Aini waved his hand, and the plates on the table disappeared.
"Sorry, I didn't expect you were still dining."
After expressing his apology, Bill sat down on the sofa. The sunken eye sockets and the increasingly obvious hanging needle lines all indicated that the man had not been having a satisfactory life recently.
"Actually, I've already finished eating, but I haven't had time to clean it up yet."
A very normal sentence, but Aini briefly enjoyed Ron's usual treatment - that boy is very good at chatting to death.
There is nothing wrong with this sentence, but after entering the door, the visitor suddenly lost his previous determination, and he hesitated whether to drag someone into the family's troubles.
The wordless silence gradually closed. Aini took out a tea set and cleaned and tidied it himself without using magic. Until he took out a box of solid alcohol, lit it and put it on the kettle, the two said nothing more.
Undoubtedly, this is rude to the guests, and the same is true for the host.
But the silence continued. Obviously, Bill had not been able to stop the shaking in his heart.
Aini roughly guessed Bill's purpose, which was why he didn't speak.
In other words, he is willing to help, but he is not sure what Bill wants. That is no ordinary dilemma. It is rooted in reality, but elevated to an indescribable place that modern wizards rarely touch.
The price of failure may be trivial, or it may be too heavy to be trusted, and these will all be borne by Bill, so before he makes up his mind, any words Ani says are unnecessary and inappropriate.
How about making a pot of tea and eating a few snacks? To be honest, he really wasn't full just now.
"Woo~"
Water on fire will eventually boil.
This long whistle was destined when Aini added water to the pot.
And Bill decided to come here to fill the water, and to sit down was to put himself on the fire.
Like a silver pot on fire, he will eventually speak.
The only difference is that it was Ani's hand that held the silver pot, and what put Bill in this situation was the curse that the family has carried for a long time, the fate that they had escaped, and the two younger brothers who were in desperate situations.
Of course Bill will be emotionally biased towards his younger brother. Although Ani is also a good friend with him, the two are not on the same level.
Bill's principles and morals made him not want to drag his friends into the water, but he really had no other choice.
When he came for this reason, it meant that Bill had no choice but to choose Aini.
He is willing to pay any price for his brother's life.
"Sorry, I took the liberty to come here..."
Bill showed a self-deprecating smile, but coupled with his tired and haggard face, all he showed was sadness.
Ginny is 12 years old. Four years is not a short time. In the eyes of her sister who is full of girlish longing, this journey to adulthood requires a long wait.
Four years is a very short time. When it is not only a little girl's desire, but also a man who swears to protect and counts down the life of his beloved relative, the pressure of the approaching separation has made it difficult for him to breathe.
He once thought that in the worst case scenario, he could earn more money and fill his soul first.
However, in the end Bill rejected this approach. It was just another form of escape. As the eldest son of the Weasley family, even if he knew that something was not harmonious, he still had to face it with his head held high.
Perhaps it was too long and too long to see the bright hope, and the heavy pressure was unbearable. From the first word he opened his mouth, Bill couldn't close his chat box.
Ani listened silently, and only silently helped Bill refill the tea after he finished drinking it, without saying a word.
In the other party's story, Aini also learned a lot of things that were not reflected in the runes.
His previous feeling was correct. The feud between Weasley and the Malfoy family stemmed from ancient racial hatred, but it was not just the Celtic hostility to the invaders.
Of course, many years have passed since the war, and even King Arthur has become an unverifiable legend in Muggle society.
Human beings are always good at forgetting. Even today, these red-headed people are just a little unhappy with the Malfoy family's style, far from the level of slashing with swords in front of their faces or beating sap in the back.
To Ani's surprise, Weasley's history can be traced back to the era in the epic, but unfortunately Bill did not reveal much.
The ancestors of the Weasley family had fought for King Arthur. Of course, after the Onsans won, the red-haired gang was liquidated and suppressed.
Because of this, he was in a dilemma where his bloodline was about to be cut off, and he had to turn to a "Peeper" for help. In Bill's mouth, he called himself the "God of Wealth."
The ritual used back then was destroyed by the ancestors, so the descendants of the Weasley family lost the channel to communicate with Him.
Even if there is, I am afraid that most of the clan members are not willing to break this contract, which is called a gift but is actually a curse.
After all, including Bill's generation, the "Seventh Son" has only appeared five times in a long period of thousands of years, and the first three times were used within a hundred years of the defeat of the war.
It is also with this that the Weasley family survived the most difficult period and finally became a family that has lasted for thousands of years.
One thing to say, if you exclude personal emotional bias, Ani feels that the Weasley family is quite scum, a typical burning of bridges.
However, Aini considers that his greatest advantage is that he helps relatives rather than taking care of others. If he is capable enough, he will not pay a price that exceeds the friendship between the two of them, and he will definitely agree to Bill's request for help.
It's just that Aini is a little curious about Bill's source of information. How did he know that he had the ability to lift the curse?
That is an ability that Aini will most likely obtain, but it is not powerful enough. Who revealed it to him? Could it be Dumbledore?
No! With Dumbledore's character, if this was the case, he would definitely seek his own opinion before informing Bill...
Ani put down the teacup, opened his eyes of true seeing and looked at Bill.
He didn't do this out of politeness before, but now that he discovered the suspicion, Ani suddenly noticed a strange aura from the other party.
Sure enough, probably because the money he obtained was not as good as his two younger brothers, there was no rune of the family curse on Bill's body, but there was a rune that flickered on and off.
As Bill began to talk about the family curse, Ani was also constantly analyzing the newly appearing runes.
[The remaining words of the visionary], listen to the whispers of the prophets, and you should also withstand the disasters of the elders...
In short, Bill held a ceremony to communicate with a certain existence, and learned from it that Ani had the ability to help him, but as a price, he needed to share the disaster of that existence, that is, his luck was temporarily reduced.
When Bill experiences an unexpected negative event, such as losing an important item, missing a key opportunity, being suddenly attacked, etc., the residue of this ritual will disappear.
"I discovered a divination ritual from the family's collection of books. I heard many voices at the time, but after the ritual, all I could recall was your name. I am willing to pay any price to help George and Fred." p>
After Aini finished analyzing the contents of the runes, Bill's speech came to an end.
For his family, he can give everything he has or can get.