The Periodic Table of Words at Hogwarts

Chapter 247 The time converter from years ago

"It looks like you know this house better than I do."

Dumbledore looked at the smooth door and sighed.

"For thousands of years, every batch of students at Hogwarts has found this house and put the things they need most in it, but many people forgot to take it away in the end."

Dumbledore casually took a glass bottle from a nearby shelf and wiped the dust on it with his hand.

"Wow, it's a head of Hydra. This glass bottle is probably more than 300 years old."

Zhang Qi came over and took a look. There was a ferocious snake head preserved in the bottle with green potion.

"At least in the era of Mr. Nico Flamel, things like Hydra have been extinct for a long time."

Dumbledore also seemed to be interested in this specimen, and he held it and studied it for a long time.

"Uh, actually, principal, I want to ask you a question, have you ever been here before?"

Zhang Qi kicked a dilapidated table next to him, causing a large cloud of dust to rise up, and then revealed what was under the table.

"This is also my first time entering this room. What were you thinking about when you entered this room?"

Dumbledore asked kindly.

"I wanted to go into the room where past students had hidden things, so we entered this room, and now it seems that this is indeed a place where things are hidden."

Zhang Qi pointed to something under the table with a strange expression.

Dumbledore leaned over and took a look, then showed a surprised expression.

Under the table is a human skeleton. There are obvious stains on the floor around the skeleton, which should be caused by decay.

"To a certain extent, corpses are also things that need to be hidden"...

Zhang Qi looked at the skeleton, and then squatted down.

"He must have been stabbed in the throat with a sharp blade. Look at the neck bone, there is an obvious gap."

"That's really rare. Wizards usually don't kill people in such a barbaric way."

Dumbledore used his wand to pick up the clothes that were still intact around the body, but the clothes turned into dust the moment they came into contact with external force.

"This thing has a long history. You shouldn't be needed to solve the case."

Zhang Qi shrugged his shoulders and stood up.

"Poor child, may he rest in peace."

Dumbledore also stood up, and the two of them walked inside together.

"I suddenly felt that these students really had a lot of prohibited items"...

Dumbledore picked up a Wolf Fang flying saucer this time. It looked like a very new thing. It was clean without any dust.

This thing is a kind of prank. Once thrown out, it will find the nearest person, hold it on his head and chew it wildly.

Normally, there would be no safety accidents, but what Zhang Qi thought was if a steel brace was put on this thing...

It's not surprising at all that it bleeds when chewed.

"It's normal. I don't think any principals in the past have ever searched students' dormitories, right?"

Zhang Qi asked Dumbledore while locking his gaze on a table not far away.

There was an old bust of a wizard on the table, with a rusty crown on top of its head.

The sapphire on the crown looks dull, and the pure dense silver skeleton has long been rusted and looks very dirty.

But Zhang Qi knew that this crown was a Ravenclaw item, and both its collection value and its true value were immeasurable.

"We always have to respect students' privacy"...

Dumbledore sighed and said nothing more.

Gu"I found it, but I hope you don't get too close."

Zhang Qi pointed at the wizard statue on the table in the distance, and then warned Dumbledore.

"You mean the crown"?

Dumbledore's eyes suddenly widened in surprise at this moment, and then he quickly took two steps towards the table, and then stood there hurriedly as if he had discovered something, keeping a certain distance from the table.

"What do you think of that, Mr. Dumbledore?"

Zhang Qi asked, shrugging his shoulders.

"Unexpected, but expected."

Dumbledore's voice seemed a little trembling, and there was anger in it.

"Your student is indeed a good student. He can turn the founder's relics into Horcruxes. In the Muggle world, he can be sentenced as intentional destruction of cultural relics."

Zhang Qi also came over at this time, intending to take a closer look at Ravenclaw's crown.

"I think Voldemort will definitely put some powerful defenses on his Horcrux, so I suggest you not to touch it directly with your hands this time and in the future."

Zhang Qi reminded him very tactfully that whether Dumbledore would listen or not was his own business.

"How are you going to get rid of this thing? Are you going to destroy it directly, or are you going to find a way to remove the things attached to it?"

Zhang Qi asked.

"Please allow me some more time to think about it. I don't want to destroy this powerful magic item directly. After all, it is the hard work of Ms. Ravenclaw."

Dumbledore sighed, then used his wand to control the crown to float in the air.

"You must have your own ideas. Tell me, what do you want me to compensate you for?"

Dumbledore calmed down his emotions and then asked Zhang Qi.

"I haven't thought about it yet. I'll owe it to you for now, but now I plan to pick among these ownerless items. Maybe I can pick up something good."

Zhang Qi noticed very keenly at this time that there seemed to be a point exposed in the pile of dust on the ground, which looked like something similar to a spike.

Putting on the dragon leather gloves very carefully, Zhang Qi slowly reached into the pile of dust and took out a strange-shaped object from inside.

"This is... a sundial"?

Dumbledore also looked at the thing in Zhang Qi's hand with some confusion. It was a round object with scales similar to a clock engraved on it and a long spike in the center.

"It should be, but this is the first time I've seen such a small Japanese ghost."

Zhang Qi saw that the thing did not emit any strange light, so he blew the dust on it with his mouth, then put it in front of his eyes and played with it carefully.

"It seems to be made of gold. It feels very heavy when I pick it up."

Zhang Qi touched it curiously and found a cold metallic texture. If he was not mistaken, it must be gold.

"But I feel like I have seen this thing in some book"...

Dumbledore frowned and began to think carefully, but at this moment, the little sundial suddenly began to emit golden light!

"What's going on?"

Zhang Qi relied on his extraordinary reflexes to throw the thing several meters away in an instant, but it was still a step too late.

The golden light instantly enveloped him and Dumbledore, and then flashed violently.

After the light passed, darkness returned to the dark room again.

It's like no one has ever been here.