Chapter 107 105. Book and Pen
The temperature at the end of January was still very low, and there had been a winter rain at Hogwarts in the past two days. The cold wind at night penetrated through the window into the corridor, rattling the invisibility cloak that Jon was wearing.
After he came out of the basement, he went straight up the stairs.
The stairs that were active during the day in the castle are now quiet. Before Hermione led these seemingly conscious steps, they could help them, but they didn't help Jon in this way, and they seemed to only recognize Hermione.
But Jon didn't need to be in a hurry now, he stretched out his hand and wrapped his invisibility cloak tightly, and then came to the eighth floor of the castle.
He crossed Voldemort's boundary for everyone familiarly, opened the door of the principal's office and walked into the hall.
There are still some dry bloodstains on the ground here, and the ground is also full of potholes, which have not been repaired. Go forward from the foyer and walk into the principal's room, and you can see the corpse of the basilisk that was riddled with holes.
A month later, its corpse hasn't changed much. The emerald green scales are still so bright, and the flesh and blood exposed by the wound are still fresh, without any sign of rot.
After all, the basilisk is a magical creature of XXXXX level, not to mention that the basilisk created by Salazar Slytherin has lived for more than a thousand years. From venom to snake skin, it is full of precious magic materials. Take it out and definitely sell for a high price.
It's a pity that Jon has no way to take this corpse away. The cloth bag space prepared by Dumbledore with the Untraceable Stretching Curse is far from being able to hold the corpse of the basilisk. He can only find a way to knock it out. A fang was removed, and some venom was collected and kept.
In fact, he originally planned to pry away both eyes of the basilisk, but he had no way to guarantee that the magic on its eyes would lose its effectiveness when the basilisk died. To be on the safe side, he did not take this somewhat risky move. .
Passing over the basilisk, you can see the desk with the four founder relics.
These four relics are still quietly placed here, looking like exhibits in an exhibition hall, and there is nothing special or different.
Jon passed them cautiously. The more harmless these four relics looked, the more vigilant he was.
Going up the spiral staircase in a small room behind the office, he came to the door of the small room on the top of the tower again.
Inserting telescopic eyes into the crack of the door, Jon first confirmed that the old witch, middle-aged wizard and young wizard in the three portraits were still in the frame, and then he raised the ring in his hand.
"The spell stops immediately."
A strange wave began to spread out from his body, and this wave quickly broke through the door in front of him, broke into the room inside, and then the people who were still bowing their heads and snoring The three portraits were suddenly stopped like a pause button being pressed.
The original realistic and vivid portrait began to become stiff, like a living object turned into a dead object, and the three wizards in the frame were all silent, they were not breathing or swaying, and turned into three pictures Ordinary dead painting.
The room became quiet. The open book on the desk in the middle seemed to be blown by a breeze and the pages of the book were turned, and then the quill pen inserted in the ink bottle on the side flew up out of thin air. A child's name was written on a blank page.
Jon outside the door didn't feel anything, but he looked at the ring he was wearing in front of him, and he could vaguely notice that the blood-red gemstone seemed to have become darker again.
The magic power contained in it is extremely abundant, and after absorbing the magic power of the three paintings, it has almost no storage space and can only wait to be released.
Jon didn't stay outside the door. He opened the door and walked into the room. Without looking at other things, he went directly to the desk, closed the book full of names, and took Gone is the quill that just flew back into the inkwell!
These two things are what Dumbledore asked Jon to sneak into Hogwarts to steal—the "Book of Access" and the "Pen of Acceptance"!
Hogwarts' annual enrollment is based on these two magical items. When a child shows his magical talent for the first time, the quill will fly out of the ink bottle, trying to record the child's name in the book of access. The Book of Access then slams shut, refusing to be written until it receives sufficiently exciting evidence of magical powers.
That is to say, how to become a wizard. Entering Hogwarts to study actually has to go through two screening procedures. Only when the book and the pen agree at the same time, then the child is recognized as having the talent to become a wizard.
Since the establishment of Hogwarts for thousands of years, the cooperation between the Book of Access and the Pen of Acceptance has never been wrong. They have not put any Muggles or Squibs without the ability to learn magic into the castle, and they have not missed Any student with magical aptitude was exiled outside.
This also means that from the year Hogwarts was founded, this book records the names and dates of birth of all the students who have studied in Hogwarts Castle for nearly a thousand years , this is a privilege unique to Hogwarts.
Before Voldemort ruled the wizarding world, the Ministry of Magic had no right to see any information in this book.
But after Voldemort became the master of the Ministry of Magic and the headmaster of Hogwarts Castle, he could use the student information on the Access Book to identify wizards in the entire wizarding world and determine their lineage.
No one can hide their life experience. After all, all the wizards in the wizarding world have graduated from Hogwarts, and when they entered school, they had already left traces of absolute authenticity.
However, Voldemort did not disclose the existence of the Book of Access to the public. Only he can enter this tower connected to the principal's office, which means that he alone monopolizes the right to explain the blood of wizards.
What puzzled Jon was that according to the shrewdness Voldemort has shown for such an important thing, he should put it in a safer place where he can see it, but Dumbledore said to Jon cryptically Well, it's not that Voldemort himself doesn't want to change the position of the book and the pen, but that he simply doesn't have the ability.
But now Jon obviously has this ability!
(end of this chapter)