Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

"Great, he lived another day."

Ron used the strength of sucking to swallow the chicken drumsticks in his mouth, and at the same time sent a blessing to Professor Lockhart in a lifeless tone.

I don't know how this kid combined these two things, but in the end he got a claw on the head from Hermione.

Having experienced the three-hour trek in the Forbidden Forest, Ron felt that such a small amount of pain was nothing to worry about.

Ron even felt a little lucky. There was clearly a tome at hand that was thick enough to be used as a brick, but Hermione still hit him with her hands...

Really, he just wanted to cry to death.

Of course, that book is not "Strong Potions."

If you bring a rare book hidden in the restricted area of ​​the library into the dining hall, you will definitely be discovered by the dazzling Mrs. Pince when you return the book. It is almost inevitable to be criticized and punished.

Moreover, Bourne also reminded Hermione: Reading "Powerful Potions" while eating is tantamount to poisoning yourself in a different way.

Hermione was reading a wizarding genealogy book, published around the 20s. Although the author was anonymous when it was published, many people still inferred from clues such as writing habits that its author was Cantanclus "The Quarrel King" Nott.

This book is called "Pure-Blood Directory", which lists twenty-eight wizard families who are determined to be absolutely pure blood, and also lists their family trees in a systematic way.

In addition to "absolutely pure blood", the book also lists many "relatively pure blood", such as the Potter family to which Harry Potter belongs, the family to which the wand master Ollivander belongs, and so on.

The reason why Hermione borrowed this book from the library was because Harry and Ron told her what happened in the Forbidden Forest, as well as the "Parseltongue" and "Gaunt family" that Bourne and their magic popularized. ” and other past events.

"Ugh, it's true that books are the ladder of human progress. Most of the knowledge can be found in books as long as you look for it with your heart."

After some careful searching, Hermione finally found what she wanted to find in the family tree illustration on the Gaunt family page of the "Pure Blood Directory".

"Corvinus Gaunt," she pointed to a line of small words and pushed the thick "dictionary" towards Harry and Ron, "is indeed a member of the Gaunt family."

Harry was somewhat interested in this.

However, Ron was completely indifferent to this. In fact, he thought the honey-plum sauce served with fried chicken legs for dinner today (instead of the usual ketchup) was much more interesting than the content in that book.

"Hermione, I'm serious, that book is a joke," Ron said.

"It's completely the public opinion propaganda done by the 'King of Quarrel' to list his surname in some 'Holy Twenty-Eight Families'. My father told me that not many of the other twenty-seven families actually have this name. Take it seriously. Just like, although he defined 'Weasley' as the 'Holy Twenty-Eight Purebloods', my father can be sure that my ancestors must have Muggle ancestors."

Hermione retorted: "But in the past four centuries, your family has indeed had no record of intermarriage with Muggles. Didn't you just personally confirm that the relatives in your memory were not written incorrectly on the family tree?"

"This doesn't mean anything?" Ron stood up again and poured himself a large glass of pumpkin juice. "My grandfather lived nearly 200 years old, and he gave birth to my father when he was more than a hundred years old. For a wizard family, four centuries may be just two or three generations."

Hermione was powerless to refute this.

Because the essence of this question actually involves the difference in time and worldview between Muggles and wizards, she can't understand it.

She was just stubborn in the end: "Anyway, this is the only way we can find out about the life of Corvinus Gaunt. If you have other ways, tell me..."

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"Corvinus Gaunt, well, let me see, I seem to remember that name."

Even if it is not class time, Professor Binns is still wearing his own "formal attire" in the private office next to the History of Magic classroom.

This ancient gentleman ghost was wearing a high-collared black robe, with a thin beard on his face, and there were not many grooves on his face.

Although he has been dead for many years, his image is still clearly visible.

He spoke slowly, but his words were full of academic knowledge of the history of magic, but few young wizards could understand the generalization and abstraction abilities hidden behind his boring, tasteless and long-winded words.

Bourne is actually very interested in the history of magic class, and he also respects Professor Binns, but his past friendship with this professor——

Let's put it this way, it's no different from other little wizards.

This is mainly because Professor Binns usually stays in his office except when he is in class. And the door of his office seemed to be cast by some magic: unless he wanted to, no matter how many visitors knocked on the door, Professor Binns in the room could not hear the knocking.

"I have been working at Hogwarts without a salary for so long, and I still have to have such privileges." These are the exact words Professor Binns said to many generations of professors and principals.

Over time, fewer and fewer people came to visit him, and he took pleasure in being the ultimate homebody.

But tonight, Bourne "happened" to find a generous gift that could be used to "knock" on Professor Binns' door.

Here's the thing:

Like Hermione, Bourne also developed some interest in the man named "Corvinus Gaunt".

Unlike Hermione, thanks to the convenience of the Hogwarts librarian's assistant, he had not only read the "Pure Blood Directory" before, but also read some other recreational books related to tracing the wizard's genealogy.

The Astartes are not only powerful physically, their brains and memories are also powerful. Although some Astartes (the Wolf Group is convinced) do not like to use it very much, in fact, every Astartes has the basic function of remembering things after reading.

Therefore, Bourne remembered the name "Corvinus Gaunt" and also remembered that the sketches of his life in those books were almost only a few strokes.

This is a bit unusual.

Because from the layout of the entrance to the secret passage and its ability to connect Hogwarts Castle and the depths of the Forbidden Forest, it can be seen from these two points alone that Corvinus Gunter is definitely a very talented wizard. .

You know, this is still the level he was at when he was a student at Hogwarts.

Although the level of magic that most wizards can achieve when they study at Hogwarts is basically the highest peak in their lives, with the talent shown by Corvinus Gunter, he is stepping out of Hogwarts. Woz's subsequent magical attainments will most likely belong to "a small number of wizards."

This "small group of wizards" refers to: Principal Dumbledore, Voldemort, Professor Snape, and people like them.

Therefore, wizards like this should not and cannot remain unknown in the history of magic no matter what.

Just like the old saying: When things go wrong, there must be a monster (Tzeentch: I don't mind telling my name directly for this kind of thing).

In addition, the surname "Gaunt" is closely related to Voldemort, and according to the main storyline in Bourne's memory, Harry will have to deal with the Chamber of Secrets, the Basilisk, etc. this school year. It was hard for Bourne not to want to find out the details of Corvinus Gaunt.

After thinking about it, he felt that in Hogwarts Castle, apart from the headmaster who was in charge of the directory of students of all generations - Dumbledore was not here now, it was not easy for him to ask this question directly - it seemed that there were only some who had taught almost every generation of Hogwarts. Professor Binns from Wizards of Woz may have some answers for him.

However, it was not easy to knock on the door of Professor Binns' office. He even found Peeves for this purpose.

Peeves, who seemed to be busy doing something, had no time to talk to him, and was even uncharacteristically uninterested in joining Bourne's actions. The poltergeist just casually told Bourne a piece of gossip about Professor Binns.

“Although Professor Binns was invited when the Big Four were still running Hogwarts, he seems to have been born in the same village as Ravenclaw.

Otherwise, Professor Binns, who was very famous in that era, would probably not have given up his beloved career to teach in a magic school that was still in its infancy.

I seem to remember that Gryffindors were extremely interested in the undertakings carried out by Professor Binns at that time, and even wanted to join his undertakings.

At that time, Professor Binns was working with a group of powerful wizard archaeologists to excavate the ruins of various ancient fairy kingdoms around the world.

Gryffindor particularly likes their working atmosphere: conducting academic research on ancient fairies, and after completing the academic work, they can use magic to beat up those fairies who come to protest. "

Thanks to this news, and knowing that Professor Binns is obsessed with the history of magic (he has to teach even if he becomes a ghost), Byrne guessed that the only way to get the old professor to open the door was to give him a copy It’s quite a historical gift.

For Professor Binns, "history" probably refers to at least the history of more than a thousand years ago, that is, before the era of the Big Four at Hogwarts.

It's definitely too late to dig for treasures like that now, but fortunately, Bourne knows that they are already available at Hogwarts. For example, Gryffindor's sword should still be hidden in the Sorting Hat, waiting to be pulled out again. For another example, others may not know it, but Bourne knows (or even saw it with his own eyes) that Ravenclaw's diadem is still lying in the Room of Requirement.

but……

These two things, Bourne could not give to Professor Binns as a "meeting gift".

However, maybe it was a coincidence, or maybe it was really the blessing of the emperor, but Bourne still kept a trophy in his wallet that was very special to Professor Binns.