Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 2868 The Unforgivable Secret (5)

  In 1875, the Ministry of Magic promulgated the "Restrictions on the Use of Magic by Minors", prohibiting underage wizards from using magic outside of school.

   This made many young wizards find it hard to accept, especially Zong Si, who was simply annoying.

But on the other hand, traces can be used to track the location of minors very well. Anyway, Pomona and Severus Apparated in the Forbidden Forest, not the market place in Ken Bridge .

   "Why am I not surprised at all." Pomona said, taking out her wand.

  Severus walked straight towards the ruins in the forest.

  As they approached the ruins, bursts of heartbeat-like strong magic waves hit her face, and she felt extremely uncomfortable.

   "What's wrong?" Severus asked after stopping.

   "It's nothing." She said softly, barely holding back the discomfort.

   It reminded her of Lupine's days at school, when there was a full moon, and today was not a full moon.

   "You'd better tell me straight up, this is no joke," Severus said.

   "Pulse, it seems that Paul told them some secret again." Pomona said

   "No, I didn't." Paul's voice suddenly sounded.

  Pomona looks around.

   "I'm here~"

  Pomona looked into Severus' pocket.

  He impatiently used the Levitation Charm, causing the court puppet to float out of his pocket.

   "Why are you here?" Pomona asked.

   "You all go out and don't take me, I'm so boring." Paul said.

   "So who told them about this place?" Pomona asked.

   "These little trolls still have something to hide from us." Severus said through gritted teeth.

   "They seem to have found something interesting." Paul said excitedly, "Go and see."

   "Personally, I'm more inclined to say they're in 'trouble,'" said Pomona, waving his wand, causing the trees in the forest to move out of the way.

   Without the cover of these plants, the appearance of the ruins became clearer. However, when they walked into the ruins, they found that the ground was full of water.

  In the center of this "lake" there is an altar with a necklace on it, and several flame butterflies are flying around it.

   "Any clues, Paul?" Severus asked.

   "The Centaur," said Pomona.

  Severus looked at her in surprise.

   "Dolan!" Pomona yelled into the woods.

  Lin Zhong didn't respond at all.

   "Can you explain," Severus asked.

   "This is a gift from me to Dolan, which is your tuition fee." Pomona looked back at him. "The centaur will not use violence in front of young people, even though they dislike humans very much."

   "Professor!" She didn't hear Dolan's answer, but instead heard the students shouting "Get us out!"

   "What is the origin of this stone?" Severus asked.

   "Get them out first," said Pomona, beginning to take a step.

   "I wouldn't touch those waters if I were you," Paul said.

   "Then what should I do?" Pomona retracted his leg again.

   "How about taking that stone away?" Paul said.

Severus cast a Summoning Charm on the stone, but it didn't respond, and then he cast Death Eater's Fly, which easily removed the stone from the altar, and the butterflies and water , and that mysterious pulsation all disappeared.

  About a minute or two later, Severus returned to the altar, stood on it, and looked down at the back of the altar.

   "Come on, it's safe." He said to the following.

   After a while, Bill, Puglia, Ben Cooper, Leeds, Barnaby, and the twins all came out of it.

  Pomona looked at his watch, and before he knew it, it was already this time, and Molly would die in a hurry.

   "Okay, look who this is, isn't it our Master Curse Breaker? Is there still a place to trap you?" Severus said to Bill with a smile.

   "Thank you for saving us." Bill said awkwardly, "I didn't expect this to happen."

   "What's going on?" Pomona asked. "How do you have Dolan's necklace?"

   "He gave it to us," Puglia said. "He said it would lead us to our destiny."

   "The centaurs always do that," said Liz.

   "What's in there?" Severus asked.

   "A grave." Bill replied, "I don't think it belongs to modern people."

   "Of course," Severus said.

   "We found this," said Bill, taking a stone comb from his pocket.

  It's so beautiful, it doesn't look like something from the stone age, but it looks like it was taken from a statue.

   "As an employee of the Ministry of Magic, why are you here, Miss Moore." Severus asked Puglia condescendingly.

   "I'll see if I can help," Puglia said.

   But Severus still looked down at her eeriely.

   "Okay, I'll try my luck and see if I can be transferred from the centaur's office." Puglia said helplessly.

   "If you notice, there are two children here. If something happens to them, you will not only be transferred from the centaur office, but you will say goodbye to the job forever." Severus said in a cadenced tone.

  Fred and George looked at each other "We are not children, we are explorers!"

   "Well, explorers, it's time for us to go." Pomona said to them from a distance.

   The expedition left dejectedly, but Severus did not. Pomona knew that with his curiosity, he would definitely explore this magical cemetery.

   "Let's go first, Severus," Pomona yelled at him.

   "I want to see it too." Paul said enthusiastically.

  Pomona looked at Bill and Puglia "I'll go and see, if there is an accident..."

   "Don't worry, as long as you don't put that stone on the altar, you'll be fine." Bill said.

  Pomona was still worried, but she also ran to the altar.

  Behind the altar was a deep hole. Severus jumped first, but Pomona didn't immediately follow.

   "Come in," he said from inside the cave.

   So Pomona jumped down too.

With the fluorescent flicker of his wand, she saw the catacomb clearly. It was not big. Bill and the others searched every inch to get out, including a secret room with a stone platform, and there was a mermaid on the wall. sculpture.

Then she raised her wand and looked around. There were reliefs of mermaids everywhere on the wall. The sarcophagus of the owner of the tomb had been opened. His clothes had decayed, leaving only bones, but it could be seen that they were human bones. Not a mermaid.

   "Mermaid," said Pomona.

   "No, look carefully." Severus pointed his wand at the woman in the center of the relief. "She's feeding the fish."

  Pomona also looked carefully. At first, the light was dim and she couldn’t see clearly. She thought she saw a mermaid, but in fact it was a woman holding a bowl, surrounded by fish, as if waiting for her to throw food in the bowl.

   Then she looked at the tomb owner's coffin, which also had reliefs on it. A group of fully armed knights held shields, and they were round shields.

  Roman soldiers often used round shields, especially after the 3rd century, but none of these reliefs belong to the ancient Romans. They still look quite primitive, more like they were left by the ancient Celts.

   "This tomb existed before Hogwarts was founded," Pomona said.

   "Let's go," Severus said.

  Pomona left right behind him.

  Before she left, she closed the lid of the sarcophagus again, and the dead would be buried in peace anyway.

  Because of her bulkiness, she needed Severus' help to get out of the tomb, and she had a strange feeling when she stepped on the ground again, bathed in the moonlight.

   "What's wrong?" Severus asked her.

   "Next time, remember to leave one person outside during the expedition." Pomona said, "Even if you can't solve the puzzle, you won't be trapped to death inside."

   Then she walked towards the little trolls.

   As for where the stone Severus hid, she didn't ask.

  There are so many stones in the Forbidden Forest, who would investigate their history one by one?

  (end of this chapter)