A Solution

"An object?" Draco Malfoy muttered, a faint glimmer returning to his eyes.

"As long as we find the cursed token and destroy it, Greengrass's Blood Demon Curse will be lifted."

Draco Malfoy looked at Eli. "But where are we supposed to find this token? After all these years, who knows where that guy hid it?"

Being asked to find an object hidden a thousand years ago, without even knowing what it was, was indeed an impossibly difficult task.

"Maybe we should first investigate who exactly cast the curse on the Greengrass Family back then. Starting with that person might give us some hope."

Eli did not dare give Draco Malfoy too much hope. Finding something like that was far harder than finding Voldemort's Horcruxes.

Who knew whether that old bastard had thrown it into some lake or buried it somewhere?

Still, no magic in this world could last forever. After several hundred—or perhaps several thousand—years, the curse would fade on its own.

But Draco Malfoy could not wait, and neither could anyone else.

Eli was not merely saying this to comfort Draco Malfoy. Naturally, he had ways to ease Astoria's symptoms.

"Don't lose heart. We might truly have no way of finding that token, but I still have a way to extend Astoria's life."

"What way?"

"Do you know about the Philosopher's Stone?"

"The Philosopher's Stone? I heard Dad mention it. You protected that thing during your first year. I heard that the alchemist Nicolas Flamel lived for hundreds of years with its help." The more Draco Malfoy spoke, the more animated he became.

Eli smiled at him. "Nicolas Flamel and his wife have lived for over six hundred years, all because of the Philosopher's Stone. It isn't a legend."

"Then where are they? I'll buy their Philosopher's Stone. I'm