Chapter 109: The Statue of Pygmalion
Rolf had no choice but to stand outside, as for why he didn't sit on the couch? Doesn't that tell people plainly that there is an invisible person sitting on the couch?
And...... He can't sit on the same couch with Luna, can he?
Fortunately, it didn't take long for the white-haired mouse to return to the hall of the lounge, "Let's go!" Although she couldn't see her expression, she could still tell her anger from her tone.
It seems that she didn't find what she was looking for in the girls' dormitory?
Rolf and Luna followed, but as soon as they left the dormitory door, they were stopped.
He instinctively looked up and was surprised to find that it was Lockhart!!
I saw Lockhart bend down with a smile on his face, and then held the little mouse on the ground in the palm of his hand, and he chuckled:
"My dear master, have you forgotten that the two of us can ignore the barrier of time and shuttle at will?
What is the situation?
But Lockhart apparently didn't give him time to think, and he took the little mouse that the mysterious woman had transformed into in his hand and walked out of the castle.
The little mouse was also very casual, and did not struggle, but nestled quietly in the palm of his hand, as if he expected Lockhart not to dare to do anything to him.
They walked back to the Forbidden Forest, and just when Rolf thought they were about to open the passage and return to their normal trajectory of time, mutacity occurred.
Taking advantage of Lockhart's unpreparedness, the little rat sprang out of his palm, then reverted back to his human form and unleashed a disarming spell on Lockhart.
Lockhart didn't panic too much, but still smiling and staggered, dodging the Dawson's green magic attack.
"Why? You want to kill me now, and why did you create me in the first place?" Lockhart still smiled, but his tone was grim.
"You're trying to stop me from showing up? Do you think you're going back 17 years and you'll be able to make me disappear 17 years later? Wake up, my master, you're still as naΓ―ve as you used to be. β
And the woman didn't say a word about Lockhart's cynicism, but the spell in her hand didn't stop at all.
Lockhart dodged as he continued, "In order to return to Hogwarts, you actually wrote a cover letter to Dumbledore under the guise of my notes,
You've made the entire centaur tribe sick in order to get your hands on the time turner, and I think you're the one who should disappear. β
The woman seemed to be enraged by Lockhart, threw away her wand, and stepped forward to punch and kick Lockhart: "You dead wood, this is not what I want at all!
Lockhart was unmoved by the woman's blow, but slowly raised his wand in his hand, but said, "Yes, we are different, I didn't live as you want after all." Then he cast an amnesia spell on the woman.
But when the spell was over, the wand broke, and the woman fell to the ground unconscious.
Lockhart seemed to realize something, he raised his hand in horror, looked at the wand that had been broken off in his hand, and then at the unconscious woman who had fallen to the ground, and then the smile on his face that had been hanging for many years disappeared and was replaced by horror.
But it didn't take long for the frightened expression to disappear, because ...... Lockhart was transformed into a wooden sculpture.
Rolf and Luna took off their invisibility cloaks, walked around the thousands curiously, and picked up the statue that Lockhart had turned into, and Luna suddenly said, "The statue of Pygmalion!"
"What?" Rolf hadn't heard of any Pygmalion statues, so he looked at Luna in confusion.
I only heard Luna's ethereal voice ringing in my ears, and said slowly:
"Pygmalion was a great sculptor in Greek mythology, and legend has it that while working day and night, he fell in love with a statue he had carved himself.
He felt that there was no woman in the world who could compare to his statue, and all his energy, all his passion, all his love was given to this statue.
He caressed her as if she were his own wife, dressed her up, named her Galateaa, and even begged God to make her his wife.
Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was moved by him, gave life to the statues, and made them husband and wife. β
As Luna's voice paused, Rolf also woke up from the shock, that is...... Lockhart is actually a statue?
Then why did he turn into a statue again after attacking that mysterious woman?
However, now that the two of them are still in time travel, it is obviously not suitable to think about these questions, so they hurriedly put the sculpture into their warehouse, and then picked up the disc in the woman's hand, ready to open the passage.
But...... There was another problem before Rolf, who did not know the spell to open the disc, and he did not listen to the woman's murmurs.
Rolf looked at Luna in horror, hoping that the wise eaglet would come up with something.
But to Rolf's disappointment, Luna also looked at Rolf blankly, obviously there was nothing she could do.
Or...... Go to the centaur leader and ask what the spell is to turn on?
But he remembered that Hagrid had said that they had moved to the Forbidden Forest eleven years ago, six years before now, and who knew where their tribe was now?
"What should we do, are we trapped in the river of time?" said Rolf, pale.
He still vividly remembers that the professors said that there was a professor named Elois?? The witch of Mintab, who was trapped in 1402 for five days.
Her body had aged for five centuries on the way back, suffering irreparable wounds, and she died in the hospital shortly after St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries managed to get her back.
Misfortune is not alone, and the five days she spent in the distant past have seriously interfered with the life trajectories of everyone she meets.
Their lives have been significantly affected, resulting in the disappearance of at least twenty-five of their current descendants, who were never born.
This is also the reason why Rolf is frightened, although his lifespan far exceeds that of a normal adult wizard after being promoted to a first-level wizard, but the lifespan of 17 years that disappeared out of thin air is also uncomfortable to think about!
He suddenly regretted that he shouldn't have reached for the woman's robe at that time, and if it weren't for the curiosity that had nowhere to put it, he probably wouldn't have the bad things he had now.
Wait a minute!
Something suddenly occurred to Rolf, and he looked at the woman who had fallen to the ground, unconscious.
How can I say that I have mastered the healing technique, and maybe I can wake her up and take us back again?
As soon as he said that, Rolf put on a holy face and began to pray, and a white light slowly rose from Luna under Luna's curious gaze.
After burning, he saw a pair of holy wings appear in the sky, and then cast a ray of light, enveloping the unconscious mysterious woman.
When the spell was over, Rolf felt weak in his body, and only half of his original full magic power was left.
He always felt that those big wings were the big ones who ate magic power, and they had little effect except for fooling people, but Rolf didn't know how to optimize the spell model, and Song Ye didn't have a clue about this kind of divine grace spell.