The coffin itself is an unlucky thing, let alone a gift for an elderly person at Christmas......

Surely this is here for a gift, not for the end?!

Therefore, at the first sight of Aberforth's gift, Rove was shocked and secretly slandered:

If he didn't come himself, wouldn't he be afraid that Bathilda Bassat would see the coffin and not catch his breath, and the festival would become a funeral, right?

Then this coffin is really used to the fullest.

But in the end, Rove agreed to help deliver the coffin, and the reason was simple: it was too familiar!

The wooden coffin was not engraved with any text, except for a simple pattern on the lid:

Triangular eyes, with a vertical line in the middle of the pupil.

Rove had seen two identical coffins in the ghost ship and the Ravenclaw tomb.

Then count the coffins of the centaur tribe that Newt had seen, and the coffins in Hogwarts Castle that Dumbledore mentioned...... This is already the fifth wooden coffin!

Of course, the only difference between this coffin and the wooden coffin Rove had seen before was that it had been ...... opened.

On the lid of the coffin, there was a huge gap cut by a sharp weapon, and the coffin was empty, with no burial goods and no bones.

Bassat leaned over and walked to the wooden coffin, she looked at it carefully, stroked the pattern on the coffin inch by inch with her old fingers, and said in a trembling voice:

"Merlin...... Is it...... I didn't expect the legend to be true......"

Hermione's curiosity was piqued by this, and she asked, "What legend, Lady Basshat?" ”

Bassat did not answer directly, but pointed to the triangular eyes on the coffin, and said in an old voice: "Child, do you know this symbol?" ”

"Deathly Hallows." "The vertical line represents the Elder Wand, the circle above the vertical line is the Resurrection Stone, and the triangle represents the Cloak of Invisibility," Rove said. ”

"This is the interpretation of the saints." Bassat snorted, "But this interpretation actually distorts the original meaning of the symbol. ”

"Distorted?" Rove wondered, "You mean, this symbol doesn't represent the Deathly Hallows?" ”

"Of course not." Bassat raised his head, stared at Rove with his white eyes open, and asked:

"Child, do you know when the so-called Deathly Hallows first appeared?"

Rove was dumbfounded for a while, he really didn't know this, he thought about it and guessed:

"After the three Peverell brothers get the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisibility?"

"It's not that old." Bather shook his head and said, "The term Deathly Hallows was born in the middle of the fifteenth century. ”

"Fifteenth century?" Rove's face was full of astonishment, he had always used the Deathly Hallows to say that it had been circulating in the wizarding world for at least a thousand years, how could it be only five or six hundred years?!

"Is there any evidence?" He asked.

"Of course." Bassat smiled, "I asked Nicol about the Deathly Hallows when he was younger.

It wasn't until he was in his hundredth year that there was a sudden rise to this in the wizarding world. ”

“……”

All right...... Nicol Lemay was born in the 14th century, and what to others is like history, to him is nothing more than an experience.

Using his experience as evidence is indeed very convincing.

Rove thought for a moment, then wondered, "No, the Elder Wand has been documented for a long time. ”

"I know." Bathat's gaze seemed to penetrate Rove, and she said slowly:

"I wrote in A History of Magic that the demon Emeric was killed in a duel with the monster Egbert and then taken from his wand.

The wand that was taken away was the Elder Wand, and it happened in the early Middle Ages, more than a thousand years ago. ”

"Then you just said that the word Deathly Hallows has only been around for five or six hundred years?" Rove wondered.

"Kid." Bathat's white pupils stared straight at Rove:

"The Elder Wand, the Cloak of Invisibility, and the Resurrection Stone, which have been around in the wizarding world for a long time, are not in conflict with the concept of the Deathly Hallows."

"In fact, for quite some of their long history, none of the three of them have been able to get together." Bassat said calmly:

"Wizards have all heard the story of super-powerful wands to a greater or lesser extent, and for many centuries they have appeared under different names and possessed by different wizards."

"But the Cloak of Invisibility and the Resurrection Stone are different, they are stable and private among the few families with the Peveril bloodline.

As a result, they are barely well-known, and no one compares them to the Elder Wand...... Until the fifteenth century! ”

Bassat paused and continued to say in an old voice: "There is a wizard who compiled the story of the three brothers and the Grim Reaper, and people gradually learned about the Invisibility Cloak and the Resurrection Stone. ”

Rove was stunned for a moment and said, "Poet Bean? ”

"That's right." Bashat nodded: "This troubadour, born in the fifteenth century in Yorkshire, England, compiled a collection of stories about Bedou, and for the first time wrote the story of the three Peverell brothers and the Grim Reaper. ”

He was also the first to come up with the concept of the Deathly Hallows, claiming that if he collected all three Deathly Hallows, he would conquer the Grim Reaper and become the master of the Grim Reaper.

As a result, the wizards began to rush to find the Deathly Hallows, and Bedou himself founded the Saints and gathered the Saints on a path to find the Grim Reaper. ”

After a moment of silence, Rove looked at the triangular eyes on the coffin again, and asked curiously: "This symbol is also designed by Bidou?" ”

"It's not." Bassat shook his head: "This symbol has a long history, older than the Elder Wand or even the entire history of mankind, it ...... From the realm of ancient wizards. ”

"Ancient wizards?" Rove's face was stunned, he really didn't expect this answer. "And what does it really mean?"

"Death and Resurrection." Bassat explains:

"The triangle represents the pyramid, in which the ancient wizard would bury himself, the circle is the heart, and the vertical in the middle represents the corpse of the ancient wizard.

The whole symbol means that the body buried in the pyramid will have its heart beating again.

This symbol served as a funeral amulet and was engraved on the coffins and tombstones of the deceased by ancient sorcerers. ”

"If you go to see the tomb of Ignotus Peverell, there is this symbol on his tombstone."

Rove groaned, it turns out that this symbol was used by ancient wizards for the dead, so to speak......

"There's an ancient wizard buried in this coffin?" Rove guessed.

Batat stared at Rove with cloudy eyes, she put her hands back on the wooden coffin, touched it almost caressively, and said:

"It would be more accurate to say that the body of the last ancient wizard, who is rumored to have been divided into five parts and placed in five wooden coffins."

"And this ...... It's one of them! ”

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