"The Imperius Curse?" Katie looked incredulous, clearly finding it hard to believe that she had fallen victim to the Imperius Curse.
Harry glanced at Katie, who was being supported by her friend, then crouched down, his gaze falling on the necklace protruding from the parcel.
"Harry, don't touch that!" Qiu cried.
Although she did not know what it was, Qiu could sense that it was definitely nothing good. It might even be something extremely dangerous.
"I know. There's a very powerful jinx on it." Harry did not turn around, and raised a hand to stop Qiu as she came over to pull him away. "Qiu, stay away from this thing. I'm not sure whether getting close to it could cause problems."
"But you..." Qiu was clearly worried about Harry.
"It's all right. Dark magic at this level can't hurt me yet." Harry turned and gave Qiu a reassuring smile, then tried tapping it with his wand.
The necklace floated into the air under Harry's magical control.
Harry also checked the box and the wrapping cloth that had previously held the necklace. After making sure there were no other jinxes on them, he used magic to put the necklace back, then continued using magic to close the box and wrap it in the cloth.
Then Harry rapidly uttered a string of incantations.
Ron, Lavender, the still-shaken Katie, and the other girl did not recognize them, but Qiu did. It was a sealing spell from ancient magic.
Harry sealed the parcel with sealing magic, just as had been done before.
Clearly, however, Harry's sealing magic was much stronger than that of whoever had done it before. A golden, netlike pattern appeared on the parcel's surface, then vanished in a flash.
"All right, I think it should be safe now. But just to