It was August, and Felix thought he would stay in Diagon Alley until the Quidditch World Cup began, until he received a letter from a student named Clemmy Vera.

'Dear Professor Hepp,

I am still working in Gringotts in Egypt. Everything is good here except that the working environment is a bit gloomy and damp.

I have met many friendly colleagues. A senior named Bill Weasley has taught me. When I mentioned you to him, I unexpectedly found that he actually knew you and entered the school in the same year as you! I couldn't wait to ask him more about you, but the result was somewhat unexpected. He described you as a "wandering sphinx" because in the few short exchanges, you politely asked him about very profound ancient runes and magic theory knowledge, and he couldn't answer, which made him a little embarrassed and his self-esteem was hurt (Bill himself is a very humorous senior, he said these words with a smile).

I also met some local friends, they are from the mysterious Uagadou, this is a large-scale magic school with more than 5,000 students! It is simply unimaginable to have so many people in class together, but they told me that this is because Wagadu recruits students from all over Africa...

I am now facing a difficult problem. After exploring an ancient tomb at the bottom of an Egyptian pyramid, we accidentally discovered a dark room leading to a deeper level. It was a long, winding corridor shrouded in thick black fog, filled with all kinds of dangerous magic traps. We didn't even finish exploring the corridor, and one of our colleagues suffered seven or eight curses, so we evacuated urgently.

This colleague was sent to the hospital, but he brought back a stone slab on the wall of the corridor. The stone slab was engraved with ancient magic words. I had never seen it before, and even my grandfather couldn't decipher and translate it. It seemed to be from a more distant era.

I seriously suspect that they are all practical ancient magic words (the traced patterns are sent with the letter). I am eager to receive your guidance. It would be great if you could come.

Your student, Clemmy Vera.

Felix put the letter aside and looked at the Egyptian sacred heron next to him. It was a large bird over half a meter in size, with a completely white body, but the ends of its wings and tail feathers were dotted with black.

The bird's head and neck were black and bald, and its long, downward-curved beak looked like a sickle.

Its legs were long and strong, and it kicked a tightly wrapped package next to it. Felix opened it and saw a three-foot square parchment with the pattern obtained by tracing the stone tablet mentioned by Vera in the letter.

He carefully looked at the stone tablet copy and confirmed the true appearance of these patterns at first glance. They were indeed ancient magic runes. To be precise, they should be part of an ancient magic - a fragment of a magic rune sequence. When he tried to outline this incomplete pattern, black lightning arcs were stirring in the air.

Felix carefully read the letter sent by Clemmy again, and he felt a contradiction - the owner of the dark room swaggered in the corridor to hang a stone tablet engraved with ancient magic, which seemed to indicate that the owner was a very generous person, but the black fog and curse had nothing to do with generosity.

He did not easily judge that this was a dark wizard, because in different eras, people had different definitions of dark wizards. In the ancient wizard community, those who could be called dark wizards were extremely evil, which was not comparable to the current situation.

"A powerful ancient wizard sneaked into the pyramid, built a dark room for himself, and arranged a complex curse... Is it some kind of harsh inheritance? And the black fog and the curse are tests for outsiders?"

"Or, is it using human greed to punish unexpected intruders?"

Felix wrote a reply letter and attached all this information, including his own guesses. He also expressed his gratitude for Vera's invitation, and then he asked if he could bring a student with him. His assistant had mastered a lot of ancient magic knowledge in two years, and it was time for him to get in touch with some social practice.

After waiting for a few days, Clemmy Vera sent a reply letter, which expressed his welcome to him and the student. There was also a formal invitation from Gringotts. There were two places for the name, one of which was filled with the name "Felix Hep", and the other was blank.

Only with this invitation can one be allowed to explore the interior of the pyramid.

Felix smiled and filled in the name "Hermione Granger" in the blank.

The next morning, Hermione excitedly came to Future World Company in Diagon Alley and kept looking around curiously. Just yesterday, the professor sent her a letter to explain the situation and invited her to explore the pyramids of Egypt together! She had wanted to go for a long time. Although the professor told her that she would stay in the back most of the time, she would also have the opportunity to get close to the magical relics thousands of years ago in a safe situation.

"Professor Lupin!" Hermione unexpectedly saw Professor Lupin's figure, "Why are you here?"

Lupin smiled and said, "I have to find a job for myself." He took Hermione upstairs and briefly introduced the company. The employees they met along the way greeted Lupin one after another, and soon they came to an office on the fifth floor.

Pushing open the door, Felix was sitting in a chair, staring at his palm seriously, where a black lightning was lingering. Seeing Lupin and Hermione come in, he dispersed the magic and smiled.

"Remus, I may have to leave for a few days."

Lupin shook his head and sighed, "When you come back, will you go to France again?"

Felix said humorously, "Remus, you don't have the gift of prophecy, do you?"

...

"Professor, are you studying magic lamps?" Hermione asked. When she came over, she saw magical creatures of various shapes. She found that each animal had a glowing magic light ball on its head, which was very similar to the ancient magic illumination she mastered.

Felix smiled and said, "The research work has been completed. They are preparing for the Quidditch World Cup, a large-scale light show."

"Light show..." Hermione imagined the picture and couldn't help looking forward to it.

"Okay, time is a bit tight today. When we come back from Egypt, you can stay here and take a look." Felix said that he was looking forward to Hermione continuing to study ancient runes after graduation. Her current level has surpassed all employees in the future world.

And she still has four years before she graduates from Hogwarts.

...

Egypt, Nile Valley.

Felix and Hermione walked on the streets of Cairo, directly feeling the exotic customs blowing in their faces. An Arab with a poor accent asked them if they needed a camel, but they refused. Hermione watched the strange-looking camel go away from them reluctantly, and fed it a pile of hay before leaving.

"Well, we need to see your senior first, she probably can't wait," Felix said, and he added, "Maybe we'll have a chance to ride a camel later? I remember the pyramids are in the desert..."

In a tavern in the city, Felix and Hermione met Clemmy Vera, who was wearing a sun hat with a transparent silk scarf hanging from the wide brim. When she lifted the curtain, they saw that her skin was tanned dark brown and she was smiling brightly.