Chapter 509 A Fighter Against the Dark Lord, a Well-Deserved Hero! (2 in 1 4000 Words)
12 Grimmauld Place, London
Following a burst of space interlacing, several figures appeared out of thin air in the living room of Blake's old house.
"It's so close. We might not be able to come back." Cold sweat broke out on Ivan's forehead. In the few seconds before leaving, Li Huo Phoenix was completely out of his control. If the teleportation had been delayed any longer, The consequences will be disastrous.
"It's good to know. You'd better not use this kind of dangerous black magic in the future," Sirius reminded earnestly.
Sirius feels that this time the magic is out of control, it may not be a good thing, because it will probably teach Ivan a profound lesson.
Ivan nodded solemnly.
However, it was different from what Sirius imagined. While Ivan noticed the danger of Li Huo, he also saw Li Huo's unparalleled destructive ability.
Thousands of Yin corpses were used as fuel in the cave to expand the fiery phoenix to dozens of meters long. It was the most powerful magic he had ever seen!
Apart from using his body shape to escape, Ivan couldn't find any way to suppress it.
If he can master this power and apply it in actual combat, then his strength can be improved to a new level. It is not impossible to rely on the characteristics of Li Huo to fight against more than a dozen wizards at once!
Of course, under normal circumstances, Li Huo wouldn't be able to expand to this point without enough nutrients.
Before he mastered the counter-spell that could suppress Li Huo, Ivan did not have the courage to use Li Huo on a large scale. Otherwise, he would die with his opponent if he rashly released this magic spell.
While Ivan was thinking, rapid footsteps came from the back room, followed by a familiar voice.
"Sirius, Ivan, Professor Lupin, great, you are finally back!" Harry stepped forward and hugged Sirius excitedly.
He spent a long time alone in Blake's old house in fear, and after hearing the noise, he ran out as fast as he could.
Harry couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that everyone was fine, but Lupine who transformed into a werewolf really shocked him.
Although Harry knew that Professor Lupine was a werewolf wizard, this was the first time he saw Lupine transformed.
Lupine also realized that there was something wrong with him maintaining his transformed form. He looked at his two paws uncomfortably and asked awkwardly.
"Ivan, how should I change back now?"
Ivan scratched his head. How could he know that since he was not a werewolf? However, thinking that it was easy for Fulen and the others to switch back and forth between the two forms, he asked Lupine to think about the feeling of changing back to his original form every full moon night.
Lu Ping tried it. When this thought came to his mind, his body began to react. The two pointed claws slowly retracted, the tall body quickly shrank, and the ferocious head also transformed into its original form. appearance.
"This is simply amazing!" Lupine couldn't help but sigh. He realized that he could transform back into a werewolf as long as he thought about it, so he looked at Ivan eagerly and asked again.
"What was that bottle of potion you gave me before? Wolfsbane potion? I remember that the wolfsbane potion on the market should not have this effect."
"That's the improved wolfsbane potion I just developed not long ago! It allows the werewolf wizard who drinks it to have the ability to freely control the transformation within fifty days, and to stay awake at all times during the transformation state." Ivan said. While explaining, he suddenly remembered something and continued to speak.
"Oh, by the way, one thing I forgot to mention is that after drinking the potion, the werewolf wizard will no longer have the ability to infect others during this period of time!"
"This means that not only can I transform at will now, but I don't have to worry about accidentally hurting others?" Lu Ping stepped forward and grabbed Ivan's wrist, and asked excitedly.
"Yes! But the medicine is only effective for fifty days. After this time, you have to take the medicine again." Ivan nodded firmly.
"Enough, enough!" Lupine murmured to himself, suddenly took a few steps back, and bowed deeply to Ivan.
"Professor Luping, what are you doing?" Ivan did not expect Luping's approach at all, and quickly backed down.
"Thank you for your help to us werewolf wizards. If this potion can be popularized, I think the werewolves in the magical world will definitely be a lot better off." Lu Ping looked at Ivan with emotion.
If he remembered correctly, Ivan developed the wolfsbane potion the year before last, and it was not long before he came up with an improved wolfsbane potion. This shows that Ivan is very concerned about changing the living conditions of werewolf wizards like them.
The reason why wizards in the magical world hate werewolves so much is that, in addition to losing their minds when they transform every month, the more important thing is the infection ability of werewolves.
The improved wolfsbane potion directly solved these two problems. If there was no time limit, Ivan could have declared that the werewolf group had been cured.
Sirius on the side was also happy about this, and even jokingly said that if this potion became popular one day, werewolves might be praised by a group of fanatics.
Because there will definitely be a large number of power-seeking wizards eager to transform themselves into werewolves.
Harry didn't quite understand the importance of improved wolfsbane potion to Lupine, but that didn't stop him from being happy along with him.
However, Ivan poured cold water on them. "Professor Luping, this new improved potion requires a lot of precious materials to make, and I'm afraid it won't be popularized in a short time!"
Ivan would not sell the improved wolfsbane potion just because of a few words from Lupin.
He knew very well that although there were kind and lawful werewolves like Fulen and Lupine in the group of werewolf wizards, there were more werewolf wizards who had degenerated into dark wizards and relied on robbery, murder, and petty theft to survive.
You must know that in the two wizard wars in the original time and space, most of the werewolf wizards stood firmly on the side of the Dark Lord, and all they did was spread fear and create chaos. Ivan did not want to increase the strength of his enemies.
Hearing what Ivan said, Lupine was a little disappointed, but he didn't pay too much attention. It was normal for the new potion to not be popularized in a short period of time.
The speed with which Ivan improved the potion also made Lupine full of confidence. Maybe Ivan would be able to develop a potion that could completely cure werewolves in the near future.
"We will talk about the Wolfsbane potion when we have time. The most important thing now is to settle Regulus first!" Ivan changed the subject and focused on Regulus who was being carried by Sirius.
Lupine immediately looked at Sirius apologetically. He had just forgotten about the wolfsbane potion.
Of course Sirius didn't care. He asked Ivan and Lupine to wait here for a while, went to the basement alone and took out a coffin, and then led them to a wasteland by apparating.
There are many tombs set up here. It seems that they have not been taken care of for a long time. The tombstones are full of soil and fallen leaves. However, it can be vaguely seen from the inscriptions on them that the people buried here are members of the Black family.
Ivan turned his head and happened to see a familiar name written on a tombstone next to him - Phineas Nigellus Black.
He had seen his portrait on the portrait in the principal's office. He was the most unpopular principal in the history of Hogwarts. According to rumors, all the students and teachers in the school hated him very much at that time.
However, the members of the Black family obviously did not think so, so the column of honors written under the inscription read - Phineas Nigellus Black, the most outstanding headmaster of Hogwarts, recipient of the Order of Merlin, First Class He has made outstanding contributions to the magical world during his lifetime.
Sirius did not look at these tombstones, nor did he pay homage to anyone here. Instead, he just took a shovel and dug in an open space.
Lupine and Ivan stepped forward to help, but he refused.
Sirius worked like this from night to the morning of the next day. He dug a deep hole with a shovel without using any magic, and engraved Regulus's name on a blank tombstone, and then followed the usual routine. Begin writing in Regulus' honor.
Sirius wrote a lot, even small things like receiving praise from the Head of Slytherin when Regulus was in his fourth year.
This was nothing compared to the great achievements of the Black members on other tombstones, but Sirius didn't care about these rules.
Rather than writing about the honors Regulus had received, he was slowly recalling some of the past events of this younger brother.
When he couldn't write anymore, Sirius solemnly stated in the last line that Regulus was a fighter against the Dark Lord and a well-deserved hero!
After writing the inscription, Sirius stood up and turned his gaze to Regulus, who was placed aside, released from his petrified state and then tightly tied up.
A person who is transformed into an Inferi will have his soul trapped in his body, so there is only one way to free Regulus.
"Incendio! (Fire blazing)" After hesitating for a long time, Sirius gritted his teeth and waved his wand.
A tongue of flame spurted out from the tip of the wand and hit Regulus directly, turning him into a ball of fire.
Regulus, who had been transformed into an Inferi, struggled hard, opening his mouth wide and letting out bursts of painful wails, but to no avail.
Kreacher knelt down weakly on the ground, covered his face and cried bitterly, muttering Regulus's name over and over again.
Regulus's struggle in the firelight became smaller and smaller, and his wailing gradually disappeared. Vaguely, Ivan saw that Regulus' painful and ferocious face seemed to have become much calmer.
Sirius stood still, his back turned to everyone, making it difficult to see his current expression.
When the flames gradually extinguished, Sirius stepped forward and began to collect Regulus' remains, and put many of the relics unearthed from the house into the coffin, and finally buried them in the ground.
After dealing with all this, the depressed Sirius took them back to the Black family mansion.
Everyone present had stayed up all night, especially Ivan and Sirius, who had also dived into the cold bottom of the lake to retrieve corpses. Their physical strength and magic power were almost exhausted. The ability to survive until now was all due to their own willpower.
So after returning to the mansion and eating a few pieces of bread to satisfy their hunger, no one was in the mood to talk much. They all went back to the room to rest and fell asleep until the next morning.
While eating breakfast, Harry curiously asked about the experience of collecting corpses yesterday. Sirius didn't want to worry Harry, so he just talked about their experience in dealing with the Inferi in an understatement.
Even if he ignored the most thrilling scenes, the battle with the Inferi in the dark lake still made Harry feel frightened. He doubted whether he would be able to come back alive if he had insisted on following them.
Lupine made some additions at the right time, and told what happened when he and Dobby were attacked by the Inferi while waiting on the lake shore.
Probably because Sirius hit Regulus with the Petrification Curse at the bottom of the lake, which triggered some restrictions, they were also attacked by the Inferi on the shore.
When the fire spell was greatly weakened, he and Dobby could only alternately fluoresce to disperse the Inferi. When the magic power was almost consumed, he remembered the bottle of magic potion that Ivan gave him.
"After I drank the potion, I tried to turn into a werewolf and defeated the Inferi blocking the road, and then I followed the firelight to find you." Lu Ping roughly recounted what happened.
"So, Ivan summoned a flaming phoenix in that cave and burned thousands of Inferi to death?" After hearing everything, Harry was most interested in this. What a powerful magical ability it must be. make it happen.
"That's the Fire Curse. I accidentally saw it in the book "Decryption of Advanced Black Magic" when I was looking for information on Horcruxes. I thought this special magic might be effective on Voldemort's Horcruxes, so I wrote it down." Ivan He explained something to prevent Lu Ping from misunderstanding.
Then Ivan looked at Harry again and said in warning. "Lihuo is a very dangerous black magic that can easily get out of control. Even some powerful wizards cannot fully control it. If we had not transmitted it in time this time, we would have been burned to death by the out-of-control Lihuo! "
Harry nodded hesitantly.
Ivan didn't say anything more. For a little wizard like Harry, who was thirteen or fourteen years old and didn't like to learn much, it was almost impossible to take the initiative to learn magic in the library, so he was very relieved.
After a hurried breakfast, Ivan said hello to Sirius, then entered the Black family's library, dug out the "Decryption of Advanced Black Magic" again, and successfully found the book corresponding to the Fire Curse. Counter curse!
This is also the reason why Li Huo is not listed as an unforgivable curse, because as long as he knows the counter-curse, the wizard can use magic to bind Li Huo and destroy it!
However, this kind of counter-curse is only effective against a small area of fierce fire. If a huge fierce fire phoenix is formed in the cave, even the counter-curse will be completely useless.
Thanks to the book friend Futu Xuan for the 500 starting coins, the Wanshiwuwujiangyuan, and the little boss Abao for the 100 starting coins.