Chapter 727: Departure to Sicily
Evan said goodbye to the Merpeople back to the castle and went straight to Dumbledore’s office.
The Gargoyle’s password through the door was still Cockroach Clusters, and when Evan went in, Dumbledore was already waiting for him!
“Good evening, Evan, do you have anything to tell me?” He asked calmly.
On the desk in front of him, the Pensieve was placed there, and the milky liquid was slowly spinning inside.
Before Evan’s arrival, he seemed to be combing his memory and searching for clues that had been neglected in the past.
“There are indeed some things, professor, about Rowena Ravenclaw and the secret treasure key she left,” said Evan, walking over and sitting down. “I found the remains left by Ravenclaw in the Merpeople village at the bottom of the lake; it’s very troublesome to explain. Can I use the Pensieve to make it more convenient …?”
“Of course you can!”
The entire communication process went exceptionally smoothly. Using the Pensieve could make Dumbledore know more intuitively what Evan had been through.
Dumbledore had been supportive of Evan’s search for the secret treasure left by the Four Founders of the school.
Especially now, the secret treasure was related to Voldemort and the evil god, and Evan had even more support.
“The whirlpool of Charybdis?!” said Dumbledore softly. “I had been there when I was young. The wizarding community generally thinks that great whirlpool is a passage to another space. Of course, its power is not as strong as it was a thousand years ago. The power to maintain this channel is weakening and it may disappear at any time. The most direct manifestation is that people have not seen this whirlpool for many years, and its diameter is not as large as you have seen.”
“The power is weakening …” Evan continued to ask, “Professor, have you ever entered that whirlpool?”
“Yes, I’ve been there, and there are ruins from ancient times,” said Dumbledore, “like all the ruins of that era, it is protected by powerful magic, it is impossible to enter it without the correct method. Gellert and I originally had great expectations for that trip, hoping to find something, but in fact we found nothing. However, since you have the guidance of Rowena Ravenclaw, I think you might find something when you get there …”
Gellert Grindelwald?!!
Dumbledore was fascinated with power for a while when he was young. He had left home matters and his sister Arianna alone, traveling around the world with Grindelwald, looking for various ancient ruins and powers, and planning their careers.
The cause was to rule the world “for the greater good”.
It sounded a lot like Voldemort; if it wasn’t for the death of his sister that made Dumbledore repent, it was not clear what the situation would be like.
It was possible that the whole wizarding world would have been under the joint rule of Dumbledore and Grindelwald by now.
That was probably the dark history of Dumbledore, who’d never talked about it.
It was the first time Evan heard Grindelwald’s name from his mouth. And then, Dumbledore told him some more about the trip and details about the ancient ruins, Scylla and the great whirlpool of Charybdis.
Maybe it was because of the great difference of the time, or it might be an illusion, Evan always felt that what Dumbledore saw in the whirlpool was not the same as the great outline he had seen in the memory, which caused him a great deal of horror…
After telling Evan some matters, Dumbledore agreed to let him go to Sicily with Hagrid and Madame Maxime.
Due to time constraints, they didn’t have to wait for the summer vacation. They would leave in three days.
Dumbledore was also planning to call Sirius back and ask him to accompany them.
With Sirius, things could be more secure.
That would dispel Harry’s urge to leave the Dursleys for the summer with Sirius.
He had to live in his aunt’s house for a while before his mother’s protection magic could continue to work.
Just in case, Dumbledore also gave Evan the Invisibility Cloak he’d found with Barty Crouch Jr.
There was only one invisibility cloak that could really work: the one in Harry’s hand, one of the Deathly Hallows.
Barty Crouch Jr.’s travelling cloak had been woven from the hair of a Demiguise, and enchanted with a powerful Disillusionment Charm. Compared with Harry’s genuine product, it had limitations. It would wear out over time, eventually losing its function to become visible.
Nevertheless, that invisibility cloak was also very precious, second only to the legendary magical items.
Demiguises were magical creatures hard to find and hunt. It might take years or even decades to find them. Not to mention the need for the hair of many invisible beasts to weave a cloak like that. The number of similar items in the whole wizarding world would not exceed 100.
More than an hour later, Evan took the Invisibility Cloak from Dumbledore and returned to the Common Room.
He told Harry, Ron, and Hermione that he was going to go to Sicily with Hagrid, Madame Maxime and Sirius to find the giants, and all three of them were surprised.
They wanted to go with Evan, but they couldn’t. The semester was not over yet, and they had to stay at school for the final exam.
After Dumbledore announced that the Triwizard Tournament had been cancelled, the final exams were brought back to their daily routine.
That caught all the students off guard and they complained. Fred and George even said that they thought it was the most catastrophic impact of Voldemort’s resurrection.
Harry and Ron were fine. As for Hermione, Evan had promised her to take her on the next adventure. But judging from the current situation, he had to break his promise again…
Hermione didn’t say anything. After learning about the matter, she took the initiative to go to the library to help Evan find information about Sicily, which made Evan very sorry. According to the plan, he was going to watch the Emerald Tablet in Egypt during the summer vacation, and there was no danger in that process.
Evan was going to invite Hermione to accompany him, if she and her parents agreed…
The three days passed in a flash, and soon it was time to set off. All Evan’s things had been packed. He and Sirius, Hagrid, and Madame Maxime were going first to get to Beauxbatons through the Floo Network, and then set off from there in a horse-drawn carriage directly to Sicily, Italy.
Because they didn’t want the outside world to know that they were connected with giants, the whole process was kept secret.
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