Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 360 Space, Knowledge, and Old Man's Scheme

Because of Salazars and Slytherin's earlier attack, Hermione's reaction to the fact that Gellert Grindelwald was also a member of the Tarot Society seemed somewhat subdued.

“Gellert Grindelwald?” Hermione asked. “The first Dark Lord? That’s cool. I’ve read ‘A History of Dark Magic in Europe,’ which gives a brief overview of his ideas. While it’s not as good as what you’ve told me, it’s still much better than pure-blood theory.”

“Heh.” Tiera chuckled. “And number sixteen, ‘The Tower’.”

“This is it,” Tiera said. “This library is our ‘Tower’ and also the meeting room of the Tarot Society. You can look through the books here anytime, anywhere. If you want to come, take out the tarot deck I gave you, find the ‘Hanged Man’ card, call my name, and I will bring you here.”

"Where...where am I?" Hermione asked, looking around curiously. "Where is this? How did you get here? I remember that Apparition is forbidden at Hogwarts."

“Here,” Tiera thought for a moment, then said, “you can call this the Land of Omniscience. Every living being that enters this place will have a blessing mark called ‘Knowledge’ left on their left hand. From then on, whether you are inside or outside the ‘Tower,’ you can touch the books with your fingers and directly obtain the most essential knowledge, bypassing the limitations of words.”

"Really?" Upon hearing that she could access knowledge directly without relying on written words, Tyella felt Hermione's eyes light up instantly. At the same time, Tyella also saw Hermione's genuine joy through the voyeuristic magic—

She is indeed a lovely little girl who loves to read.

“Really,” Tierra said with a smile. “You can read any of the books here.”

—Anyway, the truly dangerous books aren't here at all.

Books like the *R'lyeh Text*, the *Necronomicon*, and the *Fragments of Seraino* aren't here. Aside from a few dark magic books looted from the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts, the room is filled with philosophical masterpieces like *Das Kapital*, *State and Revolution*, and *Nationalism* in various languages, all purchased by Tyella from bookstores in the Muggle world, along with various magical books generously sponsored by Gilderoy Lockhart and Salazar Slytherin.

Even so, Tiera was not enough to fill the space he created inside the "Inheritors".

So in the end, Tierra had to have Dobby take her to his old client's house and bring over all the books that Tierra liked from the Malfoy Manor library, which was barely enough to decorate such a grand Tarot Club meeting room.

After all, if there's just a bright and beautiful tower, but it's not even full of books, wouldn't that be too low-class?

What gives Tyella the right to lead that young girl onto the great path of liberating the entire wizarding world?

Does she have to rely on her beauty?

As for letting Hermione come into contact with real magic...
Please, Tyella is a cunning old fox, not a saint. There are enough people like Tyella on her own with the intention and ability to cause trouble. Adding Hermione Granger would just be making things harder for herself.
"As for the issue of Hogwarts prohibiting teleportation," Tierra explained, "it's not a big problem, after all, my innate magic is 'space' magic."

Tierra said, waving her hand—

He and Hermione were clearly very close, but suddenly, Hermione felt an overwhelming sense of distance. Even though Hermione's hand was clasped with Tyrell's, in Hermione's perspective, Tyrell's face seemed hundreds, even thousands of meters away—

Hermione found this feeling extremely strange, as if she had been instantly drawn into the center of some bizarre and chaotic vortex. Hermione felt that her eyes, ears, and all her senses were being stimulated to the extreme. The Tyra standing in front of her seemed to disintegrate into countless "tiny particles" in a spatial sense in an instant. Although Tyra was still Tyra, and he was still a complete Tyra, every inch of Tyra's skin and every cell seemed to exist in a completely different space.

This sense of space emanated from the spot where Tierra and Hermione stood, spreading outwards little by little, gradually—

Hermione felt that everything was so distant yet so close, so chaotic yet so orderly, so long yet seemingly happening in an instant. She and Tyella seemed to be at the center of the universe, at the very beginning of all chaos—

"We dwell within nutshells, yet we are still kings of infinite space," Tiera whispered in Hermione's ear, lowering her head. Then, in the next moment—

Tiera raised her arms to shoulder level, her feet off the ground, and hovered in mid-air. Her entire body became translucent, and endless radiance flowed from her body, transforming into countless fine threads of light that spread outwards into the surrounding void.

Some of the threads pierced Hermione's body—

In that instant, Hermione seemed to witness the birth and destruction of countless stars, the billions of collisions and hybridizations of organic and inorganic matter, the birth of the first life amidst raging winds and thunderous lightning, its unbridled growth, evolution, and decay in the wilderness—

New life is born anew from this muddy soil.

"I am the Holy Son, I am the Hanged Man," Tiera solemnly declared, suspended in mid-air. "I am the inheritor of knowledge, I am the mage of space."

“Because of my special status, I am the information hub of the entire Tarot Society,” Tierra said, then waved her arm—

All the strangeness around Tyella disappeared, and she fell back to the ground. Then, she gently clapped her hands in front of Hermione.

That strange feeling vanished instantly, and Hermione was drenched in cold sweat and flushed as if she had just woken up from a dream.

I stared at Tiera, both in awe and fascination.

Seeing Hermione's expression, Tyrell smiled with satisfaction.

The anchor of "inheritors"—a solution.

Just as taking Harry to swim in the Black Lake was to resolve the "parasite's" anchor, Tierra taking Hermione through the "Inheritor's" body was to set an anchor point for her own ascension ritual.

To be precise, it is by anchoring the authority held by Tiera that the "foundation" and "steps" of Tiera's initiation ceremony are anchored in both directions, making it easier for the "steps" to coalesce into one's own divine position when ascending to godhood.

This step isn't actually particularly necessary, because once the ascension ritual is performed, the "ladder" will inevitably coalesce under the guidance of the "foundation," but—

Why didn't Tierra follow the concept of the Holy Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?

If we can prepare more of these life-saving measures, then Tiera should prepare more of them too.

Otherwise, why would Tyrell take Harry to the Black Lake and then formally bring Hermione into the Tarot Club?
Could he really be a great philanthropist?

Thank you

Mingyuan Bill donated 100 Qidian coins.

Let's do something sensible and cast our votes for January.
Apocalyptic Black Smoke - January Ticket
A certain tea brand cast its January vote.
ZEROKNIGHT casts its January vote.
Night Owl 0u0 voted for 2 months.
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