Chapter 659 The owner of the wooden coffin

Chapter 659 The owner of the wooden coffin

A coffin itself is an unlucky thing, let alone a gift, or a gift to an old man at Christmas...

Are you sure it's a gift, not an endgame? !

Therefore, Rove was shocked when he saw Aberforth's gift for the first time, and secretly cursed:

If he didn't come himself, he wouldn't be afraid that Bathilda Bagshot would see the coffin and be breathless, and the festival would become a funeral?

Then this coffin really made the best use of it.

But in the end Rove agreed to help deliver the coffin for a simple reason: it looks so familiar!

The wooden coffin was not engraved with any words, only a simple pattern on the coffin lid:

Triangular eyes with a vertical line in the middle of the pupil.

Rove has seen two coffins exactly like it in the ghost ship and Ravenclaw's tomb.

Including the coffin of the centaur tribe that Newt had seen, and the coffin in Hogwarts castle mentioned by Dumbledore... This is already the fifth wooden coffin!

Of course, compared with the wooden coffin Rove had seen before, the only difference in this coffin was that it had been... opened.

On the lid of the coffin, there was a huge gap cut out by a sharp weapon, but there was nothing in the coffin, no funerary goods, and no bones.

Bagshot hunched over and walked to the wooden coffin. She looked at it carefully and stroked the patterns on the coffin inch by inch with her old fingers. She said in a trembling voice:

"Merlin...that's it...I didn't expect the legend to be true..."

Hermione's curiosity was aroused by this, and she asked, "Mrs. Bagshot, what legend?"

Bagshot did not answer directly, but pointed to the triangular eye on the coffin, and said in an old voice, "Children, do you know this symbol?"

"The Deathly Hallows," Rove said. "The vertical line represents the Elder Wand, the circle above the vertical line is the Resurrection Stone, and the triangle represents the Invisibility Cloak."

"This is the interpretation of the saints." Bagshot snorted, "but this interpretation actually distorts the original meaning of the symbol."

"Distorted?" Rove wondered: "You mean, this symbol doesn't represent the Deathly Hallows?"

"Of course it doesn't mean." Bagshot raised his head, stared at Rove with his white eyes, and asked:

"Son, do you know when the so-called Deathly Hallows first appeared?"

Rove was dumbfounded for a moment, he really didn't know this, he thought about it, guessed:

"After the Peverell brothers got the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Invisibility Cloak?"

"Not that long." Bagshot shook his head and said, "The term Deathly Hallows was born in the middle of the fifteenth century."

"Fifteenth century?" Rove was stunned. He had always said that the Deathly Hallows had been circulated in the magic world for at least a thousand years. How could it be only five or six hundred years? !

"Is there any proof?" he asked.

"Of course." Bagshot smiled and said, "I asked Nicol once, and he had never heard of the Deathly Hallows when he was young.

It wasn't until he was more than a hundred years old that there was such a saying in the wizarding world. "

"..."

Well... Nicole Flamel was born in the fourteenth century, and to others, what is like history is nothing but experience to him.

Taking his experience as evidence is indeed very convincing.

Rove thought for a while, and then said in doubt: "No, the Elder Wand has been recorded a long time ago."

"I know." Bagshot seemed to see through Rove, and she said slowly:

"I wrote about it in A History of Magic - the demon Emeric was killed in a duel with the monster Egbert, and then his wand was taken from him.

The wand that was taken was the Elder Wand, and this happened in the early Middle Ages, more than a thousand years ago. "

"Then you just said the word Deathly Hallows, which has only been around for five or six hundred years?" Rove asked suspiciously.

"Child." Bagshot stared straight at Rove with his white pupils:

"The Elder Wand, the Invisibility Cloak, and the Resurrection Stone have been circulated in the magic world for a long time, and the concept of the Deathly Hallows was formed later and does not conflict."

"In fact, in a long history, the three of them have been irrelevant." Bagshot said calmly:

"Wizards have all heard stories of super powerful wands, and they have appeared under different names and have been owned by different wizards over the centuries."

"But the Invisibility Cloak and the Resurrection Stone are different. They are stable and privately circulated in certain families with Peverell's blood.

So, they hardly had much fame, and no one compared them to the Elder Wand...until the fifteenth century! "

Bagshot paused, and continued to speak in an old voice: "There was a wizard who compiled the story of the three brothers and the God of Death, and people gradually knew about the Invisibility Cloak and the Resurrection Stone."

Luo Fu was stunned for a moment, and said, "Bedou, the poet?"

"That's right." Bashat nodded: "This bard, who was born in Yorkshire, England in the fifteenth century, compiled Beedle's Tales, and for the first time wrote the story of the three Peverell brothers and the Grim Reaper. .”

"Bedou was the first to propose the concept of the Deathly Hallows, he claimed that as long as the three Deathly Hallows were collected, he could conquer the God of Death and become the master of the God of Death.

So the wizards began to rush to find the Deathly Hallows, and Beedle himself created the organization of saints and called the saints to embark on the road to find the god of death. "

After a while of silence, Rove looked at the triangular eye on the coffin and asked curiously, "Is this symbol also designed by Beedou?"

"No." Bagshot shook his head: "This symbol has a long history, longer than the history of the Elder Wand and even the entire human race. It... comes from the kingdom of ancient wizards."

"Ancient wizard?" Rove was stunned, he really didn't expect this answer. "Then what does it really mean?"

"Death and resurrection," Bagshot explained:

"The triangle represents the pyramid, the ancient wizard will bury himself in the pyramid, the circle is the heart, and the vertical in the middle represents the corpse of the ancient wizard.

The meaning of the whole symbol is that the dead body buried in the pyramid, the heart will be beating again.

This symbol was used as a funerary amulet and was engraved on the coffin and tombstone of the deceased by ancient wizards. "

"If you go to the tomb of Ignotus Peverell, there is this symbol on his tombstone."

Rove pondered. It turned out that this symbol was used by ancient wizards for the dead. So...

"An ancient wizard is buried in this coffin?" Rove guessed.

Bagshot stared at Rove with cloudy eyes, she put her hands back on the wooden coffin, touched it almost caressingly and said:

"A more accurate statement is the corpse of the last ancient wizard. It is rumored that he was divided into five parts and placed in five wooden coffins."

"And this... is one of them!"

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