Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 2869 The Unforgivable Secret (6)

   "Where did you go!"

  Molly stood by the river with her hands on her hips, snarling at Bill, George, and Fred.

  She and Arthur called the names of the three of them into the river just now, and they almost boarded the boat and searched along the river.

   "We are trapped by the mechanism." Bill said guilty.

  Pomona sneered aside.

   If you don't go to them, these "explorers" don't know how long they will be trapped.

   "Are we leaving?" Severus whispered in her ear.

   "Wait a minute, don't worry," Pomona said lightly.

  She caught a glimpse of Barnaby, Ben Cooper, and Liz muttering again, probably colluding confessions now.

  Children prefer to play with older children, but don't trust adults. This is ancient, unless parents can do like Arthur.

   "Okay, honey, haven't they come back?" Arthur, as usual, blindly shielded the child.

   "They may be in danger! What if they get hurt?" Molly yelled at him angrily, but Arthur nodded perfunctorily.

   "She didn't say, 'If you didn't help me watch the children, they wouldn't have been missing for so long'." Pomona muttered.

   "Why is Molly saying this?" Severus asked.

   "You're grounded," Molly said to Bill, George, and Fred "until you realize the seriousness!"

  Bill doesn't care, anyway, he will start school in a few days.

  George and Fred wailed.

   "You can't do this, Mom." The twins protested together.

   "Thank you." Arthur came over to shake hands with them, "Thank you for helping us find them."

  Severus ignored Arthur's outstretched hand, and Pomona took Arthur's hand.

   "Be careful next time." Pomona smiled and said, "Don't be negligent just because it's a vacation."

   "Haha, it's also thanks to the holiday, otherwise they violated the school rules, and I don't know how many points they would have deducted." Arthur said with a smile.

   Then regardless of Snape's face, he went back to find his family.

   "What about the little trolls?" Severus asked.

"Ho Ho Ho Ho, let's not restrict the children's nature, let them explore freely." Pomona imitated Dumbledore's tone and said, "Even if we object, as long as the principal agrees, they still want to do whatever they want .”

   The old bat gritted his teeth, but didn't complain like the others.

   "I'm going to find the centaur tomorrow, will you come with me?" Pomona asked.

   "Of course." He said firmly.

   "Paul, do you want to keep following this sullen guy, or go find your playmate?" Pomona asked.

   "It's so funny that they don't take me, I want to punish them." Paul said.

   "I guess you'll stay with us for a while," Pomona said.

   "No!" Snape and Paul said together.

   "What's going to stop you from being angry?" Pomona said.

   "They can't leave me behind," Paul said.

   "I think what they need is focus, and you're distracting them," Pomona said. "You just want to play."

   “No, I can help too!” Paul said.

  Pomona shook his head, "How do I know if you're not going to be helpful?"

   "You want to sign a contract with me?" Paul said.

   "No!" Pomona and Severus said together.

   "Then what do you want?" Paul said impatiently.

   "You're going to be a good doll and watch, okay?" Pomona asked.

   After a while, Paul agreed, and Pomona called Barnaby and Cooper over and handed Paul back to them.

   "Take him back to the castle!" Pomona said to the two of them.

   "Back to the castle? Not to Professor Graplan?" Cooper looked at Paul with some horror.

   "I don't want Wilmina's birds to fly away in fright," Pomona said. "Go back to school and I'll explain to Filch."

   "Then I'm going back." Liz said, "I have a Floo network where I live."

   "Of course." Pomona said with a smile.

  The three men who made the confession looked at Pomona suspiciously.

   "Go back." Pomona said with a smile.

   They split up and left according to Pomona's instructions.

   Waiting for them to leave, Pomona went to the store next door.

   "Does it have anything to do with you, Charlie!" Molly continued to "interrogate".

   It was a bar that was open late at night, only open to adults, and Pugliamore sat alone in the corner.

  Pomona and Severus sat across from her.

   "What do you want?" the bartender asked.

   “Butterbeer will do,” Pomona said.

   "Two fingers of whiskey," Severus said.

   Then the waiter walked away.

   "You said you would help me, really?" Priya asked in panic.

   "We helped you settle the dispute between the troll and the centaurs, didn't we?" Pomona laughed. "So tell me, what happened?"

   "I promised not to let it out." Puglia said seriously, "I am a silent man."

   "How about we do an exchange?" Pomona said. "I'll tell you about the graveyard's secret, and you tell you what you know."

   Puglia is still struggling.

   At this moment, the waiter put the wine they wanted in front of them.

   "Okay, but you guys talk first!" Puglia said after the entertainer left.

   "It's about mermaids." Pomona said, "Did you see that there are many reliefs on the walls of the cemetery?"

   Puglia suddenly realized.

   "So that stone comb is for mermaids," Puglia said.

   "I guess merfolk don't want it, they prefer combs made of coral and turtle shells," Pomona said.

   "Who should it be for?" Puglia asked.

   "We said what we know, you should say you know," Severus said.

  Pulia took a sip of wine, then spoke softly.

Since she has been observing the planting of Barber's tubers in the vegetable field in the Forbidden Forest, Puglia also often appears near the vegetable garden. It happened that one day she saw a centaur handing her necklace to Bana who was also in the vegetable field. Bee, Liz and Ben Cooper.

  So Pulia proposed to explore with them, but they were not so happy at first, because Pulia was too unlucky.

   Puglia sobbed again at this point, then took another sip of wine, and then continued.

Bill was also very puzzled about the origin of this stone. He couldn't see what was wrong with this stone at all. Then Puglia took it to find Firenze, another eloquent centaur, and from him Puli Ya heard some news that I don't know if it's true or not.

Centaurs are proud and fair "creatures" who categorically rejected the "human" status given to them by the Ministry of Magic when they knew they were going to be classified as humans with banshees and vampires, even though this made some wizards misunderstand them as "beasts". ".

  In addition to healing and divination, the centaurs are also good at studying astronomy, which includes the creation and destruction of planets.

There is an unpredictable relationship between the earth and the moon, and even humans have mined moonstones. Although the stones that Puglia showed Firenze were not like the moonstones that would glow, he still felt the relationship between them and the moon. relationship between.

   "So, this stone has nothing to do with ancient magic?" asked Pomona.

   "How do you know ancient magic? This is top secret." Priya said in horror.

   "Obviously, not only you have the secret, but also the professors at Hogwarts." Severus said threateningly.

   "Did you find the 'Wonderful Key' at school?" asked Pomona.

   "No, Hogwarts seems to think that I am not a person in the school." Puglia said, "Only people related to the school can find the magic key in the school, my grandpa told me so."

   "Does a person only get one key?" asked Pomona.

  Pulia nodded, then shook his head again.

   "What do you mean?" Pomona asked.

   "It depends on how much connection you have with this school. Who knows, this is a place full of adventures."

   "What do you know about the demolished fort?" Severus asked.

   Puglia was silent.

   "Tomorrow night, we'll meet at the Pig's Head Pub in Hogsmeade." Puglia said, "That's all for today, I'm very tired."

   Then she left.

  Severus drank the whiskey in his glass in one gulp. Pomona looked at the butterbeer and suddenly lost the mood to drink it.

  If I knew it earlier, I wouldn’t order such a big cup.

  But she still gulped it down before leaving. After finishing this cup and adding the previous one, the feeling of vomiting became more and more intense.

  When she left the bar, as the night wind blew, her stomach was overwhelmed. She leaned on the wall and came to the corner to vomit.

   She didn't feel better until she was about to throw up bile, and then she heard voices coming from the dark alley.

  She thought the speaker's voice was very familiar, and she took two steps forward, only to see that Arthur and Molly were talking.

   "Don't be angry." Arthur said softly to Molly.

   "It's not that I want to be angry, they are too irresponsible." Molly said angrily, "Especially Bill, he actually took George and Fred to such a dangerous place."

   "Just went to the grave," Arthur said.

   "Don't say that!" Molly said anxiously.

   "It's just a test of courage, or are you afraid? Molly trembling?"

   "Ouch~" Pomona hurriedly backed away, unexpectedly bumping into someone.

   "Come on, it's nothing to hear," Pomona said to Severus.

  He gave her a puzzled look for a moment, then apparated while grabbing her arm.

  (end of this chapter)