HP: The Root of Everything - The Magician

【McFastie...?】

Upon hearing this surname, Teach Carr unconsciously raised his eyebrows, feeling extremely surprised.

Unexpectedly, instead of finding information about this centuries-old secret wizarding family in the study, a member of the McFastie family appeared before his eyes—a living, breathing person.

Teach looked at Shake McFastie kneeling on the ground, a smirk playing on his lips, and then couldn't help but chuckle: "Miss Shake, I have a question for you. If you can answer honestly, I might consider sparing your life."

"Sir, please ask. As long as it's something I know, even if it's a secret of the Ministry of Magic, it's fine."

"No, I'm not interested in the Ministry of Magic for the time being. I'm interested in you now..."

With a mixture of fear and confusion, Sharon asked Teach Carr, "I'm asking you, where is your McFastie family?"

How many members are there in your family?

"Why did your family hide in the city and not operate in the magical world hundreds of years ago?"

"What is the relationship between the Black Dragon and your family? Why do you claim to be protecting the Black Dragon?"

As Teach continued to ask questions, Shake's expression grew increasingly strange, completely bewildered: [McFastie? Family? ...I have a family??]

At this moment, Teach noticed Shake's questioning expression and immediately stopped asking the question.

A second or two later, Teach frowned uncertainly and asked, "You... don't know the McFastie family?"

Xia Ke shook her head.

"Then what's the story behind your surname?"

“I don’t know, sir. I think I’ve been called Shake McFastie since I was born. Huh? Why did I say ‘seems’?”

As Xia Ke pondered her own doubts, Titch thought of a possibility, so he placed his hand on Xia Ke's head and warned, "Don't move, don't resist, or I'm afraid I might accidentally crush your head."

Teach probed Xia Ke's mind with his life magic, searching for the answer. After a long while, Teach withdrew his hand, then walked silently to the desk and began to take out herbs and other materials from his bag to concoct a magic potion to restore her memory.

While concocting the potion, Teach gazed intently at Shake: [Sure enough, a segment of Shake's memory was erased by the Oblivion Curse, but thankfully, traces of the erased memory remain in her brain. I only need to use the potion to nourish these traces and restore her memory.]

This behavior suggests that the McFastie family is indeed up to something.

[Haha~ What could it be? I'm really curious!]

Less than ten minutes later, Teach tossed the potion to Shake and ordered her to drink it. Under the threat of death, Shake had no choice but to accept her fate; even if it was poison, she had to drink it.

The potion that restores memories takes effect instantly after being ingested, but abnormal phenomena occur during the recovery process.

Shake collapsed to the ground, clutching her head in agony, while clutching her chest in excruciating pain. This made Teach Carl begin to suspect that the potion knowledge Snape had given him was fake.

As the pain intensified, Shake's chest began to emit a faint black light, fueled by suspicions about Snape. Teach quickly stepped forward, lifted Shake's clothes, and roughly tore off her underwear.

Without looking at the two trembling, fair, and round mounds, Teach kept his eyes fixed on them.

The source of Xia Ke's chest pain and the black glow emanating from it was an engraving—a black dragon pattern.

As Shakko's memories returned under the influence of the potion, the black cracks that had sprouted from the Black Dragon Mark were rapidly spreading toward her heart. Teach could see that if he didn't stop it, Shakko McFastie would die.

This was not the result Teach Carl wanted. Without hesitation, Teach placed his left hand on the black dragon mark on Shake's chest, then infused it with life magic to surround the black crack, and finally successfully pressed the crack back into the mark.

As the Black Dragon Imprint was suppressed, Xia Ke's headache subsided, and her memories returned.

For some reason, Xia Ke slumped to the spot, her eyes filled with despair, and then tears streamed down her face: "I remember now, I remember everything."

Just as Teach was about to ask, Shake slowly stood up, knelt down in front of Teach, and pleaded with tears, hatred, and anger in her eyes: "Please, my lord... avenge me. I am willing to give everything."

After saying that, Xia Ke raised her head and took off all her clothes. She wanted to show Titch Carl in this way her determination to give everything for revenge.

Tichy Carr looked at Shakko, who was completely naked, without wavering. Instead, his eyes gradually turned cold. He then sat down on a sofa and quietly watched Shakko McFastie begging him.

After a very long time...

Teach looked at Xia Ke, who was completely naked, and saw no sign of wavering or shyness under his long gaze. He then asked, "You mean what you meant by giving everything?"

"You can do whatever you want with my body, I'll cooperate."

"My life is at your disposal; I am your slave."

I will not hide anything about my past from you.

"My future, my future life, everything I have, I dedicate to you."

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

26 years ago.

A witch's wedding to a Muggle in the McFastie family.

Shafia McFastie was born in the Muggle world and is not part of a family.

One day, when Shafia turned 18, her mother abandoned her and returned to the McFastie family, never to return.

In the days that followed, Shafia lived alone, and then fell in love with someone.

Shafia's lover is a Muggle. When they have both put on wedding rings and set a wedding date, Shafia receives a summons from the McFastie family, who, in her mother's name, demand that she return to the family.

After receiving a letter from his mother after many years, Shafia, with his lover and the help of his clansmen, rushed back to his family to prepare for a wedding witnessed by his mother.

But little did she know, she shouldn't have come back.

Shafiya held his mother's urn and held a wedding ceremony amidst the blessings of his tribe. He then spent two happy years with his lover, after which Xia Ke was born.

When Xia Ke was five years old, in accordance with the family's inviolable traditional rules, a black dragon mark was tattooed on Xia Ke's chest, and then Sha Feiya was required to send her to the family's magic academy.

This academy is a closed-campus institution, and Sha Feiya knows nothing about her daughter Xia Ke's true situation there. She can only remember her daughter by looking at photos passed down from her family.

Until one day...

Shafia learned some terrifying secrets, so he broke into the family's magic academy, and the couple wanted to take their daughter Xia Ke away.

In the end, in front of the family's higher-ups, Shafiya sacrificed her own life to protect Xia Ke.

In the end, Xia Ke and her father were subjected to the Oblivion Curse. Although their memories disappeared, the black dragon mark on Xia Ke's chest remained.

As long as the mark remains, Shake will forever belong to the McFast family.