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 Parcelopa, Siren and Scylla." When Rolf and Shirley were discussing in private, they had also made such a guess, but there was no evidence, so he asked in a low voice Said: "How did you see it?"
"Appearance." Dumbledore waved his wand, and a huge stone flew out of a wooden box and landed on the desk.
Luofu noticed a brightly colored mural carved on the stone: In a large hall, there was a two-tailed mermaid holding a scepter. The lower part of the painting showed a group of marine magical creatures, kneeling to her.
Luo Fe 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 very similar to 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.
"The Golden Mermaid Tribe." Dumbledore held the tea cup and twisted the rim with his fingers. He smelled the refreshing aroma, as if the aroma of tea could make people intoxicated. He squinted and said, "I asked you to help treat illnesses last year. The two-tailed mermaid from Myrcella’s family.” Luo Fu said in surprise: “So, she is Palselope?”
"That's right, the eldest sister among the three sisters, Palselope." Dumbledore took a sip of tea and nodded: "She fell in love with Odysseus, the wizard in ancient Greece, and left Ava in order to pursue him. Long."
"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 muttered,
"Are the other two heads Siren and Scylla?"
"I think so, although I have never seen them." Dumbledore focused his eyes on the statue, then looked down and saw the six hands of the mermaid, respectively 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 left you a secret room thousands of years ago. Since she also left this statue, there might be answers in it." Rolf nodded. 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." Luofu 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 was very foggy. In the fog, you could still hear people yelling, wailing and wailing." Rolf recalled his experience in Ravenclaw's tomb and said slowly: "Shirley and I followed the sound. , walking forward, the fog quickly disappeared, and we actually appeared at Hogwarts, and met a wizard named Tertius. And he obviously died not long ago." Dembu After Lido listened to the young man's words, there was deep exclamation in his voice.
"Rolf, listening to your description, I think this statue took you and Shirley into Tertius' tangled illusion... It's really surprising that it still has this ability." Seeing the old man's shocked look, he 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." Rolf knew the reason, so he whispered: "Is it 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 member of the Peverell family in that generation. As a child, she had no brothers, so she inherited the family's Invisibility Cloak. Iolanth later married Hadwin Potter, and from then on the Invisibility 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 brother in the story of the three brothers. So I am sure that the invisibility cloak is the Deathly Hallows!" Dumbledore stood up and walked slowly around the room.
"I actually don't think much about the invisibility cloak, because I can be very invisible and it is of no use 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 still 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 blurred illusion, which is far inferior to this mermaid statue. Like, being able to travel into other people's trances, this ability is just like..." Dumbledore paused and exclaimed: "Death!" Rolf did not speak, but pondered where Ravenclaw got it from Why was this treasure 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." Rove said softly: "There is also a wooden coffin with the symbol of the Deathly Hallows engraved on the lid."
"I heard my grandfather say that he had seen similar wooden coffins in the centaurs tribe. Have you seen them, Professor Dumbledore?"
"I have never seen it, but I have heard of it." Dumbledore said calmly: "In fact, it is rumored that Hogwarts also has a wooden coffin like this." Rolf suddenly looked up 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." Rolf was so shocked that he couldn't speak. If this legend is Really... then this is already the fourth coffin.
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