Chapter 557: Nicoléme's letter
Chapter 557 Nicoléme’s letter
Diana was once an Auror?
To be honest, this was indeed a bit beyond Kyle's expectation. He subconsciously thought that Professor Moody had remembered it wrong, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that this was really possible.
Kyle remembered that he went shopping in Diagon Alley when he first received his admission notice. The Leaky Cauldron, which was originally bustling, fell silent the moment Diana opened the door.
Just being a silent person in the Department of Mysteries is obviously not enough to do this. After all, this identity is kept secret and few people know it.
“Auror…”
Kyle muttered something under his breath, then turned back to the door of the classroom and walked toward the stairs with Kangna.
In the next two weeks, Kyle still went to the principal's office every Saturday to study with Dumbledore, which made everyone who knew about it envious.
Because Easter is coming soon and it is also the last long holiday before the end of the school year.
The fifth grade O.W.L. exam seems to be approaching, there are more and more homework, and the professors’ requirements are becoming more and more strict.
They now use more parchment every day than they did in the past week.
But Kyle is an exception, because to study with Professor Dumbledore, he only needs to write potions class and history of magic homework.
Needless to say, Potions class, even Dumbledore couldn't make Snape exempt from Kyle's homework. As for the history of magic... it was useless even if Dumbledore said it.
But even so, Kyle saved a lot of time. According to Mikel, Professor McGonagall now has them write a roll of parchment as homework every day. Every time he goes to Hogsmeade, he has to Buy a stack of parchment paper and two bottles of ink to spare.
The day before the Easter holiday, which also happens to be a Saturday, if anyone is outside the castle, they will see the window of the principal's office shining with golden-red light.
The appearance of the principal's office has also completely changed. The room has been enlarged countless times. Dumbledore moved an entire lake about the same size as the Black Lake into his office.
On the surface of the lake, little flames are burning that have not yet been extinguished. The temperature in the room is frighteningly high, like a furnace. All the past principals are huddled in a picture frame with winter in the background, as if this can make them cooler... Although They don't feel the temperature changes at all.
Fox was very happy. He stood on the perch with squinted eyes and made a comfortable chirping sound from time to time.
"That's right, even I can't fault it." Dumbledore said, looking at Kyle sitting on the chair, breathing heavily.
He waved his magic wand, and in an instant, the lake disappeared and the principal's office returned to its original state.
“Drink some, you might like it.”
A cup of hot cocoa appeared on the table next to him. Kyle picked it up and took a sip.
"As I said just now, Kyle." Dumbledore also picked up the black tea in front of him and took a sip. "You have completely mastered this spell and there is no need to continue learning...
“By next Saturday, you don’t have to come to my place anymore and you can do what you like.”
"Okay." Kyle nodded, and after calming down his excitement, he took out the booklet Dumbledore gave him at the beginning and said, "Professor, can you give this to me?"
"If you like it, of course it's no problem." Dumbledore said with a smile, "To be honest, when these contents were published, few people read them... most people were not very interested in ancient runes. ."
“But there are still some people who like it, aren’t there?” Kyle said.
"That's right." Dumbledore said with a smile, "Oh, by the way, I have one more thing to tell you."
“What?” Kyle put the book away again and put it in his pocket.
"It's about the Easter holiday." Dumbledore opened the drawer and took out a red stone fragment.
"This can't be Nico's door key..." Kyle blurted out.
The main reason is that this thing looks too familiar to Kyle. He has one on his body, but it is blue. This was given to him by Nicolas Flamel a few years ago, saying that it would allow him to return to the library of his old house in Paris if necessary.
It’s just that until now, Kyle has never used this thing, and he doesn’t know when Nico was talking about it.
"It seems that you still remember, but you don't need me to explain it anymore." Dumbledore nodded, "Yes, this is the door key." Nico wrote to me yesterday, saying that you might need this...oh, it coming. "
While he was talking, a brown owl just appeared outside the window.
Dumbledore opened the window and let it in.
The owl came straight to Kyle, put a letter in his hand, and then trembled all over, turning into feathers on the ground and disappearing.
"Don't be surprised." Dumbledore explained promptly: "This is what Nico made of owl feathers...in order to prevent others from finding his address through the owl."
Kyle nodded, expressing understanding.
Then he opened the letter.
"I take back what I said to you before. You may need to come over. A certain lady seems to want to chat with you..."
The letter is not long, and there is no signature on it. There is just a crown-like pattern drawn at the end.
"It seems that you have new things to deal with." Dumbledore said with a smile, "Do you need help? I've been quite free recently."
"Thank you, Professor, but it shouldn't be needed for the time being." Kyle thought for a moment and said: "It's something I asked Tony to help repair before. There seems to be something wrong."
“It’s really strange that something that Nico inherited can still have problems... Oh, I think I understand.”
Dumbledore suddenly said: "I was still thinking about what you were going to do with the locket, whether you would destroy it directly with the basilisk's fangs, but I didn't expect to give it to Nico. This is indeed a good idea.
“I remember Nico studied Horcruxes for a long time, and no one knew more about them than him at this point.”
"Yeah, that's what I thought too," Kyle said.
Dumbledore guessed correctly, but only half-correctly. Nico was looking for him because of the Horcrux, which was true, but it was not the locket.
Nico said before that he is currently busy solving the magic stone and the time turner and has no time to deal with other things, so the locket should not have been touched yet.
And it is not difficult to see from the crown pattern at the end of the letter that he is referring to Ravenclaw's crown.
Of course, Dumbledore didn't know this.
“Professor, when is the time for this portkey?” Kyle asked.
"You can do it at any time," said Dumbledore, "just take it and say Nicolas Flamel's name silently.
“But I suggest you go again tomorrow. The train leaves school at nine o’clock in the morning.
"Don't forget that you are still a warrior, and your every move will be watched. If you leave school early, it will inevitably arouse the suspicion of the guests."
“Okay, then tomorrow.” Kyle said.
He had no intention of setting off immediately.
Nico's letter was too sudden, and there were many things he didn't understand that needed to be thought about carefully.
There is a woman who wants to chat with him. Who is this person... Anyway, Kyle feels that it must not be Nico's wife.
Combined with Ravenclaw's diadem...Kyle couldn't help but think of a possibility.
Although this sounds ridiculous, there seems to be no other answer.
…
(End of this chapter)