#763 - Tomb Raider (asking for monthly ticket recommendation ticket)

However, after Hogg left a trail of greasy footprints, Harry noticed a pair of equally lively objects had suddenly appeared beside him.

They were a magical broom and another magical broom, hopping and skipping to the footprints left by Hogg, diligently cleaning the stains on the carpet, even pausing to catch their breath like humans after a bit of sweeping.

Honestly, if they weren't shaped like inanimate objects, Harry would have thought they were two real people.

And such objects with a life of their own were not uncommon in the castle, magical cloths that knew to wipe furniture on their own, grandfather clocks that greeted people as they passed.

He even found a group of teapots and teacups gathered together, chatting and gossiping, stopping abruptly and pretending to stand properly like employees caught slacking when they noticed Harry approaching.

These magical objects all around made Harry feel the magic, and Anduin's power, more genuinely; he had seen self-operating magical devices before, but they didn't possess the living aura of the objects in the castle.

For a moment, Harry felt that the castle beneath his feet was more than just a building, but a miniature city.

"Hogg, why does everything here seem to be alive?" Harry couldn't help his curiosity, and uncharacteristically approached Hogg, "Like that tea set, they even slack off."

"Ha, what's so surprising about that? You'll get used to it after you've been here for a while. The master likes to do strange research when he has nothing else to do, and these are all his experiments, to put it bluntly."

Hogg chuckled, then couldn't help but mutter, "But remember to stay away from those talking objects, they have a lot of tricks up their sleeves. Besides knowing how to be lazy, they also like to play pranks. Like that tea set just now, if someone unfamiliar uses them to drink tea, they might get their nose bitten. Don't ask me how I know."

After grumbling for a while, Hogg slapped open a large door, then gestured towards it with his lips, "Well, here's your room. How is it? Nice environment, right?"

Hearing this, Harry walked into the room and looked around, his eyes lighting up. This room was more than just a nice environment, it could be described as luxurious.

The room was not only very large, but also equipped with a separate washroom, bathroom, and cloakroom. The brand-new desk, sofa, bed, and wardrobe were obviously made of high-quality solid wood, and adorned with all kinds of alchemical gadgets and decorations.

On one side of the room was a huge floor-to-ceiling window, and the balcony outside had a set of exquisite tables and chairs for resting. Standing on the balcony, one could easily see the entire Godric's Hollow.

"Phew!" Harry took a deep breath on the balcony. Everything he saw made him feel like he was dreaming. A year ago, he was still living in a cramped room in a stairwell, but now he had a dream room.

When he turned around, he saw Hogg opening the cloakroom in the room and waving at him non-stop, "Harry, I ordered a few dozen sets of clothes for you based on the measurements from your end-of-term physical examination. The styles may be a bit old, but just wear them for now. We'll go buy new ones when we get to France."

Seeing the dazzling array of clothes in the independent cloakroom, Harry couldn't help but swallow. "Isn't this a bit too much? I still have a lot of my own clothes."

"Are you embarrassed to keep wearing those rags of yours?" Hogg rolled his eyes at him, "Remember, we lack everything but money! You have to learn to enjoy life like a gentleman, learn from your Great-Uncle Hogg!"

From that day on, Harry officially became a member of Anduin's family, and in the following days, he gradually integrated into this big family.

At the same time, the other family members in the castle were also very interesting, such as Anduin's secretary, the somewhat wicked vampire Xatia, the castle's housekeeper, the good-tempered Kiki, as well as the lively Thunderbird Thor, and the Phoenix Irene, who was so greedy that she ate herself into a ball.

Anduin was usually very busy, always disappearing without a trace, so Harry always hung out with these people.

However, after spending a long time with them, Harry always felt that his life had a strange style.

Like Kiki, her greatest joy was cooking, and every day, regardless of whether it was mealtime or not, she would make a pile of delicacies and fill the table. At this time, Thor and Irene would very actively run over to eat their fill, and now they would occasionally pull Harry along.

As a result, after being fed eight meals a day, Harry felt like he had swollen up in just a few days. He finally understood why Hogg always had snacks in his mouth, the atmosphere was just too good to stop.

After spending a long time with Xatia, he discovered that this vampire had a strange aesthetic and liked to share it with others. Harry was always dragged by her to be a model, testing her new works.

But those were all women's clothes, hey!

Under Xatia's iron fist, Harry had no room for resistance, which made him wonder if joining this family was a good thing.

In addition to being bullied by Xatia, Harry's most important task every day was training, and training under Hogg's supervision, with even higher intensity.

Anyway, during the first week of living in the castle, Harry's own feeling was that it was painful but happy.

On the other side, Anduin did not spend these days working busily at Silver Flash Trading Company as others imagined, nor did he carry out research work, but instead visited Bathilda Bagshot, a historian of magic who also lived in Godric's Hollow.

This Mrs. Bagshot was very old, now over a hundred years old, and she was very welcoming to Anduin's visit.

After all, in this era, there were few people in the wizarding world who did not know Anduin, and Bagshot especially loved the novel magic of Silver Flash Trading Company.

When Anduin proposed to consult historical materials about the Deathly Hallows, she did not refuse. As a former historian, Bagshot was open to popularizing and imparting knowledge to others.

But after browsing these days, Anduin did not gain much. Most of Bagshot's information was records of wizards who had possessed, or were suspected of possessing, the Deathly Hallows.

As for the research records on the Deathly Hallows themselves, there were very few. After all, in these hundreds of years, no one has been able to truly collect the Deathly Hallows.

The Invisibility Cloak has been circulating in the Potter family, and the Resurrection Stone has been kept in the Gaunt family for a long time, and eventually even the people of this family no longer remember that they owned this Hallow.

Only the Elder Wand, which has more records, has basically been circulating among various brave and fierce wizards, changing a new owner almost every ten years.

Finding that he could not collect more information from the materials, Anduin could only pin his hopes on the specific research of the real objects.

To this end, he borrowed the Invisibility Cloak from Harry early on, and at the same time, he would take a section of time to return to Hogwarts every day, researching the three Deathly Hallows with Dumbledore in the headmaster's office.

Gathering the three Deathly Hallows may be the dream of countless wizard scholars, but Anduin did it without much effort.

After conducting a comprehensive test on the three Hallows, Anduin finally confirmed that there was indeed a connection between them, and that the Deathly Hallows did have the possibility of combining.

But no matter how he tried next, Anduin and Dumbledore could not achieve this goal. The biggest problem that plagued them was that there was no correct way to connect the Hallows together.

The Deathly Hallows were like three parts that clearly knew they could be combined, but could not be combined together anyway.

When they were separated, they were completely independent magical items, but when they were put together, they still performed their respective functions, with no signs of mutual integration at all.

Although Anduin tried various methods, whether it was directly piecing them together with physical means, or using magic to string them together, there was no reaction.

After dozens or hundreds of attempts, Anduin and Dumbledore had to give up. They were now basically certain that the combination of the Deathly Hallows must require a unique method.

That might be some kind of special combination method, or it might require some kind of ritual, or even some special pre-conditions or groundwork.

Anyway, before finding this method, wanting to peek at the real Deathly Hallows was a pipe dream.

Finding that he could not get more information from the materials and experiments, Anduin could only focus his attention on the tomb of Ignotus Peverell.

Perhaps only this ancestor of the Peverell family holds the true secret about the Deathly Hallows, and perhaps there will be some clues hidden in his tomb.

But in order to find out this secret, is it necessary to dig up his grave?

After all, this Peverell wizard has nothing to do with him, and the oriental concept in his subconscious makes Anduin unable to do it.

After hesitating for a few days, Anduin decided to use the Translocation Charm to sneak underground first, to find out the details of the tomb first. If he determined that it was just an ordinary coffin, he would completely give up the idea.

Therefore, late one night a week after the summer vacation, Anduin quietly came to the cemetery in Godric's Hollow.

"The tomb has been weathered beyond recognition, and the name on it is blurred. Only the mark of the Deathly Hallows on the tombstone can be barely identified, but the whole is still cleaned very cleanly. It seems that someone still takes care of it often," Anduin murmured, stroking Ignotus's tombstone.

After confirming the location, Anduin did not waste time, and decisively cast the Translocation Charm, allowing his body to slowly sink into the soil in front of the tomb.

Then he groped underground towards Ignotus's coffin. Underground, the five senses would be greatly limited. Fortunately, Anduin's magical perception was very keen, and he approached the target in a short time.

But when Anduin saw everything in the tomb clearly, he couldn't help but be shocked.

There is a problem with Ignotus's tomb!

In Anduin's magical vision, although the coffin had become decayed due to time, at least he could still see what it originally looked like.

But what was shocking was that the coffin was actually empty! Moreover, not only was there no corpse in the coffin, but there were not even any burial objects.

"No!" After further observation, Anduin also had a preliminary judgment in his mind, "There are traces of corpses and relics left in the coffin. Obviously, there were corpses inside when it was buried that year. That is to say, this was not an empty coffin at the beginning."

"And judging from the underground environment around the coffin, the layering of the soil also shows an inconsistent image. That is to say... a long time ago, Ignotus's tomb was dug open once!"

Someone actually robbed Ignotus's tomb before him!

And even stole all the corpses and burial objects inside!

Coming to this conclusion made Anduin feel a little incredible, but after thinking about it carefully, he found that this did not seem to be an unimaginable thing.

The fact that Ignotus Peverell was the earliest holder of the Deathly Hallows is not a secret in the eyes of many scholars.

Therefore, some people will definitely guess that his tomb may hide secrets about the Deathly Hallows.

But the thought of even tomb raiding being preempted by others made Anduin feel angry. He was still struggling with whether or not to do such a harmful thing, but now it was good, someone had already done it for him.

"But who is this tomb raider?"

Thinking of this, Anduin once again seriously looked at the surroundings of the coffin. He suspected that Ignotus's tomb might really hide some secrets.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why the tomb raider wanted to loot everything inside. After so many years, even the coffin was rotten beyond recognition, and Ignotus's corpse must have turned into a pile of bones. Normal people would not be interested in it at all.

After searching carefully, Anduin really found a lot of clues. Judging from the soil around the coffin, the time when the tomb raider dug open this tomb should not exceed a hundred years, that is to say, the other party should have done it in a few decades.

As soon as this conclusion was drawn, a name immediately flashed in Anduin's mind - Gellert Grindelwald!

From his previous conversations with Dumbledore, he knew that this dark wizard had lived in Godric's Hollow for a considerable period of time.

And during that time, the other party was also looking for information related to the Deathly Hallows, and even Bathilda Bagshot was the other party's great-aunt, presumably he also knew about this tomb belonging to Ignotus at that time.

"It turns around and turns to Grindelwald again. With the other party's style, he can really do such a thing as tomb raiding. It is said that the Elder Wand was also stolen from Gregorovitch by him. It seems that he still has to find a breakthrough for the Deathly Hallows from him."

Thinking of this, Anduin couldn't help but sigh in his heart, unexpectedly, you, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would also be a tomb raider!