Chapter 101 The Fourth Wooden Coffin

Dumbledore looked at the mermaid statue with three heads and six arms through half-moon glasses. He looked at it carefully for a long time, his blue eyes shining brightly.

"It is the statue of the three mermaid sisters, Parserope, the Sirens and Scylla."

When Luo Fe and Shirley were discussing in private, they had also made such speculations, but there was no evidence, so he asked in a low voice:

"How did you figure it out?"

"appearance."

Dumbledore waved his wand, and a huge stone flew out of a wooden box and landed on the desk.

Rove noticed a brightly colored mural carved on the stone:

In a large hall, there is a two-tailed mermaid holding a scepter. The lower part of the painting depicts a group of marine magical creatures, kneeling to her.

Luofu compared the mural of the two-tailed mermaid with the golden statue. After a moment, he pointed at one of the heads and said:

"She looks a lot like the mermaid in the mural."

"Yes, they are indeed similar, so I conclude that they are the same mermaid." Dumbledore said.

"Where did you get the mural?" Rolf asked.

"Golden Mermaid Tribe." Dumbledore held the teacup, twirled the rim of the cup with his fingers, smelled the refreshing aroma, as if the aroma of tea could also make people intoxicated, and said with squinted eyes:

"It's the family of Myrcella, the two-tailed mermaid I asked you to help treat last year."

Luo Fu said in surprise: "So, she is Palselope?"

"That's right, the eldest of the three sisters, Palselope." Dumbledore took a sip of tea, nodded and said:

"She fell in love with Odysseus, the ancient Greek wizard, and left Avalon in order to pursue him."

"The Golden Mermaid family is the descendant of Parselope, so there are many murals of her left, and this is one of them."

"So," Rolf pondered, "the other two heads are Siren and Scylla?"

"I think so, although I haven't seen them."

Dumbledore focused his gaze on the statue, then looked down and saw the six hands of the mermaid, each holding:

cross, box, sickle,

And...three torches.

The old man frowned slightly and said, "But I don't know what the cross, the box, the sickle and the three torches mean."

"Rolf, I remember you said that Ravenclaw a thousand years ago left you a secret room. Since this statue was also left by her, there might be answers in it."

Luofu nodded and said: "I asked Helena. She knows the entrance to the secret room. I will take the time to go there."

"That's good." Dumbledore smiled.

"But speaking of the meaning, I do know the function of the torch." Luo Fe said suddenly.

"Oh?" The old man looked attentively.

"When Shirley and I discovered this statue, its torch was burning. We reached out and touched the statue, and we entered a mist." Rove said.

"Mist?" Dumbledore narrowed his eyes.

"It's very foggy. In the fog, you can still hear people cursing, wailing and crying." Rolf recalled his experience in Ravenclaw's tomb and said slowly:

"Shirley and I followed the sound and walked forward. The fog quickly disappeared. We actually appeared in Hogwarts and met a wizard named Tertius.

And he obviously died not long ago. "

After Dumbledore listened to the boy's words, there was deep amazement in his voice.

"Rolph, from your description, I think this statue took you and Shirley into Tertius's tangled illusion... It's really surprising that it still has this ability."

Seeing the old man's shocked look, Luo Fu asked doubtfully: "Have you not entered a trance before?"

"I have been there, but it was just my own illusion, not anyone else's." Dumbledore shook his head.

"How did you get in?" Luofu asked curiously.

"With the invisibility cloak."

"Invisibility cloak?" Luofu raised his eyebrows.

"Thirteen years ago, I found an invisibility cloak from James Potter." Dumbledore sat on a chair and gently answered the boy's questioning gaze.

"A general invisibility cloak is a traveling cloak woven using the Illusion Charm or the hair of an invisible beast. It can be invisible at first, but over time, it will gradually appear physical."

"And James's invisibility cloak is very ancient, permanently effective, and continuously invisible."

Luo Fu knew the reason and whispered: "It is one of the invisibility cloaks in the Deathly Hallows?"

"That's right." Dumbledore nodded, "I asked James at the time, and he told me that this invisibility cloak had been passed down in their family for many generations, and it first came from Iolanth Peverell.

Iolanth was the only child of the Peverell family in that generation. She had no brothers, so she inherited the family's invisibility cloak.

Iolanth later married Hadwin Potter, and the Cloak was transferred from Peverell to the Potter family and passed down from generation to generation. "

"And Iolanth Peverell is the descendant of Yingnotus Peverell, the third in the story of the three brothers.

So I determined that the invisibility cloak was the Deathly Hallows! "

Dumbledore stood up and walked slowly around the room.

“I don’t really think much about the invisibility cloak because I can be very invisible and it’s useless to me.

But according to legend, the wizard who possesses three Deathly Hallows at the same time is the real conqueror of death. So, I borrowed it back and studied it for a while, and then I discovered it..."

Rolf looked at Dumbledore and murmured: "Can you enter a trance?"

"Yes, that invisibility cloak, like this mermaid statue, can enter the world of the dead." Dumbledore said seriously:

"But that invisibility cloak can only enter one's own tangled illusion. It is far inferior to this statue, which can travel into other people's tangled illusions. This ability is simply like..."

Dumbledore paused and exclaimed: "Death!"

Rolf did not speak, but pondered where Ravenclaw got this treasure and why it was placed in his tomb.

"Besides this statue, did you find anything else in Ravenclaw's tomb?" Dumbledore asked.

"A golden apple tree, like the elder tree in Grindelwald, comes from Avalon." Rolf said softly:

"There is also a wooden coffin with the symbol of the Deathly Hallows engraved on the lid."

"I heard from my grandfather that he had seen similar wooden coffins in the centaurs tribe. Have you seen them, Professor Dumbledore?"

"I haven't seen it, but I have heard of it." Dumbledore said calmly: "In fact, it is said that Hogwarts also has a wooden coffin like this."

Luo Fu suddenly raised his head and looked at the old man.

"It has been passed down through generations of headmasters that there is a wooden coffin somewhere deep in Hogwarts Castle," Dumbledore said.

"This wooden coffin is providing magic for Hogwarts to operate on its own, so for thousands of years, this castle has never had an external power supply."

Luo Fe was so shocked that he couldn't speak. If this legend was true... then this would be the fourth coffin.

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