hp Ouroboros

There was a crackling sound, and several adult wizards from the Ministry of Magic appeared on the hill opposite Hogwarts Castle, "That's definitely not a house elf!" said Mr. Ignace, Director of the Department of Management and Control of Magical Creatures Sticking to his point of view, he argued with Mr. Paston, the head of the animal department, from Hogwarts Castle to outside the school gate.

An exquisite large iron gate with aristocratic style stands alone on the hill. They have known about such a strange situation for a long time. Since the morning when Slytherin reappeared, Minister Fudge has come to see it in person. The people from the Department of Management and Control of Fantastic Beasts even sent a bunch of people over to check it out in the middle of the night.

At this moment, the door was pushed open, and there were ripples in the space inside the door frame, and then Sylvia appeared in front of them as if she had stepped out of nothingness.

"Gentlemen, please follow me!" Sylvia made a false introduction towards the gate, and she took the lead to step into the gate again, causing ripples.

"Fantastic ancient magic!" Dumbledore admired and walked in behind Sylvia, probably seeing that No.1 in the magic world had walked in. Several senior officials of the Ministry of Magic seemed to be relieved, and then Step into the gate together.

A road was forcibly opened in the middle of the primeval forest... This is what the gentlemen saw after entering the door.

"Welcome to Slytherin Manor. This was originally the front garden. After all, no one has taken care of it for nearly 1000 years. I haven't figured out how to deal with it yet, so I just asked Mr. Alger to open a main road. "Sylvia introduced.

"Click, click..." A carriage came from the depths of the manor towards the gate, and the sound of horseshoes gradually came, but as soon as she got close, Sylvia heard two gentlemen who were in charge of magical animals violently. Take a breath.

It was a four-wheeled carriage, and the carriage looked nothing special—of course, because this carriage was a modern gadget that Alger had just ordered a few days ago, especially the horse pulling the carriage: there was a full Some points of light flickered from time to time in the gray translucent body of the gigantic horse that was two stories high. The same translucent but faint blue flames were burning on its four feet, and the mane on its neck was gray black. Now There was no wind but the mane floated back as if it were soaking in water.

"Son of sleipnir!" Mr. Paston, chief of the animal department, was the first to exclaim.

"This kind of creature only appears in literature and legends!" Mr. Ignace, the director, followed what Paston said, and kept looking up and down at the living legendary creature in front of him in amazement.

"Ahem," said Minister Fudge, who had to make a small noise to interrupt the admiration of the two fantastic creature lovers around someone's horse, which was very rude, "Gentlemen, I think we can do it in the carriage. Discussing this beautiful horse of the son of Slip what?"

"Oh! Yes, yes!" The two middle-aged men who were over half a century old woke up like a dream. That's right, they came to see how many super magical creatures there are in Slytherin Manor today!That is to say, we will see more rare ones in a while, maybe we can also see magical creatures like the legendary horse in front of us!

Finally, several people got into the carriage, without anyone directing the beautiful gray horse, it turned around and drove towards the depths of the manor along the newly opened boulevard.

The building that the Slytherin family did not follow the traditional 'manor' concept really surprised several guests.Minister Fudge and Headmaster Dumbledore are obviously more interested in the Magic Tower (it should be said that the things that may be stored in the Magic Tower), and the two officials from the Department of Management and Control of Magical Beasts seem to be suddenly attracted by people like the son of Slei Plaine. The legendary creatures evoked their enthusiasm for magical animals when they just graduated, and they strongly demanded to go to the forest to count those magical creatures first.

In the end, a compromise was made, and the butler, Alger, the goblin, took two fanciful animal lovers and Camille, who hadn’t had time to meet those powerful magical creatures in the forest last time, to go to the woods to see those 1000-year-old animals that had been allowed to grow at will. For the creatures that reproduce, Sylvia, who has gradually become familiar with the interior of the building, will take the tour around. She hasn't spoken since she was in the principal's office. Mr. Scrimgeour, the Auror director who has always had a straight face Choose to go to the house with Sylvia and the others.

Sylvia led the guests around the general room and then turned to the main building, the Magic Tower.

The magic tower and other subsidiary buildings are only connected by corridors on the bottom three floors. Sylvia led them to walk from the first floor. There is a spiral hollow staircase in the center of the huge and empty magic tower. The observatory on the top floor, so the sunlight on the top floor can fall straight to the bottom of the tower at noon.

Except for the first floor where there is no sunlight, it is used as a potion storage room, potion research room and alchemy room; the third floor is a multi-terrain fighting room; No.12 is the currently empty magic plant greenhouse and the top No.13 floor Except for the observatory, the other floors are full of bookshelves, and many ancient books are stuffed on them, but most of them are the magic research notes of the Slytherin ancestors of the past generations, and Salazar Slytherin and the other three. The joint research records of the founders - this magic tower of the Slytherin family is a treasure in the magic world!

When Minister Fudge blushed excitedly, imagining how much praise he would get if he could persuade the young Sylvia to share the magic notes here with the entire magic world, Sylvia didn't think much of it. Mentioning those precious ancient magic research manuscripts, he brought a few distinguished guests to the basement.

Sylvia pushed open the lacquered black wooden door inlaid with silver patterns that led to the secrets of the Slytherin family. She turned her head and looked at the three people behind her seriously, "This is a picture of the real Slytherin family." The room of the family tree of heirs, also houses the history of the family, I don't understand why Mr Salazar didn't show this to the world, I'm sure any wizard like me who grew up with stories of the Big Four will see it The surname Slytherin is very touching - Voldemort is just a demon who stole the name of Slytherin, and he should not be allowed to destroy such a great family like this."

Different from other spacious designs in the entire building complex, this room is a bit too plain and small as a room that records the content of family inheritance. After several adult wizards walked in, the whole room was almost full. half.

As soon as they entered the door, they saw a huge circular family tree painted on the entire two-story wall. The most bizarre thing is that the center of this circular family tree is different from ordinary family trees. The first layer of the core circle constitutes the center, and the circle radiates outward, but it is completely contrary to the idea that if a family can have five founders, the family should be extremely prosperous, and there are few names listed on the wall. Everything can be counted.

And the three people present who used magic to assist their eyesight to see far away noticed an even more strange thing - the relationship between these family members is basically invisible on this genealogy!

Normally, the family tree should be that the children born to the parents will be listed under the parents and connected with clear lines to show the relationship between them, but the family tree in front of us, or called the family ring The family tree is very strange: the first few generations were better, and their kinship can be seen from the connection between the rings, but it didn't last for a few generations, and it was broken in the middle!

Generally speaking, if there is no special situation in the family tree that is interrupted in the middle, it means the end of the family, but the Slytherin family does not seem to be counted in this way. Except for the first few generations, almost all subsequent heirs seem to be unknown. Out of nowhere, it appeared on the wall abruptly.

Minister Fudge moved closer. He wanted to see what ages the family members who appeared suddenly were.

“噢！梅林啊！！”他惊叫了一声，“公元247年到328年有一位先生，后面一位竟然就是萨拉查·斯莱特林先生了！公元956年萨拉查先生出生到公元328年...这中间间隔了600多年？！这怎么可能！”

"Don't forget the latest heir..." Dumbledore reminded softly, he looked at the name of Sylvia who also appeared abruptly on the family ring with a sigh, "Salazar S From 1029 when Mr. Leitlin died to 1978 when Miss Sylvia was born, almost 1000 years..."

Dumbledore moved his eyes to another thing in the small room. The family ring occupied the entire wall and was very conspicuous, but Dumbledore paid more attention to a painting hanging on the other wall - this painting is this Another thing that stands out in the room.

Dumbledore's movement affected Fudge immediately, and he turned to look at the painting as well.

At the bottom of the painting about one person tall, there are five people with silver-gray hair. In the painting, they only have their backs. They stand on a boulder amidst turbulent waves and look up at the sky, stretching out their right hands to make a vow, while the painting There was a crack in the dark cloud with golden lightning flashing at the top, and a white-gold light shone through the gap, shining on the three men and two women standing on the boulder.

In the middle of the painting that attracts the most attention is a stele standing on a boulder in the sea. The ancient text on it burns with silver fire on the stele. What is strange is that even though no one present can understand the text, they can understand their meaning mean:

The successors of Jörmungard, chained by their souls, declare here:

The real Slytherin should have the blood and bones of the world snake, wash away the hatred and evil of the ancestors, and they still inherit the divine body;

A real Slytherin should have great power, and remove the viciousness and tyranny of the ancestors, they still inherit the mighty power of moving mountains and seas.

The real Slytherin should have the brilliance of humanity, completely replacing the chaotic disorder of the ancestors, and they will shine in the hearts of different inheritors.

One failed, and Slytherin has no heirs.

Everyone understood the obvious meaning in the painting, but Fudge and Scrimgeour had no impression of 'Jörmungard' and 'World Serpent'.

"Jermengarde is a giant snake that appeared in Norse mythology. It was expelled from the realm of the gods to live in the deep sea of ​​the world. Its body is so big that it can circle the world end to end in the sea, so it is called the snake of the world. I think if The term 'Ouroboros' must be very familiar to wizards, it is an ancient ornament, but the actual source is here." Sylvia explained to the guests.

Dumbledore nodded. After he learned that Sylvia was studying the Nordic mythology circulated by Muggles when he was in the first grade, he deliberately found some time to read those stories. Descendants, then there may be a reason for the legendary creature that just appeared as the son of Slei Plaine - in the legend, Slei Plaine is the mount of the god king Odin, it is the son of the fire god Loki, and Ye Meng Gard is also one of Loki's many children.

Sylvia walked to the single desk in the corner of the room. She gently touched a thin notebook on the desk. It looked very old, and the silver letters on the cover had peeled off so that it was impossible to see what was originally written. , even its serpentine pattern was worn almost brightly, Sylvia sighed and said: "This is Mr. Salazar Slytherin's diary record book, maybe you would like to see why he Left his old friends and Hogwarts angrily."

The picture of the three adult wizards, all of age, looking at a thin notebook together looks a little funny, but their sometimes serious and sometimes pitiful expressions did not bring a sense of joy to the room, and they were silent. I looked at it page by page.

From the moment Slytherin left the family inheritance room to returning to the door of this magnificent building, none of the three powerful wizards spoke, and the atmosphere was rare and quiet.

Sylvia probably knew the significance of director Auror coming together—Salazar Slytherin is a famous dark wizard, but now the director Auror, who claims to be righteous, didn't look around and try to get rid of those obscure and incomprehensible things. The 'evil' aura of dark wizards can be seen in manuscripts or ancient brick walls.

It hasn't been too long since Minister Fudge took the position of Minister of Magic. Sylvia can see that this short, thick middle-aged wizard has ambitions that don't match his abilities. He almost follows Principal Dumbledore closely in every move in the room. , but he wasn't paying attention to Dumbledore now, and his cloudy eyes looked at the dense forest straight ahead.

Principal Dumbledore is always the most difficult to guess. While waiting for another group of people who went to the forest to check the magical creatures to come back, Dumbledore turned to Sylvia and said gently: " Miss Sylvia, I thought maybe maybe you're a little bit lost about your future? You know you can always come and talk to an old man like me, I've only understood one thing after living so long The thing, that is, things always have their solutions. Oh! By the way, maybe you young people don't want to talk to a bad old man..." Dumbledore stroked his long white beard and thought for a moment, " Ah... yes, I think there is a room in Hogwarts Castle that keeps a magical mirror that reflects people's deepest wishes, maybe you can go and see, but I believe Sylvie Miss Ya is a rational person, what is reflected in that mirror does not mean..."

"Mirror of Erised," Sylvia gently interrupted Dumbledore, "I understand the function of that mirror."

"Oh! It's very nice, then you might prefer to look at it."

Sylvia looked towards the woods. Another group of people who had received the news from Minister Fudge was coming out of the forest. Except for Alger, the housekeeper who was still neatly dressed, they looked a bit embarrassed but energetic. Camille even turned towards Sylvia. Via trotted over, her golden eyes sparkling with excitement.

"I don't need Mr. Dumbledore, I know what I want." Sylvia didn't look at Dumbledore who was standing next to him, but focused on Camille who was trotting close, "And I think The first wish has been basically fulfilled," she smiled in the sun, stepped forward to meet Camille, and left her soft and confident voice in place, "Now we just need to continue to realize the next one."