A broken Hogwarts

Chapter 120 Family
"Jingle bells - tinkle bells -"

The black wooden pendulum clock by the wall swayed with small silver bells, and the crisp and melodious alarm sound woke Owen up from a peaceful and dreamless sleep.

He opened his eyes in a little confusion, watching the curtains beside the bed gently rolled up, and the alarm ringing in his ears also stopped.The silver embroidered curtains were automatically drawn to both sides, allowing the bright and soft morning sun to shine on his pale cheeks.

Owen stretched, and accidentally turned Melet who was sleeping on his chest.Melet jumped up high with a "meow", then shook her big furry ears, and glared at him resentfully and helplessly with bright golden eyes, like an old man looking at his useless and stupid son. Mother.

Owen hugged Melet, curled up into a ball like a lazy cat, stroked the cat up and down, and then let go of the furry little guy.

He got up from the bed, put on a simple dark green silk robe, and stood in front of the mirror to smooth out his hairdo.The little wizard in the mirror moved gracefully and calmly, but his bottomless black eyes seemed to be leading to a dark abyss. He blinked slowly, and the look in his eyes became clear and bright in an instant. child.

Owen squinted and smiled at himself in the mirror, then quickly flicked his right hand, a card flew out of his empty hand, spun quickly and hit a wooden pole by the window, and then fell aside on the table.The windows opened in response, and the soothing breeze blew the curtains, bringing an elegant and charming fragrance of flowers.

The white roses surrounding Shafiq Manor are in full bloom, making this ancient manor seem to be immersed in a sea of ​​flowers, like a dream castle in a fairy tale.

Owen walked through the corridor covered with portraits of ancestors and beautiful tapestries, and walked down the escalator to the restaurant on the first floor.Melet followed behind him with graceful catwalks, raised her increasingly handsome head high, and jumped up and down the edge of the escalator nimbly.

"Good morning, Dad." Owen greeted him as he sat down at the dining table, and picked up an fried egg and jam sandwich.

Mr. Albert was drinking a cup of morning tea leisurely, holding a copy of the Daily Prophet in his hand, and looked up at Owen: "Good morning, Owen. Did you come down so early? Let me tell you, you should sleep well when you are on holiday. Sleep late, see your mother hasn't woken up yet..."

"So what, Albert?" Ms. Adeline walked slowly, leaning against the door and said with a smile.She was wearing a simple yet stylish dark blue velvet robe, her shiny black curly hair hung naturally on her shoulders, elegant and quiet with a charming charm.

"Ah, I'm very envious of this sleeping state." Albert smiled, and turned to look at Adeline, "Adeline, why did you get up so early today?"

"You didn't forget to clean up the house, Albert?" Adeline sat down and said in a slightly hoarse tone.

"Oh, I remembered." Albert put the newspaper aside and rubbed his forehead with some headaches, "The Ministry of Magic is planning to seize magic items recently... The people in the Misuse of Magic Items Department are really busy. Why bother?" What? They work so hard and won’t get a raise.”

"It's not bad to take this opportunity to clean up the manor. I should have met a Boggart in a secret door on the second floor last month, but I couldn't find it anymore." Adeline said slowly, " How many years have we not carefully counted the things in our house?"

"To be honest, it's been more than 100 years. Maybe you can find something hundreds of years ago in some secret room." Albert smiled and spread his hands, then looked at Owen who was eating seriously, "Owen, if you still If you're going to use the suitcase for the Untraceable Stretching Charm, keep it carefully hidden from Ministry investigators—I don't want to write a lot of written material."

"I'll ask Wendy to bring it back later." Owen said with a smile, feeding Melet a sausage.

"Great, can I see the surprise I'm thinking about?" Albert raised his eyebrows.

"Of course, I hope you won't be too surprised." Owen blinked his left eye lightly and said with a mysterious smile.

The Sorcerer's Stone was of no use to him, at least not yet.He is not short of money, and he doesn't need to think about the issue of immortality. After all, he is still a child, and he doesn't have the corresponding level of alchemy to study the Sorcerer's Stone. It's better to leave it to his parents who may need it more.

"Surprised?" Albert laughed, "I haven't been surprised for several years. Even if the agent of the black market stole the money from the store and ran away last time, I just gently let him read to him. Curse it, and throw it into Azkaban."

"What about the ungentle method?" Owen raised his eyebrows.

"That's not what children should be exposed to." Albert said, "Now it's a peaceful time, and the law is a good thing to use."

"Owen, you opened a bookstore in Knockturn Alley?" Adeline suddenly said softly.

"It seems that nothing can be hidden from you." Owen said helplessly, "Did something happen?" He knew that if something hadn't happened, his parents would not have mentioned such trivial things to him.

"It's not a big deal, you know, Knockturn Alley has always been a mess, after all, there are many dark wizards living there." Adeline said not too concerned, "A new store will always have some people to try the shade, we I secretly helped you deal with several temptations."

Her deep and quiet dark green eyes stared at Owen, and said in a soothing tone: "I want to ask your thoughts, whether to continue to develop independently, or to directly play Shafiq's banner."

"Let it go with the flow, don't need to take care of it anymore." Owen said casually, with a casual look on his face, "I just did it on a whim, and I didn't mean to develop it."

"Really? The woman who looks after the store is actually not bad." Albert laughed.He suddenly realized that his words were ambiguous, so he coughed lightly and added: "Hands and feet are very clean, I haven't had any wrong thoughts, and the troubles on my body are also cleaned up. It's still worth cultivating."

"You all investigated clearly." Owen shook his head and smiled.

"No way, we have to prevent you from being cheated by black wizards for money and sex..." Albert returned to his usual cynical state, and after being cast a sideways glance by Adeline, he quickly changed his words, "Ahem, so that you don't get caught Kidnap or something."

"I see, thank you." Owen narrowed his eyes with a smile.It feels good to be a simple child in front of parents.

After breakfast, while his parents were dealing with contraband at home, Owen snapped his fingers and summoned the house elf Wendy.

"Wendy, has anything unusual happened near that cave recently?" He asked calmly.

"Nothing unusual, young master!" Wendy said sharply, her voice always flattered.

"Bring it back." Owen nodded.

"Understood, master!" Wendy apparated away with a "snap", but less than a minute later, she appeared on the spot with a burst of crackling, holding the black suitcase in her hand.

"Thank you, Wendy." Owen said, carrying the box.

"It's Wendy's pleasure to serve young master!" said the house-elf, bowing deeply and tearfully, thrilled at Owen's polite "thank you."

Owen came to his parents' study room a little stiffly, away from the house elf who had a psychological shadow on him.

"Want to come in and take a look?" He shook the box in his hand to his parents, smiling innocently.

"Oh? I want to see what you've got in there." Albert took the box casually and raised his eyebrows.

Adeline pampered Owen's head, then pinched his pale face lightly with her slender and fair fingers, frowned slightly and said, "I think you should spend more time in the sun, Owen."

Owen endured the cold fingertips pinching his cheeks, and then hid aside after a while, skillfully avoiding the paws that his father secretly stretched out, and said with a smile: "Of course, I like basking in the sun. "

He watched the couple get into their suitcases, then sat quietly in a chair by the desk, opening an old spell book and waiting.The levels in the box are basically free of danger, and the remaining levels must not be a problem for the two of them. After all, they did not think that those levels were set by Dumbledore under Owen's psychological hint, and they treated them as inviting their parents to play a game. A real-life secret room escape game.

Not willing to be lonely, Melet jumped into the box, intending to join in the fun.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and after almost three or ten minutes, the husband and wife left the suitcase, and then stared at Owen without saying a word.

Ms. Adeline was holding the bright red Philosopher's Stone tightly in her hand, and her face, which had never changed in front of Mount Tai, had a rare look of disbelief.Mr. Albert's eyes widened undisguisedly, his mouth was slightly opened, and he looked at Owen as if he was sizing up an alien creature.

"The Philosopher's Stone?" Albert spoke first.He held his forehead, and then wiped his face: "I admit, I was really scared. Owen, don't tell me that you robbed the treasure house of a well-known alchemist... "

"It's not." Owen said slowly, and then changed his words, "But the nature is similar."

Albert frowned tightly, as if he was suffering from something.Adeline stared at Owen quietly, her beautiful dark green eyes reflected a soft gleam, like a quiet lake.

"To put it simply, Nicole Flamel found out that someone was coveting his Sorcerer's Stone, so he gave it to Dumbledore for safekeeping. Dumbledore put the Sorcerer's Stone in Hogwarts Castle for the purpose of luring snakes out of their holes Introduced danger into the school." Owen said lightly, "The magical beasts broke into the castle on Halloween, and the fire in the Forbidden Forest was the work of those who were attracted."

"I discovered this incident by accident, and got involved in it by accident. So I designed the mechanism in the box, and got the Philosopher's Stone in my hand." Owen said calmly, crossing his fingers on his chin.

"Owen, you...really..." Albert suddenly shook his fist heavily, with a smile on his face as if he wanted to eat a child, "You did a great job! From Dumbledore and a group of malicious people The fisherman gains in the hands of the wizard..."

"You have participated in such a dangerous thing quietly, and you don't know to tell us?" He suddenly stepped forward, gritted his teeth, and ruthlessly rubbed Owen's hair, making his well-groomed soft black hair into a mess. A chicken coop. "What if something happens to you, what do you ask me and your mother to do? Brat, did you forget that you are only in the first grade?"

Owen was caught off guard, and could only raise his hand to resist his father's ravages, but his strength was still too weak compared to adults.After the resistance was fruitless, he began to let his father knead himself like dough.

At this time, Ms. Adeline, who had been silent all along, calmly said, "Are you sure Dumbledore won't have any means to track it down?"

Owen broke free while his father stopped, rubbed his sour face and said, "I had a conversation with Dumbledore afterwards, and judging from his attitude, he didn't know that the Philosopher's Stone was in my hands. In his hand. The method he left on the Philosopher’s Stone has been deciphered, and without the spell arranged in advance, it is difficult for this powerful magic creation to be tracked by other means..."

"After I got it, I asked Wendy to hide the box together with the Philosopher's Stone in a cave for almost two months. Wendy kept looking after it, and didn't find anything unusual. Although it is not ruled out that Dumbledore It was found surreptitiously, but the odds of that have been minimized."

Owen pursed his lips and smiled slowly: "In other words, as long as we hide it well, no one else will know that the Sorcerer's Stone is in our hands. Of course, it doesn't matter even if Dumbledore finds it, the big deal Just return the Philosopher's Stone to him, anyway, I didn't do anything bad at school, at most I violated a few school rules."

"You've thought it through." Albert sighed deeply, then smiled excitedly and triumphantly, raised his hand and patted Owen on the shoulder, "Good job, but next time Don't take any more risks, okay? My heart can't take any more shocks."

"Dad, didn't you say that you haven't been surprised for many years?" Owen raised his eyebrows and joked with a smile.

"Yeah, so when the shock came suddenly, I couldn't bear it even more." Albert said naturally.

"Sorcerer's Stone, you really brought back a great gift." He said with emotion, "Its value may exceed the sum of our family's wealth. Elixir of life... This is really the most wonderful gift."

Who wouldn't want to live forever?People who look down on immortality like Dumbledore are freaks.

"I don't know what you've been through, thank you for your hard work, Owen." Adeline bent down, looked into Owen's eyes, her tone was as gentle as a spring breeze, "Actually, you don't need to carry everything alone, Your father and I will always be your most steadfast backing, and we will always stand by your side."

She kissed Owen's cheek, her expression was gentle and tenacious, just like her own character, which was soft on the outside and strong on the inside.

Owen caressed his cheeks, sniffed the elegant perfume on his mother's body, and his cold and silent lake of heart finally fluctuated briskly.He smiled sincerely and said softly, "I see."

He raised his eyes and saw that the bright red stone was placed on the table casually, quietly reflecting the bright and clean light.

(End of this chapter)