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Chapter 736: A Black Shadow Outside the Window
🕑 Added 2020-02-09 19:57:04 +0000 UTCEvan's forefinger slipped rapidly, and he found the name of Hagrid's mother, Fridwulfa, in the long list of events.
During Voldemort's reign, she and a dozen giants joined his camp and committed several Muggle massacres.
Fridwulfa and her companions had attacked a village and killed hundreds of Muggles, which shocked the whole society at that time.
Among Muggles, they explained that it was a landslide, but the wizards knew what was going on.
After that, Fridwulfa disappeared. Long before Voldemort's failure, it was said that she had gone to a giant tribe abroad. How did she get there? It should be with the help of a wizard. There were many strange people like Hagrid's father who had a special liking for giants.
Evan put this parchment down and picked up another one, which was about the giants’ ancestors; Cyclopes.
The wizarding community generally believed that the giants were descendants of Cyclopes, a weakened breed.
The main habitat of the Cyclopes was Sicily. Huge and one-eyed, they were synonymous to fear. Compared with them, giants were only short men. The Cyclopes were recorded to be at least 100 feet tall, almost half the height of Hogwarts castle. It was said that the eye on their foreheads would cast curses. Any incautious soul, once gazing at the eye, would immediately die.
Evan took a quill pen and marked it. It seemed that the Cyclops's eye was as magical as the Basilisk’s.
To deal with such creatures, the Conjunctivitis Curse was essential, but it was not so simple...
Unlike giants, which had no magical ability, Cyclopes were born to master Lightning magic, which was a very rare and powerful kind. Even wizards couldn’t use it. They could only use thunder and lightning with special magical props or alchemy products.
In Ravenclaw's memory, Gryffindor mentioned that point, and he had suffered in the battle against the Cyclops.
Hermione had collected comprehensive data for Evan. She believed that Cyclopes had inherited this ability from their ancestors, the Titans. To put it simply, it was similar to the relationship between Cyclopes and giants. Cyclopes were descendants of Titans after further weakening.
There were no details about the Titans. They were mythological creatures older than the Cyclopes and ancient warlocks. No one had seen them.
Whether the Cyclops was a descendant of the Titans or not had been debated in academic circles.
In Muggles’ Greek mythology, they were all direct descendants of the god of the sky Uranus, which was obviously untenable in the wizarding world.
The last Cyclops died over 700 years ago. The Titans were obviously much older and more powerful than the Cyclopes.
Wizards generally thought of Titans as the original creators, they were the gods of all the beginnings.
With the excavation of ancient ruins, a new statement had appeared in the American academic community in recent years. Some wizards believed that whether they were wizards, Merpeople, goblins, Centaurs, or Cyclopes, they were all descendants of Titans’ creations.
This school proposed that, for some purpose, in the early days of the Earth's birth, the Titans built many earth-free magical creatures on Earth with mud, magma, and water, and then they left the planet.
For some unknown reasons, these creations gradually evolved during the long life evolution, from inorganic to organic. The whole process was called the Curse of Flesh and Blood. Its effect was that these creations originally composed of rocks and soil began to soften and became bloody flesh.
In a long process, the Curse of Flesh and Blood made these inorganic creatures, which originally had infinite life, gradually flesh and blood, bringing them birth, old age, sickness, death, and free will and emotions. They were also called the original life.
According to Muggles’ theory of biological evolution, they had gradually evolved into new species, including giants, humans, and so on.
When these creations were completely transformed into flesh and blood creations, the Curse of Flesh and Blood would no longer have any effect.
This new school born in the United States systematically explained the origin of life and was able to justify itself.
The clues they had found in ancient ruins around the world could also support this statement to a certain extent.
These American wizards even began to map different creatures and record their evolution.
Evan sighed, putting aside the thick data.
At a time when the European wizarding community was struggling with Voldemort, foreign wizards were actually studying the origin of life.
If he had a chance, he would want to go out and take a look, to see the wizarding world in other countries, and get acquainted with the customs there...
The next second, Evan suddenly got up from the bed, took out his wand as fast as he could and pointed to the front.
The warning magic he’d left had been touched by something, just outside the window.
In the dim candlelight, Evan saw a shadow on the thin curtain. It was a person’s shadow getting closer and closer.
Looking at the figure, it seemed that it was a woman, and a rustling sound kept coming...
She seemed to want to come in and enter Evan’s room, but was prevented by the protective magic from opening the window.
During dinner, Sirius even joked with Evan, telling him to pay attention at night. “French girls are very… enthusiastic!” he said. Seeing Evan alone, one of them might take the initiative to come to his door… and now it was really happening!
But if possible, Evan hoped that they would pass through the door normally instead of climbing through the window...
He waved the wand in his hand upward gently, the curtain was drawn open, and the next second a frightful ugly face appeared in front of Evan.
Like in a horror movie, Evan saw a huge owl-like face sticking against the window, its face covered with silver-gray feathers, it had pointed ears, and there was almost no white in its large disproportionate eyes.
It opened its mouth and roared at Evan, reaching out its black claws like pliers.
It was the Owl-Woman, the monster that the bar owner said it recently appeared in Dijon!
At night, he saw this frightening picture outside his window, and Evan was also startled. His heart was beating hard, but the wand in his hand was very stable, and a red light was almost instantaneously shot out.
With a bang, the window broke, and the Owl-Woman outside was hit by a curse.
Evan ran quickly, waved his wand, and aimed at the monster in the yard, throwing out a few spells.
Obviously, that thing didn't expect Evan to be so strong. It had been caught by surprise, rolled on the ground, and kept making strange noises.
