Chapter 74: The Flagged Child
Neville still looked down and pondered for a moment before answering Calvin's question.
"If I have to stand up, then I'm not going to back down."
His voice, but firm.
Calvin smiled, revealing eight white teeth. To Neville, the smile was a lot like Lockhart, but more genuine than he was.
"It's getting late, I'll take you back to school."
Neville nodded, ready to head to the fireplace at St. Mungo's Hospital. But as soon as he took a step, his eyelids drooped involuntarily. Neville, just like that, fell asleep standing up.
"Daydream curse," Calvin muttered to himself, "the Wesley twins are still very talented. ”
Calvin grabbed Neville from his sleep, and the space writhed. Calvin took it to the Ministry of Magic.
The current Ministry of Magic is basically Scrimgeour's final say, and Fudge has not yet had the courage and wisdom to resist Scrimgeour's control, and is basically reduced to his rubber stamp.
Therefore, Calvin basically had no obstacles in entering the Department of Mysteries, and he smoothly came to the door of the Prophecy Hall full of crystal balls.
Calvin patted Neville beside him, changing the daydream spell on him, turning him from a state of deep sleep to sleepwalking.
Then, he pushed open the door to the Hall of Prophecy and stepped into the church-tall room for the second time.
The room was lined with towering shelves filled with small dusty glass balls, and nothing else. More candlesticks were embedded in the shelves at regular intervals, and dark light shone from them, and the flames were blue, just like in the black round room.
The little glass balls glow faintly in the light. It felt as cold as the whole room.
Neville slowly walked down the dark aisle between the two rows of shelves, and Calvin slowly followed him, watching the crystal balls change.
Calvin noticed that there were small yellowed labels under each crystal ball, and he leaned over to look at them, and there were some abbreviations of letters written on them, but a large part of them were no longer legible.
Neville, sleepwalking, didn't walk through every aisle, but walked into a few random aisles.
Calvin grew impatient, and he began to notice the changes throughout the house. He noticed that it was almost pitch black in the distance, with some small balls emitting a mysteriously flowing light, while more were lake and dark, like extinguished light bulbs.
Soon, Neville walked down the aisle in front of him, and with his instincts, he walked into the aisle between rows 97 and 98.
Something seems to be lit up in front of you. Calvin noticed, but instead of urging Neville, he let him walk slowly.
The light source came from a crystal ball at the end of Row 97, which was covered in dust, but it did not prevent it from emitting a soft, warm light.
Neville stopped in front of the crystal ball. There was a hint of excitement on his sleeping face.
Calvin looked at the label under the crystal ball, it was already a little yellowed, some of the handwriting on it was not legible, and it was even stained with a small cloud of oil.
The recognizable part of the label reads: 1 80..27. This is the date, and Calvin could probably guess that the day of the prophecy was made was a certain day in 1980.
The following list of abbreviations is even more incomprehensible: .p.d.
Calvin barely guessed that the latter person's name was Albus Dumbledore.
Neville reached out and lifted the crystal ball from the shelf, his round sweaty face glowing slightly from the crystal ball.
Calvin also stared at the glowing crystal ball, expecting the change he would make.
The crystal ball did not disappoint Calvin, and the white mist in it spun rapidly, then turned into a dim scene.
A harsh, hoarse voice came from the crystal ball, with an irrepressible madness, as if it had a hysteria.
"The man with the power to conquer the Dark Lord approached...... Born into a family that defeated the Dark Lord three times...... Born at the end of the seventh month...... The Dark Lord has labeled him as his archenemy, but he has an energy that the Dark Lord does not understand...... One must die at the hands of the other, because two cannot both live, and only one survives......"
Calvin was slightly stunned when he heard the full prophecy, but he didn't want to stay in this gloomy room. He took the crystal ball from Neville's hand, put it back in its place, and left the Ministry with him.
When Calvin returned to Hogwarts, he placed Neville, who was still asleep, on his bed. He went to the empty black lake, thinking back to the full prophecy he had just heard.
The first three lines had already been heard from Snape, the only difference was in the later section: "The Dark Lord marked him as his archenemy." ”
Mark.
It reminded Calvin of the lightning-like scar on Harry's forehead, the crumbling fragment of his soul that stuck to Harry's soul.
This almost means that the person who can defeat Voldemort is Harry Potter.
But surprisingly, Neville also picked up the crystal ball, does this mean that Neville is also the son of prophecy and an indispensable member of the defeat of Voldemort?
If so, then how should I raise another Child of Prophecy when Dumbledore has already chosen Harry.
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Calvin walked aimlessly by the lake, and after a while, a tall old man appeared beside him.
"You seem to have some problems," Dumbledore's old voice rang in Calvin's ears, "Can you talk to me?" ”
Calvin turned to look at the benevolent Dumbledore, and his gaze quickly passed over to a group of young wizards playing not far from the lake.
So he walked into the lake, and with each step he took the dark water beneath his feet formed a hard ice for him to walk.
Dumbledore also walked on the lake.
"I went to the Hall of Prophecy and heard the full prophecy, not just the first three sentences you asked Snape to reveal to me."
"Oh!" Dumbledore sighed slightly, then thought for a moment, "I seem to remember that Mr. Potter was practicing Quidditch on the court this morning. ”
Calvin nodded, "I took Neville there, and he picked up the crystal ball." ”
"Really?" Dumbledore was a little surprised, "I thought he couldn't hold that crystal ball." ”
"But he did, and picked up the crystal ball." Calvin glanced back at Dumbledore, "So I'm wondering if Harry is taking on too much responsibility, he's just a twelve-year-old wizard, and if he were another child, he might have been crushed a long time ago." ”
Dumbledore paused for a moment, and the two stood in place, the ice expanding outward with the two of them as a circle.
"But Harry has persevered, he's a brave and determined kid."
"yes, he's still a kid." Calvin's tone became as cold as ice under his feet.