Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures Chapter 190: Black family’s collection
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Standing in the dim hallway, Ivan looked around curiously.
As a mansion of the Black family, 12 Grimmauld Place is a typical pure-blooded wizard's house. Decorations everywhere can be seen for hundreds of years. If it is placed outside, it is definitely a valuable antique.
In front of them, there is a long and narrow corridor with no end in sight.
It is a tree-shaped decorative lamp directly opposite the entrance hall. A candelabra is placed on a rickety table not far away, which looks like a viper.
After the return of Voldemort, this house was used as the the Order of the Phoenix headquarters. There should be no one using it now, and naturally it has not been protected by magic. It can be seen from the thick dust around it that no one has been here for a long time.
Ivan does n’t know why Sirius brought them here. It stands to reason that he should be full of aversion to this house. But he just mentioned that he wants to come here to get Christmas presents for himself and Hermione's, don't know it is anything? !
"No one has lived here for more than ten years. We'd better hurry up and leave here when we have finished." Sirius whispered, he first walked into the hall.
The crumbling floor made a crunching sound, and it sounded particularly creepy in the old, deserted big house.
Ivan does n’t know what they are going to get, but he knows that Slytherin's locket is kept here. If it can be found and destroyed, it should save a lot of trouble.
That locket should be kept in the room of Sirius's younger brother Regulus, where it is specifically placed, Ivan will not be known.
If there is a chance, he is ready to look for something.
Ivan hurriedly followed the pace of Sirius, Hermione involuntarily took his arm, Harry walked in front of both of them, his face mixed with inexplicable tension and excitement.
In the dim, narrow corridor, they bypassed a large umbrella stand that appeared to be made of a broken leg of Troll.
On the left side of the umbrella stand is a dark staircase, and the wall next to it seems to be decorated with something.
Sirius did not go upstairs, Ivan, Harry, Hermione were curious and walked in, looking at the blurry decoration hanging on the wall. Then, the three people took a breath of air, and they saw a row of crumpled heads gathered on the decorative panel of the wall.
All of them are heads of domestic little elf / pixie(s), they all have the same ugly big nose.
"I don't understand, this house looks like it belongs to cruelest dark wizards." Harry whispered, "Why do the parents of Sirius live here?"
"Remember, except for Sirius, all members of the Black family are Slytherin's." Ivan also replied in a low voice, "you should understand it if you think about their taste."
"Why do they hang the head of domestic little elf / pixie(s) on the wall?" The expression on Hermione's face was full of fear and confusion, and there was a little anger hidden in it.
"That ’s not what they hung up. This should be the tradition of domestic little elf / pixie(s). They have served in a certain wizard(s) family from birth until they are aging, and then they cut off their heads, Hanging on the wall of the host's house as a decoration. This may be the most glorious thing for them. "
"I don't understand, this is the most ridiculous thing!" Hermione hesitated and said, "This is not the case with Dobby ..."
"He is an alternative, he is different from other domestic little elf / pixie(s)." Ivan patted Hermione's gently on the shoulder, "we'd better wait to go back to school to discuss this matter, it makes me feel very bad here. "
I do n’t know if it ’s an illusion. Ivan always feels that anything is hiding in the house and secretly watching them in the dark. This feeling is very strong.
But looking around, I saw nothing.
During the three of them talking, Sirius has not stopped, his figure has disappeared around the corner of the long corridor.
They hurried up, and then they walked through two long, bug-eyed curtains, which seemed to hide door behind them.
As Harry passed by, he gave a curious glance to the back of the tent.
The next second, he stepped back involuntarily a few steps, his face panicked, as if he saw something extremely scary.
"What's wrong, Harry?"
"Inside and inside is a portrait, above is ..."
Ivan turned his head, he saw the curtains on the wall automatically slide to both sides, revealing the hidden things behind, and there was a portrait of a fierce old lady on the wall.
After seeing the three people Ivan, Harry and Hermione, the old lady screamed like a ghost, and she waved her clawed hands as if to come and grab their faces.
"You animals, cheap goods! Get out of here, who allowed you to enter my ancestral home, here is the Black family ..."
The expression on the old lady ’s face was terrifying and fierce. Sirius Black rushed back when the three of them stayed in place at Ivan and did n’t know what to do.
"Shut up, you terrible old witch, shut up!" he shouted, trying to pull the curtain back again.
"Y-you!" The old lady's face was pale, her eyes wide open, she looked at Sirius in disbelief, and then made a sharper voice, "It's your prodigal son, the shame of the family, the wicked son I gave! Come back with a face, you ... "
"I said it, shut up!" Sirius shouted, pulling the tent with all his strength.
The screams disappeared, followed by a silent reverberation.
"Who is this?" Harry asked in a low voice, still looking terrified.
"My mother, I think you should know each other. This is the way she was when she was alive." Sirius said with a straight face.
"She, she is your ..."
"Yeah, my dear good mother." Sirius said, "Did I just say that this is my parents' house, they originally planned to leave him to my brother, but the Black family is left I am alone, so the house is now owned by me. "
"What are we doing here?" Ivan asked.
"Come and give you Christmas gifts for Hermione's." Sirius explained, "I asked Lupin, Hagrid and others about your preferences. Both you and Hermione like to read books. The Black family library is here Inside the house, there are a lot of out-of-print magic books, many of which are inherited in the Black family for centuries and cannot be seen outside. I think you will be interested. "
"Precious magic book(s) ?!" Ivan froze for a moment.
Compared to the ignorant Harry and Hermione, he knows the value of these books.
Because I have been asking Flourish and Blotts to collect magic book in this respect, Ivan knows very well the actual value of magic book.
The value of an out-of-print magic book is simply inestimable and worthless.
These are the roots of the pure blood wizard(s) family heritage. Less than a last resort, no one will come up with it. If there is no certain opportunity, outsiders will have no chance to check it.
The longer the wizard(s) family passed down, the greater the value of the collected magic book.
The history of the Black family can be traced back to a thousand years ago. The most noble and oldest Black family can be said to be one of the only pure blood wizard(s) families in magic circle today. The collection of books by their family, Ivan was just excited when he thought about it.
He would like to hurry and take a look, but is it too expensive to use these magic book as Christmas gifts? !
It seems to see that Ivan's is worried, Sirius explained in a plain tone, "Do n’t refrain from it, a few of you have helped me, not a few magic book can repay. Besides, if you do n’t read, those books are just too much It's just moldy there. "(To be continued.)