Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 158
Firenze fell into memory, and slowly told a few people everything he knew.

……

an hour ago.

Ronan looked up at the blood moon in the sky.

"The moonlight tonight...is it bloody?!".

Bain looked up when he heard it, then lowered his head and continued to discuss with Firenze about the magic ceremony to be held later.

Seeing that no one paid attention to him, Ronan walked up to the two of them and said hesitantly, "The last time this ceremony was held was more than 60 years ago... and the consequences of that time almost led to the extinction of our group... Now that our generation of young horsemen grows up...the horse people are barely recovering."

"During the discussion among the ethnic groups, when it was decided to use the ancient magic ritual of the world gap...why didn't you object, and now you say that?"

Bain said angrily, "Ferenze...you tell him that this is the suggestion you made first - we want us to investigate the reason for changing the astrological prophecy!"

"Bane, remember... there must be no deviation in the far rotation of the planet. If there is such a constantly changing and constantly reshaping trajectory...you know the final consequences of that event. The two major wars that broke out in the Muggle world and the wizard world almost turned the whole world into ruins 60 years ago....We must know what triggered all this...What is the key point of the beginning...We must prevent the imbalance of fate, otherwise the world will fall into destruction again!"

"Compared to this, it is only a small matter that the fate of the Dark Lord and the savior Harry has been affected..." Firenze said.

"Maintaining the normal operation of the stars is the mission of our centaurs! Although I often disagree with Firenze's approach and ideas...but now I have to say that what he said is correct." Bane took the topic hoarsely and continued.

"If the boy really caused all this to happen... what would you do, would you kill him in front of Dumbledore?" Ronan said sadly.

The two were silent for a long time... Firenze's expression was extremely heavy, "Let's clarify the matter before we talk about it!"

"Ronan, you still stay here with some of your tribe... If the ceremony fails, then you will take your tribe to leave the Forbidden Forest and go north, and follow the guidance of the Northern Star to find a new habitat for the tribe..." Bain finally told Bain to take care of the centaur cubs and make preparations in case of accidents.

After giving instructions, they proceeded to prepare other required materials.

……

"Afterwards, we got the silk thread from the eight-eyed spider, and after special processing, we turned it into a weaving thread of destiny to connect the gap between the world and the present world...so as to protect the safety of the little wizard and us centaurs during the ceremony." Firenze said in a low voice.

He ran his hands restlessly through his silver mane, which calmed him a little.

"The Gap... what is that?" asked Snape, who had never heard of it.

"Another window to observe the world, the gap between this world and other worlds, the place where mortals dream, the door to the sinking of nightmares..." Firenze said.

Dumbledore calmly explained to Snape, "[Apparition], [AND Key], [Floo Powder]... or the space-displacing magic used by wizards to transfer to other places for a short period of time through other methods. Once these magics are cast and activated, they can open up space gaps between two places, no matter how big or small. Now we call it [Gap of Gap]...and among ancient wizards, they used [Gap of the World] to describe this phenomenon."

"The Gaphole, isn't that where the Untraceable Stretching Charm..." Snape asked.

"That's right, the phenomenon left over after the wizard casts space-type magic. The wizard can hardly sense the gap space that will disappear after a short stay. Only through some extremely special spells can this phenomenon be used to gather and fix it and expand the space. For example, the traceless stretching spell you mentioned... Of course, some ancient magic rituals related to dreams and illusions also use [Gap Hole] as a container for casting magic. From this..."

Dumbledore then stared into Firenze's eyes and asked, "I'm afraid it's more than that! I saw that the long horn and the stone drum are the key to starting this magic ceremony, and your magic ceremony... has the flavor of ancient wizard war magic. Maybe all the centaurs started the magic ceremony just now?"

At this moment, Snape came to his senses. He looked at the long horn carefully, and found something wrong. He tried to draw it into his hand with his wand, but found that it didn't move at all.

"This is……"

"Is this the long-horned water snake with its horns shed? It is said that there is no such danger in England...or even the whole of Europe, and it can cast special magic at will!" Snape walked over to pick it up and identify it.

"Horned Water Serpent... Is this what wizards call it now? It's still just as arrogant..."

"You don't even understand this kind of sacred creature..." Firenze retorted, staring at Snape a little more energetically.

"What happened next? Mainly when the ceremony happened, what did you see?" Dumbledore asked slightly urging, he interrupted the conversation between Firenze and Snape.

McGuffin focused. He also wanted to know what the centaurs saw, what did that blood moon, what did that scene represent, and what did the things he saw mean?
Moreover, being able to... interfere with the system so that it cannot function normally made him palpitate and a little curious.

Firenze then began to describe the scene that terrified them after the ceremony began...

...the great blood moon in the sky...no sign of the other stars of destiny...all of them turned to stone...and the final overthrow...

"That feeling can't be described in words..."

"That blood moon... as if it has invaded your heart, mind, soul... it is your master..."

Listening to Firenze's description of what he saw in the gap, Snape began to recall what they had seen from the sidelines.

When the horn sounded, all the owls in the sky flew away, and the stone drum was sounded immediately...

Gradually the MacGuffin began to levitate, and with each tap he rose a little bit, when everything came to a standstill.

Snape found that everyone there was looking up at the moon, and MacGuffin was floating in the air.

As time passed, he felt more and more wrong. The centaurs had maintained that weird posture and frantic expression for a long time.

Moreover, there was a layer of reddish radiance covering their bodies. There was a strange feeling. The radiance was like a shell that deeply bound these people and petrified them.

At this time, Dumbledore immediately stood up, strode over, and took out his wand and shouted, "The curse is over!"

A silver-blue light glowed from the tip of the wand.

It was only at this time that he realized that all the people...including the centaurs had a translucent ghost-like silk thread tied to McGuffin's body, and the curse issued by Dumbledore was blocked, absorbed, and weakened by those entangled silk threads.

"The end of the curse!"

Finally, the silk net seemed to be unbearable, and turned into ashes, flying in the air.

Only the silk thread tied to McGuffin Albert's wrist seemed to be frozen, and it began to shatter, peeling off and falling to the ground bit by bit.

The horsemen also came to their senses, and the strange red light kept disappearing... They shook their heads, as if thinking of what they had just experienced, and immediately walked away from here with terrified expressions on their faces.

After being dazed for a while, Snape fixed his eyes on the face of the little wizard McGuffin, who was thinking about Firenze's description.

——It seems to know something?
"What does that mean? How does it affect me?" McGuffin asked the centaur.

After Firenze took a deep look at McGuffin, "The blood moon in the astrology represents the night of frantic magic power, and it is usually the most primitive and ancient essential element of magic..."

"Perhaps..." He raised his head and said to Dumbledore, "Perhaps... the disorder of the astrology, primitive magic power, blood moon... maybe it is the magical boundary explored by ancient human wizards?"

"Firenze...the centaur!!!" Dumbledore said to him seriously, and then drove the rest...even Snape away.

McGuffin was sent back to his dormitory by Dumbledore in this confusion (of course, he was tested and re-tested by Madam Pomfrey first).

He was so disturbed by the centaur's last shocking words that he couldn't sleep.

"The limit... the limit of magic... the limit of Transfiguration... Gamp's Law of Transfiguration?"

Throughout the night, he was thinking about getting the information tonight.

……

MacGuffin had almost forgotten that there were still test results to be released.

Ever since that night, all he could think about was seeing Dumbledore panicked before he left.

——What is the limit?

While thinking, he threw a Gold Galleon upwards, caught it, threw it up again, and continued.

so repetitive...

Jin Gallon was rolling back and forth, while Nixiu was lying on his stomach... Gallon and Sick kept nodding their heads up and down. If McGuffin hadn't taught them a lesson, they would have pounced on it.

This went on until Ron let out a sound of crying, howling, or maniacal laughter.

To wake the MacGuffin from the memory of that blood moon night.

It turned out that Ron got very high scores in all his test subjects, which made him very surprised and ecstatic.

Hermione is naturally age No.1.

Even Neville got away with it, and although Snape got a lot of points deducted from his Potions class, he had a good grade in Herbs, which more than made up for the missing points, allowing the marks to average out.

Needless to say, the others also passed the exam one after another.Except for Harry and McGuffin, who didn't have to take the exam, everyone in the same dormitory was very happy and wanted to celebrate.

And the original Gryffindor common room has been occupied by senior seniors who are taking the wizarding level exam... and graduating soon.

They held a senior prom Paty there, which is also a Hogwarts tradition.

Several people had no choice but to gather here to celebrate with various spells, and even the little witch in the same grade came to the boys' dormitory with Hermione.

All kinds of colorful lights are constantly changing positions and flickering in the dormitory, just like a Muggle dance hall...Among them, Hermione created a lot of fluorescent bubbles of different sizes, colliding with each other in the midair, floating, full of dreams.

McGuffin created a bunch of golden birds in the dormitory's headspace, flying back and forth.

Simo Figani casts a spell while the others are not looking and trying to follow suit.

I didn't expect...or it was natural...

- Bang!

A small black mushroom cloud instantly appeared in the dormitory, and it exploded quickly. The black smoke turned into a shock wave like a doughnut and pushed everything away.

The scorching shock wave turned everyone's hair into free curls, and then everyone's faces were smoky and black.

— No one was harmed and the dormitories were not destroyed.

It was just that the suitcases that had been piled up in the boys' dormitory were washed away...the luggage that everyone had worked so hard to pack exploded with a bang, floating in the air, replacing the golden bird and the rainbow bubble, and turned into a broken book and clothes that slowly fell to the ground.

——and the top was also covered in black ash.

"Simo Figani!"

Even his good friend Dean Thomas couldn't stand it this time.

Everyone was glaring at him and shouting loudly.

"What's going on, what's going on?" Percy, wearing a wizard's robe, entered the door of the dormitory with a thick stack of sheepskin notices. Looking at the storefront covered in black and ash, he refused to come in. He stretched his neck to see what was going on here.

(Now he is the only one wearing wizard robes like this, and the prefect brand on his chest is still shining)
The notice is written by Professor McGonagall to each little wizard to inform them that they are not allowed to use magic during the holiday.

In the end, after a busy night, I barely managed to pack everything up.

--worn out!

They first restored everything with the [Repair Curse], and after returning to their original state, they sent the dirty clothes underground to wake up the house elves...

(While tidying up or wiping his face first, Ron finally found Neville's toad again in the corner of the bathroom)
Naturally, Seamo was unanimously condemned by everyone, and it was stipulated that he was deprived of the right to cast spells in the dormitory or in the common room.

By the time they boarded the train the next day, everyone was exhausted, not in the slightest mood to say goodbye to the holiday.

Knowing that Ron made a proposal when the train started to start, several people cheered up.

"Seriously, MacGuffin... Didn't my mother invite you a long time ago?... You can live with us this summer vacation... You can also ask your father, Mr. Longman, to pick up Harry... Harry, don't you want to stay at that Muggle relative's house? I'm sure everyone in our family will welcome you." Ron said with a yawn.

This proposal made Harry excited, his exhausted body seemed to be reinvigorated, and he finally had a look forward to the upcoming summer vacation.

"Yeah... I bet the Dursleys would be happy to let me go... especially when a Muggle family picked me up... By the way, what does your father do, MacGuffin?" said Harry.

"High school football coach..."

"Ha! It's all right now...as long as it's not someone that Uncle Vernon and the others think are weird...they'd be more than happy to keep me away from them..." Harry was already fantasizing about the rest of his summer vacation.

Hermione was a little annoyed, and she looked out the window.

At this time, Hogwarts Castle had been left behind by the train, and only the tip of which tower could be vaguely seen.

McGuffin gave Ron a wink.

Only then did Ron realize his mistake, and hurriedly extended an invitation to Hermione.

"I don't have that time this summer vacation..." Hermione sighed, "My parents let me leave here for such a long time for the first time, so we have already made an appointment to travel to the Alps."

Then she said solemnly, "But I still have so many spells, spells need to be reviewed, and the next semester's courses need to be previewed... During the final exam, I noticed some flaws in my spell casting."

As she spoke, she was elated, and told the other three people the secret of casting the spell that she had discovered.

Ron looked helpless, and while Hermione was not paying attention, he mouthed at McGuffin and Harryby.

—I'll just say it!This guy will definitely hold on to any questionable points in the exam.

The two live treasures on the opposite side made Harry and McGuffin secretly laugh.

"What are you laughing at..." Hermione stopped talking, her sharp eyes scanned back and forth and stared at the three of them.

Several people swallowed their saliva, very nervous.

Just at this time, the witch who was pushing the snacks——Kang Dang Bang Dang pushed the cart over in the aisle, and Harry hurriedly opened the door of the carriage to buy a lot of weird magical snacks.

After this interruption, Hermione also forgot about it.

Ron quickly took out the magic poker card that McGuffin gave last time that could automatically shuffle, and played the game.

At McGuffin's suggestion, they played the Muggle game.

——The universal game for travelers, Fight the Landlords!

——Magical revision [Fighting Demon King]!
Several people have never heard of these rules, but they had a lot of fun playing.

It didn't last long though.

In the late afternoon, a sudden event broke the calm and pleasant atmosphere.

(End of this chapter)