Chapter 024 Key

"But it looks like it collapses as soon as it gets too hard." Catherine glanced cautiously at the tent.

Snape waved his wand, and a massive rock appeared out of thin air, smashed into the tent, and was blown into a cloud of powder.

"Is there anything else to say now?" Snape sneered as he tapped his wand.

"Yes!" Catherine raised her right hand, which was still clenched, and said, "I had another strange dream!" ”

"Strange dreams?" Snape frowned, "It's about him again." ”

"No," Catherine hastened to say the contents of the dream, "I found that the last thing I grasped seemed to be still in my hand. ”

Snape stared at Catherine in disbelief for a long time before moving his gaze to her slowly open right hand, where in the center of the white palm a blood-red bead the size of a grain of rice was rolling slightly.

"What is this?" Snape raised his wand to probe with magic, but was blocked by an invisible barrier, and he immediately glared at Catherine.

"I didn't do anything!" Catherine shook her head vigorously.

"Give it to me!" Snape held out his left hand.

Catherine reached over with her right hand to pour the bead into his hand, but the bead seemed to stick and would not fall.

"What's going on?" Catherine stretched out her left hand, but suffered the same fate as Snape's wand.

The two then made various attempts, and found that nothing but Catherine's right hand could come within four inches of the bead, which was completely in the palm of her right hand, and no matter what her right hand did, it could not be allowed to leave.

"Isn't my right hand useless?" Catherine wanted to cry without tears.

As soon as she finished speaking, the bead suddenly burst open, turning into a pool of blood, merging into the invisible scar on Catherine's right palm.

"Gone?" Catherine touched her right hand with her left hand, but there was nothing there, as if the qiē just now was just her hallucination, "Professor? She was busy begging Snape.

"Try to see if you can get it back up." Snape thought for a moment.

"Will it listen to me?" Catherine asked rhetorically, and the scar on her right palm immediately began to turn red, and then came together again, turning into the blood-red bead again.

"It seems," Snape raised an eyebrow, "that it listens to you better than your birds." ”

Catherine and Tracey squinted at Snape together, whether he was despising her pet or his owner!

"Let's see if it can deform." Snape finally came up with a useful suggestion.

Catherine imagined in her mind that the bead was just as she had imagined, elongated and coiled into an ultra-miniature cobra, and then sprang up into an ultra-miniature goshawk, but it could not fly within four inches of her right palm.

Perhaps tired of flying, the goshawk turned into a tanuki, holding her fingertips and looking around curiously. Catherine slowly reached out of her left hand and placed it within four inches of her right palm.

The tanuki shrunk its neck, jumped up into a weasel badger, and threw itself on the tip of its left ring finger, where it almost fell because of the unsteady rest, and shook it vigorously for a while before it climbed to the back of its fingers, and then it straightened up and looked at Catherine.

"It has spirituality and thinks!" Catherine exclaimed in shock, "I just flashed the habits of these animals in my head, and it made its own choice. ”

"The world is so big!" Snape sighed, and couldn't help but reach out and put his left hand next to Catherine's left.

The weasel badger noticed Snape's move, crawled to the end of Catherine's left ring finger, cautiously poked his head out and sniffed his fingertips, shook his head, and suddenly sprang out, and by the time it landed on Snape's ring finger, it had turned into a small blood-red snake.

The little snake crawled to the farthest distance it could reach, then circled Snape's fingers and fell asleep on the back of his fingers.

"It's up to you!" Catherine covered her mouth and snickered.

"Let it go back!" Snape glared at Catherine and said viciously.

"It won't!" Catherine was amazed to find that the little snake had learned to refuse.

Snape frowned and carefully removed his left hand, and the little snake immediately straightened up, opened its mouth and stuck out its tongue, and hissed at him.

"Huh? Learn so fast! Snape sneered and withdrew his hand without hesitation, causing the snake to fall back onto Catherine's right hand.

The little snake immediately turned into a cat and rolled aggrievedly in the girl's palm, and Catherine couldn't help but laugh out loud when she saw Snape's head full of black lines.

Suddenly, Tracey flew up and landed on Catherine's right wrist, and the blood-colored kitten immediately stopped rolling and pounced on the scar, burrowing into it hard, but the blue bird pecked its head, and the back half of its body before it could get into it was bitten off by it, and swallowed it with its head high.

"Emily—" Catherine felt as if she had been hit by a boulder, and she could not even speak, and her body fell to the side weakly, and her pet also let out a terrible chirp at the same time, and collapsed in the palm of her hand.

Several blood-red threads flew out of Tracy's mouth and wound around it, eventually forming a blood-red magic array.

"This is ......" Snape caught the girl and just looked over to see that the magic circle was already hidden in Tracey's body, it blinked, flapped its wings, and flew back to Catherine's shoulder, changing back to its unfathomable form.

"It's a blood pact!" Catherine exhaled a long breath, lingering at what had just happened, "That bead is my blood. Half a bead of blood poked out of the scar on her right hand, and two small dotted eyes scanned the surroundings, catching a glimpse of Tracey and immediately retracting into the scar, "But why this is happening, I don't know." ”

"Just because you had a weird dream!" Snape snorted coldly.

Catherine shrugged her shoulders and suddenly threw her arms around Snape's neck.

"Thank you for bringing me here, Professor!" She whispered thanks in his ear.

Snape's face flushed slightly, and he swung his wand to wipe out the black robe that had fallen to the ground, wrapping it around Catherine and picking her up from the ground.

"Have you eaten breakfast?"

"I forgot!"

"Aren't you hungry?"

"Not really!"

It was a rare visit to the snowy mountains, and Snape didn't want to spoil Catherine's good mood, but in his heart he predicted a week's confinement for her.

Unfortunately, the good times were short-lived, and three days later, the Malfoys' owl flew straight to the top of Ben Nevis, bringing them good news.

Lucius finds a key to deciphering the Serpent's Language.

As soon as Snape and Catherine saw the news, they immediately packed their bags and returned to London, and then went directly to the living room of Malfoy Manor from 17 Spider Tail Lane.

"Don't be too optimistic!" As soon as Lucius saw them, he said, "That's just a word." ”

"What word?" Catherine couldn't wait to ask.

“Open!” Lucius then hissed again, [Open]!

[Open]? Catherine repeated, and immediately pulled out the stack of notes and quickly searched for them.

"It's really 'unforgettable'!" Lucius leaned over to Snape, looked at the busy Catherine and whispered, "It took me a long time to learn. ”

"Maybe you can tell me why you know this snake language, and why didn't you remember it until now?" Snape asked coldly.

"That's the code word for the opening of the secret meeting room of the hunting party—well, it seems that Salazar was obviously lazy in designing it now." Lucius shrugged his shoulders and looked indifferent, "As for why I know, it's because he heard me when I was secretly practicing, and he warned me not to use it at will, so I didn't remember until three days ago, because you weren't at home, and asked the owl to bring you a letter, but—" He looked at Snape suspiciously, "Why didn't you wait until now?" ”

"Your owl is too lazy!" Snape said grimly, "I just received your letter. ”

"Really?" He didn't believe it, but three days later he did, because Snape and Catherine had forgotten about the poor owl, and it had to spend another three days flying back to Malfoy Manor from the top of Ben Nevis, so Lucius allowed it to retire early and go straight to the kitchen for the rest of its life.

"The situation is really not optimistic!" Catherine looked through all the notes and said disappointedly, "The word is used too little to guess the meaning of other words based on it, are there any other keys?" ”

"What do you say?" Lucius said.

"That's it, then—" Catherine rose to take her leave, but Lucius interrupted her.

"Look at the invitation on the table." Sensing Snape's displeasure, Lucius hurriedly explained, "Narcissa got it. ”

Catherine opened it and saw that it was an invitation to an afternoon tea party, a week-long invitation to Draco's classmates and their mothers.

Catherine did not reply immediately, instead handing the invitation to Snape.

Snape glared at the invitation in displeasure for a moment before he spoke, "Come back before dinner!" ”

"Severus," Lucius spoke first, "don't tell me you don't have to prepare for school for the rest of the day. ”

"Nine o'clock!" Snape glared at Lucius for a long time before he said to Catherine, "I'll be back on time!" ”

"I see." Catherine replied deferentially, "Mr. Malfoy, please tell your lady that I will be on time for the to-morrow afternoon." ”

"More than willingly!" Lucius smirked, "Expect you to have a great week here." ”

"Thank you! Leave! Before Catherine could finish speaking, Snape pulled her away from Malfoy Manor.

"Don't underestimate those women!" As soon as he returned, Snape solemnly admonished, "Don't think that they only socialize and dance and gossip, if they do act, it means that there is basically no room for maneuver." ”

"Like Mrs. Malfoy?" Catherine asked, sitting down across from Snape.

For the past year, Catherine had thought that Narcissa was just a super-doting mother, but the homeschooling four days earlier had made her truly understand why this lady could be the mistress of Malfoy Manor, why she could be called Mrs. Malfoy, because she was worthy of the last name—the madness of sanity—that she was a real Blake.

"If Lucius hadn't had Narcissa behind him, his backyard would have been on fire." Snape sneered, "He's got an average scandal every week. ”