Dumbledore looked at this three-headed and six-armed mermaid statue through half-moon glasses. He looked at it carefully for a long time, his blue eyes shining brightly.
"It is the statue of the three mermaid sisters, Parserope, the Sirens and Scylla."
When Luo Fe and Shirley were discussing in private, they had made such speculations, but there was no evidence, so he asked in a low voice:
"How did you tell?"
"appearance."
Dumbledore waved his wand, and a huge stone flew out of a wooden box and landed on the desk.
Rolfe noticed a brightly colored mural carved into the stone:
In a large hall, there is a two-tailed mermaid holding a scepter. The lower part of the painting depicts a group of marine magical creatures, kneeling to her.
Luofu compared the mural of the two-tailed mermaid with the golden statue. After a moment, he pointed at one of the heads and said:
"She looks a lot like the mermaid in the mural."
"Yes, they are indeed very similar, so I conclude that they are the same mermaid," Dumbledore said.
"Where did you get the mural?" Rove asked.
"Golden Mermaid Tribe." Dumbledore held the tea cup, twisted the rim of the cup with his fingers, and smelled the refreshing aroma, as if the aroma of tea could also make people intoxicated, and squinted his eyes:
"It's the family of Myrcella, the two-tailed mermaid I asked you to help treat last year."
Luo Fu said in surprise: "So, she is Palselope?"
"That's right, the eldest of the three sisters, Palselope." Dumbledore took a sip of tea, nodded and said:
"She fell in love with the ancient Greek wizard Odysseus and left Avalon in order to pursue him."
"The Golden Mermaid family is the descendant of Palselope, so there are many murals of her left, and this is one of them."
"So," Rolf pondered, "the other two heads are Siren and Scylla?"
"I think so, although I haven't seen them."
Dumbledore focused his gaze on the statue, then looked down and saw the six hands of the mermaid, each holding:
cross, box, sickle,
And...three torches.
The old man frowned slightly and said, "But I don't know what the cross, the box, the sickle and the three torches mean."
"Rolf, I remember you said that Ravenclaw left you a secret room thousands of years ago. Since this statue was also left by her, there might be answers in it."
Luofu nodded and said: "I asked Helena and she knows the entrance to the secret room. I will take the time to go there."
"That's good." Dumbledore smiled.
"But speaking of the meaning, I do know the function of the torch." Luofu said suddenly.
"Oh?" The old man looked attentively.
"When Shirley and I discovered the statue, its torch was burning. We stretched out our hands to touch the statue and entered a mist," said Rove.
"Mist?" Dumbledore narrowed his eyes.
"It's very foggy. In the fog, you can still hear people yelling, wailing and crying." Rolf recalled his experience in Ravenclaw's tomb and said slowly:
"Shirley and I followed the sound and walked forward. The fog quickly disappeared. We actually appeared at Hogwarts and met a wizard named Tertius.
And he obviously died not long ago."
After Dumbledore listened to the young man's words, there was deep exclamation in his voice.
"Rolph, listening to your description, I think this statue took you and Shirley into Tertius' tangled illusion... It's really surprising that it still has this ability."
Seeing the old man's shocked look, Luo Fu asked doubtfully: "Have you not entered a trance before?"
"I have been there, but it was just my own illusion, not anyone else's." Dumbledore shook his head.
"How did you get in?" Rolf asked curiously.
"With the invisibility cloak."
"Invisibility cloak?" Luofu raised his eyebrows.
"Thirteen years ago, I found an invisibility cloak at James Potter's place." Dumbledore sat on a chair and gently answered the young man's questioning gaze.
"A general invisibility cloak is a traveling cloak woven using the Disguise Charm or the hair of an invisible beast. It can be invisible at first, but over time, it will gradually appear physical."
"And James's invisibility cloak is very ancient, permanently effective, and continuously invisible."
Luo Fu knew the reason and whispered: "It is one of the Invisibility Cloaks in the Deathly Hallows?"
"That's right." Dumbledore nodded, "I asked James at the time, and he told me that this invisibility cloak had been passed down in their family for many generations, and it first came from Iolanth Peverell.
Iolanth was the only child of the Peverell family in that generation. She had no brothers, so she inherited the family's invisibility cloak.
Iolanth later married Hadwin Potter, and the Cloak was transferred from Peverell to the Potter family and passed down from generation to generation."
"And Iolanth Peverell is the descendant of Yingnotus Peverell, the third in the story of the three brothers.
So I determined that the invisibility cloak was the Deathly Hallows!"
Dumbledore stood up and walked slowly around the room.
"I actually don't think much about the invisibility cloak because I can be very invisible and it's useless to me.
But according to legend, a wizard who possesses three Deathly Hallows at the same time is the real conqueror of death. So, I borrowed it back to study it for a while, and then I discovered it..."
Rolf looked at Dumbledore and murmured: "Can you enter a trance?"
"Yes, that invisibility cloak, like this mermaid statue, can enter the world of the dead." Dumbledore said seriously:
"But that invisibility cloak can only enter one's own tangled illusion. It is far inferior to this statue, which can travel into other people's tangled illusions. This ability is simply like..."
Dumbledore paused and exclaimed: "Death!"
Rolf did not speak, but pondered where Ravenclaw got this treasure and why it was placed in his tomb.
"Besides this statue, did you find anything else in Ravenclaw's tomb?" Dumbledore asked.
"A golden apple tree, like the elder tree in Grindelwald, comes from Avalon." Rolf said softly:
"There is also a wooden coffin with the symbol of the Deathly Hallows engraved on the lid."
"I heard my grandfather say that he had seen similar wooden coffins in the centaurs tribe. Have you seen them, Professor Dumbledore?"
"I have never seen it, but I have heard of it." Dumbledore said calmly: "In fact, it is said that Hogwarts also has a wooden coffin like this."
Luo Fu suddenly raised his head and looked at the old man.
"It has been passed down by word of mouth from past headmasters that there is a wooden coffin somewhere deep in Hogwarts Castle," Dumbledore said.
"This wooden coffin is providing magic for Hogwarts to operate on its own, so for thousands of years, this castle has never had an external power supply."
Luo Fe was so shocked that he couldn't speak. If this legend was true...then this would be the fourth coffin.