Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 509 Control your own life and death

  The scene seen in the door is completely different from what I saw just entering the house.

  The door brought the two of them to the real residence of the LeMays.

   "It's amazing!" Albert murmured in a low voice.

   "It's just a simple trick, Mr. Anderson." Nico appeared in front of Albert without warning, smiling and leading the two into the hall.

  The furnishings here are still fresh in Albert's memory. When he met Nico for the first time, the furnishings in the house looked like this.

   "A magical teleportation technology, or does it fold the space?"

  Albert was very curious about how Nico could do it. When he passed through that door just now, he didn’t feel any discomfort during teleportation, so it’s very likely that the layout here is the same as that of the previous house.

   It reminded him of the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts, which was also a magical room.

"No, it's not teleportation. I'm just hiding this place." Nico looked sideways out of the window and explained: "There is actually a house here. If you enter through the main entrance, you will enter another house. To enter here, you need to use In a rather special way."

   "The silver card?"

"Yes, that's actually a password." Nico explained, "This place is protected by the Fidelity Curse. As long as you don't get out of the window, no one will notice your existence. What others see from the outside will only It's a vision of another house."

   "Is that house-elf the gatekeeper?"

"To a certain extent, it is true." Nico nodded and said, "I know you are very curious about these things, but it's just that you haven't mastered this part of the knowledge so far. When you master it, you will find this Just some simple tricks!"

   "If possible, I hope to learn this part of knowledge from you." Albert said eagerly.

   "Maybe, we should sit down and have a drink." Nico looked at Albert, "Then, let's talk about this slowly."

   "Milk tea, right!"

  Perenal put a cup of bubble tea in front of Albert.

  Albert picked up the teacup, smelled the aroma of the milk tea, took a sip of the milk tea, and sighed softly, "I haven't had such delicious milk tea for a long time."

   "Those things should be able to arrive in France tomorrow." Sera looked at the greatest alchemist in history in front of him, hesitant to speak.

   "What's wrong?" Nico asked.

   "I heard that you plan to give up the Sorcerer's Stone?" Sera asked with a complicated expression, "Is this true?"

   "Yes, it is true, I am going to destroy the Philosopher's Stone."

   "What a pity!" Sera's tone was somewhat downcast.

   "No regrets, Serra." Perenal put a cup of black tea in front of Serra, and said calmly, "We have lived for too long, and we can finally rest!"

   "The meaning of life lies in death." Albert said softly: "Living is too long, watching the familiar people, things and things gradually disappear, sometimes it is a kind of torture!"

   "Mr. Anderson sees it very clearly." Nico had a smile on his face, "It just lacks the vitality that young people should have."

   "I definitely hope that I can live longer, and die when I am tired." Albert said seriously.

   "Do you control your own life and death?" Nico looked at Perenal and suddenly laughed, "That feeling is really good, very good."

   Sera took a sip of her black tea and fell into a short memory.

  At the beginning, when he was young, he met the LeMay couple under the introduction of his teacher. At that time, he was not as open-minded as Albert.

  Later, the correspondence with the LeMay couple has not stopped, and I often visit them to ask them for advice.

  I have gradually gained some attainments in alchemy.

  At the age of thirty-five, he finally took over the current job completely.

   To Serra, the Nicols were friends as well as teachers, and the fact that they were about to leave made him quite sad.

  He couldn't help but blame Dumbledore a little.

   Nicole gave up the Philosopher's Stone, it must have something to do with him.

   "Don't worry, Sierra, we won't die yet." Perenal comforted softly, "We are still storing the elixir of life, enough for us to live another five or six years, so that we can deal with all the funeral affairs."

   "Five or six years, maybe you can live longer." Sera suggested: "If your knowledge and wisdom disappear like this, it will definitely be a loss for the entire magic world."

   "Five or six years is enough for us to teach Mr. Anderson most of the knowledge." Nico comforted softly. He actually understands how important those people are to the inheritance of knowledge, and Nicole is also willing to help Albert.

"I can teach you a lot of things, but I'm afraid I can't help you with one thing. Divination and prophecy require talent. If you don't have this talent, no matter how much effort you put in, it will be difficult to master it." Nicole reminded.

   "Please rest assured about this."

   Albert nodded to show that he could understand, "I'm also a bit talented in divination, and I can already predict some clues about the future."

   "Can you predict?"

  Nicole was not surprised by this, and brought his own crystal ball to let Albert try to prophesy.

   "Predict the outcome of tomorrow's International Wizard Chess Competition!" Sera suggested with a smile, "Maybe, you will see yourself win the championship!"

   "I think that's kind of hard."

Albert began to focus his attention on the crystal ball. The crystal ball in front of him was far better than his own. The fog in the crystal ball began to dissipate, and a picture appeared, with a hand holding up the wizard's chess champion. trophy.

"Okay, if you don't want your wizard chess game tomorrow to be boring, don't try to peek at the ending." Nico reached out and wiped the scene on the crystal ball, "Knowing the doomed future will make you You're not interested in what happens next."

"Um."

  Albert agrees with Nicole very much. If he knows that he has failed, will he continue to participate in this wizard chess game?

  I'm afraid not!

  If you know that you are about to win the final championship, you will lose the excitement when you finally won the championship.

The two had a sumptuous lunch at the LeMays' place. Albert stuffed the two brick-thick books that Nicole handed him into the shapeshifting lizard leather bag, and followed Serra to leave the small town of Nicola. Head to the wizarding streets of the capital, Paris.

  They will spend the night there, waiting for tomorrow's International Wizards Chess tournament.

As the recommender of the champion, Albert can directly participate in the 32-16 knockout round without being selected, but while enjoying the convenience, there are also some disadvantages. If he loses too badly in the game, those reporters may not write about it. show mercy.

  (end of this chapter)