In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 102: The Gem in the Book

That Professor Adrian Fawkes, when he came to teach at Hogwarts, his research on the ring and the gem had reached its final closing stage.

And this gem made at Hogwarts is the last of the five.

People always like to save their most valuable things for the last, and Adrien is no exception. When making this last gem, he did not follow the usual alchemy techniques but wanted to add a little different characteristic to the gem.

The ring and the gem are a transit point for spell casting, where the wizard's own magic is absorbed into the ring and subsequently fed back to the wizard himself as an altered one. Then why when creating this spell-casting device, the idea must be limited to the magic of the person using the device itself?

[Compared to the wand's core, the alchemy gem I created has a stronger magical power tolerance, so why not try to accommodate other magical powers as a means to strengthen the spellcasting power of the wizard using the ring?

The magic effect of the ring acts on the wizard himself, and the magic spell of the enemy also affects the wizard himself, so if the wizard possibly able to erase the effect of the hostile spell, will he receive only the magic power in the spell, and then store it in the gem?]

This was the question that Adrien asked himself in his notes, and it was also his initial intention at the beginning regarding what kind of characteristics to add to this last alchemy gem that he planned to make.

There was a huge collection of books in Hogwarts castle, the knowledge of which gave him enough magical theories to support his ideas, and the resources of various herbs and magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest were also abundant, giving him the raw materials to transform the gem.

The reason why he was injured at the end of being a professor of defence class was that he wanted to collect the materials for the transformation of the gem, and went deep into the forbidden forest to get some flakes from the unicorn's horn, but when he was scraping it, he met with the resistance of the unicorn and was directly stabbed through the stomach.

He was found by the students and sent to St. Mungo's in time for treatment, and finally returned to school at the time of the final exams, but he was left with after-effects and was unable to continue teaching at the castle.

But after paying such a price, his research was finally somewhat successful, the gem was given absorption and magic storage properties somehow, and was finally placed in Hogwarts Castle.

And the place where it was stored was in the library.

When he saw this, Jon seemed to suddenly think of something, his whole body suddenly froze.

Before Christmas, at that time he was practising a variety of spells targeting the Basilisk in the Room of Requirement, he inadvertently overheard a major event at Hogwarts at that time at midnight.

The books in the restricted area of the library, the magic attached to them all inexplicably disappeared!

Finally, the professors in the entire castle investigated this matter for more than half a month and even invited people from the Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries to investigate this matter clearly, only to end it without finding any clear explanation.

So... Could this incident possibly be related to this gem that Adrien hid in the library?

If there is a relationship, why did nothing happen for more than ten years in the past, and why did it take the magic power from the restricted books to absorb now?

Jon temporarily could not figure out this question, but he was keenly aware that this gem hidden in the library might be the key to solving the three portraits in the tower!

Since it could absorb all the magic power from those restricted books in the library, why couldn't it absorb the magic power from the magic portraits as well?

After he figured this out, Jon couldn't sit still in his dorm room.

The key to solving this problem was what he had been looking for, so he didn't wait, he put on the invisibility cloak again and left the underground dormitory.

The library of Hogwarts is in a separate tower, and the one responsible for managing this place is none other than Quirrell, who was not blamed much for the previous restricted book incident, after all, he is not even qualified to enter the restricted book section if it is not time to do regular clearance and maintenance.

The library door was not under any sort of protective measures, especially now that the restricted books that were inside had been moved, leaving only some of the normal handwritten books that students normally refer to, so there was no need for additional protection.

The locked door was easily opened by Jon with an unlocking charm, and after entering the door, what was immediately visible was a long row of neatly arranged desks, with bookshelves placed next to the desks and filled with all kinds of books.

Jon did not stay here, he closed the library door back and kept walking in, and soon came to a separate enclosed section.

This place is also full of bookshelves, but there are hardly any books on the shelves, this is obviously the former restricted section, but now it is free for students to enter and exit, after all, there are no more books inside.

Jon directly crossed the enclosed line, the restricted books were all moved away, but the gem left by Adrien must still be in this library.

Otherwise, those professors in the castle wouldn't have ended up finding anything, without finding an explanation to give Voldemort.

Moreover, the gem was stored in a very hidden location, if Jon did not learn about the location from the notes, then he could not guarantee that he would be able to find it in the remaining less than six months.

Jon kept walking in until he came to the third row of shelves from the end, then in the fourth row, he started to count the partitions from left to right, counting to the seventh partition before he stopped.

He took out his wand, did not recite any incantation, just use the tip of the wand to tap in an orderly manner on the vertical side of the partition, which magically opened a slot, a heavy book was hidden within the space.

Jon pulled the book out of the cubicle, he didn't take the book back to his dorm room, the library is very spacious and far away from the students' and professors' living areas, if there is any accident when he opens the book, it is far better to solve it here than to take it back to his dorm room.

The book did not have a name, and when he opened the book, on the title page he saw a quote left by Professor Fawkes.

[Willing to bet, because of the bet with Horace, I left this research of mine at Hogwarts. Since you opened it, then no matter who you are, I hope you will not use my research results for dark magic research.]

He looked at the line of message seriously for three or four seconds, before turning over to the next.

The following page started with a dozen pages of detailed information about the gem, and when Jon turned to the middle of the book, he realized that the pages behind were completely glued shut.

And the middle of this glued page is embedded with a diamond-shaped, crimson gemstone!

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[Author:]

After two hours of getting stuck, I straightened out the plot for another hour or so before I started writing, and when I realized it was already 4:30, so I finished writing and went to bed!

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