Chapter 19: Hogwarts Designated Textbooks
Do you mean that the two great families of prophets in history were actually branches of the same family? So which one was originally the direct line of the entire family? And for what reason did they split, even so decisively that they even changed their surnames? β
At this time, there was probably not a single casual student in the whole classroom, and everyone was listening carefully with their ears crossed. Not to mention wizards, this is extremely rare in Muggle families. Some family members change their surnames and are thousands of miles away from their homeland, and if there is no particularly necessary reason, who would be idle to do such a thing!
Professor Roman nodded.
"Like you, we were also curious about the sudden split of the ancient prophet's family, so we carefully studied the props used for divination in the secret room - in fact, there are many props that we don't know what they do, and divination thousands of years ago is obviously not as simple and easy to understand as looking at the crystal ball tarot cards now - but it is not without gains, in that small pile of antiquities, we were pleasantly surprised to find something similar to a prophecy ball."
"Where is it now?" The Slytherin girl who asked the question before couldn't wait to ask.
There was a brief silence.
"It's a pity that it broke ......"
"Broken?! How can you-"
"If you can listen patiently to what I have to say, you'll understand why." The girl's slightly annoyed questioning was interrupted by Professor Roman. She didn't seem angry, "We wanted to transport it safely back to the Ministry of Magic - certainly not immediately with the entire European wizarding community, at least we, as the first discoverers, should have access to first-hand information." But the problem was the cracked genealogy, and since the names of the people at the very top of the genealogy were so vague, our elven connoisseurs were desperate to restore the genealogy to find out who the ancestors of this once large family of prophets were......"
She lifted her glasses with a bitter smile on her face.
"Unexpectedly, I don't know what went wrong, when it put the two pieces of genealogy together, the whole genealogy suddenly ignited a strange flame - no matter what could extinguish it, until the genealogy was burned to the ground - and at the same time, the prophecy ball that was clenching in my hand suddenly disintegrated into a pile of fragments as the genealogy disappeared."
The girl opened her mouth slightly, unable to say a word for a long time. At this time, another voice sounded in the classroom.
"But, Professor, I remember that if the prophecy ball was broken, the prophecy would have been repeated in its entirety before it dissipated, and you were in the Chamber at the time, so you should at least be able to hear the entire prophecy word for word."
Professor Roman's eyes sharpened, and the prophecy ball would repeat the final prophecy when it was broken, which was not something that any wizard could understand, after all, few wizards would have the courage to break a prophecy orb.
Feeling Professor Roman's scrutinizing gaze, Orianna had to explain a few more words.
"That's right, Professor. My name is Orianna Thomson, and the British Ministry of Magic once asked my father to help them deliver a batch of prophecy orbs - and reminded him of a few things about the prophecy orbs before the commission began. β
Her last name was so good that the suspicion in Professor Roman's eyes immediately faded a lot.
"Well......" she nodded, "you're right, Miss Thomson. At that time, everyone present did hear the whole prophecy, but only in its entirety. We hear an old voice prophesying that the entire family of prophets will be doomed, and that the only way to survive is to turn their back on their surnames and forget everything about their ancestors...... Yes, that is, both Trelawney and the Stratton family were betrayers of the original Prophet family. β
The students below exchanged nervous and shocked glances. Two prominent branches of the Prophet initially fled their families for refuge...... But their ending does not seem to have improved because of the prophecy, and it has been passed down to this day, and only the only seedling of the Trelawney family remains.
What exactly is the doom mentioned in the prophecy?
After a long time, a short figure stood up, and Wendy asked cautiously, "So, what is the name of the earliest family, is it mentioned in the prophecy?" β
Professor Roman didn't answer Wendy's question directly, she paused for a moment, and her gaze behind the lenses seemed to become extremely confused for a moment. After a moment of reflection, she opened her mouth. "That's why this is the reason why this is the content of my Ancient Mystery History course today...... Yes, it was mentioned in the prophecy, and I am sure it was mentioned more than once. β
"But strangely here, too, none of us here remember the name, and even when we return home and read our memories with the Regents, we can only hear the silent void of the prophecy - a terrible force preventing us from remembering it, children."
In the middle of the night, the classroom was silent, and Orianna opened her mouth in surprise, she looked around blankly, but caught the inexplicable light flashing in a girl's eyes in the far corner.
β¦β¦β¦β¦
Trelawney and Stratton, the original family, resemble an unquenchable fire but much more powerful than it, and the names have been deliberately erased by unknown forces in both the prophecy ball and the genealogy.
This terrible sense of dΓ©jΓ vu made Brandi's heart sink awkwardly, and if there was anyone who could make the whole world unable to remember his name, it would be the man who built the Seven Seals Treasury - Brandi remembered very well the lost memorabilia in the first printing room, and he also remembered the unusual medal carved out of wood.
The only medal that has not been erased from the message - "To my dearest son in memory of the first levitation charm in his life - Jeanne Strawney"
It's all like it happened yesterday.
And Strawney...... Stratton and Trelawney...... It's too much of a coincidence in syllables.
But if Strawney is the surname of the original Prophet's family, why didn't the boy who never knew his name erase the medal as well? It looks almost like it isβlike a deliberate attempt to be discovered by explorers of the Vault.
What the hell does he want me to do in that graveyard?
After class, politely declined Katie's invitation to lunch, Brandi moved with the crowd, it was really evil, it had only been a few days since he came to Beauxbatons, and he seemed to have too many strange things on his body at once, as if everything that happened here would have some inexplicable relationship with him, and he had begun to feel out of breath.
Or is it easier to share your story with others?
"Tsk...... How come we don't have a teacher who teaches like this. "Listening to Brandi's general account of what happened today, Anna seemed to be full of resentment, and she was angry and smeared foie gras on the steak in front of her, and even the knife was bent so strongly." A magic text affix has been spoken over and over for half a month, and my ears are calloused! β
Audrey sat next to her, and she helped Anna fill a bowl of onion soup, her smiling eyes narrowing slightly.
"What is she laughing at?" Brandi asked, in his memory, there were probably more people with patience and good temper like Audrey than Luna, at least if Brandi sat on the side and watched the two people next to him say something they didn't understand a word, he would definitely be annoyed to death after a long time.
However, Luna wasn't necessarily patient β it could also be that she was observing the harassing fly's ecology. She'd think these two guys had been flown into their ears by such invisible bugs.
Anna glanced at Audrey angrily and muttered a few words.
"Oh, Audrey's words are making fun of me being locked up by the professor tonight... She joined me in this year's Magical Trauma Emergency Management course. The old centipede, who had just been kicked out of the Calvados Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries, had been obsessed with losing his job at the hospital, and was always trying to make the students angry, and the reason for my confinement this time was actually reading idle books in class. Anna looked indignant. How much water did I have in my head to take his class? β
"No, Anna, this kind of behavior of reading idle books in class will also be locked up in our place?"
"Hah! What is an idle book! This is the official Hogwarts textbook, and it has a lot of strategies for dealing with special injuries, so it's a very good reference book, right? Unconvinced, she craned her neck, like a fried hen. I rummaged through my bag for a while, and then pulled out a large, hardcover book. Brandi just glanced at the cover, and was embarrassed to find that he really couldn't argue with Anna's claim.
On the colorful cover, Professor Lockhart is grimacing at Brandi with gusto.
To some extent, this is really a designated textbook......
"I didn't expect you to know so much about things in England in Beauxbatons......" Brandi swallowed a piece of bacon with difficulty, and cleared his throat with another sip of pumpkin juice. "The Days of Drilling with the Basilisk" is Lockhart's new book, and it seems that it only started going on sale a few weeks ago, and the price is not cheap. β
"Uh-huh~ My family lives in London, I didn't expect it." Anna shook the book in her hand and said triumphantly, "I'm a real Englishman, so of course I have to care about what's going on in the UK." Not to mention the new books at the Blotted Bookstore, I also have a monthly subscription to the Daily Prophet - as for why not just subscribe to the daily newspaper...... I tried it when I was in the second grade, and the news of the first day came to me, and it was basically two days later. The point is that the distance is so far, the owl postmen don't like to run long distances, and every time I fly over, I will peck my head full of ......"