Chapter 2869 The Unforgivable Secret (6)

"Where have you gone!"

Molly stood by the river, hands on hips, growling at Bill, George and Fred.

Just now, she and Arthur shouted their names to the river, and almost got on the boat to search along the river.

"We are trapped by the agency." Bill said guiltily.

Pomona sneered from the sidelines.

If we don't look for them, these "explorers" don't know how long they will be trapped.

"Are we leaving?" Severus said into her ear.

"Wait a moment, don't worry." Pomona said easily.

She caught a glimpse of Barnaby, Ben Cooper, and Liz muttering again, probably colluding in the confession now.

Children prefer to play with older children, but do not trust adults. This has existed since ancient times, unless parents can be like Arthur.

"Okay, dear, aren't they back?" Arthur, as usual, blindly protected the child.

"They might be in danger! What if they get hurt?" Molly yelled at him angrily, but Arthur nodded perfunctorily.

"She actually didn't say, 'If you hadn't looked after the kids for me, they wouldn't have been missing for so long.'" Pomona muttered.

"Why is Molly saying this?" Severus asked.

"You're grounded," Molly said to Bill, George and Fred, "until you realize the seriousness!"

It didn't matter to Bill. He didn't have school until a few days anyway.

George and Fred howled.

"You can't do this, Mom." The twins protested together.

"Thank you." Arthur came over and shook hands with them. "Thank you for helping us get them back."

Severus ignored Arthur's extended hand and Pomona took Arthur's hand.

"You should be more careful next time." Pomona said with a smile, "Don't neglect it just because it's a holiday."

"Haha, thanks to it being a holiday, otherwise they would have violated school rules and I don't know how many points they would have deducted." Arthur said with a smile.

Then regardless of Snape's expression, he went back to find his family.

"What to do with those little trolls?" Severus asked.

"Ho ho ho, let's not restrict the children's nature and let them explore freely." Pomona imitated Dumbledore and said, "It's useless even if we object, as long as the principal agrees, they can still do whatever they want."

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The old bat gritted his teeth, but did not complain like the others.

"I plan to go find the centaurs tomorrow, will you come with me?" Pomona asked.

"Of course." He said firmly.

"Paul, do you want to continue to follow this sullen guy, or go find your playmate?" Pomona asked.

"They didn't take me with them for such a fun thing. I want to punish them." Paul said.

"I guess you'd better stay with us for a while," Pomona said.

"No!" Snape and Paul said together.

"What can I do to stop you from being angry?" Pomona said.

"They can never leave me behind," Paul said.

"I think what they need is focus, and having you there distracts them," Pomona said. "You just want to play."

"No, I can help too!" Paul said.

Pomona shook his head, "How do I know if you are intentionally doing harm to me?"

"You want to sign a contract with me?" Paul said.

"No!" Pomona and Severus said together.

"What do you want?" Paul said impatiently.

"Can you be a good doll and watch over me?" Pomona asked.

After a while, Paul agreed, and Pomona called Barnaby and Cooper over and returned Paul to them.

"Take him back to the castle!" Pomona said to the two of them.

"Go back to the castle? Not back to Professor Grapeland?" Cooper looked at Paul with some horror.

"I don't want Wilhelmina's birds to be so scared that they fly away." Pomona said. "Go back to school and I'll explain it to Filch."

"Then I'm going back." Liz said, "My residence has a floo network."

"Of course." Pomona said with a smile.

The three conspirators looked at Pomona suspiciously.

"Go back." Pomona said with a smile.

They split up and left as Pomona said.

After they all left, Pomona walked to the store next door.

"Does it have anything to do with you, Charlie?" Molly continued to "interrogate".

It was a bar open late at night, open only to adults, and Priya Moore was sitting alone in the corner.

Pomona and Severus sat across from her.

"What do you want?" the bartender asked.

"Butterbeer will do," Pomona said.

"Two fingers of whiskey," Severus said.

Then the waiter left.

"You said you would help me, really?" Priya asked in panic.

"We helped you resolve the dispute between the trolls and the centaurs, didn't we?" Pomona said with a smile. "So tell me, what happened?"

"I promised not to leak it." Priya said seriously, "I am a silent person."

"How about we make an exchange?" Pomona said. "I tell you the secret about that cemetery and you tell me what you know."

Priya is still struggling.

At this moment, the waiter placed the wine they asked for in front of them.

"Okay, but you talk first!" Priya said after the receptionist left.

"It's about mermaids." Pomona said. "You see there are many reliefs on the walls of the cemetery."

Priya suddenly realized.

"So that stone comb is for the mermaid," Priya said.

"I guess the mermaids won't want it. They prefer combs made of coral and turtle shells," Pomona said.

"Who should it be given to?" Priya asked.

"We said what we know, it's time for you to say what you know." Severus said.

Priya took a sip of wine and then spoke softly.

Since she had been observing the planting of Barber tubers in the vegetable field of the Forbidden Forest, Priya often appeared near the vegetable garden. It happened that one day she saw a centaur handing his necklace to Bana who was also in the vegetable field.

Bee, Liz and Ben Cooper.

So Priya proposed to explore with them. Originally, they were not so willing because Priya was so unlucky.

Priya sobbed twice more when she said this, then took another sip of wine, and then continued.

Bill was also very confused about the origin of this stone. He couldn't see anything wrong with this stone at all. Then Puglia took it to find another centaur who was easier to talk to, Firenze, and asked him to get it.

I heard some news and I don’t know whether it is true or false.

Centaurs are a kind of proud and fair "creatures". When they knew that they would be classified as humans with banshees and vampires, they categorically rejected the "human" status given to them by the Ministry of Magic, although this caused some wizards to misunderstand that they were "beasts"

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In addition to healing and divination, horse people are also good at studying astronomy, including the creation and destruction of planets.

There is an unpredictable relationship between the earth and the moon, and humans have even mined moon stones. Although the stone Priya showed Firenze did not look like the kind of moon stone that emits light, he still felt the connection between it and the moon.

relationship between.

"So, this stone has nothing to do with ancient magic?" Pomona asked.

"How do you know about ancient magic? This is top secret." Priya said in horror.

"Obviously, it's not just you who have the secret, the professors at Hogwarts also know it." Severus said threateningly.
To be continued...