Professor of Gemology at Hogwarts

(I have been quite busy recently, I will make up for it later, and I will also modify the content if it is of poor quality)

The two were clearly frightened by the scene.

"I have to say...your improvement is really poor." Gray took out his wand and prepared to clean up the moss.

"Don't move yet!" Claire stopped him.

Gray looked carefully and saw that the beard vines growing from the moss were still slowly shrinking.

Claire was a little serious: "I have never encountered this situation during my previous experiments... Even normal moss doesn't grow so crazy. Didn't you notice? They all grow towards these stones. There is something wrong with these stones. "

The pieces of onyx were gradually wrapped more and more tightly, and finally they were wrapped into several spherical shapes.

He sprinkled Senecio's juice on it, and the juice seeped in along the gaps in the moss. Then, a trace of green smoke squeezed out from the gap, and the two people immediately backed away, keeping a distance from the things on the desk.

Claire sighed and looked at everything on the table: "Black magic..."

Gray was careless. He did think that Lucius Malfoy would send some specially treated stones, but he thought he would just find some strange and difficult-to-identify stones to embarrass him. When he found that there were only a few stones in the package, Typical of onyx, he only suspected that there might be a curse in the stone.

Based on Lucius Malfoy's scheming, he would not be so crazy as to send a black magic item that could kill someone on the spot to Hogwarts, but he might take some measures to destroy someone silently without anyone knowing. Where did he get these things from?

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"Fortunately, it wasn't a death curse... otherwise I would have died the moment I touched it with my bare hands." Gray felt a little scared. He shouldn't have picked up the stone so hastily with his bare hands.

Onyx is a crystal stone with negative effects.It itself has a hidden attribute. A very small number of people are very sensitive to onyx. These people are often intoxicated and obsessed with onyx as soon as they see it. They think about it all the time and just want to admire its beautiful appearance every day for a long time. When exposed to it, the soul will be crippled, and people will become more lazy, irritable, selfish, and eventually degenerate, ruining their lives.

Since there was nothing wrong with the touch just now, Gray could only guess that after these onyx stones were cast with black magic, the effect would be more significant, and the targets would no longer be limited to a small number of sensitive people.

"We have to guard against them. It's best not to move around and let the Ministry of Magic handle this matter."

"No need, I will take care of it."

Gray pulled off the entangled moss, and the dark brown onyx came to light again.

"What do you mean?" Claire was confused.

Gray mixed the burning powder of hydrangea bark with the morning dew and threw the stones in.

His movements are very skillful. He has done this countless times since he discovered petrified wood. Since a curse as strong as petrified wood can be broken, these chronic curses of onyx should be handled with ease.

Claire sees hydrangea bark.

"Are you trying to break the curse? In the office? Here? Are you kidding me?"

He wanted to pay it back to Lucius in the same way.

"I'm not kidding, you are right, we need to guard against them. But in any case, the most effective way to guard against them is to break the curse."

"This requires extreme caution, as it is very likely to be backlashed! And it's best to find professionals to deal with this matter, such as the Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts... Oh... It's Lockhart, so forget it..."

Too bad she didn't know that Gray had been doing this kind of thing for months.

"I can control it myself." Gray took out the crow blood and blood stone powder.

"If you think you have that ability, I have nothing to say... Although I don't believe you can... maybe it will cause a big explosion or something, but I was also at the scene, and it happened that the explosion had something to do with me. ... So for the sake of my reputation and the safety of the school, I have to watch from here."

"The reputation has been damaged...it's so funny. You can leave here now. Doesn't this clear up the relationship?" Gray chuckled twice.

Claire pursed her lips, she was obviously angry with Gray.

"Since you insist on breaking the curse here personally, I think it's better for me to keep an eye on you. This is also for your safety." Claire said seriously.

Gray was a little surprised. Is this money-minded information dealer worried about him?Could it be that after not seeing each other for a few years, my conscience really started to show up?

"After all, we have just reached a cooperation, and I don't want to lose a news channel so soon." Claire continued.

It seemed that he was thinking too much.

He brought several bottles and jars that needed to be used to the table. Before he started, Claire had already raised her wand and was very careful about the stones in front of her.

Gray dropped the crow's blood on it, and then a black smoke came out from the onyx pieces, very light and faint, which was much friendlier than petrified wood.

It immediately pounced on Gray, but Gray had already experienced many battles. With a wave of his wand, a handful of sand and silver powder flowed out of the jar and sprinkled towards the black smoke. Upon seeing this, the black smoke immediately turned around and flew towards the window. Claire hit an obstacle The curse blocked the window, and black smoke flew left and right, with nowhere to escape. The moss in the corner sensed the presence of black magic and began to grow crazily toward the black smoke. With no way out, it was finally tightly wrapped in the sand and silver powder commanded by Gray. .

"See, it's a piece of cake."

"You seem to be very skilled in dealing with curses." Claire looked at Gray with some confusion, "You're not secretly doing black magic..."

Gray was so busy showing off his skills that he forgot that he would be suspected.

"How is it possible! Of course not - I just read it in books many times - so I am very familiar with it. You know, I almost became a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts."

Claire narrowed her eyes, not quite believing Gray's explanation.

"Although I don't know how a professor can develop a deep hatred for a madman who tries to use black magic to kill people, I kindly remind him that this person is difficult to deal with and will often use any means to achieve his goals. Obviously, his methods are also very insidious and cunning. "

Claire walked around the house.

"It is generally difficult to think that such an ordinary stone can have black magic, especially if you touch it without being harmed. If you don't find anything fishy, ​​after you have checked the stone and there is nothing wrong with it and you don't know who sent it, you Most likely they will be placed in the office. Even if you find something wrong with the stone and know who did it, there is no evidence to accuse him because the package is anonymous."

Gray nodded in agreement. Claire's analysis was very accurate. Lucius Malfoy could keep himself out of the matter whether he discovered the stone's intrigue or not. He was indeed scheming, but Gray also had a trick up his sleeve. Now that the curse has been broken...

He pulled a piece of black cloth from under the shelf.

"What are you going to do?" Claire asked.

"Give it back to him in the same way."

"So who sent it?"

"..."

"You are worried that I will tell the truth, right? Well, I won't ask any more questions -" Claire was a little helpless, "I didn't expect that there would be a crisis of trust between us when we started working together, but you have to pay attention to your safety. , that person might attack again——"

Just then an owl flew in from the window with a package tied to its feet.

Both of them were silent, looking warily at the owl that was shaking off the snowflakes. No one wanted to go forward to get it. The owl was a little confused when he saw this, and it cooed twice before pecking off the rope. , threw the package on the table and flew away.

"You can't really be right..." Claire touched her mouth.

Gray was more alert than before this time. He opened the package with his wand, and Claire was also on guard next to him.

But after the package was unpacked layer by layer, there were several strange-shaped stones inside that he had never seen before. There was also a letter on them:

"Mr Morris:

You must have remembered what I said before about helping to identify stones, right?Since you want to study all the stones you can see around you, I will grant your wish.

As a spar scholar, it should be easy to identify the quality of these stones, right?I hope you can make the most accurate judgment.

loyal

Lucius Malfoy"

Gray looked at the letter in his hand and then at the onyx pieces on the table. Could it be that the anonymous package was not sent by him?