Stephanie's eyes were wide open because of her seriousness, and her lips were slightly pursed. Ignoring her age that did not match her appearance at all (she was an adult), the girl at this moment looked like a girl who wanted to prove herself to adults.
's children.
Sean scratched his head. He really needed someone who could provide him with more thinking directions. From the first time he met Stephanie, she was reading a book. In the following years, no matter when he met her,
The girl always holds several thick ancient books in her arms.
Moreover, Sean now has permission to the Room of Requirement. This magical room that has existed in Hogwarts to this day contains all kinds of strange and weird books. Stephanie has permission long before he does. I'm afraid...
Read a lot.
As if she was worried that Sean wouldn't believe her, Stephanie also took off her glasses.
The dark starry night eyes turned into a dreamy light blue in front of Sean's eyes.
As far as Sean knows, when Stephanie's pupils appear light blue, her charm ability is weak, and her ability to charm women will be greatly reduced. When her pupils appear black, her charm ability will be greatly improved, and both men and women
Takes all - but the charming ability of black pupils seems to be suppressed by her pair of magic gold-rimmed glasses.
Of course, this makes no difference to Sean. He couldn't stand under the gaze of light blue eyes at first, but now Stephanie can't have any impact on him even if she uses all her firepower - [Arrogance] naturally looks down on everything.
, any magic related to the eyes will not be effective on him.
Then she must be trying to say something by suddenly changing her eye color.
Sure enough, Stephanie took off her glasses, looked at Sean and said, "My ability to charm comes from my mother. She is a Veela, but my mother is not a pure Veela."
Sean nodded thoughtfully.
"I don't know who my mother's parents, that is, my maternal grandparents, are, but my maternal grandmother is most likely a purebred Veela, and my maternal grandfather is most likely an undiscovered Magus."
Mags? That's interesting.
Magus is also a name for those with special talents among wizards. For example, Tonks is a disguise magus, and Newt's innate ability to communicate with magical animals is also a magus.
Stephanie took out a book from somewhere and handed it to Sean.
"This is "Sonnet at the End of the Sea of Fog" that I just borrowed from the library today. I haven't read it yet."
Sean flipped through it casually. It was a collection of medieval love poems. The wording was sophisticated and even a little obscure.
"Huh?" He looked at the other party.
Stephanie took the book again and started flipping through it quickly in front of Sean.
In less than five minutes, the girl had already turned to the last page, and handed the book to Sean again.
"You can feel free to ask me anything on a given page."
This... quantum reading?
Sean took the book in surprise and asked a few random questions.
Stephanie recited everything Sean mentioned in an emotionless, cold voice, not a word wrong.
"Is your memory innate?" Sean looked at the other person in surprise.
Stephanie shook her head slightly: "It should be the bloodline inherited from my maternal grandfather. This should also be a kind of Magus, but I have not found any relevant records - when my eyes are black, it is the charm inherited from my mother.
The ability is even enhanced by [Lust]; when my eyes are light blue, I can choose to activate this Magus of mine."
"As long as I want to, with some magic and mental energy, I can remember everything without understanding the meaning of the sentence itself - although this way of reading is of little significance, it provides me with a lot of memory.
convenient."
Hermione should be jealous of this ability... Sean thought silently.
Opposite me, the girl was still talking: "I'm just saying this to prove to you that I really have the ability to help you. Of course I can't read all the books in the Hogwarts library and the Room of Requirement and understand their meaning.
But I must have read quite a few books..."
"It's not just a lot. Based on how often you read, your reading volume is probably dozens of times that of others..." Sean exclaimed.
Stephanie shook her head: "It could have been a hundred times, but I think reading without understanding the knowledge is useless - of course, some record-type messages don't need to be understood."
Sean nodded: "No wonder you said it so seriously, you have read a lot of books."
"Well, the professors didn't tell me much, so I thought about it and came to you directly. If you need help with anything, you can just tell me - all the books in the Hogwarts library and the Room of Requirement
, I haven’t read them all, but I have read the table of contents of all the books.”
Looking at the girl in front of him who had a calm face and even exuded a soft aura, an idea suddenly popped into Sean's mind.
Isn't this just a computer...
Search girl?!
Of course, it must be a good thing that Stephanie said so. There are too many books in Hogwarts. Sean thinks there is a high probability that there are clues that can be explored, but he alone, even if Hermione and Diane are included,
Hey, Harry's bunch of people don't know how long it will take to find the key information.
Thinking of this, he was not polite and said directly: "Then I won't bother with you. I really need some information now."
Stephanie's eyes flashed with excitement, which she hid well.
"Yeah." The girl nodded.
Sean directly took out the obsessive body that he had just placed, and then showed it to Stephanie.
"I got some information from Lockhart's memory. This thing is called an obsession. It should be a very key thing. It may have existed hundreds or even thousands of years ago, or in other words, similar items have existed.
Do you have any impression of this thing?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Stephanie came closer, her light blue eyes carefully looking at the black rhombus crystal like a radar scan.
Then she closed her eyes and her brain started working rapidly.
Sean wisely did not disturb the other party and waited quietly for her to open her eyes.
After a moment, Stephanie frowned slightly, and then opened her beautiful eyes.
"The name Obsession Body is not in my memory..."
Sean was a little disappointed. It seemed that even the huge collection of books at Hogwarts did not necessarily contain records of various magical items.
The girl continued: "But I remembered the contents of several books, and they all mentioned black rhombus crystals. However, I have not read these books in detail, so I am not sure whether it is what you are looking for."
Sean immediately became energetic: "It doesn't matter, at least it's a clue. Do you remember which books it is?"
Stephanie nodded affirmatively: "Remember, they are all in the restricted book area. I remember the position of each book on the bookshelf - if Mrs. Pince has not changed the position."
"Let's go take a look." Sean made a quick decision.
After putting away the obsession body again, Sean and Stephanie directly used the authority of the Room of Requirement to open a door in the library.
It was already dark, and the most diligent students had already borrowed books and returned to the lounge. All the lights in the library had been turned off, leaving only a faint gleam on the ceiling.
The library was quiet late at night, but Sean was familiar with it - he had snuck into the library several times when he was still a teaching assistant.
The same goes for Stephanie next to her. With her reading speed, she can't satisfy herself by just asking professors for loan certificates. She has obviously done a lot of sneaky things.
"Here -" Stephanie looked around naturally, as if she were back at home, and then pointed in one direction.
She led Sean towards the target bookshelf and said as she walked: "There are seven books with similar content in total. It is not troublesome to find them. The fifteenth book from the left in the third row on that bookshelf is called "An Overview of Magical Items in the Middle World"
", I think the possibility is relatively high."
"I remember it so clearly..." Sean looked at the other person in surprise.
Stephanie told a cold joke for the first time: "Thanks to my grandfather for falling in love with a Veela, and their Veela daughter falling in love with a wizard."
Sean followed without saying anything. Stephanie mentioned her parents without any emotion, as if she was mentioning two strangers. Mr. Ollivander, who was far away in Diagon Alley, never revealed who he was.
Information about son and daughter-in-law.
It seems that Stephanie's parents may have simply left behind a child.
Sean decided not to ask about the other person's family affairs.
Stephanie didn't say much. She quickly led Sean to the bookshelf, counted to fifteenth from left to right, and then pulled out a book.
The thick black sheepskin cover has traces of wear and tear, and it looks like it is a book that has been around for a long time.
Stephanie quickly opened the book and said while flipping it: "If I remember correctly, this book was already in the restricted book area when I entered school. Hogwarts does not replenish books every year, but it is better than lasting...
...Ah, found this?"
Sean took the opened book and read it carefully. After a while, he shook his head.
"The appearance is indeed somewhat similar, but what is mentioned in the book is a magical creation of a dark wizard. Its main function is to spread plague, which is different from the effect shown by the obsession."
Stephanie nodded: "Then find a copy."
So, in the deserted library late at night, two "uninvited guests" browsed through the restricted book section without any scruples, and Stephanie's descriptions of the books could be heard from time to time in the library.
During this period, Filch also took Mrs. Norris to visit the library once, but Sean used a confusion spell to hide it from the other party - although not from Mrs. Norris.
But this scrawny cat had a great crush on Sean, and even jumped into Sean's arms while his owner Filch was knocked unconscious by the confusion spell and let him pet him for a while...
After the man and the cat walked away, Sean cleaned the cat hair on his body and looked at Stephanie curiously.
The girl subconsciously backed away a lot when Mrs. Norris jumped into Sean's arms.
"Are you allergic to cat hair?"
Stephanie shook her head: "No, I simply don't like cats."
"Huh? Can I ask why?" After getting acquainted with each other, Sean became more casual in talking to each other.
The girl frowned slightly in confusion: "I don't know, I haven't been injured by cats or feline creatures since I was a child, but I don't have a physical dislike, I just don't like it - I have never been in Diagon Alley.
Won’t be anywhere near the Magical Zoo.”
Sean spread his hands and said, "It's natural - there are things that I haven't liked since I was a child. For example, on rainy days, when I was one year old and sitting in a stroller, I would point at the heavy rain outside the window and say I hate it."
The corners of Stephanie's mouth raised slightly, then quickly returned to their original state.
"Let's go on, there are two more books."
"Well, let's go."
Having said that, Sean no longer had much hope.
I have read five books that are most closely related based on their titles and table of contents, but none of them have anything to do with obsession.
"This time it's number 21 from the right in the fifth row... huh?" Stephanie, who was looking for a book, suddenly made a confused voice.
"What's wrong?" Sean walked over and took a look. The book called "Stories of the Greedy Poet" was replaced by another book.
"Mrs. Pince seems to have tidied up the bookshelf recently, and the positions of the books on this bookshelf have changed." Stephanie said while quickly scanning the bookshelf.
"Then... let's look for it?" Sean said. Although the hope was slim, he still didn't want to let go of any possible clues.
Although this "The Tales of the Greedy Poet" sounds very much like a collection of strange stories, since it is placed in the restricted book area, it shows that this thing still has reference value - and "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" is not
Is there any information about the Deathly Hallows still hidden?
The two of them searched the nearby bookshelf. Soon, Stephanie called Sean and she found it.
"The Tales of the Greedy Poet" was arranged by Mrs. Pince on the outermost bookshelf. According to the rules, the books here should be the least dangerous ones in the restricted book area.
The silver-haired girl flipped through the pages quickly, then handed it to Sean: "This one looks very similar to me."
"Um?"
Sean quickly took the book.
"Stories of the Greedy Poet" is made up of short stories. When Stephanie was looking for it, she told Sean that the reason why this book was placed in the restricted area was because those short stories were not fables, but fairy tales.
It is a story similar to a dark fairy tale. Even if you reread a story more than many times, you will have a strong sense of dizziness.
"The Great Poet and the Greedy Snake of Wisdom" - The treasure of darkness condensed by obsession was taken away by the heroic bard, and the snake of wisdom paid the price for its greed.
Seeing the name of the short story, Sean frowned subconsciously. This kind of normal-looking name is generally not a good thing in dark fairy tales...
He glanced quickly, and then his pupils shrank slightly.
In the illustration, a bard with a weird smile is holding a black rhombus crystal.