Chapter Ninety-Eight: Through the Trapdoor (5)
"Humph! Underestimate this girl~" Parvati crossed her waist with a smile on her face, and she walked up to them proudly. Finger pointing to the murals. "These things aren't just murals β they represent fate." She kept her voice down, like the old witch Brandy had seen in the little dark room of the playground when she was a child. "It's a three-card tarot deck, you should know the tarot cards...... That's the crystallization of divination! β
"Oooh! I know a little bit about this! Hermione suddenly realized, "The old woman next door to my house will use this thing every once in a while to predict when her life will have a second spring, and she always says that her divination results are good, but the last time I came home, she was still the only one in the house, oh, and the two half-dead capuchin monkeys." β
"That's because she doesn't know what real divination is!" Parvati snorted angrily, "You can't compare Muggle divination to wizarding Hermione, it's not a thing at all!" β
Their mouths opened in surprise, it was the first time they had seen Parvati so dedicated and serious about something.
"True tarot divination is not a trick used by Muggles, in the wizarding world, wizards began to invent and use tarot cards thousands of years ago, but at that time tarot cards were not used for divination - the tarot cards were a book made of gold, and wizards in Egypt thought that they could use this book to find a solution to a puzzle when they encountered something."
Parvati's face shone with divine light, and there was an inexplicable frenzy all over her body, an expression that was surprisingly consistent with Hermione's expression when she first saw Hogwarts Library.
"Later, I don't know when it started, the tarot cards were split into twenty-two large Arcanas and fifty-six small Arcana. Used by the prophets to figure out and predict the trajectory and direction of the universe, each card contains mysterious magic and infinite wisdom...... They can read the past... It is also possible to predict the future..."
ββ¦β¦ Uh, so Parvati? Brandi interrupted Parvati's sexual speech, and she looked disgruntled, as if she wanted to pounce on him and bite him a few more times. You tell us how to beat this level! β
Parvati flattened her mouth and led them to the entrance room.
"See these three cards, in the tarot cards, they represent the upright fool, the reverse hermit, and the upright moon from left to right. However, it doesn't seem like the room is going to set up a card array for us to divinate - according to my guess, it's probably trying to make us go down just by the cards. β
"Probably?" Hermione said suspiciously, "I don't know much about tarot cards, but I remember that the old woman in the neighborhood seemed to be particularly afraid of drawing the reversed tarot cards, and she said that the reversal would mean something bad, and if the creator of this mechanism wanted to confuse outsiders through the three doors - he would not be stupid enough to use the reversed cards, so that no one who knows how to choose it there." β
"I think it's weird, too, but the cards in this room can't be solved as a card array. At first, I thought the three cards in this room were in a holy triangle arrayβ" Parvati froze. "I can figure it out if it's a holy triangle that predicts the development of things, but Brandi and I just entered the next room and found that there weren't three cards anymore. There was also a tarot card painted on the wall where we entered...... A four-card array is not a solution to the strange problem of where the exit is......"
The scene fell silent.
"Which professor is so pitiful, he doesn't even leave any clues. Except for him who knows how to go, no one else can get there! Brandi said indignantly.
"Isn't this the most normal situation, where would the guardian of the Philosopher's Stone leave the method of cracking the mechanism in the mechanism itself?" Harry glanced at Hermione dejectedly, "Hermione said before that these levels of guarding the Philosopher's Stone are too simple or something, but this is good, just after speaking, the real difficulty is coming." What do you think Professor Sinista's level can test us? Luck? β
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"Harry, what did you just say?" Brandi was stunned.
"I said this place was a test of our luck."
"No, one more sentence." Brandi said eagerly. "Who do you say is the creator of this level? Is it Professor Sinista? β
"That's right." Harry nodded blankly. "We eavesdropped in the next room when Quirrell came in, and he seemed to mention Professor Sinista's name."
Brandi had a strange look on his face. "The first few tests were obviously quite obvious - Professor Sprout's Gluttony Mushroom, Professor Flitwick's Flying Key, and Professor McGonagall's Shapeshifting Pawn. But how did it get to Professor Sinista, it was different...... She teaches astronomy, huh? It shouldn't be any tarot divination at all, right, we haven't learned divination yet. β
"Huh? If you say that...... Hermione called Parvati suddenly. "Parvati, does this tarot card refer to something other than what it represents?"
"Of course?" Speaking of the direction she was good at, Parvati's interest instantly soared. "Twenty-two large Arcanas can also represent twenty-two ancient gods, and also correspond to the twenty-two magic patterns in ancient Hebrew, and they can also represent the zodiac signs and the ten planets - oh!"
She shuttered her surprised mouth with a sluggish reaction. "Hermione! Are you saying that these tarot cards areβ"
"Astrology! Yes, they should refer to the direction in which the planet or constellation is located. Hermione's chest heaved rapidly. This makes sense, and it should mean that the sign is in the opposite direction. All we need to do now is determine which of the three tarot cards is pointing to the correct direction of the constellation or planet! β
"But now there's a problem. We've been running underground for so long, and who of you still knows about it......"
Hermione's tone was visibly sluggish. "Well, I knew I should have learned the Pointing Charm...... Hey! Parvati, why are you laughing so stupidly! β
Her tone was surprised, and in fact everyone was surprised, for the moment Harry said this, Parvati suddenly smiled like a flower, and she began to reach out and grope inside her robe with the God Knows How Many Traceless Stretching Charms were attached.
Parvati ...... Don't tell me you've got a whole set of wilderness survival equipment......" Brandi looked incredulous. "You carry a compass with you?"
"I'm not going to carry anything like that! Also, what is a wilderness survival deviceβ" She struggled to pull her hand out, as if the thing she was about to hold was stuck in her pocket.
"Hey!" She finally managed to get the thing out, and it was round and flat, like a plate with symbols drawn on it. "Foot~ Look what the witty Miss Parvati has found!"
Hermione stepped forward, then looked back blankly, her tone full of eccentricity.
"It's ...... Astrolabe? β
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"So, what the hell are you carrying with you, Parvati?" The three of them looked at the busy Parvati with black lines, and she was happily humming a little song and fiddling with the astrolabe in her hand. "I've seen poison by now - ah no, potions, snacks, and you're telling me now that you still have a big plate with you?"
"It's a necessity for survival! I'm going to use it to learn astrology! Parvati wrinkled her nose playfully. Okay, it's shown~ This should be the star sign in the sky outside at this moment. She held up the astrolabe, which was divided into twelve divisions by golden silk threads, and there were many points of light and lines of different colors in the partitions. People who don't know what astrology will have a big head just by looking at it.
"Is this really accurate? I mean, it's really able to identify the stars in the sky at the current time on its own? Harry muttered, "We don't have a chance to go to the Astronomy Tower to verify this direction, Ehpavati. β
"Don't worry~ I bought it from the Clock Tower at a great price, and that is the most accurate place to draw and interpret the magic astrolabe!" With his little head held high, Pavati confidently came to the center of the room, with his back to the entrance. "The Fool means Uranus on the left, the hermit in reverse means Virgo behind me, and the Moon represents Pisces on the right......"
She glanced at the astrolabe, then jumped for joy. "That's right, only Pisces is in the right direction! We did it! β
They all looked surprised.
With the big plug-in of the astrolabe, they don't need to recite the astral chart to do the location calculation, the astrolabe clearly and directly points out the direction. It was better than Quirrell who didn't know where it was to go - they passed through door to door quickly, secretly smug and happy, and now they had saved a lot of time, and maybe they could catch up with Quirrell, so that they wouldn't be afraid of him.
They all knew by now that Quirrell was a toothless tiger who could barely compete with Harry even if only Harry could chant spells.
When they opened the door in the direction of the last moon, they were finally not the tarot cards that had seen a headache in front of them - they turned into a narrow corridor in front of them. At the end of the hallway, there was a hot wind blowing in the air, and there was some unpleasant stench in the air.
They lifted their clothes, covered their noses, and crept forward. Their already relaxed mood through the maze of star maps grew tense as the distance to the end of the corridor narrowed. As they walked on, the temperature seemed to be getting warmer and warmer, and they felt that they were not at all in the cold underground, but like they were in a sauna, covered in sweat.
What could be in this? Burning firewood?
They finally came to the door at the end of the hallway, and the temperature far exceeded the word warm, and seemed to be more of a scorching word. Something came out of the door and the sound of something whistling in the face, bursts and rounds, very regular.
"I'm going to open the door then?" Harry gripped the doorknob, "Shhh β
Brandi: They nodded.
Harry slowly opened the door, poked his head in for a lookβjust a glance, and then closed the door with a blank face as everyone watched, bewildered.
"I say, fol......ks," his voice was hoarse, "remember Noble?" I think I finally understood where Quirrell's dragon egg came from. β