Chapter 2868 The unforgivable secret (5)

In 1875, the Ministry of Magic promulgated the "Restrictions on the Use of Magic by Minors", which prohibited underage wizards from using magic outside of school.

This makes many young wizards find it difficult to accept this, especially Tracer, which is simply annoying.

But on the other hand, the trace silk can be used to track the location of minors very well. Anyway, Pomona and Severus appeared in the Forbidden Forest after Apparition, not the market in Kenbridge.

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"Why am I not surprised at all?" Pomona said, taking out her wand.

Severus walked straight towards the ruins in the forest.

As they approached the ruins, waves of strong magic fluctuations like heartbeats came towards them, and she felt extremely uncomfortable.

"What's wrong?" Severus stopped and asked.

"It's nothing." She said softly, barely holding back the discomfort.

This reminded her of the days when Lupine was at school, when there was a full moon, and today was not a full moon.

"You'd better tell me directly, this is no joke," Severus said.

"Pulse, it seems Paul told them some secret again." Pomona said.

"No, I didn't." Paul's voice suddenly sounded.

Pomona looked around.

"I'm here~"

Pomona looked into Severus' pocket.

He impatiently used a levitating spell to make the palace puppet levitate out of his pocket.

"Why are you here?" Pomona asked.

"You all go out without taking me with you. I'm so bored." Paul said.

"So who told them about this place?" Pomona asked.

"These little trolls are hiding something from us," Severus said through gritted teeth.

"They seem to have discovered something interesting." Paul said excitedly, "Go and have a look."

"I personally prefer that they are in trouble." Pomona said, waving his wand to make the trees in the forest move out of the way.

Without the cover of these plants, the appearance of the ruins became clearer. However, when they walked into the ruins, they found that there was water everywhere on the ground.

There is an altar in the center of this "lake". There is a necklace on the altar, and several flame butterflies are flying around it.

"Any clues? Paul." Severus asked.

"Centaurs," said Pomona.

Severus looked at her in surprise.

"Dolan!" Pomona yelled into the woods.

Lin Zhong didn't react at all.

"Can you explain it?" Severus asked.

"This is my gift to Dolan, which is considered as your tuition." Pomona looked back at him, "Caurs will not use violence in front of young people, even though they don't like humans very much."

"Professor!" She didn't hear Dolan's answer. Instead, she heard the students calling, "Get us out!"

"What is the origin of this stone?" Severus asked.

"Rescue them first," Pomona said, just about to take a step.

"If I were you, I wouldn't touch that water," Paul said.

"What should we do?" Pomona retracted her legs.

"How about taking that stone away?" Paul said.

Severus used the summoning spell on the stone, but it had no response. Then he used the Death Eater's flying spell and easily took away the stone on the altar, and then the butterfly and water

, and that mysterious pulse disappeared.

About a minute or two later, Severus returned to the altar, stood on it, and looked down at the back of the altar.

"Come up, it's safe." He said to the people below.

After a while, Bill, Priya, Ben Cooper, Liz, Barnaby and the twins all came out.

Pomona looked at her watch and realized that it was already this time before she knew it, and Molly would be anxious to death.

"Okay, look who this is, isn't it our curse-breaking master? Is there still a place where you can be trapped?" Severus said to Bill with a smile.

"Thank you for saving us." Bill said awkwardly, "I didn't expect to encounter this situation."

"What's going on?" Pomona asked. "Why do you have Dolan's necklace?"

"He gave it to us," Priya said. "He said it would lead us to our destiny."

"That's always the case with centaurs," said Liz.

"What's in there?" Severus asked.

"A grave." Bill replied. "I don't think it belongs to modern people."

"Of course," Severus said.

"We found this," Bill said, taking a stone comb out of his pocket.

It's so exquisite, it doesn't look like something from the Stone Age, it looks like it was taken off a statue.

"As an employee of the Ministry of Magic, why are you here, Miss Moore?" Severus asked Priya condescendingly.

"I came to see if I could help," Priya said.

But Severus still looked down at her eerily.

"Okay, let me try my luck and see if I can be transferred out of the centaur office." Priya said helplessly.

"If you notice, there are two children here. If something happens to them, you will not only be transferred out of the Centaur Office, but you will also say goodbye to your career forever." Severus said in a measured tone.

Fred and George looked at each other and said, "We are not children, we are explorers!"

"Okay, explorers, it's time for us to go." Pomona said to them from a distance.

The expedition team left dejectedly, but Severus did not leave. Pomona knew that with his curiosity, he would definitely explore this magical cemetery.

"Let's go first, Severus," Pomona shouted to him.

"I want to see it too," Paul said enthusiastically.

Pomona looked at Bill and Priya, "I'll go take a look, if there's anything unexpected..."

"Don't worry, as long as you don't put that stone on the altar, you'll be fine," Bill said.

Pomona was still worried, but she also ran to the altar.

There was a deep hole behind the altar. Severus jumped in first, but Pomona did not follow immediately.

"Come in," he said from inside the cave.

So Pomona jumped down too.

Through the fluorescent flash of his wand, she could clearly see the underground tomb. It was not big. In order to get out, Bill and the others searched every inch, including a secret room with a stone platform. The walls of the secret room were mermaid-shaped.

sculpture.

Then she raised her wand and looked around. There were reliefs of mermaids everywhere on the walls. The sarcophagus of the tomb owner had been opened. His clothes had rotted away, leaving only white bones, but it could be seen that they were human bones.

Not a mermaid.

"Mermaid," Pomona said.

"No, look carefully." Severus pointed his wand at the woman in the center of the relief. "She is feeding the fish."

Pomona also looked carefully. At first, the light was dim and she couldn't see clearly. She thought she saw a mermaid, but it was actually a woman holding a bowl, with fish surrounding her, as if waiting for her to throw the food in the bowl.

Then she looked at the tomb owner's coffin, which also had reliefs on it, showing a group of fully armed knights holding shields, and they were also round shields.

Ancient Roman soldiers often used round shields, especially after the 3rd century, but these reliefs are not from ancient Romans. They look quite primitive, more like those left by the ancient Celts.

"This tomb existed before Hogwarts was founded," Pomona said.

"Let's go," Severus said.

Pomona followed him and left.

Before leaving, she closed the lid of the sarcophagus again, and the deceased was buried in peace anyway.

Because of her bulky body, she needed Severus' help to get out of the tomb. When she stepped on the ground again and bathed in the moonlight, she felt a strange feeling.

"What's wrong?" Severus asked her.

"Next time, remember to leave one person outside when you explore." Pomona said, "Even if you can't solve the puzzle, you won't be trapped inside."

Then she walked towards the little trolls.

As for where Severus had hidden the stone, she didn't ask.

There are so many stones in the Forbidden Forest, who would investigate their history one by one?
Chapter completed!