the lost castle

"The Big Conjecture About Curses"

An assortment of cream, honey, hazelnut cakes and other things were placed on the whole table. This kind of beautiful and cute things made Rowena unable to put it down. Of course, it is more likely that she could not eat anymore, and Ge Derek didn't mean to appreciate it at all, and stuffed it directly into his mouth one by one.

While eating the chocolate pie, Helga kept taking out potion bottles from the cloak.

At first Salazar thought she was looking for a digestion potion, for obvious reasons.

But those crystal bottles of beautiful and colorful liquids, row after row, completely occupied his sight in front of him, and Helga had no intention of stopping.Salazar was a little puzzled and picked up a bottle to take a closer look. Light blue, very good magic power neutralizing potion, there are at least a dozen bottles, and then dark red blood-enriching potion, there are various kinds of potions specially used to neutralize magic power. Cursed potion, after ten seconds of stagnation, Slytherin came to a realization.

He gently pushed the bottle away to stop Helga from taking the potion.

"Not a curse."

The voice was very soft, but the three laughing and eating people all stopped.

Godric grabbed the glass of lemonade drink, with an expression of "I guess it's not a curse", then he lowered his head for a moment, sprayed water to the foot of the table, followed by the whole person jumping up with his face swollen Blush:

"Salazar, tell them it's not me, it's really not me!"

Before he could react in an instant, Salazar wished to throw a certain lion directly across the street. This embarrassment was hard to describe. When he mentioned this kind of thing in front of Rowena Helga, heck, it was so embarrassing. He needs to explain, what explanation does that stupid lion want to hear? !However, after seeing the empty shop in this dessert shop, the shivering suspicious figures in robes huddled behind the rows of tables, and the crowds gathering far away from the door, I suppressed my anger for a long time. Emotional answer:

"Not Godric."

As a result, after saying this sentence, the two witches who stopped in the middle of eating strawberry egg tarts turned from ugly expressions to strange expressions, as if they wanted to laugh, but immediately turned into looking at each other with wandering and ugly eyes.

It feels like they know something.

Salazar frowned slightly, and asked very ambiguously:

"You found out?"

After a second of silence, Rowena threw a spell to isolate the sound, and then spoke hesitantly:

"Salazar, so you also know?"

What he knew was absolutely different from what they knew. Phoenix blood was not something that attracted so much attention. If even he hadn't discovered it, unless it was from a water source, it was impossible for Helga not to have noticed.The magic power of the Hufflepuff family tends to be close to magical plants, so it is difficult not to find abnormalities in the creatures around the Forbidden Forest and Hogwarts.

"After Godric left, Rowena and I found out that she was too abnormal in the fourth year?"

she?

"Although no one knew what happened in the year when your accident happened, but in the second month, she came to Hogwarts, and Helga and I usually invite her to come occasionally. After all, Mia is your only daughter."

Slytherin's gaze dropped suddenly, as if something that had been intentionally forgotten had resurfaced. Maybe this guess had already been made under normal circumstances, but reason actually prevented the existence of this accurate judgment.

"...You are missing, no matter how fast the news is, it is only in Hogwarts, and she has never been willing to enter the castle, but Godric was in a bad state at the time, and we were busy trying to find a way to study the black diamond , It's normal for her to ask, so I didn't think much about it..." Rowena put down the food and grabbed the neat paper towels by the table to wipe her hands, while trying not to let her eyes come into contact with Salazar, because this It was a fact that they were extremely angry when they found out, but in the end they felt very sad, "I told her that I don't know what's going on, it may be related to some spell, we are all looking for it, this kind of thing used to be Yes, after all, the magic circle at Hogwarts is normal, which means there is no danger. Later, Godric also left, and she never came again. When it was almost forgotten over time, Helga found that there were several people who had left school. students are missing."

Godric, who had been listening in silence all this time, suddenly stood up.

Helga reached out and forcibly pulled him back into the chair.

"The establishment of Hogwarts was a normal thing at the beginning. Muggle wars have never stopped, but we have always promised to protect those children. No matter how they died, we will find out. It has been many years. This kind of thing happened before, but this time, it was unexpectedly difficult, there was no trace, as if it was swept away by the magic of time, there was no sign, it seemed to disappear suddenly while walking on the road or at home. Until One day, one of my students, we found…”

Rowena's voice began to choke:

"He's gone back to Hogwarts, turned into a ghost in the castle—"

"Snapped!"

The potion bottles and dishes on the table near Salazar were broken into a row. He leaned back in the chair and listened expressionlessly.

"We went looking for her, but we couldn't find her." Helga gently patted Rowena's back, "According to what the child said after she came back, she has been arresting some students with the Imperius Curse for several years. Inquiry, after no results, I finally caught a few children and directly used black magic to peel off their souls and check their memories. Maybe she suspected that we had cast a spell on the students to keep them secret and didn't tell her the truth. That child didn't know much, but you disappeared and Goddri The thing about K leaving..."

The sunlight is soft, and when it shines in from the glass window, it seems that there is a kind of hazy drowsiness, and even those heart-wrenching words seem to become distant, and finally, they begin to blur.

"...Since it's Mia, then it must be that possibility, nothing else..."

Nyx cursed.

What they found was different from what he knew.Except for Mia, who can not be suspected when entering Hogwarts? Except for Mia, who knows so clearly that the phoenix blood is fatal to him, and of course she will not waste that curse, because the family The inherited brooch is with her, so the curse must be aimed at the three of them, more likely - Godric! !

Salazar opened his eyes suddenly, staring at Gryffindor.

Since he used the Imperius Curse, he must know how important Godric is to him. For the curse to be effective, he must choose the person closest to him. The most terrifying kind of black magic, the Curse of Nyx still follows the general laws of curse magic:

The shorter and more specific, the more powerful.

There are three people involved, far more beneficial to the curse than one alone.

"Salazar, what's wrong with you..." Godric's voice was a little hoarse, which was the aftereffect of suppressing his anger and keeping silent just now. He was quite worried, and when he saw Salazar opened his eyes, he immediately leaned over and asked.

If there is anything, it should not wait until now, thousands of years ago... But the curse of Nyx ignores time, and it will remain in effect until all the conditions that constitute the curse die out. For example, the blood of Slytherin can only coexist with Nyx .However, in the Nyx family, some people failed to achieve their goals because the content of the curse was not clear.

But none of them talked to Mia in detail about how to make the meaning of the curse not deviate.

It's not that I don't want to, it's that there is no chance.

Since one cannot directly curse oneself, the content of the curse must be detoured.

"Salazar?"

"...Mia can't curse me..." She tried her best to keep her voice steady and not trembling, "But she can do it for other people."

There was silence for a while, and Rowena jumped up half a minute later, followed by Helga. The two directly pulled Godric over and threw countless detection spells. The latter was also sluggish, and only recovered after a while , hurriedly waved away the wand that Rowena almost poked into his mouth, and said urgently:

"I'm fine, I'm fine!"

"But something happened to Sara, why are you fine--" Rowena stopped, her expression twisted, she obviously thought of some weird guesses, but she soon recovered, and asked tentatively:

"Curse Godric for killing his lover?"

"Ahem!!" Gryffindor coughed desperately, trying to stop Rowena and Helga's big speculation.

"You forgot? Mia can't curse Salazar! You can't say that." Helga's eyes were cold, and his expression was very serious. In fact, although Rowena's words were ridiculous, they were not in the mood now. "It should only be said to be 'lost' or 'leave'."

"Curse Godric's lover to leave him?" Rowena shook her head desperately, "It's unreliable, leaving, going out from Hogwarts is also called leaving, changing from seeing each other every day to once a month is considered leaving, by the way Come back, even if the two of them don't see each other right - no, can't love and feelings be controlled with curse magic?"

"Rowena!!" A certain lion jumped.

"Uh, well, my opinion is that the word leave is unreliable, what if they just dumped each other and lived well, even I wouldn't waste cursing like this!"

"Rowena, you shut up, Salazar and I won't—"

"That's 'lost'!" Helga continued the discussion completely as if Godric didn't exist.

That's right, losing is more definite than leaving, and the meaning is more permanent. After thinking for a second, Slytherin nodded in agreement.

"Then, 'Curse Godric. Gryffindor loses loved ones, or most important ones'…"

"Don't repeat it again!!" A certain lion was ignored again.

"Wait, this sentence is still unreliable. If you lose it, you may still be alive." Helga continued to increase the chips that made Gryffindor furious, "Although the curse is as short as possible, but just in case One, there must be a sentence behind it..."

Assuming it was death and nothing else, then only Godric died of despair.

— Godric.Gryffindor would lose the most important person, and die.

Salazar's expression became paler, and Rowena Helga even threw the vitality prediction spell directly.

"...Let go, you guys think too much, if I want to die, I won't be here now!!"

"Well, it seems to make sense."

"Yeah, I'll just say..." Godric's words were choked back by Rowena's next sentence.

"Whether Godric is dead or not, it is still not certain that Salazar is alive or dead, I mean it."

"..." Helga was stunned for a long while, then rubbed his forehead, "Looking at it now, at least 'lost' is verified. Could it be that the last sentence is 'leave because of regret in despair of loss'?"

"I didn't completely despair at that time, there are still those people who ran back to the thousand years later..."

"It must be 'leaving forever because of regret in despair', which is absolutely correct." After seeing that Godric's vitality spell test results were extremely normal, Rowena was not worried about the life and death of her friend at all. In 1000 years, the effect of the curse should be more obvious if it exists, otherwise will it work? It is inevitable that you will find…”

"Rowena!!" Godric was considering whether to become angry, when he looked up and found Salazar standing up and walking out the door.

"Hey, Salazar where are you going?"

"Wait...Helga, help me, put away these snacks quickly, wait! Merlin is on top, only Salazar is in his eyes, and he doesn't even want such good food!!"

"...Ollivander!"

——Why didn't he think about it carefully at the beginning, and was worried about this lion! !