Chapter 196: The Characteristic of Ignoring Magic Spells

Regarding the fact that he possessed two souls, John hadn't told them yet, so John didn't voice his conjecture.

However, he had to study this situation clearly.

After all, it concerned the other soul in his body; perhaps he could learn about the other soul in his body through this thing.

He took a deep breath, looked at the locket in Ron's hand, and said.

"It's fine, just a little dizzy, I'll be fine after a while."

"Does anyone know what this is?"

John asked the crowd.

However, they looked at each other and shook their heads.

Seeing this, John looked at the locket again, pondered for a moment, and said.

"Since it's been left in this old mansion for so long, it should be something nobody wants."

"I want to borrow it to study."

Hearing John's words, Hermione spoke up immediately.

"You can't even touch this thing, what are you going to study?"

Regarding Hermione's words, John shook his head and continued.

"It's precisely because it only affects me that I have to study why."

John's reasoning made sense, so Hermione didn't say anything.

Just studying it shouldn't cause any issues.

But for safety's sake.

"Wait until Sirius comes back and ask him, see if Sirius knows what this is."

Hermione continued, and John nodded.

After all, this was Sirius's old family mansion; he might know something.

"Alright, then I'll keep it for now."

The others naturally had no objections, and Ron handed the item over.

"But you can't even touch this thing, how are you going to take it?" Ron asked strangely.

"Naturally, there's a way to take it without touching it."

John chuckled, then raised his hand and made a grabbing motion in the air toward the locket in Ron's hand.

—Silence...

?

John was stunned for a moment, and the others also looked at John's action with confusion, not understanding what he meant.

John, not believing it, grabbed again.

The locket still showed no movement...

No, I'm trying to look cool here, why did the Floating Spell fail?

But he could have cast this spell wandlessly and silently long ago, so how could it fail?

John took out his wand directly.

"Wingardium Leviosa!"

—Silence...

???

Now the others understood John's meaning; he wanted to pick up the locket without touching it through the Floating Spell.

It just looked like the result was a failure.

And John finally frowned, turned his head, and cast the Floating Spell on the sofa in the living room.

The sofa floated up instantly, easily, and could even float up and down with his control.

It didn't fail!

John looked at the sofa, then at the locket in Ron's hand, and frowned.

Another conjecture emerged in his mind: does this thing ignore magic spells?

"Hermione, you try casting a spell on this locket."

Thinking this, he said to Hermione.

Hermione also understood John's meaning, raised her wand, and tapped the locket lightly.

"Wingardium Leviosa."

No movement.

Confirmed, magic spells were ineffective against it.

Now it was even more interesting.

The others were also surprised, and they all thought of this characteristic as well.

They had never heard of anything that could ignore magic spells.

So in this situation, there were generally only two possibilities.

One is that the material used to make this locket possesses unheard-of magic resistance.

The second is that there are other active protective spells on this locket.

John leaned more toward the second one.

However, regardless of which one it was, coupled with its characteristic of affecting the soul, it made this locket appear even more special.

Since magic spells couldn't act directly on the locket, then he would act indirectly.

John took a pocket stone from his bosom, threw it casually, and the stone transformed into a hollow small sphere, directly enclosing the locket inside.

This way, with a layer of the small sphere enclosing it for physical isolation, he could move the locket inside the sphere by operating the sphere.

John grabbed in the air again, and this time the small sphere flew into his hand very smoothly.

At the same time, even if he touched the small sphere, it wouldn't affect him.

Weighing the small sphere in his hand, this thing was maintained by Transfiguration; it would be better to find a physical object to store it in another day.

He didn't expect that coming to visit the Order of the Phoenix would lead to discovering such a novel item.

As expected, people should go out and walk around more.

"So John, when you touched that locket, where did it hurt?"

Seeing John put away the small sphere containing the locket, Hermione asked.

She also wanted to figure out what caused John's condition.

It's just that this question really stumped John for a moment, because he didn't know how to describe it either.

He tilted his head and thought for a while.

"Hmm... it felt like... uh... Dementors weren't sucking my soul, but instead were breathing on my soul?"

A question mark appeared on everyone's forehead.

What kind of weird description is this?

Although the description was a bit abstract, Hermione still figured out the key.

It was that John's soul was harmed by that locket.

But why was it only effective on John, while others were fine?

She couldn't figure out this question for a moment.

"How is it, any clues, Professor?"

Because Sirius hadn't returned yet, John first found Professor Moody, who was resting, to take a look at this locket.

The old man originally wanted to curse when his rest was disturbed by John.

But after hearing that John's matter concerned the soul in his body, he had to help John take a look first.

After all, he was the only one here who knew about the two souls in John's body.

John also told the truth about his situation.

Even the knowledgeable Professor Moody frowned tightly, studied the locket for a long time, and still found nothing.

Besides ignoring any magic spells, it also seemed to be immune to physical attacks.

"Although the material is rare, they are all normal craft materials."

"The reason why these characteristics appear should be because some rare magic has been cast on it, and it is very powerful, more powerful than the magic you or I possess."

"As for why it affects you, I guess it should be that the two souls provide you with a perception ability that others don't have."

"Making you abnormally sensitive to this kind of soul-level erosion or resonance."

Moody's magical eye scanned the surface of the locket while he spoke.

"Moreover, looking at the style of this locket, although it is a product of the Slytherin faction, I believe that no one in the Black family could make such a thing."

"Perhaps it flowed here from somewhere else, or it's an heirloom."

John nodded, agreeing with this analysis.

Then he continued to ask.

"Then Professor, do you think this thing is good or bad?"

Moody was silent for a moment, looked at John, and said slowly.

"The feeling of the soul will not lie. If your soul is repelling it, then it is definitely not a good thing."

He paused and added.

"Hmm... at least for you, it's not a good thing." ===== CHAPTER 197 =====