Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures

“Statue?!” Marcus also seemed surprised, as if he had just noticed the statues because of Ivan's reminder.

He looked at the monster statue in the garden in doubt and fell into contemplation.

Ivan frowned and looked at the expression on his face, with a strange feeling.

Marcus seemed to have just noticed the statue, as Ivan had just done when he mentioned the dark magic that the black witch was casting. It was strange that the ghost had not seen the green magic light that had come out of the sky, but had noticed these obvious things only at Ivan's reminder.

This feeling...

It was like something, some kind of magic, was blocking Marcus' gaze, making him turn a blind eye to something in front of him and what was happening, and what he saw was different from what Ivan saw, and when Ivan warned him, the magic was lifted, and he saw what Ivan said.

Given that the very existence of Marcus is also a form of magic, there is a great possibility that what he sees is what the impostor left behind at the time. Either Marcus is pretending not to see them, so that Ivan doesn't notice them, but that was it, and that's it now, whether it's the black witch's tracks or the statues in the garden below, it's obvious, and if Marcus wants Ivan to not see them, it's too much to ignore the past.

“Those statues...” Marcus' tone of pride disappeared, he said dry, “those statues have always been there. ”

“But you didn't seem to see them? ”

“I didn't notice, master.” I didn't expect you to be interested in them, "Marcus said," and these scary statues have been there for a long time, long enough to make it easy for others to ignore them. In fact, I can't remember when they were there, but the guy must have done it, and he liked to mess with strange things, surprised people when they didn't notice. The old master has always been extraordinarily tolerant of his strange behavior, he must have put the statue... "

“Wait, Marcus, who's that guy you're talking about?” Ivan asked.

“The man...” The expression on Marcus' face became stuck again, and he seemed to be stuck in a long memory. It took a long time to say, "It's Young Master Darien, Master, forgive me for not remembering his name for a while. Young Master Darien is the youngest son of the old master, a strange guy with little presence. As you can see, he's always doing some nasty pranks, which seem to be interesting, but actually give everyone a headache. Nobody liked him in the castle, and Young Master Darien was not as talented as his brothers and sisters, nor did he inherit the talents of the Ravenclaw family. In fact, he has nothing. He's a mute. ”

“A mute?” Ivan said, thinking of Hogwarts gatekeeper Felch, he was a mute.

Dumb cannons are people born in the Wizard family who cannot use magic, i.e. Muggles from the Wizard.

Generally speaking, mutineers and certain sorcerers look down on them as second-class citizens of the magic world.

This discrimination becomes particularly evident in pureblooded wizards, many of whom consider the presence of duds in their families to be a disgrace, and who remove members of their families from their genealogies, such as the Malfoy family or the Black family.

Even a family of wizards as friendly to Muggles as the Weasleys, not believing in pureblood supremacy, has difficulty accepting the duds in their own families. As far as Ivan knows, Ron has an uncle who works as a Muggle accountant, but his existence is almost taboo for the Weasley family and will not be talked about.

In the years leading up to the millennium, the status and condition of the duds were much worse than they are today.

They are not easily talked about in the wizard family, they are forgotten.

Families of pureblooded wizards who value blood above all else individually will even kill the mute cannons inside the family directly to avoid being known by others.

“Yes, Master Darien was a mute cannon, and he had shown little ability to administer it since he was a child.” Marcus paused for a while before continuing, "He is a disgrace to the Ravenclaw family, and people rarely talk about him, usually pretending he doesn't exist. The old master was so merciful that he was not expelled from his family. But it's strange, it must have been too long. The memories of Master Darien in my head are always intermittent. I seem to have forgotten a lot, but it's nothing, is it? You can totally ignore him, Master Darien, who has done nothing but do strange things to destroy the castle. ”

How could you ignore that Darien is so suspicious?

Is it really just a coincidence that he was able to carve out these statues that look like evil gods?

And Marcus, is it also a coincidence that this old ghost's strange reaction and his forgetting a lot about Darien?!

“Are the statues below carved by Darien himself?” Ivan asked softly.

“I suppose so. ”

“So these monsters are all figured out by himself? ”

“Yes, he must have been trying to scare everyone into carving these terrible things.” Marcus said, "There's no such thing as monsters in the world, these are his own assumptions, even if he tells others that these monsters wander around the castle...”

“Wait, Darien said the following statues of the monsters wandering around the castle? ”

“It's a prank, master, that no one but him has ever seen these monsters, and they simply do not exist.” Marcus continues, "It's not surprising that he can say that, and Young Master Darien always makes such despicable pranks, such as painting on the walls of a castle a pattern that no one can understand, or a person whispering there, pretending to be by his side, etc. He probably wanted to get other people's attention in this way, but it just made people hate him even more. ”

“Okay!” Ivan thought for a moment, "How is this Darien doing in the end? ”

“At the time of the Reaper's descent, everyone on this land died, and I think he's no exception.” Marcus replied, "But he was not eligible to go to the door of death to witness the opening ceremony, so he should have stayed in the castle, but I didn't see him, his soul might have dissipated, after all, he was just a dumb cannon without any magic...”