Chapter Eighteen The Soul
The magic book sounds like something a wizard would touch. But in fact... Only books with constant magic on them can be called magic books, not things that record magic in books are called magic books.
Real magic books are all orphans, because their production is too difficult, the production cycle is too long, and the production cost is too high. Ordinary wizard families really don't have this kind of thing. The families that can produce magic books are ruthless ones with a long history and capable people.
The spellbook Solim showed Snape didn't actually have a name on the cover, but those who knew the spellbook usually called it the "Book of Blood" or "Selwyn's Book of Blood". The way to open this book is Selwyn's blood, whether it is voluntary or forced, as long as Selwyn's fresh blood is dripped on the heart of the cover painting, this book can be opened, and the time to open it will be Look at the quality and quantity of blood. Solim tried it himself, let the heart on the cover fully appear, and when the color of the heart reaches the brightest, the book can be read for half an hour. But his grandfather said that the blood of Selwyn today is much thinner than it was hundreds of years ago. It may be in Solim's generation, or in Solim's next generation, the family is likely to carry out the sublimation ceremony-provided that the material Ready.
For a while, neither of the two people at the desk spoke. Solim because the book brought back some memories, while Snape was shocked, maybe a little excited.
Snape was of course a gifted wizard, there was no doubting that. But there were some things that a wizard of Snape's background couldn't touch. The Council of Elders firmly controls high-end magic theories, powerful magic spells, and massive resources. Ordinary wizards can only study and live in the circle drawn by the Presbyterian Church for the rest of their lives. Even if there are some talented wizards who have come into contact with some taboo and high-end knowledge by themselves, they will either be recruited by the elders, included in the organization, or suppressed. And those wizards who have the ability to break through the circle drawn by the elders' meeting basically know that there is a huge monster pressing on top of their heads. Among these people, dragons and phoenixes naturally know what to do to benefit themselves.
What Snape saw was forbidden knowledge that ordinary wizards would never have access to - the use of souls.
"Professor, do you have any questions about what you just saw?" Solim stepped out of his own memory and spoke first.
Solim saw Snape's eyes, which were very different from his usual closed-mindedness. Obviously, what he had just come across had a huge impact on Snape.
"Preferably Muggle death row, Professor, if it's not convenient for you..." Solim raised his eyebrows, "I can do it for you."
"No need." Snape knew that if he agreed, then he would have to pay the corresponding price, and this student of his was not someone who would suffer.
"Okay," Solim wasn't surprised that Snape would refuse, "the means of collecting souls...is it necessary?"
How could Snape have the means to collect souls? No matter how powerful he was, no matter how talented he was, he was only living in the wizarding world planned by the elders. Such means were beyond Snape's knowledge.
Snape rejected Solim, but he didn't have the means to collect souls himself. This is a bit embarrassing.
Seeing that Snape didn't speak, Solim raised the corners of his mouth, pretending not to see Snape's embarrassment, and said, "Professor, you have a way to collect souls, so what about preserving souls? Don't bring the souls that you can't use when the time comes."
"I'll bring the man," Snape said deadpan.
"This..." Solim smacked his lips, "It's also a way."
Bringing people directly is of course a way. You don't need to think of ways to collect souls, and you don't need to work hard to protect them after you collect them. How good it is to arrest people directly. but……
"But is this appropriate? At Hogwarts? Under Dumbledore's nose?" Solim didn't care, but Dumbledore's attitude had to be taken into consideration. That bad old man wouldn't allow someone to do something like that in his school, take the soul of an innocent person, and use that soul. Even if you talk about breaking the sky, such evil behavior cannot be washed away.
"Who said you have to be in school?" Snape looked at Solim with an idiot's eye.
Yeah, why do you have to do this kind of thing in school? I'm afraid the principal doesn't know or what?
"Maybe the blood was a little too much just now, my tits... Bah! I'm not clear-headed yet." Solim rubbed his nose in embarrassment, "Then get ready, I'll let you know when I get the stuff."
Snape thought for a while, and asked, "Your book only explained how to use souls, but why do you need souls?" Although Snape was a wizard who liked... no, it should be said that he loved black magic. But he also has his own bottom line. He has wanted to ask this question for a long time.
After listening to Snape's words, Solim thought for a moment before opening his mouth and said, "First of all, I want to explain that for some wizards, the soul is actually a very common spell-casting material. Of course, professor, you know that I am definitely not talking about ordinary wizards. Let's put aside the topic of the soul, professor, let me ask you a question first. How many ways are there to communicate between wizards, excluding face-to-face like we are now?"
Snape looked at Solim with emotionless eyes and said nothing. He was extremely displeased with people like Solim talking around, if it was Dumbledore, he was a big boss anyway, so what are you pretending to be like, a brat like me.
Fortunately, Solim quickly realized his mistake. He was not teaching Hermione and Neville a lesson. What he was facing now was his dean.
Going back to Solim's question just now, apart from face-to-face, how many ways of communication are there between wizards? The most common way is to send letters through owls. If possible, you can also use the fireplace (grab a handful of Floo powder, lean half your body over, and you can talk to another person in front of the fireplace). If you are more wealthy, you can Using a double-sided mirror, in the eyes of ordinary wizards, the double-sided mirror is a tall thing, equivalent to the big brother in the 1980s and 1990s. Members of the Order of the Phoenix can also communicate with the headmaster himself through small notes made by Dumbledore. Of course, the Death Eaters had a similar method, and that was the Dark Mark branded by Voldemort himself.
However, except owls that rely purely on physical strength to communicate across space, the rest of these methods rely on magic to eliminate the influence of space. Floo powder itself contains magic power. When the magic power is exhausted, you can either eat a mouthful of furnace ashes, or grab a handful of floo powder and throw it in when the magic power is almost exhausted. Double-sided mirror, this relies on the magic power of the wizard himself. One wizard outputs magic power to the double-sided mirror, and the other matching double-sided mirror will respond, so that two wizards in different places can communicate. When one party stops the magic power Output, the connection built by the double-sided mirror will be interrupted. The communication between Dumbledore's note and Voldemort's Dark Mark also uses magic to overcome spatial obstacles.
Break the barrier of space, let two people communicate as if they were face to face. Whether it's a fireplace, a double-sided mirror, or something else, wizards do this by expending magic. Muggles are the same, whether it's a phone, a computer or something else, they all use electricity to achieve the same purpose.
But this is the communication between living people, or in other words, it is the communication across space by consuming energy in the same dimension. But there are some subtle differences in the communication between the living and the dead. This is different from the communication between the living and the ghosts. Although the ghosts are dead, they are not completely dead.
To communicate with a completely dead person, it requires a stronger force to break some kind of shackles. Ordinary magic power is not enough, and the magic power of human wizards is not very strong. Unleashing great power by burning the soul is a proven method. Ordinary magic is compared to this power as a coal-fired power plant is compared to a nuclear power plant. Although there is not much difference in essence, the strength, quality, and duration of the former and the latter are not comparable at all.
Snape sort of accepted Solim's explanation. Soul, this subject Snape never had the opportunity to study, and of course he never had the opportunity to study it. You will never find a book on the analysis of the soul in the market, let alone how to use the soul.
Snape couldn't help being a little jealous of his student: family background, wealth, talent, these things that he once dreamed of, his student in front of him possessed them all, and he didn't waste these advantages, and he knew how to use them.
"Professor, let me put it up front. It is true that you can communicate with a dead person after paying a certain price, but the premise is that the dead person has not gone to the place of death." Give Snape a vaccination first, it doesn't matter As for the biggest obsession in Snape's life, if something went wrong, Snape might find himself in trouble.
Frowning slightly, Snape looked at Solim. "Explain, that's not what you said at the beginning."
"I didn't tell you before because I don't know how to explain these things to you." Spreading his hands, Solim said helplessly.
"Before? Now?"
"Now, I'm too lazy to explain. You should read it yourself, if you understand it." Solim took out another book from under his robe and threw it directly on the table. "This is something from nearly fifteen centuries ago. This is a handwritten book, which was originally estimated to have disappeared."
Snape glanced at the cover and knew what was going on.
Old English refers to English from 449 AD to 1100 AD. There are great differences between Old English and modern English in pronunciation, spelling, vocabulary, and morphology. It is impossible to understand without special study. Moreover, there were still four main dialects in the Old English period, which led to different spellings of the same words between various dialects (damn phonetic characters), and few wizards today can understand them.
As for Solim? Ha, thank goodness he speaks English without an accent now. You must know that when he was just learning to speak when he was a child, his natural accent scared his family members into thinking there was something wrong with his tongue.
Watching Snape turn the pages of the book, he closed the book again. Solim knew that Snape couldn't read it either, and wizards now of course spoke modern English, so it wasn't surprising that they couldn't read it.
"Relax, Professor, I'm talking about the worst case scenario." Solim tucked the book back into his robes. "That ancient spell on Potter is still in effect, so be reassured."
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