Chapter 564: The Department of Mysteries (Sincere Thanks to Alliance Leader Chasing the Wind v8)
Harry's eyes flashed with blue bands of light, and he couldn't see anything else, Harry was a little confused, "Which door should we enter?"
"That's the ...... over there," Neville said when Ginny glared back. Ron's eyes glanced in a direction where Neville had just looked, and he turned to Harry again, "Harry, what did you see in your dream?"
Harry swallowed, "In the dream, I got out of the elevator and through the door at the end of the hallway, into a dark room, this one, and then I went through another door and into what looked like ...... It's like a glowing house. We should try a few doors," he said quickly, "and I'll know if we find the right one." Fast. ”
He strode over to the door across from him, the others following closely. He placed his left hand on the cold, shiny door, raised his wand, and prepared to attack as soon as the door opened, then pushed hard.
The door opened at once.
After the darkness of the first room, they felt that the rectangular room looked much brighter with a few lamps hanging from the ceiling with gold chains, but it did not have the flickering, flickering lights that Harry had seen in his dreams. The room was empty, with only a few tables, and in the center there was a huge glass tank large enough for a few of them to swim in it, and inside was a dark green liquid, and many pearly white things floated lazily around in it.
Neville leaned over to the tank and looked through the walls of the tank, where the things glowed with an eerie light, floating in the depths of the green liquid, flickering and flickering, looking like slimy cauliflower.
Harry wiped his glasses and looked to his side uncertainly, "Are these a fish?"
"Can you eat it?" asked Neville.
Flegg kicked Neville in the leg, "Stupid, these things are brains, I've seen similar things in Germany, don't touch them, or they'll entangle you with the tentacles of your thoughts, and leave you with mental scars, I don't want to smear the fat on your body with the Doctor Oblivion Ointment." ”
"Got it. Neville shrugged his shoulders, muttered and walked away from Flegg for a distance.
"Let's get out of here," said Harry, "it's not right here, we need to find another door to try." ”
When they were back in the dark round room. Ginny walked last, gesturing her wand in the air, "Marker revealed!" and a flaming red X appeared on the door. The door slammed shut, followed by a loud rumble, and the walls began to spin rapidly. But this time, there was a large blur of golden red in the middle of a patch of blue. By the time everything was fixed, the flaming X was still burning, indicating that they had already tried the door.
Harry hurried to the opposite door, followed by the others, still holding his wand and pushing the door open.
The room was larger than the one before, dimly lit, rectangular in shape, and hollowed in the middle, forming a huge stone pit about twenty feet deep. The room was surrounded by tiered rows of stone benches on which they stood at the very top, and those stone benches extended at a steep angle, much like a circular theater, and like the courtroom where Harry was on trial at Wizengamot. But there was no chain chair in the center of the pit, only a large high stone platform with a stone arch erected on it, which looked very old, dilapidated and decayed. There was no wall around the arch, and a tattered black curtain or curtain hung from it, which, though there was not a hint of breeze in the cold air, fluttered gently, as if someone had just touched it.
Ron jumped briskly from the rows of stone benches to the bottom of the rocks in the pit. He walked slowly towards the high platform, his footsteps echoing loudly. From here, the pointed arch looks much taller than when you look down from above. The curtain was still swaying gently, as if someone had just passed through it. He had a very strange feeling that something had discovered his presence behind the arch and was spying on his group.
"Someone whispered from behind there. Harry came to Ron's side and said, frowning as he looked at the curtains that even made him feel like they were fluttering gently, and whispered, "Sirius?"
"Not Sirius. Ron replied affirmatively, "Harry, even after the second Minister of Magic, Damocles Rour, came to power in 1718 and made a deal with the Dementors to use Azkaban to imprison and punish prisoners, the Veil was used as a death chamber, and if you walked through the veil, you would be dead, and no one would come back alive." ”
The murmuring seemed to get louder and louder, and the others noticed that Harry hadn't heard Ron's explanation, but had one foot on the platform and was walking towards the archway, his gaze obsessively fixed on the fluttering drapery.
Neville picked up Harry and escorted them back to the stone bench at the bottom, and everyone climbed up to the door, Ron looked back at the place called the Hall of Death, and after looking around the environment, he nodded in satisfaction before retracting his gaze, and made a color to Ginny beside him, who decisively printed a burning X on the door and returned to the dark round room.
Ron squinted at Harry for a moment, "This Hall of Death is probably the only thing wizards know a little about the Department of Mysteries - after all, it was once used as a death chamber, though Hogwarts doesn't teach it now. Minor wizards, or low-willed wizards, are susceptible to bewitchment from across the veil, and wizards who have never been exposed to death will either be extremely fearful or indifferent to death, depending on their own attitude. A man who has approached death himself, whether he is himself or has seen it, may gaze motionlessly at the curtain and be captivated by it. Wizards who have lost loved ones can hear the whispers of the dead here, and the curtains will give you the illusion that the dead you miss are standing on the other side. ”
Harry came back to his senses in a trance, his face a little scared and confused, the room almost made him forget what he had come here for.
Ron slowly approached with a calm face and pressed his left hand on Harry's shoulder and grabbed his neck, then looked down and looked at Harry, and heard the other man's next words in Harry's confusion, "I just sensed that you feel the curtain "gentle"? You have just developed a strong desire to pass through the curtains, I understand that you have carried too many burdens, experienced too much pain, and longed to see your loved ones, but it also means that you have subconsciously been tempted by death!" Ron slapped Harry in the face the moment he bowed his head at the words, and Harry felt himself be beaten to his senses again, "Harry, this is not a reason for you to secretly use death to escape reality and avoid responsibility. ”