Chapter 363 The Wizard's Curse
The gloomy cemetery, the young boy who robbed the tomb, the soft female voice that suddenly sounded... This picture, not to mention very scary, is also extremely creepy.
What's even more frightening is that the woman who made the voice is really a thousand-year-old female ghost.
Rove turned his head and saw Helena in a floor-length dress floating behind him, looking at him with interest.
"What are you doing, Rove?"
Rove didn't expect to see Helena here, he was stunned, hesitantly said:
"I... I'm doing archaeology."
"archeology?"
"Well... this is a vacation homework for Muggle studies." Rove nonsense: "Professor Bubaji asked us to conduct salvage excavations on those stolen tombs, which is what I am doing now."
"Really?" Helena said with a half-smile on her face:
"But I asked about your timetable, and I don't remember you taking Muggle Studies at all?"
"Really? That's my memory?" Luo Fu was a little embarrassed, and he abruptly changed the subject: "Why are you asking about my schedule?"
"Once I know your class schedule, I know where you are every second." Helena lowered her voice and said shyly:
"When I miss you, I can find the classroom where you study and take a sneak peek at you."
The cold wind was blowing on Rove, and he couldn't help getting goose bumps all over his body.
Helena, you're not a little girl anymore, you're already a thousand years old, can we stop talking so earthy about love?
Rove rubbed his cold arms and said, "Who taught you to speak like this?"
"Uh... Myrtle." Helena said honestly, "No man can resist her saying that."
"..."
"Myrtle...you will die sooner or later!" Rove cursed secretly.
"Helena, recover a bit, I still like your rebellious appearance before."
"Really?" Helena's eyes widened, and she really quickly recovered her coldness. She asked again, "So, what are you doing?"
"Tomb robbery." Rove continued to babble, "I'll practice a few more times, and then I'll rob your mother... Cough cough, I have experience exploring your mother's tomb."
Although the words sounded like curses, Helena was very happy, and now she wanted to take Rove to her mother's tomb to "explode gold coins".
After all, there are many precious out-of-print magic books in the tomb, and Rove can revive her if he learns it.
Helena was convinced of it!
Therefore, she sincerely suggested: "Rove, I don't have any useful experience in Muggle tombs. I know where the tombs of several famous wizards are. Let me take you there now."
"..."
"By the way, why did you bring in another corpse just now?" Helena asked again.
Rove continued to be at a loss for words, and Helena floated down. She looked at the name on the tombstone, frowned and said, "Tom Riddle, this is..."
"Well, this is the tomb of Voldemort's father." Seeing that he couldn't be fooled, Rove could only explain honestly: "I'm laying a trap to deceive him, so don't tell anyone about it."
"Don't worry, of course I won't say it." Helena hated Tom even more than Roff.
He was the one who cheated Helena of the crown with rhetoric back then, but in the end he broke his oath and never came back to save her.
Bah, liar, scumbag, go to hell!
Rove raised his wand and continued to use Restoration to restore the cemetery. After that, he asked curiously, "Why are you here?"
"I've been following you since you came out of Hogwarts." Helena explained, "It's just that I've been floating in the sky, and you didn't notice me."
It's really pervasive... Luo Fu sighed, and he will have to check the sky for anyone following him when he goes out in the future.
Seeing the boy turned to leave, Helena floated over and asked, "Rove, are you going back?"
Rove shook his head: "I don't plan to go back yet, I'm going to take a walk on the hillside above Little Hangleton."
"Are you looking for Gaunt's old house?" Helena said straight away.
Rove raised his eyebrows and said, "Have you been here before?"
"Of course, the Gaunt family... I have been here with my mother before." Helena sneered:
"My mother begged them to send her children to Hogwarts, but they refused, and they attacked my mother. This is a family of crazy people."
Rove frowned and said, "Isn't the Gunter family descended from Slytherin?"
Slytherin kids, not going to Hogwarts, and attacking Ravenclaw?
"That was later." Helena patiently explained:
"O'Anthony Slytherin, the son of Salazar Slytherin, had only one daughter, and when she married the Gaunt family, the name Slytherin disappeared.
Since then, the Gaunt family has called themselves the descendants of Slytherin..."
The two chatted as they walked, walked along a narrow dirt road towards a bush, and soon found Gaunt's old house in a tangled bush.
The house was covered with moss, and many roof tiles had fallen off, exposing the rafters inside.
Nettles grew thickly all around the house, reaching up to the windows, which were very small and thick with old grime.
Above the door, there is also a statue of a bronze snake, which looks very dangerous.
Rove didn't go in rashly, because after Voldemort made the resurrection stone into a Horcrux, he hid it in the old house.
In view of the strength of protection in the Horcrux cave, this old house must also be full of all kinds of dangerous magic.
With his small body, Rove didn't dare to take risks lightly. When he came next time, he had to bring Dumbledore and let the headmaster take the lead.
The young man observed around the house for a while, and then said casually: "Speaking of which, none of the surnames of the Big Four has been handed down to this day."
"It's normal." Helena was silent for a moment, and said, "My mother told me that wizards are cursed by more powerful beings."
"Cursed?" Rove was taken aback and said, "What curse?"
"Fertility is cursed." Helena said seriously:
"Didn't you notice that most wizards have very few offspring compared to Muggles?
Like the Malfoy family, it has basically been a single family for thousands of years, and so is the Potter family. "
"But the Weasleys have seven children," Rove retorted.
"My mother said that as long as there are multiple bloodlines, there will soon be major changes in the offspring, causing the prosperous wizard family to wither quickly." Helena said softly:
"Look at the Black family, there are many descendants in the last three generations, but when it comes to Sirius Black, he has three cousins, and his younger brother is also dead.
Not you, Sirius Black would have died in Azkaban, and finally wiped out the name. "
"There is also the Crouch family. In the time when I was still alive, there were six Crouches, but two died in vendettas, one disappeared, and the other two had no descendants."
"The Dumbledore family, when Albus and Aberforth die, the name will die too."
"In the Peverell family, only the third of the three brothers survived, but he only had one daughter, who soon married into the Potter family... This ancient surname is gone."
Helena finally said softly:
"Rofe, my mother told me...the blood of wizards has been cursed by a greater power, preventing them from breeding like muggles.
This kind of curse is just like the inevitable failure of wizards to establish a country. All wizards will eventually change from pure blood to half blood, and even squibs...the number is getting smaller and smaller until they are assimilated by Muggles.
"Finally..." Helena murmured softly, "Wizards are heading for complete extinction. This is the ultimate destiny."
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