The Real Hogwarts Chapter 89 The Disappearance of Knowledge
At the corner of the stairs on the fifth floor, the scene became particularly gloomy.
Jon was wrapped in an invisibility cloak and huddled in a corner, not moving a muscle. He didn't even look at anyone in front of him, to prevent his gaze from alerting the two people who were confronting each other.
"Of course you have the right, Crouch." Snape still had that indifferent tone, "So how do you plan to deal with this matter?"
"Deal with this matter?" Little Barty pretended to be puzzled. "You are the vice-headmaster of this school, Mr. Snape. It is you who decides to deal with it. All I can do is tell the master what happened. What do you mean by asking me how to deal with it?"
"Don't you understand what I mean?" Snape said coldly, "Since both of them are vying to report this matter to you, then I'll leave it to you to do it. There are many books in the restricted area that even the owner cherishes very much, so you'd better do this well, otherwise how will you report to the master when the time comes."
Crouch nodded with a smile on his face.
"Since you've said so, please rest assured that I will definitely give you an explanation in the end."
After hearing his promise, Snape did not continue to waste time with the three of them. He snorted coldly and turned away from the corner of the stairs.
As his footsteps faded away, only Barty Jr., Dolohov and Quirrell were left on the stairs. After Snape left, Barty Jr.'s smile gradually faded, and he looked at Quirrell with a cold gaze.
"You'd better tell me clearly now what happened to those banned books!"
Quirrell trembled as he told the whole story of the problem.
"I, I have been doing a routine five-year cleanup of the restricted book area since Monday, sir, but there is nothing wrong with the level 5 and level 4 banned books. It was not until I checked the level 3 that I found something wrong. Many books in the level 3 restricted book area have lost their original magic. The book "The Unforgivable Unforgivable Curse" that you have always liked is completely unopenable. There is also "The Ghost Book of Evil Ghosts". The evil ghosts that originally lived in it also disappeared inexplicably. It has become an ordinary blank book, and the other books are the same. You know, those forbidden books themselves are attached with powerful magic, and it is precisely because of this magic that they can record dangerous knowledge. But now that the magic has disappeared, these books have all become ordinary, and the knowledge they originally stored has also disappeared along with the magic!"
Little Barty's expression became even uglier, and he stared at Quirrell.
"From the third level restricted books area onwards, have you read the deepest part?"
"As soon as I found something wrong, I went in to take a look, sir." Quirrell stuttered even more. "Then, the banned books that came after were all the same. Their magic power and the knowledge they contained all disappeared!"
“Bang!”
Barty Jr. suddenly punched Quirrell to the ground, then drew his wand and pointed it at the librarian.
"Is this how you treat your master's trust in you?" His voice was as cold as the ice in the Arctic glacier. "Shut his mouth, Antonin."
Without any hesitation, Dolohov cast a spell on Chirruo, who was lying on the ground sobbing and begging.
"Seal the tongue and lock the throat."
Quirrell was now completely unable to make any loud noise. He could only cry out from his throat and struggle to get up from the ground. However, the next moment, the unforgivable curse fell on him.
"Crucio!"
Heart-wrenching pain instantly swept through Quirrell's body. The pain that seemed to pierce his soul made him open his mouth and let out a silent roar. His body kept curling up like a prawn in a frying pan. Just looking at that look was enough to make people feel that life was worse than death!
Barty Jr. and Dolohov were indifferent to Quirrell's current appearance, as if they didn't see his miserable appearance at all. After punishing him, Barty Jr. turned around and walked quickly towards the library with Dolohov.
Torturing Quirrell was just to vent his anger, and he needed to see for himself what exactly happened in the library.
All the books in the restricted area have lost their magic. If this matter is reported to Voldemort without finding out any reason, even Barty Jr. will definitely be punished!
After the two of them left, the only one left was Quirrell, who was lying on the ground, making a constant "ho ho" sound in his throat, breathing extremely rapidly, and his whole body was soaked with sweat.
He stared at the dark ceiling with empty eyes , like a person who had lost his mind.
John looked at the miserable state of this half-blood wizard who had also surrendered to Voldemort in the first part of the novel, without a trace of pity on his face.
Since he wanted to be a pure-blood dog, he should have known that while dogs have bones to eat when their owners are happy, their owners will also find them annoying and kick them hard when they are unhappy.
There was no one else on the stairs, and Quirrell was now basically in a semi-comatose state. Jon did not stay here any longer. He walked down the stairs slowly and quietly, then passed by Quirrell, whose chest was rising and falling violently, and left the corner of the stairs on the fifth floor.
After going down to the first floor, he quickened his pace a little, walked into the basement dormitory, and then returned to his own dormitory.
After taking off the invisibility cloak, Jon did not go to bed immediately. Instead, he took out the Marauder's Map and opened it.
On the map, he could clearly see the location of the castle library, where about six or seven professors had gathered, including Barty Jr. and Dolohov, as well as the siblings Amycus Carrow and Alecto Carrow, the half-blood dean Greengrass, and many others.
John didn't know what went wrong in the library, but he knew very well that the books in the restricted section must be very important to Voldemort. The Hogwarts Library already had the richest collection of books in the entire wizarding world, and the restricted section contained extremely complete information on dark magic. Even the knowledge related to Horcruxes might have been obtained by him from the restricted section.
But now those books have lost all their magic.
The more advanced the magic book, the more it relies not only on the text itself to carry knowledge. The magic power attached to the book is the real source of knowledge. Now that the magic power of these books is gone , it means that the knowledge will disappear as well.
All this important knowledge, which was of great significance to Voldemort, was gone, and no one in Hogwarts Castle was capable of taking on such a responsibility.
