Chapter 4 Lifting the Blood Curse
Dracula was bored on the couch, counting the petals of the flower on the windowsill.
Although this realm of death has been transformed into Hogwarts Castle, the atmosphere of boredom and silence in it is real, and Dracula feels that if he continues to stay here, he may be mentally abnormal.
At this moment, he suddenly noticed a slight movement in a bronze mirror in his pocket.
"Nicol, you're looking for me?" He picked up the bronze mirror and saw the old face on the other side, "I'm not here now, I'm bored." ”
"Hey, can my phoenix relief book really connect to another realm?" Lemay was pleasantly surprised, "I thought you were in this world, that's why I used this book to contact you." ”
"What do you think, of course you can't contact me across the world." Dracula pouted, "I didn't close the door to the Hall of Death, I'm ready to go back and have fun!" ”
"That's a shame." Lemay smacked her lips regretfully.
"So there are still a lot of alchemy achievements that you haven't done, don't think about what success and retire." Dracula laughed, "I'll keep the Philosopher's Stone for you!" ”
"Okay, okay, why have you been talking about the Philosopher's Stone I lent to Albus six years ago?" Lemay smiled and said, "Don't worry, Perenal and I are ready to dedicate our lives to alchemy." ”
"That's pretty much it." Dracula nodded, "By the way, what's the matter with me this time?" You don't seem to be in Paris now? ”
"Well, isn't this the end of the war? I don't have to stay in a safe house all the time. "Newt threw a party that brought together our old friends from decades ago. ”
"What, you're going to invite me to the party?" Dracula asked.
"Of course ......"
Before Lemay could finish his sentence, his wife could not take it anymore and interrupted her husband's words about to fool people.
"Brad, don't listen to Nicol, our feast is almost over." Perenal walked up behind Lemay and said to Dracula through the phoenix relief book, "We asked you here to do you a favor." ”
"It's good to have you, Perenal, or I'd have been tricked by this old fellow." Dracula glared at Lemay and drew a circle around him.
At the same time, a dark moon suddenly appears in Newt's house.
Dracula's long legs stepped out of the dark moon, and in an instant he walked in front of Lemay, and easily buttoned up the phoenix relief book in his hand.
"It's time to upgrade, your broken book can't even cross the world." He nodded his index finger on the cover of the book and chuckled softly.
"Got it, it'll be improved later." Lemay smiled and shook her head.
At this moment, a young voice came from the other side of the banquet table:
"Wow, Professor Dracula, it's been a long time since I've seen you!"
Dracula turned around and saw Rolf Scamander waving at him.
"I haven't seen you in a while, Mr. Scamander." Dracula nodded at him and smiled, "What's life like at Hogwarts?" ”
"Yay!" Rove shook his fist excitedly, "And my grades and knowledge of Fantastic Beasts have improved a lot, and there is no reason for my grandma and Professor Hicks to call me back to Ilvermorny." ”
After saying this, he realized the gaffe.
Popfontina Scamander and Professor Yuralie Hicks both stared at him with straight faces, and the air around them seemed to freeze.
"Ahh......h Grandma, Professor Hicks, you eat first, and I'll go talk to Professor Dracula for a while......"
Before he could finish speaking, Rove hurriedly fled the solemn banquet table and dragged Dracula's sleeve to the other side of the room.
"Professor Dracula, you are missed." Rove whispered, "Why don't you go back to Hogwarts and remove Professor Snape from his position as Defence Against the Dark Arts professor?" ”
"Professor Snape taught him well, why should I get rid of him?" Dracula said with a smirk, "He's the vice principal now, isn't it possible that if he doesn't become a professor, he won't deduct your points?" ”
Rove's expression froze on his face.
"Like...... That's true. He muttered.
"Stop harboring such unrealistic illusions, there's no way Albus would have let your Professor Snape leave his post." Dracula shrugged.
Immediately, the corners of his mouth hooked up a malicious smile, "Anyway, you are about to graduate, and the next thing he will torture is your juniors...... Don't you want the juniors to experience what it's like to be dominated by Snape? ”
Rove was stunned for a moment, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl, but he quickly pressed it down.
"Professor, I'm a decent Hufflepuff, I wouldn't do such a gloating thing!" He said solemnly.
"Oh, it's yours." Dracula shook his head and scoffed, "Don't think I don't know, the Sorting Hat wasn't going to assign you to Hufflepuff when you first turned around. ”
"Let's not talk about that, but give me an introduction, how is Hogwarts now?"
"Oh, okay." Rove hurriedly said, "Now Professor Slughorn is the professor of Potions and the head of Slytherin, and Professor McGonagall has not let go of the teaching of Transfiguration even after becoming headmaster, except for these two professors and Professor Snape, the positions of the other professors have not changed much. ”
"As for the students...... Harry Potter and Hermione Granger were the presidents of the boys and girls' student councils, respectively, and students from the same house held two positions of student council presidents, which is quite rare in the entire history of Hogwarts. ”
"Of course Professor Snape disagreed, and wanted to promote Draco Malfoy as the president of the Boys' Student Council, but Malfoy didn't know why and resigned from the position......"
"Coupled with Professor Slughorn's support for Harry, this incident still contributed to the ...... After all, with the performance of the two of them in the war, the classmates were not unconvinced. ”
"By the way, Quidditch is officially back! Ron and Ginny both joined the Gryffindor Quidditch team and became excellent goalkeepers and chasers; Luna became a Quidditch narrator...... It's that her narration is always weird. ”
"Oh, and also, Ron and Hermione are together, and Harry and Ginny are probably about the same; I've also heard that Malfoy can't stand Pansy Parkinson anymore, who is still a pureblood, and recently got close to a sixth-grader named Astoria Greengrass......"
“……”
Dracula listened quietly to Rove's introduction to the current situation at Hogwarts, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile gently.
"Very well, it seems that your life is much more colorful than it was during the war." He chuckled.
"After all, a big mountain pressing on my head has been removed, and my mentality is much more relaxed." Rove nodded and said, "Although the war is over, the dueling club has not stopped, and everyone has become accustomed to going to activities every night." ”
"Now that the professors of several main courses take turns to lead us to duels, with the comparison of your previous devil training, we don't think Professor Snape's special training is so difficult."
"Tsk, it looks like you're a little floating." Dracula curled the corners of his mouth, "In that case, I'll go back and say hello to Filius and them, and make it a little more difficult!" ”
"Huh?" Rove's eyes widened, "No, Professor Dracula, I'll be a sinner among the Hogwarts students!" ”
Dracula, of course, would not be as Rove had hoped, and smiled with great interest, turning and walking over to Newt.
A few witches, including Tina, Julia, and Bundy, had cleaned up the banquet table with housework magic, and Newt had placed the old-fashioned suitcase he had used for years on the table.
"Why did you get your zoo all of a sudden?" Dracula crossed his arms and asked, somewhat surprised, "Does this have anything to do with the favor Nicol asked me to help?" ”
"That's right, Professor Dracula," Newt said...... "Do you remember those two great snakes you saw in the forests of Albania four years ago?" ”
"One of the vipers is Nagini, who was originally a human, but because of the blood curse, she irreversibly became a viper."
"Oh, I remember, Salazar's pet snake is still in your box!" Dracula slapped his head and said with hindsight, "I see, leave Nagini to me, it's not difficult for me to break the blood curse now...... It's just that the basilisk probably has one less friend. ”
With that, he stepped out and jumped straight into Newt's open box.
Newt froze for a moment, shook his head with a smirk, and pulled Tina into the box with ease, followed by the others.
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In a deep cavern in the chest, the basilisk is taking a leisurely cool bath.
Suddenly, a silver-haired figure appeared in front of it, looking at it with a smile on its face.
The basilisk's huge body shook violently, and subconsciously closed its big yellow eyes.
"Open your eyes and let me see how you're doing here." Dracula said.
The basilisk shook her head desperately, as if she was determined not to open her eyes.
"Didn't you understand what I said? I said open my eyes. Dracula's tone is indispensable.
The basilisk had no choice but to open its eyes in aggrieved form, allowing Dracula's detrimental thoughts to penetrate its mind, checking its memories of the years it had spent in the box.
"Well, it looks like you're doing pretty well in Newt's box!" Dracula chuckled, "Two runi snakes, a horned water snake, and Nagini have all become your friends, and I don't know you're still a courtesan." ”
Basilisk: "After all, a snake has been locked up in a secret room for a thousand years, and of course it has to make a few friends when it finally comes out." ”
"Very good, then I will rest assured, and I can be regarded as worthy of Salazar's entrustment." Dracula nodded, "Then you can play here by yourself, and I'll pry one of your friends away." ”
Basilisk: "? ”
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The next moment, Dracula appeared next to Nagini.
When Nagini saw the living person, a vigilant look immediately appeared in her indifferent snake eyes, but when a trace of death aura's aura quietly emanated, her eyes immediately became submissive again.
"Blood Curse...... Tsk, the wizard who invented this curse was a genius. The red light in his eyes flowed, and he was amazed as he observed the magical veins in Nagini's snake body.
Newt, Tina, and the others also arrived here at some point, quietly watching Dracula's movements.
"Is there a way to fix it, Brad?" Lemay asked softly.
"No problem." Dracula said, "Actually, there was a chance to solve it before, but I didn't know it for sure...... There are too many forces that can be used now, and of course they can be dealt with. ”
As he spoke, he raised his hand to Nagini.
A blinding red light flashed, and all of Nagini's veins and magic appeared on the surface of the scales.
A feeling called confusion gradually emerged from her snake eyes, which originally had no trace of human emotion, and this confusion was slowly becoming humanized, no longer as ignorant as a beast.
The red light slowly dissipated.
Dracula saw that the huge viper in front of him had completely disappeared, and was replaced by a beautiful Asian woman-
Wearing a dark cyan silk dress, her long black hair was coiled behind her head, and she curled up weakly among the flowers in front of everyone.
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