Chapter 808 Temple
( ) The lights in Dumbledore's office all turned on the moment they entered, and the portraits of the previous principals were snoring gently in the picture frame. While Harry was still looking at the layout of the office, Dumbledore had already directed the Pensieve to fly to the desk.
"Harry, the memory I want to show you tonight was hard-won. I think it is the most important of all the memories I have collected." Dumbledore said from the shelf of a gorgeous castle where he placed many memories. Go up and take out a small crystal bottle.
Harry noticed that the contents of the bottle were not easy to pour into the pensieve, and seemed to be a bit condensed. He couldn't help but wonder, could memories also deteriorate?
Dumbledore pointed at the pensieve and made an inviting gesture to Harry. Harry approached the stone basin, leaned down obediently, and immersed his face in memories. He once again experienced the familiar feeling of falling in the void. Feel.
"I'd love to know where you got the information from. You're better informed than most of the professors at Hogwarts." This was Horace Slughorn, who had a much younger voice.
Six or seven boys sat around him, all fifteen or sixteen years old. Harry recognized Riddle immediately. He had the most handsome face. He looked the most relaxed and smiled slightly and said, "Professor, is it true that Professor Mellors is going to retire?"
"Oh Tom, I certainly can't tell you directly whether I know it or not." Slughorn's hand picked out a piece of pineapple preserves from a box. He looked refreshed with a wide-eyed smile and a head of thick, lustrous yellow hair.
"And thank you for the pineapple you brought. This is indeed my favorite, but how did you know?" Slughorn narrowed his eyes and asked in confusion, leaning forward.
Riddle raised one corner of his mouth and smiled gently, his eyes narrowed slightly: "Intuition."
When the party was over, the boys all stood up and filed out. Riddle sat still in his seat and deliberately fell behind. He obviously wanted to stay alone in the room with Slughorn.
Slughorn glanced at the sand funnel and asked, "I think we still have some time, Tom. Is there anything else?"
"There is one thing...Professor." Riddle frowned slightly and endured Horace constantly calling him a name that he thought was too ordinary. Then he slowly approached his Potions professor and asked in a low voice, "One night I I read some information about some kind of rare magic in the library area, and I thought you might be able to point it out to me." Riddle approached Slughorn, "If I remember correctly, that thing is called... a Horcrux. "
Slughorn's originally kind face suddenly became very stern, and he shouted at Riddle sternly: "What did you say?! I have never heard of such a thing, and even if I knew it, I wouldn't tell you. Give it to me right now Leave! Don’t mention this to me again from now on!”
Slughorn's arm suddenly waved, and the room suddenly twisted and filled with black fog. Harry could neither see Slughorn nor Riddle. The memory ended here, and his head moved from the pensieve. Lift up.
"You're confused." Dumbledore looked at Harry, "I would be surprised if you didn't think so."
"I don't understand what happened just now." Harry wiped the water drops from his face in confusion.
"This may be the most important memory I have collected, but it is also a lie. This memory has been tampered with by its owner, our old friend Professor Slughorn." Dumbledore explained , "So Veritaserum and Legilimency cannot be counted as real evidence, because it may have been tampered with... Otherwise, it would have been easy when you were sued by Fudge last year..."
"Why would he change his memory?"
"Why, yes, why? I guess he is ashamed of this. He thinks that he created Voldemort." Dumbledore looked at Harry, "I asked you to get close to Slughorn, so you do the same Here it is, and then I want to ask you to persuade him to hand over this memory."
Dumbledore brushed his hand from the pensieve and looked down at the slowly rotating silver memory in the basin. The thing in the pensieve that was neither solid nor liquid slipped from his hand: "This memory is everything. Without him we would be blind.”
Later, on the first weekend after returning to school, Keeper Filch stood at the entrance of Hogwarts Castle, carefully checking the permission forms signed by the guardians in the hands of wizards to visit Hogsmeade.
Although the snow around the path from Hogwarts to Hogsmeade has melted, it does not mean that the sun is shining brightly and it is warm and comfortable. The melting snow makes the weather even colder and damper. Dark clouds were lowering in the sky, but despite this, the wizards of Hogwarts happily took advantage of this rare opportunity to go out.
On this muddy and slippery path, Luna jumped lightly along with her weird singing. Ginny and a slightly dressed up Hermione walked side by side behind her, talking and laughing, and several beautiful little girls The witch became a sight on the road.
Hogsmeade on Saturday was very lively because of the visit of these little wizards. Honeydukes was crowded with Hogwarts students. At this time, the little wizards who were aroused by their appetite were attracted by the dazzling array of products and turned their eyes away from the beautiful witches.
Rows of shelves are filled with the most delicious and juicy candies. Last time Ambrosio Froome, the owner of Honeydukes shop, went to Hogwarts to attend Professor Slughorn's dinner. He carried a variety of candies in a basket with a traceless stretching spell cast on him. He gave these candies to the students attending the dinner. As he had expected, most of the wizards who received his candies were Some of them have become his loyal customers.
However, the ice cream that boss Ambrosio thought would be popular among young wizards was given a cold reception. Except for Luna Lovegood, the famous crazy girl from Ravenclaw who just came in, no one wanted to eat it in such a cold place. Go out and eat ice cream when the weather is cool.
Diagon Alley at this time.
Different from the bustling scene of people coming and going in the past, many Aurors stood in front of a rectangular house, but the central part of the roof was composed of a huge circular dome and a semi-circular dome at the front and rear. While maintaining order, a large group of reporters crowded outside the door of this room. Many foreign media who had heard the news about the British wizarding world came all the way from abroad. They crowded and pointed their photographic equipment at The center of the road opened and maintained by the Aurors - although this is a new thing for the wizarding world in the UK, it does not prevent it from attracting the attention of the wizarding world in other countries. As long as there are many more successful manifestations in the future, things will be waiting for you. Fermentation, in this forced and healthy development situation, the effect will be much better than Luna's previous deception method of performing the double act herself.
The specially selected good-looking male and female Aurors stood at the door and gently but helplessly persuaded: "Gentlemen and ladies, please be quiet, don't crowd, and be careful."
Today is the inauguration ceremony of the Ravenclaw Temple donated by the Harris family in Diagon Alley. Celebrities from all walks of life in the wizarding world, even many local pure-blood families who are secretly fighting with the Harris family, are invited to attend, at least tomorrow. On the surface, they still maintain enough decency and due etiquette towards each other.
On such an occasion, as a nominal Ravenclaw elect, Allen stood in the temple hall where the traceless telescopic spell was cast, UU Reading www.uukanshu. net is waiting for the inauguration ceremony of the Ravenclaw Temple to begin.
Those wizards who had received Ravenclaw's "divine grace" dressed up in costumes and took the initiative to contact various media to tell the story of how they had received Ravenclaw's grace - as the first group of people after Ravenclaw's apparition. The beneficiaries, after Allen privately provided additional money to this group of people who had been staying at St. Mungo's Hospital for a long time without work due to illness, in addition to Katie Bell will also complete their studies in school, these people were originally due to their own The unfortunate wizards without a stable source of income all agreed to stay in this new temple and become a part of it, and they would later conduct sermons in Diagon Alley.
The walls of this temple were graced with arched windows, hung with blue and bronze silks, and the ceiling was a dome studded with stars, as were stars on a dark blue carpet below. Many ravens are flying and perching under the stars in the dome, adding a lot of mystery to the temple. The surrounding walls are all made up of these huge bookshelves. If it weren't for the one in the depths, it would be even bigger and more solemn than the Ravenclaw common room. The full-length white marble statue of Rowena Ravenclaw and its dragon-shaped relief base, as well as the pulpit and benches in front of it, the Ravenclaw graduates even mistakenly thought that they had returned to Hogwarts.
Knowing that even Hogwarts' Ravenclaw house ghost Lady Gray is floating near a statue of her mother not only adds to the feeling, but also seems to prove the authenticity of what this event represents.