Chapter Seventeen Blood Book
Hagrid's hut.
"So that's it, Hagrid, is that three-headed dog yours?" Just like Hermione who knew Solim well, the task of communicating with Hagrid was Harry's.
"How do you know about Lu Wei?" Hagrid put down the teapot in his hand, and he was pouring tea for the three of them.
"Lu Wei?" The three looked at each other.
"Well, I won it from a Grecian, and I lent it to Dumbledore to guard..." Hagrid finally remembered at the critical moment that this is not something that three freshmen should know.
"What?" Hermione asked eagerly.
"Enough! Don't ask! This is not what you should know." Hagrid said roughly, "This is Secret Number One! Get it?"
"But it bit Snape. I saw him limping that day. I don't know what else in school could hurt Snape except that dog." Harry looked into Hagrid's dark eyes unwillingly.
"That's impossible! Lu Wei is a good boy." Hagrid took a deep breath and slowed down his tone. "Listen, you three. You're meddling in things that don't concern you—it's dangerous. Forget about the big dog, and what he's watching. It's none of your business. This is a relationship between Dumbledore and Nicolas." between……"
"Aha! So there's a man named Nicolas involved, isn't it?" Harry asked angrily.
Not surprisingly, the three were driven out of the hut by Hagrid.
On the way back to the castle there were three... well, it should have been two -- Harry and Ronald were arguing about what Fluffy was guarding. Until the dull ones realized that Hermione hadn't said a word the whole way.
"Hermione, what's the matter?"
"Nicole May... I have some images of this name, but I just don't remember where I saw it." Hermione tugged at her hair in distress.
"Maybe it's in a certain book you've read." Ronald reminded kindly.
Are you talking nonsense! Hermione rolled her eyes and ignored Ronald.
"Maybe we should go to the library, there should be information about Nicolas." Harry said aside.
Harry's words immediately got Ronald's support, and Hermione also said that since she couldn't remember it, it would be a good idea to go to the library to look for it. But Hermione knew a better way, that is to ask Solim directly, Hermione dared to use her final grades to bet that Solim would definitely know this Nicolas May. But Hermione's petite ego snuffed out the thought immediately.
"Okay," Hermione nodded. "The three of us will look separately and hope to find it before dinner."
At Hogwarts, most of the staff and students' understanding of the underground of the castle is lacking. Slytherin and Hufflepuff's common room, potions classroom, Snape's office, kitchen, and many empty classrooms. This is the underground of Hogwarts that most people know.
In fact, the underground of Hogwarts is not only the Slytherin's chamber of secrets. The underground pipes extending in all directions connect the various rooms together, and through the pipes in the castle wall, they are connected to some rooms of the above-ground buildings, and even the common rooms of the four colleges.
Every time Solim walks in the underground corridor, he can't help thinking of these unknown secrets, and he is eager to explore these unknowns. But it's a pity that the second basement floor is the limit he can reach now, because he can't find the way. But he didn't come here today to explore these unknowns, he wanted to explore Hogwarts, he would have plenty of time in the future, he came here today to find Snape.
Snape's office was even more bleak than the hallway, and darkness was the constant tone here. In contrast to the well-lit other above-ground faculty offices, the only sources of light here are the ceiling and some candles on the tables—and not all of them are lit. In such a dark and cold environment, it is not uncommon for the little wizard who came here for the first time to be scared to pee his pants. No student who had been locked up in Snape's office would want to come back again.
Closing the door, Solim followed Snape's limping ass obediently to the best-lit part of the office - Snape's desk.
"Professor," Solim said, watching Snape sit down. "If the injury on your leg is difficult to treat, you might as well ask Dumbledore for a few tears, that will be more effective than anything else." Of course, the tears of the phoenix, this is a healing treasure that even gold Galleons can't buy.
Snape glanced at Solim with blank eyes, but said nothing. As for himself as a student, Snape knew he couldn't be treated as an ordinary student. During the Halloween troll event, the student used a spell that was still fresh in Snape's memory.
Don't look at the hype that Solim said at the time, what has a small scope of action and what has a short duration are all ghosts. A wizard like Snape could see through the essence of this magic at a glance. Fiendfyre Blink is essentially Fiendfyre, and casting methods like Solim are more dangerous, more unpredictable, and more practical than Fiendfyre in general. The release of Fiendfyre flickering does not require a lot of magic power to support it like Fiercefire Curse, nor does it need subtle magic manipulation to control like Fiercefire Curse, nor does it have various uncertainties like Fiercefire Curse. Sudden, deadly, manipulative, and the mana consumption of releasing Fiendfyre is definitely much less than Fiendfyre's curse. This is a very mature mutant spell.
That's what Snape thought of the Fiendflash that Solim had used that night.
"Professor, the potion is quite mature after four improvements." Solim had already prepared a draft on the way here, "What I want to ask now is: Will the fully activated magic power have any bad effects on the human body? ,for example……"
"Don't you have a ready-made test subject?" Snape was not interested in listening to Solim's tirade, so he interrupted Solim directly.
"Uh... so to speak..." Solim scratched his head, "but just in case..."
"The current experimental data are all from the same person. If you know something about potions, you should know what's in it..." Snape paused, "...hidden dangers."
What else could Solim say? Even a Muggle doctor would understand that the fact that a medicine is effective for a single patient does not mean that it is effective for all patients. But Squibs are rare, let alone Squibs like Filch or Silna who have not experienced magic riots for special reasons.
If in the Muggle medical field, a new drug is dared to be produced and sold with only one successful clinical case, something will definitely happen.
It seems that I still have to contact my grandfather, so I might as well go back on vacation. Although Solim really didn't want to go back, the way that woman looked at him... Thinking of this, Solim got goosebumps all over his body. And for Christmas... a violent man and a big boring guy will go back, and the boring guy is okay, but Dax, the violent man... thinks that he will have a fight with his cheap brother, Solim bites his teeth Hanako. The point is that Solim knows that he can't beat that violent man. It seemed that it was best for me to stay under the watchful eyes of my grandfather when I got home, and not give that woman a chance to mock me or give Dax a chance to beat him.
Snape looked at Solim in front of him shivering and gnashing his teeth, and didn't ask him what he was thinking, Snape wasn't interested in these things.
"I've done what you asked me to do, so what about what you promised me?" Snape didn't care what happened to Solim, he agreed to this errand in the first place because of what Solim promised him. As long as Solim keeps his word, he can't be bothered with the mess.
"Well, anyway, Professor, you really helped me." Solim temporarily put those bullshit things behind him, "I promise you things will be fulfilled, don't worry about that, but as soon as possible It's after the festival, and I will bring you that key item when the second grade starts at the latest."
Solim thought about it, and decided to give Snape an answer first.
"But Professor, there are some things you have to prepare yourself." Solim took a deep breath and looked at Snape seriously, "At least
Five less healthy living people, and the stronger the soul, the better. "
Snape couldn't help but twitch his unchanging expression when he heard Solim's words, "Do you know what you're talking about, Selwyn?"
Solim already knew how Snape would react, so he didn't mind hearing him call himself Selwyn. "This is the price. The living and the dead shouldn't interfere with each other. To achieve this taboo, you must pay a price."
From under his robe, Solim took out the spellbook he had prepared earlier—the real spellbook. A completely different spellbook than the one lent to Hermione.
The cover of the spellbook was a sallow, unknown material that looked greasy, and the candles and the firelight from the fireplace danced on the cover. Solim put the book facing himself, took out his wand with his left hand, and stroked his right wrist lightly, then put his right wrist on top of the cover of the magic book, allowing the blood to slowly fill the pattern in the middle of the cover.
Snape watched Solim's actions with a blank face, but was very surprised in his heart. He could see that Solim had used a silent cutting spell when he cut his wrist, and the problem wasn't the silent casting of the spell, but the precise control of the magic that Solim displayed. With such a close distance, the hand may be cut off accidentally, but the depth of Solim’s cut is very suitable—it will neither cause a lot of bleeding because the cut is too deep, nor cause insufficient bleeding due to too shallow cut
"Goog...goog..." Snape was sure the eerie swallowing sound was coming from the spellbook on his desk.
The blood that Solim dripped on the cover was absorbed, and Snape saw lines of veins buried under the cover, slowly emerging with Solim's blood. Only then did Snape see clearly that the pattern on the cover was a heart.
"What is this?" Snape couldn't help but asked anyway.
Solim gave himself a simple healing spell, but since the one he was using now was a dragon staff. The effect is somewhat unsatisfactory, after all, what Dragon Stick is best at is fighting.
"The magic book, the magic book that only Selwyn can open." After treating the wound, Solim hurriedly opened the book, "This book is consuming my blood now, wait until my blood is exhausted, if you haven't finished reading it, I will You'll have to cut your wrists again. Look here!"
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