Ravenclaw's Blue Gem

"So your body can already accept ordinary food? This is really good." Max did not take her provocation, thoughtfully."What do you care about this?" Zoe looked at her warily.

"Because I don't want to get a pile of rags when I take this body, you should take good care of your health, which is also beneficial to me. What did you see in the basement that Azkaban found?" She asked suddenly.Zoe has always been wary of her, not in her plan.

"I didn't see anything." Zoe looked at her.

"Don’t lie, Zoe. You didn’t choose to block me until you saw Siegel’s coat of arms on that door, but then you did, and it continued until you left here, I noticed In the future, your sleep time has been reduced and your body's weakness has accelerated. Obviously you are hiding something from me." Max said, "Only secrets need to be concealed. You have spent a lot of time to close my prying eyes. "

"I thought you knew everything. Aren't you the omniscient and omnipotent Max?" Zoe laughed at her. "Since you also know that it's a secret, don't ask any more. Do you think I will tell you?"

"You have shown a clear sense of guilt." Max said calmly.Zoe's heart jumped, his face strained.

"You are not a person who prays for irrelevant people, at least in Azkaban, no one can get your sincerity... Although I noticed that funny farce between you and Bella, she is still so naive, and You are almost the same."

"I don't want you to compare me with a lunatic murderer." Zoe said bluntly.

"Performing Occupational Cerebral Surgery all the time is far more tiring than you think, right? But you did not relax for a moment. Even if you can only eat a small amount of water and non-nutrient coarse food every day, you are still strong. That means that The secret is bigger than I thought. It must be something that you think in my hands will cause unpredictable danger..." Max's analysis makes Zoe very uncomfortable, although she hasn't said any key points. However, the discomfort of being pressed against the throat by the wand became stronger.

"The basement itself is not dangerous, because you have no signs of injury. Combined with your reduced sleep and haggard look, you have spent a lot of time and energy on it, which is likely to be knowledge or information. "She said while observing Zoe's attitude, and smiled when she found that she did react to these words.

"This basement belongs to Siegel, but the legend of Azkaban is well-known. Needless to say, the identity of the owner does not need to be said. If he is just a Death Eater who can be seen everywhere, you cannot record such things as tortures. Interested. What was the purpose of that person's murder?"

"It's none of your business!" Zoe couldn't help but said grumpily."I asked the key point. He was not torturing them to torture Muggles, dissecting...observing...no, researching, just like me. Then the subject of his research is very important."

Max’s gaze made Zoe anxious. She understood that Max was using this way to analyze her emotions, but she didn’t understand what to do to prevent her from seeing the traces. Even with an expressionless face, Max still gradually penetrated into the core. .

"It's a dementor." Zoe almost exclaimed, and she stared at Max in horror."Oh? It looks like I was right."

There is no point in hiding."How did you know?" Zoe shouted.

"Don't you understand, Zoe? I have investigated dementors carefully before because they are a very fascinating species. But they are usually scarce in numbers and small in size. At least not as large as Azkaban. Anomaly. Hundreds of dementors live in one place. This in itself is very anomalous. Those scholars are arguing about this matter, and in the end they can only think that it is because the suppressed atmosphere of the castle attracted them. -Nonsense." Max said mockingly.

"Why are there so many dementors gathered, and why I chose the ancient castle of Azkaban. I have always been interested in these two questions, but I did not have the opportunity to find the answer. These are not big or small. It’s a pity...academics don’t know much about dementors, because even people who want to study them can’t observe them closely for a long time. Sometimes you can’t even be in nature except Azkaban. ——It is hard to find such creatures anywhere else, even if one is hard to find, even if there have been dementors witnessed centuries ago. They have no ethnic groups, floating around, but the world is so vast. So Aziz Only after Caban’s existence is exposed, will there be a wave of research on Dementors in the academic world."

Chapter 28 Transactions

"Aren't you trying to refute me?" Max stopped and asked with a smile.In Zoe's opinion, this is just another provocation, wanting to observe her reaction and enjoy it."Since you can think of everything clearly, go ahead and speculate to me."

"Then let me go on, to prove that I am an'omnipotent' Max." Max chuckled and retaliated with Zoe's sarcasm before, "Following the speculation just now. If the abnormal population size is a man-made product, Those things also make sense, the owner of the castle-no matter what he wants, the consequence of his actions is the proliferation of dementors...or attract dementors from all over the world The monsters gather. I am not sure what his results are, but I am sure that he has gained a lot of experience from it, which will make every scholar who studies Dementors crazy about it."

"But I prefer him to find a way to create a dementor, because he didn't give up on catching Muggles until he died. He didn't stop, which shows that this method is not a 100% success rate... The most important thing is, Your confession attitude shows that you are ashamed of the actions of the castle owner, because he belongs to the same family as you, so you have the mentality to make up for the things he did, even if you don't want to be a Siegel. "Max noticed Zoe staring at her angrily.

"Who wants to be born with you lunatics?" Zoe clenched his fists."However, lunatics can save or destroy the world, because knowledge itself is not right or wrong." Max said, "I also hate my father, he is the only person who allows me to have this emotion. But these years I have because of this. I was able to accept many interesting things, and their existence really made me happy. I never asked my father why I was born, he was dead before I killed him."

She looked at Zoe: "So you have mastered how to control them." Zoe backed away horribly.

"This is not surprising. Have you ever realized that you are a good person?" Max walked out of the shadows. Even when Zoe had the upper hand, she still stepped into Zoe's field like walking in the backyard. "I don’t know if this is Professor Dumbledore’s influence on you, or is your nature like this? You lack aggressiveness and are very weak. Even if you are hurt, you will only choose to escape instead of ruthlessly. Go back in revenge, except when you are forced to the limit. But at the same time, your balance is completely messed up. If one day the little girl is hurt by someone, what will you do?"

"I will kill the one who dares to hurt her." Zoe said without hesitation.

"Then if the person who hurt her wants you to self-mutilate to save others, and use an unbreakable oath to swear that he will let the little girl leave safely as long as you pay the price?" Max did not wait for Zoe to answer, "then you will immediately follow his instructions. The way to do it without hesitation." Zoe closed her mouth and she looked at Max in disgust."Then if it were you, what would you do?"

Max smiled and said: "Me? I will not let myself have such a weakness. Even if there is, I will not let that person have the opportunity to encounter this kind of treatment. I will eliminate every unstable factor that tries to get close. In the end, I will hold that person firmly in my hands, and neither he nor she will have a chance to escape."

"You are a madman full of dominance, don't you know what guardianship and love are." Zoe growled.

"But at least this way I am free, compared to people who give up easily. Those big words can also deceive ignorant little girls. Want not to mind betrayal? It can't be easier, as long as you don't care about yourself Being hurt, as long as you deliberately despise yourself, anyone can do it. When will you start and you won't cry for yourself anymore?"

Zoe was swallowed by the anxiety of being spied: "Go away, it has nothing to do with you!"

"I'm your mother." Max shrugged, "I know everything about you because I am the one closest to you. If the result of the owner of the castle is only a method of creating dementors, don't you It takes such a lot of effort to remember it, because for people like you who hesitate to even hurt others, that kind of thing will only end in destruction. Then, the result can be imagined-it will only be Because that person worked out a way to control them."

"You are no longer a child. You know that controlling them is not all harmful, and it is more likely to work at critical moments-as long as this power does not fall into the hands of me or Tom. So you Use this short time to deal with these things, and finally destroy the results and make yourself the last insider."

"...Well, you are right." Zoe took a deep breath. "Would you like to guess the control method?"

"I can't do it." Max refused, "I can infer those things only because they are transparent. As long as academic problems are not researched, just guessing will only lead me astray. Don't do this kind of useless work...Or do you want to tell me?" She patted Zoe on the shoulder, and the electric current crackled and burned Max's palm, but she didn't care at all.

"Tell you? Next life." Zoe said forcefully."It's a pity, even if you ask me, you still treat me so coldly."

"You guessed this again?"

"Of course, it is obvious that every time I take the initiative to talk to you, you are very indifferent. But today, you have been patient and have been talking to me, even if you act tough, even if I deliberately poke your wounds Didn't run away... It's incredible, it's as impossible as if you would take the initiative to find me for dinner." Max said interestingly.

"Because of our indifferent relationship, you will be allowed to do this. It will only be that you have something to answer from me, but you don't know how to speak, so you have to procrastinate." Max said, "You should be more Be enthusiastic, it's rare that that little girl is willing to endure your stupidity."

"Don't worry about it, our relationship is extremely stable, at least countless times better than the one you are alone now." Zoe calmed himself, "I am a rare good toy for you, am I? You will? Want such a funny toy to be tossed by those idiots at the Ministry of Magic?"

"That's a problem. You can give me your body, go to Knockoff Alley to find a smuggler and buy a magic wand, you can go wrong, go kill all the guys you hate, and let Tom settle you down? "

"Don’t think about it. But you reminded me that you want to see my struggle and resistance, toss me and play with me at will, but don’t want me to die? So you wear a hood to hide your identity, even if I fail to resist successfully. , My identity will not be exposed. As they said, if the ending ends with the deaths of Diggory and Potter, you can either join Voldemort directly or find a chance to slip back to Hogwarts. ."

"You just seized the opportunity, Zoe." Max said, "If you didn't succeed in the resistance at the time, I might just lose interest. Barbara's rune won't protect you forever, it has been weakened. At most, it will disappear in a year." Max raised the injured hand, "Look, it just damaged this small piece, not all of my palms. But you That’s right, I didn’t plan to let you die. I’ll be troubled if you die.”

"Then what if I want to die by myself? For example, go to Umbridge and talk about you and me. I dare say that she can summon a dementor in two hours." Max thought for a while."So you are planning to use your life to intimidate me? It's interesting, what do you want?"

"I want you to be my teacher." Zoe's answer was puzzled even by Max, and she couldn't answer for a while.

"Another decision that shocked me, Zoe." But she quickly calmed down, "What do you want to learn?"

"Black magic, and everything you researched." Zoe said, "I want everything."

"Do you want to understand and rob what I have in turn? I am very happy, really happy." Max smiled sincerely, "Want to follow the same path as me? I didn't expect you to want Learn these things."

"How is it possible, don't disgust me." Zoe laughed at her, "I want to know how to face a real dark wizard, I want to know your thoughts and your skills, and finally use these things to deal with you. . As you said, knowledge itself is not right or wrong. What I need is to turn them into weapons in my hands, not into people like you... Voldemort is back, but what I have is still It's far from enough. Defence against the Dark Arts this semester will only be a disaster. Who knows what Umbridge will do at Hogwarts, but at least it's definitely not here to teach!"

"You don't need to explain to me, Zoe." Max said briskly. "I don't care about your purpose of learning black magic, not at all. You will have enough time to face it, and you will see what I saw in my eyes. Seeing the same scenery, walking on the same road as me-nothing makes me more pleasant than this." Max's emotions were very suspicious, but at least she did not refuse Zoe's request. This incident still made her breathe a sigh of relief.

Chapter 29 The Semester Is Near

"Wake up? Miss Siegel." Zoe could feel the less gentle slapping on his cheeks, a little bit too much, even a fan.She realized that someone was attacking her and suddenly awakened from her dream. The head that had been attached to the table accidentally hit the table with a muffled noise.

"Who!" Her yelling spread far, far away in the quiet archives room. Not far away, a nervous-looking Muggle archivist with a shawl and a high-hair bun turned his attention with his glasses. Come over and look at Zoe and Umbridge condemningly."Please be quiet, this is a public area." She pointed to the strip on the wall.

"I'm very sorry, ma'am... I am a little sleep deprived." Zoe hurriedly lowered her head. She learned a lot from Professor Bubbaji, but until the first three days, she was still in a strange sense of excitement. , Just because she has to hide her identity now, and there is no Hermione by her side, no one who will cover her and warn her-if Umbridge is counted, she has not done it yet Zoe Half of it is good.

There are many differences between wizards and Muggles, but most of them are at the social level and traditional customs. Muggles do not have two heads or three hands longer than wizards. They do not have many emotional and ethical differences from wizards. It’s just that the children of the Muggle family will probably make a lot of noise to get the game console (Hermione and Zoe introduced this toy), and the children of the wizard family will be happy to get a new set of gold goblets (a kind of marbles) from their parents. Game, those who lose will be baptized by stinky juice).

So it's always right to admit mistakes at this time. When the archivist's expression eased and his attention was taken back, Zoe glared at Umbridge who sat down opposite her."You should drink in the bar and listen to others slap you, instead of interrupting my work here."

Umbridge smiled pretentiously: "Don't speak to your guardian like that, Miss Siegel." Since the order was issued, she hadn't deliberately pretended to know it for some reason."Of course I would be very worried about your situation, so I came out of the tavern early. Besides, you didn't make preparations. Or would you say that putting these things in your bed makes you sleep more comfortable?"

Zoe snorted and didn't reply.She put half of the files she had seen before on the other side, which was the same as this stack, and on the other side was a pile of not so high."What are you looking for? Come to this place specially." Umbridge thoughtfully, puzzled by Zoe's behavior of completely consuming the remaining time at Muggle government archives and museums.

"My professor of Muggle Studies has assigned us practical homework during the holiday. This holiday I am going to investigate the enrichment, perfection and evolution of Muggle's name learning, mainly in accordance with time, identity, living environment and assets... In short There are many things that need to be investigated, and I need to visit the archives, libraries, and any places that may have records of these things." Zoe talked in a low voice, making himself act like a simple nerd.Umbridge frowned, and from her expression she could not understand why she did it.

"With all due respect, Miss Siegel. What's the point of this? It seems to me just a waste of time."

"It's always fun to go back in time, Ms. Umbridge. I like Muggle studies. The history of Muggles is charming and gleaming." Zoe said with a smile."Really? It seems to me that you just stay in such a dim place that makes people completely lose motivation every day, open a lot of garbage, wait until I get impatient and then disappear on the initiative for an hour. You are in the gap of this hour. What are you doing?" Umbridge interrogated.