A broken Hogwarts

Chapter 99 Snake in the Cage

The morning air is dry and cold, and the sun slowly rises from the junction of the sky and the earth, reflecting the mountains and the earth into a dim indigo color. The rolling black forest stretches to the horizon on the other side, invisible

The end.

Owen looked back at the endless forest, and he felt the urge to light a fire. He thought a grand bonfire that burned the entire forest would be very beautiful. He suddenly shook his head in a funny way, while using psychological methods to evaluate himself.

Mental state, while using the cleaning spell to keep one's appearance neat and clean.

Natasha looked around unconsciously with a face full of black ash. Her already messy red hair was rolled up by the fire and stuck randomly on her head. The cloak on her body was also in tatters and covered with dust.

Seeing that Natasha didn't care about her image at all, Owen couldn't help but recite a cleaning spell to her, and repaired her cloak with a repairing spell. Looking at the brand-new girl in front of him, he felt that he was satisfied with it.

Quite a few, and continued walking towards the gathering place ahead.

Natasha looked at him blankly for a while, and then said carelessly: "I'm so hungry, I hope there's something to eat out front." She fumbled in her pocket, and finally found out only two gold Galleons and

Five silver coins.

"Damn intelligence dealer, I will kill him when I get back!" She said through gritted teeth, mourning the bag of gold Galleons that was stolen from her... Although it was also snatched by her on the way to escape, it was her.

The biggest sum of money I have ever seen in my life.

Listening to Natasha complaining like a little girl in her sexy husky voice, Owen had a smile on his face. He felt that this woman was really cute and naive sometimes. Although she was good at burning, killing and looting...but he was very

He almost had no time to think about anything else. His stomach began to growl, which made him think of steaming meat pies, tender and juicy steaks, and preferably a cup of fragrant black tea...

The two finally entered the gathering place for wizards. It seemed to be a place like Diagon Alley, but it was obviously much more depressed. There were not many people on the street, and many of the shops on both sides were closed. Many of the few pedestrians were ghosts.

They covered their faces furtively. There were also wizards dressed normally. They were either walking past in a hurry or standing on the street whispering.

Owen felt a few naked looking eyes coming from the street. Those people were observing them unscrupulously and seemed to be commenting on the two strangers they had never seen before. The vague voices sounded complicated and difficult, obviously

Not English.

The next time, the two used the Disguise Spell to get on a ferry to Italy, and it took more than half a day to arrive in the port city of Bari. They found a local wizard and borrowed a fireplace, and headed to the capital, Rome.

"Bah, this beast still wants to run away?" The man waved his wand and cursed, then looked at Owen, his expression became slightly kinder, but even more scary. "How about it, do you want to buy it?"

Adeline gave the father and son a meaningful look and continued to prune the flowers and plants slowly.

"Wow, murder and arson, how cool it is." Albert sighed, "I haven't done that in many years."

"It needs at least four hundred Galleons. One of us almost died trying to catch it." The man muttered without confidence, obviously he had already discovered something fishy about this snake.

"We can borrow Muggle transportation. We need to be open-minded." Owen said casually.

The big snake in the cage looked over with its cold eyes, curled up tightly, raised its head in a posture ready to attack, and then slammed its thick body against the iron fence. It was twelve feet long.

It's so long that it looks like it can swallow a person in one bite.

The big snake's cold eyes looked over for a moment, and bared its fangs at Owen as if he understood. A hint of murderous intent and anger flashed through his vertical pupils.

"Oh? Are you as beautiful as me?" Natasha smoothed her long dark red hair, and her beautiful cheeks were both beautiful and heroic, giving her an eye-catching charm.

"This can be regarded as indirectly raiding Voldemort's lair." Owen smiled and let the cage fly lightly, and then put it into his suitcase.

"Unexpectedly smart." Looking at the seemingly wisdomless eyes of the big snake, Owen raised the corners of his mouth playfully. If he hadn't appeared, the snake would probably have escaped soon.

The snake seemed to carry a cursed power, which made people feel a little dark and ominous. Owen glanced at the corner covered by the giant snake coiled up. Even if it hit the cage like crazy, it always used its body to hold on.

Blocking it, you could only vaguely see that a small gap had been made there when it swayed its body for a moment, and in a blink of an eye it was completely covered naturally, and the wizards around it didn't notice it at all.

The man's expression became more serious, and he looked at the two of them up and down, as if assessing their purchasing power and whether they were candidates for robbery. After a long time, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Come in."

As the sun gradually rose, there were more and more pedestrians on the deserted streets. Many people were still standing warily at the place where the incident happened last night, looking at everyone who came and went with suspicion.

The feeling of stealing a house is so satisfying. I don't know how Voldemort will feel when he comes back and finds that his favorite snake has left him. As for what Voldemort will use as a Horcrux in the future? Who cares, Owen doesn't care anyway.

"Then you have to remember to burn it cleanly." Adeline turned her face to look at him and said in a soft, slightly hoarse voice.

"Impossible! There are no traces of experiments on it!" the man shouted loudly.

"Is there anything special about that snake?" Natasha asked curiously on the way.

A woman and a child should have been the easiest targets, but when Owen and Natasha completely let go of their aura, their cold and murderous temperament kept many guys at arm's length, saving them a lot of trouble.

Less trouble.

"Well, the bad thing is murder and arson." Owen had a deep smile on his lips. Recalling the experience at that time, he even felt a little happy and excited.

"Why don't you go and grab it?" Natasha said loudly without giving up.

"Owen, you have been out alone for so long, are you really just going to a girl's house to play? Did you do something bad?" Mr. Albert looked at Owen with a smile, raised his hand and squeezed his shoulder. Ms. Adeline

She was gracefully pruning the flower branches in the vase and glanced over here with a smile.

"Be careful, this is already my property. Although I don't mind if you beat it to death and buy its body for a fraction of the price." Owen said coldly, calling it from his suitcase.

A bag of galleons. He found this money from the leader of the Black Spirit Organization last night. There are hundreds of them. Business without capital is so exciting.

"Where is this? It seems that we have really arrived in another country..." Natasha looked at the plaque with writing on the street. She couldn't tell which country's language it was.

Under the increasingly greedy gazes of the three people, Owen and Natasha were on guard with their wands in hand. Finally, they successfully passed through the fireplace and arrived at a wizard market in the Port of Durrës, and then rushed to the port to take a boat without stopping.

Owen lowered his eyes and stroked the kitten Nizi who had been leaning on him just after he came back, with a faint smile on his face. He didn't know whether the couple believed it or not. Anyway, he didn't lie and he was an honest child.

Here, the relationship between people is indifferent and guarded, and malicious eyes sometimes light up in the streets and alleys and even in closed shops. Once a possible fat sheep is discovered, several people will quietly follow them to look for opportunities to attack.

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"Tsk, who knows?" Owen looked quietly at the boundless sea in front of him, listening to the sound of waves lapping on the coast.

"If you don't have money, get out!" The man in the room threatened to close the door.

After arranging Natasha's affairs, Owen returned to Shafiq Manor. His parents had returned from their trip.

"It broke the cage." Owen said in a very innocent tone as he pointed to the area blocked by the snake.

Natasha was ripped off by the hotel owner. After angrily throwing down a gold galleon, Natasha stuffed the last bite of dry bread into her mouth and said in a vague voice: "The relationships between people in this place are complicated.

If you don't cause trouble, it's best not to cause trouble, maybe he can just call a group of people and turn into robbers."

"Don't worry, I'll burn it clean." Owen said with a bright smile.

"Come out, someone, we need to use the fireplace!" Natasha strode over and shouted while banging on the door. There is no need to be polite in a place like this. The more arrogant you are, the less likely anyone will dare to mess with you.

"Albanian." Owen said thoughtfully, putting his hood on his head to hide his face. Although he didn't understand the language, it was not difficult to identify it based on some unique pronunciations.

After wandering around for a long time, they finally boarded the flight to London and returned home before Hogwarts started school.

"Can I see it?" Owen said with interest.

"Sell it for money. This is a magical snake. It must be a mutant species, and it is very powerful. One of our people was bitten by it and almost lost half of his life." The man chuckled, "This is scarce.

A lot of people like to collect this as an experimental product or as a collection. Do you want to buy it? It’s only five hundred Galleons.”

"Huh? Are you interested, kid?" The man showed his yellow teeth to Owen, "Of course it was caught from the black forest. Tsk, tsk, this snake has been coming out of the forest a lot in the past six months.

I don’t know if it is obsessed with eating children. It took us a lot of effort to catch it with a trap.”

After the transaction between the two parties was completed, Owen looked at the big snake in the cage with a half-smile. He was 90% sure that the snake was Nagini. Oh, he didn't mean to get rid of the Dark Lord's favorite pet. It was just a fair trade.

That’s all, he spent the money!

The two of them talked and walked towards the place where they had learned from the previous innkeeper that a fireplace could be used. It was a dilapidated house with dirty floors and walls, and a strange smell filled the air. The fireplace did not

There was no light, and there were bursts of "bang bang" sounds from the inner room, as well as indistinct grunts and laughter.

Unexpectedly, he came to Voldemort's lair. Although he wanted to raid Voldemort's lair, he thought there would be nothing there, and the Black Forest was so big. He had to find it in the year of the monkey, horse and moon. All in all, his eagerness to try it faded away.

The man gasped for breath, exchanged glances with the two people beside him, and finally nodded and said: "Okay, you'll pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other." He kicked the cage angrily and was almost bitten by the big snake that suddenly poked its head out.

Ankle, cursed angrily and cast a spell on it.

"Well, it might be a blood-cursed orc." Owen said softly, "This is a terrible curse that can be inherited through blood. People who are cursed can transform into animal forms, but as time goes by, they will eventually become

He cannot return to his human form, he can only be trapped in the body of a beast forever, lose all humanity, and completely become a beast."

The big snake in the cage stared at him, a trace of human hatred flashing in its vertical pupils.

Soon, the big snake curled up in the cage in embarrassment, watching coldly as the wizards repaired the damage to the cage, and stared at Owen with hatred in its eyes, as if thinking about how to give him a bite.

Owen adjusted his angle, and then he saw clearly that the animal was a giant python, with black mesh patterns on its brown scales, a pair of cold snake eyes staring coldly at the people in the room, and occasionally baring its sharp fangs.

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"Maybe she is a beautiful young lady." Owen said with a smile and winked at Natasha with his left eye.

After a back-and-forth negotiation on the price, Owen finally refused to let go for one hundred and fifty Galleons, which made the man so angry that he almost pulled out his wand and cursed him. If it weren't for the aura between the two of them, people would feel very untouchable.

, they might really take action.

Owen nodded noncommittally, sincerely hoping that there would be an open breakfast shop here.

"If we can't reach an agreement, I'll leave. I'm in a hurry." Owen turned around and left, "Put this snake outside, and if it sells for a hundred galleons, I'll lose. If I hadn't put a little bit of a curse on it,

I'm not interested, and I don't want to be taken advantage of."

The big snake was entangled in the cage and licking its wounds. Listening to the two people outside the cage discussing the price, it actually looked a little pitiful.

"You mean, this snake was once a human being?" Natasha showed an unacceptable expression.

"Why did you catch it?" Could it really be Nagini?

He stepped aside from the door and led Owen and the two into the house. There were two other people in the small room. The air was stuffy, with a strong smell of fermentation, which made Owen frown.

While Natasha was having sex with the man, Owen looked into the house through the open door. He could vaguely see a large cage in the corner, and the animals inside were hitting the iron fence with their bodies.

People watched from a distance and talked in low voices.

Feeling a strange magic wave on the snake, Owen asked thoughtfully: "Where did your snake come from?"

The three wizards gathered around, yelling and hitting the big snake with magic spells. Although the big snake had good resistance to magic spells, it was still beaten so hard that it hissed in pain, and the shiny scales showed signs of

There were bloodstains, big and small.

"Albania? This is a paradise for criminals." Natasha also pulled down her hood and her tone became lower. "This country has been in chaos in recent years, and there are many wanted criminals from surrounding countries hiding there.

, dark wizards, and werewolves. I also thought about simply escaping here with my brother, but it's a pity..."

Finally, the two of them bought food in a dilapidated-looking hotel. Although it didn't taste very good, it still managed to fill their stomachs.

"It will take a long time to return home. The Floo network cannot connect to foreign countries, and Apparition cannot cross very long distances." Natasha said in a hoarse voice, "As for the illegal remote door key, that thing is too dangerous.

, we couldn’t find a trustworthy seller.”

"Fifty galleons, I dare say it came from a dark wizard's laboratory. The price is already good." Owen bargained casually.

"Tsk, don't tell me you didn't see it, it obviously has some kind of curse on it." Owen said in a arrogant tone, "If I hadn't always been interested in curses, I wouldn't have had the time to deal with one that was obviously a man-made product.

Beast."

Someone opened the door cursingly, and said in a bad tone and unskilled English: "Two gold Galleons, no two prices."

"By the way, I brought back a dangerous magical animal that needs to be temporarily locked in the dungeon at home." He said. Facing the curious looks cast by the couple, he explained: "It should be a creature that cannot change back to human form.

You can research the blood-cursed orcs, but don’t kill them." Although it doesn’t seem to be a big deal if you kill them.

"You really got a good thing, Owen." A glimmer of surprise and excitement flashed in Ms. Adeline's dark green eyes.

Looking at his mother's expression, Owen couldn't help but mourn for the big snake for half a second.

In the peaceful manor, Owen spent the last period of the Christmas vacation. On the morning of the first day of school, he packed his luggage, said goodbye to his parents and got on the train back to school.

(End of chapter)