied by the descendants of House Slytherin.

"Remus, let's go!" Dumbledore didn't explain again, but walked directly into the castle, Lupin was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly followed, but before he could go far, he heard Snape's loud shout.

"You two!" The Potions Professor glared at the only two students present, "Get to the Great Hall at once!" ”

Harry couldn't help but stare at him, but Catherine had already dragged him through the oak door, and hadn't even asked Snape for a live map.

As soon as the two children left, there were only four abbots left outside the castle gates.

"Is Albus telling the truth?" Professor McGonagall couldn't help but ask the doubts in everyone's hearts.

"There's no need for him to lie at this time!" Snape frowned and snorted, he didn't understand why Dumbledore was putting this burden on Catherine.

"Then why Catherine instead of Harry?" Professor Sprout asked the most unreasonable part, "And I've never heard of snake language having such power at Hogwarts before." ”

"It's definitely Salazar. The Slytherin descendants and Harry have one less thing than Catherine is unusually crucial. Professor Flitwick scrutinized, "But what is it?" ”

Snape immediately thought of what was in Catherine's right hand. He couldn't help but rush to the auditorium.

"Wait! Severus! Do you know something? Professor McGonagall hurried to catch up.

Professor Sprout and Professor Flitwick looked at each other and had to follow, but of course after entering the foyer, they did not forget to close the oak door to prevent anything from sneaking into the castle.

Snape glanced at the door of the Great Hall and immediately spotted Catherine in the middle of the crowd, smiling and saying something, and Harry dancing and gesturing, apparently reenacting what they had just experienced.

Snape immediately unleashed his magic pressure, and the students who stood in his way were even more absent-minded. They were all accustomed to getting out of the way, but they were immediately frightened by the familiar black figure, which stopped Professor McGonagall.

By the time Professor McGonagall reached Harry's side, Snape had already pulled Catherine through the teacher's exit, and by the time she reached the exit, the two had disappeared.

"Where have you been?" Professor McGonagall looked suspiciously down the hallway near the exit, unable to guess where they had gone, and she didn't dare to leave the auditorium with a simple lock spell to ensure the safety of the other students. In the end, I had to stay and watch the door.

Seeing this, other people who noticed Snape and Catherine's whereabouts had no choice but to give up their plans.

Snape didn't actually take Catherine very far, because as soon as he left the auditorium. He asked the red-haired girl to open the secret room that Salazar had given her, so that he could get rid of Professor McGonagall who was close behind.

"Sue me, what is in the palm of her right hand?" As soon as he saw Salazar, Snape spread Catherine's right hand out in front of him. "Don't tell me you don't recognize them!"

"No!" Salazar looked at the four distinctive beads in shock, "Of course I recognize them!" It's just—" he looked at Catherine curiously, "I didn't expect you to collect four so quickly. In particular, the water of the Yellow Spring, which is the most difficult to collect. ”

"What the hell are they?" Catherine couldn't help but ask.

"The essence of water can also be called a fragment of the power of rules." Salazar explained with a smile.

"The power of rules, isn't that thing an ethereal legend?" Snape's face was skeptical.

"Wrong! The power of rules exists in every corner of the world, even Muggles, and they call it science! Salazar swiped his fingers a few times, and in front of them appeared a three-dimensional animation of water, "And magical powers such as magic are also the embodiment of the power of rules in the world, but we users are so accustomed to them that we completely ignore their essence." ”

"I remember that the legend says that the only one who can use the power of the rules is the gods!" Catherine suddenly interrupted Salazar's speech.

"That's right, so wizards are descendants of gods, and the tenth order and above is also called the 'path to godhood!'" Salazar ignored the shock of the other two and continued to explain, "And the necessary condition for stepping on the tenth order is to be recognized by the power of the rules.

For example, Catherine and I are both recognized by the water element, so when our magic power reaches the peak of the ninth order, we will automatically rise to the tenth order and become a sage, and if we can collect all the essence of water, we will be able to become gods. ”

"Did you call yourself a god in the first place?" Snape couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Of course not, if you really call yourself a god, how can you end up with only the title of sage?" Salazar retorted angrily.

"Didn't you collect them all?" Catherine asked, puzzled.

"Nope! Godric and I have collected them all, but all we have collected are shards, and we have to fuse them together to become a true rule force. But—" Salazar said with his head down, "the two of us have exhausted all our lives, and we have not found a way to fuse the pieces, so naturally we cannot be called gods." ”

"So how many of these water essences are there?" Seeing that there was no other useful information, Snape brought the conversation back up.

"Completely different from person to person!" Salazar suddenly smiled very happily, "Like I thought 7 was a very magical number, and finally collected 7 water essences, and Godric has always liked 4, and his total number of fire essences is 4.

However, the number of likes is only one factor, the most fundamental is the source, because of your understanding of the power of this rule, Rowena divided the wind into 13 types, and Helga believed that earth is earth. ”

"So how good is it? Or is it better to have less? Catherine asked nervously.

"Moderation is the best!" Salazar shrugged, "Rowena is too finely divided, and it is particularly difficult to find, because there are too few requirements; Hergar's understanding is too general, and it is equally difficult to find because there are so many requirements. ”

"Do you have any experience to offer?" Snape asked.

"There are two points: one is that you must travel all over the world so that you will not miss it; The second is to be freewheeling, which is especially important. Salacha paused before explaining.

"Godric only traveled around the world for a week, and the four Fire Essences were in hand; Helga is even more outrageous, as long as she steps on the land, the essence of the earth will appear obediently, but as soon as she leaves the land, her strength will fall directly back to the ninth order; As for Rowena and I, on the contrary, because we were too deliberate, the search process became extremely difficult. ”

"So, when I found out that you had found the blood beads, I didn't specifically remind you, I just wanted you to do whatever you wanted; And now that you asked, I won't deliberately hide it anymore, so as not to make it a knot in your heart. ”

"In short, trust your own instincts!" Salazar reached out and nodded Catherine's forehead, "Trust your luck too!" He nodded Tracey's head again.

The little blue bird pecked his finger in reply.

"Before you finished speaking, I have already made a general analysis of them, the red blood beads are in the Ben Nevis in England, the yellow one is in the Amazon River in Peru, the green one is in Lake Superior on the border between the United States and Canada, and the black one is obtained in the Egyptian underworld, which happens to be Europe, South America, North America and Africa, the water of blood, rivers, lakes and yellow springs.

So in terms of location, I think it may be distributed according to the seven continents, and in terms of nature, there should be rainwater, groundwater, seawater, snow water, and so on. Catherine couldn't help but smile bitterly when she said this, "Now that I think about this, it's hard to do whatever I want." ”

"Nope! It's all about doing what you want, exactly what you want to do. Salazar smiled mysteriously, "When you finish collecting, you will naturally understand what is random and what is deliberate!" ”

Catherine nodded as if she didn't understand, and slowly clenched her right hand, but her gaze at Salazar couldn't help but become complicated.

"You-" Snape asked suddenly, sternly, "is there something you are hiding from me?" ”

Salazar glanced at Snape in surprise, then at the red-haired girl whose face suddenly lost its blood, and finally shrugged his shoulders and said, "Ask Catherine yourself!" I can't tell you that it would be against the House of Slytherin's rules. With that, he just disappeared.

"Catherine!" Snape walked up to her, lifted her chin and forced her to face herself, "Why don't you sue me?" ”

"What do you have to do with me?" Catherine's tone was unusually cold, and her eyes were full of indifference, obviously using Occlumency.

"I'm your guardian!" Snape shouted sharply. (To be continued......)