Chapter 163: Facing Death
The Department of Mysteries is the secret research department of the Ministry of Magic on specific puzzles, and there are twelve black wooden doors without doorknobs, which lead to different halls, each of which houses a mystery researched in the hall.
However, most wizards only know five of them, which are death, time, space, mind, and love, and almost no one knows the others.
And the wizards don't know what it's really like here, it's mostly hearsay.
Because the people who work here are signed with a non-disclosure contract, they are also known as the Silencers, and they do not talk about or reveal the content of their work.
"Dumbledore, tell me what you know about this, which one do we go to first?" Looking at the twelve identical gates, Severus couldn't help but frown.
I had already felt it when I came here before, the magic here was very magical and complex, and it didn't live up to the word "mysterious" at all, even Dumbledore, who was already at the top of the wizarding world, felt that this place was too godly and chattering.
In fact, it's not quiet, there's always some faint voice, and it's hard to hear what is being said, like a sigh or some temptation.
It's a bit like when you first met a micro-amper.
As a result, Severus immediately discerned the Hall of Death, which had a more "death" aura than the others.
It's like touching death!
As for the other Severus, they can't be distinguished.
Even if he knows that time, space, love, etc., should have their own characteristics, but magic is like this, it is the same as taste, it is difficult to imagine without trying it, let alone recognizing it.
Dumbledore, on the other hand, walked straight to one of the wooden doors, staring at the door as if he could see through it.
"Would you like to go in and have a look?" Severus said this, then pushed the door without waiting for Dumbledore to answer.
It's not open!
Severus frowned.
There should be only one room in the entire Department of Mysteries that is locked, and that is love.
As for the call of the love hall, forget it, some love, especially family affection, is much greater than love.
"No need to try, this room can't be opened, this should be love." waited for a lot of emotion to say, but it didn't fall to the point of old tears.
"Hehe, it's just the ultimate will, isn't it?" Severus pretended to be disdainful and said, "It's just that love is easier to achieve to the extreme." ”
Severus didn't keep trying.
Next, the two of them walked around all the rooms except the Hall of Death and "Love", such as the brain hall full of thoughts, the time hall full of clocks, the space hall like outer space, etc., which gave the two of them enough shock.
Especially to Severus.
Originally, I thought that the wizarding world's understanding of the world might be a little narrow and one-sided, but now it seems that I am afraid that it is still more profound than that of Muggles.
And more than time and thought, the space hall made Severus feel deeply: it was to the extent that it had penetrated into an extraterrestrial civilization, and there was a multidimensional universe.
The Department of Mysteries is nothing short of a research institute for the wizarding world.
However, of course, there are many disadvantages.
Just like the Space Hall, Severus can recognize that it is an alien civilization, a multidimensional universe, but the Ministry of Magic or the Silent People certainly do not have this understanding, and they even think that space is folded and distorted, just like the illusion encountered when it appears.
This made Severus emotional!
There is such a convenient means, but because of their own understanding problems, they can't touch the essence, this is the current magic world.
And Dumbledore is obviously more interested in the Hall of Time, maybe he wants to change the past, otherwise it's hard to imagine what kind of mood he had in order to let Hermione travel through time, and he still looks quite experienced!
Time itself is a paradox in Severus's view, otherwise how can we explain the change of time in the past?
Is it a multidimensional universe?
However, time here is really like a self-loop, which can be self-enclosed, or it can be destroyed and cut.
Neither Dumbledore nor Severus could understand the specific principle, but both of them could actually use it, but it was not as useful as they thought.
Just like the healing spell developed by Severus, it is actually an application of time rewind, however, the effect is limited to healing.
Time here seems to be tied to various concepts, and a small part of the freedom that spells can change is more unshakable, and Severus has never succeeded in making two people like Hermione travel through time.
It can only be said that either the time turner is too powerful, or Harry Potter is really the child of the world, the kind of own son!
In the end, the two finally arrived in the Hall of Death.
This is a slightly larger room than the previous ones, and of course, it is certainly not as good as the Prophecy Hall.
The whole room was dimly lit and square in shape, with a large stone pit in the center of which was a raised stone platform on which stood a stone arch, which looked so old and dilapidated that anyone would wonder why it had not yet fallen.
There were no walls around the arch, and a tattered curtain or curtain hung on it, and it swayed naturally, even if there was not a hint of wind blowing in the room.
From time to time there were whispers wafting from the curtains, as if they were pleading, praying, or saying goodbye, like the last words of every dying man, and they could not be heard.
It's just the door of death, the curtain of death!
And I'm afraid that this place was dug up by the Ministry of Magic directly with the stones, and the whole trace is very obvious!
"Are you going to go in, Severus?" Dumbledore said solemnly, "It's not a good idea, I can feel it's full of ominous, deathly ominous. ”
He turned his head and said solemnly, "Severus, this is not a place where the living should go in!" ”
Severus certainly knew that he was no worse than Dumbledore in terms of feeling.
But as someone who has already died once, what is there to fear?
What's more, he also has the Invisibility Cloak from the Deathly Hallows, and if the legend is correct, he should be able to enter it by wearing the Invisibility Cloak.
Moreover, Merlin has also mentioned this place, which is supposed to be the original Death's Gate.
Unlike the Misty Illusion, the Mistaken Illusion is only equivalent to a transit place, and this is the real resting place of the dead, that is, the place where the will of the dead gathers.
And what Severus has to do is find King Arthur inside, find Lily Evans, and then completely kill Severus. Everything about Snape.
Snape couldn't have completely disappeared without even a hint of will, but Severus didn't want to do that anymore.
After a long time, even Severus himself still doubts who he really is, and this impurity has affected Severus's strength.
This is also the reason why he wants to enter the door of death and face death!