Wind and Eagle Wings at Hogwarts

Chapter 365. Matryoshka Treasure Chest Clairvoyance
On the top of the Hogwarts Astronomy Tower, Professor Flitwick wore the Ravenclaw crown on his head, and kept opening his mouth to sing an obscure language with pain on his face.

It seemed that even he himself felt that the "song of the goblin" was too unpleasant to listen to.

"Crack."

Scott followed the prestige and looked at the golden treasure chest placed on the ground.

"Crack, click."

As Professor Flitwick continued to chant, the words engraved on the golden treasure chest revealed a blue light bit by bit.

Just like what Professor Binns said, the order of the words engraved on the golden treasure chest is disordered, so the order in which the words are lit at this moment is also disordered.

Scott guessed that the golden treasure box might not be opened until all the words were lit up.

However, with the passage of time, Professor Flitwick's singing has become more and more difficult.

His eyes were wide open, and sweat was all over his face.

Scott looked at Dumbledore.

Dumbledore stood aside, looking worriedly at Professor Flitwick, who seemed powerless about it.

Professor Binns also had an anxious and worried expression on his face, floating around Dumbledore.

Scott saw him open his mouth several times to say something, possibly to prevent Professor Flitwick from continuing, but he never spoke.

The voice of Professor Flitwick's chanting had become increasingly harsh.

When about 80% of the words engraved on the golden treasure chest were lit up, Professor Flitwick was a little unsteady on his feet.

This is not the worst, the bad thing is that his body is undergoing obvious changes.

Scott stared wide-eyed, watching Professor Flitwick's ears and nose getting longer little by little.

This looks pretty bad.

His face is gradually transforming into a real goblin.

At this time, Professor Binns couldn't help but said, "No, stop quickly, Felius, the silent blood in your body will riot if this continues!"

But Professor Flitwick didn't stop, he was still persisting.

Even though his face was flushed with heat, his boots were torn, and his hands had grown sharp nails, he still didn't stop screaming.

At the same time, there were continuous "clicks" on the golden treasure box, and the whole box shook rapidly.

"Stop him, Albus!" Professor Binns yelled at Dumbledore, "The blood riot will cause a magical disorder, which may endanger his life at that time!"

Dumbledore pulled the Elder Wand out of his sleeve with a serious expression on his face.

And at this moment, Professor Flitwick suddenly raised his hand tremblingly, making a stop gesture.

Scott and the other two professors understood, and he asked Dumbledore not to disturb him.

And in the process, he still didn't stop the magic called Fairy Song.

Dumbledore hesitated. He raised the Elder Wand in his hand, and he didn't stop Professor Flitwick for a long time.

Professor Binns could only float around anxiously.

At this time, Scott was in no mood to pay attention to Professor Binns' rare emotional display, and he was looking at Professor Flitwick anxiously.

He didn't understand why Professor Flitwick was so persistent, even risking his life.

In his opinion, no matter what was hidden in the golden treasure chest, it was definitely not worth the effort of Professor Flitwick.

At this time, the shaking of the golden treasure chest became more and more violent, and there were very few words that had not been lit up.

Professor Flitwick also increased his singing speed.

Finally, he's done!
At the moment of completion, Professor Flitwick's body lost its strength and fell forward.

Jingle.

Ravenclaw's diadem fell to the ground first.

"professor!"

Scott completely ignored the trembling golden treasure chest, and hurried over to catch the professor.

"Professor Flitwick!"

Scott got down on one knee and put his hand on Professor Flitwick's back.

The touch from the palm of the hand indicated that the professor's robe was soaked with sweat.

Scott looked worriedly at Professor Flitwick's closed eyes. At this moment, the professor's image was infinitely close to a real goblin.

A white light shrouded Professor Flitwick's body.

Scott turned around and saw Dumbledore casting a spell on Professor Flitwick.

"Calm down, Scott." Dumbledore said reassuringly, "Felius will be all right, you can sense that, can't you?"

Scott nodded in a daze, and then used magic power perception to detect the magic power in Professor Flitwick's body at close range.

Under the shroud of that white light, Professor Flitwick's boiling magic power is slowly calming down.

And the change of his body turning to the goblin is fading little by little.

Seeing this scene, Scott couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Crack, click, click!"

At this moment, the voice from the golden treasure chest suddenly became louder.

Scott turned his head and looked at the gaps that appeared on the golden treasure chest. There were three horizontal and vertical stripes on each side, dividing the square chest.

The golden treasure chest really becomes a Rubik's cube.

Afterwards, the Rubik's Cube began to twist on its own, up and down, left and right, and kept spinning crazily.

When it calmed down again to form a cube, the words engraved on the surface of the treasure chest also became neat.

Then, the gaps that divide the golden chest into the Rubik's Cube disappear, leaving only a ring around the middle of the chest's four facades.

"Crack, click."

The amplifier sounded, and the upper part of the treasure chest slowly opened.

Scott looked intently, and what appeared in the golden treasure chest was a smaller silver treasure chest.

At this moment, he felt that Professor Flitwick, who was in his hands, moved.

He didn't bother to observe the silver treasure chest, and quickly lowered his head to look at Professor Flitwick.

"Professor!" he called again.

Professor Flitwick slowly opened his eyes.

At this time, his face had returned to its original appearance.

"Scott?" Professor Flitwick asked, looking at Scott. "Did I make it?"

Scott nodded quickly, "Don't worry, it's a success, the box has been opened."

"That's good." Professor Flitwick looked at Dumbledore who had been casting a spell on him, "Oh, thank you, Albus, I'm fine."

"As long as you're all right, Felius." Dumbledore smiled and put away the Elder Wand.

Professor Flitwick struggled to stand up, picked up the crown on the ground, and walked to the treasure chest.

With a wave of his wand, the silver treasure chest flew out of the gold treasure chest and landed on the ground.

"This..." He looked at the silver treasure chest in surprise.

"You were too reckless just now, Felius." Professor Binns, who had been studying beside the treasure chest, turned his head, "If I didn't know you, I would have thought you were a Gryffindor!"

Professor Flitwick smiled awkwardly, "Oh, you know, Professor Binns, I was almost assigned to Gryffindor when I enrolled."

Professor Binns shook his head with a straight face, and continued to look at the silver treasure chest.

"This chest was opened with werewolf blood," he said.

Scott walked over curiously and looked carefully at the silver treasure chest.

Just look at the gorgeous patterns all over the silver box, a very finely carved werewolf head is inlaid in the center of the box like a lock.

Dumbledore approached with a small glass bottle, he pulled out the cork of the glass bottle, squatted down and put the glass bottle in his hand next to the werewolf head.

"Crack, click."

Werewolf head portrait with open mouth.

Dumbledore poured blood from the vial into its mouth.

"Ugh..."

The werewolf head opened its mouth and howled again, and the eyes carved with white gemstones suddenly turned blood red.

"Crack, click, click..."

The silver treasure chest opened automatically, revealing the black crystal treasure chest inside.

Dumbledore took out the small black crystal treasure chest.

Then, he took out a smaller glass bottle from his pocket, and dripped the transparent liquid in it on the closed eyes of the mermaid head carved on the black crystal treasure chest.

Soon, the head of the mermaid opened his eyes, opened his mouth and sang a few ethereal songs.

"Crack, click, click."

The black crystal treasure chest opened automatically, revealing the small wooden box inside.

This is a small rectangular wooden box similar to a wand box.

Different from the gorgeous and exquisite shape of the previous three-layer gold, silver, and black crystal treasure chests, this small wooden chest at the core looks extremely simple.

Logs, without any patterns, and without locks.

Dumbledore didn't do it directly this time, but waved his wand and let the small wooden box open by itself.

A roll of animal skin lay quietly in the small wooden box.

"Open it up and have a look!" Professor Binns said impatiently.

Dumbledore reached out to take off the animal skin roll and unfolded it. Scott leaned over to look at the words that seemed to be carved with a knife on the animal skin roll.

It is an ancient rune.

The words engraved on this animal skin scroll are all ancient runes.

Scott carefully identified the ancient runes, and then frowned.

As an ancient text, the ancient rune text was no longer complete when it was passed down to modern times. Many characters on this animal skin scroll made him feel strange, and he could barely understand part of it for a while.

There is a secret location recorded on this animal skin, it seems that someone built something there...

Scott suddenly felt that his knowledge was still very poor.

"It's Merlin!" Professor Binns exclaimed suddenly.

Dumbledore nodded, then turned to look at Scott.

"I don't know if this can be regarded as a coincidence." He said with a smile, "We learned the news about the [Clairvoyant Eye] mentioned in the prophecy from the animal skin scroll."

"Sorry, professor, I didn't understand." Scott said with some embarrassment.

"It doesn't matter, you still need to learn." Dumbledore said, "Mastering ancient runes requires long-term accumulation."

Professor Flitwick also patiently said: "When your experience is richer, or you have access to more ancient documents, you can rely on reasoning and guessing to understand the general meaning of this document, even if there are some characters that make you Feel strange."

Scott nodded.

"Okay." Dumbledore said with a smile, "Scott must be impatient to know the answer."

Scott nodded again.

Dumbledore shook the scroll of animal skins in his hand, "It is recorded on it that the legendary wizard Merlin once built a super-large magic ceremony called [Eye of Clairvoyance] on the island called Avalon, The only function of this ritual is to see the future."

"See the future?" Scott's eyes widened.

An overly strong sense of absurdity once again filled his heart.

Dumbledore nodded, "It's recorded in the animal skin. It is because of this that Merlin has clearly predicted the future countless times."

"If this is true..." Professor Flitwick murmured, his voice gradually becoming sharper, "Merlin can actually complete such an incredible magic ritual, his magic has completely exceeded people's imagination!"

"Yeah, it's incredible, isn't it?" Dumbledore said in a tone of exclamation.

"But, who recorded this?" Scott expressed doubts, "And who hid the box in the Room of Requirement?"

Professor Binns said: "I checked some ancient records kept by Hogwarts, and the troll specimen has existed for a long time, and it was even used as a teaching prop."

Facing the somewhat surprised eyes of the other three, he continued to say indifferently: "As you know, in the past history, the relationship between wizards and magical animals was more hostile than it is now."

Finally, he concludes, "I think later people put it in the Room of Requirement when they cleared the clutter."

Professor Flitwick asked the question Scott wanted to ask, "Do you know who made that troll specimen in the first place?"

Professor Binns shook his head, "I haven't found any records about this, maybe you can ask Ms. Gray and Bloody Barrow, they are the longest-existing ghosts in this school."

"Then ask them." Dumbledore stood up, "Ms. Gray, Mr. Barrow."

His call seemed to contain magic power, and the two ghosts he called appeared in front of him instantly.

This seems to be the prerogative of Hogwarts headmasters.

Scott remembered what happened last year. Dumbledore used magic to summon the ghosts of the four colleges in front of him, trying to control Medea through a special magic.

Although the control failed and Medea finally escaped, Scott still remembers the scene vividly.

"What's the matter?" Bloody Baro asked coldly.

"Scott? Why are you here?" Helena looked at Scott and the others in surprise.

When she spoke, the bloody Barrow shut his mouth quickly, and silently stepped aside.

Helena didn't even look at him, but floated in front of Scott.

"Oh, you look a bit embarrassed, Filius." She looked down at Professor Flitwick again.

Professor Flitwick quickly explained, "It's like this..."

Then, he described the matter related to the box in detail.

"I see." Helena glanced at Scott, "Why do you always encounter such things?"

With a helpless expression on Scott's face, he spread his hands.

"Troll specimen." Helena had already pondered, "Let me think about it, maybe I can remember it."

"It's Henry Gaunt, the son of Medea." The bloody Baron said suddenly.

Helena didn't look at him, but said to herself: "Who would do such a thing, I mean making troll specimens, trolls are stinky."

She had a disgusted expression on her face.

"It's him." Bloody Barrow said again, "He used to study at Hogwarts, and later served as a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts for a period of time. The specimens were made during his tenure as a professor."

From what he said, he seemed to know something inside.

(End of this chapter)