Parents of Hogwarts

It's a pity that no matter how powerful Callan shouted, they still couldn't beat Gryffindor.

Half an hour later, the four people sat miserably on the carpet, Gryffindor's armor returned to silence after laughing.

Snape touched his red and swollen arm lightly, grinning in pain.

"I finally understand why you hate Gryffindor so much."

He endured the pain and said.

This time, even Lily didn't refute Snape's words.

Gryffindor was so outrageous that they were forced to fight!

It is said that in the days when Gryffindor lived, wizards had to wear a long sword for dueling.

Especially Godric Gryffindor himself, who was extremely chivalrous and a master of dueling.

When his opponents were Muggles who couldn't use magic, Gryffindor never drew his wand, but insisted on dueling in the Muggle way.

His sword skills were excellent, and his armor also inherited this very well, which caused the four of them to suffer a lot.

"How is it possible to win..." Lily said sadly. She looked at the crooked wooden sword on the ground and had no idea of ​​picking it up again.

Saoirse was preparing a healing potion using Hufflepuff's golden cup. Judging from her skillful movements, it was hard to imagine how many times she had been hit hard.

Thinking about it this way, Gryffindor became even more hateful and refused to show mercy to girls.

Lily looked at Saoirse with sympathy, but what she got in return was Saoirse's victorious look. She handed the potion forward and said proudly: "How is it? Now do you think Gryffin Doubtlessly worse than Slytherin?"

Lily made a disgusted expression, took the golden cup, and drank the potion inside in one gulp.

Well, Saoirse is more annoying!

She's much more annoying than Gryffindor!

Karan is thinking hard about countermeasures. He doesn't want to get another beating. This is really hurtful to his pride.

"You can't use magic, you have to defeat him head-on..."

Karan lamented the same as Lily: "How can this be won?"

They have never learned sword skills, so there is no way they can win over the experienced Gryffindor.

Lily and Snape looked at each other in tacit understanding. Although it was painful when being beaten, it was different once Callan was added to it. It was not easy to defeat him.

The two people laughed maliciously. Saoirse looked at them as if they were fools and didn't understand why they were so happy to be beaten.

"Can't use magic, can't use magic..."

Karan muttered and took the golden cup. After drinking the potion, the pain on his body eased a lot, but he still kept muttering: "You can't use magic... so what should I do?" manage?"

Seeing Karan become such a weird look, Lily no longer wanted to continue teasing him.

She asked cautiously; "Are you okay, Karan?"

Karan didn't reply. He stood up and walked back and forth in front of the three people.

"Has he been like this before?" Saoirse asked curiously.

Snape nodded; "When he thinks seriously, he can't listen to anything. It's no different from being distracted."

In the end how to do it?

Karan walked back and forth faster and faster. He had not thought of asking Meadows for help, but he could not hide it from Saoirse. He also needed a golden cup to open this special secret room.

Besides, Meadows's sword skills are not very good, let alone Dumbledore. No one can beat Gryffindor. There are no wizards who specialize in sword training anymore. This is completely outdated.

But there seems to be no reason for Gryffindor to leave an impossible challenge. Just look at Rowena Ravenclaw's arrangement. The difficulty of the trap she set is no different from that of entering Ravenclaw House. Just answering the question is enough.

Therefore, Gryffindor's arrangement should be the same.

The purpose of these three levels should be just to gain the approval of the founders, and they require wizards with the characteristics of the three academies to complete them.

Ms. Hufflepuff's arrangement seems to be the same. The golden cup is just a trick. The real method to make the door knocker appear should be food magic. Clear water only looks like clear water, but it is actually related to food magic.

"I think I know what to do..."

Karan suddenly murmured.

Snape was stunned for a moment, then asked: "How to do it?"

Karan didn't answer. He glanced at Saoirse and asked her, "Do you have any extra healing potion?"

Saoirse opened her pocket, revealing a pocket full of ingredients: "There are plenty!"

She was well prepared for today's adventure.

The corners of Karan's eyes twitched. He roughly estimated the amount of ingredients. Even if he was beaten black and blue, he would still be able to fully recover.

After slowly calming down, Karan said: "Just watch, I will do it myself later."

Before the three of them could react, Karan grasped the floating wooden sword and rushed towards the armor.

"Hahahaha!"

The armor seemed to have just dozed off. He woke up immediately and laughed: "Are you challenging me again, kid? Don't just run away this time, let's have a good fight!"

Lily covered her mouth in surprise. Just when she was amazed by Karan's bravery, she watched Karan quickly rush to the armor——

Then he was knocked down by the opponent's sword.

There is a huge difference in level between the two sides, and it cannot be made up for by brainless courage alone.

But Karan quickly endured the pain and stood up again. He did not flinch, but continued to attack the armor.

Time and time again, Karan didn't know how many times he was knocked down. Each time, he was accompanied by the armor's laughter. He had never felt that this laughter was so annoying.

Snape couldn't help but pull Karan back many times, but Karan drove him away with his eyes.

If it weren't for the fact that the armor also used a wooden sword, Snape would never consider Karan's idea. No matter how you look at it, his repeated challenges are just torturing himself.

After only 10 minutes, Karan, who was covered in redness and swelling, was beaten to the point where he could not stand up.

"Hahahaha!" Armor mocked unceremoniously: "Is this all you have?"

Lily finally couldn't help shouting loudly: "You are really going too far!"

She said as she was about to pull Karan back, watching her friend get beaten made her feel extremely painful inside.

But Saoirse suddenly grabbed her.

"Look."

Saoirse ignored Lily's angry gaze and said thoughtfully: "This is not Karan's limit."

Seeing helplessly, in front of the armor, Karan struggled to bend one of his legs. There was no place on his body that was not painful.

But in the end, Karan stood up unsteadily, without being disturbed by the armor throughout the process.

He raised his wooden sword and stared closely at the armor.

Armor looked at him, and the wooden sword in his hand fell silently.

"Well done, boy."

His voice finally changed from frivolous to calm: "You deserve this."

"take it."

"hiss--"

Karan didn't even hear what was said behind the armor. He kept breathing in the cold air and hurriedly urged: "Give me the potion quickly, Gryffindor is really merciless - it hurts me to death!"

Saoirse hurriedly prepared a cup of healing potion. Karan couldn't wait to swallow it, and then asked Saoirse to quickly make a second cup.

Lily and Snape didn't know whether they should touch Kahlan. They didn't dare to reach out for fear of touching Kahlan's scars.

"What on earth are you thinking?" Lily could only complain from a distance.

"Approval."

Karan hissed in pain and cast the healing spell, wishing that his whole body would be bathed in white light: "The key to this level is to get Gryffindor's approval. Either defeat him, or you can only stand in front of him with your last breath." , didn’t you see that the armor was also made of wooden swords? He didn’t really want to hurt us, this probably has something to do with chivalry or something like that.”

"Fortunately, this level is not a test of adventurous spirit, otherwise we may not know what we will encounter. How can the adventure in Gryffindor's eyes be handled by just a few of us? At the very least, it must be the founder's. Only the level can do it.”

Snape listened to Callan keep complaining about Gryffindor's terrible test, and he suddenly said: "You should have told us earlier. At least we could put a pair of armor on you to prevent you from being beaten like this." awful."

Karan quickly drank the second cup of healing potion, and he finally felt better.

"not that simple."

He shook his head and said: "If I put on the armor, I would have to spend at least one night with him. I would have to face him with the most exhausted and weakest attitude in order to gain Gryffindor's approval."

After a pause, Karan added: "Thinking about it this way, Gryffindor is really a paranoid and a lunatic among wizards."

"He obviously wanted to test the students' willpower..." Lily retorted weakly, but she soon stopped speaking for Gryffindor. Looking at the pained Karan, she couldn't help but I feel that this test is really inhumane.

Fortunately, this was just a test. Karan only suffered flesh injuries. At most, they only became red and swollen without any actual bleeding. He quickly recovered completely.

"To be honest." He stared at the motionless armor and said with complicated eyes: "I'm a little glad now that Gryffindor doesn't use an iron sword, otherwise I would never be able to stand here intact."

"But what did he mean by 'take it' at the end?"

Just as Callan finished these words, Gryffindor's armor suddenly began to change - it completely melted and turned into a silver liquid that flowed on the carpet but did not penetrate.

"Is this the end?" Snape asked hesitantly. He looked around, but nothing changed in the entire room.

Lily looked at Snape's actions: "What are you looking at?"

Saoirse said abruptly: "Slytherin...Salazar Slytherin's test is gone. There are only challenges from the three founders, except Slytherin."

Lily finally reacted. She looked at Saoirse and murmured: "There is no Nagini either... Nagini is not here."

Saoirse did not hide the disappointment in her expression: "Yes, I still want to find her and ask more about the blood curse."

While the three of them were talking, Karan had already filled the silver liquid bit by bit with the empty bottle in his pocket. He stared at the bottle of sparkling liquid, his eyes shaking involuntarily.

"Keep this bottle of liquid with me for now."

He said over his shoulder, hiding his shock.

"Let's go back tonight and try to figure out what this bottle of liquid is later."

Neither Saoirse, nor Lily, nor Snape have ever seen flowing memories, so naturally they don’t know what this bottle of liquid means.

Even Saoirse didn't stop Karan's behavior. She didn't care about the bottle of liquid and just wanted to find Nagini, but unfortunately she failed.

Under the invisibility cloak, Lily first returned to the Gryffindor common room, followed by Snape and Saoirse who lived in the Slytherin dungeons.

In the end, Karan did not return to the dormitory. He walked very quickly upstairs until he stopped in front of the stone beast guarding the door of the principal's office.

"Pile of cockroaches."

Karan said.

This is a password specially reserved by Dumbledore for Callan so that he can find Dumbledore at any time, even late at night when he is violating school rules.

Dumbledore obviously heard the movement. He was sitting behind his desk in his pajamas, half-moon glasses propped on the bridge of his nose.

Callan sat across from Dumbledore and told him roughly what had happened tonight.

Finally, he took out the bottle of silver liquid and said: "In the memory of Potter Manor, Slytherin finally left Hogwarts and never went back. This means that that special room was in Slytherin." It was created after leaving.”

"Besides that, there's one more thing."

Karan paused for a moment, then slowly calmed down and said: "Also in the memory scene of Potter Manor, Antioch once revealed that the three brothers had seen the pensieve in the principal's office. It is said... ..."

"It is said that even the location of Hogwarts was decided after the founders saw the remaining memories in the pensieve."

Dumbledore was silent for a while. He looked at the memory in the bottle and said, "You mean, this is the memory that the founders saw with their own eyes?"

Karan nodded vigorously: "It's very possible!"

Until now, Karan couldn't believe what had just happened. He had known about the existence of this memory for a long time, but he never expected to find this memory from the Dark Ages in the Room of Requirement.

He even thought he was dreaming. It all happened so easily and so ridiculously that he couldn't accept this amazing fact.

Dumbledore seemed to understand what Callan was thinking. He said calmly: "This is not as simple as you think. Even the simplest door knocker, not everyone can answer the question correctly."

"Ok."

He didn't explain any more, and the anxiety on Karan's face almost completely surfaced.

Dumbledore opened the cabinet behind him and placed the pensieve on top of his desk.

He smiled gently and said, "Then let's take a look and see if this is a memory from the dark ages."