Chapter 3496: The Chilling Sound (IV)
There was a kind of magical moth that, like a dead-leaf butterfly, had two forms. During the day, with its wings closed, it was indistinguishable from a leaf. At night, however, it gave off an orange glow, and when it flapped its wings, it made a sound like laughter.
It was not drawn to light like ordinary moths. Or rather, back when humans used fire for illumination, it circled flames like any other moth. But after wizards invented Lumos, this kind of moth stopped circling the light cast by wands. Only then did people realize that it was drawn to heat.
These moths were said to be very hard to buy. So were Moon Frogs, because they had been treated as symbols of love and were almost hunted to extinction. Zig had asked Snape to find a way to get both.
Pomona felt that Zig was deliberately "testing" him.
In any case, she came to London that weekend before Halloween and took the opportunity to visit the Wizarding Library near Covent Garden.
Before the Ministry of Magic was founded, it had been the seat of the Wizards' Council. Around the sixth and seventh centuries AD, with the River Thames as the boundary, there had been three Saxon kingdoms. After the Romans withdrew, although the Roman streets remained, London no longer functioned according to the same principles as before.
The earliest Wizards' Council building had been entirely wooden. It had once been a trading center, with cargo loaded and unloaded by the riverbank and retail sales conducted at Jubilee Market. Well-dressed merchants discussed business and signed contracts in the trading center. Later, the wooden trading center became a stone structure, and the merchants left Covent Garden for places such as Lombard Street and the City