Chapter 413: Queen's Legacy

The Christmas dance was just around the corner, but everything Harry wanted to do didn't go well, so his mood was not very good.

After Luo Tang Nade finally mustered up the courage, he chose to retreat again because of a ridiculous reason like "didn't wash hair yesterday," and watched Hermione hand in a leave request on the 21st and leave the school directly. Finally, Harry could only follow the backup plan provided by Zhang Qiu and instructed him to invite the exchange student who was preparing to board at Jin Ni's house. Sure enough, Miss White agreed to be Luo Tang Nade's dance partner very easily, and even enthusiastically.

Lucine White was a typical American high school student. Putting aside her academic performance, everything else about her could be called perfect. Not only did she have fiery beauty, but her manners and way of dealing with people were also impeccable. She was generous and told everyone clearly that she was a social butterfly who could be friends with anyone.

Originally, Luo Tang Nade was quite enthusiastic about Lucine, but when he saw the waist-cinching dress with bubble sleeves, large round neck, and large skirt, as well as those trivial fine diamonds on it, he suddenly revealed a relieved smile.

"She is too vulgar, but it's just another Marietta," Luo Tang Nade said self-righteously. "She also keeps sticking to me, I don't like this kind of girl."

Harry retorted: "You let Hermione go, so you bear this consequence yourself."

There were two other things that made Harry in a bad mood: Zhang Qiu had been worrying about knight-related matters, always muttering about going back to ask clearly, which made her very perfunctory about the dance; and, on such an important occasion as the Christmas dance, Headmaster Snape never appeared, which showed that something must have happened at the Ministry of Magic, which caused him to return late.

After dealing with the dance in a hurry, Zhang Qiu simply said goodbye and left immediately—she didn't even pack her luggage much, only took a handbag, and Apparated immediately upon arriving at the school gate.

Luo Tang Nade also looked listless. Harry reminded him not to forget to train swordsmanship and develop knight power. Although he agreed on his mouth, he didn't show much motivation in his actions, which accumulated a lot of dissatisfaction in Harry's heart.

Finally, the only good news finally boosted Harry's spirit, coming from the always reliable Mr. Severus Snape. He told Harry by owl that the experiment had ended, but the Department of Mysteries must be completely sealed. He would choose a day after Christmas to visit Tang Dun with Donna, and some experiment-related results needed to be discussed with Harry in secret.

When Harry returned to Tang Dun, and Sirius came up to hug him with a smile, Harry suddenly remembered one thing: there was an outsider in the house this year.

"It's okay, I'll just take another pseudonym," Sirius said happily. "The Tang Dun family all have the surname Crawley, right?"

"Mr. Padfoot, let me introduce you," Yifu obviously realized this problem too. Her choice was to skip the real name. "This is Miss Kathy Field, an exchange student who is about to spend Christmas with us."

"Nice to meet you, Miss Field," Sirius shook hands with her seriously. "I am Raphael Crawley, and also Harry's godfather."

"Is he your father?" Kathy turned her head and asked.

"Just a distant relative," Yifu answered slightly awkwardly.

Harry felt that Kathy's look at Sirius seemed a bit wrong, but he didn't take it to heart.

The Christmas holiday officially began, and Christmas had not yet arrived. The whole Tang Dun was bustling with various arrangements, while Sirius was accustomed to being idle—he was either watching TV or chatting with Harry holding a teacup, without any intention of participating in housework.

Yifu and Kathy seemed to be playing quite well. This was the conclusion Harry observed in these two days. As the two girls became more and more intimate, Harry gradually began to talk to Kathy more, chatting about some interesting things on the surface in Hogwarts.

Until Christmas day, after they had a lively holiday and returned to their rooms to rest, Harry heard a series of fine knocking sounds. However, Harry was lying in a comfortable quilt at the moment, and didn't really want to climb up. So, he took out a magic eye from the small box on the bedside table—this was a Christmas gift sent by Moody just now.

When he looked through the magic eye, he was immediately stunned by the scene outside the door: Kathy used a huge gift box to cover her body, and wore nothing else except that, only covering her chest with a big ribbon—and it was tied with a bow. Another bright red silk ribbon wrapped around her smooth and round thighs, and came up from some indescribable part, held in her petite left hand painted with red nail polish.

Harry put down the magic eye, thought for a moment, took out his wand to put a lock on the door, and then raised the magic eye again, preparing to take a few more looks.

Kathy knocked on the door and didn't get a response, so she left with disappointment. After Harry gradually recovered his thoughts, he immediately began to suspect that some kind of vicious trick was hidden behind this. What could be certain was that since these two exchange students were so beautiful, they must have been carefully selected. Therefore, since the person behind the scenes was willing to sacrifice some other elements to pick out two beauties, it showed that this must be some kind of beauty trap. Of course, the disadvantage was that their means of doing things were a bit too low-level. Lucine was playing with cards on the table, while Kathy was in a hurry to All-in before the cards were dealt. Harry deeply suspected that they themselves didn't count on success.

Judging from the experience of fighting in the past, no matter whether Tang Tang Nade wanted to set a trap or wanted to win over, he couldn't play so boldly. Harry easily began to suspect whether the two students sent to the house this time were actually from another faction of the Magical Congress? But it is also possible that Tang Tang Nade deliberately made it rough, leading things to that side, or another faction of the Magical Congress deliberately created the illusion that Tang Tang Nade did it deliberately...

Harry shook his head and continued to do these recursive analyses, which would not be of any help. Tang Tang Nade's real move must have been implemented the moment Hermione asked for leave and left the school. Moreover, before figuring out how much knight power Tang Tang Nade had mastered and what role he was preparing to play, he really didn't dare to offend this unscrupulous guy too hard.

The next day, at the breakfast table, Kathy still talked and laughed with Yifu with a calm demeanor, while Harry felt a bit unnatural. Sirius was holding a large newspaper, his eyes dodging and glancing around.

Harry wanted to find Yifu alone several times, asking her to suggest living in the same room with Kathy, but Kathy seemed to have anticipated his countermeasures and always stuck to Yifu's side.

At ten o'clock, the arrival of two visitors interrupted their weirdness and completely diverted Harry's attention.

Snape was wearing a suit and trench coat often worn by Muggles, and beside him was Donna wearing a women's suit. She was carrying a small aluminum suitcase with a solemn expression.

"Yifu, you take Kathy to the town to turn around, see what to buy," Harry made a suggestion as if he didn't leave a trace, but even Yifu heard the overtones and rolled her eyes at him.

On the contrary, Kathy took the initiative to say that she was very interested in going out, which made Harry's view of her improve a lot.

"The results came out very early, the experiment failed," Snape said in a slightly depressed tone in the reception room. "The reason it took so long is because we were cleaning up the scene."

"Cleaning up the scene? Do you have to be there too?"

"The main reason Professor Snape must be present is that the out-of-control Queen has extremely strong regenerative ability, and can even be resurrected with just a piece of blood mist," Donna explained. "We killed her many times in the Department of Mysteries, and finally gathered all the red mist before we finally cleaned it up."

Harry didn't say a word. He felt that this was really a bit suffocating—both the result and the process.

"This is the legacy left by the Queen," Donna opened the aluminum suitcase. Inside was a revolver and two rows of bullets.

"The condensed Queen's blood is very hard, and the magic content is extremely high. Its nature is already quite close to the Sorcerer's Stone. Theoretically speaking, bullets with this as the warhead already have the ability to penetrate Kamen Rider armor," Donna pointed to the row of bullets above. "Because it still needs to be supplied for research, we

"The row below is a replica of the Queen's Blood. We extracted blood crystals from the dark blood of ordinary vampires to craft the warheads. The power will be significantly less, but assessments suggest it is still enough to threaten a Masked Rider. I have prepared twenty-four rounds for you."

"Preparing these things is in the hope that you will have the power to protect yourself," Snape said softly. "I heard about your hospitalization, and I have also roughly guessed a little. It is still too dangerous for you to face other knights directly when you cannot transform. These measures are necessary."

Harry picked up a specially made bullet and examined the glowing blue warhead closely. His mood was somewhat low, and he asked, as if just to make conversation, "Can you tell me the details?"

"Then I shall start from the beginning." With Snape's tacit approval, Donna, in her capacity as an observer, recounted the full story of the experiment to Harry in detail.

Originally, to ensure the risks during the experimental process were controllable, they decided to use wizard blood for continuous transfusions into Kruse. Logically speaking, as long as the transfusion speed was controlled, even if an emergency occurred, it could be stopped at any time.

During the transfusion process, Kruse maintained a fairly clear awareness and also personally confirmed that she felt fine. But the moment a certain threshold was exceeded, Kruse immediately began to go berserk. She attacked everyone present in an indiscriminate manner; she wanted to consume the fresh blood of the wizards and the dark blood of the vampires present.

At first, Snape tried to subdue her and awaken her reason, but after being struck by spells, the frenzied Queen immediately began to release various blood magics at random—some that Kruse already knew, and others she learned on the spot by imitating wizard spells. This caused considerable chaos and casualties.

After finally killing the Queen, she reshaped her body using some of her remains and came back to life, causing a second rampage at the Department of Mysteries. The casualties caused this time were even greater, but as Snape led the Aurors to repeatedly kill her, the Queen's power grew weaker and weaker, until she finally lost all vitality and was reduced to research material.

The whole story was not complex, and a vampire going mad due to bloodlust was within reason. The only thing that exceeded common sense was the Queen's ability to resurrect, and Harry reluctantly accepted this miraculous fact.

He did not detect many suspicious points, nor did he feel that Donna and Snape had anything they needed to hide from him. At this moment, he was simply mourning for Kruse—a girl who was perhaps also in the prime of her life, just like that... sacrificed her life for her own kind, and in such an undignified manner, at that.