Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 42 Curse
The next morning, Tierra yawned and got up at six o'clock as usual.

He usually goes to bed early, but last night Harry and Ron discussed Cerberus all night, and they even brought up Tyella.

Because Ron's little brain doesn't remember anything, all he remembers is that the thick book Tyrell used to beat Malfoy on the Hogwarts Express was called something like "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them".

The two mischievous kids chased after Tiera all night, asking her about the three-headed dog and other magical creatures.

They only showed their unparalleled thirst for knowledge when it came to causing trouble and Quidditch.

Last night, Harry fully demonstrated the power of the James Potter gene. He was terrified yesterday afternoon, but once he lay down in bed, he and Ron agreed that seeing the three-headed dog was a wonderful adventure, and they wished they could experience it again.

However, only Tiera roared in his heart like an old father: We were so close to dying yesterday!

Tierra, who had already read through the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," knew very well just how ferocious Cerberus was.

They may be as obedient as little puppies to their owners, but once they get angry, they are magical creatures that can even fight a fire dragon thanks to their thick skin and tough flesh.

If it weren't for the fact that taming them doesn't require extremely high magical skills, these creatures would easily be classified as 4X.

Therefore, it makes sense that Hermione was so angry after this incident in the original book.

Reality is different from the movie. In the movie, he thought that Cerberus was the easiest obstacle to overcome, but when he actually faced Cerberus's three gaping maws last night, Tiera felt a twitch in his calves.

What's even more absurd is that Harry told Ron exactly what the small package, which seemed to have been moved from Gringotts to Hogwarts, was, so they spent even more time guessing what it was that required such tight guarding.

If Neville and Seamus, his roommates, hadn't been asleep, Tierra would have suspected that the group of young wizards were going to have a discussion about the Philosopher's Stone tonight.

“It’s either extremely valuable or extremely dangerous,” Ron guessed.

“Or maybe both,” Harry guessed.

"Or I suggest you go to bed early," Tierra interjected quietly. "Don't forget you have Potions class tomorrow. Do you really think what Cerberus is guarding is more dangerous than Snape?"

Harry and Ron only briefly considered Snape's deadpan face, as if someone had stolen their wife...

The world instantly became peaceful.

When Tierra entered the restaurant, still a little dazed.

"Good morning." Hermione, the little witch, was already sitting in the dining room, holding a book titled "A Brief Introduction to Transfiguration."

It seems that the little witch has learned that Tierra turned the notebook into parchment. Faced with Tierra, who is also of Muggle origin, being able to perform such exquisite transfiguration, the competitive girl is unwilling to fall behind.

I borrowed this book, "A Brief Discussion on Transfiguration," from the library yesterday.

However, the book was clearly too profound for Hermione, and she didn't get into it. Otherwise, she wouldn't have greeted Tyella the moment he appeared and then continued to pretend to read "A Brief Introduction to Transfiguration".

"Good morning." Tierra smiled gently and, as usual, ordered a glass of hot milk, a hard-boiled egg, a small piece of rye bread, and an apple, then ate slowly and deliberately.

Today's classes were quite relaxed, at least for Tyrell and Hermione. So, after breakfast, they could continue reading books unrelated to the lessons. Ever since Snape separated Tyrell and Harry, pairing her with another "know-it-all" in the class, Snape never approached Tyrell and Hermione's group during his rounds. Even when Hermione once forgot to add the Abinsula seed, causing the potion to emit a foul, leathery smell, Snape ignored it. Tyrell's only challenge in Potions class was Hermione.

Hermione must strictly follow the steps and methods in the book, even though Tyrell has more convenient, simpler, and more modern methods.

They often argued about this in Potions class.

Of course, neither the stubborn Hermione nor the persistent Tyella could convince the other, so their group often brewed two potions—Tyella and Hermione each held a cauldron and brewed one potion each.

Tierra always finished first, quickly and well, which made Hermione resentful. She thought Tierra had taken a shortcut, so she wanted to surpass Tierra in other classes.

But the other young wizards, especially those from Gryffindor, could only gleefully prepare for their afternoon Potions class.

Harry and Ron, in particular, were the two people Snape focused on and penalized.

After all, the two of them played Wizarding Cards for two or three hours straight while studying in the library yesterday, so they could only catch up during this little bit of time before class.

“Hey, Tyella, why does snake plant cure stomach aches?” Harry asked.

“Page twenty-seven in the book,” Tiera said without looking up. “A wizard’s stomachache is usually not caused by indigestion, but by stress… cough, it’s an external manifestation of the effects of a curse or plague. These curses or plagues are the root cause of the stomachache. They prefer to parasitize on snake fetus grass rather than the wizard’s body, so snake fetus grass can solve most wizards’ stomachaches.”

“However, the snake fetus grass must be expelled from the body in time, so one of the side effects of the medicine made from snake fetus grass to treat abdominal pain today is that it will cause severe diarrhea,” Tiera said.

"Okay, okay." Harry buried himself in his book again.

Tiera once conducted an experiment with the snake fetus grass, the cursed worm, and herself, and found that the snake fetus grass did indeed have the effect of absorbing curses and plagues, but its effect was limited.

It does attract curse worms, but only attracts them; it doesn't actually make them flock to it.

Cursed worms are considered semi-living organisms. Even the simplest types of cursed worms, such as those created by Tiera using cuts, the common flu, and the tobacco mosaic virus, possess the most basic multicellular biological instincts.

Those that are slightly more advanced, such as the HIV worm, the cancer worm, and the cursed worm that Tiera conjured with the petrification spell, possess even more advanced neural responses.

I wonder if, in the future, if we encounter even higher curses, such as the Death Curse, the Soul-Stealing Curse, or the Crucifixion Curse, the curse worms condensed using these three forbidden curses will exhibit a higher biological form.

and many more……

Tierra suddenly remembered something and looked up at Professor Quirrell, who was sitting timidly in the teachers' seat eating his breakfast.

Speaking of higher-level curses...

He remembered that Voldemort, who was parasitizing Quirrell, was drinking unicorn blood to stay alive.

Consuming unicorn blood would bring a terrible curse.

Is Voldemort, who parasitized Quirrell, considered a curse?
Could the curse brought by unicorn blood and Voldemort be extracted by the curse worm?

(End of this chapter)