days at Hogwarts

Chapter 154 The Trail of the Unicorn Horn
The captain of the Willump Sylvia Explorer is a retired navy soldier. In his 20 years of sailing career, this middle-aged man has never encountered such a strange thing.

After docking, he contacted the shipyard immediately and applied for an engineer to check the situation.But it was clear that a whole ship plank that collapsed last night actually returned to its original state during the second re-examination.

He could understand the puzzled looks on the faces of the engineers, and every look expressed "Are you kidding me?"

What can he do, does he say that there are wizards mixed in the ship, are these all wizards' magic?
The captain could only sneer, and forced the engineers to do a series of safety checks, and let them leave after getting the answer that there were no safety hazards on the ship.

Fortunately, the first and second mates were present when the incident happened, everything was done according to the regulations, and sufficient evidence was left.Except for the company losing money, the others were not punished in any way.

Perhaps the passengers on the ship were either rich or expensive, and the organizers did not dare to offend anyone. They arranged a car and driver the next day, sent the passengers back to London, and promised a full refund.

By any measure, the Willump Sylvia Explorer's voyage was costly.Hermione even felt a little guilty about it.

But Loren settled the bill for her, "Think about it, if we hadn't solved the dementors, everyone on board would have been killed, and the compensation would have made the loss even worse, and the organizers have made money."

yes, is that so?Hermione accepted the statement dubiously.

……

"Flamel, tell me, is my memory loss caused by concussion and drugs, or because of the magic riot?" Loren asked thoughtfully, lying on the table.

After the cruise ship landed, they quickly returned to London from Sunderland. Loren entered the book of fantasy as soon as he returned home, and told Flamel about the adventures along the way: dementors, huge patron saints, Has the memory of being awakened by the Dementor Stone.

Regarding Loren's patron saint, Flamel had already felt the majestic patron saint light, and was not surprised. Instead, he was very interested in the newly discovered Dementor Stone.

On the workbench of the alchemy laboratory, Flamel was wearing a monocle and kept fiddling with a black smooth stone. From time to time, magical brilliance of various colors appeared on his fingers, sliding across the surface of the stone.

The Book of Fantasy mapped the Dementor Stone into a virtual body, and he was doing some alchemical analysis on the nature of the Dementor Stone.

The light flickered for a long time, until the surface of the hard dementor stone was covered with scratches, Flamel took off the monocle and marveled: "It absorbs positive emotions and memory growth, and finally transforms into a dementor. There will be no The physical thing is transformed into a solid, which is a material that has never been seen before."

"If it could be applied to alchemy, it would be the greatest discovery in 300 years."

Seeing that he didn't listen to his question at all, Loren turned his head dissatisfied, "Mass-energy conversion, right? I can still give you an equation of relativity."

"Mass-energy conversion? It's an apt description." Flammel heard his dissatisfaction, and said with a smile, "I don't know the reason for your memory loss, but, compared to finding out the reason, I miss you more Concerned about how to retrieve memory."

"Is there any way to use this Dementor Stone?" Loren looked at him expectantly.

Flamel shook his head, "The Dementor Stone will also absorb your happiness while awakening the memory. When a person's happiness is absorbed too much, he will lose the ability to be happy and become an empty shell."

"Then what is your solution?"

"Do you remember that mirror? Mary's mirror can go deep into your consciousness. As long as you repair the mirror, you can retrieve the memory from the ocean of consciousness." Flamel said, beckoning for a parchment, and started Display the properties of the Soul Stone on it.

Unexpectedly, this matter actually fell on the mirror, Loren nodded, "I will go to Windsor Castle as soon as possible to find the unicorn horn."

"The texture is hard, it can absorb positive emotional growth, it is biologically active, and it can awaken people's memory..." Flamel wrote, and suddenly looked up at Loren, "When refining a new mirror, you can use this Add a stone to it, and it makes the mirror even more powerful for absorbing emotions."

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"Windsor Castle covers an area of ​​7 hectares. It is the largest Zhanbao-style building in the world that is still inhabited. All the buildings are made of stone, and there are nearly a thousand rooms, including the king's and queen's restaurants, studios, ballrooms, Audience Hall, Drawing Room, Waterloo Hall, St. George's Chapel, etc. . . . "

A girl with a British appearance introduced Windsor Castle to her classmates, talking eloquently, and everything was very detailed.

In the crowd on the side, Loren and Bates mixed among the tourists, listening to various information about Windsor Castle.

Thousands of years ago, King Henry I held a pilgrimage ceremony here, and since then Windsor Castle has officially become the palace's event venue.After the continuous expansion of successive kings, Windsor Castle has now become a huge castle complex with many exquisite buildings.

Members of the royal family were buried here after their death, and national meritorious knights were awarded honors here. The famous writer Shakespeare was invited to come here to collect scenery and write a play based on it.

"The Order of the Garter is the highest honor in Britain. Every Garter knight has a fixed seat in the hall, and the armor, sword and flag of each knight are hung on the wall behind the seat..."

The girls' introductions continued, and Loren and Bates had disappeared into the crowd.Loren is not interested in those historical artifacts, he just came to confirm the trace of the unicorn horn.

To be honest, Bates was completely free after dealing with the bank.And living in the city, without herding sheep or farming, life is more leisurely than in the alpine pastures, but it is also more boring.

The last time the cruise was over, Loren and Hermione had no plans to continue traveling during their vacation, and Bates was also reluctant to leave Loren at home alone and go on a trip by himself. After all, for boarding students, a year's vacation is fixed .

When Loren proposed to come to Windsor Castle to find some unicorn horns, Bates immediately agreed.I drove him here early the next morning, located in Windsor, a town 32 kilometers west of London.

"I think you can go outside to practice magic. The effect is definitely better than staying at home. Tell Hermione later, I will drive you every day."

Speaking of this, Bates suddenly frowned and remembered something, "Did you tell Hermione that you're not at home today? Will she come and find you?"

Loren sighed: "As I said, I have mastered the Freezing Curse and the Expansion Curse ahead of her. In order to catch up with my progress, she will not come to me these days, saying that I will affect her study."

When Loren thought of this, he felt a little depressed.Listen to what she said, what does it mean that I affect my studies, am I a poor student?

Bates was proud of Loren in his heart, but he still said with a straight face: "Hermione is a girl, you should let her."

"Oh." Loren replied.

Following the guidance, the two walked through the long road guarded by giant trees and entered the gate of the castle.

This is a mix of Gothic, English garden and Victorian style buildings, resplendent dome, white stone walls, each showing the simplicity and thickness left by the years.

In addition to the living area of ​​the royal family, it is more of a large museum and art gallery.Transportation, jewelry, sculptures and paintings, almost everything.There are collections of paintings by Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Vermeer.

They wandered from one end to the other, back and forth several times, but found no unicorn horn.Loren has even carefully identified those ivory sculptures and rhino horn sculptures. They are indeed ivory and rhino horns, not unicorn horns.

"The golden scepter is beautiful, and so are the paintings." Bates fiddled with the fabric flowers on the door curtain, looking around, "but I didn't see a unicorn, not even a painting of a unicorn."

This seems to be something interesting, Bates laughed: "Hey, this is something on the royal coat of arms, there is no painting."

Unlike Bates, who was looking at various collections with great interest, Loren already felt a dull pain in the soles of his feet.The castle covers an area of ​​7 hectares. Except for the greenery, the floor covers an area of ​​nearly 50 square feet. If you keep looking like this, your legs will be broken.

There must be a more efficient and direct method... He closed his eyes, and under the cover of his eyelids, his eyeballs rolled around.Opening his eyes again, the inside was already filled with crystal blue light.

In an instant, the gorgeous works of art and rare paintings all over the room faded away. These are objects without magic power, which are ordinary in the vision of magic power.

At this moment, a milky white light shone in, following the guidance of the light, Loren walked to the side.

There is a majestic statue of a knight in front of the door. Every inch of armor and muscle texture is carved out of white marble. It is tall and straight, and it seems that such a knight really exists.

And Loren's attention was on the lance, which had a slender tip with spiral patterns emanating from the tip.In his field of vision, the milky white magic light emanates from here, revealing holiness.

Not sure if the royals knew it was unicorn horn, made it into a statue, perfectly hidden.

Only a few top wizards have magical perception, and almost none of them will visit Windsor Castle. This unicorn horn has been preserved like this.

But no one expected that Dumbledore was an outlier among the top wizards.Compared to leaving the London Underground map on his lap and visiting Windsor Castle to find a unicorn horn, Loren thinks this is very Dumbledore.

"It's going to be cheaper for me in the end." Loren had a smile on his face.

Bates saw him staring straight at the tip of the gun, and followed his gaze, "Is this the unicorn horn? It doesn't look like anything special."

"For most people in the world, it's really nothing special." Loren turned around and walked towards the exit, "Let's go, we can go back."

Step on it well, and the rest is to practice apparation and disillusionment spells. I don’t know if the alaho hole will work for the combination lock, and it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t work. The door opening will definitely work.

Bates stared for a while, then turned to catch up with Loren, "Why don't we watch for a while, what's the use of unicorn horns..."

At night, in the duel room of the Book of Fantasy.

"[Apparition]" Loren's wrist first drew a section of the magic wand, and then drew an arc counterclockwise.

There was a loud "bang" in the air, Loren's figure disappeared in place, and appeared on the far floor, as if teleporting.

The front lobe of the brain was a little dizzy due to the feeling of spatial dislocation, but the sense of solidity from the soles of the feet quickly offset the dizziness, and Loren regained consciousness after a slight start.

I felt it first, and there was no familiar pain all over my body, which meant that there was no separation.He glanced at the white circle mark under his feet again, which showed that the teleportation point was precise.

"Success!" Loren clenched his fists excitedly.

Flamel, who was sitting on a desk by the wall, said lazily: "This is only in the fantasy book, but in the real world, I still advise you to try it under the supervision of the professor."

He paused: "There will be a certain lag in the body commanded by the consciousness, and this kind of lag may make your body pass by, leaving your hands and feet in place."

Loren thought about the scene for a while, and shook his head in resistance. Although he was eager to get the unicorn horn, he didn't have to be so anxious:
"I'd better wait until I get back to school and practice under the supervision of Professor Snape, he's in charge."

Knowing that he was not a reckless person, Flamel said in relief, "Don't worry about getting your memory back. It's been so many years, so take your time."

"[Apparition]" Loren flashed to his side with a smile on his face, "So can you cooperate with me in practicing the Oblivion Curse, I promise, you will be very careful."

Flamel disappeared with a bang.Obviously, he is very proficient in apparition, and has already achieved silent casting and casting without a staff.

He appeared in another place, solemnly saying: "For a magical image made from memory, the Oblivion Charm is murder."

Loren pouted, your hundreds of years of memory, you can't figure out how effective the forgetting spell of a beginner can be.But what Flamel said was also reasonable, and he had to give up this tempting idea for the time being.

The holiday was coming to an end, and for the rest of the day, Loren used his conscious body to practice Apparition and the Disillusionment Curse at night, but Flamel refused to cooperate with him in practicing the Forgetting Curse.

Studying with Hermione during the day, the basic spells of the second grade are already considered easy and difficult for them now.Loren can master it by practicing a few times by himself, and under his guidance, Hermione also learns very quickly.

Both Loren's Legilimency and Hermione's Occlumency have made great progress. Between attacking and defending, Loren also experienced the kind of confrontation between invasion and defense at the edge of the brain and soul, and he has his own understanding of brain defense. understand.

However, he couldn't test whether he had learned it or not.

So far, only the Forgetting Curse remains among the three memory magics, which probably requires a master teacher who is proficient in the Forgetting Curse, and a mouse that can be used to practice.

But why can't these two be the same person?

(End of this chapter)