Chapter 2839

There is a kind of velvet growing on the rock wall, I don't know what happened to Van Helsing, he suddenly became nervous about these velvet, and sniffed it carefully.

For five full minutes, Van Helsing stood there looking at it, his face getting more and more serious, and then he turned to look at me and asked me to collect some soil to go back.

I found that the soil here was shiny, as if there was some kind of mineral in it, and then we walked a little further, and we could already see Rice's castle.

I shivered involuntarily, the castle was surrounded by elms, and bats were flying around, and when they hung upside down from the branches, they looked like pods.

"You remember those ground bees?" Van Helsing asked me. "That's the problem."

According to Van Helsing's guess, the ground bee collected the honey produced by the flowers of these velvet grass, and then the dog ate the ground bee. Ground bees only collect honey from fixed flowers. In order to make up for the lack of food, they also eat meat like wasps. The season for them to lay eggs and dig holes is usually around October, which happens to be the season when this velvet weed blooms.

"The velvet nectar makes them hungry, high, non-toxic to dogs, and puts them in a good mood," Van Helsing said.

I think this grass is to dogs what catnip is to cats, and Van Helsing doesn't think my analogy is too apt, but it makes sense.

We walked a little further until we saw a low wall, and Van Helsing took out a bunch of thin-looking biscuits from a small black bag, wrapped them in a handkerchief and crumbled them, and then he took out something that looked like putty , Stir the crushed biscuit into the middle of this stuff.

I was puzzled by this, and Van Helsing told me that if he was going to ask the wolves questions, he had to feed them first.

This bit of cake is obviously not enough to bite their teeth, but it will stimulate their appetite like an aperitif.

At this point all the wolves started howling, just like last night when the moon was just rising, and I think they were trying to figure out where to get a supper.

When Van Helsing was almost ready, I climbed up the low wall first, but the tentacles were painful like needles.

I let go of my hands quickly, and saw that my hands were covered with blood, and then I looked up, and I didn't know who it was. The low wall was covered with broken glass, it was really disgusting.

He bandaged my wound, and then we walked around the low wall for a while, and finally found a collapsed place, which can be entered without climbing over the wall.

"Before we do anything, I want to tell you something, drawn from the knowledge and experience of the ancients and those who have devoted themselves to the study of vampires. They do not die, whether staked in their hearts or poisoned arrows, They will all come back to life, and the best way is fire, but the temperature of the fire must be high enough so that their ashes will not be resurrected by magic."

I remembered the hometown legend told by the Romanian first officer in the captain's diary, and nodded cautiously.

"That thing, I don't know what it is, it seems to be able to produce flames to destroy them, please listen, young man, when facing the unknown, soul and wisdom are our weapons." Van Helsing said.

Then we entered the old manor empty-handed.

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There is a Bakar Tower on the west side of the North Ford Swamp. According to legend, there was a wizard named Bakar in the Middle Ages. He was known as the "breathing dragon", so the fortification at the entrance of the swamp was named after him.

After driving away the poachers, this became the meeting place for the werewolf capture team. When Pomona came, he saw Barnaby standing behind his uncle and looking at the map with Snape.

No werewolves appeared in the Shrieking Shack last night, but the search team received news that the "Blackbacks" appeared in the ruins in the northeast of the swamp, and a villager who was picking mandrakes was almost attacked by them.

Once seen in swampy waterways, it was the swamps that attacked Muggle ships, and they would attack any people or animals that trespassed in their territory.

Strictly speaking the place where the ruins of the fort currently stand is already a Muggle community, but hardly any Muggles go there anymore.

"It's lunch." Pomona said to everyone, and put the picnic basket with the space expansion spell on the dining table.

She put out a load of goodies, enough to feed the squad and a growing teenager.

Cecil and Snape also stopped looking at the map for a moment, but instead of eating with them, Snape asked Pomona to follow him.

In fact, the swamp with running water is not smelly, and there is a lot of vegetation in it. In June, the swamp is full of flowers, and the cattle and sheep raised by the villagers graze leisurely by the river. The scenery is very beautiful.

"What's this?" He took a plate of dessert from the picnic basket.

"Kefir jelly," said Pomona. "I made it with plum brandy."

He put the plate of dessert aside, pulled out the char-grilled steak sandwich and the cherry pie, and munched like he had been hungry for a long time.

Seeing that his appetite was so good, Pomona also ate with him, looking at the beautiful scenery in front of him.

Because Cole was making such a fuss, Dumbledore had to come forward and admit that it wasn't him who hurt Barnaby.

Perhaps because he had been suppressed for so long feeling wronged, Cole even said in front of the teachers that if he wanted to teach Barnaby a lesson, he wouldn't be sneaky and would do it in front of everyone.

After he finished speaking, he glanced at Snape meaningfully. Although Cole hadn't entered school when their generation graduated, the incident was so big back then, and Lily and James are still heroes now. When the adults missed those past events, the children also heard it. They were not ignorant of the events at that time.

Cole wouldn't take responsibility for something he didn't do anyway.

In the end Barnaby didn't show up either, but his uncle did. Because Cole uses non-maleficium, he does not need to bear any legal responsibility, but his kidnapping of his classmates needs to be investigated, unless Ben Cooper testifies that he was not kidnapped.

Cooper's testimony plus Cole's "mentality is not normal", and Cole can at most get a warning from the school, so let's forget about it.

The word maleficium often appears in the files of the Inquisition and in the books of wizard historians. It is not black magic (dark art) in the traditional sense, such as the portrait curse cast on Phoebe, which is harmful magic. , although this curse is reversible.

Maleficium refers to malice. Many black magics have the purpose of harming. Over time, people use black magic to distinguish good from evil. People who practice black magic are evil.

The gut-ejaculation curse can be used for medical treatment, and it can also have a terrifying visual effect. The former is good intentions, while the latter is malicious. In the Latin dictionary, the word Maleficium can be understood as a crime, and it must bear the consequences.

There was a time when the Muggle world was affected by drought and frost, which caused famine and plague. Originally, Germany was not part of the Hogwarts enrollment range, but Durmstrang only recruited pure-blood families, resulting in many World born little wizards were not properly trained, resulting in many tragedies.

So for a while, the teachers of Hogwarts would go to the Muggle world to find qualified children and bring them to the magic school. There was a witch among them, she had extraordinary talents, but her hometown suffered a drought, see The wizard who saw the disaster victims had good intentions and rained them a lot, and then took the girl away. The girl was sorted into Ravenclaw.

Later, when the girl grew up, she was still benevolent. She hoped that her power could reduce suffering for the world and even end it.

She was immersed in this hallucination. That period was the worst period of witchcraft persecution. Among the historical materials that can be found in 1582, only a storm fell in Hesse in August of that year, which destroyed the grain and vines. , followed by a series of fire incidents, 10 women were burned to death.

When Albus was young, he also had the ambition to reorganize the world, so he became friends with Grindelwald who had the same dream, but this is actually a kind of poison. What kind of person to be is not his ability, but his choice. Albus gave up that dream and chose to be a different person from Grindelwald.

A person with only joy and no pain is problematic, the pain that accompanies hunger reminds us to eat.

Along with the satisfaction brought by eating, if there is no pain, then people will die from eating too much.

The reason why wolves represent greed is because both dogs and wolves lack restraint for food. When the stomach is full, the brain center does not have this feeling, and it can vomit in light, and die in severe cases.

Pain tells us to stop. Doing things that violate our conscience will also bring pain. If we don’t feel pain and only pursue pleasure, we don’t know how terrible things people can do.

Paul, who caused pain to these children, is still laughing, and the clown is still laughing when he explodes everywhere and hurts so many people.

Pain will also remind people not to touch things that have caused him pain before, so that people can avoid danger.

"I'm done eating, and I'll be ready to go later," Snape said.

Pomona glanced at his half-eaten sandwich, and before he had time to say anything, he and Cecil continued to study the map.

"I don't even eat dessert." Pomona pouted and ate the plate of custard he put aside.

She puts regular plum wine, not the laugh-out-loud brandy that Albus brought back from abroad.

It's really "once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of well ropes".