The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 700 Fairy Tale Book

Previously, when Hogsmeade built this temporary residence, they prepared some simple furniture and made some treatments. For example, some simple protective spells were cast on the house where the wizards needed to work, but the furniture in the house was very simple, with only a shelf, a table and a chair.

Now, after Ryan and his friends entered the room, they found that there was a book on the table that was supposed to be empty. The book was not very big, about the same size as a normal textbook. But the whole book looked very worn, with spots on the black cover and several places peeling off.

After checking the book several times from a distance with magic and making sure there was nothing abnormal or harmful on it, Ryan and the others walked to the front of the table and began to check the old book on the table.

"The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Why this book?" Hermione had read this book before. She didn't know why someone would lead them here and leave it in this place. After all, this book is something that almost every family in the wizarding world has, similar to Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales or Grimm's Fairy Tales in the Muggle world. It seemed very strange to lead them here with an anonymous letter just for this book.

"This book is a little different from ordinary books." Ryan picked up the book on the table and looked at it carefully. "This copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard in our hands looks like it should be the earliest one, written in runes, because many books have been deleted and revised in the later period. I recognize the origin of this book now because I once saw a book similar to this one in Professor Dumbledore's place."

"Why do you want to delete the contents of these books?" Hermione was a little confused. "It's just a storybook! Although it is very different from the fairy tales we read when we were young, it looks positive and sunny overall, and it is also suitable for children to read. I don't think any of the stories here need to be deleted."

"It's fine for us, but for the wizards who rule the wizarding world, some of the stories in the book have a distinctly pro-Muggle slant. And it's even worse when the book was published in the early 15th century."

"Early 15th century?" As a student with an O in History of Magic, Hermione immediately thought of what happened in that era. "Do you mean, it was because of the witch hunt?"

"That's true. At that time, the persecution of wizards in Europe was getting worse and worse. To the extent that many people in the wizarding world felt that casting a spell on the plague pigs of their Muggle neighbors was like adding fuel to their own fire. Therefore, this book seemed a bit out of place when it was published, so some wizards changed the content of the book to make it have a clear anti-Muggle stance."

"For example, in the set of books I found in Sirius's house, the story of helping ordinary people was changed to a story of ordinary people persecuting wizards, and then the crucible came back to life and ate the ordinary people." Ryan explained.

"Racial hatred, racial conflict, and cannibalism? I think this story is really not suitable for children." Hermione commented. "What kind of education do those pure-blood families give their children?"

"And at that time, some people even believed that any wizard who chose to be friendly with Muggles would be considered to have weak magic and inferior skills. For example, Brutus Malfoy, the direct ancestor of the Malfoy family, wrote in an anti-Muggle magazine, Wizards at War: We can say with certainty that any wizard who expresses liking for Muggle society is a person of low intelligence, whose magic is weak and pitiful, and who can only find a little sense of superiority among Muggle trash."

"Of course, we now know that he is talking nonsense." Ryan spread his hands. "I can assure you that I can beat the three Malfoys by myself now, and the wealth we have now far exceeds what the Malfoy family has accumulated for centuries."

After hearing what Ryan said, Hermione covered her mouth and laughed softly. Ryan lit an oil lamp in the room, and then flipped through the fairy tale collection page by page in the light of the oil lamp. Soon Hermione recovered and came close to Ryan to read the book together.

"The person who left this book is a bit strange." Ryan said after reading the whole book, "Maybe to match the cover and content of the book, all the messages in it are ancient runes. If I hadn't obtained the inheritance before, I would not understand these." "This means that the previous owner of this book is likely to be a pure-blood wizard with some family history." Hermione said, "As far as I know, pure-blood wizard families choose to learn ancient runes as a way to show their status. Just like the British aristocrats learn Latin or Greek, when we took the ancient magic rune course before, except for the two of us, all the others were wizards from pure-blood families."

"What you said makes sense." Ryan turned a page of the book and pointed to a line of runes and said to Hermione. "Look, the main messages in this book are concentrated on the pages about the wizard and the jumping pot. For example, in the title, he wrote: Is this just a fairy tale? The same sentence also appeared once in the last story of the three brothers, but there was an additional symbol of the Deathly Hallows."

"That is to say, this person wants to remind us that the jumping pot is real." Hermione said, tapping her chin with her finger, "But what does this have to do with us? In this war situation, we can't take risks just to find treasure!"

"The other party definitely didn't go through so much trouble to tell us an adventure clue," Ryan said with certainty, "For example, there are two other messages on the story page of the Jumping Pot. One says that everyone dreams of getting such a magical treasure. The other says that magic is power."

"It seems that this should indeed be left to us by some pure-blood family, otherwise it would not be written like this." Hermione said, "So what should we do now? Use magic to track that person?"

"Of course, it's impossible that someone has found his doorstep and he still doesn't know what's going on, right?" Ryan shrugged. "I also know that the guy just went through all this trouble just to prevent us from finding him, but I don't think he knows that our research on souls and space has surpassed most people. When I got the book, we had already started tracking him, and now we can basically lock on his location."

"So are we going to find that guy now?" Hermione asked, with an eager expression on her face. In the three months since the outbreak of the war, she has completely mastered her abilities, and under the influence of the power of death, she has begun to have a little feeling for fighting, so she has become interested in this possible raid.

"Let's go find him the day after tomorrow," Ryan said. "These two days are Christmas holidays, I think it's better for us to take a two-day break. Anyway, I have basically locked down the other party's identity and location, and I can basically determine who that guy is."

"Have you confirmed the other party's identity and location? This is really good news." Hermione nodded. She could guess that Ryan dared to guarantee the other party's location and identity so confidently. He probably locked the other party's location and found that the other party appeared in the manor of a pure-blood family.

Although they had attacked several pure-blood family estates before, their main target was still the plantations. After all, their goal was only to cut off the other party's economic source, not to kill for the sake of killing.

At the same time, during the attack on the manor, Ryan and his men would always leave a text message explaining the reasons for their attack afterwards, such as punishing the dark wizards who killed innocent people, or rescuing the detained hostages.

Under such circumstances, some marginal Death Eaters who did not participate in the indiscriminate killing of innocent people and did not hold hostages in the manor still chose to live at home. After all, according to the history of previous attacks, Ryan did not kill any innocent people during the attack.

Therefore, those marginalized Death Eaters who could not give up their homes because of their family's wealth and knowledge, now have no choice but to entrust the lives of their entire family to the integrity of their enemy, Ryan. The person who sent the anonymous letter, whom Ryan had tracked down through traces left on books and letters, should be one of these marginalized Death Eaters.

(End of this chapter)