Someone Keeps Having Nightmares After Returning Home / The Research on Werewolves Has Made a Decisive Breakthrough

Although he can be considered Harry's ancestor, Harry still has to say that 76 years old is a really awkward age.

Generally speaking, wizards have very long lifespans.

Because of the magical protection within them, they rarely suffer from the diseases that ordinary people have, and even when they are over sixty or seventy years old, they can still maintain good health.

Therefore, if a wizard does not suffer from injuries sustained in duels, has not studied Dark Magic in great depth, and has not contracted a highly contagious disease such as Dragon Pox, he can easily live past 100 years old.

Therefore, there are definitely many long-lived wizards. For example, Scamander is 97 years old this year, Albus Dumbledore is over 110 years old, and Bathilda... is at least 150 years old.

Compared to them, Peverell, who met his end at the age of 76, can be described as dying young.

Of course, Harry wasn't simply criticizing his ancestors; rather, after hearing the Tale of the Three Brothers, he began to doubt the true meaning the story was trying to convey.

If Harry had never seen the Deathly Hallows, or if the Deathly Hallows had never existed, then Harry would have considered the Tale of the Three Brothers a simple allegory.

Two of the three brothers wanted to conquer death, but the eldest brother was defeated because of his arrogance, and the second brother was defeated because of his unrealistic fantasies. Only the youngest brother was indifferent to worldly affairs and life and death, and thus he eventually became friends with Death.

But the problem is... if Death really exists, how could he possibly not find the third brother?

Harry himself is the holder of the Invisibility Cloak, and its concealment is so great that Mad-Eye Moody's Mystic Eye can see through it with just a glance.

The Invisibility Cloak, crafted by Death himself and even worn by him, is ultimately inferior to a mere fake eye made by a wizard?

There's also the Elder Wand, whose legend is now quite familiar to Harry.

Fragmented information can sometimes be connected by just a few clues. In the History of Magic, there have been many wands that could cause bloodshed, such as the Deathstick obtained by the Egbert the Egregious after slaughtering the Emeric the Evil, or the Wand of Destiny stolen by the terrifying Loxias after killing Barnabas de Vries, and so on.

If you were to replace all their names with "The Elder Wand," the bloody traces surrounding it would undoubtedly have stained the entire history of the Wizarding World.

As far as Harry knew, Gellert Grindelwald was the last Elder Wand master.

He is said to be the last one because it has been clearly stated that his wand was destroyed.

In other words, Dumbledore once turned against his closest friend and killed him in a duel, also destroying the Elder Wand, one of the Deathly Hallows!

Are the artifacts created by Death really so easily destroyed?

Therefore, in Harry's view, the story left by the Beedle the Bard is less of a fable and more of a spreading calamity.

The story itself may not have intended this, but it ignited a desire in countless people to find the Deathly Hallows, leading to endless killing.

If Death truly exists, then perhaps this killing and struggle is what he truly desires to see.

Antioch Peverell, the eldest of the three brothers who originally obtained the Elder Wand, ended his life by having his throat slit, but the killings surrounding the Elder Wand had only just begun.

Cadmus Peverell, the second of three brothers, obtained a useless stone and ultimately lost his life; and if anyone in later generations continues to place their hopes on the Resurrection Stone like him, they may also end up losing their lives in the end.

As for Ignotus, the third son Beedle the Bard most admired, was his life truly as carefree and unrestrained as depicted in the story?

He wore Invisibility Cloak his entire life. Although this may be an exaggeration in the story, it at least shows that Ignotus lived in constant fear until his death.

He feared death would find him, feared others would discover the Invisibility Cloak and steal Invisibility Cloak... but despite his resistance to death, didn't he still die at 76?

Harry really felt that if he were Death, then the third brother in his eyes would probably be the most pitiful, and equally ridiculous.

Because his two older brothers, at least, had achieved glory and worked hard for their own pursuits; but he alone, thinking he had escaped death's clutches, was unaware that...

Death is always with us!

The visit to the Lovegood family went quite smoothly overall, especially after Xenophilius discovered that Harry shared a common language with him regarding the Deathly Hallows. He completely regarded Harry as a close friend despite their age difference.

"Come on, Harry, let me show you my treasures." After the conversation, Xenophilius even extended a warm invitation to Harry to visit his workshop, showing Harry a series of his homemade treasures.

However, among the strange and oddly shaped objects, Harry spotted a sculpture that greatly surprised him.

That was the only decent item on Xenophilius's messy display case, depicting a beautiful but stern-faced witch, undoubtedly Rowena Ravenclaw.

However, the headdress worn by the statue was quite different from Ravenclaw's Diadem. The headdress had a pair of curved, golden hearing aid-like objects extending from both sides, a pair of Winky blue wings on the leather straps on the top of the head, and even an orange-red Dirigible Plum on another band on the forehead.

"Ha, you see, this is my cutest invention! It's modeled after the beautiful Rowena Ravenclaw's head, and I think it suits her perfectly," Xenophilius proudly introduced.

Indeed, Xenophilius's carving skills were quite good, and even someone in Harry's mind was quite satisfied with them, and seemed to really like the bold and novel accessories he made.

As dusk approached, Harry and Hermione took their leave.

"Luna Lovegood... what's going on?" However, outside the Lovegood family's small garden, the two were stopped by Luna Lovegood, who had come out barefoot.

"Here, this is for you. It's finished." Luna Lovegood handed Harry a rolled-up scroll. "But you'll have to wait until the way back to see it."

"Okay, thank you for your gift." Harry smiled and carefully put the scroll away.

It wasn't until they had completely left Ottri Ottery St Catchpole that Harry, at Hermione's urging, opened the scroll.

Then... the two of them were completely stunned.

"I thought she drew you..."

"I also thought she was drawing me..."

On a vast, shimmering Black Lake, a magnificent Kelpie glides across the waves, Merpeople sing in a line, and Giant Squid, seemingly annoyed by the clear water, sprays a cloud of ink to shield itself...

However, the main subject of this painting is not Harry, but a beautiful girl in a swimsuit with long brown hair swaying in the lake water, and even the beaded bracelet on her wrist is clearly visible.

So... Luna Lovegood, after dragging out her artwork all school year, ended up giving her a drawing of Hermione in a swimsuit?

After seeing the entire painting, Harry and Hermione's feelings both became inexplicably complicated...

(P. S. I apologize in advance. I went out to get vaccinated during the day and haven't been feeling well since I got back, so updates have been a bit slow. The next chapter might be posted after midnight. Please forgive me.)

Additionally, the reason for meticulously detailing Ignotus Peverell's birth and death dates is primarily to clarify the timelines of certain characters. While researching, I discovered that many believe Salazar Slytherin is a descendant of Cadmus Peverell, which explains why the Sanmiao Gaunt family possesses both the locket and the Resurrection Stone.

However, the birth and death dates of the youngest brother are verifiable in the official records; he lived in the 13th century. Therefore, no matter how old the second brother was, he could not have been older than Salazar in the 10th century.

Therefore, in conclusion, the era in which the Four Founders existed predates the three brothers of the Deathly Hallows. That's all.

Chapter 446 After returning home, someone kept having nightmares.

The rain poured down, turning the dark cemetery into a muddy mess. The curtain of rain from the sky washed over the uneven, broken tombstones, as if trying to submerge and destroy everything in the cemetery.

Many withered trees grow around the cemetery, and even on such a rainy night, they still emit eerie wails along with the downpour, like the painful cries of wandering souls who have nowhere to go.

In the pitch black, the boy stood quietly in the cemetery, letting the rain pound on his body and even completely submerge his eyes and nose, but the expression on his face remained as frozen as a stone sculpture, as if it would never change.

Gradually, the boy began to take action.

As if guided, he stumbled along the uneven path to a newly erected tombstone, remaining silent.

Even through the thick curtain of rain, the boy immediately recognized the name of the person on the tombstone.

'Luna Lovegood Lovegood'

The boy didn't immediately get angry at this kind of implication and mockery... He had seen similar scenes several times before, this time it was just in a different form.

Click!

But just then, a bolt of lightning flashed, and another line of words slowly appeared on the tombstone in front of the boy.

Hermione Gran...

"Damn it! You bastard, stop this already... Who is it?!" Just as the boy was about to go berserk after seeing another name, he suddenly discovered that a strange figure wearing a cloak had appeared at the top of the tombstone.

But the figure vanished almost instantly; the boy hadn't even seen what it looked like before it disappeared into the cold, rainy night, as if it had never existed.

"Who are you?!"

The boy suddenly turned around to look, but everything around him was pitch black, with only large raindrops falling from the sky...

Click!!

Another bolt of lightning streaked across the sky, illuminating the cemetery in an instant, and the boy's pupils shrank to pinpoints in that instant!

Not far in front of him, an extremely terrifying figure appeared. It had huge wings on its back and its whole body was wrapped in a robe like black mist, revealing only a skeletal face and jagged, sharp bone claws.

It carried a soul lamp shaped like an hourglass in one hand and a sharp, black scythe in the other, hurtling towards the boy!

"Roar!!"

After a chilling roar, everything around the boy seemed to freeze in a strange way. He could only watch helplessly as his opponent pierced through the clearly visible water curtain layer by layer, then raised the Soul-Hunting Scythe high and swung it down hard at his neck!

"Ugh!!" Harry was jolted awake from his sleep and sat bolt upright in bed, his forehead covered in cold sweat.

"Another nightmare like this, the third time since I came back..."

The curtains in the bedroom swayed almost imperceptibly, the sound of the torrential rain pounding against the windowpanes. Harry got up and went to the window, gazing at his blurry reflection in the glass, his expression gradually darkening.

Ever since returning from Luna Lovegood's house, Harry has been having these nightmares.

At first, he was just in the cemetery, and the tombstone only had Luna Lovegood's name on it.

Harry was angry about this, but he wasn't too bothered by it, treating it as a consequence he couldn't see in the Mirror of Erised.

But gradually, he realized that something was wrong.

It seems that every time he dreams of that cemetery, there are more tombstones than in the previous dream, and today he even saw Hermione's name in addition to Luna Lovegood's!

What does this mean?

Could it be that... Hermione will die, and be buried with Luna Lovegood?!

And finally, there were those two strange figures.

The figure that appeared on the tombstone and vanished in a flash— Harry didn't know who he was... In fact, if it weren't for the fact that this wasn't the first time he'd dreamt of him, he would have doubted whether he was seeing things.

And what he saw last today... was without a doubt the Grim Reaper himself.

It must be said that even in his dreams, Death truly instilled in Harry a sense of oppression that threatened his life...

Especially when the scythe was raised, Harry could barely feel his life!

I only looked up some information about the Deathly Hallows, and then I started having nightmares about Death... Is it because I'm the successor of the Invisibility Cloak, or is there some other reason?

"Perhaps I should go find the Resurrection Stone."

Harry couldn't understand the cause of this series of nightmares at all, but he couldn't let it continue, otherwise who knew what else might happen in his dreams in the future?

After much thought, the only thing that could possibly be related to this matter is another Deathly Hallows besides the Invisibility Cloak.

"Sigh... another troublesome thing."

Disturbed by recent nightmares, Harry decided to give up on sleeping and instead took out his notebook to chat with his pen pal, Rowena.

'Those Deathly Hallows are from a time after our existence, but we can at least be certain... they are definitely products of ancient alchemy.'

Rowena's advice to Harry was basically meaningless.

The Deathly Hallows are, of course, products of ancient alchemy. After all, modern alchemy can't create something that lasts this long; it's hundreds of years old and still looks brand new.

"You should note that things considered indestructible like these are usually passed down as family heirlooms. And compared to the Elder Wand and the Invisibility Cloak, the Resurrection Stone is actually the least conspicuous, because it's essentially a piece of jewelry, making it the most suitable item for inheritance."

"You mean... the Resurrection Stone wasn't fought over like the Elder Wand, but rather passed down through a family like the Invisibility Cloak?"

Harry pondered Rowena's words carefully, and the more he thought about it, the more reliable they seemed!

That's right, of the three Deathly Hallows, the Resurrection Stone is actually the one that most resembles a family heirloom... especially the heirloom of a Pure-blood Family.

Harry had previously visited 12 Grimmauld Place, where Sirius's house had many similar antiques and jewels. He even found Slytherin's Locket there!

For items that are ancient and whose purpose is unclear, the descendants of the Pure-blood Family may not use them at all. However, they are happy to remain immersed in the glory of their ancestors and will naturally pass these 'junk' items down as treasures.

Therefore, it seems highly unlikely that the Resurrection Stone has ended up elsewhere; it is very likely still with Cadmus Peverell's direct descendants!

So...

The Book of Admittance, the Sorting Hat, and Professor Binns!

Indeed, since the Peverell brothers have been confirmed as wizards descended from the Four Founders, and the story of Beedle the Bard is mostly recorded in Britain, it means they definitely attended Hogwarts, so their information can naturally be found in the school's history.

Once we find the whereabouts of Cadmus Peverell's descendants, we can follow the clues and successfully find the Resurrection Stone!

Chapter 447: The research on Werewolf has made decisive progress.

In late April, after the start of the final semester, Harry awaited another full moon.

On this night of the full moon, Harry injected Lucius with the Lupin saliva he had been storing, and carefully waited until the bright moon hung high in the sky.