Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Narlak spoke loudly.

Different from the somewhat sullen image in the previous portraits, the real Narlak is still full of energy even though he is very old.

Even Bourne, who was peering at them through the glass dome of the foyer, could hear what the goblin was saying.

"...Old friend, you don't look surprised?" Narlak looked at Sherlock, showing a winner's smile as if he had a pearl of wisdom in his hand, holding the same cigar as in his self-portrait, and asked leisurely. road.

"You'd better not say anything," Sherlock retorted disdainfully, with the look on his face as if he had stepped on a pile of dog shit and was eager to find something to rub it off with. "Every word you say brings down the standards of past, present and future users of this room."

Narlak stood up from the sedan in anger, threw his cigar aside fiercely, pointed at Sherlock's nose and threatened: "Believe it or not, I will burn you right now, and burn him to ashes!"

"I don't believe it, what can you do?" Sherlock seemed to be at odds with this goblin.

Although he is a sophisticated criminal himself, his skills in using language are indeed lackluster.

Narlak was furious.

He was so angry that he actually asked his goblin employee to remove Sherlock's portrait from the stunned fire crab and was about to burn it.

At this time, a man wearing a hood immediately stood up and stopped him. "Boss, don't be angry.

He just wants to piss you off.

Now the manor has been sealed off by us, but if you want to burn the magic portrait left here, you will really fall into a trap.

He might run outside, into his magical portrait hanging elsewhere, to inform other wizards. "

Narlak glanced at the subordinate who was admonishing him. The latter was a wild wizard he hired in the United States, and he usually behaved quite knowledgeable. "That's a good reminder," the goblin nodded affirmatively, "I'll give you a few more Jinzhuo pots later."

"Thank you, boss!" The wizard flattered him again: "As expected of Mr. Narlak, he is so impressive."

After receiving the reminder, Narlak simply posted this article and threatened in another way: "I have all the little wizards in this manor. If you don't want to see them hurt, just kill me." Hand over your things!"

After saying this, he pointed to several humans standing next to the four-poster bed with weapons - in addition to the wizard, a house elf, and two goblins, Narlak also brought several An ordinary person dressed like a mercenary - it was precisely because of these people that Pique's swallow-tailed dog's gift of prediction was triggered, and he ran to the yard of the Hermit Manor in advance to mark his territory with urine.

"Has he heard of the Purifiers? These people are all descendants of the Purifiers." Narlak said: "So, guess what will happen to those little wizards if they fall into their hands..."

The so-called Purifiers were a group of wizard bounty hunters from different countries that first existed in American history.

The New World did not initially have any form of magical government. It was the Purifiers who filled this loophole - wizards who had committed crimes would become the targets of their pursuit as long as they could exchange for a bounty.

Lacking restraint, the Purgers became increasingly corrupt over time, and their actions became increasingly brutal.

Eventually, they even started a business of selling little wizards, and even captured innocent No-Majs as wizards, and handed them over to anyone who could pay the bounty in exchange for payment.

When the Magical Congress of the United States of America was established in 1693, the Purifiers were immediately banned, arrested, and punished.

Some of the Purifiers had already formed families with No-Majs and escaped punishment by hiding in No-Maj society, but their descendants gradually became Squibs.

Unlike ordinary No-Majs, the descendants of the Purifiers are aware of the existence of the wizarding world and wizards. At the same time, these people are naturally hostile to all other wizards.

Since the establishment of MACUSA, these people have not only been trying to break the Statute of Secrecy, but they have also been promoting the wizarding threat theory to the No-Maj government.

Among them, one of the most famous cases is that by chance, a witch named "Dorcas Twelve Trees" fell in love with a No-Maj man named Bartholomew Baleburn.

Baerben's true identity is actually a descendant of a Purifier, and he inherently agrees with the extreme concept that "wizards are all evil."

During the relationship, Bayerburn managed to extract a lot of information about magic from Dorcas and made it public, causing the "International Statute of Secrecy" to be seriously violated.

The consequences of this incident directly led to the MACUSA promulgating "Rappaport's Law" (it was the then Speaker of the MACUSA, Emily Rappaport, who proposed and passed this legal provision), forcing No-Majs to be Strictly separate from the magical world (using strict punishments to prevent people from the two worlds from contacting and marrying each other) to avoid such incidents from happening again.

The entire "Twelve Trees Incident" ended with Bayern being arrested by the Aurors. It is worth mentioning that when he was arrested, Bayern had already gathered a group of people to try to murder a wizard family living in a small village.

The witch Dorcas was later nicknamed the "Twelve Trees of Innocence", a nickname that later became synonymous with "foolishness" among American wizards.

What is even more tragic is that Dorcas later suffered from depression because of this mental trauma, and finally died of depression.

The various grievances between the Purifiers and the Wizards have accumulated for hundreds of years, and are so thick that there is no way to reconcile them.

To this day, the descendants of those Purifiers are still trying to subvert the entire magical world and secretly hunt wizards for revenge.

In a sense, if the descendants of the Purifiers had not all become ordinary people who cannot cast magic, they would definitely become the top wizards in the wizarding world who are more capable of "stopping children from crying at night" than Grindelwald and Voldemort. flow.

"...the previous purgers liked to burn wizards to death. However, the resumes of these employees of mine say they went to Brazil for further study. Maybe they prefer waterboarding."

The threat of the goblin Narlak made Sherlock frown in the portrait.

He and Watson, a figure in the painting and a ghost, did meet the conditions of "how to fear death", but the little wizard in the manor did not.

He had previously shown the treasure that was extremely tempting to Narlak in front of his portrait of "The Blind Pig Tavern", just to give the old goblin who had come to the United States a reason to abscond and come back, and to set a trap for him.

He had already calculated the time and notified the Auror office, just waiting for the big fish to take the bait.

He just wanted to give the little wizards a little stimulation: let them see how the Aurors fought, and then see if this small stimulation would help them awaken their magic.

But who would have imagined that after becoming the person in the painting, although his intelligence was not affected at all, his memory showed shortcomings.

(It's not just him. The "Narlac" in the painting "The Blind Pig Tavern" actually doesn't remember what happened after it was painted on the canvas. Although it is Narlac's eyeliner, it doesn't know what happened to Narlac. In 2007, he gathered people like purifiers and wild wizards. So even if Sherlock had tricked the "Narrak" in the portrait in advance, he still couldn't figure out what trump card the other party had.)