A ruined Hogwarts

The air in the morning was dry and cold, and the sun slowly rose 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 with no end in sight.

Owen looked back at the endless forest, and he felt the urge to light a fire. He thought a grand bonfire burning the entire forest would be beautiful. He suddenly shook his head in a funny way, and while using psychological methods to evaluate his mental state, he used a cleaning spell to keep his 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 new-looking girl in front of him, he felt a lot more pleasing to his eyes and continued to walk 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 something she grabbed 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 of 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 covered their faces furtively. There were also wizards dressed normally. They were either walking by 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 unfamiliar faces they had never seen before. The vague voice sounded complicated and difficult, and it was obviously not English.

"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.

"Albanian," Owen said thoughtfully, pulling the hood over 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.

Unexpectedly, he came to Voldemort's lair. Although he really wanted to raid Voldemort's lair, he thought there wouldn't be anything there. The Black Forest was so big and he had to find it in a year and a month. With this in mind, the eagerness to try it has faded away.

"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 unfortunately..."

Owen nodded noncommittally, sincerely wishing there was an open breakfast place here.

In the end, 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.

Natasha was ripped off by the innkeeper. After angrily throwing down a gold galleone, 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. It's best not to cause trouble, because maybe he can just call a group of people and turn into robbers."

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.

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

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 hassle.

"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 hoarsely, "As for the illegal remote door key, that thing is too dangerous. , we couldn’t find a trustworthy seller.”

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

The two of them talked and walked towards the place where they had learned from the previous innkeeper that they could use the fireplace. It was a dilapidated house with dirty floors and walls, and a strange smell filled the air. The fireplace was not lit, and there were bursts of "bang bang" sounds from the inner room, as well as indistinct grunts and laughter.

"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.

Someone opened the door cursingly and said in unskilled English: "Two gold galleons, no two prices."

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

"Get out of here if you don't have money!" The man in the room threatened to close the door.

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. The people in the room watched from a distance and talked in low voices.

Owen adjusted his angle and saw clearly that the animal was a giant python. It had brown scales with black mesh patterns. A pair of cold snake eyes stared at the people in the room coldly, and from time to time it bared its sharp fangs. .

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

"Huh? Are you interested, kid?" The man showed his yellow teeth to Owen, "Of course he caught it 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’s obsessed with eating children. It took a lot of effort before we caught it with a trap.”

"Why are you catching it?" Could it really be Nagini?

"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 his life." The man chuckled, "This is a rare thing. A lot of people like to collect this as an experiment or as a collection. Do you want to buy it? It’s only five hundred galleons.”

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

The man's expression became more serious, and he looked at the two people 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."

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.

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 and looked like it could swallow a man in one gulp.

Snakes seem to carry a cursed power, making people feel a little dark and ominous. Owen glanced at the corner covered by the snake's coiled body. Even though it was banging against the cage like crazy, it was still blocking it with its body. It could only be vaguely seen when it shook its body for a moment that it had been removed. There was a small gap, and it was completely covered in a blink of an eye, so naturally that the wizards around him didn't even notice.

"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.

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

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.

Three wizards gathered around, yelled and used magic spells to hit the big snake. Although the big snake had good resistance to magic spells, it was still beaten and hissed in pain, with large and small blood stains appearing on its shiny scales.

Soon, the big snake was 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.

"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?"

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

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

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

"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 time to deal with one that was obviously a man-made product. Beast."

"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.

After a back-and-forth negotiation on the price, Owen finally bit him down to one hundred and fifty Galleons without letting go, which made the man so angry that he almost pulled out his wand and cursed him. If the aura of the two people hadn't made people feel that they were not easy to mess with, they might really take action.

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.

"If we can't reach an agreement, I'll leave. I'm in a hurry." Irving turned around and left. "Put this snake outside. 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 man gasped, exchanged glances with the two people on the side, and finally nodded and said: "Okay, one hand pays the money and the other hand delivers the goods." He kicked the cage angrily and was almost bitten by the big snake that suddenly poked its head out. Ankle, cursing angrily and casting a spell on it.

"Be careful, this is already my property. Although I don't mind if you kill it and buy its body for a fraction of the price." Owen said coldly, summoning the corpse from his suitcase. A bag of galleons. He found this money from the leader of the Black Spirit Organization last night. There were hundreds of them. Business without capital is so exciting.

After the transaction 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 deal, and he paid for it!

"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.

The feeling of stealing a house is so satisfying, and 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? No matter what, Irving doesn't care anyway.

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.

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

"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 will always be trapped in the body of a beast, lose all humanity, and completely become a beast."

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

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

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

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

In the following time, the two people 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 before heading to the capital, Rome.

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

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

"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 was elegantly pruning the flower branches in the vase and glanced here with a smile.

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

"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.

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

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

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

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

"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 from the couple, he explained: "It should be a blood-cursed orc that can't change back to human form. You can study it, but don't kill it." Although it doesn't seem to be a big deal if he kills it.

"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.

Owen spent the last part of his Christmas vacation in the peaceful manor. 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.