In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter -
Chapter 89: The Disappearance of Knowledge
The atmosphere has become a bit chilly at the corner of the stairs on the fourth floor.
Wrapped in a cloak of invisibility, Jon hunkered down in a corner and didn't even lock his gaze on any of the people in front of him, to prevent his sight from alerting some kind of sixth sense of the two men who are going toe-to-toe with each other right now.
"You certainly have that right, Crouch." Snape still had that nonchalant tone of voice, "So how do you plan to deal with this?"
"Deal with this?" Barty Jr. pretended to be puzzled, "You are the deputy headmaster of this school, Mr Snape, it is you who should determine how to deal with this, all I can do is relay what has happened to our lord, what do you mean by asking me how to deal with it?"
"Can't you understand what I mean?" Snape said indifferently, "Since they are both scrambling to report this matter to you, how to deal with it will be left to you. Many books in the restricted area are very precious even to our lord, so you better get this done, or else how are you going to report this to our lord when the time comes."
Crouch nodded with a smile on his face.
"Since you have said so, please rest assured, I will definitely give our lord an explanation about this matter for sure in the end."
Hearing him make a promise, Snape did not continue to spend time with the three of them here, with a cold hum he turned around and walked away from this staircase corner.
As the sound of his footsteps went further away, the stairs were left with only Barty, Dolohov and Quirrell. And after Snape left, the smile on Barty's face gradually faded, and his cold gaze turned to Quirrell.
"You better explain everything precisely what happened to all those restricted books to me right now!"
Quirrell trembled, and this time he revealed the complete details of the incident.
"I, I've been doing the five-year routine sorting and tidying of the restricted book section since Monday, sir, and there was nothing unusual in both the level five and level four restricted books as of yet, it was only when I reached level three in my inspection that I noticed something was wrong. There are many books in the level three restricted book section that all have lost their original magic, the book that you have always loved, the Unforgivable Unforgivable book, has become completely unopenable, as well as the Evil Spirits' Book of Ghosts, the evil spirits that were originally stored in it have somehow disappeared, it has become an ordinary blank book, and all the other books also look like this. You know, those restricted books inherently possessed powerful magic, and it is because of those magic they can record the dangerous knowledge, but now after those magic disappeared, these books have all become ordinary, and their original stored knowledge has gone missing along with the magic!"
Barty's face became even more dreadful, and he stared at Quirrell with a deadly stare.
"From the third-level restricted book section onwards, did you go into the deepest part to look!"
"At, at the first moment of finding something wrong, I, I went in to look, sir." Quirrell stammered even more, "The, the restricted books at the back are also, are all also the same, all their magic power and the knowledge recorded are all lost!"
"Bam!"
Barty abruptly punched Quirrell to the ground, then drew his wand and aimed it at the librarian.
"Is this how you treat our lord's trust in you?" His voice was as cold as the ice in an Arctic glacier, "Seal his mouth, Antonin."
Without the slightest hesitation, Dolohov cast a spell on Quirrell who was lying on the ground whimpering and begging.
"Oscausi."
Quirrell was now completely unable to make any significant sound, he could only make whining sounds from his throat and struggled to get up from the ground, however, the next instant, an unforgivable curse hit his body.
"Crucio"
The heart-breaking pain instantly engulfed Quirrell's whole body, the pain that seemed to pierce his soul made him try to open his sealed mouth wide and let out a silent hiss, his body curled up like a prawn in a frying pan, his appearance could make people feel a burst of nauseous and fear just by looking at it!
Barty Jr. and Dolohov looked at Quirrell's current state with indifference, as if they hadn't seen his miserable appearance.
Torturing Quirrell was just to vent his frustration, and he still needs to see what exactly happened in the library.
The books in the restricted section have all lost their magic power, and if this matter is reported to Voldemort without investigating the cause of it, then even if it is Barty Jr., he is bound to receive punishment!
After the two of them left, the place was left only with Quirrell who was lying on the ground and constantly letting out a "ho-ho" sound from his throat, his breathing from his nose become more rushed, and his whole body was already soaked with sweat.
He stared blankly at the dark ceiling, like a man who had lost his mind.
Jon looked at the miserable state of this half-blood wizard who had also defected to Voldemort in the first original book, without revealing a trace of pity on his face.
Since he wanted to become a purebloods dog, then he should have known that the dog will have a bone to eat when its master is happy, but at the same time, when its master is unhappy, he will also find it an eyesore and want to kick it hard.
There is no one else on the stairs, Quirrell is now basically in a semi-conscious state, Jon did not continue to stay here, he moved slowly and softly down the stairs, then passed by Quirrell, whose chest continued to rise and fall violently, and left the corner of the fourth-floor staircase.
Only after he got down to the ground floor he picked up the pace a little and walked into the underground dormitory, then returned to his own room.
After taking off the invisibility cloak, Jon did not immediately go to bed, but took out the Marauder's Map and opened it.
On the map, he could clearly see about half a dozen professors gathered at the location of the castle library at this time, not only Barty Jr. and Dolohov, but also the two siblings Amycus Carrow and Alecto Carrow, the half-blood Head Greengrass, and so on.
What went wrong in the library, Jon does not know, but he knows very well that the books in the restricted section are very important to Voldemort, the Hogwarts library has the richest collection of books in the entire wizarding world, and the restricted section even has an extremely comprehensive knowledge related to dark magic, and even the knowledge about Horcruxes was obtained by Voldemort from the restricted section.
But now all those books have lost their magic power.
The more advanced the magic book, the more it will not just rely on the text itself to carry knowledge, the magic attached to the books is their true source of knowledge, and now the magic of these books is all lost, which means that the knowledge will also disappear.
All those important, significant knowledge for Voldemort is all gone, and in Hogwarts Castle, no one can afford to assume such responsibility.
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