Hogwarts: The Cat Wizard of the Moving Castle

Aberforth's reminiscence time did not pass long, but after a while, the two girls in the painting returned with smiles.

It looked like they were having a good chat.

On the way back, Mu En was also curious and asked: "Arianna is a portrait with a short memory. Can you and her be able to chat well?"

Ariana was not a photograph, and she left before brilliant color development technology was available.

"Of course there is no problem. After all, as portraits, we never forget who we are. This may be our only advantage over humans," Sindel said.

"I will never forget who I am." Mu En repeated: "That's true"

"She asked me a lot of interesting things that happened in the school. She was alone here, so she was very curious about things in the school. After I told me that there were hundreds of magic paintings and thousands of characters in the school, she seemed I admire her very much." Sindel said, pointing to her neck: "We even exchanged gifts."

Mu En looked carefully and found that there was a thin blue necklace there.

"Very good." Mu En nodded.

Keep walking along the country road, going straight up, and soon, Mu En came to the path of the Screaming Shack.

There was some garbage piled up on the roadside. No one had set foot on this trail for a long time before he came, but some people didn't mind throwing some garbage here.

Until now, only a few people know that the Screaming Shack is a haunted house with a new resident.

Following the path upwards, just when he was about to reach the house, Mu En also noticed a sudden light on the other side of the mountain.

The firelight was erratic, exuding a gray aura intertwined with the night. Just when he was about to zoom in, he saw a somewhat familiar figure quickly falling on the other side of the mountain, blocking his prying eyes.

After thinking for a while, he changed direction and walked that way.

Ten minutes later, Mu En arrived at this deserted hillside, a little distance from Hogsmeade and close to the Forbidden Forest.

The whining cold wind blew towards the hill from the Forbidden Forest. He put down his hat and stepped onto the mountain.

The firelight has disappeared.

But the man didn't leave, he still lingered here.

But the first thing that caught his eye was a tombstone.

And Nagini, who was leaning on the tombstone and was lost in thought.

The other party obviously noticed him. He stood up hastily, covering up his gaffe, wiped the corners of his eyes with his hands, and lowered his face: "Mr. Jones."

"Hello, Nagini." Mu En nodded and looked at the tombstone.

There is only one line of words on the tombstone.

"Here lies Aurelius Dumbledore, who faithfully wished to be buried near his father."

This was the first time that Mu En knew that he was buried here.

On top of the tombstone, there is a small wooden sign, no more than the size of a palm, with a slightly twisted name on it.

Credence Bareburn.

"Is this yours?" Mu En picked it up and handed it to Nagini.

"Thank you, yes." Nagini quickly took it: "I'd better get used to this title."

Mu En nodded and looked at the tombstone silently for a moment without saying too much to disturb him.

After a while, seeing that Nagini's mood gradually stabilized, he asked: "Now that you are alive again, what are you going to do?"

"Do something."

This question immediately stopped the other party. She looked at the tombstone blankly, then shook her head: "I don't know either."

"Actually, I can't find my meaning."

"There will always be something, everyone has something." Mu En didn't want to waste too much time on such a philosophical and slightly meaningless topic.

But if you think about it carefully, it is understandable that Nagini would be so confused.

The people she knew were gone, and there was no use for the so-called lofty goals. After a sudden awakening, there will inevitably be a period of confusion.

I can't find anything I can do. After all, the world will just keep spinning without me.

"Have you felt any problem with your body recently?" He asked instead.

"The problem." Nagini thought about it for a moment: "That is, when sleeping, she always has nightmares about herself turning into a snake."

"Nightmare?!"

Mu En's eyes became a little more serious as he looked the girl up and down.

Then, he asked cautiously: "Do you mind if I observe your soul?"

"Okay, of course I don't mind, what should I do?"

"You just need not to resist." Mu En nodded, put his fingers together, and gradually emerged a silvery glow that was indistinguishable from the moonlight.

Then, he clicked on Nagini’s eyebrows.

The next moment, his consciousness traveled straight into the depths of his soul.

Soon, his consciousness began to tremble.

Nagini's body was constantly trembling, and the thickness of her soul was increasing, like a sealed container that was constantly being pressurized.

The word "fermentation" is very accurate.

Similarly, during those fermentation processes, the pressure on the body is also gradually increasing.

But the question is, when will this kind of fermentation end? There is no end. Does it need to be cleaned and relieved regularly?

After a while, Mu En opened her eyes again, sweat dripping from her forehead.

"It's still a bit too difficult to change something that has happened at the soul level"

It’s hard to recover when you are covered with water, and it’s hard to put a broken mirror back together...

Judging from the actual situation, even if Moon and Dumbledore used a trick - reshaping the soul and adding memories.

Even if this is the case, it is still difficult to achieve perfection? !

This answer was somewhat unacceptable to him.

"Mr. Jones, what happened?" Nagini said calmly. She noticed the abnormality of Moon's emotions. Children born in lower classes always have extraordinary sensitivity to these things.

But what's surprising is that she doesn't have too much impatience and concern, even if it involves herself.

Although Mu En was a little surprised by her attitude, the main problem now was obviously not here.

"The state of the soul is somewhat disordered and may require a period of rest." Mu En said slowly.

"Okay." Nagini nodded.

"If there are any unusual situations in the future, you can tell me or Aberforth, and he will tell us. You don't need to be too cautious." Mu En warned again.

"I will." Nagini smiled calmly.

"Yeah." Mu En nodded: "If you have time, go out for a walk more often. You don't have to hang out in the bar with that old guy Aberforth.

He wants you to wake up, and he doesn't want to use you as free labor. "

When Nagini heard Mu En's description, she covered her mouth and chuckled: "I know, Mr. Aberforth actually said the same thing. But I always feel that it would be better to help more and do what I can."

Mu En nodded, and after a moment, he said goodbye to Nagini and returned to the Shrieking Shack.

The next day, Saturday morning, Moon came to Dumbledore's office early.

Discussing the high pressure issue in Nagini's soul.

Phoenix Fox disappeared somewhere, which made the huge office seem a little deserted. Dumbledore was still wearing a nightgown and a purple nightcap. He gently put a chocolate bean into his mouth: "In other words, it seems that we still can't solve the problem of Nagini's soul heading towards the snake." The tendency of distortion.”

"To be precise, it's not necessarily a snake." Mu En explained: "The main body will be a snake, but it may be some more bizarre postures. Remember? I have shattered the original snake's soul, just like a flower. It’s like grafting, no one knows what weird shapes will come out.”

This is very similar to what Mu En learned about some worlds with indescribable existences. These existences can cause the human spirit to fall into madness, causing distortions in the soul, which in turn affects the body.

It's just that in this world, everything has been slowed down - it doesn't look so scary.

"So judging from the current situation, we can only keep her healthy by constantly relieving the pressure on her soul and cleaning it regularly?!" Dumbledore asked.

He clearly knew that he was still slightly inferior to Se Mu En in this regard.

And soon, he got a confirmed answer from Mu En's expression.

"Obviously, you cannot accept this outcome."

"Of course, my purpose is to make her an independent person, rather than requiring her to rely on the help of others to survive, even me."

Dumbledore took a deep breath, looked out the window, and clenched his hands invisible in mid-air.

After a moment, he said in a relaxed tone: "No matter what, I will suggest her to eat some chocolate, maybe it will have some effect. As for the subsequent problem, I think this is not a short-term result."

"Tsk" Although Mu En was a little helpless, she had to admit that Dumbledore was right.

"Rather than talking about this, I seem to have found the whereabouts of a Horcrux recently." Dumbledore raised a finger, with a secretive and cunning expression on his eyebrows like a child sharing that he had recently discovered a cave or picked up money.

"So fast?" Mu En was a little surprised.

"That's right!" Dumbledore nodded: "At first, my idea was to follow Voldemort's ten-year journey to find him. However, you gave me a heads up."

"I?"

"That's right!" Dumbledore explained: "Remember Riddle's notebook? He made it into a Horcrux. You took it away at the time and said you were trying to understand him so that you could make better deductions. There is something about a Horcrux."

"So you just."

"I followed Riddle's life path and searched for it!" Dumbledore smiled.

“It looks like it’s been quite rewarding.”

"Yes, I'm surprised." Dumbledore also sighed: "I even wonder if every Horcrux has a memory attached to it, which represents cutting off the past."

"You'll know if you take a look." Mu En said, "Or, I just found a clue now."

"No!" Dumbledore shook his head: "I haven't confirmed what the Horcrux is yet, so I don't know the answer to whether it has memory on it."

"Then what clue are you talking about?" Mu En also picked up a chocolate.

"The Gaunt family's mansion, once you get close to it, magic will be banned, and there will be a strong resentment and death that interferes with the casting of spells."

Mu En nodded: "You can't even handle it?"

"I really can't figure it out." Dumbledore nodded calmly: "Riddle killed his grandparents and father in Riddle Mansion. I suspect that the strange situation there is related to this."

Mu En's heart skipped a beat when she heard this, and asked again: "Biological father?"

Even at sea, there were not many people who would kill their blood relatives.

Moreover, such people are also despised and assassinated among the pirate community.

After all, no one wants to be in the same boat as someone who can even attack their biological parents.

"Yes." Dumbledore nodded, at least according to my investigation.

"Riddle grew up in an orphanage at first, and he has shown his talent for snake talk since he was a child. At least from this point of view, it is not difficult for him to find his family. Of course, as for why he wants to find the family he has been searching for so hard If people go on a killing spree, it’s unknown.”

"Perhaps it's because he feels that the family he is looking for is too useless? He has insulted himself, or insulted the Slytherin bloodline or something like that."

Dumbledore was stunned for a moment, then nodded in agreement: "Maybe that's true."

As he spoke, Dumbledore spread out the books in front of him.

"The Secret of Cutting-Edge Black Magic"

"I'm studying it." He smiled helplessly and pushed up his glasses: "The things above are still a bit too dark. To be honest, I don't even dare to look at them too much every day."

Moon still has an impression of this book. It was the dark magic book that recorded the Horcruxes. It was originally hidden in the forbidden book area. After the Horcrux incident came out last year, Dumbledore put this book and some other books suggested by Moon. Very dangerous books recovered.

This book contains Horcruxes. When it was unclear what dark rituals and spells Riddle had done, it was obviously the right choice to start the investigation from here.

As for what Dumbledore said, this book is too dark.

"I read it as a curiosity story." Mu En also nodded in agreement. He just briefly looked at the spells above, and did not and did not want to study them in depth.

"And the things you mentioned about the forbidden magic circle are not in this book."

"ah?!"

Dumbledore looked down at the book in his hand with a bitter look on his face: "Which book should it be in?"

""Extremely Demonic Magic", "On the Unique Magical Reactions between Souls of the Same Kind", and "Manuscripts of Nekrast's Formation""

"Oh, it seems I'm looking in the wrong direction."

"Actually, you can ask him directly." Mu En said.

Dumbledore knew who this "he" was referring to.

"Ah" Dumbledore opened his mouth, and after a long while he whispered: "Sorry, this is really impossible. Neither he nor I want to have too much contact with each other."

If you feel that sending a letter does not count as contact, then fine.

Mu En had nothing to say.

Inexplicably, he felt like two people were facing each other but still chatting on the phone.

"Stop studying, let me go with you." Mu En said calmly and stood up.

Dumbledore's face flashed with joy, as if he had been waiting for Moon to say these words.

"There are good things, I want them!!" Mu En continued to say calmly.