Three days later.

Samantha cleverly used a few gold Galleons to buy off a wizard who got drunk every day in the Leaky Cauldron Bar, and hired him to stand guard in front of the Blotted Bookstore.

Because whether it's Daphne or Calidora or Walter, they will definitely come to the Blotted bookstore to buy books. On the other hand, he used the sense of the black snake mark on his hand to run around Charlie's Cross and Diagon Alley every day, sensing if there were any people with the same mark.

In this way, three days later, he successfully found Daphne and Walter, and left a message for the two of them to go to the Leaky Cauldron Bar to find Ning An.

So the next day, Ning An received a visit early in the morning in the small room of the Leaky Cauldron Bar, and Walter, Samantha, and Daphne came in turn.

Walter and Samantha both looked excited when they saw Ning An, and Daphne, although still a little haggard, was better.

"Hey, long time no see, Ning An!"

Walter was also very excited to meet Ning An, and although he was in the fourth grade this year, the people in the room were still his only friends.

"Why didn't Calidora come?" Samantha asked, confused.

The air seemed to freeze for a second, and then Ning An slowly spoke, "Maybe in two more days." ”

"But school will start in two days." Samantha said casually, scratching her head in confusion as she spoke, he had a good impression of everyone in this small group, and Samantha didn't have such a good attitude towards other Hogwarts students on weekdays.

Ning An didn't speak again, Daphne was silent, Walter seemed to sense something, and kept silent, and the four of them fell silent for a while.

A moment later, just as Samantha was a little embarrassed by the sudden silence, Ning An spoke, he was not disturbed by the atmosphere, but said lightly:

"Let's not talk about her, since the four of us are here, I think there is something I want to tell you."

Hearing Ning An say this, the three of them all looked at him intently, waiting for him to speak.

Ning An saw that they were all serious, so he coughed twice and said in a cold tone: "Snake letter needs to change. ”

Listening to Ning An's cold tone, without thinking, Samantha and Walter could guess that this must be some cruel change.

No one spoke, all waiting for Ning An to continue.

"You still have one last chance to quit," Ning An glanced at Samantha and Walter and whispered:

"I want to quit after today—" His voice suddenly turned cold and stern

"Then - can only be regarded as a betrayal, and the betrayer - a dead end."

When Ning An said "a dead end", Samantha and Walter realized that they still thought lightly about the cruelty of change.

If the Serpent Letter had become such an organization that only allowed to join, and the betrayers died, then its definition was completely different, and it was no longer a small group of several people studying magic.

They don't know exactly what it will look like, but I'm afraid it really will be different.

"I... I'm not going to quit. Samantha's feminine face turned pale with fright, and his face was complicated, but he still trembled and said his answer.

Quit? Are you kidding? Do you go back to the days of being alone and bullied? Will Hogwarts be his hell again? Samantha could not accept such a change.

"I'm not quitting either."

Walter lowered his head, his hands clenched and relaxed, and finally opened all at once, and his whole body relaxed.

Walter, who is ugly and small in stature, is a Slytherin joke. He was even more humiliated than Samantha. If Serpentine was willing to accept him, what more could he ask for? Quit? Don't even think about it.

Needless to say, Daphne looked at Ning An with firm eyes, as if to declare

"I'm ready, ready to walk this path with you."

Ning An nodded, Daphne's reaction was not unexpected, she was also in great pain for the loss of her good friend during this time, and the two of them had the same wish to resurrect Calidora.

To resurrect Calidora, they must first get the piece of "Marvolo?" that was made into a Horcrux by Voldemort. Gaunt's Ring", and the Horcrux must be destroyed in order to get the Resurrection Stone.

And there was only one way he knew to destroy Horcruxes, and that was the basilisk's venom.

According to the plot he was familiar with, Ning An knew that the basilisk in the secret room next semester would never stay in it in peace, so he had a good chance of getting snake venom.

And in order to accomplish this, the only tool in his hands had to be put to good use, even if he and Daphne were in it.

Ning An glanced at the three of them, and then said softly: "Disobeying my orders will also be counted as betrayal, you have to think clearly." ”

Betrayer, a noun that has never appeared before in snake letters, this is something they have never considered before. However, now in front of everyone, withdrawal is tantamount to betrayal, disobeying Ning An's instructions and betrayal.

The fate of the betrayer is death.

When the punishment within the organization rises to the level of dominating life and death, they are no longer ordinary student organizations, and no student organization will go crazy to put people to death.

But Samantha and Walter still bowed their heads in silence, they understood what the change in the situation was, and the question at the moment was whether the snake letter and all that Ning An had brought them were worth following in this way.

The answer, of course, is yes – who would want to go back to a lonely hell with nothing!

The two of them tried their best to keep their faces calm, so as not to show any unseemly expressions, although they had not seen each other for only one summer vacation, but the little wizard in front of them, who was younger than them, actually gave them a chill down their spines.

"I'm willing to pledge allegiance—"

"—I'm willing to be sent." The voices of the two sounded almost simultaneously, echoing through the dimly lit cabin.

Daphne is more like a bystander, in fact, she is the only remaining friend that Ning An can say, so naturally she will not be asked to be allegiance, and the two have already made their common goal clear.

"So—we're going to have to make some changes first." Ning An took out his wand and gently rubbed it in his hand, this ten and three-quarter-inch ebony wand had never been so active as it was now.

It was held in the palm of Ning An's palm, jumping happily, as if feeling the change in the heart of its master, and their fit improved again.

"Boom, boom, boom"

Ning An clicked three times in a row, and three black lights shot out from the tip of the staff, and before the others could react, they climbed up the arms of the three like a poisonous snake.

"Rest assured, it's just one time – an upgrade, and it won't hurt." Ning An said lightly.

However, the truth was not as gentle as he said, and three poisonous snakes made of black light burrowed into their arms, and gradually condensed into a thicker, more powerful, poisonous snake with green light in the snake's eyes.

The black snake that had changed from the original black snake mark began to writhe uneasily, as if it had a premonition of something.

The two weird black snakes confronted each other on the skin, and the result was no suspense, almost in the next second, the black snake that Ning An had just emitted a black light changed, and pounced towards the original mark, it opened its bloody mouth, starting from the head, and swallowed the original black snake in one bite.

The three big snakes ate the original black snake, and they curled up their bodies again in a long time, and their half-erect upper bodies seemed to be ready to catch their prey at any time, and the light in their pupils was so bright that they became two green lanterns.

"It's a spell that binds us together, and of course, if you don't learn to apparage, its effect is greatly diminished."

Putting the wand in his arms, Ning An whispered.

"I want you to master that spell soon, although it won't be easy, but Snake Trust doesn't need someone who can't even use Apparition."

"Obedience"

Samantha and Walter only felt that the black snake was like Ning An himself, staring coldly at him on his arm. Let them unconsciously rise in awe.

"Master—" Samantha cautiously tentatively spoke

"Call me Ning'an." Ning An interrupted Samantha and said lightly, he didn't want to be called the master in Hogwarts, and that such a title would not bring him much satisfaction.

"Yes—" Samantha bowed her head in understanding, and then spoke:

"You don't seem to have told Archibald to come."

Reminded by him, Daphne and Walter seemed to remember that there was another member of the snake letter who was not there besides Calidora.

"I can't trust him."

Ning An seemed to have expected this, he suddenly looked at Samantha with a playful smile, his tone rarely fluctuated, and he said to Samantha proudly as if he had succeeded in a prank:

"For him, we have to use some special means, and I will leave it to you."

Cold sweat unconsciously flowed out of the back of his head, although Ning An was laughing, Samantha didn't think that what he was going to do would be anything funny, but he had no choice but to bow his head and express his awe.

"But... What should I do? He asked tentatively.

"Don't be anxious, Samantha," Ning An said softly, his words full of teasing

"I'll teach you a very useful spell, you just have to play it to your heart's content."

After listening to Ning An's words, Samantha answered yes again, and no more questions were asked, and the others were silent, and the room returned to silence, and after a while, under Ning An's orders, Walter and Samantha left the bar.

"Don't let your sister join." In the cabin, Ning An looked out the window at the vanishing backs of the two of them, and slowly said to Daphne who was standing beside her.

Daphne brushed the corners of her blonde hair, nodded and said:

"I know."

"Are you ready?" Ning An seemed to be playing with her fingers a little boredly, and said to Daphne in a flat voice.

"It wasn't an easy decision, but I'm ready, Ning'an."

"Even if Dumbledore, Voldemort, or even the Death Eaters, the Ministry of Magic, or the Aurors might all become our enemies?"

"Yes."

With a faint two words, Daphne was no longer as flustered as she had been a few weeks ago, believing that if she returned to the forest that day, she would be able to calmly watch Ning An torture and execute a poisonous snake.

She was never a weak person, after all, Daphne was still a Slytherin, and when she knew her goal, she would complete it, and her heart had no doubts or hesitations at the moment, just stood closely beside Ning An, and muttered in a low voice that seemed to be heard only by herself:

"Wait for me, Carly."