frog&fog (I)
"Do you remember when Draco was attacked by that Hippogriff in his third year?"
As if Pomona's carefree stroll was getting on his nerves, Severus suddenly said.
"What?"
"Lucius gave Draco a ring that could keep him safe, but it was useless against 'physical' attacks." Severus stared at the little dog model hanging from her chest. "Perhaps this is the same."
"There's nothing here but coffins and statues. Where would a 'physical' attack come from?" Pomona could not help rolling her eyes. "Don't tell me the mummies can come back to life like they do in the movies?"
The moment she finished speaking, a crisp sound suddenly rang through the quiet exhibition hall, like a glass marble hitting the floor. She jerked her neck back in fright, and all her earlier bravado vanished.
"What are you afraid of?" Severus said slickly. "You should think this is a perfect chance to test whether that new amulet of yours works."
"What was that sound just now? Did you make it?" Pomona asked Gong Saiyi shakily. Count Leroy shrugged, indicating that he had nothing to do with this strange occurrence.
"Let's go back." Pomona tugged at Severus's sleeve. "I'm scared."
The old bat smiled smugly.
"Coward."
"Come on~" she said in a sweet, pleading voice.
"Ahem." Gong Saiyi coughed twice awkwardly.
The smile on Severus's face melted away like a wax figure under the blazing sun.
"I remember saying at the time that there was a statue of Memnon near Luxor that made a sound every time the sun rose," Gong Saiyi said stiffly in his sitting room. The Pensieve was beside him. Severus cast a minor spell on it, allowing everyone to see the scenes inside without plunging their heads into it. "Then we saw that Senet board and the