Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 75 Danger!
Tiera arrived at the door of the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher's office. Finding the door locked, she didn't rush in but politely knocked first.

"Professor Quirrell, Professor Quirrell, hello, are you there?"

Tierra pressed her ear against the door and listened for a while, but there was no response from inside.

"Professor Quirrell, Professor Quirrell, come out quickly! Something terrible has happened! Harry Potter has obtained the Philosopher's Stone!" Tierra knocked on the door even louder.

But there was still no movement inside.

"Quirok, come out here! If you're so capable of stealing a man, then open the door!" Tierra pounded on the door with all her might.

However, there was still no movement inside.

Tierra then drew her wand with relief and pointed it at the keyhole.

"Open the Alaho hole!"

The wooden door remained completely still.

Tsk tsk tsk, look at this, look at this. Quirrell put a lock-picking spell on the lock of his office. You're telling me that Hermione's lock-picking spell can open the place where you keep the Philosopher's Stone so easily? Are you, Dumbledore, fishing for information?

Tiera was not surprised that the unlocking spell couldn't open Quirrell's office door; it was within his expectations, and Tiera was prepared for it.

Tiera took two matches out of her pocket and used her transmutation magic to turn them into two thin iron needles.

Tierra took two iron needles and inserted them into the keyhole, poking and probing.

"Click—Squeak—"

The heavy door was thus opened.

Alaho Cave Opens - Physics Version
Tierra learned many useful skills while she was wandering the streets.

One of them was a physical unlocking spell; otherwise, Tiera probably wouldn't have met that kind Chinese couple and would have starved to death on the street.

Tierra first pushed the wooden door open a crack and peered through the gap into the office behind it.

After confirming that no one was inside, Tiera pushed open the heavy wooden door and entered the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher's office.

The teachers' office was small, but surprisingly tidy.

Books and various props were neatly stacked in two cabinets on the left side of the office.

There are two piles of documents on the desk, stacked on one side of the desk in ascending order of size.

On the other side of the table was a small, pale yellow potted plant.

The fireplace behind the desk was spotless.

Tierra waved her wand, causing the potted plant on her desk, along with its soil, to float into the air.

Tierra turned over the soil and the empty flowerpot—there was nothing inside.

Tierra ignored the neatly arranged books on the bookshelf, then walked around Quirrell's desk and into the fireplace behind it.

Tierra squeezed inside using the child's body as a base, peeked around, and then climbed out with a faint smile.

Then he tapped the fireplace with his wand, releasing a simple spell to stop the flames.

A dark, worn-out suitcase fell out of the fireplace chimney.

"As expected." Tiera cautiously refrained from touching the briefcase herself, instead having the "Inheritor" open it. Tiera craned her neck to peek inside.

The volume inside the box is much larger than its surface volume.

It must have been cast with an extremely sophisticated, traceless extension spell. Tiera controlled the "Inheritor" to fly into the briefcase, which Voldemort had arranged into a small potion-making room.

There was an experimental table, covered with crucibles, beakers, flasks, wide-mouthed bottles, condensers, and other glassware—as well as a worn-out notebook. The "Inheritor" flew above the notebook, its pages unfurling, attracting the worn notebook to its pages.

The notebook, like ice meeting fire, gradually merged into the "inheritor".

On the previously blank pages of the book, "The Inheritors," rows of text began to appear.

These words are the contents recorded in the notebook, including not only the recipe for the elixir of immortality but also other magic potion recipes.

For example, Felix Felicis, Polyjuice Potion, and some of Voldemort's own creations—judging from one of the spells, it clearly includes the potion Voldemort used to resurrect himself in the fourth book.

On the left side of the lab bench stands a shelf, filled with jars of glass containing all sorts of oddly shaped medicinal herbs.

Tiera glanced at the shelf through the "Inheritor" and saw that all the ingredients needed for the elixir of immortality were present, enough to make at least five servings.

In addition, Tierra saw other precious medicinal materials: datura tubers, unicorn tongues, leopard cat tail hairs, man-eating bee honey, African fire ant formic acid, vampire vine stamens... and Tierra's most longed-for and coveted possession, the pupa of the ghost-faced hawk moth!

The "inheritor" flew out contentedly and locked the box.

Tiera did not do any of this herself.

This was the private laboratory of the second-generation Dark Lord, and Tyrell couldn't guarantee that Voldemort wouldn't put some dark magic curses on it, so everything was left to the invulnerable "Successor" to do.

After locking the suitcase, Tiera had the "Inheritor" carry it and fly out of the window of the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher's office.

Tiera planned to have the "Inheritor" bury the briefcase under the Willow Tree first.

Bury it deep to ensure it won't be found by accident.

This way, if Voldemort still has the strength, or if someone follows the clues and finds the box using magic that Tyrell doesn't understand, they won't get burned.

After seeing the suitcase off, Tierra moved her office chair and tapped the floor tiles there.

Before raiding the house, Tyella consulted Tom Riddle, who was in her diary, about how to hide things.

The reason is that his books and homework are often burned or maliciously vandalized by classmates who bully him, and he needs a place to hide them.

Tom Riddle offered him several options.

Sure enough, following Tom Riddle's plan, a search of Quirrell's office led them to Voldemort's hidden potion and elixir of immortality recipes.

The stone brick base under the office chair was normal, so Tierra pushed the office chair back.

Next, Tiera checked the backs of the books on each shelf of the bookcase to see if there were any hidden compartments, as well as behind the blackboard in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom outside.

nothing.

Tiera had no choice but to give up, and used a tidying spell to put the chair and books that she had messed up back in their original places. As she left the teacher's office, she locked the door for him.

Then he quietly left the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.

Tierra has taken less than half an hour.

Tyella walked briskly back to the Gryffindor common room. He had plenty of time; he could go back to his dormitory and wait for half an hour before going to see Professor McGonagall as agreed.

But when he passed by a hideous, enormous gargoyle.

The gargoyle suddenly turned slowly, revealing the spiral staircase hidden behind it.

A kind old man with a long beard, wearing a light purple wizard's robe and a pair of crescent-shaped glasses, walked down the spiral staircase.

"Oh, Tyella! What are you doing here? Shouldn't it be your time to sleep?" Dumbledore called out to Tyella, who was about to rush down the stairs, as she came down the stairs.

(End of this chapter)