Chapter 708 A Letter

"What did Connor give you?"

"Hurry up and open it.

As soon as Dumbledore left, Fred and George surrounded Kyle on the left and right, looking at him teasingly.

Kyle didn't hesitate and opened the box directly.

Inside was a robe, but the style was completely different from the common styles in the UK. It was relatively more gorgeous, similar to a dress robe.

The brown fabric had a special light-colored pattern, like a pattern, but if you look closely, you will find that it was caused by the fabric itself having two colors.

The two ends are brown and the middle is light gray. After being woven together in a specific way, this unique pattern is formed.

"I've seen a scarf in Hogsmeade before, which is similar to this material." Fred said thoughtfully.

George thought for a while, "I remember the owner said it was... Lake, Lake or something, anyway, it is the neck hair of a rare magical animal."

"Lekrota." Kyle said.

"Yes, that's the name. "Fred nodded repeatedly.

The Lecrota is a large magical animal that looks like an elk, and its characteristic is its incredibly large mouth.

When its mouth is fully opened, it can even easily swallow a cow... Of course, it is a herbivore and has a gentle temperament.

This magical animal itself is not uncommon, but it is rare in the UK.

"By the way, where did Connor go?" George asked, "We wrote many letters to her, but we didn't receive a single reply."

"Kyle, do you know?"

"I only know that Snape took her to participate in the assessment of the Extraordinary Pharmacist Association." Kyle shrugged and said, "But I don't know where exactly, after all, I haven't received a reply.

"But I guess it should be Northern Europe."

The reason for this is that Lecrota likes to stay in cold places. For example, wizards in Denmark or Norway like robes and cloaks made of Lecrota wool, which are much better at keeping warm than wool.

"I see, I really hope she can succeed." Fred said sincerely.

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. We'll know when school starts, right?" George said, "Kyle, try it on."

"It's August now..." Kyle looked at him in disbelief, "You want me to wear this?"

"Just try it, I won't wear it all the time." Fred said.

"Tsk, okay." Seeing the two people's excited faces, Kyle sighed and could only take out the robe and put it on.

Not to mention, the size is not too big or too small, and it fits very well, just like it was custom-made.

"Strange," Kyle adjusted the wrinkles on his clothes, "Why don't you feel hot?"

"Of course you're not hot..." Fred shivered all over, rubbing his arms and shivering, saying, "It's because the surroundings suddenly became cold..."

George also tightened his thin clothes, "What's going on, is it winter already?"

Before he finished speaking, there was a scream of fear from upstairs.

"Oh no!" Kyle suddenly thought of something and turned around and ran upstairs.

Really, how could he forget such an important thing!

In order to save time, Kyle Apparated directly to Harry's room on the third floor and pushed the door open.

Sure enough...

In the room, a Dementor was floating in the air in a daze, while Harry, Ron and Hermione hugged each other, curled up in the corner and shivered.

The Dementor turned his head and floated over immediately after noticing Kyle.

"Be careful, don't come in!" Hermione screamed and reminded: "There are Dementors... monsters here?"

The next second, her voice stopped abruptly.

Because Hermione watched Kyle open a box, and then the Dementor jumped in obediently. The whole process was extremely smooth, as if everything was supposed to be so.

But that was a Dementor... not a pet owl.

Hermione was a little confused.

"Sorry," Kyle said a little embarrassedly: "I used this box to lock up the Dementor before, but I forgot about it when there were too many things later."

"No, it's okay..." Harry stood up trembling.

In fact, after Lupin's teaching, he was basically not so afraid of Dementors anymore, mainly because what happened just now was too sudden.

He happily opened the box and prepared to put something in it, but as soon as he opened the lock, a Dementor came out close to his face. He could even clearly see the skull-like face under the other party's cloak.

Who wouldn't be scared? Harry was already very brave for not fainting on the spot.

"But Kyle, why do you carry a Dementor with you!" He asked with lingering fear.

"I caught it." Kyle explained: "I originally wanted to hand it over to the Ministry of Magic, but as I said just now, I forgot."

"What happened!"

At this time, the adults who heard the noise also came.

"I just heard someone screaming." Sirius was the first to run in, carefully looking at the situation in the room, and asked, "Are you all okay?"

"Ah, nothing." Harry glanced at Kyle, then pretended to be calm and said, "We accidentally opened a joke prop just now, and Ron was scared."

"Yes, that's right." Ron said.

"Joke prop?" Sirius looked around suspiciously, "Strange, why is it so cold, it feels like a soul..."

"I guess it must be something like a snowflake tree."

Before Sirius finished speaking, Dumbledore walked in from outside and said in a nostalgic tone: "That was the most popular thing more than ten years ago. It only took a few seconds to make a tree full of snow."

"Professor Dumbledore?" Harry stood up and glanced to the side with a guilty look.

But Dumbledore seemed not to notice his little move, and just said to himself: "But I must remind you, Mr. Weasley, that Professor McGonagall will definitely not agree to anyone bringing such things into the school."

"Ah, really?" Although Fred didn't know what happened, he still said subconsciously: "Then we won't sell it."

"That's right." George also echoed, "We will definitely not have such things in our store anymore."

"That's great." Dumbledore smiled, "Sirius, if possible, I kind of want a glass of whiskey to warm up."

"No problem, Professor Dumbledore." Sirius nodded, "I remember there are still a few bottles of aged fire whiskey in the underground cellar."

The adults left the room one after another.

Harry patted his chest, "Do you think Professor Dumbledore found out?"

"Definitely found out." Hermione said firmly: "Nothing can deceive Dumbledore."

"Then why doesn't he expose us?" Ron asked in confusion.

"I don't want to cause panic. Don't forget that Sirius still has a shadow on Dementors." Kyle said, "Anyway, thank you for covering for me."

"It doesn't matter, we are friends." Harry said indifferently. He subconsciously glanced at the box on the ground, "There won't be anything else in it."

"Don't worry, there must be nothing." Kyle said, "Of course, if you have any concerns, I can help you change one."

"No, no." Harry waved his hand, "As long as there is nothing, I like this box very much.

"But Kyle, do you think it's better for you to tell everyone? I mean, with a Dementor, can you sleep at night?"

Harry felt that if he was in the same room with the Dementors, he would definitely not be able to sleep, even if there was a box between them.

"Don't worry, it's okay." Kyle said, "It's just one night anyway, I will hand it over to the Ministry of Magic tomorrow."

"Okay then. "Kyle had made up his mind, so Harry said nothing more.

"Your robe is so beautiful." Hermione stared at Kyle's clothes, "Where did you buy it, Madam Malkin's robe shop? But I didn't seem to see similar styles when I went there a few days ago."

"Oh, this is a gift from Connor from abroad." Kyle explained, taking off his robe.

After the Dementors disappeared, the coldness also disappeared, and Lecrota's hair also played a role. In just a few minutes, he was sweating all over.

"No wonder. "Hermione took another look at the robe.

Harry invited Kyle to stay and play wizard chess for a while, but Kyle refused.

He had more important things to do and didn't plan to waste time any more.

Harry invited Fred and George again, but they also refused. Dumbledore's words just now gave them a good inspiration.

Something that even Dumbledore remembered clearly must be very popular. They decided to replicate the snowflake tree overnight.

...

The room that Sirius prepared for Kyle was also on the third floor. To be precise, it was next to Harry and only two steps away. .

After returning to the room, Kyle first closed the door carefully, then sat down at the table with confidence, and excitedly took out the parchments that had been in his pocket.

No matter which wizard was replaced by something related to the famous wizard Merlin, it would be impossible to be calm, even though Kyle had met the four giants of Hogwarts before and had a face-to-face communication with Rowena Ravenclaw, he still couldn't be calm.

Although the four giants were also great wizards, no wizard would say "Gryffindor's beard" when excited.

To some extent, the name Merlin has become A symbol that no one can replace.

Before, when he was at the table, Kyle just glanced at it and put it away. Now he took it out and found that there were five pieces of parchment.

However, there was nothing on the top parchment except the line of words he saw before. It should be for protection, to protect the real content from being seen by others.

The same is true for the bottom parchment.

After all, Diana reminded him when she gave him these things that if a second person saw them, the content on them would disappear instantly.

Kyle took away the blank parchment and carefully read the letter and Letters about Merlin.

Of course, the letter in his hand was definitely not the original one, after all, even the parchment was new, and it was obvious that it was copied by magic, but it didn't matter.

Kyle only took a glance and was sure that this was Merlin's handwritten letter.

Because the real content on the parchment was all ancient runes, and it was the most complicated original runes without any simplification.

This was a bit uncomfortable, whether it was taught by Riddle, Professor Barbling, or the content in the textbook, they all used runes simplified by Rowena Ravenclaw in the Middle Ages.

Although Merlin was also a medieval magician, judging from the time when Hogwarts was founded, he was at least five hundred years earlier than the Big Four.

This kind of primitive runes were completely different from the ones Kyle had learned. They were not a little more complicated. After looking at them for a while, Kyle felt his temples pounding and he had a headache.

Although he was not completely incomprehensible, it was very difficult to read. He didn't recognize at least half of the passage, and he couldn't even guess it.

Originally, Kyle wanted to memorize the content and study it slowly when he had time.

But he soon discovered... that he couldn't remember.

These words seemed to have wings. As soon as he finished reading them, they flew away from his mind the next second.

Kyle took a new piece of parchment and tried to copy the contents... but it didn't work either.

After he finally finished copying, he looked back and realized that he had copied everything wrong. None of the runes on the two parchments were the same.

Kyle was sure that this was definitely not his fault. This was copied from a comparison. No matter how complicated it was, it couldn't be that every word was wrong.

The only explanation is that there is something wrong with these parchments. There should be some kind of magic on them, prohibiting all forms of copying and recording.

There was no way, Kyle could only put things away again and went downstairs to find Sirius.

…

"Rune translation?" Sirius looked at Kyle in confusion, "What do you want that kind of thing for?"

"I got something, but I couldn't understand it," Kyle explained.

Although he didn't know if there was such a thing in the Black family's private library, he could only give it a try now.

As one of the oldest pure-blood families, there should be some.

"Original runes?" Dumbledore, who was drinking on the side, glanced at Kyle thoughtfully and said softly: "It seems that you have received an incredible birthday gift."

Everyone here is trustworthy, and Kyle has no intention of hiding it.

"yes……"

He just opened his mouth, but found that he was speechless.

"Don't worry about it. Everything in the Department of Mysteries is like this. There are always some weird restrictions."

Dumbledore seemed to have grown accustomed to the strangeness and said calmly: "Actually, I am the same. Sometimes I know something but I can't tell it. But don't worry, this won't last long. "

Hearing his words, Kyle nodded and didn't try to say anything more.

At this time, Sirius also reacted and said: "The Black family should have many books related to ancient runes, but I don't know if there is anything you want.

"Let's do this. I'll ask Kreacher to bring all the books over, and you can look for them yourself."

"No need to bother." Dumbledore stood up and said, "If it's the oldest rune translation, I do have one. Please wait a moment."

With that, Dumbledore disappeared.

It wasn't until five minutes later that he appeared in the restaurant again and handed an old book to Kyle.

"I've been thinking about what gift to give you, and now I don't have to think about it."

Kyle reached out and took it.

The book is really old, probably because it has been read frequently, and even the paper inside has faded.

But this is indeed what Kyle needs. Inside is a comparison chart of original runes and simplified runes.

"Thank you, Professor," Kyle said.

"You're welcome." Dumbledore said, "Go back quickly. If I guess correctly, there should be a time limit on what you get."

Kyle nodded and then apparated back to the third floor.

With the comparison, it is not that complicated to read the contents on the parchment.

Although I have to check the translation every other word, it is enough.

And more importantly, Kyle discovered that this was a teaching letter. Merlin was teaching someone to use the Iron Armor Curse... The letter was called Armor Defense. I don't know if it was a translation problem, but the effect should be the same.

[Integrate 'firmness' into 'guardian' and combine it with 'city wall' to form a magic circle on the top of the staff...]

[‘Earth’ is the key...]

"That's not right." Kyle shook his head and muttered in a low voice: "This shouldn't mean earth, but 'continuous growth'."

The same rune text has many different meanings, especially if it has not been simplified, so even if there is a translation, it is not that easy to read.

Kyle could only list all the possible situations one by one, and then make changes little by little according to the meaning of the context.

It has to be said that this is a very time-consuming job, but Kyle enjoys it.