Chapter 107: The Skull
Taking the notebook, Linde looked at it. The overall look is not new, but it is very clean. The corners have been worn out, and the pages have not been folded.
It can be seen that this notebook is quite important.
Linde flipped it open and glanced at it roughly. This book is not a diary, but a travel log. As far as Linde can simply look at, there is no record of inner thoughts and private things in the notebook like a diary. Instead, Fifteen and Ten chronicles what happened during Quirrell's trip the year before and last year.
Linde turned directly to the last page of the record, where the journal was interrupted in Albania.
26.5.1991.
It was when Quirrell met Voldemort, so after being possessed, he interrupted his journey and came to teach at Hogwarts.
When asked if the elf who had brought the notebook could take it with him, Linde replied in the affirmative. He then began to read Quirrell's travel journal while continuing to check to see if the items he was looking for.
Bob did spread the news throughout the kitchen in more than ten minutes, but Linde looked at the other useful processes one by one. By the time he had finished reading the collection of these little guys, it was already half an hour later.
Afterwards, Linde picked up Hans Christian Andersen, said goodbye to the elves, and returned to the Gryffindor common room.
It's almost curfew. After saying the password, Linde went straight back to his bedroom.
He's going to the Room of Requirement tonight. Until then, Lind will basically do a good job of organizing the items he gets from Quirrell.
In addition to that notebook, he received a medal with strange symbols. It could be some kind of family totem or organization symbol. And then there's a pocket watch. Inside the cover is a photograph of a woman.
It is a low-level magic photo, just like the magic photo in the newspaper, only shaking slightly or doing simple body movements, such as combing hair and adjusting the posture of standing and sitting.
Although the woman in the photo couldn't speak, Linde took it from the house-elf. According to the inertia of thinking, the photos that can be placed in the pocket watch should be the important people of the owner of the pocket watch.
For example, in movies, before the war, I often open my pocket watch, look at the picture and say, "This is my child/lover." When this battle is over, I'll go back ......."
So Linde also had the idea of looking up this person. The British wizarding world is not large, so it should be traceable.
Sitting on the bed, he motioned for Andersen to move freely. He began to look at the notebook.
It wasn't until almost eleven o'clock at night that Linde finished reading the travel log. It also sifted between the lines to find places or people that Quirrell thought were important.
Quirrell made several trips to Manchester before and during his trip to find an old friend, whom Quirrell calls her in the text. And recorded some playing, eating and other behaviors, as far as the text says, quite like Quirrell's lover.
Second, Quirrell found someone to customize a batch of equipment at a wizard's tavern in Albania called "Loka's Bar", which is not detailed in the article. But what can be known is that before the equipment is in hand, the whereabouts of Quirrell's trading party are unknown.
The reason why this is a clue for Lind is that Quirrell used some personal items to make a certain amount of collateral with his counterparty. In the text, Quirrell wrote, "My Nask was swept away by him, damn it." There is no Ministry of Magic here, so it seems that the only way to do this is to find the family that manages this place and see if they have any solutions......"
Well, even though the messages were a bit anticlimactic, he kept them to heart.
Re-align these ideas. I took a look at the time. His roommates had already returned and fallen asleep, and there should be no one in the lounge now.
When I came to the lounge, sure enough, there was no one here. Lind walked out the door of the lounge and into the hallway outside.
Arriving at the Room of Requirement, Linde thought about the house where the spell was practiced, and then opened the door and walked in.
He was finally able to practice some powerful spells in the open. There are also a series of things about the ocean singers.
Thinking about it, Linde sat down at the table in the room and pulled a ball out of his fanny pack. The ball is about one size larger than a basketball and is made up of a red, gel-like substance.
In the original account, the skull was treated by soaking the skull in seawater and one's own blood for a one-month cycle, which is about a month.
According to the records, the skull that has been treated in this way will be with the blood of the maker for a long time, so it will begin to have a dark connection with the maker.
Originally, the next step was to start skinning luthier making. But Linde seems to be because of the unusual blood, so the connection between this skull and him should be ...... It's weird.
The gel ball he was holding in his hand was wrapped in the unicorn skull he had concocted earlier, which was much smaller than before. It was in the glob of gel, like a life that had not yet been conceived.
At the same time, the gel skull ball is emitting a regular agitation. Linde put another free hand on his heart, and the beat between the two was unexpectedly the same.
He had already bought the rest of the materials needed to make the violin, and now he was waiting for the skull to break out of the shell. He didn't know when it would come out, but a voice warned him not to try to break the shell violently.
If you want to become a sea singer, you can divide two main points.
One is a homemade instrument, and he's stuck at this point now.
The other is rituals. In the full moon chanting to calm or create an ocean storm, the wave is used as the standard in the Apocalypse of the Tide, and the ocean storm that Linde quells or creates must be at least twenty feet long.
That is, a six-meter-high wave.
After the Ocean Storm is over, he needs to take at least a potion made of mistletoe, mandrake, locattrick beans, gill grass, whale blood, fish brains, and everything else.
After that, he began to shed the scales of his body in the moonlight, and at the same time unified his own biological rhythm, the rhythm of the waves, and the rhythm of the instrument, and then began to chant loudly......
There will be a storm and a full moon. Then you have to mix extremely difficult potions, and you have to molt the scales, unify the rhythm to achieve resonance, chanting, and so on. Each step is extremely difficult to implement, and there are even seemingly contradictory processes.
For example, there is a full moon and an ocean storm.
If you choose to calm the storm, then wait for the night of the ocean storm with a full moon and more than 20 feet of waves.
If you choose to create a storm, the subsequent process of requiring a full moon is extremely cumbersome.
At the same time, it is recorded in the book that this potion is highly hallucinogenic and hallucinating. Then the body will also molt, a process that is accompanied by severe pain, and the description in the book is: It is as if the whole body is twisted together, as if you are skinning you alive.
That is, a double blow of mind and body.
In this case, it is necessary to coordinate the three resonances and chant according to the rhythm of the time without error......
But Lind wasn't afraid of any of that. It's not the first time he's known about this process, and he's been mentally prepared for a long time.
It's just that the question before him is...... He hasn't done a good instrument yet. It should be that his blood is a little special, which caused the current situation.