It was now December.
After the Quidditch match following Halloween, Harry's arm was still broken by a Bludger, and Lockhart still removed his bones.
Everything seemed unchanged.
Even though the Basilisk was gone, the attacks still occurred.
Colin Creevey wasn't petrified by the Basilisk, but he was found collapsed in the corridor.
He was unconscious, with a large amount of blood flowing from his nose.
The professors arrived at the scene and immediately evacuated the young wizards.
"This is the Killing Curse!" Professor McGonagall exclaimed after a careful examination.
Lockhart, however, laughed and said, "Professor McGonagall, Colin Creevey isn't dead. He was obviously just stunned by a prank curse."
Professor McGonagall glanced at him and ignored him.
Dumbledore spoke, "Quickly take this child to the hospital wing. He was indeed hit by the Killing Curse, but the caster's magic was weak, which allowed him to escape death."
The professors acted quickly, each fulfilling their duties, and they all left in an instant, leaving only Lockhart behind.
He sniffed hard—his situation at Hogwarts had been somewhat difficult recently. His clumsy teaching had made the young wizards begin to doubt his true abilities, and the professors looked down on him as always.
Lockhart gritted his teeth. As long as he persevered until June, he could make a comeback!
He shook his head vigorously and walked towards his office—Count Dentis's advice was correct. After hiding in Hogwarts for nearly three months, the letters scolding him were becoming fewer and fewer.
But why hadn't that woman sent him any more letters?
It didn't matter. As long as he maintained this marriage, the Avery family would be his sooner or later!
It had to be said, the Count was truly wise!
Lost in thought, Lockhart returned to his office and saw a leather-bound notebook on his desk.
"Is this a little gift from some admirer?"
Lockhart picked up the notebook with a smile.
"But giving someone an old notebook… Could this be a prank?"
Just as he was about to put the notebook down, he felt as if a voice in his head was saying to him:
"Do you want to become stronger? If you want to become stronger, write words in the diary!"
Lockhart was stunned, and when he looked at the diary again, he felt a mysterious force urging him to open it.
"I am the great Gilderoy Lockhart! Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League, five-time winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award, and a close friend of Count Dentis! How can I be looked down upon by a group of young wizards? I should receive the respect I deserve!"
Lockhart almost shouted as he picked up a quill and wrote the exact same words in the diary.
Soon, the ink was absorbed by the diary, and then a line of words appeared:
"I am Tom Riddle, and I can help you earn respect."
Dana didn't know that the diary had found Lockhart. He was now maintaining "lover" contact with Donna through Dentis Castle.
But unfortunately, there was no How to Pick Up Girls in the Hogwarts library, which forced him to continue racking his brains to write letters.
Every time he wrote a letter to Donna, Dana felt uncomfortable all over. It was just that the Ashwinder Party members hadn't collected all of Lockhart's evidence, so he had to continue dragging it out—
You can't demand too much from them. Although the number of Ashwinder Party members has now exceeded 1,500—more than half are wizards who have smuggled into Britain from all over the world—
But these low-level wizards have neither inheritance nor powerful bloodlines. Expecting them to investigate cases like Aurors is not as good as directly asking Mr. Borgin!
Fortunately, there were many clues in Lockhart's novels. According to the clues, the victims should be located soon.
But there was still good news—
Dana finally designed a defensive magic circle that could cover the entire new city—this magic circle was very important. It was the leverage for Dana to shift the entire European wizarding world through the new city.
It's just that he now lacked a source of magical power.
According to the records in the Hogwarts library, there are two ways to obtain a source of magical power: one is a magic circle, and the other is an alchemical item.
Both methods can gather the magical power freely roaming in the air, but he lacked materials for the former, and he didn't know how to make the latter.
"Merlin's magic source."
[No!]
"Merlin's Grebatore Silver Marrow!"
[No! No!]
—I always feel like the Golden Finger has emotions. This isn't available, and that isn't available. Is this Golden Finger too useless?
"Merlin's magic stone!"
[No! No! No! Idiot! The key is right next to you. Are you too lazy to even explore it?]
I got scolded again.
Dana thought for a while and took out the tapestry from the necklace.
According to the conversation between Donna Avery and John Flint, Donna had almost explored the secrets of this tapestry. After all, they had found Merlin's tomb and even the key to Merlin's vault,
But he had intercepted the key through the Golden Finger.
But now that I think about it, I was indeed thinking too simply—if the secrets of the tapestry had been almost dug out, why would Donna Avery continue to study the tapestry?
Thinking like this, Dana spread the tapestry on his bed.
When he was a child, he saw this tapestry every day, and he didn't feel anything special at the time,
But now that he has awakened Merlin's bloodline and gradually grown under the nourishment of Hogwarts, he could see something different when he looked at the tapestry carefully—
In the weaving pattern of the tapestry, there were faint traces of magic remaining. If you carefully followed the pattern, you would find that the weaving method of this tapestry was very strange.
The horizontal and vertical weaving was not regular, but like a naughty child randomly entwining two threads together.
Dana had never understood the patterns on the tapestry, but now he had some clues.
Even an outsider like Donna could slowly decipher the secrets contained in it. What reason did he, a legitimate Merlin heir, have for not being able to see it?
—The shapes of the horizontal and vertical weaves on the tapestry were very complex, but to sum it up, there were exactly twenty-six types.
Coincidentally, there were also twenty-six letters.
The first paragraph was very simple. Just combine the letters directly according to the correspondence—
"The end is also the beginning, on the shore of Bristol Bay, in the center guarded by three 'half-mountains.'"
Dana didn't need to guess this riddle. He knew at a glance that it was the location of Merlin's tomb, where Donna Avery and John Flint dug out Merlin's beardless corpse and the door key.
Dana just couldn't understand why they weren't teleported to Merlin's vault after getting the key.
And the so-called beginning was probably for the heir to obtain a large amount of magical power through Merlin's corpse?
Dana also deciphered the second paragraph:
"The power of blood needs guidance. In Avalon, the former place of imprisonment, I left the direction there."
Very good, Avalon is a legendary place, the paradise in the other world. Where can a normal person find it?
But this sentence is not entirely meaningless. At least Dana knows that Avalon is not ethereal, but really exists.
Wait a minute—guide the blood, leave the direction?
Dana slapped his head. Isn't that what Merlin's notebook is talking about?
He already got it!
Very good, the second paragraph was also taken care of by him unknowingly.
Looking further down, it was confusing—
"1-2 - 18 , 13-4 - 21 … …"
The rest of the pages were all combinations of three numbers and three numbers. What was this?
It seemed that Donna Avery was stuck here at the beginning?
That's right, if you know the solution to the first two parts, finding the information is quite simple, but this third part actually uses a password—it can be seen that the things hidden in this part of the information were also quite important to Merlin.
Looking at the parchment on the table that scolded him as an [idiot], Dana understood—
What he wants can be obtained easily as long as he cracks the last hidden information on the tapestry!
Although this Golden Finger says "no" to everything, it has never lied to him!
After all, the Golden Finger said that Merlin had no beard—and Merlin's beard was indeed plucked by him.
End of the Chapter.
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