Chapter 116: Departure
Although Aiagoth is a bit of a homely figure in wizarding circles, he is not a rigid person, and he is also very interested in the thriving Muggle technology, and he has integrated into it. Drive smoothly along the way, just like a normal Londoner. On the contrary, her mother, Lisa, has little contact with the Muggle world, and seems strange and curious.
Arriving at the station, Charon pulled out his ticket, which said nine and three-quarters of the platform. What does this mean?
"I don't know how to get to the platform, do I?" Mother Lisa asked understandingly, and Charon nodded repeatedly.
"Hehe, it's easy!" "Don't worry, just go straight to the ticket gate between platforms 9 and 10," the mother said. Don't stop, don't be afraid, just go straight inside, it's important. If you're nervous, you can trot. ”
With that, Mother Lisa walked towards the wicket between the ninth and tenth, and disappeared as soon as she touched the railing.
Charon understood, and rushed forward with a thud of the cart. Sure enough, when I was about to hit the railing, my eyes flashed, and I had come to another place. It's an old-looking platform, like a 19th-century antique, with a crimson steam locomotive parked next to a platform packed with passengers. The sign on the train reads: Hogwarts Express, eleven o'clock. Charon looked back and saw that the place where the ticket gate had been turned out to be a wrought iron archway with the words: Platform Nine and Three-Quarters.
My father also came through and met my mother. Everyone smiled at each other and pushed their luggage towards the train together.
Smoke from steam locomotives bilfted over the chattering crowds, and pets of all kinds slid under people's feet. Amid the humming of the crowd and the squeak of dragging heavy luggage, the owls also cooed and cooed, and the whole scene was like a temple fair, a mess.
Charon was glad to meet Hermione again, and he immediately recognized the girl with thick brown hair and waved her to greet her. Mr. and Mrs. Granger also recognized their mother, Lisa, and the four adults met and began to greet each other politely. It wasn't until time ran out that Charon and Hermione got on the train.
The two of them struggled to push the cart forward in the crowd, ready to find an empty seat. Due to the delay, the first few carriages of the train were already crowded with young wizards studying in their seats, some leaning out of the windows to talk to their families, and some fighting in their seats.
Finally, they found an empty compartment near the back of the car, squeezed through the crowd, and carried their respective luggage up. Charon was a boy after all, and he had a little more strength, so he easily carried his box onto the pedal, and carried Hermione's box by the way.
Charon put away his luggage, poked his head out of the car window, and waved goodbye to his parents. Hermione was like him.
Father Aiagoth and mother Lisa were like boulders in the crowd, all of them circling them, forming a very noticeable void around them.
However, Ayagos and Lisa did not pay any attention to this, and Lisa couldn't help but sobbed as she said goodbye to Charon. Aiagos took her into his arms and comforted her softly.
That's when the train started with a bang. Charon and Hermione waved goodbye to their parents by the car window until the train sped up and they were no longer visible.
The two of them returned to their seats, and Hermione stopped talking, "Oh, Charon, it might be rude to say that, but I seem to think everyone is ...... That ......"
Hermione tried to find a milder word to describe the reverence and distance that the Shafiq family was treated with.
"Hide!" Charon helped Hermione speak, "You want to say that everyone is avoiding my dad, right?" ”
"Sorry! I didn't mean that, just a little curious! Hermione was embarrassed, her face flushed, and she struggled to explain.
"Haha!" Charon laughed, "It's okay! We've seen this kind of thing a lot! We, the Shafiq family, have been in this situation for generations, and no one cares! ”
Hermione stopped talking, but her eyes were full of questions, what a girl full of curiosity.
Charon had to explain: "Actually, there is nothing, it's just that our Shafiq family is the only pure-blood family that inherits necromancy, so outsiders have some misunderstandings......"
"Necromancy?!" Hermione's eyes widened like brass bells, and her mouth opened in surprise to look like a startled groundhog.
"What's wrong?" Charon was a little amused, "Why are you so surprised?" ”
Only then did Hermione suppress her emotions and asked, "Isn't necromancy black magic?" Why are you able to cultivate openly? Does the Ministry of Magic care? ”
"Who said that? Necromancy is also the same as ordinary magic, there are black magic and normal magic, of course, you can practice! As for the Ministry of Magic, my father is a special advisor to the Ministry of Magic, and the director of the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic was personally present at a banquet at my house a few days ago! Charon retorted.
"But look here......" Hermione hurriedly pulled out a book from her bag called "The Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts", and she flipped through it quickly, finding the page, and pointing it out to Charon.
"The darkest of all the dark arts is undoubtedly Necromancy! And it's one of the ugliest and most disgusting magical rituals. The word Necromancy comes from the Greek word for death and supernatural divine power. And necromancy itself refers to a method of communicating with the world of death in ancient times. Necromancy can be traced back to ancient Persian, Greek, Roman, and medieval wizards. Necromancy can be divided into two branches: one that summons and dominates ghosts (necromancy), which is more common; One faction is in control of the Dead Corpse Sect (Dead Corpse Sect), and both factions have an inseparable relationship with the forbidden Dark Arts. The Necrons usually do this by opening altars and spells, while the Necrons use exhumations and grave robberies to obtain the terrifying black magic they need. Necromancers are usually surrounded by horrific deaths, dressed in clothes stolen from the dead, contemplating the meaning of death...
It is impossible to understand the mysteries of necromancy without a certain level of attainment in the knowledge of the soul and death, and the consequences are very dangerous if you do it rashly. Since, under normal circumstances, dead people do not return to the human world (either in the form of entities or ghosts), if this happens, it must be for a very specific reason. If a living person wants to connect with another world and dominate the soul without heeding the pleas of the dead, be careful to learn about the dark arts, lest you become a victim of the wraith! ”
"Nonsense!" After reading it, Charon directly concluded: "It's all written blindly!" Who is the author? I asked my father to settle accounts with him, and I made sure to make changes soon! But then again, it's messy, there's too much nonsense, and we don't bother to care! ”
"But is necromancy really black magic?" Hermione's panic dissipated, and curiosity surged back.
"Oh, hundreds of years ago, the Ministry of Magic had a special discussion with the Shafiq family about this, and it was stipulated that no skull summoning, necromancy, or ghost summoning must be made of human or other humanoid sapient beings. Violating this rule is black magic, and if it does not violate this rule, it can be used normally. Charon explained.
"Oh, I see!" Hermione suddenly realized, and continued to ask, "What are skeleton summoning, necromancy, and ghost summoning?" Are all three of them necromancy? What's the difference? ”
"Skeleton summoning is the necromancy that creates and drives skeletons, in fact, skeletons are just a kind of puppet, nothing particularly evil! My father and I both inherited this one. By the way, I also brought the goblin skeleton that my father gave me, which is very interesting, do you want to see it? ”
Charon looked at Hermione expectantly, eager to show off.
Hermione, who was one of the curious trio in the books, and her curiosity and curiosity clearly outweighed her fear, she swallowed and nodded.
Charon was overjoyed, and hurriedly poured out the goblin skeleton from his bag, and "kicked it in" and fell to the bone shelf.
The impact of this scene made Hermione almost faint. Fortunately, she is also from a medical family (her father is a dentist), has a certain immunity to skeletons, and has made mental preparations in advance.
Charon drove the necromantic magic, and the pile of white bones on the ground was immediately assembled by Caracalla, and in a blink of an eye, it turned into a short skeleton of one meter five or six, and the two black holes in the round skull began to glow with green light.
"Ahh Hermione was frightened by this sudden change, screamed, and her body involuntarily hid in the corner, and it took a long time to calm down, and she kept hinting to herself in her heart, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid!" It's nothing, it's just a robot! ”
Seeing Hermione frightened like this, Charon was a little frustrated, and said dejectedly: "I'm sorry, I didn't expect you to be so scared!" I'll put it away now. ”
"Wait!" Hermione plucked up her courage and stopped Charon with her words, "I should say I'm sorry, I was a little panicked just now!" It's okay, just do more mental construction! ”
"Really?" Caron saw that Hermione was beginning to accept, and his mood began to improve, and he immediately directed the skeleton to tap dance.
Hermione's heart trembled again, barely controlling herself from screaming.
Fear is like a spirit, the first sip is always very exciting, and then it slowly doesn't matter.
Hermione, too, slowly dissipated her fear as Charon's skeleton performed all sorts of antics and eventually even found it interesting and began to ask Charon. Why is this thing moving? There are no muscles connecting the joints, so why not fall apart?
When she asked, Charon couldn't answer. So he called the skeleton to his side and grabbed its arm off, but as soon as he let go of his hand, the arm was like a magnet, and it sucked into the skeleton.