Harry Potter: This Ravenclaw Is Too Brilliant
Chapter 1139

Two Foolish Things

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"I remember now..." Wizet began drafting the fourth plan. "I translated a very old Runes rubbing that mentioned a particular idea."

"Before carrying out 'Ritual Magic,' one must keep its ultimate purpose firmly in mind. Otherwise, something bad will happen. It will not be as simple as the Ritual Magic failing—you will become lost within the Ritual Magic itself."

The wand techniques Ollivander had taught him also mentioned something similar.

That was an era before wands had even appeared, when even the Ollivander Family was still exploring wandmaking techniques.

While traveling abroad, an ancestor of the Ollivander Family had encountered an exceedingly strange wizarding family.

Every adult member of that family possessed a rod-like casting implement known as a "Castor."

Through some form of "Ritual Magic," the family would always give birth to pair after pair of twin brothers. Yet once each pair reached the age of eleven, only one of them could survive.

This happened because, when the twins turned eleven, the wizarding family would enter a valley and perform a secret "Ritual Magic."

The final step before that "Ritual Magic" officially began was to send both twins into the Ritual Magic itself.

Once one of the twins died, the other would use his brother's corpse as a casting implement, find a path out of the Ritual Magic, and return to the wizarding family.

Drawing on his experience, the Ollivander ancestor had inferred the nature of this Ritual Magic: the dead twin became part of the Ritual Magic and acquired some kind of magical property.

It was precisely because of this magical property that the surviving twin could use his dead brother's corpse to successfully escape the valley where the Ritual Magic was held, then turn the corpse into a Castor.

Those ancient Ritual Magics were still in an

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