Chapter 124: The Three-Headed Dog of Hell
Malfoy's face suddenly became ugly, of course he knew what it meant, the testimony of so many little wizards would not be accepted by the school, and if he didn't get it right, he would be expelled!
However, he glanced at Charon, and immediately turned his head, not daring to say anything against it. The Shafiq family has always been a maverick and does not buy anyone's account. Everybody knows that.
The letter still hadn't been delivered, not because everyone didn't sign it, but because Harry had come back halfway through, and he didn't seem to have been punished.
During dinner, Harry tells Ron, Charon, and Hermione what happened to him and Professor McGonagall after they left the field, and instead of punishing him, Professor McGonagall took him to join the Gryffindor Quidditch team and become a Seeker!
Ron was about to put a piece of steak kidney pie in his mouth when he dropped it in surprise. "Seeker?" "But a first-year student never — you must be the youngest house player in years." ”
"It's been a century." Harry said, picking up the pie with his hand and stuffing it into his mouth. After this thrilling encounter in the afternoon, he felt very hungry. "Wood told me."
Ron was so surprised, so shocked. He just sat there, staring blankly at Harry.
"I'll start training next week." Harry said, "Don't tell anyone, Wood wants to keep it a secret. ”
Charon nodded, he didn't care which house won in Quidditch, and Slicklin didn't care if he won or lost.
At this moment, Fred and George Weasley walked into the dining room. As soon as they saw Harry, they walked over quickly.
"Well done," George whispered, "Wood told us. We're also on the Academy team – it's batsmen. ”
"I'll tell you, we're going to win the Quidditch Cup this year." "We haven't won since Charlie left, but this year, we're going to have a big team," Fred said. You must be great, Harry, and Wood was so excited when he told us about it. ”
The news of Harry's successful entry into the Gryffindor Quidditch house team made everyone happy, and even a top student like Hermione, who had no interest in Quidditch, said that he would not miss every game they played.
Of course, there were also unhappy people, and Malfoy learned that Harry was safe and sound, and was hired exceptionally, becoming the only first-year member of the House team in nearly a hundred years. He was almost angry, and he was sneering at the sight of Harry.
Harry wasn't a person who could stand the thrill either, and the two of them actually agreed to have a duel at night. Ron also attends as Harry's assistant.
Charon didn't know about it, and it was only the next day that Hermione complained to him angrily, and he realized that there was such a stupid operation.
"Hey, Harry," Charon found Harry, complaining to him, "You're so stupid to fall for Malfoy's tricks." What's even more stupid is that you didn't even call me, do you think you're Malfoy's opponent? Do you think he'll honestly duel you fairly? ”
Harry hung his head in frustration. Ron muttered, "That scumbag, not only did he not go, but he also snitched Filch the Administrator, and we almost got caught." ”
Charon sneered: "Look, I finally understand, you must know that the symbol of Slytherin is a snake, and the Malfoy family is a Slytherin for generations, you are too naïve to expect them to duel with you in the open!" ”
Charon looked at Harry and Ron, who were downcast, and comforted: "Okay, eat a trench and grow wise, just don't be so stupid in the future." Tell me something, and if you don't boast, my experience and observation of people are far superior to yours! ”
At this point, Charon was about to leave, but was stopped by Harry, who whispered mysteriously, "Charon, don't go, we have another important discovery to tell you." ”
"Do you remember what Headmaster Dumbledore told us at the opening ceremony?"
"What?" Charon couldn't remember for a moment.
"That's it, don't go near the hallway on the fourth floor! You never dreamed of what's in there? ”
"What's there?" Harry's words piqued Xia Yi's curiosity.
Ron on the side couldn't take it anymore, so he took Harry's topic and began to talk about it vividly.
Last night he and Harry stumbled into the no-go hallway. Now they know why it's off-limits.
They were facing the eyes of a large, monstrous dog that was so big that it filled all the space from the ceiling to the floor. It had three heads, three pairs of vicious eyes that were dripping and turning, three noses—twitching and trembling in their direction—and three drooling mouths that hung from the yellowed dog's teeth like slimy rope. It stood motionless, all six eyes staring at them.
Luckily, Harry reacted quickly, pulling Ron out and closing the door when the three-headed dog of hell was startled, and the two of them might become the dog's meal.
"Three-headed Hellhound!" Charon's eyes lit up when he heard this, this was a rare death-type magical animal.
There are very few magical creatures of the death line, and the Thestrals of the Hogwarts Rilla are one, and the other Charon have not been seen again. Now that there was a three-headed dog of hell, Charon was suddenly interested.
Just when Charon was thinking about when to sneak in and take a look, Hermione had a seizure: "Look at the good things you two did, completely gave you your own life, and now I still feel proud!" ”
In the face of their friend's concerned rants, Harry and Ron had nothing to say but to endure in silence.
Cerberus, the three-headed dog of hell, is one of the well-known monster figures in Greek mythology and is widely known as the watchdog of the gates of hell.
However, if you take a closer look at the history of mythology, you will find that the three-headed dog of hell is nothing more than a "stupid dog".
It's hard to be a watchdog, and it's even harder to be a watchdog in the underworld!
The image of Cerberus as a "silly dog" did not take shape overnight, but was already seen in the original myths.
Preventing the living from entering the underworld and preventing the dead from escaping from the underworld, as the watchdog of the underworld, Cerberus is expected to abide by his duty. However, good things do not go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, no one praises the merits of Cerberus, but its cases of dereliction of duty are widely circulated.
Legend has it that Cerberus was so fond of honey that the ancient Greeks used to put a piece of honey cake in the coffin of the deceased to please him. Before Zag breaks through the labyrinth and steps out of the gates of the underworld, Cerberus will block the way, but all it takes is a piece of honey cake and it will let it go. When the customs and settings of ancient Greece were transmitted to ancient Rome along with the legends of ancient Greece, honey cakes became a hurdle that Cerberus could not overcome.
In Apleius's novel The Golden Donkey, Venus is jealous of the beauty of the mortal woman Psyche and drives her to the underworld to find some beauty from the underworld, with the actual intention of having her die in the underworld.
Psyche wanted to commit suicide by jumping from the tower, but the tower suddenly spoke, pointing out the entrance to the underworld that she could enter without dying, and specifically telling her not to enter the underworld empty-handed. If you come across a three-headed dog, feed him honey cakes to distract him.
Psyche also gave the boatman Charon two coins to help her cross the River Styx safely. (Note: Haha, in Greek mythology, Charon was also a greedy and derelict fellow!) )
Coincidentally, in Virgil's Aeneas, the Trojan hero Aeneas travels to the underworld under the leadership of the prophetess Sibyl, who throws a drugged piece of honey to Cerberus, who swallows the honey and is unconscious.
In addition to gluttony, another weakness of Cerberus is music, which makes you sleepy when you hear beautiful music.
Orpheus of ancient Greece had a great talent for music, and it is said that his music was better than that of the banshee siren. In order to save his tragically deceased wife, Orpheus went deep into hell, and when he faced the guard, Cerberus played the harp, and Cerberus fell asleep again when he heard the music.
Wen Dou can't fight, and Wu Dou can't fight, even if he doesn't use small tricks and only fights brute force, Cerberus will be defeated. Zeus's illegitimate son, Hercules, was ordered by the Mycenaean king Eurystheus to bring back Cerberus from Hades. The king had no habit of petting dogs, and his intentions were the same as those of Venus, wanting Hercules to die in the underworld and never come out again.
According to Homer's Eliade, Hercules shot an arrow and wounded Hades in the shoulder, and Hades was forced to allow Hercules to take his pet dog, but only if the use of weapons was forbidden.
So Hercules used brute force to strangle the three heads of Cerberus until he gave up struggling. After the victory, Hercules had to tie the dog with a chain, as if he were walking his own dog, and bring it to the world.
Artists from ancient Greece and Rome were keen to recreate this story to highlight the magnificence of Hercules. But this was enough for Cerberus to be a shame that made him suspect that the dog was born.
It can be seen that Cerberus has a history of many dereliction of duty, is unable to do his job, and is destined to become the laughing stock of the living.
In Charon's necromantic inheritance knowledge, the three-headed dog is just a cute big dog with a necromantic aura, and may be fierce to others, but it has always been docile to necromancers.
That night, Charon sneaked out of the room, left the Slytherin common room, and carefully climbed the stairs up the stairs until he reached the no-go hallway on the fourth floor.
Charon didn't have Harry's cloak of invisibility, but he had a lot of ghost messages to help with directions, and it was impossible for Filch the Administrator and his cat to catch him.
Charon came to the door and cast the opening spell "Alaho Cave Open". He opened the door as soon as he pulled it, and Charon slid in and shut.