The Transfiguration professor at Hogwarts is always up for business

0191 Hope, I caught you

After a lot of garbage questioning and answering, Aini was led into his office by Mr. Administrator who was full of thoughts.

In Filch's expectation, this place does not have the function of entertaining guests, so there is no soft and comfortable sofa to sit on. Although it is not suitable, he can only invite Aini to sit on the chair opposite to the office.

Except for the one he used for himself, all the chairs in the room were prepared for the little wizard who made a mistake and was caught.

Aini believed that the chair under her buttocks was where the twins often sat. From this perspective, Filch's eyes seemed to have a little more scrutiny.

Well, Filch was indeed looking at Aini. Rationally speaking, he had to keep the secret of Norris firmly, but there was another voice in his heart telling him that he could completely trust the right man.

For a while, the atmosphere in the office became silent and weird.

Filch once pinned all his hopes on the greatest white wizard in the world, but the other party frankly confessed his helplessness

Even Dumbledore was at a loss what to do. He actually thought that an underage wizard could bring hope. Filch felt that he might be too eager and crazy.

But at this very moment, he had a strong premonition that the person opposite would bring the light that he had not seen for a long time.

For this kind of omen from the heart, the wizards are divided into two completely opposite factions.

One thinks that this is the whisper of the devil and must be firmly resisted to avoid falling into the abyss.

One thinks that it is the guidance of fate, and one can get blessings by following the inner thoughts.

After countless years, a lot of relevant arguments from both sides can be produced. After divination became a practical skill, the latter completely overwhelmed the former and became the current mainstream cognition.

Filch is also a supporter of the Destiny Guidance School, but the decision he is about to make is too important to sit there for a while and cannot make up his mind.

He knew that if he chose to ask Aini for help, he would have to uncover the most painful scar in his heart with his own hands. If his hunch was wrong, the wound might never heal again.

Although Aini didn't know how many thoughts were running through the other party's mind, he also knew how difficult a choice Filch was facing at this time. However, this decision could only be made by himself after all, and any persuasion from others was irrelevant at the moment. is out of date.

Filch didn't keep Aini waiting too long, and after wriggling his lips a few times, he still managed to utter a question.

"Professor Scamander, have you heard of the Blood Curse?"

The man's big rough hands were only clenched together, and some deformed joints were pale. After the words came out, he became nervous. God knows how the topic changed from keeping Norris from being harassed by Tom to the current state. .

"I heard something."

At this time, there is no need to show off that you have already found out the facts, just be an honest listener.

"That was decades ago..."

Filch put on an old-fashioned posture at the beginning of the chapter, and the plot is really old-fashioned.

An ordinary boy met an equally ordinary girl when he was in school, and the two became acquainted with each other day by day, and finally sparked the spark of love.

Then he realized that the girl was not ordinary, she was actually a one-in-a-kind blood curse receptor.

Seeing that the interval between his girlfriend's symptoms became shorter and shorter, the boy traveled thousands of miles and came to a completely unfamiliar transition, pinning his hopes on the greatest white wizard in the world.

The results are obvious.

Aini was not surprised by the situation of Mrs. Norris, he had discovered this fact through the eyes of true sight early on, but it was Filch's identity that surprised him a little.

The castle administrator who couldn't cast any magic turned out to be a student of Castro Buscher and was once a qualified wizard.

From Lockhart's experience, it can be seen that under certain circumstances, the wizard's ability to cast spells will regress, and even lose the relevant spell-casting memory.

Just like when twins were folded in half, the remaining one couldn't use the Patronus Charm, almost all of Filch's memories after being exposed to magic were related to Mrs. Norris.

Although Dumbledore could not completely eliminate the influence of the Blood Curse, it still prolongs the time for Mrs. Norris to finally change.

The two also lived in Hogwarts until one day Mrs. Norris could never change back into a human form, and lost all previous memories.

Filch was so heartbroken that he fainted in his hut.

After waking up, many memories between the two disappeared in his mind, and he could no longer recite a coherent spell, completely losing the ability to cast spells.

Dumbledore then left them at Hogwarts, and Filch severed all ties with Castrobusher.

After experiencing the ups and downs in his life, the old man is completely different from before in both appearance and heart. I am afraid that even those former classmates would not be able to recognize this infatuated and friendly man in their impression. .

"Sorry, Filch, but I can't do anything about Mrs. Norris's situation right now."

After listening to the other party's narration, Aini pondered for a while and gave a conservative answer.

Before that, he had prostituted some of the surface runes of the Blood Curse on Mrs. Norris for nothing. Frankly speaking, this curse, which has never been cracked, is not something that Aini can touch at this stage.

As we all know, the Blood Curse not only changes the human body, but also erases the memory and self-cognition of the cursed object in the final stage. It seems to be a curse with both material and spiritual effects.

In fact, it is a big mistake. This thing is not a curse. It is more appropriate to call it the host than to say that Nagini and Mrs. Norris are the receptors of the curse.

According to Aini's observation, the blood curse is more like a larva. After parasitizing on humans, it will gradually change the flesh and blood form of the host, and eventually make it a breeding ground for new life.

It can be understood as a conceptual version of the face hugger, and Aini speculates that it may be some kind of means to continue the offspring.

Aini has never met Nagini, but judging from the runes on Mrs. Norris, the Blood Curse she is under is obviously functionally deviated.

At the last moment, she didn't become a brand new offspring, the cat still had a human breath in its body, and its soul didn't change, but it was purer in Aini's vision.

This may be the effect of the Incomplete Blood Curse—Although Mrs. Norris did not become a new life, her soul was reset and she lost her previous memory.

Aini has a feeling that when the Eye of True Sight can analyze all the runes of the Blood Curse, he can help Mrs. Norris restore her human form, but there is little hope of regaining her memory.

But even he himself doesn't know when the next step-up will be, and it will take several steps to fully analyze the runes of the blood curse, so it's better not to give people hope inexplicably.

After all, Filch is already very old, and he may not be able to wait until that time. The hope that is so far away is the greatest torture.

Therefore, Aini still gave a conservative answer, but Filch, who was a little confused, clearly caught the loopholes in his words.

"You mean... now?"