Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

After the two entered the door, someone soon came over to greet Professor Murray.

"You're here too, Murray."

A brown-haired, burly wizard walked over and said.

"Long time no see, Orlando." Professor Murray said, "That guy Gul claimed that he found the notes left by the ancient wizards. Of course I have to take a look."

"I want to see the magic mirror that is said to be able to communicate with the dead." The brown-haired wizard said, "Except for the legendary resurrection stone, I have never seen a magic item that can break through the barrier of life and death!"

"That sounds like a bluff."

"I know... but what if? Is Gul just talking nonsense?"

The brown-haired wizard finished speaking and turned his gaze towards Vader.

"Murray, this child is——"

Wade bowed slightly.

"My student, Weed Grey." Professor Murray coughed softly and said casually, "You must have heard of his name."

"Of course - of course -" Orlando opened his eyes wide in surprise: "I didn't expect... that he was really so... so young... It's so surprising..."

He extended his hand solemnly: "Hello, young Mr. Gray."

"Hello, Mr. Orlando, I have read many of your papers." Wade also said respectfully.

Orlando's expression obviously pleased Professor Murray. He suppressed his upturned lips, smiled reservedly and said:

"Yes, he is only in the third grade this year, but he has already invented the Book of Friends and the Magic Pet. Oh, and the recently popular Ryujin."

"I know, I bought them all." Orlando looked at Wade thoughtfully, and suddenly said, "Dear Wade, do you want to go to school at Beauxbatons? Our school has the most beautiful girls in France, and Mr. Nico Flamel is also the director of our school."

Professor Murray's face changed, and he said in a bad tone: "Hey, Orlando! Did you forget that I'm still here?"

"What's the matter? You might as well come. You don't have many classes at Hogwarts anyway."

Orlando responded casually and turned to Wade: "Of course, if you are tired of Murray's teaching style, I can also teach you different alchemy."

"Thank you." Wade said with a smile, "Hogwarts is great. I have no plans to transfer to another school for the time being."

"Well, if you change your mind, you can always contact me. Even if you don't want to transfer, just visiting is fine."

Orlando pulled out a friend's note and handed it to Wade.

Wade naturally accepted it.

The doorbell rang again, and another alchemist walked in. When the elevator door opened and closed, Wade saw that the girl who was greeting guests in the lobby was also inside.

He was a little surprised.

When he and Professor Murray came up just now, the girl just helped press the button and waited outside the elevator, and did not go up or down with them.

Soon, the elevator door closed. Just before it closed, the girl raised her eyes and met Wade's gaze again.

This time, there was no shyness or curiosity in her eyes, only tranquility.

"Professor," Wade asked softly, "was this also the place where you attended the exhibition in the past?"

"Huh? Of course not. Goole always likes to randomly choose places he thinks are interesting." Professor Murray said, "Sometimes on a cruise ship, sometimes in an amusement park, and once in a cemetery."

"Then...the girl upstairs, have you seen her before?" Wade asked again.

"No, probably an employee of Goole's, right?" Professor Murray said, "He likes to hire a few Squibs or wizards with low magical powers as waiters."

Wade touched the pencil case hanging around his waist and said nothing more.

Suddenly, a tinkling sound was heard in the hall, as if raindrops were splashing on bluestone.

Then, all the statues spewed out golden sparks at the same time, which fell on the open ground and ignited a raging fire. Then, a wizard in a red robe walked out of the fire with a cane.

"It's just a freezing fire spell!" Professor Mori said disdainfully, "Gul is still so flamboyant."

The red-robed wizard Gul opened his arms and said loudly, "Welcome! Everyone is welcome to my exhibition. All the items on display are ancient and powerful magic items that I carefully selected. If anyone wants to study or collect them, please contact me after the exhibition!"

"Stop talking nonsense!" a bald old wizard said impatiently, "Let's get to the point!"

The alchemists around him all nodded.

"……All right."

Gul silently put down his speech, which was at least two feet long, and slammed his cane to the ground.

"Boom!"

Invisible waves spread out, and the floor beneath his feet seemed to rise and fall. Then, seven stone platforms rose up around him, and on each platform was placed a magic item, covered by a transparent magic barrier.

Everyone chose the items they liked and gathered around.

Wade also looked around -

There were teapots with strange patterns, wood-carved bronze mirrors, old notebooks, stone tablets engraved with ancient text, swords without scabbards, gold necklaces, and a wreath of thorns.

Vader's expression turned strange.

He activated his second vision, and thought he could see the abstruse magic patterns, the incomplete and mysterious magic arrays, the magic that contained the years, and the echoes of magic lost in ancient times.

but.

Nothing.

Those objects that seemed full of mystery appeared so monotonous and pale in his sight.

Chapter 295: Genuine and affordable?

Wade stood silently beside Professor Murray, and heard the professor urging him, "You don't have to follow me, Wade, you can be more casual and look at the items you like."

Vader shook his head, said nothing, and did not leave.

——After all, he is still a child.

Professor Murray thought to himself, smiled gently, and stopped urging Wade to act alone.

While admiring the stone tablet with inscriptions, he whispered to Wade:

"Gul had told us before about the items he was going to exhibit this time. This is one of them... a stone tablet unearthed from ancient Egypt. It is said that it may have been engraved by Democritus himself."

"The magic of that era was very simple and pure, much closer to the essence of magic and the truth of nature than it is now. It is said that there was a magical technology at that time that could make humans equal to gods."

"Like this slab?" Vader asked.

Professor Murray smiled and said, "Of course, this needs to be translated and studied before we can know what it actually says. But I can interpret part of it for now..."

As he spoke, Professor Murray began to carefully study the text, muttering to himself and gesturing with his fingers to understand its contents.

The text on the stone slab is different from any known one, and ancient characters can often express complex meanings with a simple symbol.

Professor Murray had great difficulty interpreting it. After a few minutes, he muttered, "What's going on... It's so strange..."

The old professor went back and reinterpreted it.

"Strange... That's right... Could it be that these words were carved wrong?"

He looked at the stone slab that showed obvious signs of aging, pondered for a moment, and suddenly sighed.

"What's wrong, Professor?" Vader asked.

"The text is not right." He turned to Wade and said, "Maybe Gul was deceived. This is a fake. Let's go and see something else."

Vader turned his head and saw the red-robed wizard standing next to the wooden bronze mirror with a smile on his face, talking to Orlando of Beauxbatons. There were also several young alchemists standing around, looking at the mirror with awe from time to time.

The elevator leading into here has been closed, and the floor display screen above is also dark, with no text.

Wade could see that chain-like magic patterns were coiled around the elevator door. It would definitely not be easy to open that door.

Looking closely, it was found that the ancient portraits hanging on the wall were originally in a normal sleeping state, but at this moment, a small half of them had opened their eyes, and some of them were squinting as if they were secretly observing.

Even the position of the statue has undergone some subtle changes.

But the alchemists in the hall were so engrossed in the exhibits that no one noticed these changes.

So Wade withdrew his gaze and did not tell anyone about his discovery. Instead, he followed Professor Murray and continued to look at the wreath of thorns.

"It looks like an ordinary wreath, but in fact, it may be related to the legendary great wizard Merlin..."

Professor Murray once again introduced the background information:

"The Fairy of the Lake, Vivian, used the wreath of thorns on her head to trap Merlin, making him lose his way and finally imprisoning him forever in an oak tree..."

Suddenly, his voice paused, and he stared at the wreath in the barrier for a long time without being able to utter a word.

Due to the magical barrier protecting the exhibits, the alchemists were unable to use detection magic to further inspect the exhibits and could only appreciate and imagine them with their own eyes.

But for an experienced alchemist like Professor Mori, he had an almost intuitive sense of alchemical items. Even if he only saw the appearance, he noticed something unusual.

Professor Murray's fingers slid lightly in the air, tracing the shape of the thorn wreath through the barrier.

Then the old man laughed out of anger.

"How could this be something from a thousand or two thousand years ago... Could it have been made just a day or two ago?"

Professor Murray's expression became fierce. "Wade, how could an alchemist who has been in this field for thirty or forty years make mistakes twice in a row?"

Wade said softly, "Under the circumstances of being threatened or controlled by someone? Look, Professor, others have also discovered the problem... We'd better not act rashly."

Professor Murray originally thought that the red wizard Gul was cheating by gambling his reputation for decades and was very angry. But after hearing what Wade said, he immediately calmed down.

Then he also discovered the problem.

While the young people were still walking around admiring the exhibits, the older alchemists almost all frowned and exchanged glances with each other.

Only Orlando was still discussing the legend of the god of death with Gul, trying to find out in a roundabout way whether he could get a discount on the mirror.

An old man with wrinkled clothes and a spotty face quickly looked at all the exhibits, then walked over and interrupted their conversation.

"Gul!" he asked in a nasty tone, "What the hell are you exhibiting? Do you expect to deceive our eyes with this?"

It seemed that rather than being angry that the exhibits were all fakes, he was more angry that someone actually thought such things could slip past his eyes.

Guld paused, then smiled and asked, "What? Mr. Mathias, which one are you referring to?"

"All of them!" the old wizard said angrily, "Just like that damn mirror in front of you! It's not a magic mirror at all!"