Chapter 180
Lupin: Oblivion
Chapter 180 Lupin: Oblivion
The distinctive sound of a fire truck's siren rang out from afar, through the forest.
"Time to go," said Lupin.
"Hold on."
Vader whispered to Michal, "Please."
Michal spread his wings and landed on the ruins, and golden flames spread out, covering the entire area.
After a moment, the flame was retracted, and the golden bird picked up a black ring from the dust.
There was some black, sticky stuff stuck on it, which turned into ash and fell off after being roasted by Mihael's flame for a while.
The gold on the ring was completely melted by the fire and solidified into a strange pool. Michael pecked at it twice with his mouth, removed the gold, and returned to Wade with only the black gem in his mouth.
It gently placed the black gem in Vader's hand.
Lupin looked at it curiously and saw that it was more like a black stone with a pattern made up of triangles and circles on it and several cracks in the middle.
Any curse or magic attached to it had been burned away by the fierce fire. Wade picked up the gem through the handkerchief and looked at it in the light.
The light seemed to be swallowed up by the gem.
He knew that this was one of the legendary holy objects given by the god of death to the three Peverell brothers. It was called the Resurrection Stone and had the power to bring the dead back to life.
As long as you hold the resurrection stone in your hand and turn it three times, you can bring the dead back to the world.
But the dead are not truly resurrected, and only the user of the Resurrection Stone can see it, so even if they stay in the human world, they will only feel endless loneliness and pain.
This thing looks like a divine artifact, but is actually no different from a curse. Its function is far inferior to the Old Wand and Invisibility Cloak, which are also called the Deathly Hallows.
In the plot, Dumbledore carelessly put on the ring because he was eager to see his dead parents and sister, and thus was cursed by Voldemort. Even with Snape's potion, his life was only extended by one year.
Of course, Dumbledore was Dumbledore.
He set up a big scheme in his last year, and even though he was dead, he still allowed Harry to send Voldemort away under his arrangement.
But the year without Dumbledore was also the darkest and most dangerous year for the entire wizarding world and Hogwarts.
Harry and his two friends had to leave school and flee. Many Muggles and wizards were killed. The Ministry of Magic became Voldemort's accomplice, and all the students of Hogwarts except Slytherin were tortured.
If it weren't for the sudden explosion of the protagonist's halo like Harry and Neville, who found and destroyed all the Horcruxes at the last moment, and if Harry hadn't used the ownership of the Elder Wand to rebound the Killing Curse and kill Voldemort, then darkness would have continued to shroud the British Isles, and Voldemort's reign of terror would have spread to the whole world.
It all started when Dumbledore got the Resurrection Stone.
If it weren't for the curse on the stone, a wizard as powerful as Dumbledore should have lived a long time.
Apart from Nicolas Flamel, who took the Elixir of Life, the witches on the Hogwarts Express have been doing this job since 1830. Some students think that this position has changed many times, but in fact it has always been the same.
There is also the former headmaster of Hogwarts, Armando Dippet, who lived for more than 300 years and only died recently.
However, Armando Dippet had been in seclusion for many years, and the magical world had almost forgotten him. The news of his death only occupied a small page in the Daily Prophet.
Excluding the original founder, Dumbledore's magical power is the greatest among all the headmasters, so even though he is now gray-haired, he can still live for a very long time before he faces the end of death.
—If he could die of old age.
……
Wade also placed the Resurrection Stone into a magic-shielding box, then transformed the suitcase into a wardrobe, opened the door, and asked the Firebird:
"Mihal, can you stay in here? Be careful not to burn anything." Mihal nodded, flew in, circled once, found a dry place to stay, and then chirped twice.
So Wade got some stones and dead branches from the mountain to build a nest for it. Mihaly blew a mouthful of fire into it, lit the branches, and then lay comfortably in the fire.
Wade put away his pencil case and left the woods quickly with Lupin. When they returned to Little Hangleton, they saw a fire engine passing through the village.
The sharp sound of the whistle woke up the sleeping people. They sat up in a daze and stared at the thick smoke in the distance.
"Fire!"
Panic sounds finally sounded from all directions. No one thought there was anything wrong with falling asleep, nor did they pay attention to the two people who hurriedly passed by on the path.
When they arrived at the pub, there were a few people standing outside the door, looking at the forest in the distance. Lupin and Wade walked through the crowd and returned to the room they had booked.
A black disappearing cabinet stood in the center of the room.
Lupin opened the cabinet door and said to Wade, "You go back to school first. I will take the Vanishing Cabinet back to Hogsmeade."
Wade nodded, said nothing more, got into the Vanishing Cabinet, and returned to Hogwarts in the blink of an eye.
Zoe was standing outside the closet, waiting for him with a smile.
……
Lupin closed the cabinet door, cleaned up the traces of life left by several people, opened his suitcase, moved the Vanishing Cabinet in and put it away, then picked up the suitcase, put on a gray bowler hat, lowered the brim of the hat, and walked out of the room.
The bartender of the pub was discussing with the guests the cause of the sudden fire in the forest. He guessed that someone had unethically lit a bonfire while having a picnic and did not put it out in time.
"It could be that the wind carried the cigarette butts in," Mike said seriously, "most fires are caused that way."
"Why don't you talk about the two guests from before?" said the bearded drinker Pete. "I still don't believe that a grown man can suddenly turn into a child."
"It's true." Mike, the bartender, said seriously, "How could I be mistaken? They all have black hair and gray eyes. They must be the same person..."
Pitt complained: "Isn't it more likely that they are father and son than they are young again?"
"But I didn't see anyone else go in..." Mike argued.
"You must have missed it!" said Pete.
Behind them, Lupin apologized wordlessly, then raised his wand -
"Everything is forgotten!"
A light flashed by, and the two people at the door blinked, their expressions a little dull.
After a while, Mike said, "It could be that the wind carried the cigarette butts in. Most fires start that way."
"No... I think the fire started deep in the woods. It's more likely to be a campfire that hasn't been extinguished."
"...No matter what, there are always some people who don't have the awareness of forest fire prevention, and those of us who live nearby are always the unlucky ones."
After Mike finished speaking, he suddenly felt the door behind him move.
He looked back, saw nothing, and turned his eyes away without caring.
(End of this chapter)