Chapter 118 The Power of the Celestial Eye
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Shui Shen Zhi Feng
Chapter 118 The Power of the Celestial Eye
The North Tower of Hogwarts Castle.
Above a small staircase in the Divination classroom.
This is the office of the Divination professor at Hogwarts - Schelling can be sure that this is definitely the shabby office in Hogwarts. There is nothing in it except a desk and a bed.
Professor Trelawney opened her eyes wide and said in her trademark limp, slurred voice, "Welcome to my office, you are—"
"Professor, hello, I'm Sherin from the Malfoy family, and I'm here to greet you."
"Oh, Malfoy's second son? I've heard your name before, uh... It seems that you are not my student..." Professor Trelawney said with some doubts.
"Professor, it's like this. I'm encountering some difficulties in the mundane world, so I come to seek your help. I hope that you can help me find the answer through your third eye and your vision." Xie Lin politely said his request.
"Interesting." Professor Trelawney said calmly, "Why did you think of asking me for help?"
She continued: "Did you know that in my teaching career for the past ten years, you are the first student to come to me for guidance!"
"I have heard the name of your mysterious grandmother, Cassandra Trelawney is undoubtedly a true master of prophecy." Sherin said.
"However, after her, there has never been a prophet in my family," Professor Trelawney said softly, "I know that many people in the school think I'm a liar, do you still think I can prophesy?"
"Professor, why do you care so much about the opinions of those fools in the secular world? Most wizards don't believe in so-called prophecies, especially about bad news, so no one is willing to believe in prophecies before a real disaster strikes. This is human nature!"
Xie Lin continued: "As for me, I believe that Professor, you know how to predict, but you can't master your own prophecy ability, and you can't use it as you like..." Xie Lin's tone was full of confidence.
"Oh, interesting, why do you think that?" Professor Trelawney's eyes shone shrewdly. She met countless people with half-baked divination without being exposed. It has almost become her instinct to look at people. She felt the depth and wisdom not lost to Dumbledore in Schelling.To deal with this kind of person, all deception and cover-ups are useless, it is better to speak out directly.
"Professor Dumbledore is old, but he is still not confused. He will decide to hire you as a professor of divination at Hogwarts. He obviously thinks you have such qualifications."
"Yeah..." Professor Trelawney said to himself, "I admit that Dumbledore really didn't like divination at first. At that time, he told me that Hogwarts was going to open a divination class and wanted to invite me to be a professor, but before that, Dumbledore wanted me to make a prophecy for him."
"Although I don't remember the content of that prophecy anymore, shortly after that, probably after the fall of the Mysterious Man, I came to Hogwarts as a divination professor. At that time, there were no so-called divination classes in the school."
"It seems that the prophecy has come true." Xie Lin said softly.
"Let's get down to business, since you know that I haven't mastered my prophecy ability, then the purpose of your coming to me is..."
Xie Lin took out a bottle of potion from his bosom, "This is a potion I specially refined. It can permanently increase a person's psyche, or in layman's terms, perception. The main ingredient is the very rare tear of an adult Thunderbird. Even I only have this bottle. For you fortune-tellers, it is even more precious, and it can enhance your ability to see."
Schelling didn't lie. The thunderbird is indeed as rare as the phoenix. It is a protected species in North America. The one Newt saved in the Fantastic Beasts movie was only smuggled into Egypt.
There were various changes in Trelawney's eyes. She was not a fool. Sherin was able to deliver such a precious potion to his door, obviously he had a big plan.
Although she is very tempted, she is used to living a comfortable life. Although she is often looked down upon in school, she has no worries about food and clothing, and there is no risk in her life. If she really has any emotional problems because of this, it can be solved with a bottle of sherry wine. If it still doesn't work, then two bottles.
She decided to go straight to the point, "What do you need me to do for you?"
Xie Lin smiled and said: "The professor is a smart man, and Xie Lin will not ask too much. Two things - first, I hope that the professor can divination for me ten times without violating my personal principles." Xie Lin's eyes suddenly became sharp, and his eyes locked on Trelawney's.
"Second, I hope that the professor can form an alliance with the Malfoy family. You can continue to be your professor at Hogwarts, but if you can, you should help the forces I represent. Of course, you won't be disadvantaged by the professor. Every time you make a move, you can offer me a bottle of potion in exchange, how about it?"
Trelawney hesitated for a moment before agreeing.
The conditions offered by Schelling are very generous, and being able to make friends with the flourishing Malfoy family is beneficial to her at the moment. Although she is a professor, multiple paths mean more choices!
Dumbledore is not immortal, if one day she is fired by some blind headmaster, at least she has a place to go.
["Ally" Sybill Trelawney got it! 】
Schelling used up his first chance of divination, and he chose to use it on Verda Griffith. This is a good test, let him see Trelawney's true strength!
Trelawney poured the entire potion into his mouth in one gulp.
She closed her eyes, intoxicated by the soaring spiritual sense.A strange scar with blue light appeared on her forehead, which was in the shape of an eye, but there were many antennae similar to plant roots around the eyes, densely crawling all over her forehead.
"This is the legendary Celestial Eye?" Xie Lin thought to himself, it seemed that he had made the right bet, and the power of Trelawney's blood did not disappoint him.
The innate ability of divination is also graded, and Tianmu is undoubtedly the top one.
The crystal ball on Trelawney's desk suddenly burst into blinding light, casting a very real vision like a Muggle projector.
What was shown in the vision was a small room that looked like a warehouse inside, with no windows on all sides except for a door. Sherin could see Griffith sitting on a chair with a black cloth covering her head to cover her eyes, her hands were tied behind the back of the chair by a weird rope, and her feet were also fixed to the legs of the chair.
There were two other men in the room, one was sitting on a chair and leisurely smoking a brand-name wizard cigar, the other was walking back and forth in the room with a very nervous expression, the only thing in common was that both of them held their wands tightly in their hands.
In the picture, Griffith tilted his head, as if he had fallen into a coma. As long as he showed any signs of waking up, he would be re-released with a stun spell.
"It's amazing," Xie Lin praised, "Professor, can you please put your third eye farther away, and let me see what the outside of this room looks like..."
The picture began to appear some ripples and fluctuations, as if the phantom was a little unstable. Just after the picture gradually became blurred, Trelawney's Celestial Eye pattern lit up again, and the whole picture rose slowly. The people and objects in the picture gradually became smaller, and Schelling saw the appearance of the building where the room was.
The outside of the building looked like the most common small warehouse in the Muggle world, but that couldn't fool Schelling.This is definitely a wizard's handiwork. The entire warehouse exudes invisible magic power fluctuations, which may be due to the cast of the Muggle Repelling Curse.
Judging from the angle of sunlight and shadows, the building is located in the north of England.Coupled with the clues deduced from other nearby buildings and scenery, the scope has been narrowed down to about a dozen places.
That's enough.Give these clues to Scollinger, and the rest is up to the Aurors.
It was enough for me to be able to do this. Not only did I earn the favors of Devrill and Slughorn, but also allowed Scollinger to receive the credit. At the same time, I also measured Trelawney's strength, which can be said to kill four birds with one stone!
Schelling was pleased with the divination prowess Trelawney had shown.
Then he made a second divination request, not Meredith, but Madame Chabini!
Divination is not omnipotent, if Meredith's current location is protected by the Fidelity Curse, then even if she knows the location, it will be useless, and she will only be unable to enter Shafik's ancestral house like last time.
The reason for choosing the object of divination is Mrs. Sabiny, precisely because Schelling suspected that she was the female member who appeared that day in Shadow of the Dragon!
Professor Trelawney first rested for a while. She hadn't fully adapted to her complete bloodline talent, so the divination just now consumed a lot of her mind.
She entered the state of meditation again, with the previous experience, her third eye was activated faster, and the lines on her forehead were much clearer than last time.
The picture in the illusion shows two long wooden boxes in the shape of coffins. Many mysterious ancient runic charms are carved on the wooden boxes. According to Schelling's deduction, they are used to isolate the influence of the outside world, so as to better preserve the contents of the coffin.
Then, the screen flashed and shifted to an altar—the same altar also placed the previous two coffins, but this time there was a faint wave of magic power that Schelling was very familiar with.
This is soul magic!Xie Lin had an extremely bad premonition in his heart, what exactly did they want to do?
Soon, two figures walked onto the altar, one was Mrs. Chabini, and the other, Schelling, had never met, but he still recognized her—it was Mrs. Selwyn!
Mrs. Chapiny and Mrs. Selwyn were whispering something there, and because the picture was a little blurry, and Trelawney's illusion magic was not strong enough to project the sound, Schelling couldn't guess what they were talking about.
Wait a moment?This character relationship diagram seems a bit messy... The Selwyn family is obviously a pure-blood family faction, and Mr. Selwyn is even a Death Eater!Although there were some conflicts between the Selwyn family and the Malfoy family, in the final analysis it was a matter of benefit distribution, and there was no conflict of ideas between the two parties.
What the hell is Mrs. Selwyn and the Shadow of the Dragon getting together now?
Is this the biggest secret of the Selwyn family?Or, this is actually Mrs. Selwyn's personal secret, which the family doesn't know about?
At this moment, Professor Trelawney let out a soft cry, and the whole screen shook, and cracks like spider webs appeared, and finally shattered into pieces, turning into bits of starlight and dissipating.
Professor Trelawney seemed to have cast too much spells and had already passed out from exhaustion.
Xie Lin thought for a while, left a note, turned and left.
Related works have been updated: About Verda Griffith
(End of this chapter)
The North Tower of Hogwarts Castle.
Above a small staircase in the Divination classroom.
This is the office of the Divination professor at Hogwarts - Schelling can be sure that this is definitely the shabby office in Hogwarts. There is nothing in it except a desk and a bed.
Professor Trelawney opened her eyes wide and said in her trademark limp, slurred voice, "Welcome to my office, you are—"
"Professor, hello, I'm Sherin from the Malfoy family, and I'm here to greet you."
"Oh, Malfoy's second son? I've heard your name before, uh... It seems that you are not my student..." Professor Trelawney said with some doubts.
"Professor, it's like this. I'm encountering some difficulties in the mundane world, so I come to seek your help. I hope that you can help me find the answer through your third eye and your vision." Xie Lin politely said his request.
"Interesting." Professor Trelawney said calmly, "Why did you think of asking me for help?"
She continued: "Did you know that in my teaching career for the past ten years, you are the first student to come to me for guidance!"
"I have heard the name of your mysterious grandmother, Cassandra Trelawney is undoubtedly a true master of prophecy." Sherin said.
"However, after her, there has never been a prophet in my family," Professor Trelawney said softly, "I know that many people in the school think I'm a liar, do you still think I can prophesy?"
"Professor, why do you care so much about the opinions of those fools in the secular world? Most wizards don't believe in so-called prophecies, especially about bad news, so no one is willing to believe in prophecies before a real disaster strikes. This is human nature!"
Xie Lin continued: "As for me, I believe that Professor, you know how to predict, but you can't master your own prophecy ability, and you can't use it as you like..." Xie Lin's tone was full of confidence.
"Oh, interesting, why do you think that?" Professor Trelawney's eyes shone shrewdly. She met countless people with half-baked divination without being exposed. It has almost become her instinct to look at people. She felt the depth and wisdom not lost to Dumbledore in Schelling.To deal with this kind of person, all deception and cover-ups are useless, it is better to speak out directly.
"Professor Dumbledore is old, but he is still not confused. He will decide to hire you as a professor of divination at Hogwarts. He obviously thinks you have such qualifications."
"Yeah..." Professor Trelawney said to himself, "I admit that Dumbledore really didn't like divination at first. At that time, he told me that Hogwarts was going to open a divination class and wanted to invite me to be a professor, but before that, Dumbledore wanted me to make a prophecy for him."
"Although I don't remember the content of that prophecy anymore, shortly after that, probably after the fall of the Mysterious Man, I came to Hogwarts as a divination professor. At that time, there were no so-called divination classes in the school."
"It seems that the prophecy has come true." Xie Lin said softly.
"Let's get down to business, since you know that I haven't mastered my prophecy ability, then the purpose of your coming to me is..."
Xie Lin took out a bottle of potion from his bosom, "This is a potion I specially refined. It can permanently increase a person's psyche, or in layman's terms, perception. The main ingredient is the very rare tear of an adult Thunderbird. Even I only have this bottle. For you fortune-tellers, it is even more precious, and it can enhance your ability to see."
Schelling didn't lie. The thunderbird is indeed as rare as the phoenix. It is a protected species in North America. The one Newt saved in the Fantastic Beasts movie was only smuggled into Egypt.
There were various changes in Trelawney's eyes. She was not a fool. Sherin was able to deliver such a precious potion to his door, obviously he had a big plan.
Although she is very tempted, she is used to living a comfortable life. Although she is often looked down upon in school, she has no worries about food and clothing, and there is no risk in her life. If she really has any emotional problems because of this, it can be solved with a bottle of sherry wine. If it still doesn't work, then two bottles.
She decided to go straight to the point, "What do you need me to do for you?"
Xie Lin smiled and said: "The professor is a smart man, and Xie Lin will not ask too much. Two things - first, I hope that the professor can divination for me ten times without violating my personal principles." Xie Lin's eyes suddenly became sharp, and his eyes locked on Trelawney's.
"Second, I hope that the professor can form an alliance with the Malfoy family. You can continue to be your professor at Hogwarts, but if you can, you should help the forces I represent. Of course, you won't be disadvantaged by the professor. Every time you make a move, you can offer me a bottle of potion in exchange, how about it?"
Trelawney hesitated for a moment before agreeing.
The conditions offered by Schelling are very generous, and being able to make friends with the flourishing Malfoy family is beneficial to her at the moment. Although she is a professor, multiple paths mean more choices!
Dumbledore is not immortal, if one day she is fired by some blind headmaster, at least she has a place to go.
["Ally" Sybill Trelawney got it! 】
Schelling used up his first chance of divination, and he chose to use it on Verda Griffith. This is a good test, let him see Trelawney's true strength!
Trelawney poured the entire potion into his mouth in one gulp.
She closed her eyes, intoxicated by the soaring spiritual sense.A strange scar with blue light appeared on her forehead, which was in the shape of an eye, but there were many antennae similar to plant roots around the eyes, densely crawling all over her forehead.
"This is the legendary Celestial Eye?" Xie Lin thought to himself, it seemed that he had made the right bet, and the power of Trelawney's blood did not disappoint him.
The innate ability of divination is also graded, and Tianmu is undoubtedly the top one.
The crystal ball on Trelawney's desk suddenly burst into blinding light, casting a very real vision like a Muggle projector.
What was shown in the vision was a small room that looked like a warehouse inside, with no windows on all sides except for a door. Sherin could see Griffith sitting on a chair with a black cloth covering her head to cover her eyes, her hands were tied behind the back of the chair by a weird rope, and her feet were also fixed to the legs of the chair.
There were two other men in the room, one was sitting on a chair and leisurely smoking a brand-name wizard cigar, the other was walking back and forth in the room with a very nervous expression, the only thing in common was that both of them held their wands tightly in their hands.
In the picture, Griffith tilted his head, as if he had fallen into a coma. As long as he showed any signs of waking up, he would be re-released with a stun spell.
"It's amazing," Xie Lin praised, "Professor, can you please put your third eye farther away, and let me see what the outside of this room looks like..."
The picture began to appear some ripples and fluctuations, as if the phantom was a little unstable. Just after the picture gradually became blurred, Trelawney's Celestial Eye pattern lit up again, and the whole picture rose slowly. The people and objects in the picture gradually became smaller, and Schelling saw the appearance of the building where the room was.
The outside of the building looked like the most common small warehouse in the Muggle world, but that couldn't fool Schelling.This is definitely a wizard's handiwork. The entire warehouse exudes invisible magic power fluctuations, which may be due to the cast of the Muggle Repelling Curse.
Judging from the angle of sunlight and shadows, the building is located in the north of England.Coupled with the clues deduced from other nearby buildings and scenery, the scope has been narrowed down to about a dozen places.
That's enough.Give these clues to Scollinger, and the rest is up to the Aurors.
It was enough for me to be able to do this. Not only did I earn the favors of Devrill and Slughorn, but also allowed Scollinger to receive the credit. At the same time, I also measured Trelawney's strength, which can be said to kill four birds with one stone!
Schelling was pleased with the divination prowess Trelawney had shown.
Then he made a second divination request, not Meredith, but Madame Chabini!
Divination is not omnipotent, if Meredith's current location is protected by the Fidelity Curse, then even if she knows the location, it will be useless, and she will only be unable to enter Shafik's ancestral house like last time.
The reason for choosing the object of divination is Mrs. Sabiny, precisely because Schelling suspected that she was the female member who appeared that day in Shadow of the Dragon!
Professor Trelawney first rested for a while. She hadn't fully adapted to her complete bloodline talent, so the divination just now consumed a lot of her mind.
She entered the state of meditation again, with the previous experience, her third eye was activated faster, and the lines on her forehead were much clearer than last time.
The picture in the illusion shows two long wooden boxes in the shape of coffins. Many mysterious ancient runic charms are carved on the wooden boxes. According to Schelling's deduction, they are used to isolate the influence of the outside world, so as to better preserve the contents of the coffin.
Then, the screen flashed and shifted to an altar—the same altar also placed the previous two coffins, but this time there was a faint wave of magic power that Schelling was very familiar with.
This is soul magic!Xie Lin had an extremely bad premonition in his heart, what exactly did they want to do?
Soon, two figures walked onto the altar, one was Mrs. Chabini, and the other, Schelling, had never met, but he still recognized her—it was Mrs. Selwyn!
Mrs. Chapiny and Mrs. Selwyn were whispering something there, and because the picture was a little blurry, and Trelawney's illusion magic was not strong enough to project the sound, Schelling couldn't guess what they were talking about.
Wait a moment?This character relationship diagram seems a bit messy... The Selwyn family is obviously a pure-blood family faction, and Mr. Selwyn is even a Death Eater!Although there were some conflicts between the Selwyn family and the Malfoy family, in the final analysis it was a matter of benefit distribution, and there was no conflict of ideas between the two parties.
What the hell is Mrs. Selwyn and the Shadow of the Dragon getting together now?
Is this the biggest secret of the Selwyn family?Or, this is actually Mrs. Selwyn's personal secret, which the family doesn't know about?
At this moment, Professor Trelawney let out a soft cry, and the whole screen shook, and cracks like spider webs appeared, and finally shattered into pieces, turning into bits of starlight and dissipating.
Professor Trelawney seemed to have cast too much spells and had already passed out from exhaustion.
Xie Lin thought for a while, left a note, turned and left.
Related works have been updated: About Verda Griffith
(End of this chapter)
