Susie was a little embarrassed: "My hands are not as flexible as Lilith's, so I can only hold the wand in my mouth... The progress is a bit slow at the moment. ·0`0`Xiao￠tax-wang. \First-post?"
"It's okay, take your time."
Dumbledore patted his head and handed two small bags to Lilith and Susie respectively. "Oh, by the way, this is what you asked me for a few days ago. I just got it from Pomona this morning, but... I still think it's a bit risky."
Edward and Audrey asked in surprise, "What adventure?"
Edward hurriedly took the one given to Lilith and opened it: "Is this a Mandrake leaf?!"
He looked at the two little guys fiercely: "You... don't want to learn Animagus too, do you?"
Lilith shook her head: "Miss Lilith saw Susie asking Mr. Longbeard for it, so she asked for it too. I don't know what it is used for~"
Susie was a little embarrassed and lowered her head and said, "I...I want to try."
Audrey looked thoughtful but unconvinced: "What do you want to try, Susie?"
"I was thinking... if humans can turn into animals through the Animagus, then can animals turn into humans through the Animagus?"
Chapter 267 Return to the Mysterious World
"???"
Shit, so Susie, you've been visiting Sirius a lot recently, and you're researching this?
Susie said seriously: "Don't worry, nothing will happen."
"How did you..."
"Because I will definitely ask Edward to help me with divination first. I will only start after I am sure everything is fine."
Edward: Thank you for having such confidence in me!
Audrey was amazed. "Oh Susie, I have to say, if you were a human, you would be much smarter than most people."
Susie wagged her tail and said, "No, I'm far worse than Miss Lilith."
Lilith immediately raised her head proudly: "That's right!"
Dumbledore looked at them with a smile, then stroked his hand and said:
"Okay, everyone! Then...see you in 28 days. How are you?"
"goodbye!"
"Goodbye, old man with a long beard~"
"Good-bye, sir."
...
4:30 pm.
The two came to the Room of Requirement.
They first checked the contents of their respective leather bags (suitcases) again, and after making sure that nothing was left behind, they patiently waited for the time to come.
Lilith followed suit and checked the contents of her pendant: it mainly contained various small things she had received from the wizard's lottery bag firecrackers on Christmas night, as well as her dried fish, dried mice, and some prank props.
"Lilith, these mice...where did you get them from?"
Lilith wagged her tail and said, "Ms. Lilith is the smartest cat and the killer of mice. No matter where they hide, I can catch them!"
"Then why didn't you eat it then?"
"Because we need to save it for roasting and eating, it smells really good!" She blinked her big eyes, "Edward, Audrey, Miss Lilith won't forget you when the time comes!"
They both waved their hands at the same time: "No, no, just eat it yourself."
Edward looked at the little guy with some worry. If Lilith really became a woman after being promoted to a witch, and then gnawed on a mouse every few days, the scene would be very disgusting!
"Okay, get into your leather bag now, there are only 10 minutes left."
"Yeah~see you later."
...
Meanwhile, in Godric's Hollow Church Cemetery.
Two tall old men with white hair and beards walked quietly and stopped in front of the Dumbledore family grave - they were the brothers Albus and Aberforth.
Albus Dumbledore, the greatest white wizard of this century, had a red and swollen nose, a black eye socket, and some bruises on his face, obviously having just suffered a beating not long ago.
Aberforth stood by with a cold face, staring at him fiercely: "Albus, you have to think carefully, if... things are not as you imagined, I will really kill you!!"
Dumbledore forced a smile and said, "You know, I can't joke about this kind of thing."
Aberforth clenched his fists and stared at his sister Ariana's tombstone. After a while, he took a long breath and said in a trembling voice: "Then... let's start."
The two brothers each produced a shovel and remained silent for several minutes. Finally, Dumbledore dug the first shovel of soil.
Godric's Hollow was very cold, and the soil in the cemetery had long been frozen as hard as stone, but the brothers did not use magic. Instead, they dug the soil on the grave one shovel at a time, with great difficulty - because Ariana died because of magic.
The two brothers dug from dawn to dusk.
Although both of them were wizards with very good physical fitness, they were over a hundred years old after all, and had been doing hard work for several hours in the biting cold wind and low temperature.
By the time the coffin buried deep underground was revealed, they were already exhausted, tired, hungry and cold.
But they still held on, and worked together to lift out the coffin, which showed no trace of decay, and then fell into silence again.
"Are you sure you want to open it?" Aberforth asked.
"Um."
Dumbledore stroked the coffin with his blistered hands and murmured, "I must confirm it with my own eyes once more."
"…But we confirmed Ariana was dead, and we put her in the coffin and buried her ourselves. Why do you think she would come back to life?"
"She's not a wizard, she's just an Obscurial."
Aberforth's suppressed emotions burst out again: "Even if it is a guy like Voldemort who left behind Horcruxes, it would be extremely difficult to resurrect him after his death. Ariana...how could she..."
His intuition told him that this was impossible!
But he couldn't help but have a glimmer of hope. Even though Dumbledore came to him several times and beat him up every time, he knew in his heart that his brother would never joke about such things!
The two Dumbledore brothers have different feelings towards Ariana. Dumbledore feels more guilty because his recklessness led to his sister's death; while Aberforth truly loves his sister because he raised Ariana by himself and even did not go to school in order to take care of his sister.
"Come on, there's only one step left."
Dumbledore took out the tools he had prepared long ago and began to remove the nails from the coffin one by one, while Aberforth stood there in a daze.
Rumble.
Half an hour later, Dumbledore pulled out all the nails and pushed open Ariana's coffin lid without hesitation.
With the faint moonlight in the sky, he saw everything in the coffin:
There was no body of Ariana, nor any bones, only pieces of white feathers stained with pale yellow oil scattered randomly at the bottom of the coffin!
...
The mysterious main world.
Backlund, Queens.
Edward returned to the villa after being away for nearly a month.
The moment Audrey emerged from the leather bag, she frowned, "The air in Backlund is really terrible."
She suddenly had an idea and said, "What do you think? If we arrange a dozen or twenty wizards to use wind spells every day to blow away the polluted air, will the air in Backlund be improved?"
"Uh...then those people living downwind of Backlund will definitely thank your ancestors for eight generations..."
"screw you!"
Audrey hit him lightly and said, "Then I'll go home~"
"Okay, you should concentrate on your studies when you go back."
She pursed her lips and said, "I know."
Just as she was about to turn around and leave, she suddenly took off the resurrection stone ring from her finger and handed it to Edward: "This is back to you."
"Well, just wear it."
Audrey shook her head. "I'm safe at home every day and don't need it. You need it more."
Edward looked at her for a moment and had to take the ring back.
"Okay, bye~ Let's go Susie"
Susie wagged her tail at Lilith and said, "Goodbye, Miss Lilith."
"Yeah~"
After Audrey walked away, Edward habitually cast a few more cleaning spells in the house, then looked at Lilith and said, "Lilith, I'm going to go out for a while."
"Okay~"
She lay on the sofa, wagging her tail.
Edward waved his hand and his figure twisted and disappeared. Lilith, who had been well-behaved a second ago, jumped up, ran quickly towards the window, then skillfully opened the window and left.
...
St. Samuel's Church.
When Edward arrived, the believers had just finished attending today's meeting and were leaving. Everyone was walking together in groups of three or four, regardless of their wealth, and all had smiles on their faces.
This is the power of faith.
Believers provide an anchor for the gods, and the gods bring hope to the believers - the key is that the gods will occasionally respond to the believers. Can ordinary people believe this?
Edward greeted Bishop Elektra and went to the library on the side again.
He lit the candles, sprinkled essential oils, decorated the place with the goddess' favorite night-blooming vanilla and moon flowers, and then took out a suitcase. In the suitcase were various modern mechanical and electronic products, various technical books, a large amount of food, gasoline and diesel, and several fighter jets.
Edward suddenly hesitated. If he gave all these things to Steam Princess, who knows what the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery would become?
He really figured it all out. He couldn't imagine how big the changes in the world would be.
"Well, goddess...I think you'll take that into consideration."