Relic?!

Arthur was stunned, and then immediately reacted.

Previously, when explaining the cost of his abilities to Headmaster Dumbledore, he improvised a relic.

Knowledge, it takes a lot of knowledge to develop the ability to write, and this so-called knowledge is not the knowledge of ordinary books.

Rather, it is necessary to witness a certain period of history and draw knowledge from this historical civilization.

These are the reasons Arthur made up to Headmaster Dumbledore.

Looking at the clay figure in front of him, Arthur sighed secretly, he didn't expect Headmaster Dumbledore to be so concerned about his affairs.

It's been less than a month, and it's been less than a month to help him find an artifact with the history of an ancient civilization.

This thing is of no use to his writing ability, but it can give the viewer a part of Arthur's foreign debt if the audience finds it valuable.

At present, Arthur's foreign debt is 106.87 million, plus some fractions.

Originally, when Arthur handed over the Sumerian tablet to the audience, his foreign debt was only more than six million, but when he later helped the house-elves to exorcise the ancient creations on Kreacher's body, he used the power of the audience to launch the mercy of the saint, increasing the foreign debt of 100 million gold galleons.

"Thank you, Headmaster Dumbledore. I think I'll get a little more knowledge out of it. ”

Arthur looked at Dumbledore with a joyful expression and thanked him, a stone tablet of Sumerian civilization, and let the audience forgive him 50 million gold galleons of foreign debt.

And this clay figure statue is an antiquity of South American civilization, although its value cannot exceed 5,000, but it can also allow the audience to forgive him tens of millions of debts.

"You can take him away."

Dumbledore smiled slightly, looking at Arthur, who was becoming more and more micro-expression, and his heart became relieved.

Think about the first time I met Arthur, Arthur was like a wooden man, and he didn't show any emotion at all.

And now, I actually smile. Arthur is getting better and better.

"Headmaster Dumbledore, is there anything else?"

Placing the clay figurine on the table into a purse large enough to hold an elephant, Arthur looked at Dumbledore again.

He had a hunch that Dumbledore had called him over this time, and there must have been something else besides giving him this great gift.

"Huh." Dumbledore chuckled and stroked his beard before speaking, "Are you going back for Christmas?" ”

"Yes." Arthur nodded.

At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, students have the option to go home for this short break every year during Christmas. But there are also students who don't choose to go home.

Each year, the school keeps a list of students who stay on campus, and then takes turns letting professors manage those students.

"Lately, Britain hasn't been very peaceful. The Ministry of Magic has received some bad news. ”

Stroking his beard, slowly resting on the table, Dumbledore looked at Arthur, his blue eyes shining with the flame of a candlelight.

As the most powerful wizard in the wizarding world, as long as there is any movement in the palm-sized territory of the United Kingdom, he will be the first to learn.

Of course, this is all thanks to the incompetent Minister of Magic, who would turn to Dumbledore as soon as he encountered a problem.

"So... Headmaster Dumbledore, do you want me to stay at school all the time? ”

Arthur's brow furrowed, and after a few more moments, he looked up at Dumbledore.

If you don't go back to London, just write a letter to Father Hughes and he will understand.

However, Arthur had already had his own plans, and on the day before Christmas, he would withdraw his manuscript money in the Muggle world.

It's been four months since I wrote the first "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", except for the first half of the school year, Arthur's editor, Aunt Teresa, who applied for a manuscript fee for him.

For four months, Arthur has not yet received the manuscript fee for four copies.

In a recent correspondence with Aunt Teresa, she roughly estimated Arthur's manuscript fees and royalties, excluding the taxes and fees that had to be paid, and he earned a total of 11.45 million pounds in the past four months and four books.

Among the 11.45 million, there are 8 million pounds sterling for the animated film copyright and peripheral rights of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".

Originally, Arthur didn't plan to buy his own rights, but the money given by the other party was too much, and the rat company is the most well-known animation film production company in the world today, and it is also the largest and most popular amusement park owner in the world.

For the first time in the world, the first book of an 11-year-old child can win the favor of a mouse company.

Since the mouse company announced that it had acquired the rights to Arthur's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" animated film, Arthur Pendragon's name has appeared in the headlines of major media every day.

And what he created also ushered in a new round of rush to buy.

So, for a new writer, it's a great blessing to be able to work with one of the world's most famous rat companies.

Generous copyright fees, son of media traffic.

In this wave, Arthur is making hemp.

But now, thinking that he might not be able to get out of Hogwarts and take out the more than 10 million, Arthur has some regrets.

All this may stem from the fact that he has a little bit of cleanliness, and every time he thinks that he still owes more than 100 million to the audience, he wants to pay off this foreign debt as soon as possible.

More than 10 million pounds, converted into gold galleons, is about 5.3 million.

5.35 million is 20 times worse than 100 million.

It can add up to a lot, and if you pay it back a few more times, you will definitely be able to pay it back.

And now there is a holy relic, which can also allow the audience to forgive some of his foreign debts, plus when the elblin's annual meeting is over, after the elf Jim Baggins returns to Gringotts, he can go to Gringotts to withdraw his manuscript fee in the wizarding world.

That's a huge sum of more than two million.

Therefore, after listening to Dumbledore's inquiry, Arthur was very regretful, but for the sake of his own safety, the most important thing was not to increase his foreign debt.

Arthur decided not to go back this time for Christmas.

In fact, Arthur is not afraid of someone targeting him, because he has an audience by his side, and when his own power cannot solve an unknown crisis, he still has the help of the audience.

But the help of the audience costs money.

That's what made Arthur really decide to stay at Hogwarts.

If he didn't pay off his foreign debts, Arthur always felt that there was a knot in his heart that had not been opened, and he was angry and uneasy.

At this time, Arthur was a little envious of the old man in his previous life, how did those people borrow money from others and not pay it back with peace of mind?

Thinking differently, really thinking differently.

"The professor on duty this year is Severus, if you want to go home and have a look, you can ask him to take you back."

Dumbledore looked at Arthur's lost expression, and knew that he must have planned for Christmas, so he stroked his beard again and spoke.

"Professor Snape? All right. ”

When Arthur heard this, he imagined Professor Snape appearing in the orphanage with facial paralysis, surrounded by a dozen innocent children.

As soon as this image appeared in Arthur's mind, he felt so happy.

"Headmaster Dumbledore, you just said that the wizarding world has not been peaceful recently, did Voldemort reappear?"

"No... No one saw him, and I don't think he's going back to England yet..."

Thinking that the octopus monster that attacked Hogwarts that night was the one he had encountered with Grindelwald during his adventure in the secret realm of Haiti when he was younger, and that he had sealed Voldemort to that secret realm under the sea, Dumbledore had already determined that Voldemort was now very powerful.

If he does return to England, then the skies of England will be shrouded in his evil, and this winter will be extremely desperate.

But so far, Voldemort's figure has not been found, so it means that Voldemort has not returned.

To confirm this, he contacted Grindelwald again after seventy years.

The two exchanged details about the current situation, and finally deduced that Voldemort did not escape from that secret undersea realm.

And the octopus monster that attacked Hogwarts that night was not the monster itself in the secret realm under the sea, it was very likely to be a power clone of the monster. Its appearance must be Voldemort's means.

"But... According to the information available to the Ministry of Magic, his subordinates, the Death Eaters, are increasingly active and may be carrying out some kind of conspiracy. ”

Dumbledore glanced at Fawkes, who was rebuilding the nest, and looked at the increasingly scarce feathers on her body, and sighed in his heart that the cycle of life would begin again.

A day, a month, or a year's later...

"Yes, Headmaster Dumbledore. I understood, I would write to Father Hughes to tell me that I was spending Christmas at school this year. ”

Arthur nodded.

If the Death Eaters had been directly troubled by him, he wouldn't have been so afraid. But if the Death Eaters were targeting him, they were also planning to destroy the Ministry of Magic.

Then the situation is very complicated.

Arthur, who has no affection for the Ministry, doesn't want to get involved in the Death Eaters' conspiracy against the Ministry.

As long as it doesn't upset the entire wizarding world and interfere with his sales. Arthur would love to see the Ministry of Magic deflated.

"Hmm... I'll have another meeting in a while, so you can go back first. ”

"Yes, Headmaster Dumbledore."

......

"Sister audience, do you want this clay figurine?"

After exiting Headmaster Dumbledore's office, Arthur did not return to the Slytherin common room, but instead went to the same secret passage where he first met the Wesley Twins and Cedric.

After removing the clay figurine from the wallet Dumbledore had given him, and then opening the journal he was carrying, Arthur asked the audience.

"75 million..."

Once born, two times ripe, this is the third time, the audience has already understood Arthur's thoughts, did not say any polite words, and directly told Arthur that this clay figure can deduct 75 million gold galleon debts.

"Huh? This one is actually more expensive than the slate of the Sumerian civilization? ”

The foreign debt of 106.87 million instantly turned into 31.87 million, which made Arthur very excited and couldn't help but ask.

"The value of civilization it carries alone is only five million at most. But there's an acquaintance's breath in it..."

As the audience explained, Arthur also understood that what was valued by the audience in this clay figure was similar to the one that the audience took from the Slytherin statue in the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets.

And at the moment when the audience took away the clay figure, Arthur fell into a fantasy like the secret room.

Scorching, dazzling, endless power.

Before Arthur could see what kind of fantasy this was, he fell into a coma.

When he woke up, he found that his whole body was in burning pain, and he looked down to inspect it, the wizard's robe on his body had disappeared inexplicably, and there were many more burn marks on the exposed skin.

Patches of blisters began to grow at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Arthur didn't have time to think about what he had been through, so he quickly took out a bottle of potion from his wallet and began to apply it to his body.

It was a potion that quickly healed burns, and Arthur had concocted it himself during the time he had been helping Snape complete the Potions level.

As the ingredients of the potion were absorbed into the skin, the effect of the potion quickly took effect, and the skin that had been badly injured was now as smooth and elastic as before.

"Did I experience a vision? Why is it like going through a fire. ”

All over his body, except for the wallet and wand that Dumbledore had given him, Arthur's diary, pencil, and clothes were all missing.

Arthur wanted to ask the audience what had just happened. But after calling for a long time, I didn't get a response from the audience.

Just when he was puzzled, he suddenly found that the Sequence 9: Audience Potion in his body had been fully digested.

I clenched my fist and found that the strength in my hand was several times stronger than before. In his joy, he observed his body again, it was much stronger, and the lines of his muscles became obvious.

Is this the effect of the potion's complete digestion?! Arthur exclaimed.

But thinking about being burned for no reason, the joy on his face disappeared little by little.

Arthur smiled bitterly, raised his wand, which was a little hot, and transformed several wooden poles on the side of the secret passage into a set of clothes to wear on his body, and walked towards the outside of the secret passage.

For the first time, the audience does not respond to his call, which is a very rare thing.

Arthur's intuition told him that the characteristics of the clay figurine must not be simple, so the audience could not control it in a short time, so she did not have time to respond to herself.

Sequence: 9 spectators have fully digested the potion. According to the description of the previous audience, his soul and body should now be more matched.

As for whether there is a complete match, this still needs to be confirmed by the audience for him.

That fantasy, his body, many questions need the audience to help him answer.

But now the audience doesn't respond to him, and Arthur can only wait in silence.

Ten minutes later, when Arthur returned to the Slytherin common room, Pansy and Draco were already sitting on the couch in front of the fireplace. Pansy seems to be afraid that Arthur is not having enough to eat, and returns with a sandwich.

"Arthur, is there something going on with Headmaster Dumbledore?"

Along the way, he was thinking about when the audience would be able to respond to his Arthur, and his face was a little embarrassed. As soon as Pansy saw Arthur's concern, she thought that Headmaster Dumbledore had reprimanded Arthur, so she immediately came to Arthur with a sandwich and asked worriedly.

"It's not a big deal, except that I need to stay at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry over Christmas."