Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 281 The Relics and Last Wish of Master Lemaître!

Faced with Dudley's agitated questioning, Dumbledore gathered his thoughts and began to respond methodically:

"Dudley, I did give Flamel the method for practicing the Love Protection Magic a few days before you and Harry arrived at Hogwarts."

Flamel and I have a unique method of communication and mailing, which, to be precise, is thanks to a magical item in Flamel's possession: a book with a phoenix relief on its cover.

That book could help Flamel communicate with any wizard, as long as the wizard to be communicated with left a mark on the phoenix relief book beforehand.

The Phoenix Relief Book possesses some of the phoenix's abilities. Although it cannot help wizards teleport, it can use spatial magic to send letters and items.

After Flamel imbued the Book of Knowledge with a protective spell of love with his own life, his wife, Patricia Perena, who had also lived for over six hundred years thanks to the Philosopher's Stone and the Elixir of Immortality, sent me everything Flamel wanted to send me in a book with a phoenix relief.

Then, as planned with Lemaître, Madame Perenaerts calmly followed Lemaître to her death and entered the grave they had arranged long ago.

The remaining magic and Flamel's alchemical golems will give them a proper burial and will forever guard their graves from outside interference.

As for a successor to Lemaître, I think there probably isn't one; I've never heard Lemaître mention one. Or perhaps there was one in the past six hundred years, but I don't know if they still exist now.

This treasure trove of knowledge cannot be entirely attributed to me by Flamel; it is a gift from Flamel to me, a gift to you, and a gift to the future of the magical world.

I mentioned your talent and expertise in alchemy to Flamel. Although Flamel, having taken a detached view of life and death, did not want any emotional attachments before his death and had no intention of meeting you, he still very much wanted another person with exceptional talent to inherit his alchemy.

He made no demands, nor did he leave any special wishes for us to fulfill. If I had to say one, it would be that Flamel wanted to continue his alchemical legacy through you, at Hogwarts.

Dali listened silently, a deep sense of respect welling up within him.

Having lived for over six hundred years, he has seen through the ways of the world and has a broad perspective.

But Dudley still had doubts, and he continued to ask, "I remember that the Lemaîtres were French, and their alma mater was the Beauxbatons School of Magic in France, right?"

Such an important legacy, why not leave it to his alma mater? Or... did Mr. Flamel produce more than one copy of this treasure?

Dumbledore shook his head slightly and replied, "No, there is only one Book of Knowledge."

But this doesn't mean that Lemaître didn't leave a magical legacy for Beauxbatons; he donated his entire collection of books and a large number of alchemical magical items to his alma mater.

This includes not only Flamel's numerous alchemical notes and writings, but also the magical introductory book "The Book of Abraham," which guided Flamel to the path of becoming an alchemist. Flamel learned the method of making the Philosopher's Stone from this book.

In addition, it includes a crystal ball with prophetic abilities and a Holy Grail that can increase the success rate of alchemy. It is said that drinking the water from the Holy Grail when performing alchemy to create magical items can increase the chances of success.

Of course, these important items weren't displayed directly in Beauxbatons' library and treasure room. Instead, Flamel himself hid and encrypted them in a secret location within Beauxbatons, requiring a test to obtain them.

"Mr. Lemaître is truly rolling in money!"

While admiring him, Dali couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.

Despite his amazement, having the knowledge archived in the book didn't make Dudley particularly eager to possess the things Dumbledore had mentioned.

Dudley didn't press Dumbledore about the whereabouts of the Flamels' wand, because it was obvious.

In the wizarding world, wands are typically found in two places: wand shops and wizard cemeteries, specifically the newer graves where people have been buried for only a few years.

Wizards have a custom of burying the deceased's wand with the deceased. Under normal circumstances, within a few years, the wand buried with the wizard will turn into a tree seed, take root and sprout next to the grave, and gradually grow into a large tree guarding the grave.

The type of wood the wand is made of determines the type of tree it will grow into.

Dumbledore knew that Dudley could fuse wands, but he didn't mention the Flamel couple's wand, which must have been an attempt to downplay the matter. That wand was probably buried with the Flamel couple according to custom.

Although Dudley longed to acquire Mr. Lemaître's 600-year-old spellcasting skills, he was not so depraved as to dig up someone's grave.

If it were the grave of a bastard like Voldemort, that would be one thing, but a noble person like Lemaître shouldn't have his grave dug up.

Moreover, Dudley's spellcasting skills are already very strong. He has the valuable experience of Voldemort and Dumbledore combined, and with the addition of the Strongest Wand, his cost-effectiveness is no longer high.

Even if Dudley were to fuse with Flamel's wand, there would still be a lot of overlapping spellcasting techniques, wasting Dudley's fusion opportunity.

For example, Dudley has now combined the wands of Quirrell, Voldemort, and Dumbledore. Quirrell's spellcasting skills have been almost completely overshadowed by Voldemort and Dumbledore's. What Quirrell knows, Voldemort and Dumbledore also know, and they know them even better.

Voldemort and Dumbledore also share a great deal of similar spellcasting techniques.

These overlapping spellcasting techniques are superfluous to Dudley now, but extremely valuable to other wizards.

Dudley intends to leave these superfluous but precious spellcasting skills to his family, and when the time is right, transfer them to them through touch.

As for when the time will be right, Dali estimates it will be quite some time before he can.

Back to topic.

Dumbledore breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Dudley only sighed and did not express any other meaning.

He didn't want to hide it from Dali, nor did he want Dali to have any improper thoughts about the relics that Le Maire left to others.

Fortunately, Dali didn't make things difficult for him.

"Dali, the Soul-Capturing Mirror and the Knowledge Collection Manual are here with you. If you can fuse them, you can do so."

But after you integrate the Knowledge Collection Encyclopedia, you must make a copy of Flamel's legacy and store it in the Hogwarts library, so that, according to Flamel's last wishes, his alchemy can be passed down.”

Dumbledore gave his final instructions.

Seeing that Dudley nodded in agreement, he took his leave and departed from the House of Requirement.

He could tell that Dudley was very busy and eager, busy making magical items and eager to learn the alchemical knowledge in the encyclopedia.

I need to be alone and should not be disturbed.