Chapter 268 Hufflepuff Can't Return

"First of all, you must be curious about why I look like this now, right?" After sitting down, Rice was calm and talked freely.

Hufflepuff nodded. She really wanted to know why her old friend looked so much younger after not seeing him for a few years. Reverse aging is not the way to grow.

Maybe he invented some special potion that can restore a person's body to the state of youth? Hufflepuff guessed.

She thought it was very reasonable.

After all, Salazar was the world's leading potion master, and it didn't surprise her that he made such a potion.

'Royna might like this potion very much. ' A strange thought popped up in Hufflepuff's mind, and then she thought that maybe she could get a potion from Salazar and take it.

Who doesn't want to regain the body of youth when they are old? Even if you can't extend your life, you can make your last few years of life more comfortable. Many functions, you can't feel it when it exists, but when you lose it, you will realize its importance.

Les's voice brought Hufflepuff's thoughts back to reality.

"After leaving the castle--" At this point, Hufflepuff snorted again, obviously very dissatisfied with Les's actions that year. Les pretended not to hear and continued: "I was wandering outside for a while, and by chance I got a piece of the origin fragment."

The word "origin fragment" sounded like a thunder in Helga's ears. She stood up suddenly and stared at Les closely.

"You won't..."

"It's not what you think. I used it to prepare a potion."

Seeing that Les took the origin fragment to make medicine, Hufflepuff was slightly relieved. If her old friend took the origin fragment directly, she really had to think about whether to bury him in this palace.

She overthrew the rule of the gods, and she couldn't allow herself and her friends to become new gods.

But even if it was a potion, it was hard to make people feel at ease, and what did it have to do with "millennium"?

"I got the inspiration from the shedding of snakes. After taking the potion, I fell into a deep sleep. During the sleep, I would shed a layer of skin every once in a while. Every time I shed my skin, I became younger. I didn't wake up from my sleep until I became a ten-year-old child - I had slept for nearly a thousand years at that time."

Hufflepuff: Huh?

Even in the wizarding world, Salazar's words are a bit bizarre, just like the fables in storybooks. But considering that he got a piece of the origin fragment, it seems quite reasonable? That thing, if you are willing to bear its negative effects, you can achieve the effect of longevity by eating it directly.

But the problem is that according to Salazar himself, he slept for a thousand years after taking the potion, so how did he talk to himself a thousand years ago?

Hufflepuff is very sure that he didn't sleep for a thousand years.

"It's the effect of this palace. I used its power to meet you a thousand years ago."

'And we had a few fights. 'Rice said in his heart, but he didn't say it out loud.

Rice told Hufflepuff the function of the palace ruins, and she was in awe of it.

"I thought this was just an ordinary ruin that had never been excavated, but I didn't expect..." She opened her eyes wide and carefully observed the hall in front of her.

However, she didn't find anything unusual even after her eyes were sore: it looked like an ordinary ruin.

In the end, Hufflepuff gave up. She turned to chat with her old friend: "So you went back? As a student?"

Rice nodded: "As a young wizard of the right age, I showed my magical talent in Britain, so I will naturally be admitted to the school - the admission book is still running normally after a thousand years."

"That's great." Helga smiled from the bottom of her heart. The school she and her friends founded can still operate normally after a thousand years, which makes her very, very happy.

In fact, it is more than just normal operation. Hogwarts fully meets the description of prosperity - it is now the best magic school in the world. Maybe some other magic schools are still unconvinced, but whether they admit it or not, they know the importance of Hogwarts in their hearts.

"That... um..." Hufflepuff has a very concerned question, but he is a little embarrassed to ask Rice, because this is indeed a sensitive topic.

"Students from Muggle families, this is what you want to ask, right?" Just by looking at the expression, Rice guessed what Helga wanted to ask.

Helga nodded seriously.

"They are well integrated. The number of students from Muggle families in the school is no less than that of the past. After graduation, most of them stayed in the magic world and became part of the wizards."

As for those wizards who advocate pure blood supremacy, Rice did not mention it, so as not to upset Hufflepuff.

"Even Rowena accepted a little witch from a Muggle family as her apprentice!"

Helga:?

“Wait, you mentioned Rowena? She also lived a thousand years later?!” The Hufflepuffs were all stunned – am I the only one of all people who hasn’t thought about immortality?

"You can't say she's still alive..." Les told Hufflepuff what happened to Ravenclaw, and told Hufflepuff how he restored her sanity.

"You've worked so hard." Hufflepuff expressed his sincere gratitude to Les.

"It's Rowena who's worked so hard." Les shook his head.

Hufflepuff nodded.

"I have to go back." After learning about Ravenclaw's situation, Hufflepuff decided to end her journey immediately and return to Hogwarts.

"I can't leave Rowena alone in school, can I?" Hufflepuff shrugged her shoulders, indicating that she must go to help Ravenclaw and share her burden.

Hiss——

Les suddenly felt that something was not going well. When Hufflepuff stood up, he suddenly realized that Helga's idea was likely to fail, and she could no longer go back.

This palace went upstream in the long river of time and brought itself to the node a thousand years ago, but when it walked out of the palace, the timeline of the outside world was still the timeline of the twentieth century - this had been confirmed by itself before.

So what would happen after Hufflepuff walked out of the palace? Was she in the tenth century or the twentieth century? Considering that in history, Ravenclaw died alone in the castle, and Hufflepuff went out to travel and disappeared, the answer was self-evident.

This is time, this is fate.

Helga and I are both fish in the long river of time. I, the fish, brought the "fishing boat" from the downstream to Helga upstream, and then "fished" her up. Now the fishing boat has gone downstream, and Helga can only go back downstream with me.

Thinking of this, Les's forehead began to sweat constantly.

In the end, he told Hufflepuff his speculation as tactfully as possible.

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