Manus's words took Bellows some time to react. The information contained in this sentence was actually a bit too shocking for him.
"You, you mean--"
Bellows almost lost his grip on the candle in his arms when his hands shook. He was so frightened that he quickly put the pack of candles on the empty seat next to him, and then wrapped the scarf he had just taken off around the candle to prevent the candle from being dropped due to the bumps of the train.
After doing this, Bellows looked at Manus again:
"Will my mother recover now?"
Manus was stunned for a moment:
"It's not that fast... it's just that I no longer need to continue taking medication for maintenance treatment at St. Mungo's."
Mrs. Travers is currently undergoing two treatments.
One comes from St. Mungo's, and Potions is used to maintain Mrs. Travers's soul state from deteriorating. However, this treatment cannot cure the injuries on the soul, nor can it prevent Mrs. Travers's body from shrinking and weakening due to lack of activity.
The other is Manus's healing potion. The supplemented vitality allowed Mrs. Travers's body to recover from its weakness, but it was also ineffective against the root cause of the disease, which was the injury to the soul.
If it goes well this time, then Mrs. Travers's soul can be restored from a state that requires continuous medication to prevent deterioration to a state that does not require continuous medication and will not deteriorate.
Then with the second, third... follow-up treatment, Mrs. Travers's soul state will continue to improve, until he can slowly repair himself, and finally fully recover.
"Oh, oh, that's good too."
Bellows also knew that he was a little too impatient. His face turned red for a while, and he took a few deep breaths to relax himself more. However, he did not get better until he took Hogwarts Express.
Manus waved to him from a distance as a farewell, and said hello to an acquaintance he happened to meet, and then walked out of the station with Severus and Lily, followed by Griffin who came to pick them up.
"Come here, the carriage is this way."
Griffin took them to an alley that had been treated with Muggle-Repelling Charm, where King Family's old carriage was parked.
Why not a new carriage? Because the new carriage of Manus has been modified a bit too much. The normal Pegasus cannot pull it at all, and only Sleipnir can fly with it.
"How have you been at school these past six months?"
Griffin was a little silent. He spoke only after the carriage took off. Manus, who was leaning against the door, told Griffin some trivial matters in school.
Although we exchange letters regularly, the letters are mainly to report that we are safe. These things that are not very meaningful and take up a lot of space can be discussed face to face and will not be written in letters.
As Manus narrated, Griffin relaxed a little:
"Your mother is worried about you..."
Who can understand how shocking it is for them to suddenly receive a letter asking them not to go out as much as possible in case Voldemort comes to their door. How can their son be targeted by Death Eaters even though he is doing well in school at Hogwarts?
Continuing to read is even more confusing. Why did the son do it himself? He even did it even though he knew that it might attract Voldemort.
"Hogwarts Dumbledore is here after all. Voldemort doesn't dare to come. What's more important is your safety at home."
When Manus said this, he was also a little helpless. Voldemort was really afraid of death.
It is unclear whether the baits of Dumbledore and Manus convinced Voldemort. Anyway, Voldemort was holding steady and had no intention of coming to Hogwarts.
"Since you know that you will attract Voldemort, you should not be so anxious to do that Wizard Sage Party."
Griffin rarely raised any objections to his son's decisions, but this time when his son's safety was involved, he rarely showed dissatisfaction.
"Is there any pattern to who Voldemort wants to kill? As neutrals, we are the targets that Voldemort may come to kill at any time. It's just a matter of probability."
Manus shook his head:
"It is not my choice to give up improving myself because the possibility of being targeted by Voldemort increases and leave my safety to illusory luck."
"Then at least think about your mother when you make a choice!"
Griffin's tone is still a bit unkind.
"I have already considered this, and the security measures at home have been arranged long ago - when I first published Potions's paper and became famous, I might have been targeted by Voldemort."
Manus explained it, but how could he actually deploy defensive measures when he really sensed the risk?
At that time, Manus didn't know much about the world and could only compare his feelings with others. Anyway, when he wanted to kill someone, he would not deliberately let the other person know in advance that there might be danger coming.
"Security measures?"
Griffin recalled:
"Is there any security measures at home? How come I didn't notice it?"
This world is not very developed in terms of defensive magic that can be maintained normally. Only in Gringotts can you see some security measures that match the existence of magic items, or through Curse, Magical Creature and other means.
Not to mention how conspicuous it is, but anyone who knows a little bit about it can tell it. This is probably part of these security measures--
It is obviously much cheaper to let people know that there are security measures here and give up their bad thoughts than to impose sanctions after the other party has bad thoughts and takes action.
However, Manus does not think so. At least for Death Eaters and Voldemort, it is wishful thinking to expect that these people will give up attacking anyone because of some conspicuous security measures.
Instead of letting them think of other ways to attack you, it is better to seize the opportunity to kill the opponent at once when the opponent shows up.
If Voldemort really comes to kill Manus, he won't wait for Dumbledore to slowly find a way to set up a trap to kill Voldemort.
Because at that time, their family had already been on Voldemort's must-kill list, and he had entered the main line of the struggle between the two forces. The risk of waiting for Dumbledore, the original protagonist, to kill Voldemort was too great for Manus.
Even if you steal the show, you have to kill Voldemort in advance.
With this in mind, Manus responded to Griffin's question:
"If it can be discovered by you so easily, it can't be considered a security measure to prevent Voldemort."
Griffin blinked, feeling that it seemed to make sense, but something seemed not quite right.
"This time when I go back, I'm going to add the last security measure. You will definitely notice this time, but it may be a little more troublesome when I go out."