Chapter 141 "The Headless Quilinus"
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Yun Yin Shen
Chapter 141 "The Headless Quilinus"
This is really a reasonable and unexpected answer.
——No matter what happens at Hogwarts this semester, it will always have something to do with this little wizard!
"But didn't McGuffin Albert ask for leave? Or Professor Quirrell personally... Could it be..."
"That's right...Professor Quirrell wanted to steal the Sorcerer's Stone. If it wasn't for our savior Harry, and this...how should I say it?...and this little wizard who is 'evil' (Chinese) to the extreme, I am afraid he would have succeeded..."
As Snape was speaking, the crystal ball turned red... like blood.
"This means..." Snape stared at this thing, Nan Nan said.
"It is indeed [Blood Curse], that's right!" Madam Pomfrey lifted it up, allowing Professor McGonagall, Dumbledore, and Snape to see a few wisps of blood floating inside.
"What is this thing?" asked Professor McGonagall.
"Crystal pearls made from the tears of female mermans... It is specially used to distinguish various [curses], especially [blood curses]... When the victim is transformed by the curse of the black wizard, we cannot tell whether it is an animal or a victim..."
Snape opened his mouth and explained that it would be difficult to know what this kind of rare magic material is unless it is a wizard who has researched it.
"This material is extremely rare and rare...it is difficult to shape...and if it is not stored properly, it will turn into foam and disappear with air"
"Furthermore, the female merman's tears are also an important auxiliary material in the preparation of some extremely special potions... Madam Pomfrey, do you have any other materials in stock? I can exchange them with you... For example, how about a piece of sharp teeth of a deep-sea magewea shark? Not only will this allow you to go to the deep sea to research and extract potions without being harmed by those unknown and dangerous magical animals in the sea, but it can also cure most of the injuries caused by eating potions by mistake... This will be of great help to your research on magical diseases!"
Snape stared at the potion ingredients with some fanaticism.
"Cough-cough-cough—"
Dumbledore had to cough a few times and stop Snape before the topic could continue around [Blood Curse].
"Okay! Let's talk about this later! Madam Pomfrey..." Snape was very different from his usual persona (calm and indifferent), and now he looked very eager, and it could even be said that he was 'urgent' as he desperately wanted to get Merman Tears.
This made Professor McGonagall and Madam Pomfrey look sideways.
"Where did you say it?... Oh, yes! Professor Quirrell wanted to steal the Sorcerer's Stone tonight, but was discovered by our savior Harry... If it weren't for this evil little wizard, I am afraid that the famous Harry Potter would have 'difficult' to survive tonight..."
Snape collected his emotions and resumed his targeted sarcasm towards Harry, which made the other two female professors breathe a sigh of relief.
——This is our Professor Snape, right?
"Where is... Professor Quirrell?" said Professor McGonagall.She was very angry, although she still didn't know what happened... Why did a professor perform such a vicious and complicated black witchcraft on a little wizard in the first grade, but Quilinus Quirrell asked her to ask her to ask McGuffin for leave, which made Professor McGonagall feel extra guilty and angry.
Unexpectedly, after this question came out, Snape and Professor Dumbledore were both dumbfounded. They glanced at each other and were speechless.
"I think you should see for yourself what happened... I guess you won't believe it just by telling it..." Dumbledore said to Professor McGonagall.
He got up from his chair, went to the fireplace, and took a pinch of Floo powder from a little silver box above it.
When he was about to throw it out, he suddenly remembered something, Dumbledore smiled, and took out his wand from his pocket.
"Fox!" he called.
Phoenix let out a soft cry.It flew through the air and shook off a long golden feather, which floated right into Dumbledore's hands.
He held the wand, pointed to the feather on the other hand, and cast a spell, which lifted the spell that had been cast to seal the fireplace just now.
After seeing this scene, Snape stared at Phoenix with a very unfriendly expression.
When it was all over, Dumbledore threw the shiny powder into the flames.
"Access to Room [-] Underground—"
The emerald green flame roared up and swept him away.
"This is……"
"Go there and have a look...you will know..."
Snape explained, then walked forward with a cold face, walked straight into the flames, threw the Floo powder, and disappeared.
There was no other way, the two had no choice but to follow them and use Floo powder to come——
Basement Level - Snape's Level [-].
When Professor McGonagall was the last to walk out of the flames, the emerald green flame at the door in the corridor at the back turned into a purple fire again.
And the medicine bottles that were originally placed on the long table in this room are already two empty...
(Professor McGonagall knows the details of Snape's level setting)
Before thinking about it, Dumbledore led them to the last room of secrets.
(Professor McGuffin here doesn't know what the hell is there either).
Once inside, what catches people's attention is that there are undoubtedly only two things [Eris' mirror] and [Headless Quilinus] golden statue, or in other words, there are only these two things that they can see in the empty room.
After several people came in front of them, Professor McGonagall discovered that the clothes of the headless golden statue were exactly the same as Quirrell's robe.
She gasped, "This, this...Professor Dumbledore...Did you do this?..."
Snape sneered, "Didn't I say it above? This was done by some 'evil door' (Chinese) to the extreme little wizard..."
It was Professor McGonagall who quoted this term first, so she naturally knew who Professor Snape was referring to... But this still made her a little unbelievable...
"How is this possible, how is this possible?..."
"Quelinus Quirrell thinks the same way...he has been acting pitifully and stammeringly for half a year, and he is about to successfully steal the Sorcerer's Stone tonight...and because he got into trouble with that little lunatic McGuffin...Look at what he has become now, it's not too late, after he cures his [Blood Curse], just kick this guy away..." Snape said directly to Dumbledore.
"If we don't do anything, I suspect that one day we will wake up and find that Hogwarts Castle will be blown up by some unknown spell..."
He repeated his views and concerns all along...
Although Professor McGonagall once thought that McGuffin Albert was a bit "evil door", but she thought it was caused by an oriental curse "evil door" (Chinese) that she didn't understand... rather than this kind of groundless speculation... a little wizard was kicked out of school based on empty guesses.
When Snape said more and more outrageous words, Madam Pomfrey's face was very ugly. She was tapping on the golden body of 'Quirrell' with her wand.
The tip of the wand glowed with a bright white light, which flickered on and off.
"This is the magical effect of [Tamble into Gold], Dumbledore, are you setting up a mechanism here to protect Nico Flamel's Philosopher's Stone?...wait for you three...Professors, do you all know about this?"
Then she stared angrily at the remaining three people, "I can't believe you put such a dangerous thing in the basement of the school, not to mention these dangerous magic mechanisms... The Sorcerer's Stone alone may attract too many dark wizards who want to sneak into Hogwarts Castle. If a little wizard encounters these people, how should they protect themselves?
What's more, the Philosopher's Stone itself is an extremely dangerous magic item. Even if it is used improperly, it can create dangerous items, deadly unknown potions, it is not only able to turn stones into gold and create elixirs of life!
What's more, it's just [Taman Turning into Gold]... Look at its lethality (Madame Pomfrey points to Quirrell's headless statue)... If what is placed here is not Quilinus Quirrell, but a golden statue transformed by McGuffin or Harry... I have no way to turn the golden statue back into a human form"
"And what happened to the [Blood Curse] on McGuffin? Professor Quirrell stole the Philosopher's Stone. I didn't know that I needed a student from a lower grade..."
"...Where did Professor Quirrell's head go?...Even if a little wizard could really use the [Sorcerer's Stone] to cast [Tasha into Gold], he wouldn't be able to explode a professor's head, right?"
Pomfrey stared at several people aggressively and kept asking questions.
Professor McGonagall also realized that it was because McGuffin Albert had affected her brain just now... What happened continuously this semester made a wrong logic appear in her mind, as if once there was a little thing that McGuffin participated in, even if it was absurd, it was logical and could happen.
After thinking about it calmly, although she knew a little more inside information than Bobby Pomfredo, there were still many illogical things in the whole thing, and some clues leaked out of it made her feel that Dumbledore and Snape seemed to have a lot of things to hide from her.
She also began to stare suspiciously at the old bee and the bat monster.
"Actually, we don't know much... The important thing now is to solve the [Blood Curse] on McGuffin in this way. First, he needs to be restored to his original shape. Because I learned from Harry that this amazing little wizard has managed to get the [Blood Curse] solution from Quirrell... As long as we restore him to his original shape, we will naturally know what happened in this room? We can also remove the [Blood Curse] on him."
"However, one of the reasons why you are here now is...can you discuss... how to solve this thing..."
Dumbledore pointed to the golden statue of [Decapitated Quilinus].
Several people were speechless for a moment.
In the end, Professor McGonagall, the vice-principal, pointed out their concerns.
"In general we face problems in several areas..."
"One is, should we tell the Ministry of Magic about Professor Quirrell's incident, and I'm afraid we can't hide this incident...
If you tell the Ministry of Magic... whether this golden statue 'remain' is also handed over to the bureaucrats of the Ministry of Magic as evidence... Once it is handed over, the Ministry of Magic will definitely not return it to Hogwarts...
And there's bound to be rumors bubbling all over the wizarding world of Europe starting from that leaky bureaucracy...that Hogwarts has the Sorcerer's Stone, and started making gold in abundance...
This will cause the goblins in Gringotts to exert pressure on Hogwarts School, and it will also benefit the Ministry of Magic's penetration of Hogwarts School. According to Fauci's position, he will definitely not let go of this opportunity..."
"Secondly, should Professor Quirrell tell the Ministry of Magic about casting a blood curse on a little wizard, so that not only Hogwarts School will face a serious investigation, leading to a crisis...and McGuffin Albert may also be insulted and discriminatory by those bureaucrats..."
"So we have to tell the Ministry of Magic that Quirrell wants to steal the Sorcerer's Stone, but we can't tell anyone that McGuffin is under the [blood curse], at least after the school lifts the curse on this poor little wizard... Otherwise, it will delay the little guy's treatment..."
"But... did this little guy really get the solution to the [Blood Curse] from Quirrell? ... How did Quirrell know the [Blood Curse] and the solution method? As far as I know, the [Blood Curse] is only spread by word of mouth among some pure-blood magic families in Eastern Europe and some wizards in East Asia... It is difficult to see that this vicious curse has gradually died out decades ago...The last time I heard it was 11 years ago. Mysterious people used it to curse and punish disobedient wizards... Could it be..."
Professor McGonagall tapped the Mirror of Erised in front of her with her wand, and analyzed slowly. When it came to the mysterious man, she immediately shut up.
Professor McGonagall remembered Dumbledore's various defenses against Quirrell when setting up the checkpoint, and when it was related to setting up the underground checkpoint on Halloween...Professor McGuffin understood a little... No wonder Dumbledore and Snape were secretive when they spoke, so she hesitated for a while before stopping.
Those words made Madam Pomfrey look at her with complicated eyes, and the other two nodded slightly, agreeing with what Professor McGonagall said.
"Then... as I said before, the most important thing now is to restore the McGuffin to its original state, and learn from him the detailed method of breaking the [Blood Curse]... Although I learned from Harry that the three potion ingredients are the key to breaking the [Blood Curse], after all, there is still a lack of solution and the method..."
Dumbledore said quietly, "According to my experience of trying to break the [Blood Curse] on a lady decades ago, these three materials sound no problem...indeed, they are the key elements to break the [Blood Curse]...they are [Unicorn Blood and Horn], [Phoenix Tears and Eggshell], [Original Blood and Snake Poison]..."
"According to my research decades ago...Using the blood and horns of unicorns can temporarily suppress the [Blood Curse] and restore the McGuffin to its original form..."
"Oh!" Snape laughed contemptuously.
Madam Pomfrey knew what that meant!
——Although the last one doesn't know what it is, the first two materials can be said to be able to remove most of the [curse] [toxin], and can even temporarily prolong life and heal [fatal damage]... Moreover, these materials are so rare that it is impossible to obtain them, and because of their special nature, it is difficult to preserve them, so Snape laughed out loud, because according to this statement, the little guy McGuffin Albert can already be declared dead.
However, immediately... I don't know what Snape thought of, his eyes lit up immediately, and that frozen and indifferent face burst open.
——It's not like the usual him at all.
(End of this chapter)
This is really a reasonable and unexpected answer.
——No matter what happens at Hogwarts this semester, it will always have something to do with this little wizard!
"But didn't McGuffin Albert ask for leave? Or Professor Quirrell personally... Could it be..."
"That's right...Professor Quirrell wanted to steal the Sorcerer's Stone. If it wasn't for our savior Harry, and this...how should I say it?...and this little wizard who is 'evil' (Chinese) to the extreme, I am afraid he would have succeeded..."
As Snape was speaking, the crystal ball turned red... like blood.
"This means..." Snape stared at this thing, Nan Nan said.
"It is indeed [Blood Curse], that's right!" Madam Pomfrey lifted it up, allowing Professor McGonagall, Dumbledore, and Snape to see a few wisps of blood floating inside.
"What is this thing?" asked Professor McGonagall.
"Crystal pearls made from the tears of female mermans... It is specially used to distinguish various [curses], especially [blood curses]... When the victim is transformed by the curse of the black wizard, we cannot tell whether it is an animal or a victim..."
Snape opened his mouth and explained that it would be difficult to know what this kind of rare magic material is unless it is a wizard who has researched it.
"This material is extremely rare and rare...it is difficult to shape...and if it is not stored properly, it will turn into foam and disappear with air"
"Furthermore, the female merman's tears are also an important auxiliary material in the preparation of some extremely special potions... Madam Pomfrey, do you have any other materials in stock? I can exchange them with you... For example, how about a piece of sharp teeth of a deep-sea magewea shark? Not only will this allow you to go to the deep sea to research and extract potions without being harmed by those unknown and dangerous magical animals in the sea, but it can also cure most of the injuries caused by eating potions by mistake... This will be of great help to your research on magical diseases!"
Snape stared at the potion ingredients with some fanaticism.
"Cough-cough-cough—"
Dumbledore had to cough a few times and stop Snape before the topic could continue around [Blood Curse].
"Okay! Let's talk about this later! Madam Pomfrey..." Snape was very different from his usual persona (calm and indifferent), and now he looked very eager, and it could even be said that he was 'urgent' as he desperately wanted to get Merman Tears.
This made Professor McGonagall and Madam Pomfrey look sideways.
"Where did you say it?... Oh, yes! Professor Quirrell wanted to steal the Sorcerer's Stone tonight, but was discovered by our savior Harry... If it weren't for this evil little wizard, I am afraid that the famous Harry Potter would have 'difficult' to survive tonight..."
Snape collected his emotions and resumed his targeted sarcasm towards Harry, which made the other two female professors breathe a sigh of relief.
——This is our Professor Snape, right?
"Where is... Professor Quirrell?" said Professor McGonagall.She was very angry, although she still didn't know what happened... Why did a professor perform such a vicious and complicated black witchcraft on a little wizard in the first grade, but Quilinus Quirrell asked her to ask her to ask McGuffin for leave, which made Professor McGonagall feel extra guilty and angry.
Unexpectedly, after this question came out, Snape and Professor Dumbledore were both dumbfounded. They glanced at each other and were speechless.
"I think you should see for yourself what happened... I guess you won't believe it just by telling it..." Dumbledore said to Professor McGonagall.
He got up from his chair, went to the fireplace, and took a pinch of Floo powder from a little silver box above it.
When he was about to throw it out, he suddenly remembered something, Dumbledore smiled, and took out his wand from his pocket.
"Fox!" he called.
Phoenix let out a soft cry.It flew through the air and shook off a long golden feather, which floated right into Dumbledore's hands.
He held the wand, pointed to the feather on the other hand, and cast a spell, which lifted the spell that had been cast to seal the fireplace just now.
After seeing this scene, Snape stared at Phoenix with a very unfriendly expression.
When it was all over, Dumbledore threw the shiny powder into the flames.
"Access to Room [-] Underground—"
The emerald green flame roared up and swept him away.
"This is……"
"Go there and have a look...you will know..."
Snape explained, then walked forward with a cold face, walked straight into the flames, threw the Floo powder, and disappeared.
There was no other way, the two had no choice but to follow them and use Floo powder to come——
Basement Level - Snape's Level [-].
When Professor McGonagall was the last to walk out of the flames, the emerald green flame at the door in the corridor at the back turned into a purple fire again.
And the medicine bottles that were originally placed on the long table in this room are already two empty...
(Professor McGonagall knows the details of Snape's level setting)
Before thinking about it, Dumbledore led them to the last room of secrets.
(Professor McGuffin here doesn't know what the hell is there either).
Once inside, what catches people's attention is that there are undoubtedly only two things [Eris' mirror] and [Headless Quilinus] golden statue, or in other words, there are only these two things that they can see in the empty room.
After several people came in front of them, Professor McGonagall discovered that the clothes of the headless golden statue were exactly the same as Quirrell's robe.
She gasped, "This, this...Professor Dumbledore...Did you do this?..."
Snape sneered, "Didn't I say it above? This was done by some 'evil door' (Chinese) to the extreme little wizard..."
It was Professor McGonagall who quoted this term first, so she naturally knew who Professor Snape was referring to... But this still made her a little unbelievable...
"How is this possible, how is this possible?..."
"Quelinus Quirrell thinks the same way...he has been acting pitifully and stammeringly for half a year, and he is about to successfully steal the Sorcerer's Stone tonight...and because he got into trouble with that little lunatic McGuffin...Look at what he has become now, it's not too late, after he cures his [Blood Curse], just kick this guy away..." Snape said directly to Dumbledore.
"If we don't do anything, I suspect that one day we will wake up and find that Hogwarts Castle will be blown up by some unknown spell..."
He repeated his views and concerns all along...
Although Professor McGonagall once thought that McGuffin Albert was a bit "evil door", but she thought it was caused by an oriental curse "evil door" (Chinese) that she didn't understand... rather than this kind of groundless speculation... a little wizard was kicked out of school based on empty guesses.
When Snape said more and more outrageous words, Madam Pomfrey's face was very ugly. She was tapping on the golden body of 'Quirrell' with her wand.
The tip of the wand glowed with a bright white light, which flickered on and off.
"This is the magical effect of [Tamble into Gold], Dumbledore, are you setting up a mechanism here to protect Nico Flamel's Philosopher's Stone?...wait for you three...Professors, do you all know about this?"
Then she stared angrily at the remaining three people, "I can't believe you put such a dangerous thing in the basement of the school, not to mention these dangerous magic mechanisms... The Sorcerer's Stone alone may attract too many dark wizards who want to sneak into Hogwarts Castle. If a little wizard encounters these people, how should they protect themselves?
What's more, the Philosopher's Stone itself is an extremely dangerous magic item. Even if it is used improperly, it can create dangerous items, deadly unknown potions, it is not only able to turn stones into gold and create elixirs of life!
What's more, it's just [Taman Turning into Gold]... Look at its lethality (Madame Pomfrey points to Quirrell's headless statue)... If what is placed here is not Quilinus Quirrell, but a golden statue transformed by McGuffin or Harry... I have no way to turn the golden statue back into a human form"
"And what happened to the [Blood Curse] on McGuffin? Professor Quirrell stole the Philosopher's Stone. I didn't know that I needed a student from a lower grade..."
"...Where did Professor Quirrell's head go?...Even if a little wizard could really use the [Sorcerer's Stone] to cast [Tasha into Gold], he wouldn't be able to explode a professor's head, right?"
Pomfrey stared at several people aggressively and kept asking questions.
Professor McGonagall also realized that it was because McGuffin Albert had affected her brain just now... What happened continuously this semester made a wrong logic appear in her mind, as if once there was a little thing that McGuffin participated in, even if it was absurd, it was logical and could happen.
After thinking about it calmly, although she knew a little more inside information than Bobby Pomfredo, there were still many illogical things in the whole thing, and some clues leaked out of it made her feel that Dumbledore and Snape seemed to have a lot of things to hide from her.
She also began to stare suspiciously at the old bee and the bat monster.
"Actually, we don't know much... The important thing now is to solve the [Blood Curse] on McGuffin in this way. First, he needs to be restored to his original shape. Because I learned from Harry that this amazing little wizard has managed to get the [Blood Curse] solution from Quirrell... As long as we restore him to his original shape, we will naturally know what happened in this room? We can also remove the [Blood Curse] on him."
"However, one of the reasons why you are here now is...can you discuss... how to solve this thing..."
Dumbledore pointed to the golden statue of [Decapitated Quilinus].
Several people were speechless for a moment.
In the end, Professor McGonagall, the vice-principal, pointed out their concerns.
"In general we face problems in several areas..."
"One is, should we tell the Ministry of Magic about Professor Quirrell's incident, and I'm afraid we can't hide this incident...
If you tell the Ministry of Magic... whether this golden statue 'remain' is also handed over to the bureaucrats of the Ministry of Magic as evidence... Once it is handed over, the Ministry of Magic will definitely not return it to Hogwarts...
And there's bound to be rumors bubbling all over the wizarding world of Europe starting from that leaky bureaucracy...that Hogwarts has the Sorcerer's Stone, and started making gold in abundance...
This will cause the goblins in Gringotts to exert pressure on Hogwarts School, and it will also benefit the Ministry of Magic's penetration of Hogwarts School. According to Fauci's position, he will definitely not let go of this opportunity..."
"Secondly, should Professor Quirrell tell the Ministry of Magic about casting a blood curse on a little wizard, so that not only Hogwarts School will face a serious investigation, leading to a crisis...and McGuffin Albert may also be insulted and discriminatory by those bureaucrats..."
"So we have to tell the Ministry of Magic that Quirrell wants to steal the Sorcerer's Stone, but we can't tell anyone that McGuffin is under the [blood curse], at least after the school lifts the curse on this poor little wizard... Otherwise, it will delay the little guy's treatment..."
"But... did this little guy really get the solution to the [Blood Curse] from Quirrell? ... How did Quirrell know the [Blood Curse] and the solution method? As far as I know, the [Blood Curse] is only spread by word of mouth among some pure-blood magic families in Eastern Europe and some wizards in East Asia... It is difficult to see that this vicious curse has gradually died out decades ago...The last time I heard it was 11 years ago. Mysterious people used it to curse and punish disobedient wizards... Could it be..."
Professor McGonagall tapped the Mirror of Erised in front of her with her wand, and analyzed slowly. When it came to the mysterious man, she immediately shut up.
Professor McGonagall remembered Dumbledore's various defenses against Quirrell when setting up the checkpoint, and when it was related to setting up the underground checkpoint on Halloween...Professor McGuffin understood a little... No wonder Dumbledore and Snape were secretive when they spoke, so she hesitated for a while before stopping.
Those words made Madam Pomfrey look at her with complicated eyes, and the other two nodded slightly, agreeing with what Professor McGonagall said.
"Then... as I said before, the most important thing now is to restore the McGuffin to its original state, and learn from him the detailed method of breaking the [Blood Curse]... Although I learned from Harry that the three potion ingredients are the key to breaking the [Blood Curse], after all, there is still a lack of solution and the method..."
Dumbledore said quietly, "According to my experience of trying to break the [Blood Curse] on a lady decades ago, these three materials sound no problem...indeed, they are the key elements to break the [Blood Curse]...they are [Unicorn Blood and Horn], [Phoenix Tears and Eggshell], [Original Blood and Snake Poison]..."
"According to my research decades ago...Using the blood and horns of unicorns can temporarily suppress the [Blood Curse] and restore the McGuffin to its original form..."
"Oh!" Snape laughed contemptuously.
Madam Pomfrey knew what that meant!
——Although the last one doesn't know what it is, the first two materials can be said to be able to remove most of the [curse] [toxin], and can even temporarily prolong life and heal [fatal damage]... Moreover, these materials are so rare that it is impossible to obtain them, and because of their special nature, it is difficult to preserve them, so Snape laughed out loud, because according to this statement, the little guy McGuffin Albert can already be declared dead.
However, immediately... I don't know what Snape thought of, his eyes lit up immediately, and that frozen and indifferent face burst open.
——It's not like the usual him at all.
(End of this chapter)
