The latest chapter in the Harry Potter Bastard novel

A magic book sounds like something that a wizard would touch it. But actually… Only books with constant magic in books can be called magic books, and not books that contain things related to magic are called magic books.

True magic books are unique because they are too difficult to make, the production cycle is too long, and the production cost is too high. Generally, the wizard family of the second class really does not have such a thing. The families who can take out magic books are all ruthless people with a long history and can produce people.

The magic book that Solim showed Snape didn’t actually have a name on the cover, but those who knew it usually called it “The Book of Blood” or “Selwyn’s Book of Blood.” The way this book is opened is Selwyn’s blood, voluntarily or forced, as long as Selwyn’s fresh blood is dripped onto the heart of the cover painting, the book can be opened, and the time to open depends on the quality and quantity of blood. Solim himself tried to make the heart on the cover fully visible, so that the color of the heart reached its most vivid, and the book could be read for half an hour. But his grandfather said that Selwyn’s bloodline is much sparser today than it was hundreds of years ago, and that perhaps in Solim’s generation, or Solim’s next generation, the family is likely to undergo a sublimation ritual – provided the materials are ready.

For a while, the two people at the desk did not speak. Solim was inspired by the book, while Snape was shocked, perhaps mixed with a hint of excitement.

Snape was certainly a gifted wizard, there was no doubt about that. But there were some things that a wizard of Snape’s origin couldn’t touch. The Presbyterian Church has a firm grip on high-end magical theories, powerful magic spells, and vast resources. Ordinary wizards can only study and live in circles drawn by the Presbyterian Church for their entire lives. Even if some gifted wizards single-handedly touch some taboo, high-end knowledge, they will either be recruited by the elders, organized or suppressed. And those wizards who have the ability to break through the circle drawn by the Elders basically know that there is a behemoth pressing on top of their heads, and among these people, the dragon and phoenix naturally know what to do in their best interests.

What Snape saw was taboo knowledge that ordinary wizards would never have access to—how souls were used.

“Professor, do you have any questions about what you just saw?” Solim stepped out of his memories and spoke first.

Solim saw Snape’s eyes, which were very different from those he usually had when his brain was closed. Obviously, what he had just come into contact with gave Snape a great shock.

“It’s better to be a death row inmate in Muggles, Professor, if it’s not convenient for you…” Solim raised an eyebrow, “I can do it for you.” ”

“No need.” Snape knew that if he agreed, then he would have to pay the corresponding price, and his student was not a master who would suffer losses.

“Well,” Solim wasn’t surprised that Snape would refuse, “the means of collecting souls… Is it needed? ”

How could Snape have the means to collect souls, no matter how powerful he was, no matter how talented he was, he only lived in the wizarding world planned by the Presbyterians, and such means were not something Snape could know.

Snape rejected Solim, but he himself had no means to collect souls. That’s a bit embarrassing.

Seeing that Snape didn’t speak, Solim picked the corner of his mouth, pretending not to see Snape’s embarrassment, and said: “It seems that Professor you have a way to collect souls, so what about preserving souls?” Don’t bring the soul that you bring when the time comes. ”

“I’ll bring people.” Snape said expressionlessly.

“This…” Solim smacked his lips, “is also a solution.” ”

Bringing people directly is of course a way. You don’t have to find a way to collect souls, and you don’t have to work hard to protect them after collecting. How nice it is to just catch people. But….

“But is that appropriate? At Hogwarts? Under Dumbledore’s nose? Solim didn’t care, but Dumbledore’s attitude he had to take into account. That old man wouldn’t allow anyone to do this in his school, strip away an innocent person’s soul, and then use that soul. Even if it is said that the heavens are broken, such evil acts cannot be washed.

“Who said you have to be in school?” Snape looked at Solim with idiot-looking eyes.

yes, why do you have to do this kind of thing in school? I’m afraid that the principal doesn’t know or how to drop?

“Maybe the blood just released a little too much, my tits… Bah! My mind is not clear yet. Solim touched his nose awkwardly, “Then get ready, I’ll notify you when I get something.” ”

Snape thought for a moment and asked, “Your book only explains how to use souls, but why do you have to use souls?” “Snape though is a like… No, it should be said that it is a wizard who loves black magic. But he also has his own bottom line, a question he has wanted to ask for a long time.

Solim listened to Snape’s words and pondered for a moment before speaking, “First of all, I want to make it clear that souls are actually a very common spell-casting material for some wizards. Of course, Professor, you know I’m definitely not talking about ordinary wizards. Let’s put aside the topic of the soul, Professor, let me ask you a question first. How many ways are there for wizards and wizards to communicate face-to-face like we do now? ”

Snape looked at Solim with emotionless eyes, without saying a word. He is extremely unhappy with people like Solim who talk around and around, if Dumbledore is okay, anyway, people are big guys, what are you a little fart pretending to be with me.

Fortunately, Solim quickly realized that he was not giving Hermione and Neville a lesson, he was now facing his own headmaster.

Returning to Solim’s question just now, how many ways are there to communicate between wizards and wizards besides face-to-face? The most common is to send letters through owls, and if possible, you can also use the fireplace (grab a handful of Floo powder, lean half over, you can talk to another person in front of the fireplace) If you are a little more tycoon, you can use a double-sided mirror, in the eyes of ordinary wizards, the double-sided mirror is a tall thing, equivalent to the big brother in the eighties and nineties. Members of the Order of the Phoenix can also communicate with the Headmaster himself through small notes made by Dumbledore. Of course, the Death Eaters had a similar way, which was the Dark Mark that Voldemort himself branded.

However, except for owls, which purely rely on physical strength to communicate across space, the rest of these ways rely on magic to eliminate the influence of space. Floo powder itself contains magic, and when the mana is exhausted, you either eat a mouthful of furnace ash, or grab a handful of Floo powder and throw it in while the mana is almost exhausted. Double-sided mirror, this relies on the magic of the wizard himself, one wizard outputs magic to the double-sided mirror, and the other supporting double-sided mirror will react, so that the two wizards in different places can communicate, and when one party stops the magic output, the connection built by the double-sided mirror will be broken. And Dumbledore’s note and Voldemort’s Dark Mark also overcome spatial barriers through magic in communication.

Break down the barriers of space and make two people communicate as if they were face to face. Whether it’s fireplaces, double-sided mirrors, or other means, wizards do this by consuming mana. Muggles are the same, whether it’s phones, computers, or whatever, they use electricity to achieve the same purpose.

But this is communication between living people and living people, or rather, communication across space through energy consumption in the same dimension. But there are some subtle differences in communication between the living and the dead, which is different from the communication between the living and the ghost, who are dead, but they are not completely dead.

To communicate with a dead person who is dead very thoroughly, it takes more power to break some kind of bondage. Ordinary magic is not enough, and the magic power of human wizards is not very strong in the first place. Unleashing powerful power by burning souls is a proven method. Ordinary magic compares to this power as coal-fired power plants to nuclear power plants. Although there is not much difference in essence, the former and the latter are not comparable at all in terms of intensity, quality, and duration.

Snape accepted Solim’s explanation. Souls, this subject Snape has never had the opportunity to study, and certainly will not have the opportunity to study, you will definitely not find a book on the market about analyzing souls, let alone how to use souls.

Snape couldn’t help but feel a little jealous of his student: family background, wealth, talent, all these things that he had dreamed of, all of which his students had in front of him, and he didn’t waste these advantages, and he knew how to use them.

“Professor, let me put the words first. It is indeed possible to communicate with the person who has died after paying certain costs, but only if the dead person has not yet gone to the place of death. “Give Snape a preventive shot first, this is related to Snape’s biggest obsession in life, if something goes wrong, Snape will have to trouble himself.”

Frowning slightly, Snape looked at Solim. “Explain, you didn’t say that in the first place.”

“I didn’t tell you before because I didn’t know how to explain these things to you.” Spreading his hands, Solim said helplessly.

“Before? What now? ”

“Now, I’m too lazy to explain, or you can read it yourself, if you understand it.” Solim took out another book from under his robe and threw it directly on the table. “This is almost fifteen centuries ago, this is a handwritten book, it is estimated that it has disappeared.”

Snape glanced at the cover and knew what was going on.

Old English refers to the English between 449 AD and 1100 AD, and the difference between Old English and Modern English in pronunciation, spelling, vocabulary, and morphology is very large, and it is impossible to understand it without special study. And there were four main dialects in Old English, which led to different spellings of the same words between dialects (damn phonetic scripts), which few wizards can understand today.

As for Solim? Ha, it’s already thankful that he speaks English without an accent now. You must know that when he first began to learn to speak as a child, the natural accent scared the family and thought that there was something wrong with his tongue.

Watching Snape flip through the pages and read a few pages, he closed the book again. Solim knew that Snape couldn’t understand either, and now wizards were of course in modern English, so it wasn’t unusual to understand it.

“Relax, Professor, I’m talking about the worst-case scenario.” Solim tucked the book back into his robe, “That ancient spell on Potter is still working, relax.” ”