[HP+ Fantastic Beasts] Fallen

"Fluorescent flashes."

It quickly fell to the bottom, and the place was only about two people high.

In the light of the wand, it can be seen that this is a small basement, with only a large wardrobe and a desk.

After lighting up all the candles in the room, Abu softly extinguished the light of his wand: "Knox."

This is a very old basement, full of cobwebs and dust accumulated for a long time.

The only door was sealed, and Riddle stepped forward and read softly: "Alahho Cave is open!"

No response.

"There's a lot of magic on it," Riddle put his hand on the door, "far beyond the range we can break through, the only good thing is," Riddle looked up at the hole where they fell, "we can Go straight out of this hole."

The changes over the years have made the soil layer on the basement thinner and thinner, and the cold weather has made the top of the basement extremely brittle. It happened that Abu fell and Riddle’s weight added, and the place was covered in dust for many years. , was discovered by them.

"Just take a chair and step your feet and you can go out," Riddleby stroked their height from the entrance of the cave, "but what's the secret here that makes the master seal the basement?"

"Curiosity killed the cat, I don't recommend you to touch the things here...wait a minute," Abu paused as he glanced at the notebook on the table - it was clearly signed, "Salazar Slytherin?"

The two looked at each other.

I stumbled into the basement of the founder of Slytherin by mistake. It can be said that I was both surprised and happy.

But it's hard to connect this humble basement with Salazar Slytherin.

Riddle threw a few detection spells at the notebook, seeing that it didn't respond, so he carefully picked up the beautifully bound notebook that was thousands of years ago.

The cover and back cover of the notebook are covered with a thin layer of metal, and a silver double snake buckle tightly seals the inside pages of the notebook.

The double-snake clasp was ingeniously constructed. After Riddle fiddled with it a few times, it was not so easy to open as expected.

"Try...using Parseltongue?" Abu tilted his head to see the double-snake buckle, which is not like a normal buckle structure, and he had a flash of inspiration.

Nodding at him, Riddle made a low hiss: [Open. ]

The two little snakes untied their entangled bodies in response, and then scattered to both sides, hiding in the pages of the book.

The inside pages of the parchment of the notebook are deeply yellow, and the changes over the years have made it extraordinarily fragile.Riddle flipped through it lightly, fearing that it would be torn apart accidentally.

As the reading progressed, Riddle's expression became more and more serious.

Although Abu was a little curious about what was written inside, he didn't lean over to read it, but asked, "What's written on it?"

There were not many pages in the notebook, and Riddle quickly finished reading it. He closed the notebook with a solemn face.

"Salazar recorded in this notebook that after he ran away from Hogwarts, he accidentally discovered a...space-time rift here."

"Cracks in time and space? Isn't this something that exists in legends?" Abu looked around the dusty basement, "It doesn't look like there are cracks in time and space here."

Riddle flipped through the notes and pointed out a line of writing to Abu, "Salazar guessed that the crack was caused by a violent magic riot that distorted the space, but the exact reason has not been verified."

"What about the crack? Has it disappeared?"

"No..." Riddle turned his gaze to the large wardrobe that looked awkward in the small space, and stretched out his hand to open the door of the wardrobe, "Salazar was already very weak at that time, and after sealing the basement door with his last strength, he only Can make a simple cover for the space-time crack...Of course he didn't expect that someone would fall into it by accident."

Abu and Riddle probed to see that there was an unfathomable crack in the closet that was as tall as a person and exuded a faint and mysterious light.

"...What about Salazar?" After a while, Abu came back to his senses, "Has he entered the crack of time and space?"

"I think so."

Hearing this, Abu frowned, and then quickly stretched out, "The magic about time and space is very dangerous...but I think Salazar is fully prepared."

"No," Riddle quickly dismissed him, sighing softly, "he didn't."

"How could it be?" Abu looked at the mysterious and dangerous space-time crack in front of him, "As the greatest dark wizard in history, Salazar must be calm and cautious. How could he take such a risk?"

Attaching his palm to the notebook, Riddle took a deep breath, "Salazar didn't write down in detail, but I can feel...his exhaustion and hopelessness."

Some snowflakes fell from the broken hole, scattered scattered in the dry basement thousands of years ago, and soon turned into dots of misty water.

Reminiscent of the exodus of one of the Big Four written in "Hogwarts: A School History", it is not difficult to imagine Salazar's last stop in this wizarding world——

It was this dark, narrow, and crude basement.

Abu stared at the unfathomable crack, feeling a little dazed for a moment, how desperate was Salazar to choose such an unpredictable future with all his eggs in one basket?

No one knows exactly what happened, it was all lost in the vast river of thousands of years, and it is hard to find any clues.

I only hope that Salazar's desperate move will finally bring him new hope.

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For Abu and Riddle, the space-time rift was completely out of their control, so after the two of them came out, they blocked the hole and made an inconspicuous mark, and they might have the opportunity to study the time-space rift later.

They took nothing with them, except that Riddle carefully wrapped Salazar's notes, shrunk down and put them in his pocket.

Probably a memorial to the ancestors.

It was almost midnight, and Hogsmeade was completely silent, except for the rustling of snowflakes.

When they came to Honeydukes and were about to go back to Hogwarts through Honeydukes’ secret passage, they found a small note pasted on the door of Honeydukes:

【The owner is going away tonight and will be back next Saturday. 】

Abu looked at the closed shop door in distress. If he used the lock-unlocking spell, it would be extremely disrespectful to the owner, not to mention that generally this kind of store door would have an anti-lock-unlocking spell.

"Mr. Hornby is always so fond of traveling. I know of another secret passage. Come with me."

Riddle took Abu's hand naturally, and Abu broke away calmly.

He was not annoyed, and gave Abu a gentle smile, "Let the secret passage and the basement be a secret between us."

Nodding his head, Abu followed Riddle to the backyard of the Pig's Head Bar.

Looking at the lean and straight back of the two-black boy, Abu couldn't help but feel distressed.

There are more and more "secrets" in common between the two of them, which means that the bond between them is getting deeper and deeper.

That's not good news for Abramovich -- at least not yet.

The author has something to say:

Salazar's experience is another story, which will not be written in this book~