The coffin itself is an unlucky thing, let alone used as a gift, or given to an old man at Christmas...
Is this definitely a gift, not a last resort?!
Therefore, when he saw Aberforth's gift for the first time, Rolf was shocked and secretly cursed:
If he didn't come himself, wouldn't he be afraid that Bathilda Bagshot would gasp when she saw the coffin, and the festival would turn into a funeral?
Then this coffin is really well used.
But in the end, Rolf agreed to help deliver the coffin, and the reason was very simple: it looked too familiar!
The wooden coffin had no words engraved on it, only a simple pattern on the lid:
Triangular eyes with a vertical line in the middle of the pupil.
Rove had seen two coffins exactly like it in the ghost ship and the Ravenclaw tomb.
Counting the coffins from the centaurs tribe that Newt had seen and the coffins in Hogwarts Castle that Dumbledore mentioned...this is already the fifth wooden coffin!
Of course, the only difference between this coffin and the wooden coffin that Luo Fei had seen before was that it had been... opened.
On the coffin lid, there was a huge gap cut with a sharp weapon, but there was nothing in the coffin, no burial objects, and no bones.
Bagshot hunched over and walked to the wooden coffin. She looked at it carefully, touching the patterns on the coffin inch by inch with her old fingers, and said in a trembling voice:
"Merlin...it's it...I didn't expect the legend to be true..."
Hermione's curiosity was aroused by these words, and she asked: "Mrs. Bagshot, what legend is this?"
Bagshot did not answer directly. Instead, he pointed to the triangular eye on the coffin and said in an old voice: "Children, do you recognize this symbol?"
"The Deathly Hallows." Rolf said, "The vertical line represents the Elder Wand, the circle above the vertical line is the Resurrection Stone, and the triangle represents the Invisibility Cloak."
"This is the interpretation of the saints." Bagshot snorted, "But this interpretation actually distorts the original meaning of the symbol."
"Distorted?" Luofu asked doubtfully: "You mean, this symbol does not represent the Deathly Hallows?"
"Of course it doesn't mean." Bagshot raised his head, stared at Luofu with his white-covered eyes, and asked:
"Child, do you know when the so-called Deathly Hallows first appeared?"
Luo Fu was speechless for a moment. He really didn't know this. He thought about it and guessed:
"After the three Peverell brothers got the Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone and Invisibility Cloak?"
"It's not that old." Bagshot shook his head and said, "The term Deathly Hallows was born in the middle of the fifteenth century."
"Fifteenth century?" Luo Fu's face was full of astonishment. He had been saying that the Deathly Hallows had been circulating in the magical world for at least thousands of years. How could it be only five or six hundred years?!
"Is there any evidence?" he asked.
"Of course." Bagshot smiled and said: "I once asked Nico that when he was young, he had never heard of the Deathly Hallows.
It wasn't until he was more than a hundred years old that such a saying suddenly came into being in the magical world."
"..."
Well... Nico Flamel was born in the fourteenth century. To others, what is history is just experience to him.
Using his experience as evidence is indeed very convincing.
Luofu thought about it and then said doubtfully: "That's not right, the Elder Wand has been recorded a long time ago."
"I know." Bagshot's gaze seemed to penetrate through Rolf, and she said slowly:
"I wrote in "History of Magic" - the demon Emeric was killed in a duel with the evil Egbert, and then his wand was taken away.
The wand that was taken away was the Elder Wand, and this happened in the early Middle Ages, more than a thousand years ago."
"Then you just said that the term "Deathly Hallows" would not have appeared for more than five or six hundred years?" Luo Fe asked doubtfully.
"Child." Bagshot's white pupils stared straight at Luo Fe:
"The Elder Wand, Invisibility Cloak and Resurrection Stone have been circulating in the magic world for a long time. The concept of the Deathly Hallows was formed later and does not conflict with it."
"In fact, in a very long history, the three of them have not been related to each other." Bagshot said calmly:
"Wizards have all heard stories of super powerful wands, and over the centuries they have appeared under different names and been owned by different wizards."
"But the Invisibility Cloak and the Resurrection Stone are different. They are very stable and secretly circulated among certain families with the Peverell bloodline.
Therefore, they hardly had much fame, and no one compared them with the Elder Wand...until the fifteenth century!"
Bagshot paused and continued in an old voice: "There was a wizard who compiled the story of the three brothers and the God of Death, and people gradually became aware of the Invisibility Cloak and the Resurrection Stone."
Luo Fu was stunned for a moment and said, "Beedo the Poet?"
"That's right." Bagshot nodded: "This troubadour who was born in Yorkshire, England in the 15th century compiled the Tales of Beedle and wrote for the first time the story of the three Peverell brothers and the God of Death.
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"Beedle was also the first person to propose the concept of the Deathly Hallows. He claimed that as long as he collected three Deathly Hallows, he could conquer Death and become his master.
So the wizards began to search for the Deathly Hallows, and Beedle himself founded the organization of saints and summoned the saints to embark on the road to find the God of Death."
After a moment of silence, Luofu looked at the triangular eye on the coffin and asked curiously: "This symbol was also designed by Beedle?"
"No." Bagshot shook his head: "This symbol has a long history, older than the history of the Elder Wand and even the entire human race. It... comes from the kingdom of ancient wizards."
"Ancient wizard?" Luo Fu's face was full of astonishment. He really didn't expect this answer. "Then what does it really mean?"
"Death and resurrection." Bagshot explained:
"The triangle represents the pyramid. The ancient wizard would bury himself in the pyramid. The circle is the heart, and the vertical column in the middle represents the corpse of the ancient wizard.
The meaning of the entire symbol is that the heart of a corpse buried in a pyramid will beat again.
This symbol was used as a funeral amulet and would be carved on the coffins and tombstones of the deceased by ancient wizards."
"If you look at the tomb of Ignotus Peverell, there is this symbol on his tombstone."
Luo Fu pondered. It turns out that this symbol was used by ancient wizards for dead people. So...
"Is an ancient wizard buried in this coffin?" Luofu guessed.
Bagshot stared at Rolf with cloudy eyes. She put her hands back on the wooden coffin, touched it almost caressingly and said:
"A more accurate statement is that it is the body of the last ancient wizard. It is said that he was divided into five parts and placed in five wooden coffins."