Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

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A mysterious atmosphere enveloped its surroundings, with an evil and ominous atmosphere, and those who stared at it quickly shifted their sights.

"This ancient castle has been cast with a lot of protection spells. Only wizards can find it here. It is a very famous magical landscape in Dijon." Yelena said, looking at the fortress in the distance, "I have seen it before, and there are thousands of them. The transparent owl ghost is watching you quietly, eerie and uncomfortable, as if something bad is about to happen."

"Well, go and have a look!" Ivan said, he could clearly feel the magic power and the unknown power in it.

The three of them Apparate once and appear at the castle gate.

The gate was closed tightly and blocked by huge stones, but an irregular opening was rudely opened on the wall next to it for people to enter and exit.

Following this entrance, three uninvited visitors entered the castle.

Inside is a huge square hall. There is nothing but all kinds of garbage piled up on the ground. For hundreds of years, this fortress has been visited by countless visitors with various purposes. The valuable things inside have long been It was completely looted.

"This place is even more desolate than I imagined..." Sirius said, looking around.

"It's like this from top to bottom. There's nothing left. No one knows what the original place looks like. Those greedy guys have already robbed this castle and left nothing behind." Elena then explained. , "They don't care if the things inside are cursed or not, as long as they are valuable, the remaining valuable items will be moved to the museum in Paris by the Ministry of Magic."

In Europe, there are many abandoned castles like this, standing quietly in the fields as witnesses of past history.

If the owner of the castle is rich, they may be preserved as a cultural relic, or repurposed as a private resort or hotel or something.

If no one takes care of them, they will just be abandoned like this. The Muggle government spends part of the funds to maintain the castles every year to ensure that they don't collapse, but the Ministry of Magic has no such statement.

Owning a castle is a lot of burden, and it's no exception for a declining family of pure-blood wizards.

It is said that in addition to that huge manor, the Malfoy family also has such an ancient castle in a certain area of ​​England, which is managed by dozens of house elves, but there are only a few pure-blood wizard families like them.

"Although there is nothing here, the place is very big. It is really difficult to find the owl monster hiding here. We don't have enough manpower to search the entire fort at the same time..." Elena said.

"I believe it will come out and come out to find us." Ivan continued to ask, "Where are those owl ghosts?"

"Oh, you'll see them, they don't usually appear near the door." Elena shook her wand, the end of the wand emitted a stronger light, and said in a low voice, "Those owl ghosts are definitely not as simple as they seem, How do you say, they are like humans, they follow the trajectory of humans, it's strange, isn't it? Well, if you want to go to the dungeon, I remember that you should go this way, there is a passage leading to the basement in the kitchen, I was Just look up from afar."

They went straight through the doorway, instead of going up the stairs, but walked to the basement in a narrow passage on the first floor.

This feeling reminded Ivan of a maze, never sure what was waiting for them behind the closed doors.

When they came to the kitchen through the dark corridor, Ivan finally saw those owls.

Their bodies are transparent milky white, just like what Elena said, they didn't fly in the air or search for food like normal owls, but stood quietly on the ground, just like people.

They are moving according to the habits and trajectories in front of them, and there is a faint sadness on their tiny faces.

After Ivan, Sirius, and Elena entered the kitchen, the owls did not approach, but just watched the three of them quietly.

This feeling is really uncomfortable.

"Look, that's why I don't like this place. I've seen ghosts, but I haven't seen one like this." Irina whispered, afraid to startle them. "We'd better be careful, I can feel it, They can understand us."

"It's really strange. I've never seen such things before. They have magic fluctuations, which seem to be a kind of soul magic. This reminds me of something I saw in an ancient magic book..." Ai Wen explain.

He thought for a while, and walked towards the owl closest to him, ready to test the magic he saw.

"What's the matter with this child?" Elena looked at Ivan's back and said to Sirius, "It's too strange, he seems to know a lot of magic. Speaking of which, what are you going to do with such a child?" A little wizard running around..."

Sirius didn't speak, didn't respond to the question, and didn't even look at Elena.

In his eyes, this woman is definitely not a qualified Auror.

Although her personal strength is not bad and she looks very beautiful, her personality is too casual and she has no brains. She doesn't understand what it means to be cautious. She said too many things along the way and told Ai Wen almost everything.

What should be said, what should not be said, everything has been said!

If they were dark wizards like Death Eaters, this woman would probably be in bad luck!

She probably forgot all about what Moody had told her. Did she become an Auror? !

Listening to Elena's chattering words, Sirius had the urge to gag her mouth with something...

Chapter 745 The Soul of the Past

Ivan walked up to an owl ghost, who didn't dodge, just looked at him quietly with his head tilted, his translucent body was in a trance under the light of the wand, and he seemed curious about what the boy wanted to do.

"A cursed soul?!" Ivan looked at the owl, recalling the magic he saw in that ancient book.

Although he doesn't know the power of demons or curses, since the opponent is a soul, then this soul-type magic called "Unending Shadow" may work, although the magic itself is not used to make ghosts appear real. shape, but it does work.

He lowered the wand, and the end kept spewing out a milky white liquid, shimmering, and drawing a magic symbol on the ground.

The runes were very complicated, Ivan moved very slowly and drew very carefully, Sirius and Elena watched behind him.

At Elena's insistence, Sirius couldn't help but start talking to her, from Alvin to Auror's skills.

In the end, it was mainly Sirius who told her some points to pay attention to and investigative skills, and Irina listened very carefully.

Even if it wasn't close enough, the guy really looked like he wanted to be a good Auror.

She still has great admiration for Sirius, as can be seen from collecting all the reports about Sirius, she is an admirer of Sirius.

When communicating with Aiwen before, Elena could say a lot about Sirius...

A few minutes later, Ivan finished drawing the magic rune and raised his head to signal the owl ghost to come over.

The other party stared at him, as if studying what Ai Wen had drawn, and then it flew over with fluttering wings and landed in the middle of the runes.

"Reveal!" Ivan said, tapping the ground lightly with his wand.

Starting from the place where the end of his wand touched, along the lines on the ground, the blue light quickly spread around.

Soon, the owl ghost was shrouded in light blue light.

"Success!" Ivan said, standing up, Sirius, Elena, and other ghosts were all looking at him.

"What worked?" Elena asked suspiciously, "What did you do? What kind of magic is this?"

In the next second, a figure appeared in the blue light.

The wings and claws of the owl ghost are getting longer and longer, gradually turning into human hands and feet. The shoulders burst out at the same time, and the body gradually grows up, turning into a human appearance, just like the terrible owl man, but very Soon, the feathers on its face disappeared, and it returned to its normal appearance.

This is a middle-aged man in his 50s with deep wrinkles on his face.

He was wearing a servant's costume, which was an ancient style hundreds of years ago. He was once a member of this castle.

Although he is still a translucent ghost, he has completely turned into a human being. He looked at his hands in disbelief, then quickly raised his head to look at Ivan, and at the thirteen or fourteen-year-old wizard in front of him. ...

"What did you do to it?" Elena said in amazement, "How did this owl turn into a human?!"

"Okay, don't look at me like that, it's just a very simple magic." Ivan said, not wanting to explain the complicated magic principle to her.

"Simple magic?!" Elena said, rubbing her eyes, "To be honest, I don't know how you did it, it's just incredible, turning an owl's soul into a human. Oh my god, I should have gone to Hogwarts to go to school, what does that school usually teach, can even a 13-year-old child use this level of magic?!"

"That's it, it's simple magic!" said Sirius. "Now be quiet!"

He also looked at Ivan curiously, with obvious shock on his face.But he didn't speak. Sirius seemed to think it was a shame to exclaim the same way as Elena next to him, a woman with only a face and breasts and no brains.

In the past two years, he had seen too many miracles in this boy, and this was just an insignificant one.

In the kitchen, the other owls also left their original positions and quickly gathered around them.

"Can you talk now?" Ivan asked, looking at the ghost who was still in shock and hadn't recovered.

"Ah..." It made a strange sound, it seemed to be unskilled because it hadn't spoken for a long time, stuttering, the sound sounded strange and uncomfortable, with a strong panting sound, "Small, be careful , it's all around you, don't trust anyone."

"Who are you talking about? What happened to this castle?"

"Devil, devil, devil!" It stared at Ivan's back, and shouted in a strange voice, the voice continued to rise, "Huh, that devil is among you, you can't escape, you have already Be its prey, and your soul will become like ours, never to rest."

Aiwen turned his head quickly, there was no one else except Sirius and Elena, who is that demon? !

"I don't understand what you mean, can you make it clearer, I..."

Ai Wen stopped. After the man said this, his face was grim, and he suddenly found a cry of pain.

He seemed to be under the Cruciatus Curse, and his whole body was twitching, struggling and shaking non-stop.

"It doesn't look right!" Elena paled and hid behind Sirius, her wand firmly pointed at him.

But she doesn't know what spell to cast on a ghost, it's beyond her powers.

"Alvin, be careful!" Sirius said.

Without his reminding, seeing the other party's appearance, Ivan also took a step back subconsciously, feeling something bad.

"Tell me, who is that demon?" he shouted. "I am here to help you, and I will end this curse, and I will help you to rest in peace."

"I, I can't say that name, we once swore an oath!" It gasped violently, and roared intermittently, "I want to obey its orders, I must... Ah, you shouldn't disturb the soul of the past, you This is the end of your life, stranger."

It suddenly rushed towards Ivan, but after leaving the magic rune on the ground, it quickly turned back into an owl.

It passed through Ivan's body, and it was cold and uncomfortable, as if it was ice.

In the kitchen, dozens of owls also gathered around and looked at them eeriely.

It was the first time that Ivan realized that owls were so terrifying...

Chapter 746 The Devil's Altar

"Get out of the way!" Sirius waved his wand impatiently to disperse the owl ghost in front of him.

These guys didn't have any offensive power, they just looked at Aiwen and the others darkly, with pain and hatred shining in their eyes.

If possible, they would rush over like the ghost just now and tear the three of them apart...

But they can't do anything. Speaking of which, these ghosts are also a group of poor people. They are just ordinary servants of this castle. Most of them are not even wizards. They were poisoned to death by that witch. After death, the soul is imprisoned here again.

Until now, they are still controlled by demons, unable to act according to their own wishes, and unable to rest in peace.

Aiwen couldn't help thinking, who is that demon whose name the ghosts can't even mention?

Why can't they mention that name, what about the oath that was sworn?

Also, what did it mean by what it just said? Are demons watching them nearby? !

Things became more and more mysterious, and the castle was full of evil atmosphere. In the darkness that could not be dispelled, the unknown force gradually approached...

"We'd better get out of here!" said Sirius, with more and more owls appearing around him.

Ivan woke up suddenly, his magic disturbed the souls of the past, making them restless.

"Well, let's go and take a look at the dungeon." He nodded and said.

Ivan didn't want to wait until all the owls in the castle gathered here, that would be too bad.

Although they have little offensive power, it is uncomfortable to think that they are actually human souls.

Through the corridor covered with cobwebs, they found the entrance to the dungeon in the wine cellar at the innermost side of the kitchen.

To be honest, this is probably the most uncomfortable place in the entire castle. In front of the narrow arch is the rusty iron fence that fell on the ground. It seemed to be pushed to the ground by some monster, twisted and deformed. It was full of dark brown bloodstains.

After stepping over the iron bars, Ivan walked into the crypt, which was divided into small rooms for prisoners.

But now, this place is no longer a dungeon, but a huge family tomb.

What appeared in front of their eyes were many coffins carved from stone, scattered everywhere.

The patterns carved on the coffin are very simple, and the workmanship is also very rough, indicating that the status of the burial person is not high.

They went on, into a boxy hall.

The surrounding walls are sunken inward, and a space for placing things has been carved out. On top of it are human skeletons. They are wrapped in rags, straw mats and the like and are still there. Most of them have been corroded and weathered. , or completely eaten by rats, insects and other creatures, but there are still a few mummified corpses.

Under the light of the wand, Ivan saw a skeleton facing him, with two dark holes in the eyes.

In such a terrifying atmosphere, even the air became thin and turbid.

"This was originally the dungeon of the fortress, where prisoners of war were held, but later many people died in this place, and they all died overnight. Because there was no place to bury them, they were all left here." Elena said in a very low voice. The voice said, for fear of disturbing something, "I haven't been here before, but people who have seen it here didn't find anything. Except for dead people and bones, there is nothing in this place."

"Where is the altar that the woman said?" Sirius looked around.

"Maybe it's hidden somewhere. Since it's the root of the curse, it can't be so obvious." Aiwen said, "First look for anything strange, I always have a bad feeling, It seems like someone is spying on us..."

He looked at the stone coffin in front of him. There was no nameplate on it, so he couldn't tell who the person buried in it was.

Ever since he entered the castle, Ivan felt that something was hiding in the dark and watching them, but he found nothing.

Apart from the three of them, there was obviously no one else around.

"It's all good, it's better to hurry up, those damned owl ghosts are following up again!" Sirius looked back.

The three of them checked separately and didn't stray too far.

They are all in the same stone room, and if there is any accident, they can be rescued immediately with a shout.

A few minutes later, Ivan was next to a coffin. He found a square opening, which went straight down, and only a very thick rope fell on it. He stretched out his wand and cast a spell. The end of the wand Send out a ball of light.