the lost castle

【Hey, Riddle, have we gone the wrong way? 】

【No! 】

[That means we have hallucinations! 】The basilisk girl said categorically, it flicked its tail, and the snake letter brought out once again confirmed that there was no aura of the owner nearby, and coiled itself into a circle, beating its head with the tip of its tail in distress.

[Damn it, the house was empty overnight!The potters and Gryffindors... Well, your masters are all missing, including the goblins everywhere, and even the dementors floating in the sky!overnight! 】

[That's why I said, are we hallucinating?I miss my master so much, so - no! 】

The basilisk sprang up suddenly, almost half of its tens of feet long body stood up, but it was a pity that there were only scorpions and beetles here, and the Roderick Wasteland where mice couldn't even feed them. There was no sound or movement.

Voldemort was waiting contemptuously for the so-called discovery of the basilisk to prove that it was not a hallucination, but after listening to it, his already mutilated soul became even more messy.

[Riddle, I am a basilisk, how can a basilisk have hallucinations? 】

So a certain behemoth continued to coil itself in a tangled circle, muttering to itself:

[It doesn't make sense, I obviously won in the end, how could it be so unsatisfactory...]

[If my guess is correct, what you know is just an ending. 】The great Dark Lord kept admonishing himself that there was no reason to choke a basilisk, but he still couldn't help but speak, 【And what exactly happened in the middle.You who have not been 'born' have no idea! 】

[But this is not to blame you, Riddle, every time I ask you, you refuse to say! 】

—Because it was right not to tell you about this weird, brain-churning basilisk, Voldemort despised.

[You still say the same thing as the master to perfuse me, hum, even if you don't want to say it, I know it! 】The basilisk girl raised her head proudly, and the scales all over her body rattled, 【Isn’t it that Riddle you finally won the savior named Potter, and the master finally won Gryffin? Such a simple question, do you think Can you hide it from me? 】

【kindness? ] These words can be understood, how to combine them together, how to listen to them, how weird?

【Even if Potter turns and runs every time I ask, am I too stupid to guess Riddle's expression?You underestimate Aerys too much. 】

He won?Very well, the great Dark Lord was not comparable to that little Potter kid. Voldemort certainly believed in this, but who will explain why the Dark Lord won and why the Savior is still alive?

[As for Gryffindor, if he can not be seen by me every time he is thrown out by my master——]

Hey, the Dark Lord has been struggling since yesterday, the relationship is so good, it must not be Gryffindor and Slytherin!You must know that these two words are synonymous with deadly enemies in the British wizarding dictionary. From 1000 years ago to 1000 years later, countless wizards have demonstrated this truth.

【...Then I also believe that he must have won the master, although he often gives me this illusion. 】

[Aerys... what are you trying to say? ] The Dark Lord became irritable. He absolutely refused to admit that he could not understand the words of this basilisk who obviously lacked IQ, because the longer he stayed with this pet of his ancestors, the more absurd he felt—this is fundamentally Not a Slytherin snake

[Fight! 】

It was the basilisk girl who showed an even weirder expression:

[You treat Harry Potter, and Gryffindor treats my master, aren't you a typical example of people who like to make trouble when there is nothing to do?Fighting while arguing, and closing the door to hide from everyone...]

Voldemort didn't hear the terrifying sentence at all, and his mind was full of the two adjectives thrown by the basilisk:

If you have nothing to do, come and make trouble...

Very good, the great Dark Lord is really looking for trouble. I believe that the broken prophecy came to Potter's house late at night to kill people and make trouble, but he killed himself instead. The trouble of entering Hogwarts to find the savior... Cough, it is not Potter's success, but the negligence of the great Dark Lord. It is the Dark Lord's mistakes that have created the savior's miraculous escape time and time again. It is definitely not the ability of Potter kid !That's it!

【...Oh, forget it, it's all after my 'birth' anyway!Riddle, I'm hungry. 】

The Dark Lord, who was choking and in an extremely bad mood, just wanted to throw Avada and Cruciatus, but the biggest creature in front of him was the long-tailed poisonous scorpion.

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Not all aristocratic wizards were affected by this war, for example, those who lived far away from the world and did not associate with Muggles except wizards, or those whose families were particularly large had been informed of them long ago, and of course more were Those nobles of the kingdom who did not reveal their wizard identities and truly possessed power.

Take Count Robert, for example.

His surname is indeed Robert, and he is also an earl of the West Frankish Kingdom, but of course it is another name that is really used in the aristocratic social circle. He is actually not young, but he doesn't like family affairs, and prefers to be like an old man. Like the wizards before him, he traveled and visited. If possible, he even thought about following the wizards of Merlin's era and using power and tactics to manipulate a small country.It's a pity that the chaotic era of small European kingships has passed, and the Holy See is pervasive. Even when he came to England from afar, he had to find a bishop of the Holy See to accompany him—even though Bishop Galbert, who had a temper that suited his appetite, still couldn't To obliterate this in itself was a very dissatisfying situation for him.

Only now, Earl Robert absolutely dare not say that the fact that their entire family is a wizard will never be leaked.

Many close friends of the family and those with major interests know about this matter.

Because if you are a wizard, you may be able to hide it from Muggles well, but you must not hide it from wizards perfectly, and when necessary, you must prove your identity as a wizard in order to get more help that is beneficial to the family At least Earl Robert knew that if he was not a wizard, at least Lord Gryffindor of the Knights Templar of the Holy See would not glance at him.

Of course, now Godric Gryffindor is the number one wanted criminal in the Holy See's Trial of God.

About a few thousand gold coins, plus the high position promised by the Holy See as a reward.

There is not a collection of wizard families, but for many civilians and even ordinary people of the Holy See, knights, and small nobles, it is an astronomical figure. The previous years of continuous kingdom wars consumed too many things.

More importantly, the wizards who survived the catastrophe have regarded the entire Templar Knights as their enemies, and they will never stop dying. This kind of confrontation really makes Robert worry about his family, especially since he has received the latest news this morning One day, the Knights Templar disappeared in the Roderick Wasteland, and the people of the Holy See fled back to Bishop Galbert alone.

With just a few words, a lot of things can already be seen.

His family is absolutely unwilling to abandon their status and give up their power in the kingdom, but——

It is almost impossible to go out now, as long as there are wizards hiding in remote places, or there are countless greedy Muggles searching around, there is no one to trust.

He suddenly remembered the grand event at Stewart's Great Mire a few months ago.

How many people are still alive now? Are all those wizards whose magic power is far stronger than him really dead?Not Gryffindor, but what about those alchemists, that witch with Carolingian blood?The old wizard of the Hufflepuff family died, leaving only a woman, no, it was not just an ancient wizard family that was destroyed.

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Of course Helga and Rowena are not dead. In fact, the Death Eaters fled to the Scottish Highlands, and even the Order of the Phoenix is ​​still alive. Of course, Helga and Rowena, who have no relatives and friends to save, are even less likely to die. .

In the early morning, they were closing their cloaks and leaving the town, with frantic shouts and flames behind them.

All the people in the town took torches to burn the devil in their hearts, and thought that God would forgive their mistakes. Ten days ago, everyone in the church in this small town was lying on the cold ground with wounds on their bodies. Full of blood red roses.Then the civilians died suddenly day after day, and finally the angry people found roses everywhere in the garden of the lord here. In fact, they were ordinary flowers, but poor people would not have such things except the lord. On the next day, some Muggles, who were finally tortured by the fear of death, rushed in. Of course, they were killed by the arrogant lord in exchange. By the tenth day, the flames in the sky had ended the family of the little lord who took the opportunity to rob wealth in the Wizarding War .

Just perfect disillusionment spells, transfiguration spells, black magic for dark moods, and growth spells for plant manipulation.

Out of the corner of her eye, Helga glanced at the town already in the shadows behind.

"After this one dies, there are only a few left." This is Rowena who doesn't take what she did in the past ten days seriously at all. In fact, she has more fun playing this kind of game than anyone else. .Muggles didn't know what kind of magic items they got from wizards, many of them were thrown into the warehouse, and only beautiful and gorgeous ones were taken out as decorations, all of which fell into Rowena's space gem.

"There are only a few left." Muttering again, Helga, who was only 20 years old this year, silently thought about the Hufflepuff Valley where the land was scorched black. Leaving from a heavy family, I have thought countless times not to listen to the old and only elder talking about inheritance and future, I am tired of the wall full of portraits in the old house and even live alone in another place, but all these are destroyed , she must make those crazy and ignorant Muggles pay a more tragic price than this.

Rowena looked back at the town boredly:

"It's a pity that I didn't find any useful potion books... Otherwise, a little poison can smoothly make them unable to heal the pain and die for a few days and nights. There is no need for such trouble."

"Do not."

"Huh?" 17-year-old Rowena turned her head in confusion.

"Since they believe in God, why not let them die for the so-called God? Use what they believe in most to their death..."

"But, I think what they believe in is actually gold coins."

Helga only smiled slightly, and Rowena saw that the originally angry Muggle shouts turned into excited scrambles and noises.

Wealth is always something that can make people crazy.

It won't take long, and the kingdom that received the news in ten days or so will send troops to conquer the place in the name of killing the nobles of the common people in the town. Perhaps the lives of the church will also be counted on these poor people, but before that, They have already left.

"Across a swamp from here, you can reach the next town, Helga, I miss hot food already."

"Well...the few remaining Muggle nobles I saw just now through Desperation, all live far away."

Wizards have many ways to infiltrate a town if they don't care about killing Muggles, Polyjuice Potion is the most laborious and least thankful way, kill Muggles, hide in their houses overnight, take their food It is also the most hasty way. There is also a spell in the world called the Imperius Curse. As long as you cast this spell on the whole family, you can hide in a Muggle house without being discovered. But for safety, it is best not to wait longer than four years. five days.

Just how long will this kind of life last?

There are not enough comfortable beds and chairs, there is not too much time to stay in one place to carefully read the books of spells, and there are not even enough alchemy utensils.

It is very dangerous to use the Imperius Curse on Muggle nobles. They need to communicate with too many people, and their flaws will be discovered.

In the dark night, the choking smell coming out of the swamp and the danger of being covered made the creatures and Muggles stay as far away as possible. In fact, there are indeed magical creatures appearing in the depths of the swamp. Helga, who has been using the Levitation Charm, Rowena has been pulled to the side, and then the ear-closing spell was cast.

There are many thick-leaved plants in the depths of the dense reed-like plants in the large clumps.

"Mandrake?"

Rowena looked over there with interest, such a large area was still rare.

Just look, she's not interested in training those ugly creatures to make them let out a deadly yell, well, wait a minute, maybe this is a good way to kill the cavalry sent by the Holy See to hunt down wizards.

Forget it, before the Muggles got here, it was already in the swamp.

In April, the snowy plateau near the north is still cold here.The bubbling bubbles in the swamp were still covered with white frost mist.

"Too many people have died, the epidemic of the plague is only a matter of time, maybe another month..."

When Rowena muttered like this, she suddenly realized that she hadn't left the range of the mandrake. Helga couldn't hear what she said just now. She unconsciously accelerated the application of the magic power of the Levitating Curse, hoping to get out of this swamp as soon as possible land.

But it's cold.

No, strange, it's getting colder.

And she unconsciously began to think of the families she didn't want to think of at all, those mediocre and incompetent guys who only thought about the glory of the Carolingian kings, and the Muggle nobles whose damned family wanted to marry her, almost wanted to throw Fierce emotions of a curse—

wrong!

Rowena quickly cast a sobering spell on herself, stepped back quickly, and found that Helga had done the same.

The hazy shadow in the sky in the distance was gray and gray, making it hard to see clearly, but the cold, rotten breath that invaded the head and face could be seen from some creature without looking.

How did the dementors appear here?

The eyes of the two witches met clearly expressed this question.

But when I was not in doubt, I just raised my wand and was about to use the Patronus Charm, when I saw a stumbling figure looking towards me in the distance——Wizard, I still use the Levitation Charm—as expected, using the earplugs to listen to the spell is not enough Well, never spotted them before.

But what are the shadows running around behind the three wizards?

Rowena and Helga were confused again.

"Flying sand and stone!"

"Are you going to smash those damn goblins to death with mud, Godric, two days without food really turned your brain into food!"

"Ahhh-"

The sharp and terrifying screams suddenly sounded as the swamp mud flew up suddenly.

"No, where's the mandrake? Help, Salazar! I, I..."