Chapter 388 Dumbledore's Gift
As there was still unfinished work, Mike did not return to the lounge directly after parting with the Weasley brothers, but came to the Masonic base to work. By the way, he asked Victor and Benjamin to give the Weasley brothers appropriate help, but not too much.
After all, if the Weasley brothers really blew up the Hogwarts Castle, they would have nowhere to go to school.
When Mike returned to the dormitory late at night, he was shocked!
The general arrangement of items and furniture in the dormitory was the same as when Mike left before, but there was only a small cloth bag on his desk.
Mike, who noticed the abnormality, entered the combat state almost instantly, without even using the wand, and the two layers of transparent shields composed of armor and full protection completely covered it.
However, the expected attack did not come, and the room was silent except for the humming sound of the wind outside blowing against the window.
But Mike did not relax his vigilance at all. Instead, he held up the shield and carefully observed every corner of the room. Half an hour later, Mike was sure that there was no threatening thing in other places in the room before he looked at the small cloth bag on the desk.
In the field of vision of magic perception, the small cloth bag exuded a faint magical aura, which showed that the items inside were indeed extraordinary items with magic, but they were not too lethal.
Only then did Mike breathe a sigh of relief.
Perhaps some people would think that Mike's actions were completely unnecessary, but in fact, it was indeed a very scary thing for such a package to suddenly appear in his room.
You must know that Mike attaches great importance to his own safety.
Therefore, in addition to the original forbidden magic of Hogwarts, his dormitory was also attached with a large number of protective spells and warning spells. Normally, even if someone passed by his door, he could see it clearly. In addition to the anti-apparition spell and anti-apparition spell originally existing in Hogwarts Castle, Mike dared to guarantee that no one in the entire Hogwarts could enter his room without his permission.
Even the house elves in the kitchen couldn't do it - Mike refused the room service of the Hogwarts house elves after getting the two brothers Shuke and Beta.
But in such a room with defense comparable to that of Gringotts after being robbed, a package suddenly appeared!
Mike was amazed!
Taking a deep breath, Mike shook his wand at the package on the desk, and then the package floated up and opened automatically in mid-air, revealing the items inside.
It was a small bottle of transparent liquid, two beautiful fiery red feathers, a letter and a small rolled-up note.
The wand shook again, and the only letter among the items that did not have any magical reaction automatically disassembled, unfolded and floated in front of Mike.
It was clearly written in extremely ordinary black ink:
Please remember that the key to legend lies in belief and emotion.
To Mike,
your friend - Albus Percival... Dumbledore
saw this and Mike's originally frowned brows instantly relaxed, and at the same time he understood what was going on.
Phoenix Fawkes!
As one of the most powerful and unique magical creatures, the phoenix possesses an advanced Apparition that is extremely difficult to counter, which makes it extremely efficient as a messenger. This package must have been sent here by Dumbledore.
The most important thing is what Dumbledore said in the letter!
The key to legend lies in belief and emotion!
This sentence made Mike's heart beat faster involuntarily.
Many people have always felt that there is no strength classification in the wizarding world, because there are too many unexpected situations in the battles between wizards. Even a fully armed Auror will die in the hands of a little wizard if he is accidentally attacked.
But in fact, there is a clear classification in the wizarding world, that is, legendary and ordinary!
The gap between these two realms is as big as a pile of earth on Mount Tai!
Even Snape, who has almost reached the extreme of ordinary wizards, will become like a child and have no power to fight back when facing legendary wizards like Voldemort and Dumbledore.
However, the strange thing is that the gap between the two realms is so big, but no wizard has ever reached the level between them.
Almost all wizards, their strength is about the same as Snape's at best. There is no one who is slightly inferior to Dumbledore, but can completely crush top professors like Snape.
This situation is like a special lock that firmly locks the upper limit of the strength of ordinary wizards like Snape. Legendary wizards like Dumbledore and Voldemort are the ones who broke this lock. After breaking that layer of shackles, their strength is no longer limited, and it has increased several times in an instant!
Now Mike's strength has gradually approached that layer of shackles. If Mike's guess about the legendary realm is correct, then the words sent by Dumbledore are very meaningful, because there may be a key to open the shackles in it!
But what do beliefs and emotions mean?
Does it mean that breaking through the shackles requires firm beliefs and extremely stable emotions?
Or is there another meaning?
Mike scratched his head in distress. Now he is really confused!
Gritting his teeth, Mike suppressed his curiosity about the "key" and put the letter into his bag.
Then, Mike turned his eyes to the remaining things on the desk.
There was nothing interesting about the other things. After knowing that the sender was Dumbledore, Mike had guessed what the liquid in the small bottle and the two beautiful feathers were.
If nothing unexpected happened, they should be phoenix tears (which can heal various injuries including poison) and phoenix feathers (a rare magical material that can be used to make wands and various potions and magic rituals). The only thing that made Mike curious was the rolled-up small note.
It was a very ordinary roll of parchment, and its edges even had rough edges due to unstable force when tearing, but it exuded a faint magical aura, which meant that some kind of spell was cast on it.
Mike carefully directed the note to open itself in mid-air, and saw that the note was blank and nothing was written on it.
But just when Mike was puzzled, a light blue light emerged from the parchment and formed a string of English words in the air - three parallel elm trees on the west side of the small lake in the middle of the forest twenty miles west of Norwich.
Mike frowned in confusion.
This string of English letters made Mike a little confused. The only thing he could think of was the address.
Wait!
Address?
A spell name suddenly flashed through Mike's mind - the Fidelius Charm!
As we all know, the house protected by the Fidelius Charm has a secret keeper. As long as the secret keeper does not tell others the exact address of the house, that person will not be able to find the house even if he puts his face on the window of the house!
So could this strange address be the address of a house protected by the Fidelius Charm?
Thinking of this, Mike also had a smile on his face.
If his guess is true, then it means that Dumbledore should be in that house!
But, what can we do about it?
Mike had no interest in Dumbledore's whereabouts. If something really happened in Hogwarts, he didn't believe that Dumbledore would not show up!
"Huh!"
A gust of wind suddenly sounded, and the light blue text floating in the air deformed again. After showing "Don't tell anyone", it finally turned into light powder and disappeared.
Smiling and shaking his head, Mike threw the useless note into the garbage, and then couldn't wait to take out the letter and study it carefully.
...
A week later, in the Ravenclaw boys' dormitory, Mike roared and tore the handwritten letter from Dumbledore into pieces.
For a whole week, Mike almost gave up all activities. Except for the necessary eating and classes, all his time was spent on studying this letter. He even conducted a detailed magic test on the letter, but the final result was still nothing.
What is the key to legend? Belief and emotion?
Mike panted and stared at the fragments on the ground with a pair of bloodshot eyes.
Now he really hated Dumbledore.
There are always some people in this world who like to do this kind of mysterious things, as if others don't deserve what they give if they don't go through untold hardships!
Since you have given it, can't you just speak plainly and make it clear?
Why use this method?
In the final analysis, it is just stingy. They want to give you things but feel unwilling to do so, so they deliberately create some difficulties to embarrass you. In this way, if you can't solve those difficulties, they can frown and shake their heads on their faces, and say something like "what a pity" with a smile in their hearts.
After complaining about Dumbledore in his heart, Mike pushed the door and left. Now he is still a long way from the peak of ordinary wizards, so there is no need to spend all his time studying that sentence.
If he has that time, he might as well ask Dumbledore directly the next time he sees him!
As soon as he opened the door, Mike found that there were many Ravenclaws standing outside his dormitory, and they all looked at him worriedly.
"Mike, what happened?" Franklin asked worriedly, "You look terrible now."
Looking at Franklin and the classmates around him, Mike's anger was slightly compensated by being touched.
Mike had locked himself in his dorm for the past few days, and even the meals were brought in by them. It must be that his abnormality had caused the concern of his classmates.
Mike let out a long sigh, and a smile appeared on his face with heavy dark circles under his eyes. He said:
"It's okay now, thank you for your concern."
Franklin was relieved immediately after hearing this. He was the person who had been with Mike the longest, so he knew Mike very well. Since Mike said it was okay, it was really okay.
"Let's go eat quickly. I'm almost suffocating for so many days. I want to relax today!"
Mike said, pulling Franklin and starting to walk out of the lounge door.
Franklin's expression suddenly became extremely terrified. He pulled Mike's arm and wanted to retreat, but how could he compare to Mike's strength.
So Mike and Franklin pushed open the eagle-head door knocker directly, but as soon as the door was opened, a red dragon head made entirely of flames attacked the two!
"Bang!"
The huge dragon's head hit Mike's armor directly, and except for a circle of ripples on the shield, it did not cause any damage to the two.
"This..." Mike looked at Franklin hiding behind him with a puzzled look, "What's going on?"
"Have you forgotten, Mike? You asked the Weasley brothers to find Benjamin and Victor before, and then the two of them provided George and Fred with some weird things, including magic drones and various prank potions that can make people have herpes, grow tumors, and vomit slugs. And today is the day they implement their plan!"
Mike was also stunned when he heard this. In the past few days, his mind was all on Dumbledore's letter, so he forgot a lot of things. Now that he thinks about it carefully, the Weasley brothers seem to have really informed him that they were about to implement their plan, but he didn't care at all.
"Mike, I think we should go back." Seeing Mike's thoughtful look, Franklin advised, "Those fireworks and potions are really scary. With the drones, those fireworks almost never miss their targets. Although they are not powerful, they still hurt when they hit people! And the scariest thing is that the Weasley brothers also added a lot of prank potions to those fireworks. If you are hit, you will feel uncomfortable for several days!"
Mike turned his head and looked at Franklin and said,
"So that's why you all hid in the lounge?"
"Yes! The Weasley brothers still have a conscience. They notified us in advance and asked us to hide in the lounge today and not go out. Most of the people who were attacked outside are Slytherins. Oh, and of course Umbridge. She is always inseparable from the Slytherins."
Hearing this, the expression on Mike's face eased a little. If the Weasley brothers really carried out such inhumane revenge on all teachers and students, then Mike would really have to consider the character issues of certain members of the Freemasons.
Those who are reckless and cruel are not the ones that Mike wants to win over!
Thinking of this, Mike walked out the door. Today is the day when the Weasley brothers leave Hogwarts, and he wants to see them off in person.
Franklin, who was behind him, was very scared when he saw this, but he finally gritted his teeth and followed.
So, the two of them walked slowly towards the auditorium, one in front and one behind, facing the continuous explosions around them!