Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 228 Theoretical Speculations on Resurrection Experiments
Time quickly moved on to the last day of Christmas.

That Christmas in 1993, Tierra finally received the gift he had truly wanted—

Two-thirds of the Black family’s wealth was paid in the form of a portion of Galleons and a portion of the Black family’s collection.

The Black family owns five vaults in Gringotts. Sirius Black directly transferred ownership of the keys to the two most valuable vaults of the Black family to Tierra through a valid magical contract.

Because of the current sensitive period in the manhunt for Sirius Black, Tierra has not personally verified the two vaults that belong to him.

But Tierra could already imagine the mountains of gold and jewels piled up in that vault, and another vault containing even more valuable magical books, dark magic items, and even some rare magical ingredients—

Although Sirius hadn't been to his family's vault in a long time, Tierra still gleaned some information from his memories—

Inside the Black family's special vault used for storing materials, on the wall directly opposite the vault door—

A complete phoenix skeleton was hanging there!

Not to mention the other rare magical materials scattered throughout the vault—

The tail hair of a leopard, the teeth and skin of a warthog, the claws of a thunderbird, the hooves of a unicorn, the tail feathers of a thestral, and so on...

Just thinking about it made Tiera's heart itch.

"Remember to keep your promise."

Sirius handed the key and the magic contract to Tiera, and then solemnly said...

“Of course.” Tierra waved her right hand—

There were four extremely faint gold lines there, a sign of an unbreakable curse—

"I promise that I will never harm Harry Potter under any circumstances."

"I promise that I will never report or expose you to anyone else under any circumstances."

"I guarantee that my dark magic will not be used for evil purposes."

"I guarantee that within three years I will retrieve Regulus Black from the cave where he died and bring him home."

But after Sirius left, the three golden threads on Tierra's right hand disintegrated, leaving only one—

"I guarantee that within three years I will retrieve Regulus Black from the cave where he died and bring him home."

Although the "Inheritors" of Tiera gained control of space through Yog-Sothoth's gift, the most essential magical characteristic of the "Inheritors" is still "loopholes".

Even a flawless oath can be found to have a flaw by Tyella, let alone an oath riddled with loopholes like this:

"I promise I will never harm Harry under any circumstances."

Harry? Which Harry? Is it Harry Potter who went to Hogwarts? Or the Harry Potter who died at the age of 87 in a London cemetery, who has been dead for five or six years?

There are millions of people in the world named Harry Potter, five of them in London alone, so the first vow became—

“I promise that I will not harm Harry, who is lying in the London cemetery at the age of eighty-seven and has decomposed to the point of being nothing but bones, under any circumstances.”

"I promise that I will never report or expose you to anyone else under any circumstances."

The question remains: Who are you? Which "you"?

Is it Sirius Black? Or is it Tyella, who still exists inside you?

So the second vow became—

“I guarantee that I will never report or expose Tiera’s whereabouts to anyone under any circumstances.”

The third oath is even more absurd—

"I guarantee that my dark magic will not be used for evil purposes."

What is evil? In Tiera's view, only betraying one's homeland and one's people constitutes evil.

Then the third vow is easy to understand:

"I promise that my dark magic will not be used to betray my homeland and people in another world."

As for the last vow—

Tiera wasn't without a way to get around it, but there was no need, so she let it remain on her.

With Tiera's current level of flesh magic, revitalizing something dead isn't particularly difficult. Given this, a peculiar idea suddenly popped into Tiera's mind—

Tiera can resurrect Regulus Black's body, that's fine, but what's resurrected is just a physical body, a simple material dimension.

But what if a demon were suddenly inserted into this body?

This is equivalent to Regulus Black possessing the three dimensions of matter, spirit, and mind simultaneously, although it still cannot be considered a resurrection of Regulus Black.

Going a step further, if Tiera used the Oblivion Charm to cleanse the demon's mental and spiritual dimensions, and then used the "Life Reconstruction" ritual to integrate the Resurrection Stone into this completely blank "Regrus Black"—

While the Resurrection Stone cannot truly resurrect the dead, it can summon a substance more real than the soul and more illusory than the physical body, much like Riddle who emerged from the diary—

To put it simply, it's a kind of memory.

Now that Tierra has reconstructed Regulus Black's three dimensions—material, spiritual, and mental—and integrated this ethereal memory into it, does Tierra obtain a completely real Regulus Black, or a monster that is neither fish nor fowl?

Just thinking about it... makes me excited.

Moreover, the vow Tierra made to Sirius Black was—

“Bring Regulus Black home.”

There's a lot of room for maneuver in this "going home" process—

I can bring his corpse back to the Black family mansion, I can bring his living corpse back to the Black family mansion, and even—

I can bring a live Regulus Black home.

Of course, with Tierra making so many guarantees, Sirius Black, in addition to receiving two-thirds of the Black family's fortune, also made a vow—

“I assure you that I, Sirius Black, and Kreacher will never disclose any true information about Tiera to anyone without Tiera’s permission.”

Tierra knew all along that Sirius was going to harm him, but he kept quiet. He was an elegant man, and his law-abiding nature in his past life had instilled in him the good habit of talking rather than taking action.

After fulfilling his agreement with Tierra, Sirius Black disappeared, allowing Tierra to enjoy a rather relaxing and pleasant Christmas holiday.

Perhaps because he hadn't seen Tierra for almost a semester, Dobby was unusually happy that Tierra had come home for Christmas.

Dobby provided Tierra with all the care she needed in life, and Tierra lived a life of luxury where she was waited on hand and foot.

Tiera's only task during the entire Christmas holiday was to use flesh magic to integrate the extra weight she had gained.

Tierra thought her proudest move was recruiting Dobby for the New Year—

Tierra got this house-elf for free, it was really worth it!

They can go to the battlefield or work in the kitchen; if things change, they can be used as reserve troops—it couldn't be more convenient.

Therefore, as the last day of the Christmas holidays arrived, Tierra called Dobby, who had just finished packing her school bag, to her desk and said earnestly—

"Dobby, after so much silence and preparation, I think it's time for us to start the next plan."

“Yes, sir!” Dobby said excitedly, “What can I do this time?”

Tiera smiled, then quietly took out a copy of the Book of Rozier and handed it to Dobby.

(End of this chapter)