How to break into a ring

"...we saw a huge fire giant in Hogsmeade."

Hermione started talking about when she met Mundungus stealing and selling the items of the Black family more than a month ago. It was indeed an unforgettable scene, but few people saw it at that time, and the wind and snow blocked everyone in the house. , The flame giant did not appear for 1 minute from its appearance to its disappearance. Who would want to see it afterwards, only the ruins of the screaming shack.

"Giants don't know magic, and it's common sense that giants with flaming bodies are impossible to appear." Hermione said to the stunned Ron, "I still remember that during the summer vacation, the entire Floo network was unstable. Later, your father Mr Weasley said that the fireplace of the Ministry of Magic was taken over by a magical creature, and it disappeared very suddenly, and one day the flames exploded almost covering the entire square, and then disappeared."

"Ah, do you remember?" Ron was confused, because there were too many people in the Weasley family. At the dinner table, you said yours and I said mine. Unless it was related to the war, no matter how serious the person who said it was, he would be judged by others. People who are busy eating and talking ignore the past.He'd just listened to it as a joke on the part of the incompetent guys at the Ministry.

"That kind of height, only giants... It is impossible for a spell to have such a terrifying effect. I have read many books about alchemy. The tallest magic stone puppet is only four meters high, and the stone sculpture will not disappear immediately. Even if it is destroyed, there will be wreckage." Hermione bravely confronted the white wizard, and she said with certainty, "This is something that doesn't exist."

Dumbledore did not speak.

Harry was a little dizzy, and he subconsciously asked, "Doesn't exist?"

"Yes, what this means is that either we have seen hallucinations, or what happened in the Ministry of Magic is false, and there will be erroneous judgments without answers." Hermione said seriously.

"Hey? That doesn't make sense! No answer maybe because you haven't looked enough." Ron retorted, wishing to look back at the White Wizard.

Dumbledore nodded unexpectedly: "Yes, there are still many mysteries in the wizarding world that we don't understand."

Ron immediately looked at Hermione proudly, and it turned out that the other party didn't look like she was crying angrily after a few words in the first grade. She just stood there in a daze, and soon she shook her head heavily, which seemed to be able to break her original deduction. has been deprecated.

"The red-and-gold dragon, according to them, was bigger than any dragon of any kind, ten times bigger than the Hungarian Horntail that Harry had ever faced."

Just thinking about it made Harry feel dizzy.

"When your brother Charlie came back, he said that he has never seen such a dragon. It is very intelligent, has accurate judgment, and can talk, just like those dragons in the legend."

Ron suddenly felt a lot of pressure, because more than half of what Hermione said came from the news at his family's dinner table.But he has heard it all. Everyone in the Weasley family knows that Charlie likes dragons very much. Most people don't understand what he said, and they received the news of the death of the white wizard that day, and even Charlie didn't say it carefully. Feeling.

"Maybe a lot of magical creatures are hiding, and wizards don't know much about them. Such a big dragon, what does it eat? Come from the forbidden forest like Fay? Charlie said, They can even talk, but no one can hear it Understand."

Hermione didn't actually tell Harry and Ron, she hoped to get more news from Dumbledore to confirm her almost absurd conclusion.

But she was disappointed because Dumbledore just sat and listened and said nothing.

No one could feel her disappointment. Harry was very used to the attitude of the white wizard. The more serious the matter, the more carefully Dumbledore listened, and he rarely interrupted others' discussions in the middle.Similarly, if Dumbledore feels that the speaker's judgment and conclusion have gone astray, he will directly say "that's not important" and then end the conversation. Many people in the Order of the Phoenix have been caught off guard by this but are not allowed to express their opinions The situation has been depressing.

——Because the problems faced by the Order of the Phoenix are basically not serious. With so many wizards gathered together, it is easy to be biased by the first person to express their opinions. Everyone will involuntarily verify that wrong point of view. It is a waste of time, and the Order of the Phoenix will easily make mistakes in the next action.

Therefore, Hermione was not stopped, at least it showed that the wizard was also seriously thinking about the possibility of what she said, and did not overrule her correctness.

Hermione didn't know these things, because many of the things she knew were relayed by Harry. She and Ron seldom directly participated in the discussion of the Order of the Phoenix or even earlier. Every time the principal said something to Harry, None of them were there.

The power of friendship...

Dumbledore looked at Harry with a smile. The crisis situation in the British wizarding world was chaotic, and many people felt hopeless. However, in his eyes, this was not the worst situation, and even the current situation seemed favorable.If he really dies, the burden and expectations left on Harry Potter may be greater than ordinary people's imagination, but at that time, there is still something that can help Harry——White wizard from Harry's first grade Advantages discovered by successfully passing through several levels.

At any time, the "love" in human nature, between mothers and children, between friends... will unexpectedly affect the final fate, which is something that no darkness can accurately calculate.

Dumbledore doesn't feel sorry for Harry now that he has lost the ability to feel the power of friendship, because that is in exchange for more danger, and it is a better choice to have more time for Harry to adapt slowly.

His gaze fell to Harry's forehead.

"Ah..." At this moment, Harry and Ron felt slight changes in their bodies at the same time. Ron was the freckles on his face, and Harry was the scar on his forehead.

The effects of the compound decoction were about to wear off.

This change process is not fast, so when Barty Crouch Jr. was pretending to be Mad-Eye, he could take a sip in time to maintain his state along with the flagon filled with potions.

Harry and Ron ran to the side in a panic, adjusting their clothes with spells.

"Oh, I just mentioned that dragon..."

Hermione came back to her senses, she was a little annoyed that her attention was distracted, she calmed down and continued, "I think maybe this dragon came from another country."

"Pfft." Ron, who was about to wait for the shocking conclusion, couldn't hold back and smiled.

Hermione glared at him. This line of thinking was normal, although it ended up with an absurd result.

There are dragons popping up, of course I want to see where a dragon is missing...

"Greek wizards are keen on magical magical creatures, and they also like to show off these materials. If Greece doesn't have it, Egypt doesn't have it either. This dragon may not have looked like this before... Enough age, like it will in legends Wisdom, it just so happened that in August, the Gringotts dragon escaped."

"That dragon is old and blind," retorted Harry, who had been to Gringotts.

Then he stared blankly at Hermione pulling out two copies of the Daily Prophet from the dark brown bag she was carrying.

"This dragon..." The first newspaper was old, and the picture was after the roof of Gringotts was blown off. Its skin, it spreads its wings more like a bat than a dragon, its scales are dull and red, but what if it recovers?"

"Why did it come back?" Ron blurted out, for he also knew a lot about dragons because of Charlie.Fire-breathing, powerful, difficult to harm with spells, but also obvious weaknesses, irritable, simple thinking, difficult to recover after injury, not to mention that it can make old and blind dragons see things again.

This time Hermione quickly gave the answer.

"Professor Fay Angband."

The voice was very soft, and before Ron could speak to Harry, Hermione proposed again, "In the Dark Forbidden Forest, we came out on hippogriffs, not the dragon, but that day, it was this prophecy The date on the front page of the Home Daily.”

"..."

After three seconds of silence, Harry and Ron jumped up at the same time.

"Isn't he from the Dark Forbidden Forest?"

"Is he not a magical creature?"

Although this is not a sentence, it has the same meaning. Everyone knows that someone drove a giant dragon to rob Gringotts. If it is the same, then the answer is almost ready to come out.

What Fay told was a lie from start to finish.

Including the encounter in the Forbidden Forest, and following them to Hogsmeade, and finally to the castle.

This is really creepy, deceit must mean a bigger conspiracy, a person like this is at Hogwarts, as dangerous as Quirrell with Voldemort sticking to the back of his forehead.

"Tell Professor McGonagall quickly!" The two little lions shouted in unison.

Harry didn't forget what Hermione said before, he hurriedly asked: "Have you found out who he is?"

Regarding the Gryffindor Activity Library, he and Ron have always been very confident. There is basically nothing that Hermione doesn't know, and even if there is, it will eventually be found out.

"Faye is a false name, you don't need to look it up at all, just like he said he is a magical creature." Hermione said palely, "Actually, I just thought the word Angband was a little familiar at first, as if I heard it somewhere , I had the initial doubts."

When the problem was discovered and the investigation was carried out, all those careless details appeared, which was shocking.

There are too many things Hermione hasn't said, such as the red scars on the dragon's body that look like a whip, the guys who don't conform to the habits of dementors disappear without a trace, there is a language that they can communicate, but wizards can't understand... …

The impression of the word Angband is very shallow, but it is very special. It is probably related to an unusual thing, but it has nothing to do with the knowledge that Hermione usually remembers, which caused this effect.It has to be said that Hermione spent a long time looking for this word.

"That's not right. If he's not a magical creature, how could he freeze the spell into a ball and set off fireworks?" Ron looked at the headmaster for help, and the red-haired Weasley felt his mind was in chaos.

"Not only him, but also dragons, things like dementors, and flame giants... This is unreasonable. They don't belong here."

"Ah, foreign?"

"No, British...should be." Hermione answered with difficulty.

Harry and Ron couldn't get over this logic, thinking hard.

After a while, someone in the room finally spoke.

"If this is Hogwarts, I think I can't help but add [-] points to Miss Granger, very wonderful deduction, you have captured the crucial details of the problem, which is very important." Dumbledore Lido looked at them happily, and even made him happier than winning the war with the Death Eaters, because he was old, and he would embark on another great journey without knowing when, and Harry would have to face many things in the future Yes, war is not a simple matter, what is important is not only victory, but also the restoration of order in the next ten years.

Hermione was a little embarrassed, and even more anxious. She wanted to say something, but was stopped by Dumbledore's eyes.

"Anyone who sees things from his point of view is constrained, even me. The Pensieve is an amazing invention." The white wizard winked at Hermione. The best Gryffindor girl would be brilliant, and he wasn't shy about teaching her that.

"Before this conversation began, Miss Granger came to a conclusion, but I didn't. I only had guesses about those details. I even knew more than Miss Granger. ' Misjudgment of the word, I think that's as much a false name as 'Faye', which, as far as I know, means nothing."

Dumbledore's voice was neither urgent nor slow, especially now that he was wearing a youthful appearance, his tone was gentler and at the same time had invisible control, which made Harry shrink back all his doubts.

"What is it that Miss Granger is familiar with that I don't know? Oh, please forgive an old man for having too much confidence in himself. That's how it seems to me, Muggle records, isn't it?"

Hermione nodded. She wanted to say something else, but Dumbledore added briskly: "The real record cannot be said to belong to the UK. If it really exists, it is impossible for the wizards in the past to discover it... Then, it is a book. , Miss Granger, a storybook that everyone who has read thinks it is a made-up story?"

Hermione really didn't need to speak this time, she looked at the principal reverently.

The white wizard subconsciously touched the inside of the robe, but found no candies, so he smiled wryly and wondered how Gellert hated those things, how could there be any in his current clothes.

There was no candy for Harry and them to calm down, so Dumbledore had no choice but to say something up front: "When we encounter things, we all feel that it is terrible, and the difficulties are far away, but in fact the fear comes from our hearts. Think about Boggart , When they didn’t know how to deal with it, some wizards were really scared to death by it, but it’s actually not difficult to deal with, as long as you find the right method.”

"But—" Hermione was anxious.

"Don't worry, tell me first, Fay is... who? Or, not a person?"

Hermione froze, then took a deep breath: "He's a demon king."

Harry Ron said neatly: "You said that he is scarier than Voldemort (the Mysterious Man)!"

"No, no, my argument belongs to Muggles. Gods and demons are both powerful in Muggles. Humans cannot do what is said in legends."

Ron didn't get it, Harry kind of got it.

"Actually, to put it more directly, he used to be a god."

"Bang!" Ron knocked Harry over this time.

"Hermione, are you kidding—" the two exclaimed in unison, looking hopefully at Dumbledore.

But Dumbledore just frowned and said flatly:

"As bad as I thought."

"Professor Dumbledore?" Three voices this time.

"Oh, I guessed he was Death, the story of the poet Bion, the one of the three Peverell brothers." Dumbledore replied.

Ron lay down directly, while Hermione and Harry, who were unfamiliar with wizard fairy tales, were still a little dazed.

"Where's the fire giant?" Harry asked.

"Also a god."

"..." Harry felt that even going out today was an illusion.

Only Dumbledore still said happily: "I think, I will have the honor to see this book right away?"

Hermione struggled to pull out the thick book from the bag that had been cursed with expansion.

One, two, three... Finally, a fourth was drawn.

"Look, Angband." Hermione opened a page of the last book for everyone to see.

Ron also felt that what happened today was too ridiculous. It might be a coincidence that such a book really existed.Yes, it could be a coincidence.

Dumbledore was not in a hurry to read the contents of the book, he stared at the title page for half a minute.

"Ring?" he said to himself.

Fay first appeared on the resurrection stone ring, or the ring...