Harry Potter and the Temple of Tales

"No." Lius gave him a negative answer, "The power of the blood curse is much more terrifying than this. It is more powerful than you imagine. This kind of curse has already begun to prevail at that time."

"Fortunately, no magic can escape from the rules. The user of the blood curse will also be affected by the curse, and the effect of the blood curse is only effective on women. Although it has a hereditary function, in this way, this kind of

Curses are still quite rare..."

"But Astoria is..." Louis interrupted Lius and continued. He was more concerned about the situation of the girl in front of him.

"Although this is not a blood curse, it is inextricably related to it."

"If my guess is correct, this should be the front-end curse of the blood curse."

"Front-end Curse Syndrome?"

"You can also understand it as a complication in the Muggle world." Lius explained in another word, "This complication is considered hidden. It feels no different from ordinary diseases, but it devours life."

Louis frowned. Complications are often the most troublesome and life-threatening culprit.

"Then what can be done..."

"This complication cannot be completely cured unless you lift the blood curse." Lius knew what Louis was going to say, "But it cannot be cured, but it can be suppressed."

"It's just that the potion material storage here still lacks one potion, so you need to do it yourself."

"I?"

Slytherin's potion ingredients are extremely rare and old, if he doesn't even have them in his potion library.

"There is this medicine stored in the deepest part of the medicine storehouse at Hogwarts. It should be packaged in a jade box. If you have a chance, maybe you can steal it out..."

Well...

When Louis heard this, his whole hand trembled. Snape had already been furious over the Polyjuice Potion ingredients stolen by Barty Crouch Jr., and now he wanted him to step on the minefield.

If it weren't for Astoria, he would never take such a risk.

"Don't worry, your greasy potions teacher didn't know there was such a potion in his inventory, so it's harmless to take it away. Besides, your founder Slytherin put this thing there himself, so he can be considered as helping to retrieve it.

It’s his stuff.”

Hearing what Delius said, Louis felt a little better, but it was still very difficult to steal without anyone noticing.

"What's wrong, Louis?" Astoria seemed to notice the change in his expression.

"It's okay, it's just a little cold." Louis retracted his hand and said with a smile. He did not tell Astoria the truth.

"Let me tell you." The girl also smiled and winked, "It's just a pity that I can't go to Hogsmeade with everyone, and I even dragged you along. I'm really sorry."

"Why are you telling me you're sorry?" Lewis touched her hair, "Injuries are unavoidable. Besides, I came to see you voluntarily. I can't worry about you being sick."

"By the way, there are some medicines in my dormitory that will make you recover faster." Louis said and stood up, "Just wait here, I'll be back as soon as I go."

"Okay." Astoria sat obediently on the sofa. Strangely enough, she herself felt less and less energetic recently.

"I solemnly swear that I have done nothing wrong!"

After coming out of the Slytherin common room, Louis took out the Marauder's Map from his fourth-dimensional pocket. This magical artifact had been sealed away by him for more than half a year. The last time he used it was to verify the existence of Barty Crouch Jr.

, but this time he really didn’t do anything good.

"Mr. Lius, how long will it take to complete the refining of the potion?" Louis looked at the map and calculated the time with Lius in his mind.

"According to the time flow over there, it's about two hours."

"Okay, that's enough."

Louis repeatedly confirmed Snape's location and found that he was discussing something with Dumbledore in the principal's office.

He wanted to give the potion to Astoria and let her drink it before the troops from Hogsmeade returned.

The Slytherin common room and the potion storage room are both on the first floor, but they are located in two castles. Louis has to make a long circuit to get there.

However, when he reached a corner, a name displayed on the map attracted his attention. He looked around and found a girl with long black hair sitting on a stone chair in the courtyard.

"Autumn?"

Louis walked over and said hello to the girl. Since the Christmas dance, he had been trying to find Qiu and wanted to know about Cedric, but he had never had a chance. Qiu Zhang seemed to have evaporated from the school, and he could not find her at all.

"It's you, Louise." Qiu Zhang saw the visitor, smiled friendly, and then looked down at the book in her hand.

"Didn't you go to Hogsmeade? And where is Cedric?" Louis found a seat and sat down in front of her.

"Marietta went home because of something, so I didn't go to Hogsmeade." Qiu Zhang didn't even raise his head, "As for Digory, you should have noticed that I broke up with him."

"Breaked up? Why?"

Louis knew that Cho Chang and Cedric had a conflict. They each invited different partners to the Christmas dance just to deliberately anger each other, but he did not expect that the matter would lead to a breakup.

Qiu Zhang closed the book and looked at Lewis with a pair of black eyes.

"I won't tell you why yet, would you like to hear my story?"

Louis knew very little about Cho Chang and he didn't understand why she didn't just tell him why instead of telling him the story.

After taking a look at the Marauder's Map, Snape could not come back from the principal's office anytime soon, so he nodded.

"I grew up in Edinburgh, and both my parents were wizards. Before I was six years old, our family life was very harmonious, and even the neighbors were very envious of it. Although we were Asian immigrants from abroad, in my childhood life

I have never experienced any discrimination, thanks to the strength of my parents."

"However, everything changed when I was six years old. A young and beautiful woman moved into the neighboring house. During the first few days of her arrival, she attracted the attention of all the uncles and aunts in the community."

"In order to integrate into Muggle society, my father worked at a well-known local law firm. After several years of hard work, he became the director. And that woman became my father's assistant on the first day she arrived."

"Since then, my father would come home very late, and sometimes he wouldn't even come home. And every time my mother asked where he was, he always hesitated."

"This kind of life finally broke out after a few months. My mother used Legilimency and discovered that my father was having an affair with that woman. They had a big fight that night, and the next morning they were still like each other.

Even people who are fine pretend to be harmonious in front of me, but they can't hide the cold feeling inside."

"I knew the lies and deceptions in life at that time. In order to escape the embarrassment caused by my family, I became obsessed with Quidditch, hoping to use sports to alleviate the disharmony in my family."

"After this kind of life lasted for a year, my mother left on a stormy night, and she never appeared again. My father drank all day long to drown his sorrows, and I also indulged in interactions with several members of my wizarding family.

Playing Quidditch with a friend."

"I later learned that the woman only came to the firm as an intern. After the internship ended, she miraculously disappeared without even leaving a letter to my father."

"So I have been living in deception and lies since I was a child, especially men's lies, which cannot escape my eyes." Qiu Zhang finished telling his story and sighed.

"So, you're trying to tell me that there's something wrong with Cedric?"